August 13
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Events on This Day
1784 - The Continental Congress met for the final time in Annapolis, Maryland. It moved a few more times, from Philadelphia, PA to New York City and, finally, to its permanent seat of government in Washington, DC.1867 - Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly, opened in New York City. The show went on to become one of the most popular melodramas ever staged in America.
1889 - William Gray of Hartford, CT patented the coin-operated telephone. Please deposit another $8.35, please. And if you listen closely you’ll hear the quarters “bong”, the nickels “boing” and the dimes go “bing-bing”...
1912 - St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, PA was granted the first experimental radio license by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
1919 - The previously undefeated racehorse, Man o’ War, was upset -- by Upset -- at Saratoga, NY. This turn of events so upset Man o’ War that the horse never lost a race again. Man o’ War proved to be quite the stud, as well. After wining 1,300 races, he sired 379 foals. The stud fee for Man o’ War was $5,000.
1924 - The first country music record to sell one million copies reached that point on this day. It was The Prisoner’s Song, recorded by Vernon Dalhart. The Prisoner’s Song and songs like Molly Darling, Death of Floyd Collins and New River Train helped Dalhart outsell all others during his era (about 75 million records). He became a Country Music Hall of Famer in 1981.
1930 - Guy Lombardo and his orchestra recorded Go Home and Tell Your Mother, on Columbia Records.
1934 - Cartoonist Al Capp began his famous comic strip, Li’l Abner. In those early days, the cartoon strip was carried in eight newspapers. Eventually, it would be in more than 500, and would be the basis for a Broadway play and a Hollywood movie, too.
1935 - The first roller derby match was held at the Coliseum in Chicago, IL.
1948 - Cleveland Indians rookie pitcher Satchel Paige threw his first complete game in the major leagues. He allowed the Chicago White Sox only five hits in the 5-0 shutout. Incidentally, the rookie pitcher was 42 years old.
1952 - The original version of Hound Dog was recorded this day by Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton. Four years later, Hound Dog got the world’s attention when it was recorded by Elvis Presley.
1960 - Central African Republic proclaimed its independence from France.
1961 - The German city of Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence. The East Berlin government was adamant in its effort to keep those in the eastern sector from moving into the non-Communist western sector. Even regular telephone and postal service between the sectors was stopped. Several days later, the barbed wire was reinforced with a concrete wall between official crossing points. The Berlin Wall stood as a barrier to freedom for the East Germans until November 9, 1989.
1964 - The last hangings in Britain were carried out on this day. Two men were executed for murder at Liverpool and Manchester, England.
1969 - Bowie Kuhn, who had been the acting commissioner of major-league baseball since February, started this day expecting his term to come to an end. He ended the day having been elected to a seven-year term -- and he stayed on for almost a decade after that first term.
1979 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals got his 3,000th career hit while leading the Cardinals past the Chicago Cubs, 3-2.
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter was nominated for a second term by the Democratic National Convention in New York. Carter picked Vice President Mondale as his running mate. (They lost in November to Ronald Reagan and George Bush.)
1986 - United States Football League standout Herschel Walker signed to play with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Walker’s contract paid an estimated $5 million over five years. He had been playing for the New Jersey Generals before the USFL went out of business.
1990 - Soul singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield (Superfly, Freddie’s Dead) was paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident -- a lighting tower fell on him at a concert in Brooklyn, New York. Mayfield died Dec 26, 1999.
1993 - A body found 10 days earlier in a creek along the North Carolina-South Carolina border was identified as that of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan. Two teenagers were later convicted for murdering the senior Jordan.
1995 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer. He was 63 years old.
1996 - Data sent back by the Galileo space probe indicated there may be water on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, heightening the possibility it could support a primitive life form.
1998 - President Clinton led the U.S. in mourning twelve Americans killed in a pair of U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Standing before black hearses carrying ten of the bodies, the president pledged to seek justice “for these evil acts.”
1999 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Bowfinger, starring Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baransksi, Jamie Kennedy, Adam Alexi-Malle, Kohl Sudduth, Robert Downey Jr. and Terence Stamp; Brokedown Palace, with Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Daniel Lapaine, Lou Diamond Phillips and Jacqueline Kim; and Detroit Rock City, featuring Edward Furlong, Giuseppe Andrews, Sam Huntington, James Debello, Lin Shaye, Natasha Lyonne, Melanie Lynskey and Shannon Tweed.
