July 7, 2022
QUOTE
Let’s make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, ‘Peace and love.’ In the office, on the bus, wherever. It’s still peace and love for me, I’m a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, ‘Peace and love’. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.
--Ringo Starr
BIRTHDAYS
1924 – Mary Ford, Singer and guitarist
1940 – Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1949 – Shelley Duvall, Actress, writer, and producer
1966 – Jim Gaffigan, Comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
2021 – Robert Downey Sr., Actor and director. Father of Robert Downey Jr.
IN MEMORY
1307 – Edward I, king of England
1973 – Veronica Lake, Actress
2006 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN ON THIS DAY
1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1898 – US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1958 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.