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My longest post to date includes people and events associated with the day July 24.

1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer
1847 - Richard M. Hoe of New York City patented the rotary-type printing press
1901 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank
1910 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News
1925 - Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs
1935 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1938 - Artie Shaw records his now-classic, Begin the Beguine
1938 - Instant coffee invented
1946 - U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1956 - At New York City’s Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946
1959 - 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1965 - Bob Dylan releases “Like a Rolling Stone”
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean (carrying the first men to walk on the moon four days earlier)
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor
1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak. When she got to the top, she was heard to say, “Hey, dudes — how do I get down from here?”
2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France

Births
1783 - Simón Bolívar, South American liberator (d. 1830)
1786 - Joseph Nicollet, French mathematician and explorer (d. 1843)
1802 - Alexandre Dumas, French writer (d. 1870)
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, writer (Nuggets & Dust)
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator (disappeared 1937)
1899 - Chief Dan George, Meti actor (d. 1981)
1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald 1st wife of F Scott
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1933 - John Aniston, actor and father of Jennifer Aniston
1936 - Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedienne
1942 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
1946 - William “Junior” Campbell, singer/guitarist
1947 - Robert Hays, American actor
1949 - Michael Richards, American comedian
1951 - Lynda Carter, American actress
1952 - Gus Van Sant, [no relation] American film director
1957 - Pam Tillis, American singer
1963 - Karl Malone, American basketball player
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1968 - Laura Leighton, American actress
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1970 - Stephanie Adams, American model and author
1982 - Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress (Piano)

Deaths
1862 - Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States (b. 1782)
1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances
Ecuador - Simón Bolívar Day
Utah - Pioneer Day (1847)
Venezuela - Birth of the Libertador (Simón Bolívar Day)
Astrology: First day of sun sign Leo
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 9 saints:
-St. Lupus
-St. Saint Christina the Astonishing
-St. Francis Solano
-St. Kinga/Cunegundes
-St. Lewine
-St. Romanus, 2nd bishop of Rochester
-St. David
-St. Wulfhad
-St. Ruffin

My longest post to date includes people and events associated with the year 1959.

US President - Dwight D. Eisenhower
US Vice President - Richard M. Nixon

January 3 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state
January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro
January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic
February 1 - A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage
February 3 - The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed “The Day the Music Died,” popularized in Don McLean’s song, “American Pie.”
February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished
February 18 - Women in Nepal vote for the first time
February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500
March 8 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery
March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts
March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India
March 31 - Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida is dedicated and opens its gates
April 9 - NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see Mercury Seven)
April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the most influential American architect of the 20th century dies from an abdominal obstruction
July 15 - Steel industry strike in USA
July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a “kitchen debate.”
August 14 - Explorer VI sends the first picture of Earth from space
August 21 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state
October 2 - Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS
October 21 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Births
January 16 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
January 17 - Susanna Hoffs, American singer (The Bangles)
January 24 - Nastassja Kinski, German actress
January 27 - Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster
February 16 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
March 8 - Aidan Quinn, American actor
March 16 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
April 3 - David Hyde Pierce, American actor
April 10 - Brian Setzer, American guitarist (Stray Cats)
April 22 - Ryan Stiles, American actor
April 27 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
June 11- Hugh Laurie, British actor and comedian
June 30 - Vincent D’Onofrio, American actor
July 11 - Richie Sambora, American musician
July 11 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
July 26 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
August 14 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
August 21 - Jim McMahon, American football player
October 3 - Greg Proops, American comedian
October 15 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
October 15 - Emeril Lagasse, famous chef and restaurant owner
October 23 - “Weird Al” Yankovic, American singer and parodist
October 25 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
December 21 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athelete (d. 1998)
December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor

Deaths
January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881)
February 3 - The Big Bopper, American singer (b. 1930)
February 3 - Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
February 3 - Richie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
March 3 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
March 16 - John B. Salling, disputed last-surviving American Civil War veteran (b. 1846?)
March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
June 16 - George Reeves, actor famous for T.V role of Superman (b. 1914)
July 17 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
October 14 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
November 21 - Max Baer, Heavyweight Boxing Champion/Actor (b. 1909)

Prices
Bread - $0.20/loaf
Milk - $1.01/gal
Eggs - $0.88/doz
Car - $2,250
Gas - $0.30/gal
House - $18,400
Stamp - $0.04/ea
Avg Income - $5,976/yr
Min Wage - $1.00/hr
DOW Avg - 679

Top Songs
Lonely Boy by Paul Anka
The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton
The Three Bells by The Browns
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Platters
Venus by Frankie Avalon
Heartaches By the Number by Guy Mitchell
Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin
Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price
Come Softly to Me by Fleetwoods
Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny

Hot New Toys
Troll Dolls
Risk
Barbie
Chatty Cathy
Game of Life

My longest post to date includes people associated with Louisville, KY (either born there or lived significant part of life there).

Terry Adams ~ Musician (NRBQ)
Muhammad Ali ~ Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Ned Beatty ~ Character Actor
Louis Brandeis ~ Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Foster Brooks ~ Actor & Comedian
Lance Burton ~ Stage Magician
George Rogers Clark ~ The preeminent military leader on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War
William Conrad ~ Actor and Narrator
Tom Cruise ~ Actor
George Charles Devol Jr. ~ inventor of the first industrial robot
Irene Dunne ~ Actress
Thomas Alva Edison ~ inventor
Bob Edwards ~ Radio Broadcaster, National Public Radio
Jimmy Ellis ~ Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Steve Ferguson ~ Musician (NRBQ)
Dian Fossey ~ Ethologist interested in gorillas
Fontaine Fox ~ Nationally syndicated cartoonist, creator of “The Toonerville Trolley”
Heather French ~ Miss America 2000
Billy Gilbert ~ Comedic character actor, voice of Sneezy in Disney’s “Snow White”
Sue Grafton ~ Author
D.W. Griffith ~ Film Director
Lionel Hampton ~ Bandleader and Jazz Musician
Mildred & Patty Hill ~ Composers of the song “Happy Birthday To You”
Telma Hopkins ~ Singer & Television Actress
Edwin Hubble ~ Astrophysics, Lawyer
Henry Hull ~ Stage and film actor
Ken Jenkins ~ Stage and film actor
Tom Kennedy ~ Game show host
Victor Mature ~ Film Actor
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell ~ Majority Whip
Jack Narz ~ Game show host
Joan Osborne ~ Singer and Songwriter
Greg Page ~ Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Pee Wee Reese ~ Professional Baseball Player for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers
Don Rosa ~ Illustrator of Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters
Rudy Rucker ~ Computer scientist and science fiction author
Col. Harland Sanders ~ Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Diane Sawyer ~ Television Journalist
Nicole Scherzinger ~ Actress, singer and dancer
“Papa” John Schnatter ~ Founder of Papa John’s Pizza
Zachary Taylor ~ U.S. President
Hunter S. Thompson ~ Journalist and author
Mary Travers ~ Folk Artist Peter, Paul and Mary
Johnny Unitas ~ Professional Football Player from the 1950s through the 1970s
Gus Van Sant ~ Film Director, Photographer, Musician, and Author
Wes Unseld ~ Former basketball player and coach in the NBA
Jack Warden ~ Actor
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand ~ 60 Minutes Tobacco informant
Sean Young ~ Actress

How this ends is how this begins….

My longest post to date includes the intersection of July 24, 1959 and Louisville, KY because that’s when and where I was born.

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