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07.21.14 OT - Space is Super Gay

1831 Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.
1861 The first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
1899 Author Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill.
1944 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated Sen. Harry S. Truman to be vice president.
1949 The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 France surrendered North Vietnam to the Communists.
1961 Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second American to rocket into a sub-orbital pattern around the Earth, flying on the Liberty Bell 7.
1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the lunar module.
1988 Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Atlanta.
1998 Astronaut Alan Shepard died at age 74.
2002 Telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection after disclosing it had inflated profits by nearly $4 billion through deceptive accounting.
2007 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the final volume in the book series by J.K. Rowling, went on sale.
2008 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.
2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. lending and high finance rules since the 1930s.
2011 The space shuttle program came to an end after 30 years as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Fla..

BIRTHDAYS!!!!

1922 Kay Starr, Singer, turns 92
1926 Norman Jewison, Director ("Moonstruck"), turns 88
1938 Janet Reno, Former attorney general, turns 76
1939 John Negroponte, Former national intelligence director, turns 75
1943 Edward Herrmann, Actor, turns 71
1948 Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), Singer, songwriter, turns 66
1948 Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist ("Doonesbury"), turns 66
1951 Robin Williams, Actor, comedian, turns 63
1953 Eric Bazilian, Rock musician (The Hooters), turns 61
1957 Jon Lovitz, Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live"), turns 57
1968 Brandi Chastain, Soccer player, turns 46
1978 Sprague Grayden, Actress, turns 36
1978 Josh Hartnett, Actor, turns 36
1981 Blake Lewis, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 33
1983 Kellen Winslow, Football player, turns 31
1985 Vanessa Lengies, Actress ("American Dreams"), turns 29