Today is Saturday, July 8th, the 189th day of the year. There are 176 days
remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES National Hot Dog Month,
National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberry Month,
National Video Games Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Faye Wattleton, 80, women’s rights advocate
Rocky Caroll, 59, actor
Jamal Woolard, 48, actor
Hakim Warrick, 41, basketball player
Lance Gross, 41, actor
Jordan Burroughs, 34, Olympian
Jaden Smith, 24, actor
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Louis Jordan, 115, alto saxophonist (d. 1975)
Billy Eckstine, 109, singer/trumpet player (d. 1993)
DEATHS
ON THIS DATE…
1878 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
1924 – DeHart Hubbard wins Olympic gold medal.
1949 – Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants.
1963 – Roy Wilkins becomes executive director of the NAACP.
1988 – Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.
1988 – Jonathan “Chico” & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking.
1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson.
2007 – 114th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats Marion Bartoli.
2012 – 119th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwańska.
HOROSCOPE
Your emotional intuition and reserved nature allows for great social success, as well as a wide range of career possibilities. Your desire for freedom could take you on a path towards self-employment, but you could just as easily find yourself in a field such as teaching or counseling. If creativity is your passion, you may want to express yourself in the arts, which was the path of Toby Keith and Kevin Bacon, who were also born on July 8th.
