July 30
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1894 - Corn flakes were invented by Will Kellogg.1898 - Scientific American carried one of the first magazine automobile ads. The Winton Motor Carriage Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to “Dispense with a Horse.”
1932 - The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.
1935 - The first Penguin book was published (Ariel by Andre Maurois), along with nine others, starting the paperback revolution. The idea came from Allen Lane, who wanted to bring literature to the masses at accessible prices and provide, “a whole book for the price of 10 cigarettes.”
1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services were a part of of the U.S. Navy.
1942 - Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS radio. The show was broadcast live from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by celebrities who freely donated their time for the war (WWII) effort.
1945 - Near Leyte Gulf, the U.S. heavy cruiser Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. Of the crew of 1,199 men, only 316 survived. Several days earlier, the Indianapolis had delivered the makings for the first atomic bomb to Tinian Island.
1946 - The U.S. joined UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
1948 - The advance of Communist domination in Hungary forced the resignation of President Zoltán Tildy.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his professional debut at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, as the opening act for Slim Whitman. That’s All Right (Mama), recorded by Elvis several weeks earlier, was on its way to becoming a hit in the Memphis area, but newspaper ads for the event misspelled his name as Ellis Presley.
1956 - Singer Brenda Lee recorded her first hit for Decca Records. Jambalaya and Bigelow 6-200 started a new career for the petite 11-year-old from Lithonia, GA (near Atlanta). Brenda Mae Tarpley (Brenda Lee) had been singing professionally since age six. She recorded 29 hit songs in the 1960s and became a successful country singer in 1971. Brenda Lee had a pair of number one tunes with I’m Sorry and I Want to be Wanted. She recorded a dozen hits that made it to the top 10.
1956 - The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1959 - Willie McCovey stepped to the plate for the first time in his major-league baseball career. McCovey of the San Francisco Giants batted 4-for-4 in his debut against Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies. He hit two singles and two triples, driving in two runs. It was the start of an all-star career that landed McCovey in baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1965 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. Medicare went into effect the following year, providing limited health care for the elderly and disabled.
1966 - The demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam was bombed by U.S. planes for the first time.
1968 - Ron Hansen, of the Washington Senators, made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years. The shortstop speared a line drive by Joe Azcue, doubled up the runner at second by stepping on the bag and then tagged out the runner who was moving in from first base. The Senators still lost the game to Cleveland by a score of 10-1.
1971 - A Japanese All-Nippon airlines Boeing 727 and F-86 jet fighter collided in mid-air over Morioka, Japan. 162 people died in the collision.
1971 - U.S. Apollo 15 moon mission: David R. Scott and James B. Irwin in the lunar module Falcon touched down on the fringe of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains).
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted 21-17 on the last of three charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to impeach President Richard Nixon for his unconstitutional defiance of subcommittee subpoenas in the Watergate cover-up. Nixon resigned before the issue came to trial.
1975 - Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace from Detroit, Michigan. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. One F.B.I. theory is that Hoffa’s body was run through a mob-controlled fat-rendering plant that was later mysteriously destroyed by fire (there are many other theories as to where he wound up). Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1983.
1980 - The Republic of Vanuatu (formerly the Franco-British condominium of New Hebrides) achieved its independence from Britain and France.
1984 - Reggie Jackson hit the 494th home run of his career, passing the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig and taking over 13th place on the all-time home run list. Larry Sorenson was the victim who gave up Reggie’s milestone homer.
1985 - Gerry Cooney retired from professional boxing. Cooney had only one loss -- in a championship match with Larry Holmes (boxing’s biggest money-making fight to that time). Cooney had a record of 28 wins (24 by knockout) and three losses.
1987 - NBC’s L.A. Law was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, one shy of the record for nominations. Hill Street Blues was the recordholder (in the 1981-1982 season). L.A. Law had only been on the air a year when it earned four out of the 20 Emmys.
1990 - George Steinbrenner was forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees.
1992 - A ruptured fuel tank forced a TWA Lockheed L-1011 to abort takeoff at JFK International Airport, New York. The pilots managed an emergency landing as a massive fire grew in the tail section. All 292 passengers and eight crew members were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes activated by the crew.
1993 - Bosnia’s outgunned Muslim-led government abandoned its efforts to hold the region together, agreeing to a preliminary accord to divide the former Yugoslav republic into three ethnic states.
