April 2
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Events on This Day
1792 - The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. mint. Which mint was first? The one in Philadelphia, PA.1872 - G.B. Brayton of Boston, MA received a patent for the gas-powered engine (patent #125,166).
1889 - Charles Hall patented (#400,666) aluminum on this day. In 1907 Charles Hall’s company later named itself Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa).
1902 - The first motion picture theatre opened in Los Angeles. The Electric Theatre charged a dime to see an hour’s entertainment, including the films, Capture of the Biddle Brothers and New York City in a Blizzard. Now that’s entertainment!
1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”
1932 - Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh and Dr. John F. Condon turned over $50,000 in ransom to an unidentified man in a Bronx cemetery in New York in exchange for Lindbergh’s kidnapped son. The infant, however, was not returned, and was found dead the following month.
1942 - Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded American Patrol for Victor Records. The jitterbug tune became one of Miller’s most requested hits.
1947 - The Big Story was first heard on NBC radio. It stayed on the air for eight years.
1954 - Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson defeated Kid Gavilan to retain the world middleweight boxing title. Go Bobo!
1956 - Two very successful daytime dramas premiered. The Edge of Night and As the World Turns were seen for the first time on CBS-TV.
1963 - Best Foot Forward opened in New York City. Liza Minelli (making her professional debut) was the lead actress in this off-Broadway revival of the show which enjoyed a run of 224 performances.
1969 - The Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association signed Lew Alcindor for a reported $1,400,000 five-year contract. Alcindor soon changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabar and his team to the Los Angeles Lakers.
1970 - The constitution of Qatar was drafted, opening the way for the emirate to gain its independence from Great Britain (Sep 3, 1971).
1972 - Actor Burt Reynolds appeared naked as a jaybird in Cosmopolitan magazine. This issue of Cosmo became an instant collector’s item and an additional 700,000 copies had to be printed.
1974 - What a night this was at the 46th Annual Academy Awards presentation at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles! Hosting the film industry celebration were John Huston, David Niven, Burt Reynolds, and Diana Ross. It was a banner year for 1973 flicks and the magnificent memories they created: Serpico, The Exorcist, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Day of the Jackal, American Graffiti, Papillon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Last Tango in Paris, Live and Let Die, Cinderella Liberty. And this list doesn’t even include The Best Picture of the Year, The Sting (producers: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips). The Sting won six additional Oscars: Director (George Roy Hill); Art Direction (Henry Bumstead)and Set Decoration (James Payne); Costume Design (Edith Head); Film Editing (William Reynolds); Scoring/Original Song Score/Adaptation: (Marvin Hamlisch); Writing/Original Story/Screenplay based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced (David S. Ward); plus three additional nominations. Nor does it include these Oscar winners: Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger; Best Actress: Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class; Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman for The Paper Chase; Best Supporting Actress: Tatum O’Neal for Paper Moon; and Best Music/Song: The Way We Were -- Marvin Hamlisch (music), Alan and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) from the movie of the same title. And that’s the way it was in 1974.
1974 - Georges Pompidou, French statesman and president (from 1969) died while still in office. He was 73 years old.
1977 - Stevie Wonder’s tribute to Duke Ellington, Sir Duke, was released.
1978 - J.R. Ewing and the clan arrived at Southfork, when Dallas was seen for the first time -- on CBS-TV. Larry Hagman, formerly of I Dream of Jeannie fame, starred as J.R. (John Ross) Ewing. The show originally was broadcast on Sunday night, then moved to Saturday and later, Friday nights. The show became an enormously popular hit and was the talk of many people around the water cooler each Monday morning.
1982 - Several thousand troops from Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Great Britain. Britain grabbed the islands back the following June.
1984 - John Thompson became the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA college basketball championship. Georgetown’s Hoyas defeated Houston 84-75 in Seattle for the win. Thompson’s team in 1982 had finished second to North Carolina for the championship.
1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball, to begin in the 1986 season. It was an effort to thwart the end-of-game stalls that kept opposing teams from scoring in close contests.
1985 - A day after its release, the album, We are the World, was certified gold with sales in excess of 500,000 copies.
