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1776 - Harvard College conferred the first honorary Doctor of Laws degree to George Washington.1829 - James Carrington of Wallingford, CT patented the coffee mill. Have a cup of fresh ground in celebration today.
1860 - Pony Express mail service began -- in St. Joseph, Missouri. The first Pony Express rider was heading for California. The next day, another rider left Sacramento, California heading east for Missouri. Each rider had a 75 to 100 mile run before a switch was made with another rider. The switch was made at one of 190 way stations along the route; each way station being about ten to fifteen miles apart. The Pony Express riders delivered the mail within ten days (similar to our current snail-mail) for postage paid of $5 per ounce. This style of mail service became antiquated within a short two years, being put out to pasture by the advent of the overland telegraph.
1866 - Rudolph Eickemeyer and G. Osterheld of Yonkers, New York patented a blocking and shaping machine for hats. Which reminds us, do you know why cowboy hats are turned up at the sides? -- So three cowboys can ride in a pickup truck!
1930 - The fledgling film industry patted itself on its collective back this night at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. They were celebrating the 2nd Annual Academy Awards presentation for movies made during the 1928-1929 year. (Movies made during the 1929-1930 year were honored seven months later on November 5.) There were no ‘officially’ announced nominees; but there was a host for the evening’s activities: Writer, director, producer William C. de Mille. No one ran away with all the awards either. The Best Director was Frank Lloyd for The Divine Lady; Warner Baxter was voted Best Actor for his role in In Old Arizona, while Mary Pickford took home the Best Actress award for her part in Coquette. Hanns Kräly penned the script for The Patriot, winning the Best Writing award and the Best Picture of the year was The Broadway Melody produced by Harry Rapf.
1939 - Mr. District Attorney was heard for the first time on NBC radio. The serial about the ‘champion of the people’ was originally a 15-minute nightly program. In June of 1939, the program went to a half-hour weekly format. Mr. District Attorney aired until 1952.
1946 - Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad outside Manila.
1949 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debuted on radio in an NBC program that ran until 1953.
1952 - Harry Belafonte recorded his first songs for RCA Victor at Manhattan Center in New York City. Hugo Winterhalter backed up the singer with an 18-piece orchestra. Among the sides recorded were A-Roving and Chimney Smoke.
1953 - TV Guide was published for the first time -- from Radnor, Pennsylvania (near Philadelphia). On the cover of this first issue was Lucy’s Baby, Desi Arnez IV. The publication reached a circulation of 1,500,000 readers in its first year.
1955 - Fred Astaire appeared on Toast of the Town, with host, Ed Sullivan. Already an established dancer and actor in films, Astaire was quickly becoming a TV sensation as well.
1958 - Say, Darling opened at the ANTA Theatre in New York City. The comedy, starring Vivian Blaine, Irene Lovelle, Johnny Desmond and Rudy Lorraine, ran for 332 performances.
1962 - Race jockey Eddie Arcaro retired with a career record of 15,327 victories for total winnings of $12,265,455. Arcaro was the first jockey to win 3,000 races and the first to ride five Kentucky Derby winners. In the Derby, Arcaro rode these mounts to the Winner’s Circle: Lawrin, Whirl-a-Way, Hoop Jr., Citation and Hill Gail.
1965 - Bob Dylan appeared on the pop music charts for the first time. Subterranean Homesick Blues entered the Top 40 at number 39. The song stayed on the charts for eight weeks. Dylan would chart a total of 12 singles on the pop charts between 1965 and 1979. He appeared in the films Don’t Look Back, Eat the Document and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He made the film Renaldo and Clara in 1978. Dylan co-starred in the film Hearts of Fire in 1987. He became a member of the Traveling Wilburys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Dylan won the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered. The Stanley Kubrick sci-fi fantasy stars Keir Dullea, William Sylvester, Gary Lockwood, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Robert Beautty and a computer named HAL.
