April 10
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1841 - The New York Tribune began publication under editor Horace Greeley, who, some say, was the “single greatest journalistic influence in America.” Greeley edited the paper until his death in 1872.1849 - Walter Hunt of New York City patented the safety pin. Most of us still use the device which comes in a variety of sizes and is quite handy to have around. Mr. Hunt, however, didn’t think so. He thought the safety pin to be a temporary convenience and sold the patent for a total of $400. Bet he could just ‘stick’ himself for doing that.
1916 - The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) held its first championship tournament. This first PGA Championship title went to Britisher Jim Barnes. Barnes won the match-play event at Siwanoy golf course in Bronxville, NY and was presented with a trophy and a major share of the $2,580 purse.
1924 - Simon and Schuster, Inc. published the first Crossword Puzzle Book.
1925 - The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. The rags-to-riches story of Jay Gatsby, (he discovers his wealth cannot grant him the privileges of class and status), and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, has been acclaimed by generations of readers.
1927 - Ballet Mécanique was presented for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City. This was the first symphonic work that called for an airplane propeller and other mechanical contraptions not normally associated with the ballet.
1937 - Collier’s magazine published two short stories this day which would later become motion pictures; a first for a single magazine issue. Stage to Lordsburg, written by Ernest Haycox, was made into the 1939 film classic, Stagecoach, starring John Wayne. Hagar Wilde’s story was turned into a movie that reflected the title of his work, Bringing Up Baby. The 1938 film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
1942 - The Bataan Death March began. U.S. and Philippine prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days with only one meal of rice during the entire journey. Some 10-15 thousand soldiers perished on the march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. Bataan is a peninsula of western Luzon in the Philippines. It was surrendered to the Japanese in this year and retaken by American forces in 1945.
1942 - People Are Funny was first heard this day on NBC radio. Art Baker was the show’s first host. Art Linkletter took over the popular program on radio in 1943 and later moved it to television.
1953 - Eddie Fisher was discharged from the Army and arrived home to a nice paycheck of $330,000 in record royalties. Fisher sold 7 million records for RCA Victor while on furloughs. Any Time was just one of several hits recorded during his stint in the Army.
1958 - Singer Chuck Willis died from peritonitis. Willis was from Atlanta, GA and recorded hits that included: C.C. Rider, Betty and Dupree, What Am I Living For (his biggest hit) and Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes. Willis was a noted rhythm and blues singer and songwriter of the early rock era.
1961 - Gary Player of South Africa became the first foreign golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Player, age 25, won by just one stroke over both Charles Coe, an amateur, and defending champion Arnold Palmer. Coe shot a record 280, which was the lowest score turned in by an amateur at the Masters up to that time.
1963 - The U.S. atomic submarine U.S.S. Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, after a deep dive in the northern Aylantic. 129 lives were lost. It was the worst submarine disaster in U.S. history.
1967 - Bob Hope was the host/referee as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and A Man for All Seasons duked it out at the 39th Annual Academy Awards. The arena was the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles. Virginia Woolf came loaded with 13 nominations, her opponent, A Man for All Seasons, was the underdog with 8. At first it was blow for blow, Virginia Woolf winning Best Costume Design/Black-and-White (Irene Sharaff) and Seasons winning the award in the Color category (Joan Bridge and Elizabeth Haffenden); Seasons winning Best Cinematography/Color (Ted Moore) and Virginia Woolf winning in the Black-and-White division (Haskell Wexler). Then Virgina Woolf won for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration, Black-and-White (George James Hopkins, Richard Sylbert) while Seasons took the Oscar for Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Robert Bolt). They were tied. Best Supporting Actress: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Sandy Dennis), but Best Supporting Actor went to Walter Matthau in The Fortune Cookie. Virginia Woolf, ahead by one. The Best Music/Song Oscar went to Born Free (John Barry-music, Don Black-lyrics) from the movie of the same title. The fight was still on since neither Seasons nor Virginia Woolf was nominated in that category. It was time for the Academy Award for Best Actress. And the Oscar goes to Elizabeth Taylor for Who’s Afraid of Virginnia Woolf. The 1966 movie about bad marriages and booze was now two ahead. Would the drama about Thomas More garner a Best Actor Oscar for Paul Scofield? Yes! Two awards left ... Would it be Mike Nichols, director of Virginia Woolf or Fred Zinnemann. Fred Zinnemann wins for Seasons and the two are tied. The envelope holding the title of the Best Picture of 1966 revealed the overall winner as A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer.