1987 - Drivers were back in the fast lane as states began to raise the speed limit on interstate highways in limited areas to 65 miles per hour. Watch the signs, please. Radar ahead.
1987 - Jazz drummer Buddy Rich died in Los Angeles of a heart attack (following surgery for a malignant brain tumor). He was 69 years old. Rich played with several big bands in the 1930s and 1940s, including Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey. After WWII, he started his own band with financial help from Frank Sinatra. Rich also toured with Norman Granz’s Jazz at the Philharmonic, then gave up his own band to join trumpeter Harry James. With James, he earned $2,500 a week, the highest salary paid to a sideman at the time. Rich formed a another big band, consisting mainly of young musicians, in the 1960s. That band toured widely for two decades, playing a mixture of jazz and rock tunes that made it a big favorite on college campuses.
1990 - The University of Nevada at Las Vegas won the NCAA college basketball championship, beating Duke 103-73.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti, the ‘Teflon Don’, was convicted in New York City of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
1994 - Consumer reporter Betty Furness died in Hartsdale, NY at 78 years of age.
1996 - A U.S. federal appeals court rejected New York state laws banning doctor-assisted suicide, saying it would be discriminatory to let people disconnect life support systems while refusing to let others end their lives with medication.
1997 - An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt jet with four 500-pound bombs was lost over the Colorado Rockies. It was piloted by Capt. Craig Button (32). Wreckage of the plane was found Apr 20 on the sheer face of New York Mountain [Gold Dust Peak], 15 miles from Vail. An Air Force report in Oct, 1997 concluded Button had committed ‘spontaneous’ or ‘unpremeditated’ suicide. Admittedly, they said, this conclusion came because no other reason could be amply ascertained from the events they had analyzed...
1999 - The Out of Towners opened in the U.S. The romantic comedy stars Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese, Mark McKinney, Oliver Hudson and Valerie Perri.
2001 - The U.S. Senate passed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill that would ban the large unregulared political contributions known as soft money.
2001 - U.S. President Bush (II) demanded that China promptly return a U.S. spy plane and its crew members. (The plane had made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter.)
2002 - Federal prosecutors in Illinois indicted the campaign committee of Governor George Ryan and two former top aids on charges of racketeering, mail fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
2003 - In one of his final statements as president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein declared that, “victory is at hand.”
2004 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Hellboy, starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Doug Jones, Rupert Evans, Victoria Smurfit and David Hyde Pierce; Home on the Range, with Judi Dench, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Sarah Jessica Parker, Randy Quaid, David Burnham, Ja’Net DuBois and Gregory Jbara; The Prince and Me, starring Julia Stiles, Susan Sarandon, Luke Mably and Alberta Watson; and Walking Tall, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Johnny Knoxville, Ashley Scott, Neal McDonough and John Beasley.
2004 - A Spanish railroad inspector found a 26-pound bomb hidden in a bag on a busy high-speed rail line. Police said the device contained the same type of dynamite that had been used in the Madrid train bombings of March 2004.
2005 - Pope John Paul II died in his private apartment at the Vatican. He was 84 years old and was the third longest-serving pontiff in history. Born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, the Pope worked tirelessly to build a moral foundation in the modern world and was one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century.
2006 - Alcatel SA, the French telecom equipment maker, announced the acquisition of its U.S. rival, Lucent Technologies Inc. The deal valued Lucent at about $13.5 billion (11.1 billion euros) in a stock swap that would form a major new global player.
2007 - Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, reached an agreement to buy the Chicago-based Tribune Company in a deal valued at $8.2 billion.
2008 - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes, pressure cookers and other items for the first time as Raul Castro’s new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
2009 - A U.S. federal grand jury issued a 75-page indictment charging former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich with racketeering, extortion and fraud.
2009 - Human rights groups in Afghanistan and some Afghan lawmakers criticized President Hamid Karzai for signing into law legislation that some believed legalized the rape of a wife by her husband and prevented women from leaving the house without a man’s permission. Article 132 of the law said: “As long as the husband is not traveling, he has the right to have sexual intercourse with his wife every fourth night.”
