- 1900] Nipper arrives: RCA Victor registers "His Master's Voice" a.k.a. "Nipper". The dog looking into the horn of the gramophone machine becomes the symbol of the label (7/10)...
- 1915] Debuted on this date: 19-year old Babe Ruth makes his major league debut as a pitcher for the Red Sox and picks up his first win...(7/11). In 1918 Ruth moves to the outfield...1936] The Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, opens to traffic (7/11)...1960] The first Etch-A-Sketch goes on sale. What were those black metallic specks anyway? (7/12)...1990] "Northern Exposure" starts a 5-year run (7/12)...
- 1946] Dr. Spock makes a house call: "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" is published (7/14). At this point the book has sold over 50 million copies with no end in sight...
- 1966] Killing Spree: 25-year old Richard Speck goes on a rampage in a Chicago dormitory killing 8 student nurses (7/14). Speck will die of a heart attack in prison in 1991. No one claims his body which is cremated...
- 1970] All-Star highlight: In one of the most famous of all All-Star game plays, Pete Rose bowls over catcher Ray Fosse to score (7/14)...
- 1971] Curtains: Red Sox slugger Tony Conigliaro, the victim of a horrible beaning in August, 1967 announces his retirement at 25 (7/10). Tony C will try to come back in 1975 but he was never the same. Tony's starstruck life will end way too soon when he suffers a fatal heart attack in 1990 at 45...
- 1972] Trading Teams: The owners of the Baltimore Colts (Robert Irsay) and Los Angeles Rams (Carroll Rosenbloom) swap teams (7/13). It's the first and last trade of its kind...
- 1977] Lights Out: A 25-hour blackout hits the New York City area (7/13)...
- 1979] "Happy Trails": Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler, who led the orchestra for half a century, passes away from natural causes at 84 (7/10)...1979] Minnie Riperton ("Lovin' You") dies from breast cancer at 31 (7/12). Minnie's daughter Maya (SNL) Rudolph was just 5 years old at the time...1989] Mel Blanc who provided the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and countless other WB characters, dies from heart disease at 81 (7/10)...1989] Sir Laurence Olivier dies from cancer at 82 (7/11)...2007] Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson passes away from natural causes at 94 (7/11)...
- 1984] Fritz picks a woman: Walter Mondale chooses U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate for his Democratic Presidential run. Ferraro from New York is the first woman to run for VP on a major ticket (7/12)...
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