2000 - 2,000 Somali leaders gathered in Djibouti to form a central government with a new 225-member parliament. It was the first central government in a decade.
2001 - The American romance writer, Elizabeth Cavanna Harrison, died in France. She was 92 years old. Most of Harrison’s books were written under her maiden name, Betty Cavanna. She also used the pen names Betsy Allen and Elizabeth Headley. Harrison wrote over 80 romances, included Going on Sixteen (1945), and Spice Island Mystery (1970).
2002 - The Accidental Spy debuted in the U.S. The action comedy stars Jackie Chan, Vivian Hsu, Kim Min and Alfred Cheung.
2002 - Amid rising floodwaters, tens of thousands of people in the Czech Republic fled the historic capital city of Prague for higher ground.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, candidate for governor of California, named billionaire Warren Buffet to be his economic adviser. 135 candidates were certified.
2004 - Alien vs. Predator opened in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi thriller stars Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen and Ewen Bremner.
2004 - A Friday the 13th blast from Hurricane Charley ripped across Florida, causing widespread destruction. Packing winds of up to 145mph (230km/h), Charley landed further south on Florida’s Gulf coast than predicted, catching some residents by surprise. The hurricane was the strongest to hit Florida in a dozen years; at least 21 people were confirmed dead.
2004 - Julia Child (91), the grande dame of U.S. television cooking shows and books, died in Santa Barbara, CA.
2004 - The Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece. A sea of athletes under 202 flags parted to let a Greek windsurfing champion jog across the stadium and climb to the Olympic cauldron, which dipped on its slender 102-foot arm to receive the spark from his torch.
2005 - Former Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand died at 63 years of age. Lange was PM from 1984 to 1989, heading New Zealand’s fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country’s history.
2006 - Israel’s Cabinet approved a Mideast ceasefire for the following morning. The Israeli military launched a last-minute push to devastate Hezbollah guerrillas, rocketing south Beirut with at least 20 missiles.
2007 - A family of five fell to their deaths from a Ferris wheel after two spinning cars collided at an amusement park in the southern city of Busan, South Korea. The five fell 65 feet after the collision caused the door of their car to open. “...Apparently the door did not stay locked. They just plunged to the ground," a police officer said.
2008 - Tropic Thunder debuted in the U.S. The acton comedy stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Brandon Jackson, Steve Coogan, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Jay Baruchel, Matt Levin, Andrea De Oliveira, Reggie Lee, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise.
2008 - American Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever. Phelps won his 10th and 11th career gold medals, and 5 world records in 5 events at the Beijing Games.
2008 - Jack Weil, patriarch of western clothing, died at 107 years of age. Weil created the western-style shirt which sold after 1946 through his Denver-based company, Rockmount Ranch Wear.
2009 - Legendary jazz and country guitarist and inventor Les Paul died at a New York hospital of complications from pneumonia. He was 94 years old. Paul pioneered the design of solid body Gibson electric guitars that bore his name. And along with his singing wife, Mary Ford, he recorded hit records that sold millions of copies. Their list of hits includes It’s Been a Long Long Time, How High the Moon, The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise, Tiger Rag and Vaya Con Dios.
2010 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Animal Kingdom, with Guy Pearce, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton and Luke Ford; Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup and Richard Jenkins; Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, with Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans and Anna Kendrick; Tales from Earthsea, with Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Yûko Tanaka and Teruyuki Kagawa; and The Expendables, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Eric Roberts.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $600-million bill to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border. The new law nearly doubled fees on visas for skilled workers brought in by companies whose employees were more than 50 percent foreign, a move that largely affects India’s IT and outsourcing industries.
2011 - A ferocious wind gust toppled a stage at the state fair in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. The crowd had been waiting for country band Sugarland to perform. Fair officials, a stagehands union and a company that built the roof and rigging for lights were blamed for the crash.
2012 - Google announced it was cutting some 4,000 jobs at its Motorola Mobility Holdings unit, which it bought in May 2012 for some $12.5 billion. Two-thirds of the reduction was occurring outside of the U.S. in an attempt to reverse financial losses in 14 of the previous 16 quarters.
2013 - The Israeli military shot down a rocket launched toward the Red Sea resort of Eilat, near the Israeli border with Egypt. It was the first time Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense had system successfully intercepted a rocket attack on the resort town.
