In History – Happy Birthday Craig Morgan

TODAY IN HISTORY - July 17th:

1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for US president
1995 - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1998 - Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
2004 - Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

HAPPY BIRTHDAY / ANNIVERSARY TO:

1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), (d. 2012)
1935 - Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1947 - Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), wife of Prince Charles, born in London, England
1951 - Lucie Arnaz, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer), born in Los Angeles, California
1952 - David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)

1965 - Craig Morgan, American singer

GOODBYE TO:

1918 - Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13
1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
1918 - Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death

1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at 44
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
2009 - Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist (b. 1916)

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