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1754 - King’s College opened in New York City. The institution of higher learning admitted eight students and one faculty member, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who also served as school president. These were humble beginnings for a school which would become one of the largest in the United States. King’s was renamed Columbia College in 1784 and, later, became Columbia University. Many prestigious awards come from this university, including the Columbia Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (named after Joseph Pulitzer, a former Columbia professor).1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.
1885 - G. Moore Peters of Xenia, OH patented the cartridge-loading machine.
1937 - Lou Gehrig hit a two-run home run to lead the American League over the National League 8-3 in the All-Star Game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. Pitcher Dizzy Dean of St. Louis suffered a career-shortening broken toe on his left foot during the game. Ouch!
1941 - U.S. forces took up defensive positions in Iceland, Trinidad and British Guiana to forestall any Nazi invasion. (The U.S. had not yet entered World War II.)
1943 - For the first time, Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. Not much later, the name of the program was altered to Casey, Crime Photographer, and became much more popular.
1944 - Soviet forces recaptured Minsk in Russia and the Battle of the Hedgerows raged on in Normandy.
1949 - Jack Webb’s Dragnet was first heard on NBC radio this day. The program was the first to dramatize cases from actual police files. Each episode on radio and TV began with the announcement, “The story you are about to hear (see) is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”; and ended with the somber sentence handed down to the criminal. The original sponsor of the radio series was Fatima Cigarettes and, later, Chesterfield Cigarettes. The composer of the original Dragnet theme was Walter Schumann, which included “dum-de-dum-dum,” possibly the most famous four-note introduction since Beethoven's 5th.
1954 - Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips was the first DJ to play an Elvis Presley record. Phillips premiered That’s All Right, Mama on his Red, Hot and Blues show from the mezzanine of the Chisca Hotel on WHBQ. Actually, according to legend, Phillips played the song 14 times and, later that night, Presley himself appeared at the hotel for his first interview with Phillips.
1958 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act.
1961- James R. Hoffa was reelected president of the Teamsters labor union -- by acclamation.
1962 - Orchestra leader David Rose reached the top spot on the popular music charts. The Stripper stayed at the pinnacle of musicdom for one week. Rose’s previous musical success on the charts was in 1944 with Holiday for Strings.
1962 - Race jockey Bill Hartack won race number 3,000. He was riding Big Steve at Arlington Park in Chicago, IL.
1967 - Actress Vivian Leigh died at 53 years of age. Leigh was famous for her role as Scarlett O’Hara in the film classic Gone with the Wind.
1969 - Canada’s House of Commons approved a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
1972 - U.S. Senator George McGovern was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine. Inside was “An outspoken self-portrait.”
1976 - The first televised U.S. state dinner was shown in Washington, DC. President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford hosted the dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The Queen was visiting during the celebration of the bicentennial of the American Revolution.
1978 - The Solomon Islands gained its independence from Great Britain.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominated Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to the U.S. Supreme Court. O’Connor became the court’s first female justice. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 22 and sworn in on September 25, 1981.
1985 - Boris Becker won the Wimbledon tennis title by defeating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Becker became the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the title in the 108-year history of Wimbledon. Becker was only 17 years old at the time.
1986 - The USA enjoyed great success at the Goodwill Games (in Moscow) as Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the heptathlon world record with 7,148 points. She was the first woman to crack the 7,000-point barrier. Jackie extended the record that same year to 7,158 points in the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival where she won all seven events of the heptathlon.
1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearings on Capitol Hill, telling House members that he “never carried out a single act, not one” without authorization. North says he “assumed” President Reagan knew of the diversion of funds (profits from the sale of arms to Iran) to the Nicaraguan rebels, and that he destroyed key documents. He also conceded that he used funds from the Iran-Contra operation for personal purposes.
1990 - The world’s three most famous tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - performed their first concert together. The performance, in Rome on the eve of the World Cup soccer final, earned millions of dollars for charity. An album of the event, Carreras Domingo Pavarotti - in Concert, was a surprise hit on the pop charts, and eventually became the best-selling classical album of all-time.
