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1865 - William Booth formed the internationally acclaimed Salvation Army in London, England. The Salvation Army’s officers are ordained ministers who have vowed to serve the Army for life. The Army has units in over 80 countries.1865 - Make no sudden moves. Those guys with the dark glasses and the earphone in one ear could be watching ... even here on the web! Ever wonder why U.S. Secret Service agents pictured in movies talk into their hands? Is it to stifle a cough? Is it because Mr. Microphone is hidden in the palm of their hand? Is it because they just like talking into their hand? We’ll go with Mr. Microphone. Anyway, it was on this day that the United States Secret Service was created. At first, the agency was only responsible for protecting against the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. In 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley, the Secret Service began protecting the President of the U.S. The scope of responsibility for the Secret Service has grown enormously over the years. This arm of the U.S. Treasury is now also responsible for guarding the White House, the Executive Office Building, the Treasury building and annex along with all the billions of $$$ stored in its vaults.
1916 - Adeline and Augusta Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour attempted by two women. The bikers left New York City this day and arrived in San Diego, CA on September 12th.
1934 - Love in Bloom, sung by Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s orchestra, was recorded for Brunswick Records in Los Angeles. The song was fairly popular, but became a much bigger success when comedian Jack Benny made it a popular standard.
1934 - The first payment by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was made to Lydia Lobsiger of East Peoria, IL.
1943 - The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the Blue Network. Nero Wolfe was “the detective genius who rated the knife and fork the greatest tools ever invented by man.” The ‘gargantuan gourmet’ continued on the radio until 1951.
1945 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur announced the liberation of the Philippines.
1946 - The first two-piece brief swimsuit was shown in public. The bikini was worn by a model at a press party at the Piscine Molitor swimming complex in Paris. According to our Bikini Encyclopedia, it wasn’t long before the creation of Louis Réard went from making the rounds of media events to the beaches of the world. Mr. Réard, incidentally, called his bikini creation, “four triangles of nothing.”
1947 - The first black baseball player in the American League joined the lineup of the Cleveland Indians. Larry Doby played his first game against the Chicago White Sox. He played for both the Indians and the White Sox during his 13-year, major-league career.
1948 - My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted redhead’s first regular radio program on CBS. Lee Bowman, and later, Richard Denning, co-starred with Lucy as “two people who live together and like it.”
1951 - The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC radio as a late entry into radio’s action-adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West. The program continued for four years and marked the last of radio’s long list of adventure shows.
1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented a working and efficient junction transistor at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ.
1954 - Elvis Presley recorded That’s All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. It was his first session for Sam Phillips and Sun Records in Memphis, TN.
1962 - Bob Garibaldi got a bonus of $150,000 as he signed with the San Francisco Giants.
1966 - The National Guard was mobilized in Omaha after a third night of rioting. Rioting? Omaha? Yes. The riots erupted at the corner of 24th and Lake streets after Omaha police shot and killed 19-year-old Eugene Nesbitt on July 2. Nesbitt had been fleeing the scene of a burglary and led police on a high-speed chase. Riots ensued shortly after the shooting and many black youths shattered business windows and looted North Omaha stores.
1969 - Rod Laver became the first man to win four Wimbledon tennis titles.
1970 - An Air Canada DC-8, en route from Montreal to Los Angeles, crashed seven miles from Toronto’s airport. All 109 on board flight 621 were killed in Toronto’s worst airline disaster.
1973 - The Isle of Man began issuing their own postage stamps.
1975 - The Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
1977 - Pakistan’s army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seized power, overthrowing Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s government and enforced Martial Law in the country. (Bhutto was hanged April 4, 1979.)
1978 - The Soviet Soyuz-30 spacecraft touched down safely in Soviet Kazakhstan with its two-member crew, including the first Polish space traveler (Major Miroslaw Hermaszewski).
1982 - For the first time since 1974, Jimmy Connors won the men’s singles tennis title at Wimbledon. Connors beat John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4.
