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Friday, July 30, 2010
MEDICARE DAY
Flanked by his wife, Lady Bird Johnson; former President Harry Truman; former First-Lady Bess Truman; and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law on this day in 1965. Truman and his wife were on hand as they were selected by President Johnson to be the first and second persons, respectively, to be enrolled in Medicare and the first recipients of the new Medicare cards. President Johnson (LBJ) said that Truman had “planted the seeds of compassion and duty” that led to the enactment of Medicare.
House Representative Cecil B. King (D-California) and Senator Clinton P. Anderson (D-New Mexico) were the two legislators who introduced the bill to Congress. The first bills of 1965, H.R. 1 and S. 1, were what eventually resulted in the Medicare program some six months later.
The program that provides health insurance to retired workers (65 and older) is funded by employers and employees paying into a national social security fund.
An outpatient prescription drug benefit was added with the Medicare Modernization Act, signed in 2003 by President George W. Bush, which left a donut hole that seniors could fall into if their prescription expenses went over a limit. President Barack Obama’s national health insurance plan started closing up this hole in 2010.
Events July 30
1894 - Corn flakes were invented by Will Kellogg.
1895 - Hawaii’s Queen Lydia Liliuokalani formally renounced all claim to the Hawaiian throne. The queen had been under house arrest in the Iolani Palace for eight months. She abdicated on this day in return for the release of her jailed supporters.
1898 - Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Carriage Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to “Dispense with a Horse.”
1932 - The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.
1935 - The first Penguin book was published (Ariel by Andre Maurois), along with nine others, starting the paperback revolution. The idea came from Allen Lane, who wanted to bring literature to the masses at accessible prices and provide, “a whole book for the price of 10 cigarettes.”
1942 - Frank Sinatra recorded the last of 90 recordings with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on Victor Records. His last side was There are Such Things, which became number one in January of 1943. Sinatra moved on to Columbia Records (1943-1952) as a solo singing sensation.
1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services were a part of of the U.S. Navy.
1942 - Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS radio. The show was broadcast live from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by celebrities who freely donated their time for the war (WWII) effort.
1946 - The U.S. joined UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
1948 - The advance of Communist domination in Hungary forced the resignation of President Zoltan Tildy.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his professional debut at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, as the opening act for Slim Whitman. That’s All Right (Mama), recorded by Elvis several weeks earlier, was on its way to becoming a hit in the Memphis area, but newspaper ads for the event misspelled his name as Ellis Presley.
1956 - Singer Brenda Lee recorded her first hit for Decca Records. Jambalaya and Bigelow 6-200 started a new career for the petite 11-year-old from Lithonia, GA (near Atlanta). Brenda Mae Tarpley (Brenda Lee) had been singing professionally since age six. She recorded 29 hit songs in the 1960s and became a successful country singer in 1971. Brenda Lee had a pair of number one tunes with I’m Sorry and I Want to be Wanted. She recorded a dozen hits that made it to the top 10.
1956 - The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1959 - Willie McCovey stepped to the plate for the first time in his major-league baseball career. McCovey of the San Francisco Giants batted 4-for-4 in his debut against Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies. He hit two singles and two triples, driving in two runs. It was the start of an all-star career that landed McCovey in baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1966 - The demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam was bombed by U.S. planes for the first time.
1968 - Ron Hansen, of the Washington Senators, made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years. The shortstop speared a line drive by Joe Azcue, doubled up the runner at second by stepping on the bag and then tagged out the runner who was moving in from first base. The Senators still lost the game to Cleveland by a score of 10-1.
1971 - A Japanese All-Nippon airlines Boeing 727 and F-86 jet fighter collided in mid-air over Morioka, Japan. 162 people died in the collision.
1971 - U.S. Apollo 15 moon mission: David R. Scott and James B. Irwin in the lunar module Falcon touched down on the fringe of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains).
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted 21-17 on the last of three charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to impeach President Richard Nixon for his unconstitutional defiance of subcommittee subpoenas in the Watergate cover-up. Nixon resigned before the issue came to trial.
1975 - Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace from Detroit, Michigan. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. One F.B.I theory is that Hoffa’s body was run through a mob-controlled fat-rendering plant that was later mysteriously destroyed by fire (there are many other theories as to where he wound up). Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1983.
1980 - The Republic of Vanuatu (formerly the Franco-British condominium of New Hebrides) achieved its independence from Britain and France.