1991 - Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles tennis title at Wimbledon.
1994 - Viacom Inc. was having a very good year. The movie, publishing and sports company bought Paramount Communications Inc. this day for $10 billion. The company that became Viacom was spun off from CBS in the 1970s because of government rules (later repealed), that prevented networks from owning their own programming. Since then, Viacom has grown to become a major player in media and cable, forming the pay channel Showtime in 1978 and acquiring MTV in 1986. On Aug 29, 1994 Viacom plunked down another $8 billion for Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.
1995 - These films debuted in the U.S.: First Knight, starring Sean Connery, Richard Gere and Julia Ormond; and Species, with Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina and Forest Whitaker.
1996 - Dutch tennis player Richard Krajicek won the Wimbledon men’s title, defeating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.
1999 - It was the first lawsuit brought by a group of individual smokers to get all the way to the trial stage. And a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for marketing a dangerous product that causes deadly diseases (emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses). The jury held the tobacco industry liable for damages worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
1999 - “Rome is a magic track for me,” exclaimed the new holder of the world outdoor mile record. Hicham El Guerrouj from Morocco was in track competition at the Golden Gala Track Meet at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy. His time of 3:43.13 was 1.26 seconds faster than the previous record of 3:44.39 set by Noureddine Morceli of Algeria in 1993. Second place Noah Ngeny of Kenya also beat Morceli’s record as he ran neck and neck with El Guerrouj, finishing at 3:43.40. El Guerrouj shattered the world record for 1,500 meters just one year earlier at the same stadium, running the race in a record 3 minutes and 26 seconds. That record was also previously held by Morceli. El Guerrouj says he hopes to run even faster in the future, lowering the 1500 meter record to 3:24 and the mile to 3:42 or even 3:41. Soon he’ll be running at the speed of light!
1999 - President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit an Indian reservation. He toured the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
2000 - Scary Movie opened. Directed by funnyman Keenen Ivory Wayans, Scary Movie is a horror-film spoof (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix). If you can get past the strong crude sexual humor, language, drug use and violence, the flick is great fun for the entire family. Most U.S. audiences did manage to get past those drawbacks and spent $42.35 million on the film its opening weekend.
2000 - Stock car driver Kenny Irwin was killed when his car slammed into a wall during practice at New Hampshire International Speedway; he was 30 years old.
2000 - The fourth installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.
2001 - 80 police officers were injured in Bradford, England in race riots that began after a rally by the far-right National Front was banned. Asian and white youths ran amok in the streets armed with firebombs and baseball bats.
2002 - Lleyton Hewitt crushed David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon final to win his second Grand Slam title.
2003 - NASA’s second Mars Rover, named Opportunity, was launched.
2004 - King Arthur opened in U.S. theatres. The action drama from Touchstone pictures stars Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gruffudd, Stellan Skarsgaard, Ray Winstone, Valeria Cavalli, Charlie Creed-Miles, Joel Edgerton, Sean Gilder, Pat Kinevane, Ivano Marescotti, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Ray Stevenson and Ken Stott.
2004 - Jeff Smith, TV’s Frugal Gourmet (1983-1997), died at 65 years of age. A 1998 sex scandal ruined the white-bearded Methodist minister’s career.
2005 - Four Suicide bombers struck in central London, killing 52 people, along with themselves, and injuring some 800 more. The coordinated attacks hit the subway system as the morning rush hour wound down. The bombs were detonated in three crowded subway trains and aboard a London bus. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw speculated that the explosions “bore all the hallmarks” of terrorist group al-Qa’eda.
2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest opened in U.S. theatres. The action adventure stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Kevin R. McNally and Jonathan Pryce.
2006 - Keith ‘Syd’ Barrett, singer, songwriter and founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 60 years old.
