This Day In Recent History ~ 7/24

This Day In Recent History ~ July 24

1956 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.

1965 - The Beach Boys' "California Girls" was released.

1967 - The Elvis Presley movie "Double Trouble" premiered.

1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

1976 - Hall & Oates' "She's Gone" was released.

1978 - The movie "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, opened in New York City, NY.

1978 - Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.

1979 - Little Richard, billed as the Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke to a revival meeting in San Francisco about the dangers of rock & roll.

1985 - Walt Disney released their 25th full-length cartoon. The work was "The Black Cauldron."

1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.

1987 - The movie biography of Richie Valens, "La Bamba," opened.

1995 - A three-night celebration of Frank Sinatra's 80th birthday began at Carnegie Hall.
1998 - Roy O. Disney received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Birthdays

Simon Bolivar 1783

Alexander Dumas 1802

Amelia Earhart 1898

Chief Dan George 1899

Cootie Williams 1908

Vera (Salaff) 1910

Frank Silvera 1914

Bob Eberly 1915

Bella Abzug 1920

Alexander H. Cohen 1920

Billy Taylor (Billy Taylor Trio) 1921

Jaqueline Brookes 1930

Doug Sanders 1933

Rudy Collins (Dizzy Gillespie Quintet) 1934

Pat Oliphant 1935

Ruth Buzzi 1936

Mark Goddard 1936

Dan Hedaya 1940

Barbara Jean Love (Friends of Distinction) 1941

Cris Sarandon 1942

Roger Lafreniere 1942

Heinze Burt ( The Tornadoes) 1942

Robert Hayes 1947

Michael Richards 1949

Lynda Carter 1951

Lynval Golding 1951

Pam Tillis 1957

Robbie Grey (Modern English) 1957

Kadeem Hardison 1965

Laura Leighton 1968

John P. Navin Jr. 1968

Jennifer Lopez 1970 - Singer, actress

Anna Paquin 1982

Mara Wilson 1987