2014 - The bodies of five French climbers were found on Mont Blanc and the search for a sixth continued. The group of five – four men and one woman – attached to one rope and led by an experienced guide – fell hundreds of feet after they were caught by bad weather on the Aiguille d’Argentière (Argentière’s Needle) on Europe’s highest mountain.
2014 - Guinea declared a public health emergency and sent health workers to all affected border points because of an Ebola epidemic that had killed more than 1,000 people in three West African states. 377 people had died in Guinea since the outbreak of Ebola began in March 2014.
2015 - Britain said it would make a formal protest to Ecuador over its decision to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy and so prevent his extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.
2016 - A Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a train in the country’s northeast, wounding six people, including himself. Police in St. Gallen say the incident happened at 2:20 local time Saturday afternoon as the train neared the station in Salez, near the border with Liechtenstein. The 27-year-old suspect had at least one knife and poured out a flammable liquid, which which he ignited. The wounded included a 6-year-old child, three women aged 17, 34 and 43, and two men aged 17 and 50.
2016 - Violence and protests erupted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after a man was fatally shot by police during a foot chase. The 23-year-old victim was armed with a handgun and shot dead by an officer after fleeing a traffic stop on Milwaukee’s north side. Hours later angry crowds smashed one police car and set fire to another. One officer was injured by a flying brick; a gas station and auto-parts store were set on fire. Police said at least three people had been arrested as of early the following day.
2016 - Michael Phelps took home his 23rd career gold medal — and 28th overall — following his final race, the men’s 4x100–meter medley relay, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Backstroker Ryan Murphy led off the legendary relay with a world record time (51.85) in the men’s 100-meter backstroke. Breaststroker Cody Miller then set the stage for Phelps, before Nathan Adrian took Team USA home with his freestyle, earning the U.S. — and Phelps — the final swimming gold medal of the 2016 Rio Games.
2017 - Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe decried hatred, racism and bigotry in a defiant speech after a violent white supremacist rally turned deadly over the weekend in Charlottesville, VA. Speaking at the Sunday services at Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church in the same city where the rally took place, McAuliffe called the white supremacists “dividers.” McAuliffe said he and the state of Virginia stand with the African-American community and doubled down on his denunciation of the white supremacists who gathered in his state. “I’ll tell you this: You only made us stronger,” McAuliffe said, referring to the white supremacists. ”You go home, you stay out of here, because we are a commonwealth that stays together.” The contentious rally that featured clashes between the white supremacists and counter-protesters turned tragic when a man drove a car directly into a group of counter-protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others. Additionally, a Virginia State Police helicopter that was assisting law enforcement during the rally crashed, killing two troopers inside.
2018 - A lawyer for Peter Strzok, a senior FBI counterintelligence agent, said Strzok was fired for violating FBI policies. Strzok had helped oversee the Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations. He was accused of disparaging POTUS Trump in inflammatory text messages.
2018 - Major media scandal: Norway’s Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg (58) quit after breaching security protocol when he travelled to Iran with an Iranian-born former beauty queen (28). Sandberg, deputy head of the anti-immigration Progress party, which was part of the ruling coalition in Norway, admitted he had travelled to Iran with his new girlfriend, Bahareh Letnes, without informing the prime minister’s office in advance. Norway’s intelligence agency regularly lists Iran as one of the countries most likely to carry out espionage, alongside China and Russia.
2019 - A coalition of 21 states sued the Trump administration over its decision to ease restrictions on coal-fired power plants. “They’re rolling things back to an age that no longer exists, trying to prop up the coal industry,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said at a news conference. He said the lawsuit was not just about Trump but “our kids and grandkids” who would continue to be harmed by coal pollutants.
2019 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kiev’s side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
2020 - POTUS Trump rejected Democrats’ bid to include funds for the U.S. Postal Service and to shore up election infrastructure in a new coronavirus relief bill. This, as he hoped the withheld money would hamper mail-in voting. Trump’s efforts failed as the share of voters casting mail ballots far exceeded that of any other recent national election, and the share of voters who reported going to a polling place on Election Day (2020) dropped to its lowest point in some 30 years.
2020 - Israel conducted a successful test of the Arrow-2 interceptor, the country’s advanced missile defense system against long-range ballistic attacks. “Our elite technological unit ensures that we will always be one step ahead of our enemies,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz boasted.
2021 - Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform that lost $610 million in a hack, confirmed that it had offered the hacker(s) a $500,000 ‘bug bounty’.
2021 - The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released data showing that July was the hottest month ever recorded. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad. “July is typically the world’s warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded. This new record adds to the disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe.”
