{"id":28879,"date":"2024-07-22T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=28879"},"modified":"2024-11-07T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:09:47","slug":"keener-today-july-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=28879","title":{"rendered":"Keener Today &#8211; July 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today in History: <\/strong><br \/>\n1934 Outside Chicago&#8217;s Biograph Theatre, &#8220;Public Enemy No. 1&#8221; John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.<br \/>\n1959 Ed Wood&#8217;s cult classic &#8220;Plan 9 From Outer Space&#8221;, called one of the worse films ever, premieres.<br \/>\n1963 The Beach Boys released the single &#8220;Surfer Girl.&#8221;<br \/>\n1967 The Vanilla Fudge rock cover of &#8220;You Keep Me Hangin&#8217; On&#8221; peaks at #67 in America as the band play their first concert, supporting The Byrds at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East) in New York City.<br \/>\n1969 Elvis Presley&#8217;s NBC-TV Special soundtrack (a\/k\/a &#8220;The &#8217;68 Comeback Special&#8221;) is certified gold.<br \/>\n2019 Marvel superhero film &#8220;Avengers: Endgame&#8221; becomes the world&#8217;s highest-grossing film overtaking &#8220;Avatar&#8221; earning $2.9 billion<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Birthdays:<\/strong><br \/>\n1930 Boxer Sonny Liston. (d. 1970)<br \/>\n1934 Actress Louise Fletcher. (d. 2022)<br \/>\n1940 Game show host Alex Trebek (d. 2020) Hosted Jeopardy for 36 years (1984 -20200<br \/>\n1941 Estelle Bennett (of The Ronettes) is born in New York. Her younger sister is Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector. She&#8217;s 83.<br \/>\n1941 George Clinton, American funk-rock singer, songwriter, producer and bandleader (Parliament-Funkadelic), born in Kannapolis, North Carolina.<br \/>\n1943 Bobby Sherman is born in Santa Monica, California. He becomes a teen idol in the late &#8217;60s with a string of pop hits, including the million-selling &#8220;Little Woman.&#8221; He&#8217;s 81.<br \/>\n1944 Supertramp vocalist\/keyboard player Rick Davies is born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. He&#8217;s 80.<br \/>\n1946 Actor Danny Glover is 78.<br \/>\n1947 Albert Brooks, comedian (Broadcast News, Lost in America), born in Los Angeles, California, is 77.<br \/>\n1947 Don Henley, American rock drummer, singer, and songwriter (Eagles &#8211; &#8220;Desperado&#8221;; &#8220;Hotel California&#8221;; solo &#8211; &#8220;Boys Of Summer&#8221;), born in Linden, Texas, is 77.<br \/>\n1955 Willem Dafoe, American actor (Platoon; The Last Temptation of Christ; Mississippi Burning), born in Appleton, Wisconsin, is 69.<br \/>\n1964 David Spade, American comedian and actor (SNL; Tommy Boy; Black Sheep; : Just Shoot Me!), born in Birmingham, Michigan, is 60.<br \/>\n1992 Actress Selena Gomez is 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in History: 1934 Outside Chicago&#8217;s Biograph Theatre, &#8220;Public Enemy No. 1&#8221; John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. 1959 Ed Wood&#8217;s cult classic &#8220;Plan 9 From Outer Space&#8221;, called one of the worse films ever, premieres. 1963 The Beach Boys released the single &#8220;Surfer Girl.&#8221; 1967 The Vanilla Fudge rock cover of &#8220;You Keep Me Hangin&#8217; On&#8221; peaks at #67 in America as the band play their first concert, supporting The Byrds at the Village Theater (later the Fillmore East) in New York City. 1969 Elvis Presley&#8217;s NBC-TV Special soundtrack (a\/k\/a &#8220;The &#8217;68 Comeback Special&#8221;) is certified gold&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener-today","wpcat-727-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28955,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions\/28955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}