1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at 92 years of age.
1997 - One Eight Seven opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Karina Arroyave, Jonah Rooney and Lobo Sebastian.
1998 - A world-record Powerball jackpot of $295.7 million was won by a group of 13 machinists who worked together in Westerville, Ohio. The group chose the cash option, and received a lump-sum payment of $161.5 million dollars.
1998 - ‘Buffalo’ Bob Smith, the cowboy-suited host of the Howdy Doody show (1947-1960), died in Hendersonville, NC. He was 80 years old.
1999 - The closing of Fort Clayton, on the eastern shore of Miraflores Lake, about 5 miles from the Panama Canal’s Pacific coast terminus, ended the U.S. military’s 88-year presence in Panama. The transfer to Panama took place in a colorful formal ceremony on this day.
1999 - Richard Gere (Ike Graham) and Julia Roberts (Maggie Carpenter) star in Runaway Bride, which opened this day. The romantic comedy scored big with movie crowds, doing $35.06 million during its first weekend.
2001 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton opened his new office in Harlem, New York City.
2002 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book 4) was released in bookstores.
2002 - Pope John Paul II canonized Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Central America’s first saint.
2003 - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips died in Memphis, TN. Phillips produced early hits by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart, Steve Braun, Brooke D'Orsay, Ethan Embry, Paula Garcés, Luis Guzmán, Neil Patrick Harris, Jon Hurwitz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Kate Kelton, Jamie Kennedy, David Krumholtz, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Schlossberg, Siu Ta, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dov Tiefenbach, Robert Tinkler, Fred Willard and Gary Anthony Williams; The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright and Ted Levine; Thunderbirds, starring Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, Sophia Myles, Donimic colenso, Ron Cook, Lex Shrapnel, Ben Torgeson, Philip Winchester and Anthony Edwards; The Village, with Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Brendan Gleeson, Judy Greer, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Pitt, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston and Fran Kranz.
2004 - Joseph ‘Big Joey’ Massino, a boss in the Bonanno crime family, was convicted in New York City of orchestrating murder, racketeering, arson and extortion over a 25-year period. Massino testified twice for the government, helping to win a murder conviction against his acting boss Vincent Basciano in 2011, and was resentenced to time served in 2013, though he will be on supervised release for the rest of his life.
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch-born first chief of the European Central Bank was found dead at a home in Faucon, France. He was 72 years old. Duisenberg had helped create the euro currency.
2007 - Bill Walsh, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, died at his Woodside CA home following a long battle with leukemia. He was 75 years old. It was Walsh who popularized the West Coast Offense in the NFL. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning ten of his fourteen postseason games, six division titles, three NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowls.
2008 - Media watchdog Ofcom fined the BBC £400,000 for misleading the public through fake quizzes and competitions.
2009 - South African President Jacob Zuma accepted “very substantial damages” from Britain’s Guardian newspaper over an article that wrongly suggested he was a rapist.
2009 - Zimbabwe’s health minister reported that the cholera epidemic had ended, after more than 4,200 deaths and 100,000 cases since August 2008.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres on this day: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, with Alec Baldwin, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joe Pantoliano and Roger Moore; Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Amanda Crew, Dave Franco and Donal Logue; Dinner for Schmucks, with Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Bruce Greenwood, Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis; Get Low, starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Scott Cooper and Sissy Spacek, The Concert, with Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov and François Berléand; and The Dry Land, starring America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, June Diane Raphael, Ethan Suplee and Melissa Leo.
2010 - Forest fires swept across central Russia, killing some 25 people and forcing thousands to evacuate during the hottest summer since record-keeping began in 1880.
2011 - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara fired the head of his country’s public TV after no news team was sent to cover his return from a trip to the United States.
2012 - Northern India’s power grid crashed, halting hundreds of trains, forcing hospitals and airports to use backup generators and leaving 370 million people sweltering in the summer heat.
2013 - A New York state appeals court ruled that New York City’s Board of health exceeded its legal authority in 2012 when it voted to put a 16-ounce size limit on high calorie soft drinks.
2014 - A U.S. federal judge ordered Bank of America Corp to pay a $1.27 billion penalty for fraud over shoddy mortgages sold by the former Countrywide Financial Corp.
