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1854 - The paper shirt collar was patented by Walter Hunt of New York City. The once-popular collar was very much a part of a clergyman’s wardrobe. You can, literally, count your blessings that other, more comfortable collars have come along since. Imagine having to wear a paper collar in the heat of July or the dog days of August ... or anytime, for that matter. Amen.1860 - Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match -- at Worcester, MA.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was elevated to full (four-star) general of the U.S. Army, becoming the first American officer to reach that rank.
1871 - Seth Wheeler of Albany, NY patented perforated wrapping paper.
1897 - (Soon-to-be) writer Jack London left San Francisco on the SS Umatilla, headed for the Klondike to join the gold rush. The 17-year-old London had completed a high school equivalency course and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, where he read voraciously for a year. However, he dropped out to join the 1897 gold rush. While in the Klondike, London began submitting stories to magazines. In 1900, his first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf, was published. Three years later, his story The Call of the Wild made him famous.
1909 - Louis Bleriot of France crossed the English Channel in a 28-hp monoplane with a wingspan of just 23 feet. It was the first time that trick had been accomplished. Actually, it was the world’s first international, overseas flight. Today, one may also travel between France and England by way of the ‘chunnel’ that runs beneath the English Channel. A train will take you over, or rather, under and back. Or, you can do what several others have done -- swim the Channel. Not very time efficient, but it gets the job done, as long as you have no baggage, or no more clothes than just a swim suit...
1925 - Station 2XAG in Schenectady, NY became the first radio station in the U.S. to broadcast with a 50,000-watt transmitter. The station, soon known as WGY Radio, could broadcast with 50,000 watts, since it was owned by the General Electric Company -- a company that knew lots about watts. Today, WGY still broadcasts with its original call letters and is still using 50,000 watts of power.
1942 - Capitol Records first number one hit made it to the top this day. It was one of their first six records released on July 1. The new company’s hit was Cow Cow Boogie, by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack.
1943 - Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, was voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who told Il Duce that the war was lost. Mussolini responded to it all with an uncharacteristic meekness. The only remaining question was whether Italy would continue to fight alongside its German allies or surrender.
1946 - Crooner Dean Martin and comedian Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team this day in 1946, at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ. Actually, Martin & Lewis had met while performing -- separately -- at the Glass Hat in New York City and decided to try an ad-lib act -- together. The rest is entertainment history.
1947 - Fortune Gordien of Oslo, Norway set a then world record discus throw of 178.47 feet.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth under a compact with the United States.
1956 - 52 of the 1,662 passengers and crew on board the Andrea Doria died in a collision with the Swedish-American liner Stockholm near Cape Cod. Launched on June 16, 1951 and named after a famous Italian admiral, the Andrea Doria was Italy’s most luxurious liner. For three years the Andrea Doria reigned supreme on the Atlantic cruise routes while gaining the moniker ‘Grand Dame of the Sea’. At 11:10 p.m., sixty miles from Nantucket Island, the heavily reinforced bow of the Stockholm tore through the starboard side of the Andrea Doria. Thanks to the ship’s S.O.S. signals, a group of ships soon arrived and provided much-needed lifeboats to complete the abandonment of the Andrea Doria. Newsmen and cameras caught her eventual fate and the entire world listened on the radio as she slid beneath the waves to settle in 225 feet of water at 10:09 a.m. All of the 52 who were lost died as a direct result of the initial collision.
1959 - The hovercraft SR.N1, invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell, crossed the English Channel for the first time.
1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric guitar. He was not well received. The “poet laureate of a generation” was booed and hissed by the audience for being amplified.
1966 - New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1969 - Some 70,000 attended the Seattle Pop Festival. And according to most reports, nobody was booed off the stage at this event.
