July 13
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1812 - The first pawnbroking ordinance was passed in New York City on this day. Pawnbroking can be traced back at least 3,000 years to ancient China, and has been found in the earliest written histories of Greek and Roman civilizations.1832 - U.S. Indian agent and explorer Henry Schoolcraft stumbled upon the source of the Mississippi River. Its 2,552-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico begins at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.
1836 - John Ruggles of Thomaston, Maine received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office under a new patent-numbering system. Before Ruggles, a U.S. Senator from Maine and the author of the 1836 Patent Act which brought back the examination process, there had been 9,957 non-numbered patents issued. Ruggles received his patent for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines.
1875 - David Brown of Lebanon, New Jersey patented the first cash-carrier system. It was a basket moved by a wire, a pail and pulleys, the forerunner of the pneumatic tube ... like those we use at the drive-in-bank windows.
1896 - Philadelpia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major league player to hit four home runs in a single game.
1938 - Spectators paid 25 cents to witness the first television theatre that opened in Boston, MA. The variety show with dancing and song lasted 45 minutes and was attended by 200 people. The acts were performed on a floor above the theatre and transmitted via cable to those watching TV downstairs.
1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut with the Harry James band. Frankie sang Melancholy Mood and From the Bottom of My Heart.
1943 - The greatest tank battle in history ended with Russia’s defeat of Germany at Kursk, south of Moscow. Almost 6,000 tanks took part and 2,900 were lost by Germany. There were at least 230,000 casualties in this ferocious battle.
1946 - Riley Puckett, one of the pioneers of recorded country music, died in East Point, Georgia at the age of 52. Among Puckett’s many recordings was Rock All Our Babies to Sleep, one of the first records to feature a country yodeller. It was cut in 1924, three years before the first sessions by legendary yodeller Jimmie Rodgers.
1953 - Entertainers Keely Smith and Louis Prima tied the matrimonial knot (her first, his fourth).
1955 - Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain (she had murdered her lover).
1959 - Dedicated to the One I Love, by The Shirelles, was released. The tune went to number 83 on the Top 100 chart of "Billboard" magazine. The song was re-released in 1961 and made it to number three on the charts. That’s just one case for being in the right place at the right time...
1960 - Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party’s convention in Los Angeles, California.
1969 - Russia launched the unmanned Luna 15 on its way to the Moon.
1971 - Reggie Jackson hit a home run off Doc Ellis in the All-Star Game in Tiger Stadium, Detroit, MI. The shot bounced off the light tower deep in right field. The American League won the game 6-4.
1972 - Carroll Rosenbloom (owner of the Baltimore Colts) and Robert Irsay (of the Los Angeles Rams) came up with a unique trade for the NFL. The wealthy businessmen traded teams!
1973 - David Bedford set a new world record in the 10,000-meter race in London. The track star from Great Britain ran the distance in 27 minutes, 30.8 seconds.
1977 - A 25-hour power blackout hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines. Nine million people were affected.
1978 - Lee Iacocca was fired from his position as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II.
1982 - The first All-Star Game played outside the United States was played this day in Montreal, Canada. The National League won for the 11th consecutive year, defeating the American League 4-1.
1985 - Duran Duran took A View to a Kill, from the James Bond movie of the same name, to the top of the record charts this day. The song stayed on top for two weeks. Live and Let Die by Wings and Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon -- both James Bond themes -- got only as high as number two on the record charts.
1985 - The event was the Live Aid concert for African famine relief. The place was Philadelphia, PA and it was also, London, England. Electrifying performances from Philly's JFK Stadium, London’s Wembley Stadium and other venues were telecast world-wide. The all-day and much-of-the-night concert featured some of the biggest names in rock music including Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Madonna, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney. The audience was equally as big - 162,000 attended the concert and another 1.5 billion viewed it on TV. Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof organized the Live Aid concert, gathering the big name stars, all of whom performed without pay. Live Aid ran for some sixteen hours and raised over $100 million.
