July 18 Birthdays



Richard Branson
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1950

BIRTHPLACE
London, England

AGE
68 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Wendy Williams
TV SHOW HOST

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1964

BIRTHPLACE
Asbury Park, NJ

AGE
54 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Ricky Skaggs
COUNTRY SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1954

BIRTHPLACE
Cordell, KY

AGE
64 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Harriet Nelson
TV ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1909

BIRTHPLACE
Des Moines, IA

DEATH DATE
Oct 2, 1994 (age 85)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Kristen Bell
TV ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1980

BIRTHPLACE
Huntington Woods, MI

AGE
38 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Chill Wills
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1902

BIRTHPLACE
Seagoville, TX

DEATH DATE
Dec 15, 1978 (age 76)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Red Skelton
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1913

BIRTHPLACE
Vincennes, IN

DEATH DATE
Sep 17, 1997 (age 84)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




James Brolin
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
78 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Vin Diesel
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1967

BIRTHPLACE
Alameda, CA

AGE
51 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Hunter S. Thompson
JOURNALIST

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1937

BIRTHPLACE
Louisville, KY

DEATH DATE
Feb 20, 2005 (age 67)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

July 18 Deaths



Buddy Baer
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
June 11, 1915

BIRTHPLACE
Omaha, NE

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 1986 (age 71)

BIRTH SIGN
Gemini




Jane Austen
NOVELIST

BIRTHDAY
December 16, 1775

BIRTHPLACE
Steventon, England

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 1817 (age 41)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




John Paul Jones
WAR HERO

BIRTHDAY
July 6, 1747

BIRTHPLACE
Scotland

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 1792 (age 45)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




George Sutherland
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

BIRTHDAY
March 25, 1862

BIRTHPLACE
Buckinghamshire, England

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 1942 (age 80)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries





William Westmoreland
WAR HERO

BIRTHDAY
March 26, 1914

BIRTHPLACE
Saxon, SC

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 2005 (age 91)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries




George Machine Gun Kelly
CRIMINAL

BIRTHDAY
July 18, 1895

BIRTHPLACE
Illinois

DEATH DATE
Jul 18, 1954 (age 59)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

Historical Events on July 18


1716  Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels

1753  Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham, Massachusetts

1768  Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song

1853  Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French

1861  Battle of Blackburn's Ford, Virginia

1862  Battle of Newburgh, Indiana - captured by Union forces

1863  Battle of Fort Wagner, South Carolina - Second assault

1864  US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

16th US President
Abraham Lincoln

1907  Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC

1914  US army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps

1925  Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

1932  US and Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway

1936  Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison

NYC Gangster
Charles "Lucky" Luciano

1938  Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California

Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan with his "Sunshine",
at Baldonnel Aerodrome, Ireland

1940  Democratic Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941  SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia

1942  Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time

1943  British assault on Catania, Sicily

1944 

1944  RAF Mosquitos attack Cologne and Berlin

1944  British air raid on German convoy SW of Heligoland

1944  British troops occupy Bourquebus hill range, Normandy

1944  US troop march into St Lo

1947  British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine

1947  US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act

1955  1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1959  "The Nun's Story" based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles

Actress
Audrey Hepburn

1963  Failed military coup in Syria

1964  Race riot in Harlem (NYC); riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)

1967  Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY

1968  The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California

Semiconductor Pioneer and CEO of Intel
Andrew Grove

1972  200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns

1977  Vietnam becomes a member of the UN

1978  Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks

1979  Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London

1980  Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" album tops US charts, featuring "Its Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me"

Pianist, songwriter, and composer
Billy Joel

1980  Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

1984 

  Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco

1986  Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

1988  Shooting begins on Bond film "License to Kill"

1989  48 cm (1.57 Ft) rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)

1994  Comet Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves black spot 12,000 km (7456.45 Miles) across

1994  Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons

1994  "Kiss From a Rose" released by Seal (Grammy Record and Song of the Year)

Musician & Songwriter
Seal

1996  The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986

2012  Violence across Syria results in 97 deaths

2012  Syrian suicide bombing kills three high profile government officials, including Syria's Minister of Defense

2012  Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

Supreme Leader and Dictator of North Korea
Kim Jong-un

2014  The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza

2015  PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ

2018  Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market

2018  Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency

2018  New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy

2018  Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year old girl in Chennai, India

2018  Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard

2018  Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults

Singer
Cliff Richard

July 19 Birthdays



Robert Flynn
METAL SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1968

BIRTHPLACE
California

AGE
50 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Thomas Gabriel Fischer
METAL SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1963

BIRTHPLACE
Switzerland

AGE
55 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Vikki Carr
POP SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
El Paso, TX