1975 - The musical A Chorus Line opened at the Shubert Theatre in New York after a two-month run at a small theatre in the New York Shakespeare Festival complex in the East Village. A Chorus Line became Broadway’s longest-running show, finally closing on April 28th, 1990, after 6,137 performances. More than six-and-a-half million people paid 150 million dollars to see the show during its Broadway run. Productions of A Chorus Line were also mounted in more than 20 countries.
1978 - Cincinnati Reds’ first baseman Pete Rose broke the National League record for hitting safely in consecutive games as he hit safely in his 38th straight game. He passed Tommy Holmes who had held the record since 1945. Charlie Hustle, as Rose was known, went on to extend his streak to 44 games (streak dates: June 14-July 31, 1978). Joe DiMaggio set the American League -- and major-league -- record, hitting safely in 56 consecutive games (May 15-July 16, 1941).
1978 - The first test-tube baby was born -- in England. Louise, a daughter born to Lesley and Gilbert Brown, was the first baby conceived outside the mother’s body.
1979 - From our Better Late Than Never Dept.: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issued a letter absolving Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who had treated the broken leg of assassin John Wilkes Booth, of any role in the murder of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1981 - Walter Payton signed a contract to play with the Chicago Bears of the NFL on this, his 27th birthday. The famed running back earned almost $2 million over three years. Sweetness, as he was nicknamed (because of his disposition), became the highest-paid player in the National Football League.
1984 - Blues singer Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at age 57. She is best known for her recording of the original version of the Elvis Presley hit Hound Dog in 1953.
1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row. The Class ‘A’ team beat Pocatello (Idaho) 13-3.
1987 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige died of internal injuries he sustained while participating in a rodeo. He was succeeded by C. William Verity.
1990 - Comedienne Roseanne Barr’s irreverent, screeching rendition of The Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of a San Diego Padres game infuriated thousands of people, who also saw her grab defiantly at her crotch when the stadium audience booed her. The off-key rendition was broadcast on national TV, and Barr later said that she had only meant to be funny, not disrespectful.
1992 - Actor-singer Alfred Drake died in New York at age 78. Drake is considered by many a musical theater legend. His stage presence and lyrical tenor defined many of the roles he originated on Broadway.
1992 - Opening ceremonies were held in Barcelona, Spain for the 25th Summer Olympics.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.
1995 - Country singer Charlie Rich died in Hammond, Louisiana (pulmonary embolism). He was 62 years old. Rich began as a rockabilly artist for Sun Records in Memphis in 1958, but didn’t gain wide success until 1973 when his ballads Behind Closed Doors and The Most Beautiful Girl crossed over to the pop charts. His rich, resonant baritone, smooth style and white hair earned him the nickname The Silver Fox. His other country hits in the 1970s included There Won’t Be Anymore and A Very Special Love Song.
1995 - Bosnian Serb strongman Radovan Karadzic, president of the Serbian Democratic Party, and his military chief Ratko Mladic, were charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
1996 - Divers searching the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, NY recovered the flight data and cockpit voice recorders.
1997 - Air Force One, with President Harrison Ford, er, James Marshall on board, is skyjacked by some despicable bad guys. The running time of the movie is 188 minutes, which is about 30 minutes too long, but plenty long enough for President Marshall to fight his way out of all kinds of impossible situations. Unfortunately, the airplane itself couldn’t be saved. Folks all over the U.S. did fly to their neighborhood theatres to drop off some $37.13 million the first weekend.
1998 - The U.S. Navy commissioned the USS Harry S. Truman, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The ship was described as, “the most formidable ship ever put to sea.”
1999 - Lance Armstrong rode to victory in the Tour de France, capping an amazing comeback from cancer. He was only the second American to win cycling’s showcase race.
2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush selected former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney to be his running mate in the Republican presidential campaign.
2000 - An Air France Concorde, en route to New York City, crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff. The jet slammed into a hotel and a restaurant. All 109 people aboard were killed -- plus four on the ground. France Info radio said four victims died at the hotel, the 72-room Relais Bleu, which was in flames after the crash. The crash in the town of Gonesse took place shortly before 5 p.m., after the Concorde took off from Charles de Gaulle airport.
