July 30

Automobile pioneer Henry Ford born (1863); Uruguay wins first World Cup (1930); HBD Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947); Medicare and Medicaid established in US (1965); RIP actress Claudette Colbert (1996)

July 29

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini born (1883); RIP Vincent van Gogh (1890); NASA is established (1958); 750 million people worldwide watch wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana (1981); RIP Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (1994).

July 28

RIP composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1750); 14th Amendment, granting US citizenship to formerly enslaved persons, is officially adopted (1868); Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born (1929); Tangshan earthquake kills more than 240,000 in China (1976).

July 19

Inventor and businessman Samuel Colt born (1814); First US Women’s Rights convention held (1848); Sports journalist Stuart Scott born (1965); First GPS signal transmitted (1977).

July 20

Mount Everest explorer Sir Edmund Hillary born (1919); Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on the moon (1969); RIP Bruce Lee (1973); Viking 1 is first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars (1976); HBD Gisele Bündchen (1980).

July 26

US Postal Service is established (1775); the Federal Bureau of Investigation is founded (1908); HBD Sir Mick Jagger (1943); HBD actress Dame Helen Mirren (1945); RIP former Argentine first lady Eva Perón (1952).

July 27

US Department of State is established (1789); HBD figure skating legend Peggy Fleming (1948); House brings impeachment charges against President Richard Nixon (1974); NBA player Reggie Lewis collapses and dies at practice (1993); RIP Bob Hope (2003).

July 21

Author Ernest Hemingway born (1899); Actor and comedian Robin Williams born (1951); HBD soccer great Brandi Chastain (1968); Jay Silverheels becomes first Native American to have a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1979) NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends (2011).

July 22

 "America the Beautiful" written (1893); Infamous gangster John Dillinger killed by federal agents (1934); "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek born (1940); HBD singer and actress Selena Gomez (1992); Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay are killed (2003).

July 23

RIP Ulysses S. Grant (1885); 43 killed, more than 1,000 injured in Detroit Riot (1967); Hale-Bopp comet is discovered (1995); RIP Amy Winehouse (2011); RIP Sally Ride, the first American woman in space (2012).

Joshua Ryan Evans

(January 10, 1982 – August 5, 2002) was an American actor who became known for his role as Timmy Lenox in the soap opera Passions. Though he was 17 years old when Passions debuted, Evans had the appearance and voice of a small child due to achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. He was 3 feet 2 inches (97 cm) tall.

Born in Hayward, California, Evans began his career at age 12, appearing in various commercials. He made his film debut as a toddler in Baby Geniuses in 1999. The following year he played the role of the young Grinch (Jim Carrey's character) in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He also appeared as General Tom Thumb in the A&E miniseries P.T. Barnum. Evans also had guest spots on Ally McBeal, 7th Heaven, and Poltergeist: The Legacy.

In 1999, Evans began portraying Timmy on the soap opera Passions. Evans' character was a doll that the evil witch Tabitha Lenox brought to life with magic. For his work on the series, he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2000 and won two Soap Opera Digest Awards in 2000 and 2001.

The character of Timmy was intended to become an angel and remain a presence on the show, but this entire storyline was quickly rewritten after Evans' death to excise the character (although one already-filmed scene was eventually aired, showing Timmy in Heaven, as a sort of coda).

On August 5, 2002, Evans died during a medical procedure in San Diego from complications related to a congenital heart condition. He was 20 years old. The death scene Evans had previously taped for Passions aired the same day that he died. The episode was dedicated to him.

July 12

RIP US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton (1804); The Rolling Stones perform first concert (1962); Geraldine Ferraro is first American female major-party VP candidate (1984); HBD activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai (1997).

July 14

Revolutionaries in France storm the Bastille (1789); Archaeologist and spy Gertrude Bell born (1868); President Gerald Ford born (1913); Howard Hughes crew breaks record with 91-hour flight around the world (1938); NASA's New Horizon probe completes flyby of Pluto (2015).

July 13

Julius Caesar born (100 BCE); First World Cup takes place in Uruguay (1930); HBD Sir Patrick Stewart (1940); RIP artist Frida Kahlo (1954); Live Aid concert raises more than $125M for Africa famine relief (1985).

July 9

President Zachary Taylor dies of cholera while in office (1850); 14th Amendment ratified in US, granting citizenship to African Americans (1868); First Wimbledon tournament begins (1877); HBD Tom Hanks (1956); Musician Courtney Love born (1964).

July 8

Businessman and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller born (1839); RIP "Gone with the Wind" actress Vivien Leigh (1967); Atlantis is launched on final mission of US Space Shuttle program (2011); RIP former first lady and social activist Betty Ford (2011).

July 7

Construction of the Hoover Dam begins (1930); HBD Ringo Starr (1940); HBD basketball legend Lisa Leslie (1972); Sandra Day O’Connor nominated as first female US Supreme Court justice (1981); US women’s soccer team wins World Cup for record fourth time (2019).

July 6

Artist Frida Kahlo born (1907); First MLB All-Star Game held (1933); HBD George W. Bush (1946); Althea Gibson becomes first African American to win Wimbledon (1957); RIP Louis Armstrong (1971).

July 2

Thurgood Marshall, first Black US Supreme Court justice, born (1908); Amelia Earhart disappears on round-the-world flight (1937); RIP Ernest Hemingway (1961); Civil Rights Act is signed into law (1964); RIP author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (2016).

July 1

Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins (1863); Happy birthday, Canada (1867); RIP abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896); Princess Diana born (1961); China regains sovereignty over Hong Kong (1997).