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Clash of the Titans, with Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Danny Huston, Gemma Arterton, Mads Mikkelsen, Jason Flemyng, Alexa Davalos, Izabella Miko, Nicholas Hoult and Pete Postlethwaite; Tau ming chong (Warlords), with Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei; and Why Did I Get Married Too, starring Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Lamman Rucker, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael J. White, Cicely Tyson and Louis Gossett Jr.
2010 - At least 23 devotees were nailed to crosses in San Fernando, Philippines to mark Good Friday. Two-inch (5 cm) stainless steel nails that had been soaked in alcohol to disinfect them were used to nail the dozen or so penitents - mostly men - to individual crosses in a rice field near town.
2010 - China reported that 533 of the country’s 1,176 dairies had been shut down in an attempt to clean up the scandal-plagued Chinese dairy industry. Six babies had died and 300,000 made ill by drinking infant formula tainted with melamine. The industrial chemical had been added to dairy products to make them appear to be high in protein.
2012 - The Eurozone reported that unemployment totaled 17.1 million, its highest level since the Euro was introduced in 1999.
2013 - U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the so-called Brain Initiative, a plan to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain by mapping the activity of every neuron in it. Based upon the "Human Genome Project", the initiative was projected to cost more than $300 million per year for ten years.
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Dom Hemingway, starring Emilia Clarke, Jude Law, Kerry Condon, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Deborah Rosan, Madalina Diana Ghenea and Larissa Jones; and The Retrieval, with Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr. and Christine Horn.
2014 - Army Specialist Ivan Lopez gunned down three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood, Texas Army base. Lopez had been under psychiatric care but exhibited no signs of violence or suicidal tendencies prior to his rampage.
2014 - British authorities warned people with heart or lung conditions to avoid exertion as a combination of European emissions and Sahara dust had created a ‘perfect storm’ of pollution that blanketed the country in smog.
2015 - Reverend Robert Schuller, southern California televangelist, died in Artesia (L.A.) at 88 years of age. Schuller’s Hour of Power, inaugurated in 1970, became the most watched weekly U.S. religious program in the 1980s. His Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA opened in 1980.
2015 - Police arrested some 30 protesters as some 300 gathered at Mt. Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The demonstrators were against the proposed construction of a new telescope.
2016 - A partial cease-fire in Syria was unravelling, as fierce fighting between government forces and opposition fighters, including members of the al-Qaida affiliated Nusra Front, erupted outside the country’s second largest city of Aleppo. The truce agreement, the first of its kind in Syria’s five-year war, excluded the Nusra Front and the Islamic State group. But the Nusra Front was embedded with other groups throughout the country. And the government had taken advantage of this ambiguity to strike and besiege opposition-held areas across Syria.
2017 - An investigation by The New York Times found five women who had received payouts from either Bill O’Reilly or Fox News that totaled about $13 million. Why the payments? To settle claims of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior.
2018 - Heavy fines (500,000 riyals ($133,000, €108,000) were announced in Saudi Arabia for spying on a spouse’s phone. Violators could also get up to a year in prison under a new anti-cybercrime law that aimed to “protect morals of individuals and society and protect privacy.”
2018 - Israel reached a deal with the United Nations refugee agency that would send thousands of African migrants from Israel to Western countries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Canada, Italy and Germany would all take in some of the migrants.
2019 - Lori Lightfoot (56), a former federal prosecutor, was elected mayor of Chicago, becoming the city’s first black woman and the city’s first openly gay person to lead Chicago. Lightfoot got roughly 75 percent of the vote and won all 50 wards.
2019 - The World Health Organization reported that Ebola was on the rise in eastern Congo following a series of attacks on health facilities. 73 new cases were reported the previious week, compared to 57 the week before. A total of 1100 confirmed and probable EVD cases had been reported, of which 690 died.