2007 - The new seven wonders of the world (as picked in a global poll organized by the private New7Wonders Foundation): The Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal, Peru’s Macchu Picchu, Jordan’s Petra, Brazil’s Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid.
2008 - European Union nations gave their approval to a French-drafted pact calling for tightening immigration and asylum rules across the 27-nation bloc.
2009 - After talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged that “on areas where we disagree, like Georgia, I don’t anticipate a meeting of the minds anytime soon.”
2009 - Internet search giant Google announced its new operating system, Google Chrome OS, which would initially target low cost netbooks. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” said Google executives.
2010 - A French court convicted Manuel Noriega of money-laundering and sentenced the former Panama dictator to seven years in jail. This, after Noriega had spent two decades in a U.S. prison.
2011 - Rupert Murdoch closed the 168-year-old News of the World because it had been dogged by allegations that it had hacked the voicemails of a teenage murder victim and the families of dead soldiers. The move by Murdoch was widely seen as a way to quell the scandal and save his News Corp bid for control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB. (News Corp withdrew that bid a few days later.)
2012 - Thousands of visitors climbed aboard the USS Iowa as the storied battleship opened as a museum in San Pedro (port of Los Angeles), California.
2012 - Syria’s military began exercises to simulate putting up a defense against outside ‘aggression.’ This, while activists struggling to topple the regime in power reported fierce government offensives to try to retake rebel-held areas outside of Aleppo and near Damascus.
2013 - Israel’s cabinet approved a draft law to abolish wholesale exemptions from military duty that were granted to Jewish seminary students. The new law stoked ultra-Orthodox anger over the break with tradition.
2014 - Chicago, Illinois authorities reported that the Fourth of July holiday weekend had brought an outbreak of gunfire to the city. 82 people had been shot and 14 of those died.
2014 - India’s Supreme Court ruled that Islamic courts have no legal authority in India, saying Muslims cannot be legally subject to a parallel religious authority.
2015 - A French court jailed a woman for conning thousands of Chileans into buying a kit to make ‘magic cheese’ that they could sell back to French cosmetics firms for use in luxury beauty products. 74-year-old Gilberte Van Erpe was given a three-year prison sentence and a €250,000 ($270,000) fine for her scam.
2015 - The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported that the death rate from heroin overdoses nearly quadrupled in the U.S. to 2.7% between 2002 and 2013.
2016 - The police shooting of a black man in Louisiana drew increasing criticism with cell phone video showing Alton Sterling pinned down by two Baton Rouge police officers. Moments later, Sterling was shot multiple times in the chest and back. The 37-year-old died at the scene. Baton Rouge officials said the officers involved in the shooting believed their actions were justified.
2016 - Several police officers were ambushed by sniper fire in downtown Dallas, TX as a peaceful protest turned into chaos. Five officers were killed. Seven other officers and two civilians were wounded. The attack appeared to be an attempt to kill as many officers as possible. A suspect, later identified as 25-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, was killed after a bomb robot carried an explosive to the suspect’s location and detonated it.
2017 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Spider-Man: Homecoming, starring Tom Holland, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Starr, Marisa Tomei, and Michael Keaton; Austin Found, with Linda Cardellini, Skeet Ulrich and Jaime Pressly; Do You Take This Man, starring Anthony Rapp, Jonathan Bennett and Alyson Hannigan; A Ghost Story, with Sonia Acevedo, Casey Affleck and Carlos Bermudez; Hickok, starring Luke Hemsworth, Trace Adkins, Kris Kristofferson; and Undercover Grandpa, with James Caan, Jessica Walter and Kenneth Welsh.
2017 - “It’s an honour to be with you,” POTUS Trump told Vladimir Putin, who responded, “I’m delighted to meet you personally.” The exchange came at a G20 summit discussing, among other things, divisions among western nations and tensions over North Korea. In the streets of Hamburg, riot police clashed with protesters in the run up to the summit. U.S. First Lady Melania Trump was blocked at her residence as demonstrators torched cars, smashed shop windows, fired flares at police helicopters and even slashed tires on vehicles belonging to the Canadian delegation.