2021 - Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin sued the U.S. government over NASA’s decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. (Blue Origin lost that suit in Nov 2021 when the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled against the Bezos company.)
2022 - A gunman opened fire on a bus near Jerusalem’s Western Wall, wounding eight people, including a pregnant woman, who underwent an emergency C-section. The baby was in stable condition. The shooting happened as the bus waited in a parking lot near David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, just outside the Old City walls.
2022 - Hawaii Lt. Governor Josh Green won his state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Green, who continued to work as an emergency room doctor while serving alongside term-limited Gov. David Ige, received 63.6 percent of the vote.
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Birthdays on This Day August 13
1818 - Lucy Stone
women’s rights activist: member of first Woman’s Rights Convention [1850]; founded [w/husband]: American Suffrage Association; died Oct 18, 18931860 - Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee)
sharpshooter, performer: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show; died Nov 3, 19261895 - Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim)
actor: The Wizard of Oz, Rose Marie, Ship Ahoy, The Night They Raided Minsky’s; died Dec 4, 19671898 - Regis Toomey
actor: Change of Habit, Warlock, They Died with Their Boots On, Shadows of the Orient, The Curfew Breakers; died Oct 12, 19911899 - Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock
‘The Master of Suspense’: director: Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, Rebecca, To Catch a Thief, Frenzy, Notorious, Suspicion, The Thirty-Nine Steps; TV host: Alfred Hitchcock Presents; died Apr 29, 19801904 - Jonathan Hole
actor: The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Silhouette, Till Death, The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, 4 for Texas, -30-, Cry Terror!, Riot in Cell Block 11, Green Acres; died Feb 12, 19981904 - Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers
actor: Abie’s Irish Rose, Varsity, Mexican Spitfire at Sea, My Best Girl; died Apr 21, 19991907 - Skinnay Ennis
musician: drums, singer, bandleader (theme song: Got a Date with an Angel); radio regular: Bob Hope show, Abbott and Costello show; appeared in films: Radio Stars on Parade, Let’s Go Steady, Sleepytime Gal, College Swing; died June 3, 19631908 - Gene Raymond (Raymond Guion)
actor: Hit the Deck, Flying Down to Rio; host: TV’s Reader’s Digest, Hollywood Summer Theatre, Fireside Theatre; died May 2, 19981909 - Dave Willock
actor: Green Acres, Margie, The Roman Holidays, Hustle, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, The Barefoot Executive, The Legend of Lylah Clare, Frankie and Johnny; died Nov 12, 19901912 - Ben Hogan
golf champion: Masters [1951, 1953], U.S. Open [1948, 1950, 1951, 1953], British Open [1953], PGA [1946, 1948]; died July 25, 19971919 - Rex Humbard
television evangelist; died Sep 21, 20071919 - George Shearing
jazz pianist: September in the Rain, I’ll Take Romance, Changing with the Times; composer: Lullaby of Birdland, Conception, Consternation; died Feb 14, 20111920 - Neville Brand
actor: Stalag 17, Birdman of Alcatraz, Riot in Cell Block II, Laredo; U.S. Army: 4th most-decorated [WWII]; died Apr 16, 19921921 - Jimmy McCracklin (James David Walker)
singer: The Walk, Get Back, Later On, The Georgia Slop, The Wobble, Just Got to Know, Susie and Pat, Think; died Dec 20, 20121926 - Fidel Castro (Ruz)
Cuban guerrilla/dictator; died Nov 25, 20161929 - Pat Harrington
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: One Day at a Time [1983-84]; The Jack Paar Show, The Steve Allen Show, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Danny Thomas Show; died Jan 6, 20161930 - Don Ho (Donald Tai Loy Ho)
singer: Tiny Bubbles; Waikiki entertainer, host: The Don Ho Show; died April 14, 20071930 - Vinegar Bend (Wilmer David) Mizell
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1959], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1960], NY Mets; died Feb 21, 19991935 - ‘Mudcat’ (James Timothy ‘Jim’) Grant
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1963], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965/all-star: 1965], LA Dodgers, Montreal Expos, SL Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Jun 11, 20211940 - Tony (Lee) Cloninger
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [only player from National League and only pitcher to have 2 grand slams in a game: July 3, 1966], Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970], St. Louis Cardinals; died Jul 24, 20181944 - Kevin Tighe