2019 - New Zealand lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of new gun restrictions during the first stage of a bill they hope to rush into law by the end of next week. The vote came following the deadly mosque attacks of March 15, 2019.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits more than doubled over the previous week. The pandemic had killed some 5,900 people in the U.S. Global coronavirus cases had killed more than 48,000. 2)Tennessee Governor Bill Lee issued orders requiring citizens to remain at home, ending one of the last holdouts by U.S. states. 3)France’s Labor Ministry said French companies had asked to put nearly four million workers on state-subsidized furloughs to cope with the collapse in business triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. 4)The U.N. General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution recognizing “the unprecedented effects” of the pandemic and calling for “intensified international cooperation to contain, mitigate and defeat” the disease.
2020 - Twitter said it had deleted 20,000 fake accounts linked to the governments of Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Honduras and Indonesia, saying they violated company policy and were a “targeted attempt to undermine the public conversation.” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of site integrity, said the removal of the accounts was part of the company’s ongoing “work to detect and investigate state-backed information operations.”
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Unholy, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Cary Elwes and Katie Aselton; Every Breath You Take, with Michelle Monaghan, Sam Claflin and Casey Affleck; Say Your Prayers, starring Will Barton, Harry Melling and Tom Brooke; Shiva Baby, with Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon and Polly Draper; Amundsen, starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck and Katherine Waterston; and This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, with Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng and Makhaola Ndebele.
2021 - President Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since taking office as US and NATO officials warned of a Russian military buildup near eastern Ukraine. Biden had been keeping Ukraine at arm’s length while quietly pushing for further reforms in a country he spent years getting to know as vice president -- and one that was a critical front in the West’s efforts to contain Russia.
2021 - Italy reported 481 coronavirus-related deaths with the daily tally of new infections at 21,932. Italy had seen 110,328 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak in February of 2020.
2021 - Turkey began administering Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 shots, introducing a second vaccine in its campaign that began in mid-January, as new cases reached record highs.
2023 - The deepest living fish ever recorded was the snailfish, caught on camera at a depth of 27,349 feet (5.2 miles; 8,336 meters) in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench, south of Japan.
2023 - Lake Tulare, once the largest body of water west of the Mississippi, re-emerged after a series of storms in California’s Central Valley to cover 160 square miles. The lake sits about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, not far from Fresno. Recent rains had led to flooding that damaged towns and deluged farms -- and started to refill what was once a sprawling lake.
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Birthdays on This Day April 2
1725 - Giacomo Casanova
writer: History of My Life; philanderer: his name became synonymous for philanderer, rogue in the English language even though he was Italian; died June 4, 17981805 - Hans Christian Andersen
author of fairy tales: The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes; died Aug 4, 1875
1840 - Émile Zola
novelist: Therese Raquin, The Rougon-Macquart, The Belly of Paris, The Grog Shop, Nana, Germinal, The Crash, The Three Cities, The Four Gospels, The Experimental Novel, The Naturalistic Novelists, Naturalism in the Theater; an open letter to win a new trial for Alfred Dreyfus: J’accuse; died Sep 29, 19021875 - Walter Chrysler
auto manufacturer: Chrysler Corporation; died Aug 18, 19401907 - Luke Appling
Baseball Hall of Famer [shortstop]: Chicago White Sox; manager: Kansas City A’s; died Jan 3, 19911908 - Buddy Ebsen (Christian Rudolph Ebsen)
actor: The Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones, The President’s Plane is Missing, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Red Garters, Stone Fox, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; died July 6, 20031912 - Herbert Mills
singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Glow-Worm, Cab Driver; died Apr 12, 19891914 - Alec Guinness (Alec Guinness de Cuffe)
Academy Award-winning actor: The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]; The Empire Strikes Back, The Lavender Hill Mob, Star Wars, A Passage to India, The Quiller Memorandum; died Aug 5, 20001917 - Lou Monte
singer: Pepino the Italian Mouse, Lazy Mary, At the Darktown Strutter’s Ball; died June 12, 19891918 - Charles White
artist: J’Accuse [1966], posters: Wanted [1969], Homage to Langston Hughes [1971], WPA murals; died Oct 3, 19791920 - Jack (John Randolph) Webb
director, actor: Dragnet, Pete Kelly’s Blues; actor: Sunset Boulevard, The Halls of Montezuma; died Dec 23, 19821924 - Bobby (Roberto Francisco Gonzales) Avila
baseball: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1952, 1954, 1955/World Series: 1954], Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox; died Oct 26, 20041926 - Jack Brabham
auto racer: Formula One world driving champ [1959, 1960, 1966], 14 Grand Prix wins [won both Australian and New Zealand Grand Prix three times], knighted for his service to motor sport; died May 19, 20141927 - Carmen Basilio
middleweight boxer lost to Sugar Ray Robinson as Robinson regained the world title for the fourth time [1958]; died Nov 7, 20121927 - Rita Gam (Mackay)
actress: The Thief, Klute, Midnight; died Mar 22, 20161927 - Billy Pierce
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers [1945, 1948: 1945 World Series champs]; Chicago White Sox [1949–1961]; San Francisco Giants [1962–1964]; died Jul 31, 20151934 - Carl Kasell
U.S. radio personality: judge, scorekeeper of NPR’s weekly news quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!; died Apr 17, 20181938 - Warner Mack (Warner MacPherson)
country singer, songwriter: Is it Wrong; died Mar 1, 20221939 - Marvin (Pentz) Gaye Jr.
