Picture of the Day and Birthdays for July 8

Posted July 7, 2008, 7:42 pm by Growing Bolder

Today's Birthdays: Actor Mickey Carroll (Wizard of Oz Munchkin Coroner. "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. ") is 89. Singer Jerry Vale is 76. Singer Steve Lawrence is 73. Actor Jeffrey Tambor is 64. B allerina Cysthia Gregory is 62. Children's performer Raffi is 60. Actress Anjelica Huston is 57. News columnist Anna Quindlen is 56. Actor Kevin Bacon is 50. Rock musician Andy Fletcher (Depeche Mode) is 47. Country singer Toby Keith is 47. Rock singer Joan Osborne is 46. Writer-producer Rob Burnett is 46. Actor Corey Parker is 43. Actor Billy Crudup is 40. Actor Michael Weatherly is 40.

Pictures of the Day: On July 8, 1969, the first American troops are withdrawn from Vietnam as 800 men from the 9th Infantry Division are sent home. The phased troop withdrawal will occur in 14 stages from July 1969 through November 1972. About 58,000 Americans died of combat related injuries.