1984 - Reggie Jackson hit the 494th home run of his career, passing the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig and taking over 13th place on the all-time home run list. Larry Sorenson was the victim who gave up Reggie’s milestone homer.
1985 - Gerry Cooney retired from professional boxing. Cooney had only one loss -- in a championship match with Larry Holmes (boxing’s biggest money-making fight to that time). Cooney had a record of 28 wins (24 by knockout) and three losses.
1987 - NBC’s L.A. Law was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, one shy of the record for nominations. Hill Street Blues was the recordholder (in the 1981-1982 season). L.A. Law had only been on the air a year when it earned four out of the 20 Emmys.
1990 - George Steinbrenner was forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees.
1992 - A ruptured fuel tank forced a TWA Lockheed L-1011 to abort takeoff at JFK International Airport, New York. The pilots managed an emergency landing as a massive fire grew in the tail section. All 292 passengers and eight crew members were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes activated by the crew.
1993 - Bosnia’s outgunned Muslim-led government abandoned its efforts to hold the region together, agreeing to a preliminary accord to divide the former Yugoslav republic into three ethnic states.
1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at 92 years of age.
1997 - One Eight Seven opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Karina Arroyave, Jonah Rooney and Lobo Sebastian.
1998 - A world-record Powerball jackpot of $295.7 million was won by a group of 13 machinists who worked together in Westerville, Ohio. The group chose the cash option, and received a lump-sum payment of $161.5 million dollars.
1998 - ‘Buffalo’ Bob Smith, the cowboy-suited host of the Howdy Doody show (1947-1960), died in Hendersonville, NC. He was 80 years old.
1999 - The closing of Fort Clayton, on the eastern shore of Miraflores Lake, about 5 miles from the Panama Canal’s Pacific coast terminus, ended the U.S. military’s 88-year presence in Panama. The transfer to Panama took place in a colorful formal ceremony on this day.
1999 - Richard Gere (Ike Graham) and Julia Roberts (Maggie Carpenter) star in Runaway Bride, which opened this day. The romantic comedy scored big with movie crowds, doing $35.06 million during its first weekend.
2001 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton opened his new office in Harlem, New York City.
2002 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) was released in bookstores.
2002 - Pope John Paul II canonized Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Central America’s first saint.
2003 - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips died in Memphis, TN. Phillips produced early hits by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart, Steve Braun, Brooke D'Orsay, Ethan Embry, Paula Garcés, Luis Guzmán, Neil Patrick Harris, Jon Hurwitz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Kate Kelton, Jamie Kennedy, David Krumholtz, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Schlossberg, Siu Ta, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dov Tiefenbach, Robert Tinkler, Fred Willard and Gary Anthony Williams; The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright and Ted Levine; Thunderbirds, starring Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, Sophia Myles, Donimic colenso, Ron Cook, Lex Shrapnel, Ben Torgeson, Philip Winchester and Anthony Edwards; The Village, with Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Brendan Gleeson, Judy Greer, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Pitt, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston and Fran Kranz.
2004 - Joseph ‘Big Joey’ Massino, a boss in the Bonanno crime family, was convicted in New York City of orchestrating murder, racketeering, arson and extortion over a 25-year period.
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch-born first chief of the European Central Bank was found dead at a home in Faucon, France. He was 72 years old. Duisenberg had helped create the euro currency.
2006 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council and Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours to investigate a raid that had leveled a building where several dozen civilians had taken shelter.
2007 - Bill Walsh, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, died at his Woodside CA home following a long battle with leukemia. He was 75 years old. It was Walsh who popularized the West Coast Offense in the NFL. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning ten of his fourteen postseason games, six division titles, three NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowls.
2008 - Media watchdog Ofcom fined the BBC 400,000 pounds for misleading the public through fake quizzes and competitions.
2009 - South African President Jacob Zuma accepted “very substantial damages” from Britain’s Guardian newspaper over an article that wrongly suggested he was a rapist.
2009 - Zimbabwe’s health minister reported that the cholera epidemic had ended, after more than 4,200 deaths and 100,000 cases since August 2008.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres on this day: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, with Alec Baldwin, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joe Pantoliano and Roger Moore; Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Amanda Crew, DAVE Franco and Donal Logue; Dinner for Schmucks, with Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Bruce Greenwood, Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis; Get Low, starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Scott Cooper and Sissy Spacek, The Concert, with Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov and François Berléand; and The Dry Land, starring America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, June Diane Raphael, Ethan Suplee and Melissa Leo.
