April 9
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1833 - The first municipally supported public library in the U.S. was established in Peterborough, NH.1872 - Samuel R. Percy of New York City received a patent for dried milk. Yummy!
1905 - The first ‘aerial transfer bridge’ went into operation in Duluth, Minnesota. The bridge had a huge gondola that could carry more than 60 tons of traffic, from pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons to automobiles.
1912 - The Boston Red Sox defeated Harvard College 2-0 on this, the day that Fenway Park was opened for the first time. Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Jim Rice, Roger Clemens, and Babe Ruth played ball at Fenway and faced the ‘Green Monster’, the huge wall in left field. Until the Humane Society ordered him to stop, Ted Williams used to take rifle shots at the many pigeons that flew around the stadium. In 1954, a ball thrown to stop a player from making a double out of a single, hit a pigeon in flight. Allegedly, the bird fell to the ground, got up and then flew away to safer territory. The ball deflected right to the second baseman, who put the tag on the runner.
1928 - Mae West made her glamorous debut on Broadway in the classic production of Diamond Lil.
1940 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, along with singer Helen O’Connell, recorded Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga for Decca Records.
1940 - German warships entered major Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of troops and occupying Norway. At the same time, German forces occupied Copenhagen, among other Danish cities. German forces were able to slip through the mines Britain had laid around Norwegian ports because local garrisons were ordered to allow the Germans to land unopposed. The order came from a Norwegian commander loyal to Norway’s pro-fascist former foreign minister Vidkun Quisling.
1942 - U.S. and Philippine defenders on Bataan surrendered to Japanese forces. This was followed by the notorious ‘Bataan Death March’ which claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
1947 - Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers announced the purchase of the baseball contract that would bring slugger Jackie Roosevelt Robinson to the Dodgers from Montreal.
1950 - Bob Hope hosted the Star-Spangled Review on NBC-TV. Hope became the highest-paid performer for a single show on TV. The Star-Spangled Review was a musical special.
1950 - The (4th annual) Tony Awards were presented at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. The Cocktail Party won for best Play; South Pacific was voted best Musical. Other winners included Sidney Blackmer and Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba), Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin (South Pacific), Myron McCormick, Juanita Hall, Joshua Logan, Helen Tamiris, Maurice Abravanel, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
1953 - Cincinnati baseball officials said that the National League team wanted to be known as the Redlegs and not the Reds. This was understandable, with the McCarthy Hearings bringing to light the alleged infiltration of Communist reds in the United States in government, politics and entertainment.
1953 - Warner Brothers, the first of the major Hollywood studios to introduce 3-D motion pictures, chose this day to premiere The House of Wax at the Paramount Theatre in New York City. The stage show preceding the movie was headed by singer Eddie Fisher. The film’s stars, Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk and Frank Lovejoy attended the premiere.
1956 - Grace Kelly graced the cover of LIFE magazine. The caption read, “Education of a princess; for a movie and for real.”
1959 - NASA announced the selection of the first seven astronauts for project Mercury. They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy opened the Washington Senators’ baseball season by throwing out the first ball at the new D.C. Stadium (later to be known as Robert F. Kennedy Stadium [RFK]). The original Senators had left Washington for Minnesota in 1961. As part of the agreement to allow the Senators to move, an expansion team had to be granted to DC. The expansion Washington Senators moved to Texas and became the Rangers. The owner who moved the expansion team to Texas was Bob Short, a businessman from Minnesota. Short once ran for the Senate in Minnesota. Wouldn’t that have been interesting - the man who moved the Senators from DC might have moved into DC as a Senator!