1975 - Bobby Fischer was stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it -- he had not played a single chess game since winning the world championship.
1978 - The stars came out to honor Star Wars and other films of 1977 at the 50th anniversary of the Academy Awards. Bob Hope starred as the host of the festivities at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Although Star Wars was nominated in 10 categories including Best Picture, Annie Hall (Charles H. Joffe, Producer) copped the top award, as well as Oscars for Best Director (Woody Allen); Best Actress (Diane Keaton); and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman). Star Wars didn’t get any of the other audience-thriller Oscars either. The Best Actor statuette went to Richard Dreyfuss for his performance in The Goodbye Girl; Jason Robards was acclaimed as the Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Julia); his supporting co-star, Vanessa Redgrave, also took home the golden boy; as did Joseph Brooks for Best Music/Song: You Light Up My Life from the movie with the same title. Don’t feel sorry for Star Wars. though. It was and is a favorite of many in and out of the industry and it was honored with six Academy Awards plus the Special Achievement honor to Benjamin Burtt, Jr. for Sound Effects (for the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices) which he shared with Frank Warner (Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Sound Effects Editing). The other Academy Awards for Star Wars were: Best Music/Original Score (John Williams); Best Effects/Visual Effects (John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund, Grant McCune, Robert Blalack); Best Film Editing (Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew); Best Sound (Don MacDougall, Ray West, Bob Minkler, Derek Ball); Best Costume Design (John Mollo); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (John Barry, Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Roger Christian). Now that’s star status!
1982 - John Chancellor stepped down as anchor of the NBC Nightly News. Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw assumed roles as coanchors.
1985 - The famed Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood closed on this day after 57 years. All of the furnishings were kept, including famous Booth #5 -- where Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard.
1986 - The U.S. national debt hit $2,000,000,000,000 (trillion). A mere pittance compared to today’s deficit.
1987 - The late Duchess of Windsor’s jewels were auctioned off for 31,380,197 pounds - six times the expected figure.
1990 - Legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, known as the ‘Divine One’, died in Los Angeles of lung cancer, just days after her 66th birthday. Vaughan’s first hit was It’s Magic (1947), but her greatest pop success was Broken-Hearted Melody (1959). She won a Grammy Award for best female vocal jazz performance in 1982 for Gershwin, Live!
1995 - Former United Way of America President William Aramony was convicted in Alexandria, VA of 25 counts of fraud for stealing nearly $600,000 dollars from the nation’s biggest charity.
1995 - UCLA defeated Arkansas, 89-78, to win the NCAA college basketball championship.
1996 - The FBI raided a cabin near Lincoln, Montana and arrested (for possession of bomb components) former college professor Theodore Kaczynski, accusing him of being the Unabomber whose mail bombs had killed three people and injured 23 more since the 1970s.
1996 - The motion picture Faithful opened in theatres across the U.S. The comedy stars Cher, Chazz Palminteri and Ryan O’Neal.
1996 - A U.S. Air Force jet carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and American business executives crashed near Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 35 people aboard were killed. The Air Force T-43, the equivalent of a 737 commercial jet, was on a flight from Tuzla, Bosnia, to the port city of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
1998 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Lost in Space, starring Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt Leblanc, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson and Jared Harris; and Mercury Rising, starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin.
1999 - Lyricist and composer Lionel Bart died in London. He was 68 years old. Bart, born as Lionel Beglieter, wrote and composed the 1960 musical Oliver based on the Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft Corporation violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, maintaining “monopoly power by anticompetitive means” and trying to take over the Web browser market. The judge also found that Microsoft was "unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system" and could be sued under state anti-competition laws.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) warned China it risked damaging relations with the United States unless it quickly released the American crew of a damaged Navy spy plane. The plane had made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter.
2002 - Roy Huggins, novelists, TV writer and producer, died at 87 years of age. His shows included Cheyenne, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files.
2004 - The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a John Wayne commemorative postage stamp for its annual Legends of Hollywood issue at a private fund-raiser.
