Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- July 2nd

Happy Birthday!
1908 Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court justice
1916 Ken Curtis, actor (Gunsmoke)
1925 Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
1929 Imelda Marcos, widow of Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos and famous for her hundreds of shoes
1932 Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurant
1937 Richard Petty, NASCAR driver
1937 Polly Holliday, actress (Flo on Alice)
1939 Paul Williams, singer from The Temptations
1946 Ron Silver, actor/director (Timecop, Ali, Veronica's Closet)
1947 Larry David, actor/ writer (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld)
1961 Jimmy McNichol, actor (Escape from El Diablo, General Hospital)
1964 Jose Canseco, baseball player
1970 Yancy Butler, actress (Witchblade, South Beach)
1973 Scott Taylor, pro wrestler
1983 Michelle Branch, singer (Everywhere, You Get Me)
1986 Lindsay Lohan, actress (Mean Girls, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen)

Deaths:
1961 Ernest Hemingway, author (The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises)
1973 Betty Grable, actress (How to Marry a Millionaire)
1977 Vladimir Nabokov, author (Lolita)
1993 Fred Gwynne, actor (The Munsters, Car, 54 Where Are You?)
1997 Jimmy Stewart, actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life)
1998 Ben Wright, actor (The Sound of Music, The Jungle Book)
1999 Mario Puzo, author (The Godfather, The Last Don)

Events:
1839 Amistad munity.
1881 President James A. Garfield shot and died 80 days later.
1937 Amelia Earhart disappeared.
1964 Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Voting Bill.

History Lesson:
My history facts around the house is often listed as useless information, so here is some more useless information.

Larry David is the co-creator of Seinfeld and the real life George Costanza.

Jimmy Stewart painted model planes with Henry Fonda as a past time.