Tab Hunter (Arthur Andrew Kelm) (July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018)
(Fox News) – Tab Hunter, the 1950s Hollywood heartthrob who appeared in more than 40 films including “Damn Yankees!" (1958) and also made a name for himself in the music industry, has died. A rep for the actor told The Hollywood Reporter thatHunter died Sunday, three days shy of his 87th birthday, from a blood clot in his leg that caused cardiac arrest. A close friend called Hunters passing…”sudden and unexpected.”
Tab Hunter (far right) appears with host Dick Clark on Band Stand.
On this day in 1947, the engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
On this day in 1997, Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield during their bout on June 22, 1997 (below).
Actor Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002)
Cited as "one of Hollywood’s most charismatic and dynamic stars", Steiger died of pneumonia and kidney failure as a result of complications from surgery for a gall bladdertumor on July 9, 2002,in Los Angeles. He was 77.
Rod Steiger in 1969
Rod Steiger received his third Oscar nomination and won his only Oscar for playing Gillespie, a police chief in the 1969 film The Heat of the Night (1967).
Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began on this day in 1987 with testimony from Oliver North.
Oliver Laurence North will be 75 in October.
On this day in 1981, United States President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
President Ronald W. Reagan talks with Supreme Court nominee Sandra Day O’Conner at the White House on July 15, 1981.
Former Beatle drummer Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) is 78 today.
The first All-Star baseball game was held in Chicago on this day in 1933. The American League beat the National League 4-2.
The Biafran War erupted on this day in 1967. The war lasted two- and-a-half years. About 600,000 people died.
Late Odumegwu Ojukwu (left) leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970.
One of the casualties of the war.
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo de Rivera(Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón)(July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)
Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title on this day in 1957. She was the first black athlete to win the event.
Roy Rogers (Leonard Franklin Slye) (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998)
Roy Rogers was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
Rogers died of congestive heart failure on July 6, 1998. He had been residing in Apple Valley, CA. Roy was buried at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, as was his wife Dale Evans three years later.
