Today In History
Today is Saturday, July 15, the 196th day of 2017. There are 169 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1799: French soldiers in Egypt discovered the Rosetta stone, which proved instrumental in deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
ON THIS DATE
› 1870: Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
› 1916: Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products Co., was founded in Seattle.
› 1932: President Herbert Hoover announced he was slashing his own salary by 20 percent, from $75,000 to $60,000 a year; he also cut Cabinet members’ salaries by 15 percent, from $15,000 to $12,750 a year.
› 1942: “The Pride of the Yankees,” Samuel Goldwyn’s biopic starring Gary Cooper as baseball star Lou Gehrig, premiered in New York.
› 1979: President Jimmy Carter delivered his “malaise” speech in which he lamented what he called a “crisis of confidence” in America.
› 1985: A visibly gaunt Rock Hudson appeared at a news conference with actress Doris Day (it was later revealed Hudson was suffering from AIDS).
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Author Clive Cussler is 86. Actor Ken Kercheval is 82. Actor Patrick Wayne is 78. Actor Jan-Michael Vincent is 73. Singer Linda Ronstadt is
71. Rock musician Artimus Pyle is 69. Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, is 67. Actress Celia Imrie is 65. Rock musician Joe Satriani is 61. Country singer-songwriter Mac McAnally is 60. Model Kim Alexis is 57. Actor Willie Aames is 57. Actor-director Forest Whitaker is 56. Rock musician Jason Bonham is
51. Actress Amanda Foreman is 51. Actor Kristoff St. John is 51. Rock musician Phillip Fisher is 50. Rhythm and blues singer Stokley (Mint Condition) is 50. Actor-comedian Eddie Griffin is 49. Rock musician John Dolmayan is 45. Actor Scott Foley is 45. Actor Brian Austin Green is 44. Rapper Jim Jones is 41. Actress Diane Kruger is 41. Actress Lana Parrilla is 40. Rock musician Ray Toro (My Chemical Romance) is 40. Actress Laura Benanti is
38. Actor Travis Fimmel is 38. Actor Taylor Kinney is 36. Actor-singer Tristan “Mack” Wilds is 28. Actor Iain Armitage (TV: “Big Little Lies” ‘’Young Sheldon”) is nine.