1962 - Musicals and comedies led the list of award-winners and nominees at the 34th Annual Academy Awards held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles and hosted by comedian Bob Hope. The Broadway musical in the guise of a Hollywood film, West Side Story, was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture (Robert Wise, producer); Best Director (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins); Best Supporting Actor and Actress (George Chakiris, Rita Moreno); Best Cinematography/Color (Daniel L. Fapp); Best Art Direction/Set Decoration/Color (Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin); Best Costume Design/Color (Irene Sharaff); Best Sound (Fred Hynes-Todd-AO SSD & Gordon Sawyer-Samuel Goldwyn SSD); Best Film Editing (Thomas Stanford); Best Music/Scoring of a Musical Picture (Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal). Were their any golden statuettes left for any other flick? A few ... the Best Actor award went to Maximilian Schell for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg , and for the first time in Oscar history, the Best Actress award went to an actress in a foreign film, Sophia Loren for the lead in La Ciociara (or Two Women). The Hustler, Splendor in the Grass and The Guns of Navarone won a total of four Oscars. And the Oscar for Music/Song went to Moon River (Henry Mancini-music, Johnny Mercer-lyrics) from Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
1965 - TIME magazine featured a cover with the entire Peanuts gang on this day. It was a good day for Charlie Brown.
1965 - Major-league baseball played its first indoor game. President Lyndon B. Johnson attended the opening of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The indoor stadium was termed the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr was buried in Atlanta, Georgia. Two funeral services were held in Atlanta. The first was for family and close friends at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King and his father had both served as senior pastors. This service was followed by a three-mile procession to Morehouse College, King’s alma mater, for the massive (100,000 people were there) public service.
1972 - Sugar opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway this day. Based on the film Some Like It Hot, the show featured music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill and was choreographed by Gower Champion. The opening night cast included Robert Morse as Jerry/Daphne, Tony Roberts as Joe/Josephine, Elaine Joyce as Sugar Kane, Cyril Ritchard as Osgood Fielding, Jr., Sheila Smith as Sweet Sue, and Steve Condos as Spats Palazzo. Sugar closed on June 23, 1973 after a run of 505 performances.
1973 - Tommy Aaron became the second native son from Georgia to win the Masters golf title at Augusta. The first Georgian to accomplish the feat was Claude Harmon in 1948.
1977 - The Swedish pop group Abba made its debut at number one on the Billboard pop chart, as Dancing Queen became the most popular record in the U.S.
1979 - Drama and war headlined the films winning most of the awards at the 51st Annual Academy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (L.A. Music Center). The Best Picture, The Deer Hunter (Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall, producers), also won for Best Director (Michael Cimino); Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken); Best Film Editing (Peter Zinner); and Best Sound (Richard Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Rochin, C. Darin Knight). The Best Actor and Actress awards for performances in Coming Home were awarded to Jon Voight and Jane Fonda, respectively. This 1978 film also won a golden statuette for Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones). The intense Midnight Express won for Best Music/Original Score (Giorgio Moroder)and Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Oliver Stone). On the lighter side, the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role went to Maggie Smith in California Suite, the Best Music/Song Oscar, for Last Dance from Thank God It’s Friday, went to Paul Jabara, and Johnny Carson was the host.
1981 - A Japanese cargo ship sank in the East China Sea after it was struck by the nuclear-powered U.S. submarine USS George Washington.
1984 - Johnny Carson used his own terms of endearment to bring laughter to the TV audience and the audience in attendance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the 56th Annual Academy Awards and Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, producer) was voted Best Picture of 1983. Terms also won for Best Director (James L. Brooks, again ... and, again for Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium);and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson); and for Best Actress (Shirley MacLaine). MacLaine had been nominated five times over 26 years before winning the statuette. Of course, since she could see into the future, she knew that this would happen. Robert Duvall picked up the Best Actor Award (Tender Mercies) and the Best Supporting Actress title was bestowed on Linda Hunt for The Year of Living Dangerously. A foreign film, Fanny & Alexander, won three Academy Awards: Best Costume Design (Marik Vos-Lundh), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim), & Best Cinematography (Sven Nykvist). Another film that endeared itself to audiences in 1983 was The Right Stuff, honored for Best Music/Original Score (Bill Conti); Best Effects/Sound Effects Editing (Jay Boekelheide); Best Film Editing (Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf); and Best Sound (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan). Put the whole evening together and you get the Best Music/Song: Flashdance...What a Feeling (Giorgio Moroder-music, Keith Forsey and Irene Cara-lyrics) from the movie, Flashdance.
1985 - Tom Seaver broke a major-league baseball record (held by Walter Johnson) as he started his 15th opening-day game. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2. With the win, ‘Tom Terrific’ extended his opening day record to 7-1. He had thrown openers for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox.
