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Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 25 2014: Matt Leblanc Iman- Estelle Getty

 

Michael Welch - 27  (Mike Newton, one of Bella's boring human friends, in the "Twilight" movies.

Louise Brown - 36  (The word's first test tube baby . . . born in Oldham, England.  She had a baby of her own that she conceived naturally.  He's 3 years old now and she named him Cameron.  Here's what Louise looks like these days . . .)

D.B. Woodside - 45  (He was President Wayne Palmer on "24".)

 Matt LeBlanc - 47 ( FREINDS and very weatlhy)

Gail Force - 48  (Mattress actress whose 175 fabulous  films include . . . "Coming In America", "Sex Fifth Avenue", "Hills Have Thighs", "White Trash, Black Splash" AND "Butt's Up Doc 2". YES- i typed BUTT'S UP DOC! )Estellehypnotized Kevin Bacon in "Stir of Echoes".Just love her)

Roger Clinton - 58  (THAT brother of BIll's) 

Iman - 59  (David Bowie's Nubian Queen Goddess.)

Verdine White - 63  (Earth, Wind & Fire.)  (Their biggest Hits include . . . "Shining Star", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "Sing a Song", "September", "Boogie Wonderland", "After the Love Has Gone" and "Let's Groove".)

Estelle Getty - Would have been 91 - (1923 - 2008)  (She died just three days short of her 85th birthday.  She was Bea Arthur's mom on "The Golden Girls" AND sadly..Sylvester Stallone's mom in "Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot".)   ( Even though she played Bea Arthur's mother on "The Golden Girls", Estelle was actually two and a half months YOUNGER than Bea.)

Brad Renfro - Would have been 32 - (1982 - 2008)  (A once-promising young actor who went on to develop a long rap sheet.  He was in "The Client" with Tommy Lee Jones when he was 12.  He died of an accidental heroin overdose in January of 2008.)

 1952     Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1965     Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival when he played electric guitar during a performance with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

1975     The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.

1978     The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.

1984     Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994     Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

1997     K.R. Narayanan became the first member of an "untouchable" Dalits caste to become India's president.

2000     Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2008     California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.

1962 - The Elvis Presley film "Kid Galahad" premiered.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.

1966 - In San Francisco, CA, the Rolling Stones performed their last U.S. concert with Brian Jones.

1967 - The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.

1969 - Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

1970 - Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" was released.

1971 - The Beach Boys released their album "Surf's Up."

1975 - "A Chorus Line" debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.

1980 - KISS introduced their new drummer, Eric Carr, at a concert at the Paladium in New York City.

1980 - AC\DC released "Back In Black," their first album with Brian Johnson as lead singer.

1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.

1995 - Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.

2006 - Metallica put up four albums for sale on iTunes. The albums "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master of Puppets" and "...And Just For All" included previously unreleased tracks recorded in Seatle in 1989. Metallica had led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service.

 

Michael Welch - 27  (Mike Newton, one of Bella's boring human friends, in the "Twilight" movies.

Louise Brown - 36  (The word's first test tube baby . . . born in Oldham, England.  She had a baby of her own that she conceived naturally.  He's 3 years old now and she named him Cameron.  Here's what Louise looks like these days . . .)

D.B. Woodside - 45  (He was President Wayne Palmer on "24".)

 Matt LeBlanc - 47 ( FREINDS and very weatlhy)

Gail Force - 48  (Mattress actress whose 175 fabulous  films include . . . "Coming In America", "Sex Fifth Avenue", "Hills Have Thighs", "White Trash, Black Splash" AND "Butt's Up Doc 2". YES- i typed BUTT'S UP DOC! )Estellehypnotized Kevin Bacon in "Stir of Echoes".Just love her)

Roger Clinton - 58  (THAT brother of BIll's) 

Iman - 59  (David Bowie's Nubian Queen Goddess.)

Verdine White - 63  (Earth, Wind & Fire.)  (Their biggest Hits include . . . "Shining Star", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "Sing a Song", "September", "Boogie Wonderland", "After the Love Has Gone" and "Let's Groove".)

Estelle Getty - Would have been 91 - (1923 - 2008)  (She died just three days short of her 85th birthday.  She was Bea Arthur's mom on "The Golden Girls" AND sadly..Sylvester Stallone's mom in "Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot".)   ( Even though she played Bea Arthur's mother on "The Golden Girls", Estelle was actually two and a half months YOUNGER than Bea.)