AGE
78 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Allen Collins
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1952

BIRTHPLACE
Jacksonville, FL

DEATH DATE
Jan 23, 1990 (age 37)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Robb Flynn
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1967

BIRTHPLACE
Oakland, CA

AGE
51 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Brian May
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1947

BIRTHPLACE
London, England

AGE
71 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




George McGovern
POLITICIAN

BIRTHDAY
July 19, 1922

BIRTHPLACE
Avon, SD

DEATH DATE
Oct 21, 2012 (age 90)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

July 19 Deaths



James Garner
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
April 7, 1928

BIRTHPLACE
Norman, OK

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 2014 (age 86)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries


John McKinley
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

BIRTHDAY
May 1, 1780

BIRTHPLACE
Virginia

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 1852 (age 72)

BIRTH SIGN
Taurus




Frank Murphy
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

BIRTHDAY
April 13, 1890

BIRTHPLACE
Harbor Beach, MI

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 1949 (age 59)

BIRTH SIGN
Aries




Joe Flynn
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
November 8, 1924

BIRTHPLACE
Ohio

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 1974 (age 49)

BIRTH SIGN
Scorpio




Jack Warden
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
September 18, 1920

BIRTHPLACE
Newark, NJ

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 2006 (age 85)

BIRTH SIGN
Virgo




Garry Marshall
DIRECTOR

BIRTHDAY
November 13, 1934

BIRTHPLACE
The Bronx, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 19, 2016 (age 81)

BIRTH SIGN
Scorpio

Historical Events on July 19


1553  15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1692  5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts

Dramatic lithograph of the Salem witch trials produced in 1892

1836  HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin arrives in Ascension Island

Naturalist
Charles Darwin

1843  The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world

A painting of the launch of SS Great Britain, by Joseph Walter

1845  Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many

1848  1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Women's Rights Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1863  Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio

1864  Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]

1867  US Congress passes 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto

17th US President
Andrew Johnson

1879  Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon

Gunfighter in the American Old West
Doc Holliday

1922  American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller first to break 1 minute barrier for 100m freestyle; swims 58.6s at Alameda, CA

1930  Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica

Aviator and Polar Explorer
Richard E. Byrd

1940  Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender

Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

1940  Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald

1940  Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films

1941  British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign

Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill

1941  US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1943  500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1944  1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany

1944  500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity

1944  Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1944  US general Omar Bradley flies to England

US WWII General
Omar Bradley

1944  Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Adolf Eichmann

Nazi SS Officer and War Criminal
Adolf Eichmann

1950  French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh

1956  US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam

1965  Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

1966  Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)

1967  Race riots in Durham, North Carolina

1969  Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit

Buzz Aldrin's bootprint, one of the first steps taken on the Moon

1974  David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC

Singer-Songwriter
David Bowie

1976  Rock group Deep Purple disbands

1976  Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony

1980  David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver

1984  Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination

1985  Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle

1991  Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)

Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Mike Tyson

1992  NYC ballet dancer Peter Martins is arrested for beating his wife

1993  President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions

42nd US President
Bill Clinton

2001  Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad. One of the oldest known species in the human family tree, 6-7 million years ago years old

2017  US scientists calculate total amount plastic ever produced - 8.3 billion tonnes, equal to weight of 1 billion elephants

2017  US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer

US Senator
John McCain

2017  Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65,000 to 80,000 years ago

2017  Investigators using DNA identify 16 year-old James Byron Haakenson as a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 41 years after his disappearance

Serial Killer
John Wayne Gacy

2018  Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared

2018  Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status"

2018  Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905

2018  A duck boat sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people

July 20 Birthdays



Kim Carnes
POP SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1945

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
73 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Billy Mays
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1958

BIRTHPLACE
Mckees Rocks, PA

DEATH DATE
Jun 28, 2009 (age 50)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Jay Jay French
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1952

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

AGE
66 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Carlos Santana
GUITARIST

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1947

BIRTHPLACE
Autlan, Mexico

AGE
71 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Lola Albright
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1925

BIRTHPLACE
Akron, OH

DEATH DATE
Mar 23, 2017 (age 91)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Verna Felton
VOICE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1890

BIRTHPLACE
Salinas, CA

DEATH DATE
Dec 14, 1966 (age 76)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Natalie Wood
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1938

BIRTHPLACE
San Francisco, CA

DEATH DATE
Nov 29, 1981 (age 43)

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Sandra Oh
TV ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1971

