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Bravo star launches site helping Valley home sellers
“Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” TV stars Matt and Josh Altman are partnering with Valley real estate agent Scott Grigg to open a new brokerage called Grigg’s Group Powered By The Altman Brothers. From left to right, Matthew Altman, Scott Grigg and Josh Altman.
Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.
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On this day in 1910: In Spokane, Washington, Sonora Smart Dodd organized the first Father’s Day in the U.S., one that recognized her Civil War veteran dad who raised her, as well as other father figures. Her work as founder of the Father’s Day Association led to celebrations in several countries and U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 proclamation that made Father’s Day an American holiday observed each year in June.
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In 1934: President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Federal Communications Act, which launched the FCC, an agency now charged with regulating industries that do business in interstate and international communications via broadband internet, satellite, cable, wire, television and radio.
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In 1944: The Battle of the Philippine Sea began as Japan responded to the American invasion of Saipan. The U.S. Navy’s Task Force 58, an armada of aircraft carriers that could launch over 1,000 aircraft in an hour, destroyed over 300 enemy aircraft during waves of Japanese air raids in the heaviest aircraft carrier action of World War II. U.S. submarine torpedoes sank three Japanese carriers, which decimated its fleet and set the stage for the U.S. to liberate Guam and occupy as the Mariana Islands.
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In 1964: At Detroit’s Hitsville USA studios, Martha and the Vandellas recorded the Motown classic “Dancing in the Street,” which climbed to No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and later was covered by the Grateful Dead, Van Halen, and David Bowie and Mick Jagger. The hit was written by Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter.
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In 1997: “Cats” became the longest-running show on Broadway in New York as it wrapped its 6,138th performance of the musical and surpassed the previous record set by “A Chorus Line.” The Broadway run of “Cats” lasted a total of 18 years and 7,485 shows. The current Broadway record-holder, “The Phantom of the Opera,” was performed 13,981 times over 35 years when it closed in 2023.
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In 2012: Julian Assange, a hacker charged with conspiring to commit computer intrusion, sought asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he stayed for seven years until Ecuador revoked his asylum. He filed legal challenges to avoid extradition to the U.S. while serving time in a London prison since 2019. The Wikileaks founder’s role allegedly involved working with Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer, one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.
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