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July 11

Mayor Maestri was on a WPA Project Tour, July 11, 1938

Robert Sidney Maestri served as mayor of New Orleans from 1936-1946.
 
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Mayor Victor Schiro celebrated his fourth anniversary as Mayor of New Orleans, July 12, 1965.
 
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Richard Simmons, the most famous of American fitness advocates who has become a parody of the type, was born on this day in New Orleans in 1948. • On the same day and in the same city, TV actor Jay Thomas (Mork and Mindy, Cheers, Murphy Brown) was born.

Source: http://www.nortexinfo.net/McDaniel/0712.htm