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1862 - The Medal of Honor, authorized by the U.S. Congress, was signed into law on this day.1912 - The first foreign-made film to premiere in America, Amours de la reine Élisabeth (Queen Elizabeth), was shown. The French film starred Sarah Bernhardt and Lon Tellegen.
1920 - The Panama Canal was formally dedicated, six years after the first ship had sailed through it.
1931 - A major-league baseball record for doubles was set as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs combined for a total of 23 twin-sackers in St. Louis.
1941 - An Anglo-Soviet agreement was signed in Moscow. The governments of Britain and the U.S.S.R. pledged to help and support each other in the war against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. They also agreed that they would not conclude a separate peace with the enemy.
1944 - The Royal Air Force (RAF) became the first air force to use jet aircraft in operational service. The first two Gloster Meteors were delivered on this day.
1946 - The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Howard Duff starred as the San Francisco detective in the summer replacement series. Sam Spade first appeared in the 1930 Dashiel Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon and in the 1931 original film version of The Maltese Falcon, starring Ricardo Cortez. Humprey Bogart played Sam in the 1941 movie.
1949 - Football quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, a student at the University of Oregon, decided against another year of college and signed a professional NFL contract to play with the Los Angeles Rams.
1957 - Prince Karim left Harvard University in Cambridge, MA to become the leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems. He became the Aga Khan for the religious sect. Prince Karim was 20 years old at the time of his calling.
1957 - U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney reported a connection between smoking and lung cancer. Burney was the first U.S. official to publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer.
1958 - Yakety Yak, by The Coasters, became the number one song in the U.S.A., according to Billboard magazine. It was the first stereo record to reach the top of the chart.
1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale. Over 50 million units were sold during the next 25 years. It was the favorite toy of many moms because it was self-contained and so-o-o quiet.
1967 - Blacks in Newark, NJ rioted. 26 people were killed, some 1,000 were injured and another 1,500 were arrested.
1968 - Bill Cosby’s hit comedy album, To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With, was certified gold.
1972 - U.S. Senator George McGovern (SD) was nominated in Miami, Florida as the Democratic candidate for president.
1975 - The tiny volcanic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe gained independence from Portugal this day. The islands are located in the Gulf of Guinea about 150 mi (240 km) off West Africa.
1979 - This was Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. After hearing that a local radio station was blowing up disco records and drawing large crowds to watch, promoter Mike Veeck decided to do the same between games of a White Sox doubleheader. People were invited to bring unwanted disco records to the stadium. The spurned records would be burned between the games with the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. About 80,000 fans showed up, 60,000 inside the park and another 20,000 outside. Between games, Veeck’s crew blew up thousands of disco records in a dumpster and used fireworks for added effect. “It was great until 10,000 people ran on the field and we had to forfeit the game,” Veeck said. Lead by the chant, “Disco Sucks!”, some fans started their own fires and mini-riots. There was so much commotion that the ballplayers couldn’t even finish the last game of the doubleheader; the White Sox forfeited.
1979 - Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) declared its independence from the U.K. Kiribati consists of three widely-separated main groups of southwest Pacific islands: the Gilberts on the equator, the Phoenix Islands to the east, and the Line Islands farther east.
1979 - Pop singer Minnie Riperton, famed for her three-octave range, died of cancer at the age of 31. Lovin’ You, Riperton’s international blockbuster, topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975.
1982 - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of its opening.
1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI. The company had produced those cabs since 1922.
1984 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies earned his 100th strikeout of the season and led the Phils to a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Carlton tied a record set by Walter Jonson by getting 100 or more strikeouts in 18 straight seasons. Carlton became baseball’s all-time strikeout leader with 3,813. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Phillies, and briefly, for the Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins before retiring and becoming a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1988 - Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis picked Senator Lloyd Bentsen to be his running-mate.
1989 - U.S. President George Bush (I) was in Hungary, holding talks with officials. He gave a speech at Karl Marx University in Budapest.
1990 - Boris N. Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership. He said he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.
1993 - 196 people were killed when an 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan. The Hokkaido Nansei Oki quake struck off shore at Okushiri Island in Hokkaido prefecture. The quake produced one of the largest tsunamis in Japan’s history.