2005 - Arizona Minuteman anti-immigrant activists began patrolling the Arizona/Mexico border, searching for illegal immigrants. Grupos Beta, a Mexican government-sponsored organization that tries to discourage people from crossing illegally and aids those stranded in the desert, began patrolling that area along with state police officers.
2006 - A 10-ton construction platform collapsed and fell 13 stories killing 3 people on Boylston St. in Boston MA.
2006 - Denver CO-area transit workers went on strike for the first time in since 1982; a tentative agreement was reached on April 5, 2006.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) won a NATO endorsement for his plan to build a missile defense system in Europe -- over Russian objections. The proposal also advanced with Czech officials announcing an agreement to install a missile tracking site for the system in their country.
2008 - ATA Airlines discontinued all flights and filed for bankruptcy, leaving many passengers stranded. The airline had served about 10,000 passengers per day, operating flights from Chicago’s Midway Airport to Dallas, Oakland and the Mexican cities of Cancun and Guadalajara; and from Hawaii to Oakland, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
2008 - The revival of the Broadway musical South Pacific opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, New York City. A critical success, the show ran for 996 performances and won seven Tonys, including Best Musical Revival.
2009 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave his verbal support for U.S. President Obama’s Afghan war strategy. Sarkozy pledged more police trainers and civilian aid from France, but went no further.
2009 - Obama administration officials said they were lifting some curbs on travel from the U.S. to Cuba. The new rules allowed Cuban-Americans to visit families there as often as they liked and to send them unlimited funds.
2010 - Apple Inc. began selling its iPad, drawing eager customers intent on being among the first owners of the tablet-style device. Some 300,000 iPads were sold this first day.
2010 - About two dozen women drew a crowd when they shed their shirts and marched in downtown Portland, Maine. The ladies were promoting what they called equal-opportunity public toplessness. Organizer Ty MacDowell said the point of the march was that a topless woman out in public shouldn’t attract any more attention than a man who walks around without a shirt.
2011 - The French air accident investigation agency BEA said that a team aboard the expedition ship Alucia, using underwater robots, “has located pieces of an aircraft ... in the past 24 hours.” Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean June 1, 2009, after flying through an intense high-altitude thunderstorm. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, led the team that made the discovery. The search was being conducted several hundred miles off Brazil’s northeastern coast.
2011 - Workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant struggled to stop radioactive water from leaking into the Pacific Ocean. The government warned that the facility could spread contamination for months.
2012 - James Murdoch stepped down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting PLC (BSkyB) The son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch had been under pressure over his role in Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal.
2013 - The U.S. said it was sending a missile defense system to Guam to defend it from North Korea. This, as the U.S. military adjusted to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described as a “real and clear danger” from Pyongyang.
2013 - North Korea barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North. The Kaesong Industrial Complex was home to about 120 South Korean companies employing an estimated 53,000 North Koreans in factories. It was designed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement; South Korean firms take advantage of the cheap labor of North Korea workers, who get jobs that are well-paying by North Korean standards. (The two Koreas agreed to reopen Kaesong in Sep 2013 by pledging that the industrial zone’s operations would not be “affected by political situations under any circumstances.”)
2014 - The number of Syrian refugees who fled to Lebanon officially topped 1 million on this day. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR marked the devastating milestone by formally registering an 18-year-old student from the city of Homs as the millionth refugee.
2014 - Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act. It banned the state government from limiting the free practice of religion. The law allowed businessowners to turn away LGBT customers if they claimed their existence conflicts with their religion.
2015 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: Furious 7, starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Paul Walker, Shad Moss, Vin Diesel, Elsa Pataky and Ronda Rousey; Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, with Sushant Singh Rajput, Swastika Mukherjee and Anand Tiwari; The Girl Is in Trouble, starring Columbus Short, Wilmer Valderrama and Alicja Bachleda; the documentary, Lambert & Stamp; Last Knights, starring Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman and Aksel Hennie; and Woman in Gold, with Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Brühl.
