{"id":2383,"date":"2025-07-08T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarkmedianetwork.com\/?p=2383"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:09:52","slug":"cmn-almanac-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clarkmedianetwork.com\/?p=2383","title":{"rendered":"CMN Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Tuesday, July 8th<\/strong>, the 189th day of the year.\u00a0 There are 176 days<\/p>\n

\"Rocky<\/a>
Rocky Carroll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

remaining until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

HOLIDAYS and<\/strong> OBSERVANCES<\/strong>\u00a0 National Hot Dog Month,<\/p>\n

National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberry Month,<\/p>\n

National Video Games Day<\/p>\n

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Faye Wattleton, 82, women’s rights advocate<\/p>\n

Rocky Caroll, 61, actor<\/p>\n

Jamal Woolard, 50, actor<\/p>\n

Hakim Warrick, 43, basketball player<\/p>\n

Lance Gross, 44, actor<\/p>\n

\"Lance<\/a>
Lance Gross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jordan Burroughs, 36, Olympian<\/p>\n

Jaden Smith, 26, actor<\/p>\n

HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Louis Jordan, 117, alto saxophonist (d. 1975)<\/p>\n

Billy Eckstine, 111, singer\/trumpet player (d. 1993)<\/p>\n

\"Billy<\/a>
Billy Eckstine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DEATHS<\/strong><\/p>\n

ON THIS DATE…<\/strong><\/p>\n

1878\u00a0<\/strong>– White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.<\/p>\n

1924\u00a0<\/strong>– DeHart Hubbard wins Olympic gold medal.<\/p>\n

1949 –\u00a0<\/b>Monte Irvin & Hank Thompson are 1st blacks to play for NY Giants.<\/p>\n

1963\u00a0<\/strong>– Roy Wilkins becomes executive director of the NAACP.<\/p>\n

\"Roy<\/a>
Roy Wilkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1988 –<\/b> Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.<\/p>\n

1988 –\u00a0<\/b>Jonathan “Chico” & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

1994 –\u00a0<\/b>Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson.<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0<\/strong>– 114th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Venus Williams beats Marion Bartoli.<\/p>\n

2012 –<\/b> 119th Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwa\u0144ska.<\/p>\n

HOROSCOPE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Tuesday, July 8th, the 189th day of the year.\u00a0 There are 176 days remaining until the end of the year. HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES\u00a0 National Hot Dog Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberry Month, National Video Games Day CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS Faye Wattleton, 82, women’s rights advocate Rocky Caroll, 61, actor Jamal Woolard, 50, …<\/p>\n

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