1994 - The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge album was released. Their Voodoo Lounge Tour started in Toronto, July 19, 1994 and ended in Rotterdam on August 30, 1995 -- and holds the all-time North America tour ticket-sale record of $121.2 million.
1995 - Nine Months started its first run in the U.S. The comedy stars Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum and Robin Williams.
1996 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Courage Under Fire, with Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Bronson Pinchot, Scott Glenn and Regina Taylor; and Les visiteurs, with Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Valerie Lemercier and Marie- Anne Chazel.
1997 - The Cuban government confirmed that the remains found in the remote Bolivian village of Vallegrande were those of legendary guerrilla Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.
1998 - In France, the home team beat Brazil (3-0) to claim the first French World Cup soccer championship.
2000 - The United States and Vietnam reached a trade agreement to allow unrestricted commerce between the two nations for the first time since the end of the Vietman War.
2001 - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis took off with a crew of five to deliver a portal for spacewalks to the International Space Station.
2002 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course, starring Steve Irwin , Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham and Lachy Hulme; Reign of Fire, with Matthew Mcconaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler; Road to Perdition, starring Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
2002 - The U.S. Senate adopted a ban on personal loans from companies to their top executives. That practice had benefited many executives.
2003 - Benny Carter, jazz musician, composer and bandleader, died in Los Angeles at 95 years of age. Carter’s work included arrangements for the 1943 film Stormy Weather.
2003 - The USS Ronald Reagan, the first aircraft carrier named for a living president, was commissioned in Norfolk, VA.
2004 - Monsoon floods wreaked havoc across South Asia, killing 37 people and forcing millions to flee their homes or seek emergency shelter.
2005 - Prince Albert was inaugurated as ruling prince of Monaco, succeeding his father, Prince Rainier who died in April 2005.
2005 - Thunder Horse, the largest semi-submersible oil platform in the world, was found listing badly after the passage of Hurricane Dennis. The platform was fully righted but production was delayed until the second half of 2006 as crews repaired the Dennis damage.
2006 - The 37,000-acre Sawtooth Complex Fire in southern California had destroyed some 42 homes and was only 15% contained.
2008 - Tony Snow, conservative commentator and writer died at 53 years of age from colon cancer. Snow willingly sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during his stint as U.S. President Bush’s Press Secretary.
2009 - Ten people were injured, two of them seriously, in the Pamplona bull run, two days after a man was gored to death by a bull. The San Fermín (or Sanfermines) Festival is held annually from July 6 through July 14.
2010 - Israeli archaeologists said they had discovered a clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. Dig director Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University said the 2-centimeter-long fragment was the oldest example of writing to be found in Jerusalem.
2011 - Australia’s major alcohol brands launched voluntary health warnings on their labels targeting children, pregnant women and anyone doing excessive boozing.
2011 - A federal indictment unsealed in St. Louis, Missouri blamed the Wheels of Soul motorcycle club, with a ‘mother chapter’ in Philadelphia, for killings, robberies, drug distribution and other crimes. The indictment accused 18 men in seven states of racketeering, with some of the men also accused of crimes that include murder, attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping.
2012 - Wells Fargo Bank agreed to a $175-million settlement with the U.S. Justice Dept, which had charged that the bank had steered minorities (African American and Latino) into expensive subprime loans with higher interest rates even though they had qualified for lower rates.
2013 - These movies started runs in the U.S.: Grown Ups 2, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, David Spade, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Nick Swardson, Steve Buscemi, Colin Quinn, Tim Meadows, Jon Lovitz, Shaquille O’Neal, Alexander Ludwig and Georgia Engel; Pacific Rim, with Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Clifton Collins Jr and Robert Maillet; Crystal Fairy, featuring Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann; Fruitvale Station, with Chad Michael Murray, Kevin Durand, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Ahna O’Reilly, Melonie Diaz and Tatiana Maricely; The Hot Flashes, starring Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Virginia Madsen, Eric Roberts, Wanda Sykes, Camryn Manheim, Gary Grubbs and Andrea Frankle; Killing Season, starring Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Milo Ventimiglia and Elizabeth Olin; and Pawn Shop Chronicles, with Paul Walker, Brendan Fraser, Norman Reedus, Elijah Wood, Vincent D’Onofrio, Rachelle Lefevre, Lukas Haas, Thomas Jane and Matt Dillon.
