Thursday, July 14, 2022

Thursday, July 14, 2022

spoor \SPOHR\, noun:
1. A track or trail, esp. that of a wild animal pursued as game.
verb:
1. To track by or follow a spoor.
Spoor derives from the Afrikaans word for trace. It is related to spurn.
 
Momager
  • a teen actor or singer's manager who is also their mother
Lohan also appeared on Healthy Kids, a children's health show, along with Dina Lohan, her mother and business manager or Momager.
 
History
  • Sedition Act: Congress passed a law prohibiting publishing false, scandalous or malicious writing against the US government (1798)
  • the Matterhorn: the Swiss-Italian Alp was first scaled, by British mountaineer Edward Whymper (1865) 
  • Billy the Kid: the 21-year-old outlaw was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico (1881)
  • Sacco and Vanzetti: the two infamous anarchists were convicted of murder and sentenced to death (1921)
  • Mariner 4: spacecraft performed the first flyby of another planet and sent back the first pictures of the surface of Mars (1965)
  • large denominations of US currency: were officially discontinued by the Federal Reserve System, leaving the $100 bill as the largest unit of circulating currency (1969)
Birthdays
  • Andrea del Sarto 1486
  • Emmeline Pankhurst 1858
  • Florence Bascom 1862
  • William Leefe Robinson 1895
  • Ken Murray 1903
  • Irving Stone 1903
  • Gloria Stuart 1910
  • William Hanna 1910
  • Terry-Thomas 1911
  • Woody Guthrie 1912
  • Gerald Rudolph Ford (U.S.) 1913 
  • Douglas Edwards 1917
  • Ingmar Bergman 1918
  • Arthur Laurents 1918 - Playwright ("West Side Story," "Gypsy")
  • Frances Lear 1923
  • Dale Robertson 1923
  • Harry Dean Stanton 1926 - Actor
  • John Chancellor 1927
  • Nancy Olson 1928
  • Polly Bergen 1930 - Actress, singer
  • Del Reeves 1932
  • Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier 1932 - Football player
  • Karel Gott 1939
    Sid Haig 1939 - Actor
  • Spencer Davis 1941
  • Vincent Pastore 1946 - Actor ("The Sopranos")
  • Chris Cross 1952
  • Jerry Houser 1952
  • Eric Laneuville 1952
  • Jane Lynch 1960 - Actress ("Glee")
  • Jackie Earle Haley 1961
  • Darrelle Revis 1961 - Actor
  • Matthew Fox 1966 - Actor ("Lost", "Party of Five")
  • Tonya Donelly 1966 - Musician (Belly)
  • Missy Gold 1970 - Actress
  • Tameka Cottle 1975 - (Xscape)
  • Taboo (Jaime Luis Gomez) 1975 - Rapper/singer (Black Eyed Peas)
  • Scott Porter 1979 - Actor ("Friday Night Lights")
 
 R.I.P. Sid Haig, the horror icon who appeared all over classic television
 

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