2017 - In Stockholm, three men with ties to the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement were sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for bomb attacks in western Sweden during the previous year.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump said he was suspending a program that paid billions of dollars to insurers to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act. (On July 24 the payments were restored after some health plans warned they could become insolvent or withdraw from the market, causing chaos for consumers.)
2018 - Thousands of anti-violence demonstrators marched along the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago shutting down traffic. The crowd protested the gun violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in some of the Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
2018 - South Korean women marched in Seoul to protest ‘spy cam porn’ -- intimate photos and video taken by hidden cameras. The 18,000 women demanded stronger government action to fight the proliferation of hidden-camera images.
2019 - A head-on collision of two motorcycles, each carrying a passenger, killed four people on Santiago Canyon Road in Orange County (south of Los Angeles), CA. “A motorcycle was going northbound on Santiago Canyon (Road) — he was trying to overtake another vehicle that was going northbound,” CHP Officer Florentino Olivera said. “In doing so, he went into oncoming traffic on the opposite side and collided with another motorcycle that was going southbound.” Each motorcycle had a rider and a passenger. Investigators said the collision was so violent, the victims were ejected and ended up yards away from impact, including one woman who ended up over a ravine.
2019 - The U.S. women’s soccer team claimed a fourth World Cup in a 2-0 win over Netherlands. Throughout the tournament, the U.S. brushed aside criticism, complaints of arrogance and calls for the team to tone down their goal celebrations. All the team did was win. All seven World Cup games, in fact.
2020 - Researchers reported that a newly discovered species of seaweed was killing large patches of coral on once-pristine reefs in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- and was rapidly spreading across one of the most remote and protected ocean environments on earth. The new species of red algae was named Chondria tumulosa. It easily breaks off and rolls across the ocean floor like a tumbleweed, scientists say, covering nearby reefs in thick vegetation that out-competes coral for space, sunlight and nutrients.
2020 - The New York Department of Financial Services said Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $150 million in penalties over its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as part of a consent order with regulators in New York. The bank had maintained its relationship with Epstein despite multiple “suspicious transactions” and “red flags” that could have been related to his sex trafficking operation.
2020 - Doctors reported that a Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus had shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines. This, after he underwent an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging the hidden, dormant virus from his body.
2020 - German prosecutors in the town of Zwickau seized servers that had hosted thousands of sensitive police documents published as part of the BlueLeaks data dump. The publisher was not given an explanation. Prosecutors behind the seizure were acting at the request of the U.S. government. The takedown came after DDoSecrets, the publisher that hosted the BlueLeaks files after they were obtained by an anonymous hacker, was permanently banned from Twitter.
2020 - 467 people in India died from the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours, bringing the nation’s death toll to 20,160. Authorities reported a one-day increase of 22,252, bringing India’ total number of coronavirus cases to a huge 719,665.
2020 - Agnes Callamard, the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded that the Trump-ordered drone strike that killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani was unlawful. Callamard concluded that the attack was an “arbitrary killing” that violated the U.N. charter.
2021 - The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens to keep the Stanley Cup. The last Canadian team to win the Cup was Montreal, in 1993, the same year Tampa Bay completed its inaugural season.
2021 - A big boost for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma as 15 states came out in favor of a plan to reorganize Purdue Pharma into a new entity that would help combat the U.S. opioid epidemic.
2022 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned -- at Downing Street -- after the mass resignations of his ministers.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Insidious: The Red Door, with Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins and Patrick Wilson; and Joy Ride, with Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu and David Denman.