2013 - Italian police conducted raids on companies across the country linked to the construction of Venice’s flood barrier. Seven people were arrested, suspected of rigging lucrative contracts for the multi-billion euro Moses Project.
2015 - Guam’s ongoing war against coconut rhinoceros beetles, which had ravaged many coconut trees, became more challenging. Officials said the beetles had developed an immunity to the Oryctes nudivrus, which had been used to kill the beetles.
2016 - The Republican National Convention (RNC) Platform Committee, meeting a week ahead of the 2016 convention, rejected a move to soften language on same-sex marriage and continued its opposition to transgender bathroom choice in the GOP platform.
2016 - iHeartMedia’s 24/7 News Network announced that it was partnering with NBC News to provide the company’s 850 stations and 1000+ affiliates access to NBC News broadcast coverage and hourly branded newscasts. As part of the deal, the company’s 24/7 News streaming channel on iHeartRadio was rebranded as ‘NBC News Radio’.
2017 - Apple announced its first data center in China as part of a $1 billion investment there. The plan was meant to bring Apple into compliance with a new law requiring foreign companies to store Chinese users’ information in the country. The center in Guizhou province would be operated with a local data management company.
2017 - Scientists said an iceberg the size of Delaware was set adrift after snapping off of a West Antarctic ice shelf. The break left the rest of the shelf vulnerable to collapse. “This is just the latest empirical evidence for what scientists have increasingly concluded in recent years,” said Michael Mann, professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and director of its Earth System Science Center. “Namely, that the West Antarctic ice sheet is less stable with respect to global warming than once thought, and its demise is occurring ahead of schedule, and with it, so is global sea-level rise.”
2018 - The Trump administration was under court orders to swiftly reunite the migrant families that were separated at the border under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. But efforts to get even the youngest children returned to their parents stalled as Trump struggled to reverse a crisis of his own making.
2018 - As POTUS Trump landed in London, Mayor Sadiq Khan said protests against the visit by the U.S. president must be “peaceful and good-spirited.” Khan, a member of Britain’s opposition Labour Party who has clashed with Trump in the past, added that protests against Trump were not anti-American but instead reflected Londoners’ opposition to Trump’s “politics of fear and despair.”
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Crawl, with Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper and Ross Anderson; Stuber, starring Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista and Betty Gilpin; The Art of Self-Defense, with Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola and Imogen Poots; I Got the Hook-Up 2, starring Kj Smith, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, John Witherspoon; Lying and Stealing, with Aris Alvarado, Fernanda Andrade and Tim Bader; Rojo, starring Claudio Martínez Bel, Mara Bestellia and Alfredo Castro; Saving Zoë, with Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano and Giorgia Whigham; and Summer Night, starring Analeigh Tipton, Justin Chatwin and Lana Condor.
2019 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that created a $21-billion wildfire insurance fund to reimburse investor-owned utilities for payments they make to victims of wildfires caused by their equipment.
2019 - Russia began delivery of the advanced S-400 missile defence system to Turkey. The move was expected to trigger U.S. sanctions against a NATO ally and drive a wedge into the heart of the Western military alliance. As of July 2020 the Protect Against Conflict by Turkey or, "PACT" Act, had passed the House of Representatives but was stalled in the U.S. Senate. So, wedge, yes, sanctions, maybe...
2020 - Australia said that it was offering 10,000 Hong Kong passport holders currently living in Australia a chance to apply for permanent residence once their current passport expires. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said China’s imposition of a new tough national security law on Hong Kong means pro-democracy supporters may face political persecution.
2020 - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to provide speedy financial help for self-employed workers following protests over the government’s failure to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
2021 - Fire swept through a coronavirus ward in Nasiriyah, Iraq. Some 92 people were killed and scores of others were injured in the blaze at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah.
2021 - Firefighters worked in extreme temperatures across the U.S. West and struggled to contain wildfires. The Beckwourth Complex raged along the Nevada state line and burned more than 90,000 acres. It was 26% contained. Oregon’s Bootleg Fire exploded to 224 square miles.
2022 - Netflix’s South Korean drama Squid Game was the first non-English series to be nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama. (HBO’s Succession wound up winning the award.) Squid Game received 14 Emmy nominations in total -- and won six.
2022 - Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed -- at a hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6 Capitol attack -- that former President Donald Trump had attempted to contact a witness in the panel’s investigation. Cheney said, “That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump’s call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. Their lawyer alerted us. And this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice.”
