DYR Today, July 30

“Born Today”

• Diana Vickers (24)
• Gina Rodriguez (31)
• Yvonne Strahovski (33)
• Hope Solo (34)
• Misty May-Treanor (38)
• Jaime Pressly (38)
• Hilary Swank (41)
• Elvis Crespo (44)
• Tom Green (44)
• Christine Taylor (44)
• Christopher Nolan (45)
• Simon Baker (46)
• Terry Crews (47)
• Vivica A. Fox (51)
• Lisa Kudrow (52)
• Alton Brown (53)
• Laurence Fishburne (54)
• Richard Linklater (55)
• Kate Bush (57)
• Delta Burke (59)
• Ken Olin (61)
• Frank Stallone (65)
• Jean Reno (67)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (69) (Featured Above)
• Paul Anka (74)
• Peter Bogdanovich (76)
• Henry Ford (RIP)

“Died Today”

• Bill Walsh (Born: November 30, 1931 / Died: July 30, 2007)

“Movies”

Click on the movie title to watch it’s trailer.

• 1966 – Batman
• 1972 – Deliverance
• 1972 – Napoleon and Samantha
• 1982 – Forced Vengeance
• 1982 – The Last American Virgin
• 1982 – Night Shift
• 1982 – Tex
• 1986 – Nothing in Common
• 1993 – Rising Sun
• 1993 – Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• 1993 – So I Married an Axe Murderer
• 1993 – Tom and Jerry: The Movie
• 1999 – The Blair Witch Project
• 1993 – The Iron Giant
• 1993 – Runaway Bride

“Music”

• 1955 – Johnny Cash recorded his first version of ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ at the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

• 1966 – The Beatles started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Yesterday…And Today’.
• 1966 – The Troggs started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Wild Thing’.

• 1977 – The Bee Gees younger brother Andy Gibb started a four-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Just Wanna Be Your Everything’.
• 1987 – David Bowie played the first show of his North American “Glass Spider” tour in Philadelphia, PA.
• 1988 – Steve Winwood started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Roll With It’.

“TV/Radio”

• 1930 – 1st broadcast of “Death Valley Days” on NBC-radio.

• 1984 – Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV.

“Other Important Events…”

• 1932 – Walt Disney’s “Flowers and Trees” premiered. It was the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor.

• 1956 – The phrase “In God We Trust” was adopted as the U.S. national motto.
• 1968 – Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) made the first unassisted triple play in the major leagues in 41 years.

• 1974 – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power.