BIRTHPLACE
Nepean, Canada

AGE
47 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer




Rory Macdonald
MMA FIGHTER

BIRTHDAY
July 20, 1989

BIRTHPLACE
Quesnel, Canada

AGE
29 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Cancer

July 20 Deaths



Sandra Gould
TV ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 23, 1916

BIRTHPLACE
Brooklyn, NY

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 1999 (age 82)

BIRTH SIGN
Leo

Frank Reynolds
NEWS ANCHOR

BIRTHDAY
November 29, 1923

BIRTHPLACE
East Chicago, IN

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 1983 (age 59)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius




James Doohan
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
March 3, 1920

BIRTHPLACE
Vancouver, Canada

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 2005 (age 85)

BIRTH SIGN
Pisces




Tammy Faye Bakker
RELIGIOUS LEADER

BIRTHDAY
March 7, 1942

BIRTHPLACE
International Falls, MN

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 2007 (age 65)

BIRTH SIGN
Pisces




Marconi
PHYSICIST

BIRTHDAY
April 25, 1874

BIRTHPLACE
Bologna, Italy

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 1937 (age 63)

BIRTH SIGN
Taurus




Chester Bennington
ROCK SINGER

BIRTHDAY
March 20, 1976

BIRTHPLACE
Phoenix, AZ

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 2017 (age 41)

BIRTH SIGN
Pisces



Tammy Faye Bakker
RELIGIOUS LEADER

BIRTHDAY
March 7, 1942

BIRTHPLACE
International Falls, MN

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 2007 (age 65)

BIRTH SIGN
Pisces




Pancho Villa
WAR HERO

BIRTHDAY
June 5, 1878

BIRTHPLACE
Mexico

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 1923 (age 45)

BIRTH SIGN
Gemini




Bruce Lee
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
November 27, 1940

BIRTHPLACE
San Francisco, CA

DEATH DATE
Jul 20, 1973 (age 32)

BIRTH SIGN
Sagittarius

Historical Events on July 20


1801  Elisha Brown Jr presses a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm

1808  Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names

French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte

1810  Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada (now Colombia), declare independence from Spain

1837  Euston railway station opens in London as the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR), the city's 1st intercity railway station

An early print of Euston station showing the wrought iron roof of 1837.
Note the open carriages

1858  Fee 1st charged to see a baseball game (50 cents) (NY beats Bkln 22-18)

1861  Confederate states' congress began holding sessions in Richmond, Virginia

1862  Guerrilla campaign in Georgia (Porter's & Poindexter's) [->SEP 20]

1864  Battle at Stephenson's Depot, Virginia: 200 killed or injured

1864  Battle of Peachtree Creek-Atlanta Campaign

1868  1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes

1877  Military shoots on stopped railroad workers in Baltimore, kills 9

1878  1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1881  Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops

Lakota Sioux Chief
Sitting Bull

1911  Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany

1917  WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn

1921  Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives

2nd Woman Elected to Congress and Educator
Alice Mary Robertson

1924  Tehran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people

1925  Beirut sultan Pasja al-Atrasj calls Druzen for holy war against France

1926  A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.

1928  The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians

1930  106°F (41°C), Washington, D.C. (district record)

1932  In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House

1933  Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

1933  In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism

1933  Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets

1934  118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)

1940  Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist

1943  US Joint Chiefs of Staff question Admiral Chester Nimitz over the landing on Gilbert Island

US Admiral
Chester Nimitz

1944  Death March of 1,200 Jews from Lipcani Moldavia begins

1944  Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen

1944  General Eisenhower visits Montgomery's headquarter in Normandy

34th US President & WWII General
Dwight D. Eisenhower

1944  Liberators of US 8th Air Force attack Gotha Russelsheim/Eisenach

1944  Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sunk by US air attack

1944  US President FDR nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Democratic convention

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1944  US invades Japanese-occupied Guam

1944  Violent battles in Verrieres-hill (Normandy)

1944  Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus Von Stauffenberg

1948  US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested

1949  Israel's 19 month war of independence ends

1951  King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem

1954  Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South

1960  1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)

1968  Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

1969  Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later

1973  The US Senate passes the War Powers Act

1976  US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing

1976  Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.