2001 - Kim Jong Il of North Korea rode by train to Russia for a meeting with President Putin.
2003 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Buffalo Soldiers, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Elizabeth Mcgovern, Dean Stockwell, Leon Robinson, Michael Pena, Gabriel Mann and Shiek Mahmud-Bey; Seabiscuit, starring Jeff Bridges, Paul Vincent O’Connor, Chris Cooper, Michael Ensign, James Keane, Valerie Mahaffey, David Doty, Kingston DuCoeur, Michael O'Neill, Annie Corley, Michael Angarano, Cameron Bowen, Noah Luke and Mariah Bess; and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, with Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega, Sylvester Stallone, Ricardo Montalban, Holland Taylor, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Bobby Edner, Ryan Pinkston, Robert Vito, Courtney Jines, Matt O’Leary, Emily Osment, Steve Buscemi, Alan Cumming, Cheech Marin and Bill Paxton.
2003 - Film director John Schlesinger died. He was 77 years old. Schlesinger’s films include Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).
2004 - 32-year-old Lance Armstrong became the first six-time winner of the 2,107-mile Tour de France bicycle race.
2005 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was “desperately sorry” that Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station the previous week. de Menezes was mistaken by police in London for a suicide bomber. Blair added, “I understand entirely the feelings of the young man’s family. But we also have to understand the police are doing their job in very, very difficult circumstances and it is important that we give them every support.”
2005 - The Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters, the two largest unions in the AFL-CIO, announce their intentions to leave the labor federation -- an indicator of a major schism within the U.S. labor movement.
2006 - Canada announced a plan to pay C$1.1 billion ($965 million) to some 5,500 people who had contracted hepatitis C from transfusions.
2007 - A South Korean aid group said some 430 North Koreans had died of hunger in a northern region in the previous month because of chronic food shortages.
2008 - New films in U.S. theatres: Step Brothers, starring Adam Scott, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen and Will Ferrell; and The X-Files: I Want to Believe, with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Amanda Peet.
2008 - India’s high-technology capital Bangalore was rocked by bomb blasts. One woman was killed and some 150 people wounded.
2008 - U.S. Federal regulators approved the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and rival XM.
2008 - U.S. Democratic Party presidential front-runner Barack Obama met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
2009 - Swedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson announced a deal to buy a majority of Nortel Networks’ North American wireless business for $1.13 billion.
2009 - Brazil agreed to triple its compensation to Paraguay to operate the huge Itaipú hydroelectric dam on their shared border, ending a decades-long dispute between the neighbors.
2011 - With the U.S. facing an unprecedented financial crisis in a few days, President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the consequences the stalemate in Congress could have on the stability of the economy. Obama called the Republican plan to avert a government default a “partisan three-ring circus,” saying the approach was an invitation to another crisis in six months’ time. (Congress did pass a bipartisan bill ending the crisis on Aug 2 and President Obama declared it to be an “important first step to ensuring that as a nation we live within our means.”)
2012 - Ruby Sparks debuted in some U.S. theatres. The romantic comedy fantasy stars Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas, Deborah Ann Woll, Paul Dano, Alia Shawkat, Steve Coogan, Zoe Kazan, Elliott Gould, Chris Messina, Aasif Mandvi, Toni Trucks and Wallace Langham.
2012 - The first event of the London Olympic Games was a women’s football match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff. The match in the Welsh capital came two days before the July 27 opening ceremony at the London stadium.
2013 - The 70th annual Venice Film Festival featured films starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts adrift in space (Gravity), Scarlett Johansson as a seductive alien roaming the Scottish countryside (Under the Skin) and Judi Dench as a single Roman Catholic woman searching for a son she was forced to give up decades before (Philomena).
