Today In History

Today is Friday, July 9, the 190th day of 2021. There are 175 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1992: Democrat Bill Clinton tapped Tennessee Sen. Al Gore to be his running mate.

ON THIS DATE

› 1776: The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.

› 1918: One hundred one people were killed in a train collision in Nashville, Tennessee. The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an Act of Congress.

› 1937: A fire at 20th Century Fox’s film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, destroyed most of the studio’s silent films.

› 2010: The largest U.S.-Russia spy swap since the Cold War was completed on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac as planes from New York and Moscow arrived within minutes of each other with 10 Russian sleeper agents and four prisoners accused by Russia of spying for the West.

› 2015: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley relegated the Confederate flag to the state’s “relic room” after the legislature passed a measure removing the flag from the grounds of the Statehouse in the wake of the slaughter of nine African-Americans at a church Bible study.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor-singer Ed Ames is 94. Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is 89. Actor Richard Roundtree is 79. Singer Dee Dee Kenniebrew (The Crystals) is 76. Author Dean Koontz is

76. Actor Chris Cooper is

70. TV personality John Tesh is 69. Country singer David Ball is 68. Business executive/TV personality Kevin O’Leary (TV: “Shark Tank”) is 67. R&B singer Debbie Sledge (Sister Sledge) is 67. Actor Jimmy Smits is 66. Actor Tom Hanks is 65. Singer Marc Almond is 64. Actor Kelly McGillis is 64. Rock singer Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) is 62. Actor-rock singer Courtney Love is

57. Rock musician Frank Bello (Anthrax) is 56. Actor David O’Hara is 56. Actor Pamela Adlon is 55. Actor Scott Grimes is 50. Actor Enrique Murciano is 48. Rock musician Dan Estrin (Hoobastank) is

45. Actor-director Fred Savage is 45. Actor Linda Park is 43. Actor Megan Parlen is 41. R&B singer Kiely Williams (3LW) is

35. Actor Mitchel Musso is 30. Actor Georgie Henley is 26.