Brad Renfro - Would have been 32 - (1982 - 2008)  (A once-promising young actor who went on to develop a long rap sheet.  He was in "The Client" with Tommy Lee Jones when he was 12.  He died of an accidental heroin overdose in January of 2008.)

 1952     Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

1965     Bob Dylan shocked his fans at the Newport Folk Festival when he played electric guitar during a performance with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

1975     The musical "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway.

1978     The first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization was born in Oldham, England.

1984     Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

1994     Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year state of war.

1997     K.R. Narayanan became the first member of an "untouchable" Dalits caste to become India's president.

2000     Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.

2008     California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food.

1962 - The Elvis Presley film "Kid Galahad" premiered.

1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on stage at the Newport Jazz Festival with an electric guitar. It was his first non-acoustic set.

1966 - In San Francisco, CA, the Rolling Stones performed their last U.S. concert with Brian Jones.

1967 - The Beatles and other U.K. rock groups urged the British government to legalize marijuana. Their comments were made in a London Times advertisement signed by all four of the Beatles.

1969 - Neil Young made his first appearance with Crosby, Stills and Nash.

1970 - Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" was released.

1971 - The Beach Boys released their album "Surf's Up."

1975 - "A Chorus Line" debuted on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137 performances.

1980 - KISS introduced their new drummer, Eric Carr, at a concert at the Paladium in New York City.

1980 - AC\DC released "Back In Black," their first album with Brian Johnson as lead singer.

1990 - Rosanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a Padres baseball game. She was booed for her performance.

1995 - Nina Simone fired a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She was put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.

2006 - Metallica put up four albums for sale on iTunes. The albums "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning", "Master of Puppets" and "...And Just For All" included previously unreleased tracks recorded in Seatle in 1989. Metallica had led the charge against the original Napster online file-sharing service.

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 24th 2014 : Gus Van Sant RUTH BUZZI Jennifer Lopez

Bindi Irwin - 16  (Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin's REALLY MOST IRRITATING daughter who had her own show on the Discovery Kids channel called "Bindi, the Jungle Girl".)

Daveigh Chase - 24  (The scary little girl who crawls out of the well in "The Ring" and Donnie's little sister Samantha in "Donnie Darko".  She WAS on "Big Love".)
Mara Wilson - 27  (Mara was the adorable little girl in "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Matilda".  Her last movie to date was "Thomas and the Magic Railroad" in 2000.  She's currently studying drama at New York University.)

Teagan Presley - 29  (Mattress actress who's done 105  films, including . . . "Teenage Spermaholics 2", "Weapons of Ass Destruction 3" and "The Apprentass".)

  Anna Paquin - 32  (In 1993, at age 10, Anna won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance opposite Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel's ass in "The Piano".--Now she strips down and has sex with a vampire every week on HBO's "True Blood".) 
 

Elisabeth Moss, Actress ("Mad Men"), turns 32

Summer Glau - 33  (The terminator on "The Sarah Connor Chronicles".)

Rose Byrne - 33  (Australian chick who got all up in Brad Pitt's fun stuff in "Troy".  She's also in "28 Weeks Later" and was one of Padme Amidala's handmaidens in "Attack of the Clones".)

Jennifer Lopez - 45  (La Latina muchachita en fuega con las nalgas gigante, caliente y stinky.and did I mention She's sctupping a hot lil Dancer now )

Rick Fox - 45  ( ex-L.A. Laker who used to schtupp Vanessa Williams anytime he wanted to.)

Laura Leighton, Actress, turns 46

Kristin Chenoweth turns 46 years old today. ( sh'es POPular!)

KADEEM HARDISON - 47("A Different World" star.  Rresting comfortably under the Rock of Obscurity next to Malcolm-Jamal Warner AND Tempestt Bledsoe.)

Barry Bonds - 50  (Steroid abusing cheat.)

Pam Tillis - 57  (Country singer;  Mel's ddddaughter.)

Gus Van Sant, Director, turns 62

LYNDA CARTER - 63  (She and Always will be "Wonder Woman".)