2013 - Oil services giant Halliburton agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010, admitting to one count of criminal conduct and agreeing to pay the $200,000 maximum statutory fine. This, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Halliburton said that on two occasions during the oil spill, it had directed employees to destroy or “get rid of” simulations that would have helped clarify how to assign blame for the blowout, and would have focused more attention on Halliburton’s role in the big mess.
2014 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included, The Fluffy Movie, with Gabriel Iglesias, Jeremy Ray Valdez and Juliocesar Chavez; Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt and Ian McShane; Lucy, with Scarlett Johansson, Analeigh Tipton and Morgan Freeman; Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight, with Emma Stone, Colin Firth and Marcia Gay Harden; A Most Wanted Man, starring Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman; and My Man is a Loser, with Sean Young, John Stamos and Tika Sumpter.
2014 - Turkey inaugurated a high-speed rail service linking the capital Ankara to Istanbul which will cut travel time between the country’s main two cities in half.
2015 - The first cargo ships passed through Egypt’s New Suez Canal. This test-run came 11 months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old canal.
2016 - Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia amid a seemingly divided party, with Bernie Sanders devotees bringing tensions to a boiling point on the floor of the convention after weeks of threatening revolt. But in her speech Warren, who endorsed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, attempted to quell the dissatisfied delegate ranks with talk of a common enemy: Donald Trump.
2016 - Michelle Obama didn’t once utter Donald Trump’s name in her address to the Democratic National Convention. But her entire speech -- framed to ask how the next president would make its mark on America’s children -- was aimed squarely at the Republican elephant in the room. Obama, the first black first lady in American history, gave a 15-minute address to the convention that drew cheers, left some delegates openly weeping and fired up the party for November’s presidential election.
2016 - Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage as the last speaker of the night at the Democratic National Convention, capping a hard-fought primary. He urged supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton, despite many being angry over the outcome. “Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States,” Sanders told the crowd in Philadelphia. This election is about which candidate understands “the real problems facing this country and has offered real solutions – not just bombast, fear-mongering, name-calling and divisiveness.”
2017 - A Sydney, Australia lawyer announced a class action lawsuit against Toyota, Honda and Mazda seeking refunds for cars fitted with faulty air bags from Takata. The defective air bags had been linked to 18 deaths around the world.
2017 - Greece returned to the capital markets for the first time in three years, with reports saying it was on track to raise funds at a lower cost. The event marked a symbolic victory for the beleaguered eurozone nation.
2018 - New Zealand’s parliament passed legislation granting paid leave to domestic violence victims. Supporters called it a groundbreaking measure to help those trying to escape abusive relationships.
2018 - General Motors, facing rising commodity costs in a trade showdown with Europe and elsewhere, cut its outlook for the year. The rest of the auto sector was dragged down as well. POTUS Donald Trump had imposed steep tariffs on steel and aluminum coming out of Canada, Mexico and the European Union. The 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum, which took effect in June, had driven up costs sharply as domestic producers raise prices.
2019 - Four major automakers announced a voluntary agreement with the state of California on fuel efficiency rules, bypassing a Trump administration effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change. Under the agreement with California, the four automakers will reach a standard of about 50 miles per gallon by 2026. The deal also promised that the companies would receive credits toward meeting their annual targets by adopting climate-friendly technologies.
2019 - The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016. A bipartisan report warned that the U.S. remained vulnerable...
2019 - It was on this day that POTUS Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a telephone call, to investigate former VP Joe Biden’s son. (This information was made public some two months later as part of the infamous whistle-blower complaint.)
2019 - Donald Trump ordered aid to Ukraine be withheld. This, 91 minutes after his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. (The action was not made public until December 2019.)