1968 - This was not the usual Monday night Oscar celebration at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in LA. In fact, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postponed the 40th Annual Academy Awards ceremonies two days because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Ironically, the Best Picture of 1967, In the Heat of the Night (Walter Mirisch, producer), and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn) and Best Writing/Story and Screenplay/Written Directly for the Screen (William Rose), have racial themes. Heat won four more Oscars that evening: Best Actor (Rod Steiger); Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stirling Silliphant); Best Sound (Samuel Goldwyn SSD); Best Film Editing (Hal Ashby). Bob Hope, as host, livened up the somber ceremonies as did awards for Best Supporting Actor George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke), Best Supporting Actress Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde); Best Music/Song, Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dolittle (Leslie Bricusse). Mike Nichols who lost to The Man for All Seasons the previous year, won this time, as Best Director for The Graduate. Other serious contenders for the golden statuette were: Casino Royale, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Dirty Dozen, Divorce American Style, Camelot, The Jungle Book, Far from the Madding Crowd, Valley of the Dolls, In Cold Blood, Barefoot in the Park. Some were winners, some not so lucky.
1968 - George M! opened at Broadway’s Palace Theatre on this day. The musical starred Joel Grey as George M. Cohan, the biggest stage star of his day who was known as “The Man Who Owned Broadway”. The show’s music and lyrics were by George himself, with revisions by Cohan’s daughter, Mary, and also starred Bernadette Peters, Jamie Donnelly and Betty Ann Grove. George M! ran for 433 performances, closing Apr 26, 1969.
1970 - Officially resigning from The Beatles, Paul McCartney disbanded the most influential rock group in history at a public news conference. The Beatles hit, Let It Be, was riding high on the pop charts. The last recording for the group, The Long and Winding Road (also from the documentary film Let It Be), would be number one for two weeks beginning on June 13, bringing to a close one of contemporary music’s greatest dynasties.
1972 - Once again, the 44th Annual Academy Awards celebration was held at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. And, once again, everyone was spellbound waiting to hear who won Best Picture. It wasn’t an easy decision. The nominees were: A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra and The French Connection. And the Oscar goes to ... The French Connection, Philip D’Antoni, producer. The Oscar also went to The French Connection for Best Director (William Friedkin); Best Actor (Gene Hackman); Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Ernest Tidyman); and Best Film Editing (Gerald B. Greenberg). All of the other Best Picture nominees (except A Clockwork Orange) also received Oscars: The Last Picture Show won for both supporting actor and actress (Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman respectively); Fiddler on the Roof won for Best Cinematography (Oswald Morris), Best Sound (Gordon K. McCallum, David Hildyard) and Best Music/Scoring Adaptation/Original Song Score (John Williams); Nicholas and Alexandra won the awards for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (John Box, Ernest Archer, Jack Maxsted, Gil Parrondo, Vernon Dixon) and Best Costume Design (Yvonne Blake, Antonio Castillo). Klute won one out of its two nominations: Best Actress (Jane Fonda) and Shaft won its only nomination: Best Music/Song (Isaac Hayes, Theme from Shaft. Other films from 1971 that received accolades ... but not necessarily Oscars: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; Sunday Bloody Sunday; Carnal Knowledge; Summer of ’42, Bedknobs and Broomsticks; Mary, Queen of Scots; and McCabe & Mrs. Miller. And much applause went to the hosts of the evening’s festivities: Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon.
