Today's Birthdays – July 10, 2011

Denise Hluska from The Cricket Box. Your treat will have other goodies too, from great Vicksburg places like The Beechwood Restaurant & Lounge. Today’s big birthday wish goes out to Gena Carrick…  Happy Birthday, Gena!  We love you! Gena shares her birthday with these well known people: 1792 George Mifflin Dallas (D) 11th VP (1845-49) 1856 Nikola Tesla physicist, developed alternating current 1875 Mary McLeod Bethune SC, slave/educator (Bethune-Cookman College) 1879 Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes Penn, crystallized vitamin A 1882 Ima Hogg Texas art patron/founder of the Houston Symphony 1920 David Brinkley Wilmington NC, TV News anchor (20/20) 1920 Owen Chamberlain codiscovered antiproton (Nobel 1959) 1926 Carleton Carpenter Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock) 1926 Fred Gwynne NYC, actor (played Herman Munster) 1927 William Smithers Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!) 1931 Alice Munro author (Dance of the Happy Shades) 1931 Del Insko harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader) 1931 Nick Adams Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel) 1933 Jerry Herman Broadway composer (Hello Dolly) 1940 Mills Watson Oakland Calif, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear) 1941 Ian Whitcomb England, rocker (You Turn Me On) 1941 Robert Pine Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs) 1947 Arlo Guthrie singer (Alice’s Restaurant, City of New Orleans) 1949 Mark Shera Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones) 1949 Ronnie James rocker (Dio-Holy Diver) 1954 Neil Francis Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices) 1972 Damon Sharpe Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)]]]]> ]]>