1988 - Singer Brook Benton died in New York of bacterial meningitis. He was 56. We remember Benton for many hits. Among them: It’s Just a Matter of Time, So Many Ways, Endlessly, Rainy Night in Georgia, and Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes) (w/Dinah Washington).
1988 - Dave Prater, half of the duo of Sam and Dave, died in a car crash in Georgia. He was 50. Prater met his partner, Sam Moore, in Miami in 1958. Their hits included Hold on I’m Comin and Soul Man, which won a Grammy Award in 1967.
1991 - The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was given to John Updike for Rabbit at Rest; the drama prize was won by Neil Simon (Lost in Yonkers); and The Des Moines Register received the Pulitzer Prize in journalism (for public service).
1992 - Former Panamanian ruler/strongman Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of eight drug and racketeering charges. Noriega was the first foreign head of state to be convicted by a U.S. jury.
1994 - Pantera’s album, Far Beyond Driven, hit #1 (for one week) in the U.S. The tracks were: Strength Beyond Strength, Becoming, 5 Minutes Alone, I’m Broken, Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills, Hard Lines, Sunken Cheers, Slaughtered, 25 Years, Shedding Skin, Use My Third Arm, Throes of Rejection, and Planet Caravan.
1998 - The men and women known as America’s ‘forgotten heroes’ were saluted at the dedication ceremony of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, the site of the infamous Civil War camp.
1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S,: Foolish, with Eddie Griffin, Master P, Traci Bingham and Andrew Dice Clay; Go, starring William Fichtner, J.E. Freeman, Katie Holmes, Breckin Meyer, Jay Mohr, Timothy Olyphant and Sarah Polley; and Never Been Kissed, with Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly and Garry Marshall.
2000 - Vijay Singh won the Masters Golf Tournament. He shot a 3-under par 69 on the final round for a three-stroke victory over Ernie Els.
2001 - The parent company of American Airlines acquired the bankrupt Trans World Airlines (TWA). The acquisition made American America’s largest airline.
2002 - Former Arthur Andersen auditor David B. Duncan pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to ordering the shredding of Enron documents.
2003 - Iraqis toppled a huge Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq reached a climax.
2004 - These films were new in U.S. theatres: The Alamo, starring Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarria, Marc Blucas, W. Earl Brown, Stephen Bruton, Rutherford Cravens, Blue Deckert, Nick Kokich, Jordi Molla, Matt O'Leary, Wes Studi and Edwin Hodge; Ella Enchanted, with Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle and Parminder Nagra; and The Whole Ten Yards, with Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak, Clara Bellar and Johnny Messner.
2005 - Britain’s Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were married in a modest civil ceremony at the 17th century Guildhall. The marriage -- the second for each -- was blessed by the Church of England.
2006 - A capsule carrying a Russian, American and Brazilian landed in Kazakhstan following a weeklong trip to the International Space Station.
2007 - Shock jock Don Imus was suspended for two weeks by CBS Radio and MSNBC TV because he called members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos.” On April 11 NBC News decided to fire him; CBS followed the next day.
2008 - India ended its first-ever summit with African nations, aimed at deepening ties and trying to ensure it was not overshadowed by Asian rival China.
2009 - Mexico City shut off water to millions of residents because water reserves had reached historic lows. The two-day shutdown of a main pipeline affected some 5 million of the 20 million people in the Valley of Mexico.
2009 - FBI hostage negotiators joined the U.S. Navy in efforts to free an American ship (Maersk Alabama) captain held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A U.S. destroyer and a spy plane kept close watch over the high-seas standoff near the Horn of Africa. Capt. Richard Phillips made a desperate escape attempt, but was recaptured.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The horror, thriller After.Life, starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, Justin Long, Josh Charles, Chandler Canterbury, Celia Weston, Anna Kuchma, Shuler Hensley, Malachy McCourt, Rosemary Murphy, Laurel Bryce, Luz Alexandra Ramos, Bill Perkins, Laurie Cole, Barbara Singer and Mark Gerrard; Date Night, with Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Leighton Meester, Common, Taraji P. Henson and Kristen Wiig; Alle Anderen aka Everyone Else, with Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Mira Partecke, Atef Vogel, Paula Hartmann, Carina N. Wiese, Laura Zedda and Claudio Melis; Letters to God, starring Robyn Lively, Jeffrey Johnson, Maree Cheatham, Tanner Maguire, Michael Bolten and Bailee Madison; Shelter, with Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Brooklynn Proulx; and The Human Experience, with Jeffrey Azize, Clifford Azize, Michael Campo and Matthew Sanchez.
