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July 1
South Korean singer-songwriter, television host and actor Leeteuk made his screen debut in 2000 on All About Eve with a bit part. After joining Super Junior in 2005, he began appearing in shows related to his group — firstly Super Junior Show on KM and horror mockumentary Mystery 6. Expanding his repertoire, he started presenting soon after. His first stint as a host was on Mnet's M! Countdown between 2005–08. He rose to prominence as a host on Strong Heart, winning the Best Newcomer Award (Variety) and Excellence Talk Show Award in the 3rd and 5th SBS Entertainment Awards respectively. Events he has hosted include the Golden Disc Awards, Dream Concert, and the Idol Star Athletics Championships since 2015. He has acted in series and films such as Attack on the Pin-Up Boys, Dream High, Salamander Guru and The Shadows, and Secret Queen Makers. While serving in the military, he was the recipient of the Newcomer Award for his portrayal of Miss Kim for The Promise at the 7th Daegu International Musical Festival. (Full list...)
July 4
Between 1873 and 1932, the American composer John Philip Sousa composed 136 American military marches, for which he is best known. Sousa derived few of his marches from his other musical compositions such as melodies and operettas. "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (audio featured) is considered to be Sousa's most famous composition. A British journalist named Sousa "The March King", in comparison to "The Waltz King", a nickname of Johann Strauss II. However, not all of Sousa's marches have had the same level of public appeal. Some of his early marches are less well-known and rarely performed. Sousa served as leader of the United States Marine Band from 1880 to 1892, and performed at the inaugural balls of Presidents James A. Garfield and Benjamin Harrison. In 1987, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was made the national march of the United States, by an act of Congress. The "U.S. Field Artillery March" is the official march of the United States Army. After leaving the Marine Band, he formed a civilian band and composed various marches in the subsequent 39 years. (Full list...)
July 8
The International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media is an annual award given by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA). Established in 2007, the award is given to the composer of a video game score based on two criteria: "the effectiveness, appropriateness and emotional impact of the score in the context of the film for which it was written; and the technical and intellectual merit of the composition when heard as a standalone listening experience." As of 2022[update], 52 composers have been nominated for the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media. The first award was given to John Debney for his work on the video game Lair. The most recent recipients were Mark Mothersbaugh and Wataru Hokoyama for their work on the video game Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Austin Wintory (pictured) has been nominated eight times and won three; he is the only composer to have been nominated twice in the same year, which happened in 2016. (Full list...)
July 11
Since 1861, 59 men have served as Prime Minister of Italy. The Italian prime minister is the head of the Council of Ministers, which holds effective executive power in the Italian government. The first officeholder was Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, who was sworn in on 23 March 1861 after the unification of Italy. During the monarchy, prime ministers were appointed by the king of Italy, as laid down in the Albertine Statute. From 1925 until the fall of his regime in 1943, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini formally modified the office title to "Head of Government, Prime Minister and Secretary of State". From 1861 to 1946, 30 men served as prime minister, leading 65 governments in total. After the abolition of the Kingdom of Italy in 1946 and the proclamation of the Italian Republic, the office was established by Articles 92 to 96 of the Constitution of Italy. Since 1946, 29 men have assumed the office in 75 years. The current officeholder is Mario Draghi (pictured), who was appointed on 13 February 2021. The longest-serving prime minister in the history of Italy was Mussolini, who ruled the country from 1922 until 1943; the longest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic is Silvio Berlusconi, who held the position for more than nine years between 1994 and 2011. (Full list...)
July 15
The World Fantasy Special Award—Professional is given each year to individuals for their professional work in the preceding calendar year in fields related to fantasy that is not covered by other World Fantasy Award categories. The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction and art published in English during the preceding calendar year. Honorees have included editors of magazines and novels, publishers, and authors of non-fiction works. Occasionally, especially in the first few years of the award, some publishing companies were nominated along with individual editors and publishers. World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. During the 47 nomination years, 157 individuals and four publishing companies have been nominated; 55 people have won, including ties and co-nominees. For his work at Donald M. Grant, Publisher Donald M. Grant has won three times out of eight nominations, and six other nominees have won twice. Ian Ballantine and Betty Ballantine have won twice out of two nominations each for their non-fiction and publishing work, and Peter Crowther twice out of four nominations for his work at PS Publishing. (Full list...)
July 18
There have been 58 first overall draft picks in Major League Baseball (MLB) since Rick Monday (pictured) was selected by the Kansas City Athletics in 1965. The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is MLB's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is solely determined by the previous season's standings; the team that possesses the worst record receives the first pick. No first overall pick was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame until 2016, when Ken Griffey Jr. was inducted with a record 99.3 percent of votes cast. Griffey has since been joined by two other top picks, with Chipper Jones, inducted in 2018; and Harold Baines, elected in December 2018 and inducted in July 2019. Jackson Holliday is the most recent first overall pick; he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 2022. (Full list...)
July 22
American actor and comedian Robin Williams had an extensive career in films, television, video games, and on the stage. He made his screen debut in 1977 in minor roles in the film Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? and the television shows The Richard Pryor Show and Laugh-In. The following year, he starred as an alien named Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy, a spin-off of Happy Days. In 1987, he played the role of disc jockey Adrian Cronauer in the war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam, a role which earned him his first Academy Award for Best Actor nomination. He further received critical acclaim lead roles in Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990) and The Fisher King (1991). He also attained greater commercial success in films such as Hook (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying a therapist in the psychological drama Good Will Hunting (1997). Williams continued to achieve critical and commercial success in films such as Insomnia (2002), One Hour Photo (2002), Happy Feet (2006), and Night at the Museum (2006). One of his final roles was in the television sitcom The Crazy Ones. (Full list...)
July 25
The discography of the Wiggles, an Australian children's musical group, includes fifty-nine studio albums, three live albums, nine compilation albums, one extended play and thirty-seven singles. The band was formed in 1991 by Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page and Phillip Wilcher when they recorded The Wiggles as part of a student project at Macquarie University in Sydney, New South Wales, where several members were studying early childhood education. Eighteen of the group's albums have been certified by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) as Gold, Platinum and double Platinum. Since 2018, the group's newer line-up have seen three of their albums reach the top ten on the ARIA Albums Chart. The group's cover of Tame Impala's "Elephant", which they performed on Triple J's Like a Version, became the group's first top-ten single, peaking at number 10 in January 2022 after it reached number 1 on the annual Triple J Hottest 100 poll for 2021. The group's 2022 tribute album ReWiggled debuted as their first number-one album. (Full list...)
July 29
The 2018 Pacific hurricane season was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The 2018 season officially started on May 15 in the eastern Pacific – east of 140°W – and began on June 1 in the central Pacific – the region between the International Date Line and 140°W, and ended on November 30. The season began with the formation of Tropical Depression One-E, which developed on May 10, and ended with the dissipation of the season's final storm, Tropical Storm Xavier, which dissipated as a tropical cyclone on November 5. The 2018 hurricane season was exceptionally active and featured the highest accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) since reliable records began in 1971. Throughout the season, 26 tropical depressions developed, 23 of which became tropical storms. A total of 13 tropical storms reached hurricane strength, and 10 hurricanes achieved major hurricane intensity. Activity peaked from early August to early October, with several long-lived and powerful hurricanes developing in that time period. Several storms severely affected land, such as Hurricane Lane in Hawaii and Hurricane Willa (pictured) in Mexico. (Full list...)