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Birthdays on This Day July 7
1860 - Gustav Mahler
musician, composer, music used in 1971 movie: Death in Venice; died May 18, 19111887 - Marc Chagall
artist: Red Nude Sitting Up, I and the Village, Bride with a Fan, The Cattle Dealer, Jew at Prayer, Bella with a White Collar; died Mar 28, 19851899 - George Cukor
director: My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Born Yesterday, Love Among the Ruins, The Philadelphia Story; died Jan 24, 19831902 - Vittorio De Sica
director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples; died Nov 13, 19741906 - Anton Karas
musician: zither; composer: The Third Man Theme, The Second Theme, Café Mozart Waltz, Keine Ahnung, Zither Man; died Jan 10, 19851906 - Satchel Paige
Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1948], St. Louis Browns [all-star: 1953], KC Athletics; legend in Negro leagues, thrilling fans with his famous ‘hesitation pitch’1909 - Billy Herman
Baseball Hall of Famer [second base: Chicago Cubs, Brooklyln Dodgers; had a batting average of .304 and still holds numerous National League records; died Sep 5, 1992; more1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti
Pulitzer prize-winning opera composer: The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955]; died Feb 1, 20071915 - Ruth Ford
actress: The Woman Who Came Back, The Lady is Willing, The Eyes of the Amaryllis; died Aug 12, 20091917 - Lawrence O’Brien
former head of U.S. Postal Service; Basketball Hall of Famer: National Basketball Association Commissioner; died Sep 27, 19901919 - William Kunstler
defense attorney: Tom Hayden, Chicago Seven, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis, John Gotti, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman; autobiography: My Life As A Radical Lawyer [1994]; died Sep 4, 19951919 - Jon Pertwee
BBC radio actor: The Navy Lark; TV: Dr. Who [1970-1974], Worzel Gummidge Down Under; died May 20, 19961921 - Ezzard Charles
International Boxing Hall of Famer: world heavyweight champion [1949-51]; bouts: 122: won 96, lost 25, drew 1, 59 KOs; died May 28, 19751924 - Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers)
singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; died Sep 30, 19771927 - Charlie Louvin (Loudermilk)
country singer: I Don’t Love You Anymore; w/brother, Ira: My Baby’s Gone, Hoping that You’re Hoping, I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby; joined Grand Ole Opry in 1955; died Jan 26, 20111927 - Doc (Carl) Severinsen
trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras; owner: trumpet factory1930 - Doyle Wilburn
singer: group: The Wilburn Brothers: I Wanna, Wanna, Wanna, I’m So in Love With You, Which One Is to Blame?, Knoxville Girl, Somebody’s Back in Town; died Oct 16, 19821940 - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
drummer: group: The Beatles; singer: It Don’t Come Easy, Photograph, You’re Sixteen; actor: Candy, The Magic Christian, Blindman, Caveman, Give My Regards to Broad Street; married to actress, Barbara Bach1943 - Joel Siegel
film critic: Good Morning America; died Jun 29, 20071944 - Warren Entner
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grass Roots1944 - Tony Jacklin
golf champ: The Open Championship [1969], U.S. Open [1970]1945 - Bill (William Edwin) Melton
baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1971], California Angels, Cleveland Indians1946 - Joe Spano
actor: NCIS, Hill Street Blues, Cast the First Stone, Brotherhood of Justice, American Graffiti, Northern Lights1948 - Jean LeClerc
actor: All My Children, Loving, Time at the Top, Blown Away, Shades of Love: The Garnet Princess, The Jerk, Too, A Time for Miracles, Qui perd gagne1949 - Shelley Duvall
actress: Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller1950 - David Hodo
singer: group: The Village People: YMCA1955 - Joey Scarbury
singer: The Greatest American Hero [Believe It or Not]1958 - Matt Suhey
football: Chicago Bears1959 - Bill Campbell
actor: Dynasty, Moon Over Miami, Gettysburg, The Brylcreem Boys, Once and Again1959 - Jessica Hahn