2020 - Actor John Saxon died just a few days short of his 84th birthday at his home in Murfreesboro, TN. Saxon’s good looks won him not only legions of female fans but also a wide array of roles. He appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on TV in a career that stretched over seven decades. He had the lead in a low budget teen film, Rock, Pretty Baby in 1956, which became an unexpected success and established him as a teen idol. Saxon kicked around with Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon and appeared in three Nightmare on Elm Street flicks for director Wes Craven; John Saxon was married three times, first to screenwriter Mary Ann Saxon, then to psychologist & former investment banker, Elizabeth Saxon, and finally to Gloria Martel Saxon, a model, esthetician, author, and speaker.
2020 - After a brief lull due to the COVID-19 pandemic, North Korea resumed large-scale smuggling operations off the coast of China. In violation of U.N. sanctions, North Korea was importing oil and selling coal and sand to keep its economy afloat.
2020 - South Korea reported 113 new coronavirus cases, included 36 workers returning from Iraq and 32 crew members of a Russian freighter.
2021 - A sandstorm caused a huge 22-vehicle pileup on a highway in southwestern Utah. Eight people were killed, including several children.
2022 - A 37-year-old woman was shot -- then arrested -- by police at Dallas’ Love Field after she opened fire near ticketing counters. An officer took the suspect, Portia Odufuwa, to a hospital after shooting -- and apprehending her. Odufuwa had been dropped off at the aiport, then went into a restroom and emerged wearing a hoody before opening fire inside the airport.
2022 - Actor Paul Sorvino, who played mobster Paulie Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, died of natural causes, his wife, Dee Dee, announced. He was 83. “Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” she said. Sorvino portrayed a wide range of roles, including James Caan’s bookie in 1974’s The Gambler and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s 1995 film Nixon. He also played Detective Phil Cerretta for a season on NBC’s Law & Order.
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Birthdays on This Day July 25
1775 - Anna Harrison (Symmes)
wife of 9th U.S. President William Henry Harrison; died Feb 25, 18641844 - Thomas Eakins
realist painter: Walt Whitman, The Thinker, The Clinic of Dr. Gross, The Clinic of Dr. Agnew, Max Schmitt in a Single Scull; died June 25, 19161894 - Walter (Andrew) Brennan
Academy Award-winning actor: Come and Get It [1936], Kentucky [1938], The Westerner [1940]; The Tycoon, To Rome with Love, The Real McCoys, The Guns of Will Sonnett; singer: Old Rivers, Dutchman’s Gold, Mama Sang a Song; died Sep 21, 19741902 - Eric Hoffer
political, social philosopher, author: The True Believer, The Ordeal of Change, The Temper of Our Time; died May 21, 19831908 - Jack Gilford (Jacob Gellman)
actor: Cocoon series, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Caveman, Wholly Moses!, Save the Tiger, Catch-22, Enter Laughing, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, The Duck Factory, The David Frost Revue, The Arrow Show; died June 2, 19901908 - Harold Peary
actor: The Great Gildersleeve [also hosted the radio show], Clambake, Wetbacks, Look Who’s Laughing, Comin’ Round the Mountain; died Mar 30, 19851923 - David Gerber
TV producer: Police Story, Police Woman, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Nanny and the Professor, Cade’s County, Riker, Eischied, Walking Tall, Today’s FBI, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Lady Blue, On the Line, Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission, Revenge of the Gray Gang, To Kill a Cop, Medical Story, Flight 93; died Jan 2, 20101923 - Estelle Getty
actress: The Golden Girls, Golden Palace, Tootsie, Mask, Mannequin; workout video: Young at Heart Body Conditioning; died Jul 22, 20081925 - Charmion King