1985 - Relief pitcher, Dan Quisenberry was signed by the Kansas City Royals to a contract that promised he would “...never wear another uniform.” The lifetime pact was worth $43 million, after taxes, over a 40-year period. Quisenberry became known as the ‘Fireman’, for putting out late-inning fires and saving games for the Royals. The contract made him the game’s highest-paid reliever.
1985 - Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop made it to the top ten on the list of top-grossing motion pictures. The film, then at number nine on the list, was the only R-rated and non-summer movie to make the list.
1987 - Dickye Baggett became the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson’s disease. The procedure took place in Nashville, TN.
1990 - Teddy Wang (57), Hong Kong real estate tycoon, was kidnapped for a second time. Abductors demanded $60 million. His wife, Nina Wang, paid a $34-million installment, but too late. Wang’s body was never found. He was declared legally dead in 1999.
1992 - Comedian Sam Kinison (38) was killed in a car crash outside Needles, CA. Kinison was headed to Laughlin, Nevada, to perform at a sold out concert.
1993 - Depeche Mode ’s Songs of Faith and Devotion entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #1. The tracks: I Feel You, Walking in My Shoes, Condemnation, Mercy in You, Judas, In Your Room, Get Right with Me, Rush, One Caress, and Higher Love.
1995 - New York City banned smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more. The Smoke-Free Air Act also banned smoking in sports stadiums and most public areas.
1997 - One-time fighter pilot and former POW Pete Peterson was confirmed by the Senate as the first postwar U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.
1998 - Britain and Ireland reached an agreement aimed at ending the long and bloody dispute over Northern Ireland. The ‘Good Friday Accord’ came only after 22 months of intensive negotiations involving eight of the ten Northern Irish political parties.
1998 - The anti-impotence drug, compound UK-92,480, went on the market in Sandwich, England. It later became one of the best-selling medications of all time: Viagra.
1998 - These films opened in the U.S.: City of Angels, starring Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz and Andre Braugher; My Giant, with Billy Crystal, Gheorghe Muresan and Kathleen Quinlan; The Odd Couple II, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau; and Species II, with Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger and Natasha Henstridge.
2000 - The Washington Post won three Pulitzer Prizes: The criticism award to Henry Allen; the feature photography award to Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian Perkins; and the public service award (second year in a row). The Wall Street Journal took two Pulitzers: National reporting to the staff; and commentary to Paul A. Gigot. Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press won Pulitzer Prizes for investigative reporting.
2001 - Republican Jane Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts, succeeding Paul Cellucci, who had resigned to become U.S. ambassador to Canada.
2001 - Doctors in San Diego implanted genetically modified cells into the brain of a 60-year-old woman with early Alzheimer’s disease in an effort to slow her mental degeneration.
2003 - In Estonia, Juhan Parts, a 36-year-old former auditor, took over as prime minister. He was Europe’s youngest head of state.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed into law the Pension Funding Equity Act of 2004. The law allowed companies to reduce contributions to their defined-benefit pension plans by more than $80 billion.
2005 - A spring blizzard hit eastern Colorado knocking out power and stranding travelers along highways and at the Denver airport.
2006 - French President Jacques Chirac, bowing to intense pressure from students and unions, threw out part of a youth labor law. The law had triggered massive protests and strikes.
2007 - Jazz singer Dakota Staton died at 76 years of age. Staton, an iconic Pittsburgh jazz vocalist who achieved international fame, died Isabella Geriatric Center in New York. A family spokesperson said Staton had been in declining health “after suffering a triple aneurysm several years ago.” In 1954, Ms. Staton recorded a single for Capitol Records and began a series of highly visible concerts on the East Coast. Two years later, she was named ‘most promising jazz vocalist of the year’ by the critics at "DOWNBEAT" magazine. When her first album, "The Late, Late Show," appeared the following year, it was hailed as a classic.
2008 - American Airlines canceled 922 flights to fix faulty wiring bundles in hundreds of its MDF-80 aircraft, marking the third straight day of mass groundings. The airline offered profuse apologies and travel vouchers to calm angry customers.