2016 - 16 people aboard a hot air balloon died after it apparently caught fire and crashed in a corn field in central Texas. The burned, basket portion of the balloon was found under high-power electrical transmission lines near the town of Maxwell, about 30 miles south of Austin. Caldwell County sheriff’s deputies responding to a 911 call about an apparent vehicle accident instead found the burned basket.
2016 - Dozens of families -- and some opposition fighters -- started leaving besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This, after the government opened safe corridors under a 3-month amnesty deal offered by Syrian President Bashar Assad.
2017 - Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro cast a pre-dawn vote for his constitutional assembly. His opponents feared he would use the all-powerful assembly to replace his country’s democracy with a single-party authoritarian system. The opposition boycotted the vote. A well-respected independent analysis put the number voting at 3.6 million people. The firm that ran the electronic voting system said it had been “tampered with.”
2018 - Israel expelled Italian artists Jorit Agoch and Salvatore De Louise for their painting of a mural -- on the West Bank separation wall -- depicting formerly imprisoned Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi. Tamimi's case had drawn international attention and she received a hero’s welcome in the West Bank after her release. Tamimi’s advocates considered her a freedom fighter for Palestine.
2018 - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree creating a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism. In the old Soviet Union, a similar rule worked to ensure that the army stayed loyal to the then-ruling Communist party.
2018 - Spanish taxi drivers blocked major city streets in a protest to pressure the government to curb licenses to online ride-hailing services such as Uber.
2019 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that would exclude candidates from the primary election for president or governor unless they disclosed five years of income tax returns. The law was invalidated by the the California Supreme Court on Nov 21, 2019. Obviously aimed at POTUS Trump’s refusal to disclose his financial records, the Court ruled the law violated a state constitutional requirement to include all “recognized” presidential candidates on the primary ballot.
2019 - Ten candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the first of a two-night debate. On stage this night: Steve Bullock, Pete Buttigieg, John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan, Marianne Williamson, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The following night would feature Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Andrew Yang, Bill de Blasio, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
2020 - Herman Cain (74), TV host and former Republican presidential candidate, died in Georgia after contracting COVID-19. Cain had opposed masking mandates during the pandemic, attended the 2020 Trump Tulsa rally on June 20 and was photographed not wearing a face mask in a crowd made up of those who also were not wearing masks. On June 29, Cain tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to an Atlanta-area hospital two days later.
2020 - Much of Canada’s remaining intact ice shelf began breaking apart into hulking iceberg islands -- thanks to a hot summer and global warming. The 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf on the northwestern edge of Ellesmere Island had been the country’s last intact ice shelf until the end of this month.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Green Knight, with Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander and Joel Edgerton; Jungle Cruise, starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt andEdgar Ramírez; Stillwater, starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin andCamille Cottin; The Exchange, with Ed Oxenbould, Avan Jogia and Justin Hartley; and Nine Days, starring Brandy Pitcher, Eric Ramaekers and Eliza de Azevedo Brown.
2021 - A federal judge issued a judgment of forfeiture authorizing the U.S. to take ownership of the 2,734-ton M/T Courageous, which was in Cambodia. The tanker ship had been illegally smuggling oil to North Korea.
2022 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered a mandatory evacuation for war-torn Donetsk Oblast. Ukraine’s forces were holding the line against the invaders in Donetsk, but Russian artillery strikes on towns and villages behind Ukrainian lines continued to kill civilians and destroy critical infrastructure.
2022 - One out of every 169 in the U.S. (950,000) were employed by Amazon in figures released by the company -- which had become the second largest U.s. employer. (Walmart was the largest employing one in every 100.)
2022 - California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Siskiyou County near the Oregon border. This, as wildfires burned tens of thousands of acres and forced some 2,000 residents to evacuate.
2023 - A federal judge dismissed a $475 million lawsuit against CNN by former President Donald Trump. The lawsuit claimed that the network had defamed the former president by referring to his false claims about the 2020 presidential election as a “big lie,” which Trump alleged created an unfair tie between himself and the terminology used by the Nazis. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal denied that this was the case, writing, “CNN’s use of the phrase ‘the Big Lie’ in connection with Trump’s election challenges does not give rise to a plausible inference that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people. No reasonable viewer could (or should) plausibly make that reference.”