actor: Emergency, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Newsies, Double Cross, City of Hope, Another 48 Hrs., Caught in the Act1947 - Gretchen Corbett
actress: The Rockford Files, Jaws of Satan, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, The Savage Bees1948 - Kathleen Battle
Metropolitan Opera diva: performed w/NY Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris1949 - Bobby Clarke
Hockey Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Flyers: Hart Memorial Trophy winner [1973, 75, 76], coach, general manager1949 - Cliff Fish
musician: bassist: group: Paper Lace: The Night Chicago Died1949 - Philippe Petit
French high-wire artist: walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, NY [Aug 7, 1974]1949 - Andre Thornton
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1982, 1984]1951 - Jeff Altman
comedian, actor: Back by Midnight, Russian Holiday, Highlander II: The Quickening, Soul Man, Easy Money, Drop-Out Father, Legends of the Superheroes1951 - Dan Fogelberg
singer: Hard to Say, Longer, Leader of the Band, The Language of Love, Same Old Lang Syne, Run for the Roses; died Dec 16, 20071952 - Don Hardeman
football: Texas A&I, NFL: Houston Oilers, TB Buccaneers, Baltimore Colts, NO Saints; died Jun 2, 20161957 - Kathleen Gati
actress: All My Children, The Practice, NYPD Blue, ER, Meet the Fockers, Desperate Housewives, Las Vegas, 24, The House Bunny, General Hospital; more1958 - Feargal Sharkey
singer: group: The Undertones: Teenage Kicks, Jimmy Jimmy, Here Comes the Summer, My Perfect Cousin, Julie Ocean, Forever Paradise, It’s Going to Happen; solo: Listen to Your Father, A Good Heart, When a Man Loves a Woman, More Love1959 - Danny Bonaduce
actor: The Partridge Family, H.O.T.S., America’s Deadliest Home Video; disc jockey1961 - Sam Champion
TV host: Good Morning America [ABC]1961 - Dawnn Lewis
actress: I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, A Different World, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper; more1962 - John Slattery
actor: Mad Men, The Adjustment Bureau, Iron Man 2, Charlie Wilson’s War, Flags of Our Fathers, Mona Lisa Smile, Sleepers, A Death in the Family, Homefront, From the Earth to the Moon, Will & Grace1963 - Steve Higgins
comedian: The Higgins Boys and Gruber; TV announcer: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon1964 - Jay Buhner
baseball [right field, first base]: New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners
1964 - Debi Mazar
actress: Entourage, Batman Forever, Goodfellas, Good Vibes, Jonas, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Witness to the Mob, Lies & Alibis, A Beautiful Life1964 - Tom Prince
baseball [catcher, first, third base]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals1965 - Cris Dishman
football [defensive back]: Purdue Univ; NFL: Houston Oilers, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings1967 - Quinn Cummings
actress: The Goodbye Girl, The Babysitter, Night Terror, Intimate Strangers1973 - Brittany Andrews
actress: X-rated films: Unruly Slaves, The Naked Truth, Internal Affairs, Night Nurses, Swinging in the Rain, Harem Hooters, Ben Dover Does the Boob Cruise, Strip Search, Lingerie Kickboxer, Backstage Sluts1973 - Moritz Bleibtreu
actor: Run Lola Run, Speed Racer, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Run Lola Run, Das Experiment, Munich1973 - Kelly O’Dell
actress [1992-2001]: X-rated films: Twister, Dirty Books, Wild & Wicked 3, One of Our Porn Stars Is Missing, Make My Wife, Please, Candy Snacker, The Horny Hiker, Dirty Bob's Xcellent Adventures 351976 - Jody Thompson
actress: The 4400, Flash Gordon, A Trace of Danger, Alien Trespass, The Perfect Child, In Her Mother’s Footsteps, Blade: The Series, Terminal City, Cold Squad, Andromeda, Stargate, Smallville1978 - Dwight Smith
football [safety]: Univ of Akron; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions1979 - Kathryn Fiore
actress: Cousin Howard, Mission: Impossible III, Party Goer, The Ironman, Reno 911!, Necessary Evil, Hatchet II; Broadway: Picnic [1994]1982 - Sebastian Stan
actor: Captain America: The First Avenger, The Covenant, Kings, Gossip Girl, Black Swan, Hot Tub Time Machine, Rachel Getting Married, Red Doors
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Hit Music on This Day August 13
1952Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (facts) - Johnnie Ray
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart (facts) - Vera Lynn
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