Celebrating a birthday today, July 30

  • 1863 Henry Ford - Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)
  • 1890 Casey Stengel - NY Yankee (1949-60) & 1st NY Met manager
  • 1939 Peter Bogdanovich - director/producer (The Last Picture Show)
  • 1941 Paul Anka - Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
  • 1945 David Sanborn - saxophonist (David Letterman)
  • 1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger - Austria, actor, body builder (Terminator)
  • 1954 Ken Olin - Chicago Ill, actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something)
  • 1956 Delta Burke - Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
  • 1963 Lisa Kudrow - actress (Friends)
  • 1971 Tom Green - actor, MTV personality
  • 2003 Michael Santino Altobelli - Voorhees, NJ, Senator Altobelli. Governor Altobelli, or something...
This Day In History, July 30

  • 1729 City of Baltimore founded
  • 1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
  • 1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
  • 1937 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
  • 1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (boy Crazy)
  • 1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
  • 1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
  • 1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
  • 1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
  • 1984 Soap opera "Santa Barbara," premieres on NBC
  • 1998 ''Buffalo Bob'' Smith, the cowboy-suited host of ''The Howdy Doody Show,'' died at age 80.