2009 - Observe and Report opened in U.S. theatres. The family comedy stars Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Pena, Ray Liotta and Jesse Plemons.
2009 - A study showed China had 32 million more young men than young women. Chinese parents, facing strict birth limits set by the government in the 1970s, abort illegal female fetuses to legally have a son.
2009 - France’s navy freed a sailboat that had been seized off Somalia by pirates. The sailboat was carrying Florent Lemacon, his wife, 3-year-old son and two friends. Two pirates were killed, and Lemacon died in an exchange of gunfire.
2010 - Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. In all, 96 people died in the crash.
2012 - U.S. technology giant Apple Inc. announced that it was worth more than $600 billion, making it the largest company, by market capitalization, in the world.
2013 - Researchers reported a new species of tree-dwelling porcupine in Brazil’s Northeastern Atlantic Forest. With just 2% of the original forest habitat still standing, the newly discovered creature was immediately considered endangered.
2013 - A 31-year-old Danish man was acquitted of molesting two 17-year-old girls in 2011. His acquittal came after he was found to be suffering from a rare sleep disorder known as ‘sexsomnia’, which causes those people to engage in sexual acts while asleep. Michael Laub, a Danish sleep specialist, said sexsomnia is a rare but widely recognized sleep disorder.
2014 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a nearly 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Central African Republic. “Risk of genocide,” “ethnic cleansing” and hatred reaching a “terrifying level” were phrases used increasingly — and deliberately — in the lead-up to the "Resolution 2149" vote. On Sep 15, 2014, the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) transferred its authority over to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).
2014 - North Korea detained 24-year-old American Matthew Miller for “improper behaviour.” The man had entered North Korea using a tourist visa, but tore it up and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. Miller was sentenced in Sep 2014 to six years of forced labor for committing “acts hostile to the DPRK while entering under the guise of a tourist.” But thanks to help from James Clapper, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Miller was released (along with Kenneth Bae) on Nov 8, 2014.
2015 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: The Longest Ride, starring Britt Robertson, Melissa Benoist and Scott Eastwood; Desert Dancer, with Freida Pinto, Nazanin Boniadi and Tom Cullen; the documentaries, Dior and I and Living in the Age of Airplanes; Ex Machina, with Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac; Kill Me Three Times, starring Simon Pegg, Teresa Palmer and, Alice Braga; Lost River, with Christina Hendricks, Saoirse Ronan and Eva Mendes; and The Sisterhood of Night, starring Georgie Henley, Kara Hayward, Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman.
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands at the opening of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. It was a symbolically-charged gesture of the two leaders intending to restore ties between their countries.
2016 - British Prime Minister David Cameron published his tax records. The unusual step was his effort to end days of questions about his personal wealth raised by the mention of his late father’s offshore fund in the Panama Papers.
2017 - An investigative report into sales practices at Wells Fargo was released on this day, blaming the bank’s top management for creating an “aggressive sales culture” involving millions of unauthorized accounts being opened. The bank’s board of directors reclaimed $75 million in pay from two former executives, CEO John Stumpf and community bank executive Carrie Tolstedt.
2017 - The first-ever freight train from Britain to China started its 18-day, 12,000-km (7,500-mile) journey along a modern-day ‘Silk Road’ trade route as Britain eyed new opportunities after leaving the European Union. The first train from China to Britain had arrived on January 18, filled with clothes and other retail goods.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump hosted the ruling emir of Qatar for a White House meeting, welcoming a leader whose tiny gas-rich nation he had formerly accused of funding terrorism at a high level.
2018 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began a two-day congressional inquisition with a public apology for a privacy scandal that has roiled the social media giant he founded more than a decade ago. Zuckerberg also apologized for fake news, hate speech, a lack of data privacy and Russian social media interference in the 2016 elections -- via Facebook.