Michael Richards - 64  (Kramer on "Seinfeld".  Racist in real life so they say) 

Robert Hays - 67  (Ted Striker in "Airplane".)

Gallagher - 68  (Watermelon-smashing comedy dude.)

 Chris Sarandon - 72  (Prince Humperdinck in "The Princess Bride".  He used to be married to, and nail, the very sexy Susan Sarandon.)

RUTH BUZZI!!! - 78  ("LAUGH-IN" SUPERSTAR.and real life friend! WE LOVE HER)

John Aniston - 81  (Jennifer Aniston's dad.  He IS Victor Kiriakis on "Days Of Our Lives".)

Amelia Earhart - (1897 - 1937)  (First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.  She disappeared mysteriously on July 2nd, 1937, during her attempt to fly around the world. I still think someone should name a luggage after her.)

Bella Abzug 7/24/1920 - 3/31/1998 American politician, lawyer and activist.

1847 Mormon leader Brigham Young and his BIG LOVE followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.

1862 Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, died in Kinderhook, N.Y., at age 79.

1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.

1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his fourth "Fireside Chat."

1937 The state of Alabama dropped charges against five black men accused of raping two white women in the Scottsboro case.

1956  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ended their team. They ended the partnership a decade after it began on July 25, 1946.

1969 Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, splashed down safely in the Pacific.

1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor

1979 A Miami jury convicted Ted Bundy of first-degree murder in the slayings of two Florida State University sorority sisters.

1979 - LITTLE RICHARD, billed as the Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke to a revival meeting in San Francisco about the DANGERS OF ROCK N' ROLL

1980 - The great PETER SELLERS died of a heart attack at the age of 54.

1990 Iraq massed tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks along its border with Kuwait.

1998 - A gunman burst into U.S. Capitol and opened fire killing two police officers. Russel Weston Jr., was later ruled incompetent to stand trial.

1998 - "Saving Private Ryan" was released.  It went on to win FIVE Academy Awards.2002 The U.S. House expelled Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who had been convicted of bribery, racketeering and tax evasion.

2005 Lance Armstrong won a seventh consecutive Tour de France.

 

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 23rd 2014:Paul Wesley-Daniel Radcliffe-Monica Lewinsky

  Daniel Radcliffe - 25  (he IS "Harry Potter")

Paul Wesley - 32  (Stefan Salvatore on "The Vampire Diaries".  He's one of the brooding vampire brothers that Nina Dobrev is in love with.)

Michelle Williams, R&B singer (Destiny's Child), turns 34

Marlon Wayans - 42  (If all goes according to plan, he'll be playing Richard Pryor in a biopic produced by Chris Rock and Adam Sandler.) 
 
SLASH - 49  (Real Name:  Saul Hudson.  He rocks the Jew-fro!!!)

Steve Jocz - 33  (Sum 41 drummer.)  

Monica Lewinsky - 41  (chubby intern who likes Presidents.)

Alison Krauss - 43  (Bluegrass bchick who was all over that "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack.

Eriq La Salle - 52  (Former Angry Dr. Peter Benton on "ER".)  (--Before  you even knew who Eriq La Salle was, you saw him play Darryl Jenks, heir to the SOUL GLOW fortune, in the 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy, "Coming To America".)

Woody Harrelson - 53  (Hemp hero extraordinaire.)

Edie McClurg - 63  (Herb's chubby wife on "WKRP", chubby Mrs. Poole on "The Hogan Family" AND Mr. Rooney's chubby secretary in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".)

Larry Manetti - 67  (Tom Selleck's white buddy Rick on "Magnum P.I.".)  (

David Essex - 67 Biggest hit:  "Rock On".  Second biggest hit:  Rock BOTTOM. 

Don Imus - 74  (Friend of the Rutgers women's basketball team.)

Ronny Cox - 76  (Captain Andrew Bogomil in the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies . . . and Drew in the most romantic Guy film of all time, "Deliverance".)

Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court justice, turns 78

Gloria DeHaven, Actress, turns 88

 

Calvert DeForest - (1921 - 2007)  (Better known as Larry "Bud" Melman on "Letterman".)

Bert Convy - (1933 - 1991)  ("Cannonball Run" star who also later hosted the GREAT game show "Win, Lose Or Draw".)