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Birthdays on This Day July 12
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood
pottery designer and manufacturer; died Jan 3, 17951817 - Henry David Thoreau
philosopher, writer: On Walden Pond; died May 6, 18621849 - Sir William Osler
physician, author: Principles and Practice of Medicine; died Dec 29, 19191854 - George Eastman
inventor: Kodak camera; flexible roll film; died Mar 14, 19321864 - George Washington Carver
botanist: developed multiple uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes; George Washington Carver National Monument named for him; died Jan 5, 19431884 - Louis B. Mayer
movie mogul: the Mayer in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); producer: Ben-Hur, Why Men Leave Home, A Question of Honor, Polly of the Storm Country, Mary Regan, Always in the Way; died Oct 29, 19571895 - Oscar (Greeley Clendenning) Hammerstein II
lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music; died Aug 23, 19601908 - Milton Berle (Berlinger)
comedian: Uncle Miltie, Mr. Television: The Milton Berle Show, Texaco Star Theatre; actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Oscar, Side by Side; died Mar 27, 20021909 - ‘Curly’ Joe DeRita (Joseph Wardell)
comedian: The Three Stooges: The Outlaw is Coming, Snow White and the Three Stooges, Have Rocket, Will Travel; died July 3, 19931909 - Joey Faye
actor: Once Upon a Time in America, The Phantom of the Open Hearth, The Grissom Gang, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, For Love or Money; died Apr 26, 19971917 - Andrew Wyeth
artist: the Helga pictures, Christina’s World, Young Swede, Adrift, Wind from the Sea, Knapsack; died Jan 16, 20091920 - Keith Andes
actor: Blinded By the Light, The Ultimate Impostor, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Doctor Mike, Model for Murder, Clash By Night, The Farmer’s Daughter; died Nov 11, 20051927 - Conte (Secondo) Candoli
musician: trumpet: bandleader; toured with Stan Kenton et al.; with brother Pete in film: Bell Book and Candle; died Dec 14, 20011932 - Otis Davis
track: Olympic Gold medal winner [1960/Rome]: Men’s 4x400 meter relay w/Jack Yerman, Earl Young and Glenn Davis1934 - Van (Harvey Lavan) Cliburn
piano virtuoso; died Feb 22, 20131937 - Bill Cosby
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: I Spy [1965-1966; 1966-1967, 1967-1968], The Bill Cosby Special [1968-1969]; The Cosby Show, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Leonard VI, California Suite; convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 at his home in a Philadelphia suburb1942 - Steve Young
singer: Honky Tonk Man, Ramblin’ Man, Alabama Highway, White Trash Song, Don’t Miss Your Water, Montgomery in the Rain; died Mar 17, 20161943 - Christine (Perfect) McVie
musician, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac: Got a Hold on Me, Dreams, Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow1944 - Denise Nicholas
actress: Room 222, In the Heat of the Night, Ghost Dad1948 - Richard Simmons
weight loss expert, entertainer: Sweatin’ to the Oldies1948 - Walter Egan
singer, songwriter: LPS: Not Shy [Magnet and Steel], Fundamental Roll, Hi-Fi, The Last Stroll, Wild Exhibitions, Walternative1948 - Jay Thomas
Emmy Award-winning actor: Murphy Brown: Gold Rush [1991]; Mork & Mindy, Married People, Love & War, Cheers, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Straight Talk, Little Vegas, The Gig; died Aug 24, 20171949 - John Wetton
musician: bassist, singer: group: Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell; died Jan 31, 20171950 - Eric Carr
musician: drums: group: KISS: Strutter, Deuce, Got to Choose, Hotter Than Hell, C’Mon and Love, Rock and Roll All Nite, Detroit Rock City, Shout It Out Loud; died Nov 24, 19911950 - Gilles Meloche
hockey: California Golden Seals; 5 NHL teams over 18 seasons1951 - Cheryl Ladd (Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor)
actress: Dancing with Danger, Changes, The Grace Kelly Story, One West Waikiki, Charlie’s Angels, Poison Ivy1951 - Jamey Sheridan
actor: The House on Carroll Street, Shannon’s Deal1952 - Phil Kramer
musician: bass: group: Iron Butterfly; died Feb 12, 19951952 - Liz Mitchell