Birthdays July 30
1818 - Emily Bronte
author: Wuthering Heights; died Dec 19, 1848
1857 - Thorstein Veblen
economist, author: The Theory of the Leisure Class; died Aug 3, 1929
1863 - Henry Ford
auto manufacturer: first assembly line production: the Tin Lizzie; died Apr 7, 1947
1890 - Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
‘The Old Professor’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916], Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Giants [World Series: 1922, 1923], Boston Braves; manager: NY Yankees: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958]; died Sep 29, 1975
1898 - Henry Moore
English sculptor: Sheep Piece, Large Oval with Points, Stringed Figure No. 1; died Aug 31, 1986
1925 - Jacques Sernas
actor: 55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.
1928 - Joe (Joseph Henry) Nuxhall
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [youngest major-league player: 15 yrs, 314 days], Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1955, 1956], KC Athletics, LA Angels; died Nov 15, 2007
1929 - Christine McGuire
singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something’s Gotta Give, He, Sugartime
1933 - Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger)
actor: 77 Sunset Strip, Darby’s Rangers; singer [w/Connie Stevens]: Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb; holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960]
1934 - Ben Piazza
actor: The Hanging Tree, The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas, The Winds of War, Guilty by Suspicion; died Sep 7, 1991
1934 - (Allan H.) BUD Selig
baseball: Commissioner of Major League Baseball [1992- ]; owner: Milwaukee Brewers
1936 - Buddy (George) Guy
musician: blues guitar, singer: Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues; on BBC-TV: Supershow, Chicago Blues
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich
director: What’s Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon; director/writer: The Last Picture Show, Texasville
1939 - Eleanor Smeal
feminist: president of NOW
1941 - Paul Anka
songwriter: Johnny’s Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana; singer: 33 hits over 3 decades: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You’re Having My Baby
1945 - David Sanborn
Grammy Award-winning musician: saxophone, flute: LP: Voyeur [1981]; Sanborn, David Sanborn Band, Heart to Heart, Hideaway, As We Speak, Backstreet, Straight to the Heart, Love and Happiness; composer: TV movie score: Finnegan Begin Again
1946 - Jeffrey Hammond
musician: bass guitar: group: Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Steel Monkey, Living in the Past, Sweet Dream, The Witch’s Promise
1947 - William Atherton
actor: Bio-Dome, Saints and Sinners, The Pelican Brief, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Day of the Locust, Class of ’44, Centennial
1947 - Marc Bolan (Feld)
singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; killed in car crash Sep 16, 1977
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; married to Maria Shriver; 5-time Mr. Universe; part owner of Planet Hollywood restaurants; governor of California [2003- ]
1948 - Jean Reno
actor: Le Grand bleu, Les Visiteurs, Léon, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, Just Visiting
1949 - Dwight White
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; died June 6, 2008
1950 - Willie Harper
football: San Francisco 49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI
1950 - Frank Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Staying Alive, Ten Little Indians, Hudson Hawk, Tombstone, Doublecross On Costa’s Island; brother of actor Sylvester Stallone
1952 - Randy Crowder
football: Penn State Univ. All-American, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1954 - Ken Olin
actor: Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething
1956 - Delta Burke
actress: Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida
1956 - Anita Hill
law professor: Hill-Thomas hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court
1957 - Bill Cartwright
basketball: New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls [consecutive championships in 1991, 1992, 1993], Seattle SuperSonics; coach: Chicago Bulls; assistant coach: New Jersey Nets
1957 - Rat Scabies (Chris Millar)
musician: drums: group: The ****ed: Neat, Neat, Neat, New Rose, Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, LP: Phantasmagoria
1958 - Kate Bush
singer: Experimental IV, Running Up That Hill, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Wuthering Heights
1961 - Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III/Larry Fishburne)
Tony Award-winning actor: Two Trains Running; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz N the Hood
1963 - Monique Gabrielle
actress: Night Shift, Bachelor Party, Young Lady Chatterley II, Electric Blue series, Bad Girls IV, Emmanuelle 5, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hard To Die, Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, Angel Eyes
1963 - Lisa Kudrow
actress: Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This, Dr. Dolittle 2
1963 - Chris Mullin
basketball [forward]: St. John’s; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Indiana Pacers
1964 - Vivica A. Fox
