Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- July 7th

Happy Birthday!
1860 Gustav Mahler, musician (The Song of the Earth)
1887 Marc Chagall, artist (I and the Village)
1899 George Cukor, director (The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib)
1906 Satchel Paige, baseball player (thought to be his birthday)
1907 Robert Heinlein, author (Stranger in a Strange Land)
1922 Pierre Cardin, fashion designer
1927 Doc Severinsen, trumpet player (The Tonight Show)
1928 Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey)
1940 Ringo Starr, drummer from The Beatles (Hey Jude)
1946 Joe Spano, actor (Hill Street Blues)
1949 Shelley Duvall, actress (Popeye, The Shining, Annie Hall)
1959 Jessica Hahn, model
1959 Bill Campbell, actor (Once and Again, The Rocketeer)
1968 Jorja Fox, actress (C.S.I., ER, The West Wing)
1970 Cree Summer, actress (A Different World, Inspector Gadget)
1972 Lisa Leslie, basketball player
1980 Michelle Kwan, ice skater

Deaths:
1930 Arthur Conan Doyle, author (Sherlock Holmes)
1967 Vivien Leigh, actress (Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind)
2004 Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet

Events:
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for Supreme Court and later becomes the first female on the Court.