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon1955 - Bambi Woods
actress [1978-1981]: X-rated films: Debbie Does Dallas film series, Swedish Erotica 12; Whatever Happened to Bambi Woods?; “...Thank you. I’m fine and happy.”1956 - Mel (Mary Ellen) Harris
actress: thirtysomething, Sharon’s Secret, The Spider and the Fly, Raising Cain, Desperate Motives, Wanted Dead or Alive, Out of the Woods, Hangman’s Curse, Dynamite, Out of Time, What Kind of Mother Are You?, With Hostile Intent, Broken Lullaby1956 - Sandi Patti
singer: How Magestic Is Your Name, Exhalt the Name, In the Name of the Lord, The Day He Wore My Crown, Pour on the Power, They Could Not1962 - Julio Cesar Chavez
boxing champ: superfeatherweight [1984], WBA lightweight [1987], WBC Lightweight [1988], WBC Superlightweight [1989], IBF Jr. Welterweight [1990], WBC Superlightweight [1994]; amateur record: 14-1; pro record: 103-6-2 [83 KOs]1962 - Dan Murphy
songwriter, musician [guitar], singer: groups: Soul Asylum: Just Like Anyone, Cartoon, Closer to the Stars, Somebody to Shove, Close, String of Pearls, Tied to the Tracks; Golden Smog: Down By The Old Mainstream1964 - Judi Evans Luciano
actress: Days of Our Lives, Getting Away With Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Mystery, Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story, The Party Animal1965 - Mike Munoz
baseball [pitcher]: Cal Poly-Pomona Univ; Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers1969 - Lisa Nicole Carson
actress: Ally McBeal, ER, Divas, Law & Order, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Life, Eve’s Bayou, Devil in a Blue Dress, Let’s Get Bizzee1970 - Chad Brown
football: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks, NE Patriots1970 - Lee Byung-hun
actor: Joint Security Area, A Bittersweet Life, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, All In, Iris, I Saw the Devil, Gwanghae, G.I. Joe film series1970 - Shawnee Cates
actress [1991-1995]: X-rated films: Married with Hormones, Dial a Nurse, Deep C Diver, Captain Butt’s Beach, Ass Capades, Almost Home Alone1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi
figure skater: Olympic gold medalist [1992]; U.S. and world champion [1992]1972 - Travis Best
basketball: Georgia Tech Univ; Indiana Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets1972 - Kelly Wunsch
baseball [pitcher]: Texas A&M Univ; Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers1975 - Cheyenne Jackson
actor: stage: All Shook Up, Xanadu, Finian’s Rainbow, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Damn Yankees; film/TV: United 93, Mutual Friends, 30 Rock, Glee; singer: LPs: The Power of Two [w/Michael Feinstein], I’m Blue, Skies, Renaissance1976 - Dan Boyle
hockey: NFL: San Jose Sharks, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning1977 - Steve Howey
actor: Reba, DOA: Dead or Alive, Bride Wars, Ctrl, Shameless1977 - Brock Lesnar
pro wrestler: WWE Raw brand; UFC Heavyweight Champion; #1 ranked mixed martial arts (MMA) heavyweight; actor: The Ultimate Fighter1978 - Topher Grace
actor: Spider-Man 3, In Good Company, P.S., Mona Lisa Smile, Traffic, That ’70s Show1978 - Michelle Rodriguez
actress: Lost, The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, S.W.A.T., Avatar, Machete, Battle: Los Angeles1979 - Ron Edwards
football [defensive tackle]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs1983 - Kimberly Perry
singer: group: The Band Perry: If I Die Young, You Lie, All Your Life, Postcard from Paris, Better Dig Two1989 - Phoebe Tonkin
actress: The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, H2O: Just Add Water, Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Secret Circle, Bait 3D1990 - Rachel Brosnahan
actress: Emmy Award-winning actress: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel [2018]; House of Cards, Manhattan, Beautiful Creatures, Louder Than Bombs, The Finest Hours, Patriots Day1995 - Jordyn Wieber
artistic gymnast: World Women’s All-Around Champion [2011]; member of U.S. gold medal winning team at the 2012 London Games
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Hit Music on This Day July 12
1947Peg o’ My Heart (facts) - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder (facts) - Eddy Howard
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