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TODAY

DYR Today, July 7

by Molly Tricomi

Published July 7, 2016

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“Born Today”

  • Ashton Irwin (21)
  • Toni Garrn (23)
  • Cassidy (33)
  • Michelle Kwan (35)
  • Hamish Linklater (38)
  • Berenice Bejo (39)
  • Lisa Leslie (43)
  • Kristen Vangsness (43)
  • Christian Camargo (44)
  • Cree Summer (46)
  • Jorja Fox (47)
  • Jim Gaffigan (49)
  • Mo Collins (50)
  • Jeremy Kyle (50)
  • Vonda Shepard (52)
  • Billy Campbell (56)
  • Jessica Hahn (56)
  • Shelley Duvall (66)
  • David Hodo of The Village People (68)
  • Ringo Starr (76) (Featured Above)
  • Doc Severinsen (88)
  • Jon Pertwee (RIP)

“Died Today”

  • Syd Barrett (Born: January 6, 1946 / Died: July 7, 200)

“Movies”

Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.

  • 1966 – Three On A Couch
  • 1969 – How to Commit Marriage
  • 1976 – Gus
  • 1977 – The Spy Who Loved Me
  • 1977 – Martin
  • 1989 – Lethal Weapon 2
  • 2000 – The Kid
  • 2000 – Scary Movie

“Music”

  • 1956 – Johnny Cash made his first appearance on “Grand Ole Opry.”
  • 1956 – The Platters’ “My Prayer” was released.
  • 1957 – Elvis Presley  scored his first UK No.1 with ‘All Shook Up’

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  • 1962 – David Rose and his Orchestra went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘The Stripper
  • 1966 – The Kinks were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Sunny Afternoon’

  • 1967 – The Monkees opened a national tour with Jimi Hendrix as the opening act.
  • 1968 – The Yardbirds disbanded.
  • 1969 – George Harrison recorded his new song ‘Here Comes the Sun’ with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Abbey Road in London
  • 1973 – Billy Preston started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Will It Go Round In Circles

  • 1977 – Styx released the album “The Grand Illusion.”
  • 1980 – The original lineup of Led Zeppelin gave its final show.
  • 1984 – The song “Relax,” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, became the biggest selling single of all time in Britain.

  • 1984 – Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Born In The USA’
  • 1984 – Prince started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘When Doves Cry’
  • 1992 – Dream Theater released the album “Images And Words.”

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

  • 1949 – “Dragnet” was first heard on NBC radio.
  • 1954 – Memphis D.J. Dewey Phillips of WHBQ became the first D.J. to play an Elvis Presley record.
  • 1963, The Rolling Stones made their UK TV debut when they appeared on ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars.’

“Other Important Events…”

  • 1930 – Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.
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  • 1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.
  • 1950 – The U.N. Security Council authorized military aid for South Korea.
  • 1981 – U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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  • 1983 – Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov
  • 1989, It was announced that for the first time compact discs were out selling vinyl albums.
  • 1994 – Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name “Cadabra.”
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  • 1998 – A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby’s only son, during a roadside robbery.
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