1986 - Kent Tekulve of the Philadelphia Phillies broke the National League record for relief appearances by notching his 820th performance. He helped the Phils with an 11-inning victory over the Houston Astros (5-4). Elroy Face of Pittsburgh had been the previous record holder in the National League.
1992 - An appeals court in New York ruled that Jett Williams, the secret daughter of Hank Williams Senior, was entitled to share the royalties from his songs. In 1984, Jett had hired investigator Keith Adkinson, who found that Jett had been deliberately defrauded out of her father’s estate and his copyright royalties. Adkinson sued on her behalf. On October 26, 1987 the Alabama Circuit Court ruled that Hank Williams was Jett’s father. On July 5, 1989 the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jett had been defrauded, and awarded her half of her father’s estate. And on July 13, 1992 the federal court in New York awarded Jett her proportionate share of her father's copyright renewal royalties.
1992 - Yitzhak Rabin became Israel’s new prime minister, ending the Likud Party’s 15-year reign.
1993 - Race car driver Davey Allison died as a result of a helicopter crash at Talladega Superspeedway. Racing legend Red Farmer was a passenger in the helicopter and survived the crash.
1995 - The temperature in Chicago, Illinois reached its all-time high -- 106 degrees (Fahrenheit) -- recorded at Midway Airport.
1995 - George Michael and Sony settled their lengthy legal battle with an announcement that the singer was free to record for other companies. In 1994, Michael had lost a suit to break his multi-album contract with Sony. He claimed the pact amounted to “professional slavery.” Michael went on to sign with David Geffen’s Dreamworks label in North America, and with Virgin Records for the rest of the world.
1996 - Hollywood producer Pandro S. Berman died. Berman produced over a hundred movies, including Top Hat, Morning Glory, The Blackboard Jungle, Swing Time, The Gay Divorcee, Shall We Dance, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Gunga Din, Of Human Bondage, National Velvet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8 and Father of the Bride.
1998 - Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigned. He was a victim of the Japan’s economic problems.
2000 - A TV-news camera in Philadelphia showed city police beating and kicking Thomas Jones, who had stolen a patrol car and shot at an officer.
2001 - These films made debuts in the U.S.: Bully, starring Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner, Daniel Franzese and Leo Fitzpatrick; Legally Blonde, with Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge, Holland Taylor and Ali Larter; and The Score, starring Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Paul Soles, Jamie Harrold and Serge Houde.
2002 - Dr. P.V. Rajiv in southern India reported that he saved three sick newborn babies using a cloned version of the anti-impotence drug Viagra. “We saved the babies by giving sildenafil citrate, also called Viagra,” he said. Dr. Rajiv first gave the drug orally to a baby suffering pulmonary hypertension, after consulting international journals which reported its use to treat adults in a similar condition. Blue babies have a condition that contracts vessels carrying oxygen-rich blood to the lungs.
2003 - Kuwait’s emir, Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah, took a step toward political reform. He appointed his brother as prime minister, separating the post from the crown prince for the first time.
2004 - Ken Jennings, a software engineer from SLC, crossed the $1-million mark in his 30-game winning streak on the TV show Jeapardy.
2004 - In an Ohio court the De Beers company ended an impasse and agreed to pay a $10-million fine for the price fixing of industrial diamonds in 1991 and 1992.
2004 - Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism opened in the U.S. The documentary details the conservative bias of the Rupert Murdoch-owned FOX News Channel (FNC), which promotes itself as ‘Fair and Balanced’. The film includes interviews with former FNC employees and the inter-office memos they provided.
2005 - The National Hockey League labor dispute ended. The longest work stoppage in North American professional sports had dragged on for 301 days.