singer: Pride & Joy, How Sweet It Is, I’ll Be Doggone, Ain’t That Peculiar, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, What’s Going On, Let’s Get It On, Sexual Healing; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; died Apr 1, 19841942 - Leon Russell
singer: Tight Rope, Lady Blue; songwriter: Superstar [Carpenters], This Masquerade [George Benson]; died Nov 13, 20161943 - Glen Dale (Richard Garforth)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fortunes1944 - Marlene Floyd
golf: LPGA Tour; member of Floyd family: 1988 Golf Family of the Year [dad, L.B.], [mom, Edith], [brother, Ray]; NBC-TV golf commentator1945 - Linda Hunt
Academy Award-winning actress: The Year of Living Dangerously [1983]; NCIS: Los Angeles, Silverado, Dune, Popeye, Kindergarten Cop, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Flying Nun1945 - Reggie (Carl Reginald) Smith
baseball: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1969, 1972], SL Cardinals [all-star: 1974, 1975], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1977, 1978, 1980], SF Giants1945 - Don Sutton
Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: 5th highest record of pitching strikeouts [3,569]: LA Dodgers [all-star: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977/World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1982], Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels, Oakland Athletics; TV play-by-play: Atlanta Braves; died Jan 18, 20211947 - Emmylou Harris
singer: Grammy Award-winning singer: Elite Hotel [1976], Blue Kentucky Girl [1978], That Lovin’ You Feeling Again [w/Roy Orbison - 1980], Trio [1987], At the Ryman [w/the Nash Ramblers - 1992], Wrecking Ball [1996]; Mr. Sandman, The Last Waltz, Pledging My Love, In My Dreams, Amarillo, ’Till I Gain Control Again1949 - Ron Palillo
actor: Welcome Back, Kotter, Laverne & Shirley in the Army, Wind, Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster, Hellgate, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Surf II, The Invisible Woman; died Aug 14, 20121949 - Pamela Reed
actress: Junior, Kindergarten Cop, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Right Stuff, The Best of Times, The Goodbye People, The Long Riders, Bob Roberts, Grand, Family Album, The Andros Targets, Getting Out1952 - Leon Wilkeson
musician: bass guitar: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird, Sweet Home Alabama; died July 27, 20011953 - David Robinson
musician: drums: group: The Cars: Drive, Just What I Needed, My Best Friend’s Girl, Good Times Roll, You’re All I’ve Got Tonight, Bye Bye Love, Moving in Stereo1953 - Héctor Cruz
baseball [outfield, third base]: St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds1953 - Debralee Scott
actress: Police Academy, Just Tell Me You Love Me; died Apr 5, 20051961 - Tony Calabretta
actor: The Day After Tomorrow, Punisher: War Zone, Heist, Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story, The Last Chapter: The War Continues, Gleason, The House on Turk Street1961 - Christopher Meloni
actor: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Oz, Dinosaurs, Misery Loves Company, True Blood, Green Lantern: First Flight, National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, Awful Nice, Man of Steel, 42, White Bird in a Blizzard, They Came Together1961 - Keren Woodward
singer: group: Bananarama: Cruel Summer, Venus, I Heard a Rumor1962 - Billy Dean
singer: Only Here for a Little While, Somewhere in My Broken Heart, You Don’t Count the Cost, Only the Wind, Billy the Kid, If There Hadn’t Been You, Tryin’ to Hide a Fire in the Dark, It’s What I Do, Let Them Be Little1962 - Clark Gregg
