“Born Today”
- Jaden Smith (17)
- Sky Ferreira (23)
- Sophia Bush (33)
- Milo Ventimiglia (38)
- Kathleen Robertson (42)
- Beck (45)
- Billy Crudup (47)
- Michael Weatherly (47)
- Joan Osborne (53)
- Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode (54)
- Toby Keith (54)
- Kevin Bacon (58)(Featured Above)
- Monty Don (60)
- Angelica Houston (64)
- Wolfgang Puck (66)
- Raffi (67)
- Jeffrey Tambor (71)
- Janice Pennington (73)
- Steve Lawrence (80)
- Hugo Boss (RIP)
“Died Today”
- Vivien Leigh (Born: November 5, 1913 / Died: July 8, 1967)
- Dick Sargent (Born: April 19, 1930 / Died: July 8, 1994)
- Betty Ford (Born: April 8, 1918 / Died: July 8, 2011)
- Ernest Borgnine (Born: January 24, 1917 / Died: July 8, 2012)
“Movies”
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- 1988 – Arthur 2: On the Rocks
- 1988 – It Couldn’t Happen Here
- 1994 – Pentathlon
“Music”
- 1966 – The Beatles released the ‘Nowhere Man’ 4-track EP in the UK
- 1968 – Pink Floyd kicked off their first 20-date North American tour at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago
- 1972 – Bill Withers started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Lean On Me’
- 1972 – The Who’s “Join Together” was released in the U.S.
- 1972 – Donny Osmond was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his version of the Paul Anka song ‘Puppy Love.
- 1973 – Led Zeppelin’s fifth album Houses Of The Holy was on both the US and UK album charts.
- 1978 – Exile’s “Kiss You All Over” was released.
- 1978 – Gerry Rafferty’s album ‘City To City’ went to No.1 on the US chart
- 1979 – The B-52’s made their UK live debut at London’s Lyceum Ballroom, supported by The Tourists
- 1995 – Outhere Brothers scored their second UK No.1 hit single with ‘Boom Boom Boom’.
- 1995 – TLC started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Waterfalls’
- 1996 – The Spice Girls debut single “Wannabe” was released in Great Britain.
“TV/RADIO TODAY”
- 1953 – Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
- 1970 – “The Everly Brothers Show” was launched on ABC-TV as a summer series.
- 1990 – The final episode of “Mr. Belvedere” aired on ABC.
“Other Important Events…”
- 1881 – Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
- 1889 – The Wall Street Journal was first published.
- 1947 – Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
- 1950 – General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
- 1969 – The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game “Twister.”
- 1970 – The San Francisco Giant’s Jim Ray Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.
- 1981 – The Solar Challenger became the first solar-powered airplane to cross the English Channel.
- 2000 – J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was released in the U.S.