2006 - A Chinese reporter who posted essays on foreign Web sites criticizing the ruling Communist Party was sentenced to two years in prison for subversion. Li Yuanlong, a reporter for the newspaper Bijie Daily in the southern city of Bijie, was convicted by the Bijie Intermediate People’s Court for “inciting subversion.”
2006 - Israel unleashed a heavy military attack on Lebanon’s main airport, highways, military bases and other targets, in retaliation for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel.
2006 - Red Buttons, comedian, TV and film star, died at his home in Century City, CA. He was 87 years old. Buttons won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in 1957’s Sayonara. His many other film and TV appearances included The Red Buttons Show, Hatari, The Poseidon Adventure [1972], The Longest Day, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Captivity opened in U.S. theatres. The horror thriller stars Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso and Michael Harney.
2007 - Powerful Typhoon Man-Yi pounded Japan’s southern Okinawa island chain, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding flights with winds up to 100 mph.
2007 - A U.S. jury in Chicago found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice and sent him to a federal penitentiary. Black managed and controlled Hollinger International, Inc., which owned and published the Daily Telegraph, Chicago Sun Times, Jerusalem Post, National Post and hundreds of community newspapers in North America. Black and associates were convicted of pilfering $60 million from the company.
2008 - Belgian-based brewer InBe announced that it was buying U.S. beer giant Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion.
2009 - Japan passed a law allowing children to receive organ transplants for the first time. The move lifted a ban that had doomed many young patients or forced them to seek medical care abroad. The new law also allowed children, defined as those under 15, who were declared brain dead to donate organs.
2009 - South Korea reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had life-threatening pancreatic cancer, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year.
2010 - New York Yankees’ owner George Steinbrenner died at 80 years of age in Tampa, FL. Steinbrenner rebuilt the Yankees into a sports empire using a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America.
2010 - A three-judge panel of the U.S. federal appeals court struck down the government’s long-standing prohibition against indecency on broadcast TV and radio. The court found that the policy was unconstitutionally vague.
2010 - BP secured a new, tight-fitting cap on top of its leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico and began tests to see if the cap would stop the oil flow that had polluted the waters for nearly three months.
2011 - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch dropped his bid for control of pay-TV giant BSkyB. He pulled the bid because of intense pressure from the British government, as he struggled to keep the fallout from the newspaper phone-hacking scandal from contaminating the rest of his global media empire. Taking control of BSkyB, of which Murdoch’s News Corp. already owned a 39% share, had been critical to his corporate expansion plans in Great Britain. The scandal had forced the closure of the "News of the World" tabloid newspaper.
2011 - A Colorado hail storm put a third (20 aircraft) of the Frontier Airlines Airbus fleet out of service forcing the airline to cancel numerous flights over the following days. Denver’s largest carrier, United Airlines cancelled some 90 flights because of hail damage. And 1,000 people had to spend the night at the airport because of the storm.
2012 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The animated Ice Age: Continental Drift, featuring the voices of Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Seann William Scott, Kunal Nayyar, Alan Tudyk, Heather Morris, Josh Peck, John Leguizamo, Nick Frost and Queen Latifah; Farewell, My Queen, with Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noémie Lvovsky and Michel Robin; the documentary drama Ballplayer: Pelotero, with Jean Carlos Batista, John Leguizamo and Miguel Angel Sano; Red Lights starring Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Elizabeth Olsen, Joely Richardson and Toby Jones; and Trishna, with Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Anurag Kashyap, Kalki Koechlin and Roshan Seth.
2012 - Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants threw a perfect game, striking out 14, in a 10-0 win over the Houston Astros. It was the first perfect game in Giants history.
2012 - The U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General (Stuart Bowen) for Iraq Reconstruction Funds reported on a range of accounting weaknesses saying too much money had been wasted. Bowen’s office also reported that it had spent over $200 million tracking some $51 billion in reconstruction funds. If that information gives you a headache, we certainly understand.
2013 - A jury of six Florida women found George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.