actress [‘Grand Dame of Canadian Theatre’]: Three Sisters, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Our Town, A Promise, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot, Broken Lullaby, Who Has Seen the Wind?, Anne of Green Gables; died Jan 6, 20071926 - Whitey (Carroll Walter) Lockman
baseball: NY Giants [World Series: 1951, 1954/all-star: 1952], SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds; died Mar 17, 20091927 - Stanley Dancer
harness racer: Hall of Fame of the Trotter: only driver to win two trotting triple crowns [1968, 1972]; only driver to win the Yonkers Trot six times; died Sep 8, 20051933 - Ken Swofford
actor: Ellery Queen, Captain Newman, M.D., The Virginian, The Andromeda Strain, Columbo: Candidate for Crime, Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II, S.O.B., Annie, Fame, Murder, She Wrote, Thelma & Louise, Stranger at My Door, Battlestar Galactica; died Nov 1, 20181934 - Don Ellis
Grammy Award-winning jazz musician: trumpet, composer: Theme from the French Connection [1973]; New Nine, 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2, Tears of Joy, Milo’s Theme, Star Children; soloist: NY Philharmonic; died Dec 17, 19781935 - Barbara Harris
actress: Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Peggy Sue Got Married, Plaza Suite, A Thousand Clowns; died Aug 21, 20181935 - John Robinson
football coach: Univ of Southern California [1976–1982]: 1978 U.S. champs; Los Angeles Rams [1983–1991]; USC [1993–1997]; Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas [1999–2004]1940 - John Pennel
pole-vaulter: 1st to break 17' barrier [1963]: held world record [17'10 3/4"] 1969-1973; 1963 Sullivan Award for outstanding amateur athlete of the year; broke or tied the world pole vault record eight times from 1963 through 1969; died Sep 26, 19931941 - Manuel Charlton
musician: guitar, singer: group: Nazareth: Love Hurts1941 - Nate Thurmond
Basketball Hall of Famer: San Francisco/Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers; NBA record: 18 rebounds in one quarter [1965]1943 - Janet Margolin
actress: Annie Hall, The Game of Love, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal; died Dec 17, 19931943 - Jim McCarty
musician: drums: groups: The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul, I’m a Man, Shapes of Things, For Your Love, Over Under Sideways Down1944 - Buddy (Charles William) Bradford
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals1944 - Jim McCarty
musician: drums: groups: Renaissance, Shoot, Box of Frogs, The Yardbirds: For Your Love, Heart Full of Soul, I’m a Man, Shapes of Things, Over Under Sideways Down; songwriter [w/Samwell-Smith]: Still I’m Sad1948 - Tony Cline
football: DE: Oakland Raiders [1970-75], San Francisco 49ers [1976]; father of Buffalo Bills TE1951 - Verdine White
musician: bass, singer: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Let’s Groove, Best of My Love1954 - Walter Payton
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears RB: Super Bowl XX; NFL individual record-holder: rushing yards gained in one game [275], in career [16,726]; career [1975-87] touchdowns scored [110] scored; died Nov 1, 19991955 - Iman (Abdulmajid)
model, actress: The Human Factor, Out of Africa, L.A. Story, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Exit to Eden1957 - Ray Billingsley
cartoonist: Curtis1957 - Steve Podborski
skier: World Cup Ski Champion1961 - Bobbie Eakes
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, JAG, Choosing Matthias1961 - Katherine Kelly Lang
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Subliminal Seduction, Made in the USA, The Night Stalker, The Last Precinct, Evilspeak, Shaketown, U.S.A.1962 - Doug (Douglas Dean) Drabek
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros [all-star: 1994]1964 - Anthony Tyler Quinn
actor: Boy Meets World, Abandoned and Deceived, Black Sheep, The Chase, Good Night, Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston, Problem Child1965 - Illeana Douglas