1977  The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments

1979  44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Washington

1984  Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America

1985  Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha

1989  93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona

1990  Justice William J. Brennan Jr. resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years

1991  Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant

1994  O.J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller

1994  Supreme Leader of North-Korea, Kim Il-sung is placed in a public Mausoleum at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

North Korean founder and dictator
Kim Il-sung

1998  Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban

2000  The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering

2002  Bartenders doing tricks with fire start a major fire in a night club in Lima, Peru that kills 25 and injures 100

2006  During an appearance on "The Tonight Show", Colin Farrell is confronted by telephone sex worker Dessarae Bradford, who had been stalking the actor

Actor
Colin Farrell

2014  Patrick Sawyer arrives in city of Lagos in Nigeria and collapses; he dies of Ebola five days later

2015  Hacker group the Impact Team annouce they have hacked married dating site Ashley Madison

2017  The last fighting occurs in the Iraqi city of Mosul as the city is liberated from ISIS militants

2018  Australian businessman James Packer announces he has quit 22 directorships due to mental health issues

July 30 Birthdays



Lisa Kudrow
TV ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1963

BIRTHPLACE
Los Angeles, CA

AGE
55 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Vivica A. Fox
MOVIE ACTRESS

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1964

BIRTHPLACE
South Bend, IN

AGE
54 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Delta Burke
TV ACTRESS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 30, 1956

BIRTHPLACE
Orlando, FL

AGE
63 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Paul Anka
POP SINGER

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1941

BIRTHPLACE
Ottawa, Canada

AGE
77 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Henry Ford
ENTREPRENEUR

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1863

BIRTHPLACE
Greenfield, MI

DEATH DATE
Apr 7, 1947 (age 83)

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Edd Byrnes
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1933

BIRTHPLACE
New York City, NY

AGE
85 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus)
MOVIE ACTOR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July 30, 1961

BIRTHPLACE
Augusta, GA

AGE
58 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Tom Green
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1971

BIRTHPLACE
Pembroke, Canada

AGE
47 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Terry Crews
TV ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1968

BIRTHPLACE
Flint, MI

AGE
50 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Arnold Schwarzenegger
MOVIE ACTOR

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1947

BIRTHPLACE
Thal, Austria

AGE
71 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Menswear Dog
DOG

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 2009

BIRTHPLACE
United States

AGE
9 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo




Fabricio Werdum
MMA FIGHTER

BIRTHDAY
July 30, 1977

BIRTHPLACE
Porto Alegre, Brazil

AGE
41 years old

BIRTH SIGN
Leo

George Leslie Goebel
(May 20, 1919 – February 24, 1991)

was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. He was best known as the star of his
own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC from
1954 to 1959 and on CBS from 1959 to 1960
(alternating in its last season with The Jack Benny Program).
He was also a familiar panelist on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares.












Dinah Shore
(born Frances ‘Fanny’ Rose Shore;
March 01, 1916 – February 24, 1994)

was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist
of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved
even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs
for the Chevrolet automobile company.












Henry "Henny" Youngman
(16 March 1906 – 24 February 1998)

was a British-born American comedian and musician famous for his mastery of the "one-liner",
his best known being "Take my wife... please".

In a time when many comedians told elaborate anecdotes, Youngman's routine consisted of
telling simple one-liner jokes, occasionally with interludes of violin playing. These depicted
simple, cartoon-like situations, eliminating lengthy build-ups and going straight to the punch line.
Known as "the King of the One-Liners", a title conferred to him by columnist Walter Winchell,
a stage performance by Youngman lasted only 15 to 20 minutes
but contained dozens of jokes in rapid succession.












William Dennis Weaver
(June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006)

was an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in
television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006. Weaver's two most
famous roles were as Marshal Matt Dillon's trusty partner Chester Goode/Proudfoot on the CBS western
Gunsmoke and as Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud. He starred in the
1971 television film Duel, the first film of director Steven Spielberg. He is also remembered for his role
as the twitchy motel attendant in Orson Welles's film Touch of Evil (1958).












Jesse Donald Knotts
(July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006)

was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife
on The Andy Griffith Show, a 1960s sitcom for which he earned five Emmy Awards. He also played
Ralph Furley on the highly rated sitcom Three's Company from 1979 to 1984. He starred in
multiple comedic films, including the leading roles in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) and
The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964). In 2004, TV Guide ranked him number 27 on its
50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.












Robert Fulton
(November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815)

was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first
commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont). In 1807,
that steamboat traveled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and
back again, a round trip of 300 nautical miles (560 kilometers), in 62 hours. The success of his
steamboat changed river traffic and trade on major American rivers.

In 1800, Fulton had been commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of France, to attempt to
design a submarine; he produced Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history. Fulton is also
credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the Royal Navy.











Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM
(20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986)

was a Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961
and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to
the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
(CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth
Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His government introduced the continent's
first single-payer, universal health care program.











Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
(August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990)

was an American entrepreneur and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine,
founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He was known as an avid promoter of capitalism and free market economics
and for an extravagant lifestyle, spending on parties, travel, and his collection of homes, yachts, aircraft, art,
motorcycles, and Fabergé eggs.