2010 - Actor Meinhardt Raabe died in Florida at 94 years of age. Meinhardt is probably best remembered in "The Wizard of Oz" as the coroner of Munchkinland who certified the death of the Wicked Witch of the East, proclaiming that she was “really most sincerely dead.” Meinhardt was about 3 1/2 feet tall when the movie was made but eventually grew to some 4 1/2 feet. He also toured the country fmany30 years in the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile as, “Little Oscar, the World’s Smallest Chef.”
2012 - A mother dropped her toddler off at a day care center in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. As she was leaving, she saw a man near the house on foot, and something about him raised her suspicions. The woman then phoned the day care center and was talking to someone when the line went dead. She returned to the center and found three people had been shot. She grabbed her child and called 911. Police confirmed the victims were dead.
2012 - Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned and was accused of misusing company funds while carrying on a relationship with a female subordinate. Denn had been head of Best Buy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, since 2009. Co-founder and board chairman Richard M. Schulze resigned on May 14 after it was disclosed that he had been aware of Dunn’s affair, but had not reported it to the board.
2013 - Multiple-choice vocabulary tests were added to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, forcing contestants to know the definitions of some of the those words they had memorized. Executive Director Paige Kimble said the changes were driven by the desire to reinforce the competition’ purpose — to encourage students to improve their spelling and broaden their knowledge of the language. “What we know with the championship-level spellers is that they think of their achievement in terms of spelling and vocabulary being two sides of the same coin,” Kimble said.
2014 - The U.S. Justice Deptartment announced that Hewlett-Packard would pay $108 million in criminal fines and civil penalties for bribing officials in Mexico, Poland and Russia to win technology contracts.
2014 - Ukrainian authorities warned that they are prepared to use force to clear several government buildings seized by pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. 56 hostages were allowed to leave the Luhansk security services building overnight.
2015 - Texas prison officials executed Kent Sprouse for the slaying of a Dallas-area police officer in 2002. It was the state’s 5th execution of 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court had refused to review the case.
2015 - The Eiffel Tower closed, many school kids had no classes, and air traffic controllers were staying off the job. The actions were the result of a nationwide day of protests and strikes against the French government.
2016 - Manny Pacquiao rebounded from the biggest loss of his career (to Floyd Mayweather Jr) with a bang in Las Vegas. Pacquiao knocked down Timothy Bradley twice on his way to a unanimous 12-round decision in their welterweight showdown.
2017 - 69-year-old Dr. David Dao was yanked off of a United Airlines flight at Chicago O’Hare International Airport by airport security. The airline said the action was taken to make room for United employees. Dao lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and a concussion during his forced removal from the aircraft. Video of the incident went viral. Worldwide backlash hit the airline’s share price and prompted an apology from the company’s chief executive. Dao and United reached a settlement on April 27, the terms of which were not publicly disclosed.
2018 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court ruled that employers cannot set different pay levels for women and men doing the same job -- by relying, even in part, on their salary at a previous job. The judges said that calculating a woman’s pay based on her salary history is a form of gender discrimination — a violation of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited businesses from paying women less than men for the same work.
2018 - The Congressional Budget Office reported that POTUS Trump’s tax cuts and his spending bill had pushed the deficit to $804 billion for 2018 and just under $1 trillion for 2019. These historic U.S. deficits were created by a Republican party that would no longer be able to claim that it was the “party of fiscal responsibility.”
2018 - U.S. federal agents raided the office of POTUS Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen. Records confiscated were connected to dealings that included a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who said she had sex with Trump.