actress: The Perfect Woman, To Die for, Grace of My Heart, Chasing Amy, Picture Perfect, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Bella Mafia, Message in a Bottle, The Next Best Thing1966 - Gail Force
actress: X-rated films: In Your Face... Again, Love Hurts, Three by Three, Lost Innocence, Ginger Snaps, Hollywood Starlets, B.Y.O.B.; director: Chubby Chasers DP Gang Bang, Itty Bitty Titty Teens 4, M.i.l.t.f. 10, Anal Divas in Latex 2, Big Tit Prison, Titty Mania 7, 81967 - Matt LeBlanc
actor: Friends, TV 101, Reform School Girl, Ed, Lost in Space, Charlie’s Angels, All the Queen’s Men, Joey1967 - Wendy Raquel Robinson
actress: The Steve Harvey Show, The Game, Minor Adjustments, Cedric the Entertainer Presents, Grey’s Anatomy, Descendants, Here We Go Again1969 - Jon Barry
basketball [guard]: Univ of Pacific, Paris Jr. College, Georgia Tech Univ; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, GS Warriors, Atlanta Hawks, LA Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Detroit Pistons, Denver Nuggets, Houston Rockets1969 - D.B. Woodside
actor: Lucifer, 24, Murder One, The Division, My Place in the Horror, First, Something More, Romeo Must Die, Scar City1970 - Billy Glyde
actor: X-rated films: Perverted Stories 10, Debbie Does Dallas: The Next Generation, Cafe Flesh 2, Dangerous Lady, Tricks of the Trade, Extreme Monique1971 - Tracy Murray
basketball [forward]: UCLA; NBA: Portland Trail Blazers, Houston Rockets, Toronto Raptors, Washington Wizards, Denver Nuggets, LA Lakers1971 - Billy Wagner
baseball [pitcher]: Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves1973 - David Denman
actor: The Office, The Replacements, Fair Game, Fanboys, The Nines, Shutter, Drop Dead Diva, Brothers & Sisters, In Plain Sight, Gary Unmarried, Grey’s Anatomy, K-Ville, Without a Trace, Bones, Crossing Jordan, CSI: Miami, The X-Files, ER, Arliss, The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story, Smart People, Let Go, Out Cold, Big Fish, After Earth, Jobs, Blue Potato1973 - Guillermo Mota
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers, Florida Marlins1973 - Tony Vincent
singer, songwriter, actor: Broadway: We Will Rock You, American Idiot, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar1974 - Jay R. Ferguson
actor: Evening Shade, The Year That Trembled, Hollywood Palms, The In Crowd, The Price of Love, Higher Learning, Shattered Dreams, Judging Amy, Surface, Easy Money1976 - Nikita Denise
actress [2000-2014]: X-rated films: The Bottom Dweller 6: Sex After Death, California Sex Patrol, Backseat Confidential, Sex Across America: Seventh Stop Los Angeles, Girls of Sunset Place1976 - Tera Patrick
actress [1998-2015]: X-rated films: Sex Island, Foot Lovers Only, Up and Cummers 80, Girls Who C*m Hard, Where the Boys Aren’t 181982 - Brad Renfro
actor: The Cure, Deuces Wild, 2 Little, 2 Late, Apt Pupil, Sleepers, Tom and Huck, The Client, Tom and Huck; died Jan 15, 20081985 - James Lafferty
actor: One Tree Hill, Once and Again, A Season on the Brink, Boys on the Run, One Tree Hill, Emeril1985 - Shantel VanSanten
actress: One Tree Hill, The Flash, Shooter, The Final Destination, You and I, Something Wicked1987 - Ed Dickson
football [tight end]: Univ of Oregon; NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2010–2013]: Super Bowl XLVII champs [2013]; Carolina Panthers [2014–2017]; Seattle Seahawks [2018–2019]1987 - Michael Welch
actor: Joan of Arcadia, Twilight, Dark Desert Highway, Unrequited, My Suicide, Day of the Dead, The Beautiful Ordinary1989 - Andrew Caldwell
actor: Hannah Montana, Shredderman Rules, College, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, National Lampoon Presents: Surf Party2001 - Bryce Young
football quarterback: Univ of Alabama: Heisman Trophy 2021; NFL: 2023 #1 draft pick: Carolina Panthers
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Hit Music on This Day July 25
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
My Truly, Truly Fair (facts) - Guy Mitchell
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