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Birthdays

1910 William Hanna - formed a partnership with Joseph Barbera in 1957 after they have created "Tom and Jerry" (1940). They became the first animation studio to successfully produce animation especially for television. Some of their best-known series include "The Huckleberry Hound Show" (1958), "The Flintstones" (1960), "The Jetsons" (1962) and "The Smurfs" (1981).

1913 Gerald Ford
1926 Harry Dean Stanton
1988 Conor McGregor

Events
1789 The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris, now celebrated as Bastille Day, France's national day

1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government (even before the Dems and GOP adopted it)

1850 First public demonstration of ice made via refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie

1865 The Chickasaw Nation is the last of the Five Tribes to surrender to the Union following the Confederate defeat

1881 Billy the Kid killed by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett waiting in ambush,in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

1914 American engineer Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design

1936 116°F (47°C) recorded in Collegeville, Indiana (state record)

1940 Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmets with earflaps

1946 Cleveland's Lou Boudreau hits four doubles and a home run, but the Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams' three home runs with eight RBIs. What the hell ya gotta do to win a ball game in this Town

1951 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by four lengths to become American racing's first millionaire horse

1954 117°F (47°C) recorded in East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)

1954 118°F (48°C) recorded in Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record)

1969 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson, is released

1974 Billy Martin, MLB Texas Rangers manager, is ejected by an umpire from two games in one day during a doubleheader in Milwaukee

1974 Ted Bundy victims Janice Ott and Denise Naslund disappear from Lake Sammamish State Park, Washington

1988 WYHY radio offers $1 million to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive

1989 Romantic comedy film "When Harry Met Sally," starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, directed by Rob Reiner, and written by Nora Ephron, is released

Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932) is 94 years old today.

He's an American former football player, bodyguard, actor, singer, Protestant minister, fiber artist, and motivational speaker. He played professionally as a defensive tackle in the National Football League for the New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams, where he was a member of the original "Fearsome Foursome" alongside Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Lamar Lundy.

Grier played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning All-America honors and a place on the NCAA's 100th anniversary list of the 100 most influential student athletes. Over 12 seasons in the NFL, he played in the Pro Bowl twice, was selected All-Pro multiple times, and won the 1956 NFL championship with the Giants in the pre-Super Bowl era.

After his football career, Grier worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. He was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot, and though unable to prevent the assassination, Grier helped subdue the shooter, Sirhan Sirhan, by wrestling the gun away alongside Rafer Johnson.

Grier hosted his own Los Angeles television show and made approximately 70 appearances on various TV shows during the 1960s and 1970s. He became an ordained Protestant minister in 1983 and founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit serving inner city youth.

Grier is now the last surviving member of the Fearsome Foursome and continues to serve as a board member of the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping (1976)
Chowchilla is a small California town that made national headlines when kidnappers took control of a school bus full of children in 1976. The 26 children and their bus driver, Ed Ray, were driven around in two vans for 11 hours before being forced into a moving van buried in a quarry. After 16 hours underground, Ray and the children managed to escape. All were safely returned home, and the kidnappers were soon arrested.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
World's First Parking Meter Installed (1935)
The parking meter was invented in 1935 by Carl C. Magee in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first meter was installed there later that year, guaranteeing drivers a parking space for an amount of purchased time. Used until the 1980s, Magee's original design had a coin acceptor, a dial, and a visible flag indicating the expiration of paid  time. Reverend C.H. North was the first person in the US to get a parking ticket because of an expired meter.

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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: First Docking of Russian and US Spacecrafts (1975)
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. Its primary purpose was symbolic, to show that the two superpowers were easing the tensions of their Space Race. The two mission commanders exchanged the first international handshake in space through the open hatch of the Soyuz. Though American Deke Slayton had been selected for the Mercury mission in the 1950s, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was his first flight into space

17 July 1945. Allied leaders (left to right: Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman & Joseph Stalin) met at Potsdam to decide how to administer Germany which had agreed to an unconditional surrender to the Allies 9 weeks earlier.

apparently, Patton wanted to