Harry Cohn 7/23/1891 - 2/27/1958 American co-founder of Columbia Pictures

 

1904 - THE ICE CREAM CONE WAS INVENTED by Charles E. Minches at the World's Fair in St. Louis.

1969 - JAMES BROWN walked out of L.A. Mayor Sam Yorty's office because the mayor was late for their meeting . . . which was held to declare James Brown Day in the city.  

1979 - The AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI BANNED ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC in Iran.

1984 - VANESSA WILLIAMS became the first Miss America to give up the title . . . after it was discovered that she had posed for naughty lesbian nude photos for "Penthouse" magazine. (--Sadly, it's illegal to own or trade that fantastic issue unless the centerfold is removed because that was the one with underage Traci "Elizabeth" Lords as the centerfold.)

1986 - PRINCE ANDREW married SARAH FERGUSON in Westminster Abbey.  They divorced in 1996.  Fergie has fire-down-below ya know.

1993 - MICHAEL JORDAN'S father, James, was murdered on U.S. Highway 74 near Bennettsville, South Carolina, when he stopped to take a nap in his Lexus.

1993 - "Poetic Justice" was released . . . starring JANET JACKSON and TUPAC.

1996 - At the Atlanta Olympics, tiny KERRI STRUG heroically made her final vault despite TORN LIGAMENTS in her little left ankle . . . clinching the gold for the U.S. women gymnasts and earning them their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.

2000 - At age 24, TIGER WOODS became the youngest player to win the career Grand Slam with a record-breaking performance in the British Open.

2003 Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably sexually abused more than 1,000 people over six decades.

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 22, 2014 : Selena Gomez- John Leguizamo -Willem Dafoe

  
Selena Gomez - 22  (used to have underage lesbian  fooling around sex with Justin Bieber.  She starred on the Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place" and sings the pop version of the song "Cruella de Vil". UPDATE: she still has occasionla LEsbian sex with the NOW Legal Bieber)

Madison Pettis - 16  (The little girl from the Disney Channel's "Cory in the House"

Franka Potente - 40  (German actress.  She's the chick  Matt Damon schtupps  in "The Bourne Identity" and "The Bourne Supremacy".)

Daniel Jones - 40  (Savage Garden)

  David Spade - 50  (Minimal talent, schtupps hot chicks. and keeps getting work..HOW IS THAT? He must have a huge dick..)

 John Leguizamo - 50  (Half-Puerto Rican funnyman.and awesome actor- underated.)

Emily Saliers - 51  (Indigo Girls)

Rob Estes, Actor, turns 51

Willem Dafoe - 59  (The Green Goblin in "Spider-Man" and  dope-smoking Sergeant   Elias in "Platoon".)

Comedic Genius Albert Brooks - 67 writer/actor/producer..whose real name is Albert Einstien.. Swear!

Don Henley - 67  (The Eagles)

Danny Glover - 68

Bobby Sherman, Actor, singer, turns 71

Kay Bailey Hutchison, uptight U.S. senator, R-Texas who truly needs a dildo.. turns 71

George Clinton - 73  (Parliament Funkadelic)

Alex Trebek - 74  (Smug hos os Jeopardy)

Terence Stamp - 75 (was Siegfried in the"Get Smart" movie.  He was also General Zod in "Superman 2" and Superman's biological father, Jor-El, on "Smallville" and in PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT as the over the hill drag queen.)

Louise Fletcher, Actress ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), turns 80

Oscar de la Renta, Fashion designer, turns 82

Orson Bean, Actor, turns 86

BOB DOLE - 91  (Aroused viagra spokesman.  He gets to Schtupp  luscious Liddy Dole ANYTIME HE WANTS TO witha lifetime supply of lil blue pills)

Amy Vanderbilt 7/22/1908 - 12/27/1974 American journalist and authority on etiquette

1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.

1587 - A second English colony was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina. The colony vanished under mysterious circumstances.

1893 - Katharine Lee Bates, a professor at Wellesley College, wrote the original version of her poem "America The Beautiful".  She was inspired by the view from Pike's Peak in Colorado.

1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.  Legend has it that Dillinger was packing 17 inches . . . FLACCID.

1991 - Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee.  Police found 11 skulls and three headless torsos sealed in a vat plus other body parts in his apartment.