1983 - Bandleader Harry James died in Las Vegas at age 67. James became famous with the Benny Goodman band in the late 1930s before forming his own band. James’ distinctive style and remarkable trumpet virtuoso technique was made for big hits in the 1940s, such as Ciribiribin, Two O’Clock Jump and I’ll Get By. I’ve Heard that Song Before sold 1.25 million copies. Velvet Moon and You Made Me Love You both sold over a million copies. All or Nothing At All also sold about a million records.
1986 - Janet Jackson finally took Control and got all the way to the top of U.S. LP charts. She was the youngest (19 years old) to hit number one with an LP since Little Steve Wonder (The 12 Year Old Genius) in 1963. Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Control was her third album, but her first to hit number one. Tracks from the LP, What Have You Done for Me Lately became Jackson’s first top-five single and Nasty made it to number three.
1987 - Pat Cash, the 22-year-old, #11 seed, captured the Wimbledon singles tennis championship by defeating Ivan Lendl.
1989 - Former U.S. National Security Council aide Oliver North was fined $150,000 and given a suspended prison term for his part in Iran-Contra. The conviction was later overturned.
1991 - Regulators in seven countries, including the U.S., shut down BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). The institution and four of its units were indicted for fraud, theft, and money laundering from corrupt activities. In July 1990 five former officials of BCCI were convicted in Tampa, Florida for laundering $32 million in cocaine profits for Colombia’s Medellín drug cartel.
1992 - Andre Agassi won his first Grand Slam title, defeating Goran Ivanisevic at Wimbledon.
1993 - Harrison E. Salisbury, U.S. journalist (The New York Times), died. He was 84 years old.
1994 - Hootie and the Blowfish released their first LP, Cracked Rear View But it didn’t zoom to the top of the charts. The group had to get lots of help from a guy named David Letterman before their album made it big. Letterman heard one of the tracks, Hold My Hand, on the radio and invited the band to appear on The Late Show. Cracked Rear View finally hit number one on May 27, 1995. By mid-1996, the album had sold more than 13 million copies in the U.S.
1995 - More than 100 Grateful Dead fans were injured when a deck on which they had taken shelter from a storm collapsed at Pinewoods Campground near Wentzville, Missouri.
1997 - Sixteen-year-old Martina Hingis became the youngest Wimbledon singles champion since Charlotte ‘Lottie’ Dod in 1887 (age 15). Hingis beat Jana Novotna in the women’s finals.
1998 - Pete Sampras won Wimbledon for the fifth time in six years. He beat Goran Ivanisevic 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (11-9), 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
1999 - Lindsay Davenport took over the top spot in the WTA rankings, regaining the position she held the previous September when she won the U.S. Open. Martina Hingis, who had been No. 1, slipped to second after losing in the first round at Wimbledon. Steffi Graf, who lost in the Wimbledon final to Davenport, became No. 3, followed by Venus Williams and Monica Seles.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush (II) nominated veteran prosecutor Robert Mueller to head the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
2002 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams died in Florida. He was 83 years old.
2003 - Serena Williams beat sister Venus at Wimbledon. It was Serena’s second straight Wimbledon title.
2004 - Governor Ed Rendell signed laws authorizing 61,000 slot machines in Pennsylvania, more than any other state except Nevada. Most of the state’s share will pay for a $1 billion cut in property taxes a year.
2005 - Workers began removing a field of crosses at Berlin’s former Checkpoint Charlie after a privately run museum lost a court battle to keep the memorial to people killed at the East German border during the Cold War.
2006 - Ken Lay, 64, Enron Corporation founder and chief executive, died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colorado. Lay was convicted in May 2006 for his role in the in Enron’s collapse.
2006 - Heavy rains in India kept schools and colleges shut for a third day. The nationwide death toll rose to more than 250 since monsoons began in June.
2007 - Actor Kerwin Mathews died in San Francisco. He was 81 years old. His many films included The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Battle Beneath the Earth and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver.
2007 - CEO Peter Wuffli, head of UBS, a Swiss-based global bank, was dismissed. In May 2007 UBS shut down a hedge-fund operation, which had invested in American mortgages, and had lost some $425 million.