2014 - Mario Gotze scored a stunning extra-time goal to settle the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final in Germany’s favour -- their 4th World Cup title in Buenos Aires. Joachim Low, Germany’s coach said, “We started this project ten years ago and what has happened today is the result of many years’ work, starting with Jurgen Klinsmann. We’ve made constant progress, we believed in the project, we worked a lot and, if any group deserves it, it’s this team.”
2015 - 79-year-old Ashley Mote, a former Eurosceptic member of the European Parliament, was sentenced in London to five years in prison for fraudulently claiming some £500,000 ($777,000) in expenses.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama reduced the prison sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders. Obama said reforming the complex U.S. criminal justice system to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug crimes was one of the top priorities of his remaining time in office.
2016 - “He is a faker,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Going point by point, as if presenting a legal brief, she said, “He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego ... How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that.” Of course, Trump responded by calling on Ginsburg to resign.
2016 - “It’s a disaster,” Massimo Mazzilli, the mayor of Corato, Italy wrote on his Facebook page as he posted shocking pictures of the accident scene near his town Two trains collided on a stretch of isolated track surrounded by olive trees around 11.30 a.m. (July 12) between the towns of Ruvo di Puglia and Corato, around 25 miles from Bari. At least 27 people were killed and dozens more injured.
2016 - Britain got a new prime minister. A career politician, Theresa May was the first woman to hold the office since Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The change came quickly. “It’s not been an easy journey, and of course we’ve not got every decision right,” said former Prime Minister David Cameron, leaving office four years earlier than he’d planned. Cameron gambled and lost on the referendum for Britain to leave the European Union.
2017 - U.S. congressional Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to expand college aid for military veterans by removing a 15-year time limit to tap into benefits. The action represented the largest expansion of veterans’ education benefits since the Post-9/11 GI Bill was created.
2017 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reported that more than 400 people had been charged with taking part in health care fraud and opioid scams that had rung up some $1.3 billion in false billing.
2018 - Movies opening in the U.S. on this day included: the animated Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, featuring characters voiced by Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Fran Drescher, Mel Brooks, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn and David Spade; Skyscraper, starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell and Pablo Schreiber; 7 Splinters in Time, with Emmanuelle Chriqui, Austin Pendleton, Al Sapienza; The Devil’s Doorway, starring Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn and Helena Bereen; Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara; Eighth Grade, with Josh Hamilton, Daniel Zolghadri and Elsie Fisher; Shock and Awe, starring James Marsden, Woody Harrelson and Jessica Biel; and Siberia, starring Keanu Reeves, Molly Ringwald and Ana Ularu.
2018 - A U.S. grand jury indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking into Democratic party and campaign accounts in 2016. The charges were drawn up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who was looking into Russian interference in the November 2016 vote. The indictment identified Kate S. Milton as an alias for military intelligence officer Ivan Yermakov, one of 12 Russian spies accused of breaking into the Democratic National Committee and publishing its emails in an attempt to influence the 2016 election.
2018 - As the airbag recall continued to expand, Nissan said it was recalling nearly 105,000 small cars to replace Takata passenger air bag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel at occupants.
2018 - Tens of thousands of protesters demonstrated in London against POTUS Donald Trump, whose four-day visit to Britain was marred (or, in his opinion, enhanced) by his extraordinary attack on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy.
2019 - New Zealand began a nationwide gun buyback program. Gun owners were paid close to $300,000 for the 224 weapons turned in during the 5-hour event.
2019 - Leaked documents said Britain’s ambassador to Washington believed POTUS Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 to spite his predecessor Barack Obama.
2020 - The U.S. Treasury reported a June deficit of $864 billion, the biggest monthly budget deficit in U.S. history.
2020 - California clamped new restrictions on businesses as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations soared. The state’s two largest school districts -- Los Angeles and San Diego -- ordered children to stay home in August.
2020 - Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SE announced that two of their experimental coronavirus vaccines had received ‘fast track’ designation from the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), speeding up the regulatory review process.
