Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- July 9th

Happy Birthday!
1901 Dame Barbara Cartland, romance novelist (Jig-Saw)
1901 Jester Hairston, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Amen)
1919 Earle Hagen, composer (The Andy Griffith Show theme song, The Dick Van Dyke Show theme song)
1927 Ed Ames, singer from The Ames Brothers/ actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1927 Susan Cabot, actress (The Wasp Woman)
1932 Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
1936 James Hampton, actor (F Troop, The Longest Yard(74)
1940 Brian Dennehy, actor (Cocoon, Tommy Boy)
1942 Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score, Shaft (2000)
1945 Dean Koontz, author (Sole Survivor)
1947 O.J. Simpson, football player
1952 John Tesh, composer/ news reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
1955 Jimmy Smits, actor (L.A. Law, N.Y.P.D. Blue, The West Wing)
1956 Tom Hanks, actor (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Splash, The Green Mile, Cast Away)
1957 Kelly McGillis, actress (Witness, The Accused, Top Gun)
1964 Courtney Love, singer from Hole/ actress (Man on the Moon)
1975 Jack White, singer from the White Stripes (Elephant)
1976 Fred Savage, actor (The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Oswald)

Deaths:
1850 Zachary Taylor, US President
2002 Rod Steiger, actor (In the Heat of the Night)
2004 Isabel Sanford, actress (Louise "Weezy" Jefferson)

Events:
1869 Amendment XIV - Citizenship rights given to slaves.
1877 Wimbledon becomes a yearly event.

History Lesson:
Jack White and Meg White are not brother and sister. (I thought they were.) They are ex- husband and wife.

Tom Hanks has a brother that looks almost like him. His brother Jim did some of the running in Forrest Gump.

Fred Savage married a neighbor from his childhood after playing a kid in love with a neighbor. Kevin and Winnie married other people on the show.