actress: Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Independence Day, Booty Call, Hollywood Squares, City of Angels
1966 - Craig Gannon
musician: guitar: groups: Aztec Camera, The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, William It Was Really Nothing
1969 - Simon Baker
actor: The Mentalist, L.A. Confidential, The Affair of the Necklace, Red Planet, Love from Ground Zero, The Last Best Place
1969 - Robert Porcher
football: South Carolina State Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions
1971 - Calvin Murray
baseball: Univ of Texas; SF Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs
1974 - Hilary Swank
actress: Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid
1979 - Carlos Arroyo
basketball [guard]: Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic
1982 - Martin Starr
actor: Party Down, Cheaters, Eyeball Eddie, Knocked Up, Cheats, Freaks and Geeks
1982 - Yvonne Strahovski
actress: Chuck, Headland, Mass Effect Galaxy, Mass Effect 2
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Chart Toppers July 30
1947Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1956The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1965(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
I’m Henry VIII, I Am - Herman’s Hermits
What’s New Pusscat? - Tom Jones
Before You Go - Buck Owens
1974Annie’s Song - John Denver
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John
Rikki Don’t Lose that Number - Steely Dan
You Can’t Be a Beacon (If Your Light Don’t Shine) - Donna Fargo
1983Every Breath You Take - The Police
Is There Something I Should Know - Duran Duran
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
I Always Get Lucky with You - George Jones
1992Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
This Used to Be My Playground - Madonna
Baby-Baby-Baby - TLC
The River - Garth Brooks
2001All Or Nothing - O-Town
Bootylicious - Destiny’s Child
Someone To Call My Lover - Janet Jackson
I’m Already There - Lonestar
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211th day of 2010 - 154 remaining
Friday, July 30, 2010
MEDICARE DAY
Flanked by his wife, Lady Bird Johnson; former President Harry Truman; former First-Lady Bess Truman; and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law on this day in 1965. Truman and his wife were on hand as they were selected by President Johnson to be the first and second persons, respectively, to be enrolled in Medicare and the first recipients of the new Medicare cards. President Johnson (LBJ) said that Truman had “planted the seeds of compassion and duty” that led to the enactment of Medicare.
House Representative Cecil B. King (D-California) and Senator Clinton P. Anderson (D-New Mexico) were the two legislators who introduced the bill to Congress. The first bills of 1965, H.R. 1 and S. 1, were what eventually resulted in the Medicare program some six months later.
The program that provides health insurance to retired workers (65 and older) is funded by employers and employees paying into a national social security fund.
An outpatient prescription drug benefit was added with the Medicare Modernization Act, signed in 2003 by President George W. Bush, which left a donut hole that seniors could fall into if their prescription expenses went over a limit. President Barack Obama’s national health insurance plan started closing up this hole in 2010.
Events July 30
1894 - Corn flakes were invented by Will Kellogg.
1895 - Hawaii’s Queen Lydia Liliuokalani formally renounced all claim to the Hawaiian throne. The queen had been under house arrest in the Iolani Palace for eight months. She abdicated on this day in return for the release of her jailed supporters.
1898 - Scientific American carried the first magazine automobile ad. The Winton Motor Carriage Company of Cleveland, OH invited readers to “Dispense with a Horse.”
1932 - The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.
1935 - The first Penguin book was published (Ariel by Andre Maurois), along with nine others, starting the paperback revolution. The idea came from Allen Lane, who wanted to bring literature to the masses at accessible prices and provide, “a whole book for the price of 10 cigarettes.”
1942 - Frank Sinatra recorded the last of 90 recordings with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on Victor Records. His last side was There are Such Things, which became number one in January of 1943. Sinatra moved on to Columbia Records (1943-1952) as a solo singing sensation.
1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services were a part of of the U.S. Navy.
1942 - Stage Door Canteen was first heard on CBS radio. The show was broadcast live from New York City and 500 servicemen were entertained each week by celebrities who freely donated their time for the war (WWII) effort.
1946 - The U.S. joined UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
1948 - The advance of Communist domination in Hungary forced the resignation of President Zoltan Tildy.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his professional debut at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, as the opening act for Slim Whitman. That’s All Right (Mama), recorded by Elvis several weeks earlier, was on its way to becoming a hit in the Memphis area, but newspaper ads for the event misspelled his name as Ellis Presley.