2019 - Frenchman Serge Dieujuste, who had received compensation over a 1995 terror attack in Paris, was sent to jail. This, after pretending he was at the scene of the November 2015 assault on the city by Islamic State gunmen. Some 15 people have been found guilty of fraud for trying to claim compensation from the compensation fund set up to help people who suffered physical or psychological injuries in the attacks.
2019 - The International Monetary Fund [IMF] warned that global economic growth was slowing more than expected and that a sharp downturn could require world leaders to coordinate stimulus measures.
2019 - Israelis voted to decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long right-wing tenure despite corruption allegations -- or to replace him with an ex-military chief new to politics. A final tally showed Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party capturing 36 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, edging past Blue and White, which got 35 seats.
2019 - Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto signed legislation restricting military-style assault weapons and banning most uses of armor-piercing ammunition and high-capacity magazines, defying the state’s prohibition on municipal gun regulation.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The Federal Reserve announced a broad, $2.3 trillion effort to bolster local governments and small businesses, the latest in an expanding suite of programs meant to keep the U.S. economy intact. 2)The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) extended its ‘no sail’ order for all cruise ships. 3)Drugmaker Pfizer Inc said that early data had helped it identify a drug candidate with the potential to help treat patients infected with the coronavirus. 4)The Nicaraguan government’s perplexing weekslong refusal to take measures to control the spread of the virus was reported to be heightening the risk of the pandemic in Central America even as neighboring countries took tough action. 5)There were more than 1.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus across the globe with death total of more than 90,000. The U.S. had some 432,000 cases and 14,808 associated deaths.
2020 - Russia and all but one member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reached an agreement to cut 10 million barrels a day in production -- a 23 percent reduction from the group’s baseline of about 44 million barrels a day. Non-OPEC member Mexico rejected OPEC’s proposal that it cut production by 400,000 barrels a day, saying it would cut of one-quarter of that amount instead.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Voyagers, starring Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan and Lily-Rose Depp; Held, with Jill Awbrey, Bart Johnson and Rez Kempton; Moffie, starring Kai Luke Brummer, Barbara-Marié Immelman and Michael Kirch; and Slalom, with Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier and Marie Denarnaud.
2021 - Prince Philip Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth’s husband for more than seven decades, died at 99 years of age. Philip helped to modernize the British monarchy and steer the royal family through repeated crises.
2021 - Russia used “fears of a resumption of full-scale fighting in eastern Ukraine” and its desire to protect civilians there as its excuse for a massive troop buildup along its border with Ukraine.
2021 - The famed amusement parks of Coney Island reopened in New York City under reduced capacity after being shuttered for a year due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
2021 - Australia reported its finalization of a deal to buy an extra 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine as it rapidly pivoted away from its earlier plan to rely mainly on AstraZeneca shots.
2022 - Maryland joined 14 other states in allowing trained medical professionals -- other than physicians -- to perform abortions. The change was part of a bill expanding abortion rights that was passed by state lawmakers, overriding the veto of Republican Governor Larry Hogan.
2022 - The first all-private team of astronauts ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived safely at the orbiting research platform, where the four-person crew started a week-long science mission. The launch was hailed as a milestone in commercial spaceflight.
2023 - An imam was stabbed during a morning prayer service at a mosque in Paterson, New Jersey. The suspect, who was unknown to congregants, was performing prayers at Omar Mosque when he lunged forward with a knife at the imam. After stabbing him multiple times, the suspect attempted to flee but others were able to hold him until police arrived. The stabbing occurred during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.
2023 - Jon Rahm won the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, clinching his first green jacket and second career major. Rahm’s impressive victory saw him leapfrog reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler as world No. 1, demonstrating great consistency to ease to the four-shot victory -- ahead of LIV Golf Series duo Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson. (Tiger Woods withdrew from the tourney due to and injury after visibly struggling. Rahm carded a final round three-under 69 to finish 12-under. He became the fourth Spaniard to win the green jacket and the first European golfer to win both The Masters and the U.S. Open.
