On this Day: July 7 - Time Rewind

On this Day July 7

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Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays

1906 – Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige, who played in the Negro Leagues until drafted by the Major League (d. 1982)

1927 – Trumpeter and former NBC Orchestra bandleader (“NBC Tonight Show with Johnny Carson”) Doc Severinsen

1933 – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, narrator and historian David McCullough (“Truman,” “John Adams,” “The Path Between the Seas,” “Mornings on Horseback,” The Wright Brothers,” “The American Spirit”)

1940 – Singer-songwriter, actor and former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, born Richard Starkey

1949 – Actress Shelley Duvall (“Thieves Like Us,” “Popeye,” “The Shining”)

1959 – Actor Billy Campbell (“Dynasty,” “The Rocketeer,” “Once and Again,” “Crime Story”)

1980 – World figure skating champion Michelle Kwan

History Highlights

History Highlights

1865 – Four co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln face execution by hanging. Mary Surratt — the first woman executed by the federal government — Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and David Herold were convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring with Booth as part of a sophisticated Confederate kidnapping plot that turned to murder.

1898 – President William McKinley signs a resolution annexing the Hawaiian islands as a territory of the United States.

1930 – Construction begins on Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel along the Nevada-Arizona border that was originally known as Boulder Dam. Over the next five years, 21,000 workers build what becomes the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world.

1948 – Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini is canonized, becoming the first American saint.

1981 – President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor, an Arizona court of appeals judge, to be the first woman Supreme Court justice.

2005 – Terrorists attack the London transit system during rush hour, killing 52 people and injuring 700 others.

Musical Milestones

Musical Milestones

1962 – Recorded in 1958, David Rose and His Orchestra’s bold, brassy instrumental, “The Stripper,” shines in the spotlight for a week as the No. 1 single. In 1967, the track makes a comeback in a TV commercial for Noxzema shaving cream.

1969 – Only three of the four Beatles are on hand to record “Here Comes the Sun” at EMI Studios in London. John Lennon missed the session because he was recovering from a car accident in Scotland. The track is on the band’s “Abbey Road” album.

1973 – Billy Preston’s “Will It Go Round in Circles” rules the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks.

1979 – One-hit-wonder Anita Ward enjoys her second and final week on top of the pop chart with the disco hit “Ring My Bell.”

1984 – “Born in the U.S.A.,” by Bruce Springsteen, begins four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. The album becomes one of the biggest sellers of all time as it spawns seven top-10 singles, including the title track, “Dancing in the Dark,” “Glory Days” and “I’m on Fire.” It also garners a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

1984 – Prince starts a five-week run on top of the singles chart with “When Doves Cry,” off the “Purple Rain” soundtrack. It’s Prince’s first No. 1 and goes on to become the best-selling single of 1984.

1990 – New Kids on the Block are No. 1 on the pop chart with “Step by Step.”

2001 – Usher kicks off four weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “U Remind Me.”

2010 – Paul McCartney joins Ringo Starr on stage during a concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall to help celebrate the former Beatles drummer’s 70th birthday.

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