2008 - Flooding, house collapses and lightning strikes from heavy rains killed 22 people in northern India. Death toll from the annual monsoon would reach 700.
2009 - Roger Federer won his 15th grand slam by defeating Andy Roddick in a marathon Wimbledon match (5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14). The match lasted four hours and sixteen minutes, with the fifth set lasting 95 minutes.
2009 - From our How Could This Happen Dept.: One monorail train backed into another in the Magic Kingdom section at Walt Disney World in Florida. One of the trains had stopped and the operator apparently had tried to reverse direction to avoid the collision. That operator was killed in the crash.
2010 - Tar balls from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill were found on a Texas beach; the first evidence that gushing crude from the well had reached all the Gulf states. This, as BP’s costs climbed to just over $3 billion for work on cleaning and capping the gusher and for payouts to individuals, businesses and governments.
2010 - Three decades of wars, massacres and sectarian killings in Iraq left as many as a million widows, by Iraqi government count. More than 100,000 lost their husbands in the US-led invasion and violent aftermath.
2011 - 25-year-old Casey Anthony was found not guilty in Florida of killing her 2-year-old daughter. The case had captivated the U.S. as it played out on national TV from the moment the toddler was reported missing. Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to investigators looking into the June 16, 2008, disappearance of her daughter Caylee, whose body was found in nearby woods six months later.
2011 - A monster dust storm, called a haboob, moved through the Phoenix, Arizona area, halting airline flights, knocking out power to nearly 10,000 people, and turning thousands of swimming pools into big mud puddles.
2012 - Katy Perry: Part of Me opened in the U.S. The documentary chronicles the singer, songwriter’s life on and off-stage.
2012 - The Shard, Europe’s tallest skyscraper was inaugurated in London by Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani (his country funded the building) and Queen Elizabeth II’s son, Prince Andrew. The name was coined by its Italian architect Renzo Piano.
2012 - Cuban leader Raul Castro and Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic agreements during a visit to Beijing by Castro. The pacts included a grant and interest-free loan to the Cuban government for economic and technological cooperation, and a credit line to support Cuban health care and other public services.
2013 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Hammer of the Gods, with Charlie Bewley, Clive Standen, James Cosmo, Elliot Cowan, Glynis Barber, Ivan Kaye and Michael Jibson; Just Like a Woman, with Sienna Millerm, Golshifteh Farahani, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee, and Roschdy Zem; The Way, Way Back, starring Steve Carell, AnnaSophia Robb, Rob Corddry, Amanda Peet, Sam Rockwell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney and Maya Rudolph.
2013 - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt called for ‘Friday of Rejection’ protests throughout Egypt. The Brotherhood called for violence after the military coup d’etat that removed Mohammed Morsi from power on Wednesday. The Egyptian Army seized power, named a high court justice to president and is in the process of arresting high-profile Brotherhood members.
2014 - California-based World Eco Energy signed an agreement to invest $1.175 billion (864 million euros) in Iran. This, in a rare joint commercial project to turn rubbish and human waste into electricity.
2015 - The U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup with a 5-2 victory over Japan -- in Vancouver, Canada.
2016 - FBI Director James B. Comey said that his agency would not be recommending criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server as when she was secretary of state. But Comey called Clinton and her staff “extremely careless” in handling classified material.
2016 - CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) warned “American Muslims, and particularly Muslim women, are facing an unprecedented spike in discrimination and hate attacks, due in no small part to Donald Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric and policy proposals.” This, after Donald Trump’s comments during a town hall in New Hampshire.
2017 - Eugene Wright sued the police department of Charleston, South Carolina and four officers for a shoddy investigation that forced him to spend 25 months in jail. In 2014 Wright had been charged with throwing his one-year-old daughter to the floor and killing her. A cell phone proved his alibi and the child’s babysitter was charged with the crime.
2017 - Airbus announced its winning of a big order from China -- for 140 planes worth $22.8 billion. This, during a visit by President Xi Jinping to Berlin.