1956 - Singer Brenda Lee recorded her first hit for Decca Records. Jambalaya and Bigelow 6-200 started a new career for the petite 11-year-old from Lithonia, GA (near Atlanta). Brenda Mae Tarpley (Brenda Lee) had been singing professionally since age six. She recorded 29 hit songs in the 1960s and became a successful country singer in 1971. Brenda Lee had a pair of number one tunes with I’m Sorry and I Want to be Wanted. She recorded a dozen hits that made it to the top 10.
1956 - The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
1959 - Willie McCovey stepped to the plate for the first time in his major-league baseball career. McCovey of the San Francisco Giants batted 4-for-4 in his debut against Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies. He hit two singles and two triples, driving in two runs. It was the start of an all-star career that landed McCovey in baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1966 - The demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Vietnam was bombed by U.S. planes for the first time.
1968 - Ron Hansen, of the Washington Senators, made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years. The shortstop speared a line drive by Joe Azcue, doubled up the runner at second by stepping on the bag and then tagged out the runner who was moving in from first base. The Senators still lost the game to Cleveland by a score of 10-1.
1971 - A Japanese All-Nippon airlines Boeing 727 and F-86 jet fighter collided in mid-air over Morioka, Japan. 162 people died in the collision.
1971 - U.S. Apollo 15 moon mission: David R. Scott and James B. Irwin in the lunar module Falcon touched down on the fringe of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of Rains).
1974 - The House Judiciary Committee voted 21-17 on the last of three charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to impeach President Richard Nixon for his unconstitutional defiance of subcommittee subpoenas in the Watergate cover-up. Nixon resigned before the issue came to trial.
1975 - Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace from Detroit, Michigan. Although presumed dead, his remains have never been found. One F.B.I theory is that Hoffa’s body was run through a mob-controlled fat-rendering plant that was later mysteriously destroyed by fire (there are many other theories as to where he wound up). Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1983.
1980 - The Republic of Vanuatu (formerly the Franco-British condominium of New Hebrides) achieved its independence from Britain and France.
1984 - Reggie Jackson hit the 494th home run of his career, passing the Yankees’ Lou Gehrig and taking over 13th place on the all-time home run list. Larry Sorenson was the victim who gave up Reggie’s milestone homer.
1985 - Gerry Cooney retired from professional boxing. Cooney had only one loss -- in a championship match with Larry Holmes (boxing’s biggest money-making fight to that time). Cooney had a record of 28 wins (24 by knockout) and three losses.
1987 - NBC’s L.A. Law was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, one shy of the record for nominations. Hill Street Blues was the recordholder (in the 1981-1982 season). L.A. Law had only been on the air a year when it earned four out of the 20 Emmys.
1990 - George Steinbrenner was forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees.
1992 - A ruptured fuel tank forced a TWA Lockheed L-1011 to abort takeoff at JFK International Airport, New York. The pilots managed an emergency landing as a massive fire grew in the tail section. All 292 passengers and eight crew members were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes activated by the crew.
1993 - Bosnia’s outgunned Muslim-led government abandoned its efforts to hold the region together, agreeing to a preliminary accord to divide the former Yugoslav republic into three ethnic states.
1996 - Actress Claudette Colbert died in Barbados at 92 years of age.
1997 - One Eight Seven opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Karina Arroyave, Jonah Rooney and Lobo Sebastian.
1998 - A world-record Powerball jackpot of $295.7 million was won by a group of 13 machinists who worked together in Westerville, Ohio. The group chose the cash option, and received a lump-sum payment of $161.5 million dollars.
1998 - ‘Buffalo’ Bob Smith, the cowboy-suited host of the Howdy Doody show (1947-1960), died in Hendersonville, NC. He was 80 years old.
1999 - The closing of Fort Clayton, on the eastern shore of Miraflores Lake, about 5 miles from the Panama Canal’s Pacific coast terminus, ended the U.S. military’s 88-year presence in Panama. The transfer to Panama took place in a colorful formal ceremony on this day.
1999 - Richard Gere (Ike Graham) and Julia Roberts (Maggie Carpenter) star in Runaway Bride, which opened this day. The romantic comedy scored big with movie crowds, doing $35.06 million during its first weekend.
2001 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton opened his new office in Harlem, New York City.
2002 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) was released in bookstores.
2002 - Pope John Paul II canonized Pedro de San Jose Betancur, Central America’s first saint.
