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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Mark McKay (DJ and MTV Personality) is 32
- DJ for Canadian pop group Len

David Hasselhoff (actor) is 56
- "Mitch Buchannon" on Baywatch

Art Linkletter (TV personality) is 96
- Graduated from San Diego State University

Phyllis Diller (comedian) is 91
- "Peter's Mom" in Family Guy

Donald Sutherland (actor) is 73
- "Vernon L. Pinkley" in The Dirty Dozen

Diahann Carroll (actress-singer) is 73
- "Jane Burke" in Grey's Anatomy

Spencer Davis (singer, the Spencer Davis Group) is 69
- Born in South Wales

Camilla Parker-Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall) is 61
- Second wife of Prince Charles

Geezer Butler (bassist, Black Sabbath) is 59
- Currently involved with the band Heaven and Hell

Phoebe Snow (singer) is 56
- Known for her hit "Poetry Man"

J. Michael Straczynski (TV show creator) is 54
- Created the hit show Babylon 5

Regina Belle (singer) is 45
- Sang the song "A Whole New World" in Disney's Aladdin

Lou Barlow (guitarist, Dinosaur Jr.) is 42
- Also a founding member of the band Sebadoh

Keith Edward Elam a.k.a Guru (rapper, Gang Starr) is 42
- Other member of the group is DJ Premier

Susan Ashton (Christian singer) is 41
- Had religious hits like "Faith of the Heart"

Stokley Williams (R&B singer, Mint Condition) is 41
- Is also the drummer for the group

Bitty Schram (actress) is 40
- "Sharona" on Monk

Tim Holland a.k.a Sole (rapper, anticon) is 35
- Born in Portland, Maine

Leanne "LeLee" Lyons (singer, SWV) is 34
-The groups is known for their hit "Weak"

ON JULY 17th...
In 1968...The Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine had its premiere at the London Pavilion.

In 1972...In Montreal, a bomb destroyed several speaker cones inside an equipment truck belonging to the touring Rolling Stones. 

In 1974...The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Board ordered John Lennon to leave the country within 60 days. 

In 1974...The Moody Blues opened their own London studio, the first to permit artists to record in quadraphonic sound.

In 1975...Ringo Starr divorced his wife, Maureen Cox.

In 1979...Guitarist Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy, and was replaced by future Ultravox member and "Do They Know It's Christmas" songwriter Midge Ure.

In 1986...Run DMC released their single "Walk This Way." 

In 1987...Keith Richards signed with Virgin Records as a solo artist.

In 1988...Run-D.M.C. were awarded the keys to the Missouri cities of Kansas City and Independence to celebrate their support of the Work Works Campaign.

In 1991...The revamped Lynyrd Skynyrd launched their latest world tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

 In 1994...In Pontiac, Michigan, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley made a surprise appearance at a Kiss convention.  While browsing the stalls, they discovered Kiss costumes stolen from them more than a decade prior. 

In 1996...Smashing Pumpkin Jimmy Chamberlin was fired from the band. A week earlier, the drummer had been arrested on drug-possession charges in connection with the fatal overdose of touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin.

In 1996...Chas Chandler, The Animals bassist who became Jimi Hendrix's manager, died in England at age 58.

In 2004...Singer Linda Ronstadt was fired by the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas after she praised Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 during her stage show.

In 2004...The original line-up of the Wu-Tang Clan reunited for the first time since 2000 at the Rock the Bells hip-hop festival in San Bernardino, California.

In 2006...Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra announced they were splitting after three years of marriage.

LATE NIGHT HUMOR
"A European brewery has purchased Anheuser-Busch, the makers of Budweiser, for 52-billion dollars. Which is a shame because if they had waited until happy hour they could have paid half that."
- Conan O'Brien on Late Night With Conan O'Brien

"Late-Night Humor" courtesy of NewsMax.com

MOVIE MINUTE: MAMMA MIA!
The much anticipated summer musical Mamma Mia! is finally hitting theatres tomorrow. The film is based on the Broadwaymusical and is full of ABBA's music. Meryl Streep stars in the film and told us her thoughts of the '70s group.
  "When I came to learn them, I found I knew the songs, all of them. I knew them wrong, but I knew every single one."

The songs are peppered throughout the film and Streep told us why ABBA's tunes hold so much appeal.
 "I mean they just enter your body these songs, they have amazing hooks, great melodies and they're in. You know, they're in your body."

Mamma Mia! also stars Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth It's in theatres everywhere tomorrow.