2017 - The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a first-ever cooperation deal between the E.U. and Cuba. And the E.U. said it had agreed on a free trade deal with Japan that would affect commerce between the two economic giants.
2018 - Scott Pruitt, POTUS Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), resigned after months of allegations over legal and ethical violations. Pruitt was the fourth member of Trump’s Cabinet to depart, following Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, who resigned amid his own scandal over taking charter flights at considerable taxpayer expense. Mr Pruitt was the subject of at least a dozen investigations into his conduct. And he had angered liberals and environmentalists by severely curtailing the EPA’s activities and repealing many measures designed to protect the environment.
2018 - British officials investigating a second poisoning case with the nerve agent Novichok in southwest England said they suspected the victims were not directly targeted, but sickened as a result of the March attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter. Police confirmed that Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were exposed to the toxin by handling a contaminated item. The item had traces of the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
2018 - Peru, in a joint statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, led more than 50 countries in urging Venezuela to restore the rule of law and open its doors to humanitarian assistance, as an economic crisis causes shortages of medicine and growing malnutrition. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro had used increasingly authoritarian tactics as the economy spiraled deeper into recession and hyperinflation. The conditions spurred hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to flee in the past year.
2019 - Films opening on U.S. theatre screens included: Breaker, starring Peter O’Brien, Alice Barrett and Richard Brevard; Cold Blood Legacy, with Jean Reno, Sarah Lind and Joe Anderson; the documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love; and My Days of Mercy, starring Kate Mara, Ellen Page and Elias Koteas.
2019 - Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s top KGB successor agency, said it had arrested Alexander Vorobyov, an aide to the presidential envoy to Russia’s Urals region, on treason charges that carry punishment of up to 20 years in prison. It was the first publicly known case of a government official being arrested on suspicions of treason in post-Soviet Russia. Just what bad stuff Vorobyov was arrested for remained undisclosed.
2019 - Jaguar Land Rover announced a multi-million pound investment to build electric vehicles in Britain. The company, which built 30 percent of the UK’s 1.5 million cars in 2018, planned to make a range of electrified vehicles at its Castle Bromwich plant in central England, beginning with its luxury sedan, the XJ. “The future of mobility is electric and, as a visionary British company, we are committed to making our next generation of zero-emission vehicles in the UK,” Chief Executive Ralf Speth said.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Confirmed cases in Arizona passed 100,00; Florida had more than 200,000 people infected; California to date had 255,024 cases; total cases in the U.S. reached over 2,852,807 with the death toll at 129,718. 2)Broadway star Nick Cordero (41) died in Los Angeles following a 3-month battle with the disease. 3)Israel ordered thousands of people into quarantine while Palestinians in the West Bank returned to life under lockdown amid a surge in coronavirus cases in both areas. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that more than 30,000 people were notified they must enter quarantine since July 2.
2020 - Citing delays and increasing cost uncertainties, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, announced that they were cancelling the multi-state natural gas project. The $8 billion pipeline was designed to cross Virginia and West Virginia into North Carolina.
2021 - Looters were captured on video ransacking a San Francisco Neiman Marcus store. Nine suspects smashed display cases, snatched handbags, and ran out of the building before law enforcement arrived.
2021 - Renowned French winemaker Moet Hennessy said its champagne shipments to Russia had been suspended after Vladimir Putin signed a law forcing the word "champagne" to be used only for Russian champagne.
2022 - In one of the largest-ever Chinese security breaches, a hacker offered to sell Shanghai police a database with information on one billion Chinese.
2022 - The Justice Department settled a lawsuit filed by six men detained after the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The men were subjected to restrictive conditions and in some cases abused. The settlement called for Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi, Anser Mehmood, Benamar Benatta, Ahmed Khalifa, Saeed Hammouda and Purna Raj Bajracharya to split a $98,000 payout for the time they were held without charges at New York’s Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Prison officials acknowledged the men were held in “unduly harsh conditions.”