2021 - Italy banned mammoth cruise liners from sailing into Venice, declaring its waterways a national monument. UNESCO had recommended placing Venice on the agency’s list of World Heritage in Danger sites.
2021 - Dr. Michelle Fiscus, Tennessee’s top former vaccinations official, said she had been fired amid scrutiny from Republican state lawmakers over her department’s efforts to vaccinate teenagers against COVID-19.
2021 - In the 91st major league All Star Game at Coors Field in Denver, CO: The American League beat the National League, 5-2, for their eighth consecutive victory.
2022 - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives as he left office amid nationwide protests and economic unrest.
2022 - A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, making her the first Black American represented in the National Statuary Hall collection. Bethune’s statue represented the state of Florida, and replaced one of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith. The change was set up under a state law signed by then-Governor Rick Scott (R) in 2018. Bethune, a civil rights activist and presidential adviser, founded the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, which later became Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach.
2022 - Former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted for the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. The so-called Vault 7 leak shed light on alleged CIA hacking of smartphones in overseas spying operations. It also included information on turning televisions connected to the internet into listening devices.
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Birthdays on This Day July 13
100 B.C. - Julius Caesar
Roman writer, orator, politician, emperor, dictator: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”; month of July named for him; assassinated Mar 15, 44 B.C.1886 - Father Edward Joseph Flanagan
Catholic priest, founder of Boys Town, Omaha NE; died May 15, 19481913 - Dave Garroway
TV talk-show host: Today, Garroway at Large; died July 21, 19821914 - Sam Hanks
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1957: 135.601 mph]; died June 27, 19941921 - James Anderson
actor: To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Big Man, Take the Money and Run, I Married a Mobster From Outer Space, Running Target, Drums Across the River; died Sep 14, 19691924 - Johnny Gilbert
TV announcer: Jeopardy!, The $25,000 Pyramid, The Joker’s Wild, Tic Tac Dough, Anything for Money, Every Second Counts, The Price is Right; game show host: Music Bingo, Beat the Odds, Fast Draw1927 - Rubén Gómez
baseball: pitcher: NY Giants [World Series: 1954], SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins; died July 26, 20041928 - Bob (Robert Edward) Crane
actor: Hogan’s Heroes, Return to Peyton Place, Super Dad; DJ: KNX [LA]; found murdered in his hotel room in Scottsdale, AZ June 29, 19781931 - Frank Ramsey
The Kentucky Colonel: Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: played in 7 NBA championships; coach: Kentucky Colonels; died Jul 8, 20181933 - David Storey
playwright: The Performance of Small Firms, This Sporting Life; died Mar 27, 20171934 - Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka)
author: The Strong Breed, The Lion and the Jewel1935 - Jack Kemp
football: NFL QB: San Diego Chargers, Buffalo Bills; U.S. congressman from NY [1971-1989]: chairman of House Republican Conference [1980-1987]; U.S. presidential candidate [1988]; U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development [1989-1992]; Republican party candidate for vice-president [w/Bob Dole: 1996]; died May 2, 20091937 - Charles Coody
golf: Masters Champion [1971]1940 - Patrick Stewart
actor: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gunmen, Excalibur, L.A. Story, Conspiracy Theory, X-Men; TV voice: National Car Rental1941 - Robert Forster
actor: Cover Story, Diplomatic Immunity, Delta Force, Standing Tall, The Death Squad, Medium Cool, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Banyon, Nakia; died Oct 11, 20191942 - Stephen Jo Bladd
musician: drums: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold1942 - Harrison Ford