2003 - Sun Records founder Sam Phillips died in Memphis, TN. Phillips produced early hits by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, starring John Cho, Kal Penn, Anthony Anderson, Dan Bochart, Steve Braun, Brooke D'Orsay, Ethan Embry, Paula Garcés, Luis Guzmán, Neil Patrick Harris, Jon Hurwitz, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Kate Kelton, Jamie Kennedy, David Krumholtz, Bobby Lee, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Reynolds, Hayden Schlossberg, Siu Ta, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Dov Tiefenbach, Robert Tinkler, Fred Willard and Gary Anthony Williams; The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright and Ted Levine; Thunderbirds, starring Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley, Sophia Myles, Donimic colenso, Ron Cook, Lex Shrapnel, Ben Torgeson, Philip Winchester and Anthony Edwards; The Village, with Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Brendan Gleeson, Judy Greer, Jayne Atkinson, Michael Pitt, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston and Fran Kranz.
2004 - Joseph ‘Big Joey’ Massino, a boss in the Bonanno crime family, was convicted in New York City of orchestrating murder, racketeering, arson and extortion over a 25-year period.
2005 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch-born first chief of the European Central Bank was found dead at a home in Faucon, France. He was 72 years old. Duisenberg had helped create the euro currency.
2006 - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an emergency meeting of the Security Council and Israel suspended air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours to investigate a raid that had leveled a building where several dozen civilians had taken shelter.
2007 - Bill Walsh, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, died at his Woodside CA home following a long battle with leukemia. He was 75 years old. It was Walsh who popularized the West Coast Offense in the NFL. Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning ten of his fourteen postseason games, six division titles, three NFC Championship titles, and three Super Bowls.
2008 - Media watchdog Ofcom fined the BBC 400,000 pounds for misleading the public through fake quizzes and competitions.
2009 - South African President Jacob Zuma accepted “very substantial damages” from Britain’s Guardian newspaper over an article that wrongly suggested he was a rapist.
2009 - Zimbabwe’s health minister reported that the cholera epidemic had ended, after more than 4,200 deaths and 100,000 cases since August 2008.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres on this day: Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, with Alec Baldwin, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Joe Pantoliano and Roger Moore; Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Amanda Crew, DAVE Franco and Donal Logue; Dinner for Schmucks, with Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Bruce Greenwood, Jemaine Clement and Zach Galifianakis; Get Low, starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Scott Cooper and Sissy Spacek, The Concert, with Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, Valeriy Barinov and François Berléand; and The Dry Land, starring America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, June Diane Raphael, Ethan Suplee and Melissa Leo.
Birthdays July 30
1818 - Emily Bronte
author: Wuthering Heights; died Dec 19, 1848
1857 - Thorstein Veblen
economist, author: The Theory of the Leisure Class; died Aug 3, 1929
1863 - Henry Ford
auto manufacturer: first assembly line production: the Tin Lizzie; died Apr 7, 1947
1890 - Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel
‘The Old Professor’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1916], Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, NY Giants [World Series: 1922, 1923], Boston Braves; manager: NY Yankees: 7 World Series championships [1949-53, 1956, 1958]; died Sep 29, 1975
1898 - Henry Moore
English sculptor: Sheep Piece, Large Oval with Points, Stringed Figure No. 1; died Aug 31, 1986
1925 - Jacques Sernas
actor: 55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.