2019 - Country singer Earl Thomas Conley died in Nashville, TN. He was 77 years old. Conley charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country songs chart. 18 reached #1, including Holding Her and Loving You, Nobody Falls Like a Fool, What I’d Say, Somewhere Between Right and Wrong, Don’t Make it Easy for Me, Once in a Blue Moon, Fire and Smoke and Heavenly Bodies.
2019 - Astronomers unveiled a photo of a massive black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy, 55 million light-years from Earth. They said the black hole was some 7 billion times more massive that the sun.
2019 - New Zealand’s Parliament passed sweeping gun laws that outlawed military style weapons. The bill became law a couple of days later. The new law was passed less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch killed 50 people and left dozens wounded.
2020 - Yes, God, Yes opened in U.S. theatres on this day. The drama stars Christian Adam, Susan Blackwell and Alisha Boe. It’s about a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s who discovers masturbating and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal damnation.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Christopher Parris of Atlanta was arrested for trying to defraud the Veterans Affairs Department out of millions of dollars, in one of the first big coronavirus related fraud cases brought by the Justice Department's new COVID-19 Hoarding and Price Gouging task force. Parris had tried to con a federal agency into paying $750 millions for phantom orders of 125 million face masks and other personal protective equipment. 2)Thousands of people surged for food aid in a brief stampede in Nairobi, Kenya -- desperate for help as coronavirus restrictions keep them from making a living. 3)Russia’s Prosecutor General began blocking access to “fake news” social media posts criticizing quarantine measures taken by the city of Moscow to curb the new coronavirus. Russia last year passed legislation with tough new fines for people spreading misinformation or insulting the state.
2020 - The U.N. warned of an increasing number of locust swarms forming in Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia. It raised its aid appeal from $76 million to $153 million, saying immediate action was needed before more rainfall fueled further growth in locust numbers.
2021 - Maryland lawmakers, overriding Governor Larry Hogan’s vetoes, voted to limit police use of force and restrict the use of no-knock warrants, taking the sweeping actions to address police violence after nationwide demonstrations following the death of George Floyd.
2021 - French lawmakers voted to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours. The action came as the government sought to lower carbon emissions.
2022 - Golfer Scottie Scheffler won the Masters by three strokes. It was the first major championship for the 25-year-old.
2022 - A collision on the pilgrim cableway (at the Badi Bambleshwari temple in Deoghar, Jharkhand state) in India killed one person. Another fell to his death the next day when trying to climb on to a rescue helicopter. The cars collided when one of them became partly dislodged from its cable, leaving around 50 people trapped in mid-air. It took two days to rescue all of the passengers.
2023 - A 25-year-old bank employee opened fire at his workplace in Louisville, Kentucky, and livestreamed the attack that left five dead and eight others injured. The gunman was killed by police after a shootout with police. The massacre was the 146th mass shooting to that point in 2023.
2023 - President Biden signed legislation to end the national emergency for Covid-19, in a move that did not affect the end of the separate public health emergency scheduled for May 11. A White House official said the termination of the emergency “does not impact our ability to wind down authorities in an orderly way.”