1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, said she'd been raped by Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room.  Tyson was convicted, and 
served three years in prison.

1991 - Rob Lowe who's been known to go by the rule that "if there's grass on the field, play ball"  was finally tamed by (married) Sheryl Berkoff.  Today's their 20th Anniversary.

1994 - O.J. Simpson pleaded "absolutely 100% not guilty" to double murder charges.  

1995 - Susan Smith was convicted in Union, South Carolina, of first-degree murder for drowning her two sons.  She was later sentenced to life in prison.  (She drove them into a lake and tried to cover it up by saying her car and her kids were stolen by a BLACK MAN.)

2003 - SADDAM HUSSEIN'S sons QUSAY and International Playboy UDAY were killed in a massive, SIX-HOUR U.S. military raid on a home in Iraq.

2008 - ESTELLE GETTY died three days short of her 85th birthday.  She played Bea Arthur's mom on the show, but she was actually the youngest of all the "Golden Girls" stars, and the first to die.

 

 

Celebrity Birthdays and on this Day in History July 21, 2014 : Josh Hartnett Robin Williams Janet Reno

Rory Culkin - 25  (Macaulay's more-talented younger brother.  You might remember him as Mel Gibson's son in "Signs", and as Michael Douglas' youngest son in "It Runs in the Family".)

Josh Hartnett - 36  (Hairless hunk star of "Pearl Harbor", "Black Hawk Down", "Sin City", "Lucky Number Slevin" AND "40 Days and 40 Nights" and now plays on PENNY DREADFUL nd is hot.)

Damian Marley - 36  (Bob Marley's youngest son.)

Justin Bartha - 36  (Riley, Nicolas Cage's sidekick, in the "National Treasure" films.)

Ali Landry - 41  (Miss USA 1996 and the tortilla tart from the old Doritos commercials.--She kicked her cheating Latino husband Mario "ABS"Lopez to the curb just TWO FRIGGN WEEKS after their April 24th, 2004, wedding after she found out he'd cheated on her at his bachelor party on April 23rd, 2004.) lopez is a daddy now with a whole new Wife.

Brandi Chastain - 46  (She became famous when she ripped off her shirt, exposing her sports bra, after scoring the winning goal in the 1999 women's soccer World Cup.)

Lance Guest - 54  ("The Last Starfighter" and the  "Jaws:  The Revenge".)

Jon Lovitz - 57  (He whooped the worthless DNA that is Andy Dick's ass for re-introducing Phil Hartman's wife to cocaine . which turned her into a crazed maniac who went on to murder her husband AND her and shoot her insane self.) he's also turned inot a raging nutball Republican like that his other SNL alumni Victoria "im bat shit crazy" Jackson

Robin Williams - 63  (Hairy comedian and comic Genius)

 The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) - 66

Garry Trudeau - 66  ("Doonesbury" cartoonist who once offered $10,000 to  anyone who could prove that George W. Bush had fulfilled his military duties in the '70s.)

Kenneth Starr - 68  (He's #1 on Bill Clinton's Christmas card list and most often referred too as the spawn of Satan by many of us.)

Janet Reno - 75  (Attorney General GODDESS)

Norman Jewison, Director ("Moonstruck"), turns 88

Kay Starr, Singer, turns 92

DON KNOTTS - Would have been 89  (1924 - 2006)  (LEGEND)  (He and Andy Griffith were recently reunited. 

Ernest Hemingway - (1899 - 1961)  (Once, this legendary author was issued a challenge:  Write a story that is only SIX WORDS LONG.  And Hemingway responded with this story:  "For sale:  baby shoes, never used.")

July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)

1899 Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill.

1931 - CBS aired the first regularly scheduled program to be simulcast on radio and television. The show featured singer Kate Smith, composer George Gershwin and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker.

1944 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president.

1958 - The last of "Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts" programs aired on CBS-TV.

1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.

1987 - Mary Hart, of "Entertainment Tonight", had her legs insured by Lloyd’s of London for $2 million.

1988 Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.

1998 Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74.

1999 - The missing plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. was found off of the coast of Martha's Vineyard, MA. The bodies of Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette were found on board. The plane had crashed on July 16, 1999.

2002 Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.

2007 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.

2008 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.

2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s.