Today is Wednesday, July 17th, the 199th day of the year. There are 167
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES
National Ice Cream Month, National Hot Dog Month, National
Watermelon Month and National Blueberry Month! Peach Ice
Cream Day and World Emoji Day!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Connie Hawkins, 82, basketball legend
Regina Belle, 61, singer
Calbert Cheaney, 53, basketball player
Donny Marshall, 52, basketball player/sportscaster
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Toni Stone, 103, 1st woman Negro League baseball player
Diahann Carroll, 89, actress (d. 2020)
Damon Harris, 74, singer (The Temptations) (d. 2013)
DEATHS
Billie Holiday, 1959, singer (b. 1915)
John Coltrane, 1967, saxophonist/composer (b. 1926)
William Raspberry, 2012, journalist (b. 1935)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1794 – Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia’s Bethel African
Methodist Episcopal Church.
1862 – The arming of Blacks approved by Congress.
1953 – Jesse D. Locker appointed ambassador to Liberia.
1954 – 1st major league game where majority of team is Black
(Dodgers).
1967 – Jimi Hendrix is the opening act for The Monkees
performance in Forest Hills, New York.
1974 – Bob Gibson becomes the 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000
hitters (Cesar Geronimo).
1981 – Fulton County grand jury indicts Wayne B. Williams for
murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta.
1988 – Florence Griffith-Joyner sets 100m woman’s record (10.49).
2005 – Tiger Woods wins his 10th major winning the British Open
Championship by 5 strokes. Woods becomes only the second golfer,
after Jack Nicklaus, to win each major more than once.
2013 – 21st ESPY Awards: LeBron James and Serena Williams win.
HOROSCOPE
Being a Cancer born on July 17th, you are known for you optimism, sensitivity and intuition. You often impress others with the nearly psychic ability to know exactly what they are feeling or thinking. You use your emotional understanding to express empathy to those in need. Your friends appreciate this skill, but they also love your upbeat and positive attitude. Even in the worst situations, you have the special ability to find the bright side of things.