actor: The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, Presumed Innocent, Indiana Jones film series, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, The Devil’s Own, Air Force One, Six Days Seven Nights, Random Hearts1942 - Roger McGuinn
musician: guitar; singer, group: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Eight Miles High, Mr. Spaceman, Turn! Turn! Turn!1944 - Erno Rubik
inventor: Rubik’s Cube1946 - (Richard) Cheech Marin
Cheech of Cheech and Chong; comedic actor: Desperado, Far Out Man, Born in East L.A., Rude Awakening, Nash Bridges, Judging Amy1946 - Stu Lantz
basketball: Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, New Orleans Jazz, LA Lakers; color commentary w/Chuck Hearn on Laker games1950 - Dennis Giannini
hockey: Quebec Aces, Cleveland Barons, Jacksonville Barons, Portland Buckaroos, New Haven Nighthawks, Baltimore Clippers, Rhode-Island Reds1951 - Didi Conn
actress: Grease, Grease 2, The Practice, Benson, Match Game, The $20,000, $25,000 and $100,000 Pyramids, Chain Reaction1953 - Gil Birmingham
actor: The Twilight Saga film series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, 10 Items or Less, Nip/Tuck, Castle, The Mentalist, Gentle Ben, Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain, Dreamkeeper, Love’s Long Journey1953 - David Thompson
Basketball Hall of Famer: North Carolina State Univ; Denver Nuggets, Seattle Supersonics
1954 - Louise Mandrell
singer: Put It on Me, Everlasting Love, Reunited [w/husband, R.C. Bannon], You Sure Know Your Way Around My Heart, Some of My Friends are Old Songs, Save Me1955 - Kevin (Robert) Bell
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics1956 - Bill (William Holland) Caudill
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1984], Toronto Blue Jays1956 - Mark ‘The Animal’ Mendoza
musician: bass: groups: Dictators, Twisted Sister: I Am [I’m Me], The Kids are Back, LPs: Stay Hungry, Come Out and Play, Love is for Suckers1956 - Michael Spinks
International Boxing Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer [1976]; champion: light heavyweight, heavyweight; total bouts: 33, won: 32, lost: 1, KOs: 211957 - Cameron Crowe
Academy Award-winning screenwriter [Almost Famous: 2001]; Elizabethtown, Vanilla Sky, The Wild Life1961 - Lawrence Donegan
musician: bass: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions1963 - Kenny Johnson
actor: The Shield, Cold Case, Saving Grace, Sons of Anarchy, Prime Suspect, Burn Notice, Dexter1963 - Bobby Rock
musician: drums: groups: Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Nitro, Nelson, Slaughter, Carnival of Souls1967 - Pat Rapp
baseball [pitcher]: Southern Mississippi Univ; San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Anaheim Angels1969 - Ken Jeong
actor: The Hangover film series, Community, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Rapture-Palooza; voice actor: Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Penguins of Madagascar, Pineapple Express; more1972 - Sean Waltman (The 1-2-3 Kid, Syxx-Pac, X-Pac)
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Royal Rumble, WWF Judgement Day, WWF Armageddon1974 - Deborah Cox
songwriter, singer: Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here; LPs: One Wish, The Morning After, Destination Moon, The Promise1975 - Tim Dwight
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Iowa; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, SD Chargers1976 - Sheldon Souray
hockey: NJ Devils, Montreal Canadiens1977 - Ashley Scott
actress: Jericho, Lost, Into the Blue, Trespassing, Walking Tall, S.W.A.T., Artificial Intelligence: AI1982 - Yadier Molina
baseball [catcher]: St. Louis Cardinals [2004- ]: 2006, 2011 World Series Champs1988 - Colton Haynes
actor: Arrow, Teen Wolf The Gates, Look: The Series, San Andreas1988 - Steven R. McQueen
actor: The Vampire Diaries, Piranha 3D, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Home by Spring1995 - Cody Bellinger
baseball [1st base/outfield]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2017-2022]: 2017 World Series, 2018 World Series, 2020 World Series champs; Chicago Cubs [2023– ]
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Hit Music on This Day July 13
1948Woody Woodpecker Song (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
You Can’t Be True, Dear (facts) - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
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