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Birthdays on This Day April 10
1829 - William Booth
founder of the Salvation Army; author: In Darkest England, The Way Out; died Aug 20, 19121847 - Joseph Pulitzer
publisher: St. Louis Dispatch, New York World; died in 1911: his will left $2 million for establishment of school of journalism at Columbia Univ. and a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism; died Oct 29, 19111882 - Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wilson)
first woman U.S. presidential cabinet member: Secretary of Labor [1933-1945]; died May 14, 19651885 - Bernard Gimbel
merchant: Gimbels Department Stores; died Sep 29, 19661903 - Claire Booth Luce
playwright: The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin of Error; editor: Vogue, Vanity Fair; politician: U.S. Congresswoman [1943-47]; U.S. Ambassador to Italy [1953-56]; died Oct 9, 19871910 - Eddy Duchin
pianist, bandleader: Snuggled on Your Shoulders, Can’t We Talk It Over?, The Song is You, I’ve Told Every Little Star; died Feb 9, 1951
1911 - Martin Denny
composer, arranger, pianist: Quiet Village, The Enchanted Sea; died Mar 2, 20051915 - Harry Morgan (Bratsburg)
Emmy Award-winning actor: M*A*S*H [1979-80]; Dragnet, You Can’t Take It with You, Pete and Gladys, HEC Ramsey, December Bride, The D.A., Aftermash; died Dec 7, 20111917 - Robert Woodward
Nobel Prize-winning scientist [1965]: study of the molecular structure of complex organic compounds; died July 8, 19791921 - Chuck (Kevin Joseph) Connors
actor: The Rifleman, Roots, The Yellow Rose, Werewolf, Cowboy in Africa, Branded; host: Thrill Seekers; died Nov 10, 19921921 - Sheb Wooley
CMA comic of the Year [1968]; singer, songwriter: The Purple People Eater, Are You Satisfied, Hee Haw theme; actor: Rawhide, High Noon, Rocky Mountain, Giant, Hoosiers; died Sep 16, 20031923 - Jane Kean
actress: The Honeymooners, Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Early to Bed, Call Me Mister, The Pajama Game, and Carnival!, Take Me Along, Girls, 70, Girls, 70; died November 26, 20131926 - Junior Samples
comedian: Hee Haw; died Nov 13, 19831929 - Max Von Sydow
actor: Dune, The Exorcist, The Seventh Seal, The Emigrants, Flash Gordon, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hawaii, The Quiller Memorandum, Quo Vadis, Three Days of the Condor; died Mar 8, 20201932 - Omar Sharif (Michael Shalhoub)
actor: Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Funny Girl, Funny Lady, Peter the Great, Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Beyond Justice, Crime & Passion; died Jul 10, 20151934 - David Halberstam
author: The Best and the Brightest, The Summer of ’49; died Apr 23, 20071936 - John Madden
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Diego State defensive coordinator; NFL: head coach: Oakland Raiders [103 wins, 32 losses, 7 ties]; TV sports broadcaster: CBS, FOX [11 Emmy Awards as Outstanding Sports Personality-Analyst]; author: Hey Wait a Minute, I Wrote a Book!, One Knee Equals Two Feet (and Everything Else You Wanted to Know About Football), One Size Doesn’t Fit All, All Madden, John Madden’s Ultimate Tailgate Cookbook; video game marketer: John Madden Football; died Dec 28, 20211936 - Bobbie Smith
co-founder, lead singer: The Spinners: It’s a Shame, I’ll Be Around, Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, One of a Kind [Love Affair], Then Came You [with Dionne Warwick], Games People Play; died Mar 16, 20131938 - ‘Dandy’ Don Meredith
football: Dallas Cowboys; broadcaster: ABC Monday Night Football: “Turn out the lights -- the party’s over.”; actor: Terror on the 40th Floor, Sky Hei$t; died Dec 5, 2010; more1941 - Paul Edward Theroux
author: The Mosquito Coast, Millroy the Magician1946 - Bob (Robert Jose) ‘Bull’ Watson
baseball: Houston Astros [all-star: 1973, 1975], Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1981], Atlanta Braves; died May 14, 20201947 - Bunny Livingston Wailer (Neville O’Riley)
musician: percussion, singer, songwriter: group: Bob Marley and the Wailers: Simmer Down, Rude Boy; solo: LPs: Blackheart Man, Protest, Sings the Wailers1948 - Mel Blount
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers: four Super Bowls, five Pro Bowls, 200 of 201 regular-season games, had 57 interceptions, 736 yards, 13 opponents’ fumble recoveries1950 - Ken (George Kenneth) Griffey Sr.