2023 - Russia destroyed three Ukrainian drones that were attempting to attack Moscow -- in what had been the latest push by Ukraine to mount a counteroffensive to the Russian invasion. The Russian Defense Ministry said one drone was shot down west of the city center, while two others were “suppressed by electronic warfare” and crashed into a pair of office buildings. At least one person was reportedly injured.
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Birthdays on This Day July 30
1818 - Emily Brontë
author: Wuthering Heights; died Dec 19, 18481857 - Thorstein Veblen
economist, author: The Theory of the Leisure Class; died Aug 3, 19291863 - Henry Ford
auto manufacturer: first assembly line production: the Tin Lizzie; died Apr 7, 19471890 - Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
‘The Old Professor’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916], Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Giants [World Series: 1922, 1923], Boston Braves; manager: NY Yankees: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958]; died Sep 29, 19751898 - Henry Moore
English sculptor: Sheep Piece, Large Oval with Points, Stringed Figure No. 1; died Aug 31, 19861925 - Jacques Sernas
actor: 55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.; died July 3, 20151926 - Christine McGuire
singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something’s Gotta Give, He, Sugartime; died Dec 28, 20181928 - Joe (Joseph Henry) Nuxhall
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [youngest major-league player: 15 yrs, 314 days], Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1955, 1956], KC Athletics, LA Angels; died Nov 15, 20071932 - Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger)
actor: 77 Sunset Strip, Darby’s Rangers; singer [w/Connie Stevens]: Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb; holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960]; died Jan 8, 20201934 - Ben Piazza
actor: The Hanging Tree, The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas, The Winds of War, Guilty by Suspicion; died Sep 7, 19911934 - (Allan H.) Bud Selig
baseball: Commissioner of Major League Baseball [1992-2015]; owner: Milwaukee Brewers1936 - Buddy (George) Guy
musician: blues guitar, singer: Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues; on BBC-TV: Supershow, Chicago Blues1939 - Peter Bogdanovich
director: What’s Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon; director/writer: The Last Picture Show, Texasville; died Jan 6, 20221939 - Eleanor Smeal
feminist: president of NOW1941 - Paul Anka
songwriter: Johnny’s Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana; singer: 33 hits over 3 decades: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You’re Having My Baby1945 - David Sanborn
Grammy Award-winning musician: saxophone, flute: LP: Voyeur [1981]; Sanborn, David Sanborn Band, Heart to Heart, Hideaway, As We Speak, Backstreet, Straight to the Heart, Love and Happiness; composer: TV movie score: Finnegan Begin Again1946 - Jeffrey Hammond
musician: bass guitar: group: Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Steel Monkey, Living in the Past, Sweet Dream, The Witch’s Promise1947 - William Atherton
actor: Bio-Dome, Saints and Sinners, The Pelican Brief, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Day of the Locust, Class of ’44, Centennial1947 - Marc Bolan (Feld)
singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; killed in car crash Sep 16, 19771947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; married to Maria Shriver; 5-time Mr. Universe; part owner of Planet Hollywood restaurants; governor of California [2003-2011]1948 - Jean Reno
actor: Le Grand bleu, Les Visiteurs, Léon, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, Just Visiting1949 - Dwight White
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; died June 6, 20081950 - Willie Harper
football: San Francisco 49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI1950 - Frank Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Staying Alive, Ten Little Indians, Hudson Hawk, Tombstone, Doublecross On Costa’s Island; brother of actor Sylvester Stallone1952 - Randy Crowder
football: Penn State Univ All-American, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers1954 - Ken Olin
actor: Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething1956 - Delta Burke
actress: Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida1956 - Anita Hill
law professor: Hill-Thomas hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court1957 - Bill Cartwright
basketball: New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls [consecutive championships in 1991, 1992, 1993], Seattle SuperSonics; coach: Chicago Bulls; assistant coach: New Jersey Nets1957 - Rat Scabies (Chris Millar)
musician: drums: group: The Damned: Neat, Neat, Neat, New Rose, Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, LP: Phantasmagoria1958 - Richard Burgi