2022 - President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military honor, to four Vietnam-era soldiers, praising their “acts of incredible heroism.” Edward Kaneshiro, an Army staff sergeant who was killed in a later operation, single-handedly cleared an enemy trench using hand grenades and his rifle when his infantry squad was ambushed. Army specialist Dwight Birdwell, using his tank’s machine gun and his M16 rifle, helped to repel hundreds of enemy troops during an assault on a Saigon base. Dennis Fujii, an Army specialist, waved off rescue helicopters after his helicopter ambulance was shot down, staying to tend to wounded soldiers. John Duffy, an Army major, risked his life to direct airstrikes as a base was overrun.
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Birthdays on This Day July 5
1801 - David Farragut
Civil War Union Navy Admiral: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”; died Aug 14, 18701810 - P. T. (Phineus Taylor) Barnum
circus showman; died Apr 7, 1891
1853 - Cecil John Rhodes
diamond tycoon; founded Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University; the African country of Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] was named after him; died Mar 26, 19021879 - Dwight (Filley) Davis
Tennis Hall of Famer [inducted in 1956]: founder of Davis Cup [donated first trophy in 1900]; played for winning U.S. team in first two Davis Cup finals [1900, 1902]; champ: U.S./Wimbledon doubles [1901]; politician: St. Louis, MO Parks Commissioner [1911]; U.S. Secretary of War [1925-1929] under President Calvin Coolidge; died Nov 28, 19451902 - Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
American diplomat: U.S. Ambassador: U.N., Viet Nam; died Feb 27, 19851904 - Milburn Stone
actor: Gunsmoke, Arrowhead, The Sun Shines Bright, Atomic City, Branded, Heading for Heaven; died June 12, 19801908 - Don Dunphy
International Boxing Hall of Fame announcer: America's foremost announcer of boxing matches on radio and TV: he called more than 2,000 fights, including the Joe Louis-Billy Conn title bout in 1941 and the famous Muhammad Ali-George Foreman match in Zaire in 1974; died July 22, 19981908 - Andrei Gromyko
Russian leader: Soviet Foreign Minister; Soviet President; died July 2, 19891911 - Georges Pompidou
President of France [1969-1974]; died April 2, 19741923 - John McKay
College Football Hall of Famer: head coach: USC [1960-1975]: only coach to take a team to the Rose Bowl 4 years in a row [1967-1970]; head coach: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1976–1984]; died June 10, 20011924 - Janos Starker
Grammy Award-winning cellist [Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra: 1997]: Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1–6; Grand prix du disque [France: 1948]; died Apr 28, 20131928 - Katherine Helmond
actress: Soap, The House of Blue Leaves, Who’s the Boss, Brazil, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; died Feb 23, 20191928 - Warren Oates
actor: Dillinger, Wild Bunch, In the Heat of the Night, Stripes, The Blue and the Gray, Prime Time, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Rawhide; stunt tester: Beat the Clock; died Apr 3, 19821934 - Gordy (Gordon Calvin) Coleman
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961]; died Mar 12, 19941936 - Shirley Knight
actress: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Group, 21 Hours at Munich, Sweet Bird of Youth, Color of Night; died Apr 22, 20201943 - Curt (Curtis Le Roy) Blefary
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [Rookie of the Year: 1965/World Series: 1966], Houston Astros, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics, SD Padres; died Jan 28, 20011943 - (Jamie) Robbie Robertson
composer, musician: guitar: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Shape I’m In, River Hymn, Life is a Carnival1950 - Huey Lewis (Cregg)
musician: harmonica, singer: group: Huey Lewis and the News: Power of Love, Stuck with You, Trouble in Paradise, Heart of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, Doin’ It [All for My Baby], Do You Believe in Love, Power of Love, [Too] Hip to Be Square1950 - Gary (Nathaniel) Matthews
baseball: San Francisco Giants [Rookie of the Year: 1973], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1979], Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983], Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners1950 - Michael Monarch