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975, 1976/all-star: 1976, 1977, 1980], NY Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Seattle Mariners; father of Ken Griffey Jr.; the first father-son combination to play in the major leagues at the same time1950 - Eddie Hazel
musician: guitar; singer: group: Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, Atomic Dog, Flashlight, Maggot Brain; died Dec 23, 19921952 - Steven Seagal
actor: Executive Decision, Under Siege series, On Deadly Ground, Out for Justice, Marked for Death, Hard to Kill, Above the Law1954 - Peter MacNicol
actor: CSI: Cyber, Numb3rs, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Addams Family Values, Ghostbusters 2, Sophie’s Choice, Dragon Slayer, Chicago Hope, The Powers that Be, 24, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.1959 - Brian Setzer
musician: guitar: groups: Stray Cats: Stray Cat Strut; The Brian Setzer Orchestra; more1960 - Olivia Brown
actress: All Tied Up, Memories of Murder, Throw Momma from the Train, Norman Loves Rose, 7th Heaven, Miami Vice1968 - Orlando Jones
actor: The Time Machine, Mad TV, Magnolia, The Replacements, Bedazzled1970 - Sean Gilbert
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: LA/SL Rams, Washington Redskins, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders1970 - Q-Tip (Jonathan Davis)
rapper: Vivrant Thing, Breathe and Stop; group: A Tribe Called Quest: Bonita Applebum, I Left My Wallet in El Segundo1973 - Roberto Carlos
Brazilian footballer [left-back]: Brazilian national team [1992–2006]: 2002 World Cup Champs; played in 370 matches for Real Madrid [1996-2007]; 2002, 2003 UEFA Defender of the Year; manager: Sivasspor [2013–2014]; Turkish league club Akhisar Belediyespor [2015]1975 - David Harbour
actor: Stranger Things, The Newsroom, Quantum of Solace, Revolutionary Road, Suicide Squad, Hellboy, The Equalizer1980 - Charlie Hunnam
actor: Sons of Anarchy, Undeclared, Nicholas Nickleby, Green Street Hooligans, Queer as Folk, Pacific Rim1981 - Laura Bell Bundy
singer: Giddy On Up; actress, Broadway: Hairspray, Legally Blonde - The Musical; off-Broadway: Ruthless; films/TV: Jumanji, Life with Mikey, The Adventures of Huck Finn, The Guiding Light1981 - Liz McClarnon
singer: group: Atomic Kitten: LPs: Right Now, Feels So Good, Ladies Night1981 - Michael Pitt
actor: The Dreamers, Boardwalk Empire, Finding Forrester, Murder by Numbers, The Hawk Is Dying, Seven Psychopaths1982 - Andre Ethier
baseball [outfielder]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2006–2017]1982 - Chyler Leigh
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Not Another Teen Movie, The 19th Wife, Private Practice, Brake, Window Wonderland, Supergirl1983 - Jamie Chung
actress: The Hangover Part II, Once Upon a Time, Premium Rush, Sorority Row, Princess Protection Program, Sucker Punch, The Man with the Iron Fists, Lady Silk, 7500, Eden, Knife Fight1983 - Ryan Merriman
actor: The Ring Two, The Pretender, Veritas: The Quest, The Last Rescue, Pretty Little Liars, Final Destination 31984 - Mandy Moore
singer: Cry, Candy, You Remind Me, Crush, When I Talk to You, Saturate Me, In My Pocket; actress: A Walk to Remember1987 - Jamie Renée Smith
actress: MVP: Most Valuable Primate, Midnight Man, The New Swiss Family Robinson, Toothless, Dante’s Peak, Children of the Corn: The Gathering1988 - Haley Joel Osment
actor: The Sixth Sense, Secondhand Lions, Edges of the Lord, Pay it Forward, I’ll Remember April, The Sixth Sense, Cab to Canada, The Lake1990 - Maren Morris
singer: My Church, 80s Mercedes, I Could Use a Love Song, Rich, The Middle (w/Grey and Zedd), Girl, The Bones; Grammy, American Music, Academy of Country Music award winner1992 - Daisy Ridley
actress: Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Scrawl, Casualty, Youngers, Silent Witness, Only Yesterday1994 - Liliana Mumy
actress: Cheaper by the Dozen film series, The Santa Clause 2 & 3, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Catscratch, The Secret Saturdays
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Sunflower (facts) - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skylarks)
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