2015 - A San Diego, CA man was sentenced to 18 years in state prison for posting nude photos of women on his revenge-porn website -- and then charging his victims to remove the photos. 28-year-old Kevin Bollaert was also ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to his victims.
2016 - Thousands of Poles protested a possible tightening of the country’s abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe. The powerful leader of Poland’s ruling party backed a call by Polish Catholic bishops for a full ban on pregnancy terminations. (The ongoing battle, the Polish fight for women’s rights continued in early 2017.)
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Iraq with high-ranking U.S. military officers to meet Iraqi leaders and to “review the fight against the Islamic State group.”
2017 - Singapore said it would repatriate (to India) Nalla Mohamed Abdul Jameel Abdul Malik, the chief cleric of a Muslim mosque, for offensive remarks targeting Christians and Jews. The decision was meant to “repudiate divisive speech.” During prayers on Jan 6, the cleric had used the phrase, “Grant us help against the Jews and the Christians.”
2018 - A Riverside County, CA woman (Nasim Najafi Aghdam) shot and wounded three people at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, CA -- before fatally shooting herself. Aghdam was a prolific YouTube user and had complained that several of her accounts had been heavily censored by the company.
2018 - Facebook reported that it had found and removed more than 270 accounts and pages controlled by Russia’s Internet Research Agency, the troll agency that became notorious for posting fraudulent and divisive material on the service ahead of the 2016 US presidential election.
2019 - Australian scientists said the world’s southernmost coral reef had been hit by bleaching, as they warned that rising sea temperatures from climate change were affecting even the most isolated ecosystems.
2019 - Former U.S. V.P. Joe Biden acknowledged that his tendency toward physical displays of affection and encouragement had made some women feel uncomfortable. “...I get it. I get it. I hear what they are saying. I understand. And I’ll be much more mindful. That’s my responsibility, my responsibility, and I’ll meet it," Biden said.
2020 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Clover, starring Mark Webber, Nicole Elizabeth Berger and Jon Abrahams; Lazy Susan, with Sean Hayes, Allison Janney and Matthew Broderick; Mr. Jones, starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard; The Other Lamb, with Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy and Denise Gough; and Our Mothers, starring Aurelia Caal, Emma Dib and Julio Serrano Echeverría.
2020 - POTUS Trump fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had defied him and informed Congress about a whistleblower complaint regarding Trump’s communications with Ukraine.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, said Americans should cover their face if they go out in public, but they should still stay isolated as much as possible. The announcement marked a reversal for health officials, who’d previously said that those without symptoms didn’t need to wear face coverings. 2)The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy lost 701,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate rose from 3.5 percent to 4.4 percent. 3)In France the coronavirus pandemic had claimed the lives of 5,307 and some 6,400 people were on life-support machines. Police ramped up checks at train stations and motorways to stop people breaking the national lockdown.
2021 - The New York Times uncovered a dastardly Trump scheme to boost revenue. Supporters of Donald Trump who thought they had sent a single donation were charged over and over by his campaign operation. The campaign had been forced to refund some $122.7 million to supporters in 2020, giving back nearly 11% of the money it had raised.
2021 - The Suez Canal Authority announced that all 422 ships that had been stranded by the grounded Ever Given had passed through the canal.
2021 - France reported that 5,273 people were in intensive care units for COVID-19, as the country entered its third national lockdown to combat the pandemic. French hospitals had brought in extra staff for the Easter holiday weekend to cope with growing numbers of virus patients, while travelers converged on train stations and highways to flee big cities before new nationwide restrictions took hold.
2022 - At the 64th annual Grammy Awards: Silk Sonic, Jon Batiste and Olivia Rodrigo were among the winners at the Grammy Awards. Batiste picked up five trophies, including the top prize of album of the year. The awards show was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and was the first Grammy Awards ceremony to not to be held in either New York City or Los Angeles since 1973.