model: Playboy; scandal subject [w/PTL’s Jim Bakker]1960 - Ralph Sampson
Basketball Hall of Famer: Golden State Warriors; one of the Twin Towers of the Houston Rockets: Rookie of the Year [1983]; College Player of the Year [1981-83]1965 - Mo Collins
comedienne, actress: MADtv, Family Guy, Parks and Recreation, Flying By, David’s Situation, Cougar Club, Ground Zero, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Detective Fiction1966 - Dave Burba
baseball [pitcher]: Ohio State Univ; Seattle Mariners, SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers1966 - Jim Gaffigan
comedian, actor: The Jim Gaffigan Show; writer: Dad Is FatThe Jim Gaffigan Show, Food: A Love StoryThe Jim Gaffigan Show; more1966 - Tony Hrkac
hockey [center]: SL Blues, Quebec Nordiques, SJ Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, NY Islanders, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Atlanta Thrashers, Nashville Predators1968 - Amy Carlson
actress: Blue Bloods, Franklin Charter, Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control, Everything Put Together, Thanks of a Grateful Nation, Legacy of Lies, Law & Order, Third Watch, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1968 - Jorja Fox
actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Missing Persons, ER, The West Wing1968 - Chuck Knoblauch
baseball: Texas A&M Univ; Minnesota Twins, NY Yankees, KC Royals1969 - Joe Sakic
hockey: NHL: Quebec Nordiques [1988-1995]; Colorado Avalanche [1995-2009]: 1996, 2001 Stanley Cup champs1969 - Cree Summer
actress/character voice: A Different World, Inspector Gadget, Tiny Toons, Wild Thing, The Return of Billy Jack; songwriter, singer: LP: Street Faërie1969 - Robin Weigert
actress: Deadwood Things We Lost in the Fire, Winged Creatures, The Mentalist, Law & Order: LA, The Sessions, Concussion; more1972 - Lisa Leslie
basketball: Olympics women's basketball gold medalist: Atlanta: 1996, Sydney: 2000; WNBA: LA Sparks1972 - Kirsten Vangsness
actress: Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Tranny McGuyver, Scream of the Bikini, In My Sleep, Sarina’s Song, The Chicago 8, Kill Me, Deadly1973 - Aaron Beasley
football [cornerback]: West Virginina Univ; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons1973 - Jose Jimenez
baseball [pitcher]; SL Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians1973 - Matt Mantei
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox1974 - Patrick Lalime
hockey [goalie]: Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators SL Blues1976 - Bérénice Bejo
actress: The Artist, A Knight’s Tale, 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, The Past [Le Passé]1976 - Hamish Linklater
actor: The New Adventures of Old Christine, Gideon’s Crossing, 5ive Days to Midnight, Battleship, Lola Versus1976 - Lena Ramon
actress [1999-2009]: X-rated films: Open Wide and Say Ahh! 6, My Oral Obsession, Horny Housewives in Heat 11, House on Horny Hill1978 - Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen
basketball [power forward/c]: NBA: Denver Nuggets [2001–2004]; New Orleans Hornets [2004–2006, 2008]; Denver Nuggets [2008–2012]; Miami Heat [2013–2016]: 2013 NBA champs; Memphis Grizzlies [2016]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2016-2017]1980 - John Buck
baseball [catcher]: Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays1980 - Michelle Kwan
Olympic Figure Skating Champion [silver, 1998]; World Champion [1996, 1998]; U.S. National Champion [1996, 1998]; World Junior Champion [1994]1987 - Julianna Guill
actress: Friday the 13th [2009], Glory Daze, My Super Psycho, Sweet 16, Underemployed, Bad Samaritans, The Apparition, Mine Games, A Green Story1988 - Claire Holt
actress: Just Add Water, Mean Girls 2, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Blue Like Jazz, The Originals1995 - Madison Marlow
singer: duo: Maddie & Tae: Girl in a Country Song, Fly, Shut Up and Fish, Sierra
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Hit Music on This Day July 7
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
Mister and Mississippi (facts) - Patti Page
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