Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- July 3rd

Happy Birthday!
1878 George M. Cohan, composer/ producer (Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards to Broadway)
1906 George Sanders, actor (All About Eve, The Jungle Book)
1943 Kurtwood Smith, actor (Red on That 70's Show, Dead Poets Society)
1945 Michael Cole, actor (Mod Squad)
1947 Betty Buckley, actress (Cats, Eight is Enough, Carrie, Wyatt Earp, Oz)
1949 Jan Smithers, actress (WKRP in Cincinnati)
1956 Montel Williams, talk show host
1957 Laura Branigan, singer (Gloria, Self Control, The Lucky One)
1962 Tom Cruise, actor (Born on the Fourth of July, Cocktail, Top Gun, Taps, Mission: Impossible, War of the Worlds)
1962 Thomas Gibson, actor (Dharma & Greg, Far and Away, Eyes Wide Shut)
1962 Hunter Tylo, actress (All My Children, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful)
1964 Yeardley Smith, actress (Lisa Simpson)
1970 Shawnee Smith, actress (Iron Eagle, Armageddon, Saw)

Deaths:
1971 Jim Morrison, singer from the Doors (Touch Me, Hello, I Love You)
1981 Ross Martin, actor (The Wild Wild West (TV)
1989 Jim Backus, actor (Gilligan's Island, Mr. Magoo)
1993 Curly Joe DeRita, actor (The Three Stooges)

Events:
1863 The Union wins the Battle of Gettysburg.