2022 - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the killing of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, a brutality unseen in Europe for decades.
2023 - Australia joined other Western countries in banning the use of TikTok on government devices. The Chinese-owned video app apparently presents security concerns. The decision put Australia in line with its allies in the U.S., Britain and Canada, who had announced similar restrictions. New Zealand’s parliament ordered the app to be removed from all devices with access to the legislature. NATO also officially banned staffers from downloading the app onto their NATO-provided devices.
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Birthdays on This Day April 3
1783 - Washington Irving
author: Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Life of Washington; died Nov 28, 18591823 - William M. (Marcy) ‘Boss’ Tweed
political boss: New York City: known for his Tweed ‘Ring’ which stole thirty to two hundred million dollars from NYC; died [in prison] Apr 12, 18781837 - John Burroughs
author: “Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.”; died Mar 29, 19211893 - Leslie Howard
actor: Gone With the Wind, The First of the Few, Pygmalion, Of Human Bondage, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Petrified Forest, Intermezzo; died Jun 1, 19431898 - George Jessel
comedian, actor: Valley of the Dolls, Diary of a Young Comic; died May 24, 19811904 - Sally Rand (Helen Harriet Beck)
dancer, stripper: inventor of the fan dance; actress: The Texas Bearcat, Bachelor Brides, The Night of Love, Getting Gertie’s Garter, Bolero, Sunset Murder Case; died Aug 31, 19791916 - Herb Caen
author, journalist, columnist: The San Francisco Chronicle; died Feb 1, 19971918 - Mary Anderson
actress: Jet Over the Atlantic, Dangerous Crossing, Passage West, Whispering City, Under Age, Gone With the Wind, Peyton Place [TV]; died Apr 6, 20141921 - Jan Sterling (Adriance)
actress: The Harder They Fall, Pony Express, High School Confidential, The Incident, Split Second; died Mar 26, 20041922 - Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Von Kappelhoff)
singer: Whatever Will Be, Will Be, Everybody Loves a Lover, Sentimental Journey; actress: Young at Heart, Pillow Talk, April in Paris, Lullaby of Broadway; died May 13, 20191924 - Marlon Brando
Academy Award-winning actor: On the Waterfront [1954], The Godfather [1972]; Apocalypse Now, Last Tango in Paris, One-eyed Jacks; Emmy Award: Roots: Next Generation; died July 1, 20041925 - Jan Merlin
actor: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, The Rough Riders, The Islanders, The Tall Man, Laramie; Emmy Award-winning script writer: Another World [1975]; author: Gunbearer, Part I/Part II, Ainoko, Gypsies Don’t Lie, Crackpots, Shooting Montezuma; w/co-author William Russo: The Paid Companion of J. Wilkes Booth, Troubles in a Golden Eye, MGM Makes Boys’ Town, Hanging With Billy Budd; died Sep 20, 20191928 - Don Gibson
singer, songwriter: I Can’t Stop Loving You, Sweet Dreams, Too Soon To Know, Guess Away the Blues, Country Green; singer: Oh Lonesome Me, Blue Blue Day, Just One Time, Sea of Heartbreak; died Nov 17, 20031928 - Kevin Hagen
actor: Amazing Stories: Book Three, Bonanza: The Next Generation, Beulah Land, The San Pedro Bums, Gentle Savage, Vanished; died July 9, 20051929 - Miyoshi Umeki
actress: Flower Drum Song, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Sayonara, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; died Aug 28, 20071930 - Helmut Kohl
Chancellor: Federal Republic of Germany [1982-1998]; died Jun 16, 20171933 - Rod Funseth
golf: Masters runner-up [1978], US Senior Open runner-up [1983]; died Sep 9, 1985; died Sep 9, 19851934 - Jane Goodall
anthropologist: studied chimpanzees; author: In the Shadow of Man1934 - Jim Parker