actor: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Ultimate Spider-Man, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The West Wing, Will & Grace, The Avengers1966 - Bill Romanowski
football [outside linebacker]: Boston College; NFL: San Francisco 49ers [1988-1993] Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV champs; Philadelphia Eagles [1994-1995]; Denver Broncos [1996-2001] Super Bowl XXXII, XXXIII champs; Oakland Raiders [2002-2003] Super Bowl XXXVII1970 - Denny Hocking
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Colorado Rockies1970 - Jon Lieber
baseball [pitcher]: South Alabama Univ; Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies1971 - Todd Woodbridge
tennis: Wimbledon doubles champ [1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004]; member of the celebrated ‘Woodies’ doubles partnership1973 - Roselyn Sanchez
actress: Without a Trace, Rush Hour 2, Fame L.A., Chasing Papi, Edison, The Game Plan, The Perfect Sleep, Act of Valor1975 - Deedee Magno
actress: Broadway: Miss Saigon, Wicked; TV: Third Watch, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Steven Universe1975 - Pedro Pascal
actor: Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, The Great Wall, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Equalizer 2, Triple Frontier, Wonder Woman 1984, We Can Be Heroes1975 - Adam Rodriguez
actor: CSI: Miami, Thanks to Gravity, Category 7: The End of the World, Kim Possible, Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty, The Goodwin Games1976 - Rory Sabbatini
golf: champ: Air Canada Championship [2000], FBR Capital Open [2003], Nissan Open [2006], Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial [2007]1977 - Michael Fassbender
actor: Inglourious Basterds, X-Men: First Class, Prometheus, 300, Fish Tank, Jane Eyre [2011], A Dangerous Method, Hunger, Shame1978 - Jaime Ray Newman
actress: Eastwick, Eureka, Mental, Lincoln Heights, E-Ring, Veronica Mars; more1979 - Lindy Booth
actress: The Famous Jett Jackson, Silverstone, Relic Hunter, Cry Wolf, Dawn of the Dead, Hollywood North, Wrong Turn, American Psycho 2: All American Girl, The Skulls II, Her Best Friend’s Husband; more1979 - Jesse Carmichael
musician: keyboards: group: Maroon 5: Makes Me Wonder, Moves Like Jagger, One More Night, Animals, Sugar1981 - Michael Clarke
cricket [batsman, slow left-arm bowler]: Australian national team: 2015 Cricket World Cup title1981 - Bethany Joy Lenz
actress: One Tree Hill, Guiding Light; musician: guitar, piano: When the Stars Go Blue1982 - Marco Amelia
soccer [goalkeeper: Italy]: Livorno, Lecce1984 - Ashley Peldon
actress: Guiding Light 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys, Dimples, Ghost World, With Friends Like These..., Jake’s Women, Deceived1984 - Cara Santana
actress: Lipshitz Saves the World, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta!, Reunion, DialStar1986 - Drew Van Acker
actor: Pretty Little Liars, Devious Maids, Fortress, Camouflage, Castle1990 - Yevgeniya Kanayeva
Russian rhythmic gymnast: the only individual rhythmic gymnast to win two Olympic all-around gold medals [2008, 2012 Summer Olympics]1994 - Pascal Siakam
basketball [power forward]: Toronto Raptors [2016– ]; 2019 NBA champs2002 - Emma Myers
actress: The Glades, Wednesday, Family Switch, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
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1950If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake (facts) - Eileen Barton
Dearie (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Kenny Gardner Trio)
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