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Birthdays on This Day April 9
1883 - Frank King
cartoonist: creator of Gasoline Alley cartoon strip; died June 24, 19691898 - Earl ‘Curly’ Lambeau
Pro Football Hall of Famer: founded and coached the pre-NFL Green Bay Packers; also coached Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins; Packers’ stadium, Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin is named for him; died Jun 1, 19651898 - Paul Robeson
singer: Ol’ Man River; actor: The Emperor Jones, Show Boat, Othello, Porgy and Bess, The Hairy Ape, King Solomon’s Mines, Song of Freedom; died Jan 23, 19761903 - Ward (Wardell) Bond
actor: Wagon Train, Gone with the Wind, Drums Along the Mohawk, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Maltese Falcon, Mister Roberts, Rio Bravo, Tall in the Saddle, The Time of Your Life; died Nov 5, 19601904 - Lyle Latell
actor: Kelly and Me, Pardon My Wrench, Bungalow 13, Dick Tracy, The Wife Takes a Flyer, Federal Fugitives; died Oct 24, 19671906 - Antal Dorati
symphony orchestra conductor; died Nov 13, 19881909 - Michael Ward
actor: Revenge of the Pink Panther, Smashing Time, Where the Bullets Fly, Mary Had a Little, The Rough and the Smooth, Up in the World; died Nov 8, 19971911 - Jim Bannon
actor: R.C.M.P. and the Treasure of Genghis Khan, They Came to Cordura, The Great Missouri Raid, Kill the Umpire, Ride, Ryder, Ride!, Trail to Fort Hazard; died July 28, 19841916 - Julian Dash
jazz musician: tenor sax: No Soap, Midnight Stroll, Double Shot, Gin Mill Special, Weddin’ Blues, My Silent Love, Long Moan, Creamin’, Goin’ Along; died Feb 25, 19741920 - Art Van Damme
musician: accordionist: group: Art Van Damme Quintet; died Feb 15, 20101921 - George David Weiss
songwriter: What a Wonderful World [w/Bob Thiele], Let’s Put It All Together [w/Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti; Can’t Help Falling in Love with You [w/Luigi Creatore, Hugo Peretti], That Sunday, That Summer [w/Joe Sherman], Mr. Wonderful [w/Jerry Bock, Lawrence Holofcener], Lullaby of Birdland [as B.Y. Forster; w/George Shearing], Stay With Me [w/Jerry Ragovoy]; arranger for big bands: Stan Kenton, Vincent Lopez, Johnny Richards; president of the Songwriters Guild of America [1982-2000]; died Aug 23, 20101926 - Jack Nichols
basketball: Boston Celtics; died Feb 24, 19921926 - Hugh Hefner
publisher: Playboy magazine; died Sep 27, 20171928 - Paul Arizin
basketball: NBA Silver Anniversary Team [1971]; Philadelphia Warriors: led league in scoring [1951-52] [1956-57]; NBA’s fifth player to score over 10,000; died Dec 12, 20061928 - Tom Lehrer
songwriter: Vatican Rag, Werner Von Braun, The Old Dope Peddlar, Be Prepared, Lobachevsky, The Masochism Tango, New Math, National Brotherhood Week, I Wanna Go Back to Dixie, We Will All Go Together When We Go1932 - Carl Perkins (Carl Lee Perkings)
singer: Blue Suede Shoes, Your True Love, Honey Don’t, Pink Pedal Pushers, Shine Shine, Cotton Top, Restless; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987; died Jan 19, 19981933 - Jean-Paul Belmondo
actor: Casino Royale, The Brain, Is Paris Burning?, Swashbuckler, Le Magnifique, Love and the Frenchwoman1935 - Avery Schreiber
comedian: half of comedy duo Burns & Schreiber; died Jan 7, 20021939 - Michael Learned
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Waltons [1972-73, 1973-74, 1975-76; Nurse [1981-82]; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, All My Sons, Deadly Business, A Christmas Without Snow1940 - Jim Roberts
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, SL Blues1942 - (Andre) Brandon de Wilde
actor: Shane, Hud, In Harm’s Way, The Member of the Wedding, Goodbye My Lady, All Fall Down; killed in car crash July 6, 1972 [Denver CO: while en route to act in a stage play]1942 - Margo Smith
singer: Littlest Star, Save Your Kisses for Me, Take My Breath Away, Still a Woman, Paper Lovin’1943 - Terry Knight
singer: Groups: Terry Knight and the Pack: I Who Have Nothing; founded Grand Funk Railroad: On Time; died Nov 1, 20041945 - Alden Roche