Pro Football Hall of Famer [guard, tackle]: NFL: Baltimore Colts: All-NFL eight consecutive years, played in eight Pro Bowls; died July 18, 20051936 - Jimmy McGriff
musician: soul-jazz organist: All About My Girl, I’ve Got a Woman, Discotheque, Kiko, Cash Box, Gospel Time, Where It’s At; died May 24, 20081937 - William Gaunt
actor: La Femme Musketeer, 40, The Far Pavilions, Legend of the Champions, The Revolutionary, The Sinister Man1937 - Sandra Spuzich
golf champ: Women’s U.S. Open [1966]; died Oct 6, 20151938 - Jeff Barry
singer, songwriter: Teenage Sonata, Mr. Make Believe, I Think You Want My Girl, Welcome Home Baby, Never You Mind, There’s No Such Thing, It’s Called Rock and Roll, Hip Couple, Teen Quartet, It Won’t Hurt, Lonely Lips; Songwriter’s Hall of Famer [w/Ellie Greenwich]: Teenage Sonata [Sam Cooke], Tell Laura I Love Her [Ray Peterson, Ricky Valance], Be My Baby, Baby, I Love You [The Ronettes], Da Doo Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me [The Crystals], Chapel of Love [The Dixie Cups], Leader of the Pack [The Shangri-Las], River Deep, Mountain High [Tina Turner], I’m a Believer [The Monkees], many tunes for The Archies and Andy Kim, I Honestly Love You [Olivia Newton-John]; TV/film theme composer: One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Family Ties1941 - Jan Berry
songwriter, singer: group: Jan and Dean: The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, Dead Man’s Curve, Heart and Soul, Linda, Baby Talk, Surf City; died Mar 26, 20041941 - Eric Braeden
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Young and the Restless [1992, 1998]; The Rat Patrol, Combat!, Hawaii Five-O [1969, 1970, 1972], The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Charlie’s Angels [1981], Titanic [1997], Meet the Deedles, How I Met Your Mother; more1942 - Marsha Mason
actress: The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Blume in Love, Chapter Two, Heartbreak Ridge1942 - (Carson) Wayne Newton
singer: Danke Shoen, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast; more1942 - Billy Joe Royal
singer: Down in the Boondocks; died Oct 6, 20151943 - Jonathan Lynn
actor: Doctor in the House; director: Sgt. Bilko, Greedy, My Cousin Vinny, The Distinguished Gentleman; writer, director: Nuns on the Run, Clue1943 - Richard Manuel
musician: piano, drums, singer: group: The Band: The Weight, Tears of Rage, Chest Fever, I Shall Be Released, Up on Cripple Creek; died Mar 4, 19861944 - Tony Orlando (Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis)
singer: Halfway to Paradise, Bless You; group: Tony Orlando and Dawn: Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, Candida1944 - Barry Pritchard
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Fortunes: You've Got Your Troubles; died Jan 11, 19991945 - Bernie (Bernard) Parent
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers goalie: record for season wins [47: 1973-1974], Toronto Maple Leafs1946 - Dee Murray
musician: bass guitar: groups: Elton John: LPs: Tumbleweed Connection, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy; Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale; Spencer Davis Group; died Jan 15, 19921949 - Lyle Alzado
football [defensive end]: NFL: Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders; actor: Zapped Again!, Comrades in Arms, Club Fed, Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All, Ernest Goes to Camp, Destroyer, Shocktroop; died May 14, 19921953 - Sandra Boynton
illustrator, humorist, author: Grunt, Pajama Time!, Philadelphia Chickens; has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults1955 - Mick Mars
musician: guitar: group: Motley Crue: LP s: Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain1956 - Ray Combs
TV game show host: Family Feud [1988-1994], Family Challenge; died Jun 2, 19961958 - Alec Baldwin (Alexander Rae Baldwin III)