1928 - Joe (Joseph Henry) Nuxhall
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [youngest major-league player: 15 yrs, 314 days], Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1955, 1956], KC Athletics, LA Angels; died Nov 15, 2007
1929 - Christine McGuire
singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Something’s Gotta Give, He, Sugartime
1933 - Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger)
actor: 77 Sunset Strip, Darby’s Rangers; singer [w/Connie Stevens]: Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb; holds record for appearing on the most magazine covers [20] in one month [October 1960]
1934 - Ben Piazza
actor: The Hanging Tree, The Bad News Bears, The Blues Brothers, Dynasty, Dallas, The Winds of War, Guilty by Suspicion; died Sep 7, 1991
1934 - (Allan H.) BUD Selig
baseball: Commissioner of Major League Baseball [1992- ]; owner: Milwaukee Brewers
1936 - Buddy (George) Guy
musician: blues guitar, singer: Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues; on BBC-TV: Supershow, Chicago Blues
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich
director: What’s Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon; director/writer: The Last Picture Show, Texasville
1939 - Eleanor Smeal
feminist: president of NOW
1941 - Paul Anka
songwriter: Johnny’s Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana; singer: 33 hits over 3 decades: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You’re Having My Baby
1945 - David Sanborn
Grammy Award-winning musician: saxophone, flute: LP: Voyeur [1981]; Sanborn, David Sanborn Band, Heart to Heart, Hideaway, As We Speak, Backstreet, Straight to the Heart, Love and Happiness; composer: TV movie score: Finnegan Begin Again
1946 - Jeffrey Hammond
musician: bass guitar: group: Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Steel Monkey, Living in the Past, Sweet Dream, The Witch’s Promise
1947 - William Atherton
actor: Bio-Dome, Saints and Sinners, The Pelican Brief, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Day of the Locust, Class of ’44, Centennial
1947 - Marc Bolan (Feld)
singer: group: T. Rex: Bang a Gong; killed in car crash Sep 16, 1977
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; married to Maria Shriver; 5-time Mr. Universe; part owner of Planet Hollywood restaurants; governor of California [2003- ]
1948 - Jean Reno
actor: Le Grand bleu, Les Visiteurs, Léon, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, Just Visiting
1949 - Dwight White
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; died June 6, 2008
1950 - Willie Harper
football: San Francisco 49ers linebacker: Super Bowl XVI
1950 - Frank Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Staying Alive, Ten Little Indians, Hudson Hawk, Tombstone, Doublecross On Costa’s Island; brother of actor Sylvester Stallone
1952 - Randy Crowder
football: Penn State Univ. All-American, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
1954 - Ken Olin
actor: Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething
1956 - Delta Burke
actress: Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida
1956 - Anita Hill
law professor: Hill-Thomas hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee concerning Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the Supreme Court
1957 - Bill Cartwright
basketball: New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls [consecutive championships in 1991, 1992, 1993], Seattle SuperSonics; coach: Chicago Bulls; assistant coach: New Jersey Nets
1957 - Rat Scabies (Chris Millar)
musician: drums: group: The ****ed: Neat, Neat, Neat, New Rose, Love Song, Grimly Fiendish, Shadow of Love, LP: Phantasmagoria
1958 - Kate Bush
singer: Experimental IV, Running Up That Hill, The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Wow, Wuthering Heights
1961 - Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III/Larry Fishburne)
Tony Award-winning actor: Two Trains Running; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz N the Hood
1963 - Monique Gabrielle
actress: Night Shift, Bachelor Party, Young Lady Chatterley II, Electric Blue series, Bad Girls IV, Emmanuelle 5, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hard To Die, Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, Angel Eyes
1963 - Lisa Kudrow
actress: Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This, Dr. Dolittle 2
1963 - Chris Mullin
basketball [forward]: St. John’s; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Indiana Pacers
1964 - Vivica A. Fox
actress: Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Independence Day, Booty Call, Hollywood Squares, City of Angels
1966 - Craig Gannon
musician: guitar: groups: Aztec Camera, The Smiths: Hand in Glove, The Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, William It Was Really Nothing
1969 - Simon Baker
actor: The Mentalist, L.A. Confidential, The Affair of the Necklace, Red Planet, Love from Ground Zero, The Last Best Place
1969 - Robert Porcher
football: South Carolina State Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions
1971 - Calvin Murray
baseball: Univ of Texas; SF Giants, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs
1974 - Hilary Swank
actress: Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid
1979 - Carlos Arroyo
basketball [guard]: Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic
1982 - Martin Starr
actor: Party Down, Cheaters, Eyeball Eddie, Knocked Up, Cheats, Freaks and Geeks
1982 - Yvonne Strahovski
actress: Chuck, Headland, Mass Effect Galaxy, Mass Effect 2
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Chart Toppers July 30
1947Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Tex Williams
1956The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
1965(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
I’m Henry VIII, I Am - Herman’s Hermits
What’s New Pusscat? - Tom Jones
Before You Go - Buck Owens
1974Annie’s Song - John Denver
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John
Rikki Don’t Lose that Number - Steely Dan
You Can’t Be a Beacon (If Your Light Don’t Shine) - Donna Fargo
1983Every Breath You Take - The Police
Is There Something I Should Know - Duran Duran
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
I Always Get Lucky with You - George Jones
1992Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
This Used to Be My Playground - Madonna
Baby-Baby-Baby - TLC
The River - Garth Brooks
2001All Or Nothing - O-Town
Bootylicious - Destiny’s Child
Someone To Call My Lover - Janet Jackson
I’m Already There - Lonestar
Happy Birthday Paul Anka!!
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