actor: Desperate Housewives, The Sentinel, Viper, Chameleons, One West Waikiki, The District, 24, Judging Amy, Cellular, Fun with Dick and Jane, In Her Shoes, Hostel: Part II, Friday the 13th [2009], Nip/Tuck1958 - Kate Bush
singer: Experimental IV, Running Up That Hill, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Wuthering Heights1961 - Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III/Larry Fishburne)
Tony Award-winning actor: Two Trains Running; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz N the Hood1963 - Monique Gabrielle
actress: Night Shift, Bachelor Party, Young Lady Chatterley II, Electric Blue series, Bad Girls IV, Emmanuelle 5, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hard To Die, Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, Angel Eyes1963 - Lisa Kudrow
actress: Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This, Dr. Dolittle 21963 - Chris Mullin
basketball [guard/forward]: NBA: Golden State Warriors [1985–1997]; Indiana Pacers [1997–2000]; Golden State Warriors [2000–2001]; Olympic gold medalist: 1984 Los Angeles, 1992 Barcelona1964 - Vivica A. Fox
actress: Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Independence Day, Booty Call, Hollywood Squares, City of Angels1964 - Jürgen Klinsmann
football player: Stuttgarter Kickers[1981–1984]; VfB Stuttgart [1984–1989]; Internazionale [1989–1992]; AS Monaco [1992–1994]; Tottenham Hotspur [1994–1995]; Bayern Munich [1995–1997]; Sampdoria [1997–1998]; Tottenham Hotspur [1997–1998]; Orange County Blue Star [2003]; manager: Germany [2004–2006]; Bayern Munich [2008–2009]; United States [2011–2016]1966 - Craig Gannon
musician: guitar: groups: Aztec Camera, The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, William It Was Really Nothing1968 - Terry Crews
actor: Brooklyn Nine-Nine; TV host: World’s Funniest Fails; films: White Chicks, Norbit, Get Smart, Bridesmaids, Blended, The Expendables1969 - Simon Baker
actor: The Mentalist, L.A. Confidential, The Affair of the Necklace, Red Planet, Love from Ground Zero, The Last Best Place1969 - Robert Porcher
football: South Carolina State Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions1970 - Christopher Nolan
film writer, producer, director: Tarantella, Larceny, Fearville, Doodlebug, Following, Genghis Blues, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, Transcendence, Interstellar, Emic: A Time Capsule From the People of Earth, Quay, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Dunkirk, Justice League, The Doll’s Breath, Tenet Films1971 - Calvin Murray
baseball: Univ of Texas; SF Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs1971 - Christine Taylor
actress: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, Ellen, Party Girl, The Wedding Singer1972 - Brad Hargreaves
musician: drums: group: Third Eye Blind1974 - Irene Ng
actress: The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, The Sterling Chase, The Joy Luck Club, Heaven and Earth, All My Children1974 - Hilary Swank
Academy Award-winning actress: Boys Don’t Cry [2000], Million Dollar Baby [2005]; Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid1977 - Jaime Pressly
actress: My Name is Earl, Joe Dirt, DOA: Dead or Alive, I Love You, Man, I Hate My Teenage Daughter1979 - Carlos Arroyo
basketball [guard]: Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic1979 - Diva Zappa
actress: Play Dead, David and Lisa, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, Anarchy TV; sister of actors Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa, sister of actress Moon Unit Zappa; cousin of actress Lala Sloatman; daughter of musician Frank Zappa1980 - April Bowlby
actress: Drop Dead Diva, Two and a Half Men, Doom Patrol1980 - Justin Rose
golf champ: 2013 U.S. Open, 2014 Quicken Loans National, 2015 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, 2017 WGC-HSBC Champions, 2018 Fort Worth Invitational1981 - Hope Solo
footballer [goalkeeper]: U.S. women’s soccer team: 2008, 2012 Olympic gold medalists; 2015 Women’s World Cup champs1982 - Martin Starr
actor: Party Down, Cheaters, Eyeball Eddie, Knocked Up, Cheats, Freaks and Geeks1982 - Yvonne Strahovski
actress: Chuck, Headland, Mass Effect Galaxy, Mass Effect 2, The Handmaid’s Tale1984 - Gina Rodriguez
actress: Jane the Virgin, Deepwater Horizon, Ferdinand, Annihilation, Miss Bala, Someone Great, Carmen Sandiego1999 - Joey King
actress: The Kissing Booth [and sequels]; The Act, Battle: Los Angeles, Crazy, Stupid, Love, The Dark Knight Rises, Oz the Great and Powerful, The Conjuring, White House Down, Independence Day: Resurgence, Wish Upon, Going in Style, The Lie, Fargo
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Hit Music on This Day July 30
1947Peg o’ My Heart (facts) - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
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