actor: Pearl Harbor, The Hunt for Red October, Beetlejuice, The Getaway, Married to the Mob, Talk Radio, Working Girl, Miami Blues, Knots Landing; TV host: Match Game; funny portrayer of POTUS Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live1959 - David Hyde Pierce
Emmy Award-winning actor: Frasier [1995, 1998, 1999, 2004]; The Fisher King, Sleepless in Seattle, Addams Family Values, Nixon, Mighty Ducks, A Bug’s Life, Full Frontal, Monty Python’s Spamalot; Tony Award: Curtains [2007]1961 - Eddie Murphy
comedian: Saturday Night Live; actor: 48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Doctor Dolittle, You People1967 - Brent Gilchrist
hockey [left wing]: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators1968 - Mike Lansing
baseball [shortstop, second, third base]: Wichita State Univ; MLB: Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox1972 - Mili Avital
actress: Stargate, Deadman, The Human Stain, Arabian Nights, Polish Wedding, Minotaur, Kissing a Fool, Invasion of Privacy, Me’ever Layam1972 - Leigh-Allyn Baker
actress: Charmed, Will & Grace, Good Luck Charlie, Back at the Barnyard, Very Mean Men, The Crux, Back at the Barnyard, Hannah Montana, The Penguins of Madagascar1972 - Jennie Garth
actress: Beverly Hills 902101973 - Kelly Price
singer: LPs: Soul of a Woman [single: Friend of Mine], Mirror Mirror [singles: You Should’ve Told Me, As We Lay], Priceless, This Is Who I Am, Kelly; former backing and guest vocalist: Mariah Carey’s Fantasy, The Notorious B.I.G.’s Mo Money Mo Problems, Whitney Houston’s Heartbreak Hotel, Faith Evans, Aretha Franklin, Brian McKnight, SWV and R. Kelly1973 - Adam Scott
actor: Parks and Recreation, Party Down, Tell Me You Love Me, Piranha 3-D, Leap Year, Passenger Side, Step Brothers, Who Loves the Sun, The Aviator, Date Squad, Big Little Lies, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, The Good Place, Severance1975 - Shawn Bates
hockey [left wing, center]: Boston Bruins, New York Islanders1975 - Tyler Faith
actress [2002-2011]: X-rated films: Killer Sex, Bigger Is Better, Down and Dirty, Best Breasts in the Biz, Mary Carey Gets Carried Away, MILF O’ Maniacs, Hollywood Sex Wars1978 - Matthew Goode
actor: Watchmen, Stoker, A Single Man, Match Point, Chasing Liberty, Imagine Me and You, Brideshead Revisited, Leap Year, The Imitation Game, Pressure, The Good Wife1982 - Jared Allen
football [defensive end]: Idaho State Univ; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs [2004–2007], Minnesota Vikings [2008–2013]: 2011 NFC Defensive Player of the Year1982 - Cobie Smulders
actress: Stumptown, How I Met Your Mother, The Avengers, The L Word, Jeremiah, The Long Weekend, Grassroots1984 - Chrissie Fit
actress: General Hospital, Teen Beach, Teen Beach 2, Pitch Perfect 2, Pitch Perfect 3, All My Life, Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens1986 - Amanda Bynes
actress: All That, The Amanda Show, What I Like About You, What a Girl Wants, Love Wrecked, She’s the Man, Hairspray, Sydney White, Easy A, Living Proof, Canned, Hairspray, Sydney White, She’s the Man, Big Fat Liar1987 - Rachel Bloom
actress: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury, Most Likely to Murder, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Trolls World Tour1988 - Kam Chancellor
football [strong safety]: Virginia Tech; NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2010– ]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs; 2015 Super Bowl XLIX1991 - Hayley Kiyoko
actress: CSI: Cyber, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, Curse of the Lake Monster, Wizards of Waverly Place, Lemonade Mouth, Insidious: Chapter 3, The Fosters1996 - Sarah Jeffery
actress: Shades of Blue, Rogue, Wayward Pines, Descendants2001 - Matthew Whitaker
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