Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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



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