football: Green Bay Packers1946 - Nate (Nathan) Colbert
baseball: Houston Astros, SD Padres [all-star: 1971-1973], Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos, Oakland Athletics1946 - Les Gray
singer: group: Mud: Tiger Feet, Lonely This Christmas, Oh Boy; died Feb 21, 20041948 - Michel Parizeau
hockey: NHL: Philadelphia Flyers, SL Blues1954 - Dennis Quaid
actor: Dragonheart, Wyatt Earp, Postcards from the Edge, Everybody’s All-American, The Right Stuff, Jaws 3, The Long Riders, Breaking Away, September 30, 1955, Switchback, Frequency, Traffic; songwriter, actor: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, Tough Enough, The Big Easy; brother of actor Randy Quaid1957 - Severiano (Seve) Ballesteros
golf pro: youngest to win Harry Vardon Trophy [Paris: 1976]; won over thirty major golf tournaments on five continents; 54 PGA European Tour Tournaments, 14 International, 4 others; died May 7, 2011; more1961 - Mark Kelly
musician: keyboards: group: Marillion: Market Square Heroes, Grendel, Lavender, Heart of Lothian1963 - Joe Scarborough
talk radio, TV cable news host: Morning Joe [MSNBC]; lawyer; former politician: member [from 1st district of Florida] of U.S. House of Representatives [1995-2001]; author: The Last Best Hope1964 - Lisa Guerrero
investigative journalist, actress, sportscaster, TV host: Inside Edition; more1965 - Keith Jackson
football [tightend]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers; actor: Reggie’s Prayer1965 - Mark Pellegrino
actor: Supernatural, Being Human, Lost, Northern Exposure, ER, Without a Trace, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Knight Rider, The Big Lebowski1965 - Paulina Porizkova
model, actress: Covergirl, Her Alibi, Partners in Crime, Au plus près du paradis, Second Best, Knots1965 - Jeff Zucker
TV producer: Today, Later Today1966 - Cynthia Nixon
actress: Sex and the City, Let It Ride, Tanner, The Manhattan Project, Tattoo, Amadeus, The Gilded Age1968 - Matthew Bennett
actor: Ignition, Pushing Tin, When Secrets Kill, Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story, Anything for Love, A Killer Among Friends, Battlestar Galactica1974 - Drew Bannister
hockey: NHL: Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks1974 - Jenna Jameson
actress [1993-2011]: X-rated films: Zombie Strippers, Thinking XXX, How to Make Love to a Woman, Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, New World Disorder III, Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry, Dirt Merchant1975 - Sunny Anderson
TV host: Food Network: How’d That Get on My Plate?, Cooking for Real1979 - Keshia Knight Pulliam
actress: The Cosby Show, House of Payne1982 - Jay Baruchel
actor: Million Dollar Baby, Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, She’s Out of My League, The Trotsky, How to Train Your Dragon, The Hangover, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice1986 - Leighton Meester
actress: Gossip Girl, Country Strong, The Roommate, Monte Carlo, That’s My Boy, The Oranges1987 - Jesse McCartney
singer: , Don’t You, Why Don’t You Kiss Her; group: Dream Street: I Say Yeah, With All My Heart1987 - Jazmine Sullivan
singer: Need U Bad, Bust Your Windows, Holding You Down [Goin’ in Circles], 10 Seconds1990 - Kristen Stewart
actress: The Twilight Saga, Panic Room, Speak, The Messengers, Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road1998 - Elle Fanning
actress: We Bought a Zoo, Wonderland, Somewhere, Super 8, Somewhere, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Reservation Road, Deja Vu, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With; younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning; more1999 - Lil Nas X (Montero Lamar Hill)
rapper, singer, songwriter: Old Town Road, Panini, Rodeo [w/Cardi B]
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day April 9
1948Manana (facts) - Peggy Lee
Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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