musician: guitar: group: Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild, The Pusher, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me1951 - Rich (Richard Michael) ‘Goose’ Gossage
baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975, 1976], Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1977], NY Yankees [World Series: 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982], SD Padres [World Series: 1984/all-star: 1984, 1985], Chicago Cubs , SF Giants, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners1952 - Don (Donald John) DeMola
baseball: pitcher: Montreal Expos1956 - Terry Chimes
musician: drums: founding member of The Clash: White Riot, Remote Control, Complete Control, Clash City Rockers1956 - James Lofton
Pro Football Hall of Famer: wide receiver: NFL Individual Record for career yards gained 14,004 [1978-1995]: Green Bay Packers, LA Raiders, Buffalo Bills, LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles; coach: San Diego Chargers [2002–2007], Oakland Raiders [2008])1958 - Bill Watterson
cartoonist: Calvin and Hobbes1963 - Edie Falco
actress: The Sopranos, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Great New Wonderful, Sunshine State, Jenifer, Random Hearts, A Price Above Rubies, Cop Land, Breathing Room1965 - Kathryn Erbe
actress: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Oz, Chicken Soup, Naked City: Justice with a Bullet, Speaking of Sex1967 - Tim Worrell
baseball [pitcher]: SD Padres, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies1968 - Jillian Armenante
actress: Judging Amy, The Seven Mysteries of Life, Delivered, Girl, Interrupted1968 - Michael Stuhlbarg
actor: Boardwalk Empire, A Serious Man, Men in Black 3, Seven Psychopaths, Lincoln, Hitchcock, Blue Jasmine1968 - Susan Wojcicki
entrepreneur, executive: Google: marketing manager; senior VP of product management; YouTube CEO [2014-2023]1971 - Brad Tiley
hockey: NHL: Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers1973 - Koy Detmer
football [quarterback]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles1975 - Chris Gratton
hockey: NHL: Tampa-Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Buffalo Sabres, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche1977 - Derrius Thompson
football [wide receiver]: Baylor Univ; NFL: Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins
1980 - Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio)
DJ, TV personality: Jersey Shore1980 - Jason Wade
musician: guitar; songwriter, lead singer: group: Lifehouse: Hanging by a Moment, You and Me, First Time, Whatever It Takes, Halfway Gone1981 - Gianne Albertoni
Brazilian model, actress: TV show: Popstars1981 - Kelly Kline
actress [2003-2008]: X-rated films: Nothing Underneath, Screw My Wife Please 41: She’s Married, Not Dead!, Strangers When We Meet, Young, Hot & Bothered 21981 - Brandon Lloyd
football [wide receiver]: NFL: San Francisco 49ers [2003–2005], Washington Redskins [2006–2007], Chicago Bears [2008], Denver Broncos [2009–2011], St. Louis Rams [2011], New England Patriots [2012], San Francisco 49ers [2014]1982 - Dave Haywood
musician: piano, mandolin, guitar; singer: group: Lady Antebellum: Love Don’t Live Here, Lookin’ for a Good Time, I Run to You1982 - Beno Udrih
basketball [point/shooting guard]: NBA: San Antonio Spurs [2004–2007]: 2005, 2007 NBA champs; Sacramento Kings [2007–2011]; Milwaukee Bucks [2011–2013]; Orlando Magic [2013]; New York Knicks [2013–2014]; Memphis Grizzlies [2014–2015]; Miami Heat [2015–2016]; Detroit Pistons [2016–2017]1983 - Kevin Boothe
football [offensive lineman]: NFL: Oakland Raiders [2006]; New York Giants [2007–2013]: 2008 Super Bowl XLII champs, 2012 Super Bowl XLVI champs; Oakland Raiders [2014]1985 - François Arnaud
actor: The Borgias, I Killed My Mother, The Girl King, Big Sky1987 - Chesson Hadley
golf champ: 2013 Rex Hospital Open, 2014 Puerto Rico Open, 2017 Albertsons Boise Open1989 - Malcolm Smith
football [linebacker]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2011-2014]: MVP of 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII; Oakland Raiders [2015-2016]; San Francisco 49ers [2017–2018]; Jacksonville Jaguars [2019]; Dallas Cowboys [2019])
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Hit Music on This Day July 5
th=16 height=10 src="gldball.gif">Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Again (facts) - Gordon Jenkins
1958Hard Headed Woman (facts) - Elvis Presley
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