DYR Today, July 8

“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”

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

• 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.