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1803 - A twin-screw propeller steamboat was patented by John Stevens. The boat was 25 feet long and four feet wide.1912 - The RMS Titanic left Queenstown, Ireland. The ocean liner, on its maiden voyage, was bound for New York, New York.
1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day over KDKA radio. Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the action in the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.
1938 - The SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) was founded by 26 singing, striped-shirted gentlemen. Now we know that's 6½ quartets worth, but that's what it took to get the organization humming. So, let's head for the barbershop and ask for a “shave & a haircut, two bits!” or a refrain of Sweet Adeline. By the way, Sweet Adeline, the love song that became a favorite of barbershop quartets, was written in 1903 by Richard Gerard and Henry Armstrong; and there really was a sweet Adeline. She was opera singer Adelina Patti. Today, female barbershop quartets are called Sweet Adelines.
1943 - Nick Carter, Master Detective debuted on Mutual radio. The show was based on a New York Weekly character who was first introduced in 1886.
1947 - Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history when he played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1951 - U.S. President Harry S Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command in the Far East.
1951 - The Stone of Scone was recovered after a 107-day hunt. It had been stolen from Westminster Abbey by Scottish Nationalists who wanted it returned to Scotland.
1953 - Oveta Culp Hobby became the first U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1956 - Elvis Presley reached the top spot on the Billboard music chart with his first double-sided hit. The disk featured Heartbreak Hotel and I Was the One. The RCA Victor record stayed at number one for eight weeks. Elvis also made the country and R&B charts, as well.
1957 - The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was the first jet to take-off and land vertically (Ryan Aeronautical was the company that built the jet.).
1961 - Carl Yastrzemski replaced (the retired) Ted Williams in left field for the Boston Red Sox. The ‘Yaz’ was just 21 years old and had but two years experience in the minor leagues when he was called. In his first at-bat, he got a hit off Kansas City’s Ray Herbert. Yastrzemski retired in 1984, having played his entire major-league career in a Boston Red Sox uniform.
1961 - Bob Dylan made his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village. He sang Blowin’ in the Wind.
1962 - The New York Mets played their first regular season game. The team, managed by Casey Stengel, lost its first ten games. The St. Louis Cardinals won by a score of 11-4 -- prompting Stengel to say, before a group of reporters and players, “Can anyone here play this game?”
1965 - For the second time, Jack Nicklaus won the Masters golf title. He shot a par 271. Runners-up in a tie for second place were Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. It was the first time the ‘Big Three’ finished 1, 2, 3 in a tournament.
1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon with crew James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert. The mission was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module exploded into space and crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts aborted their lunar landing attempt and managed to return safely to Earth.
1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was overthrown. Amin, a Moslem, fled to Libya, eventually settling in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi’s provided him with a monthly stipend of about $1,400 and according to some accounts, he led a “comfortable life,” until his death on Aug 16, 2003.
1981 - Wedding bells chimed for guitarist, Eddie Van Halen and actress, Valerie Bertinelli of One Day at a Time (CBS-TV). The lovely couple was married in Los Angeles, California. Van Halen, who is so cool that his group is named after him, was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and moved to Pasadena, CA in 1968. Van Halen and Bertinelli divorced in 2007 (after 7 years of separation).
1983 - There were so many outstanding films in 1982, that the members of the Academy must have had a real struggle making up their minds in time for this night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Somehow, decisions were made and the 55th Annual Academy Awards ceremonies proceeded with hosts Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. Those who voted for Best Picture had to choose between E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict and Gandhi. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, producer) was the winner of this Oscar and seven more including Best Director Richard Attenborough; Best Actor Ben Kingsley; Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Stuart Craig, Robert W. Laing, Michael Seirton); Best Cinematography (Ronnie Taylor, Billy Williams); Best Costume Design (Bhanu Athaiya, John Mollo); Best Film Editing (John Bloom); Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (John Briley). Believe it or not there were some Oscars leftover for other deserving folks. The Best Actress golden statuette was awarded to Meryl Streep for Sophie’s Choice; while Jessica Lange received her Best Supporting Actress award for Tootsie and Louis Gossett, Jr. picked up his Best Supporting Actor award for An Officer and a Gentleman. An Officer and a Gentleman was honored again for Best Music/Song: Up Where We Belong (Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie [music], Will Jennings [lyrics], with Victor/Victoria winning the category of Best Music/Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score (Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse). Poltergeist, Annie, Rocky III, Blade Runner, Das Boot, Diner, The World According to Garp were also among the nominees at this Oscar celebration. We told you the voters must have had a difficult time voting!!!
1988 - Cher was sure moonstruck at this the 60th Annual Academy Awards at LA’s Shrine Auditorium. And as well she should have been. After all, she won the Oscar for Best Actress (Moonstruck), over the likes of Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Sally Kirkland, and Holly Hunter. Moonstruck struck gold again as Olympia Dukakis picked up the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and John Patrick Shanley won for Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Almost all of the other awards (9) that evening were won by The Last Emperor (Jeremy Thomas, producer) including Best Picture, and Best Director (Bernardo Bertolucci), except for Michael Douglas who received the Best Actor award for his performance in Wall Street, Sean Connery for his Best Supporting Actor role in The Untouchables, and Dirty Dancing which had the winning Music/Song, (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (music: Frank Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz, lyrics: Frank Previte). Funny man Chevy Chase hosted the fun-filled event. Note: The Last Emperor won in every category in which it was nominated.
1991 - Miss Saigon opened at the Broadway Theatre in New York. The budget was a record $10 million and the best seats were priced at $100; also a Broadway first. The musical revolves around the love story of an American Marine and a Vietnamese prostitute. The show was produced by Cameron McIntosh with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Lyrics by Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. (based on the book by Alain Boublil).
1993 - A deadly riot erupted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio; one guard and nine inmates were killed during the 11-day siege.
1994 - The White House disclosed that President and Mrs. Clinton had failed to report $6,498 in income that the first lady made in commodities trading in 1980; the couple wrote checks totaling $14,615 in back taxes and interest.
1996 - Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who had hoped to become the youngest person to fly across the United Staes, was killed along with her father and a flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1997 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Anaconda, starring Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Eric Stoltz; and Grosse Pointe Blank, with John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd and Joan Cusack.
1999 - Jose Maria Olazabal won the Masters golf tournament by two shots over Davis Love III.
2000 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with U.S. President Bill Clinton in Washington DC. A White House official described the meeting as a good, productive, serious discussion.
2001 - These films were shown for the first time in U.S. theatres: Joe Dirt, with David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Christopher Walken, Erik Per Sullivan and Dennis Miller; Josie and the Pussycats, starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson and Parker Posey; and Kingdom Come, with Ll Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith and Vivica A. Fox.
2001 - Ending a tense 11-day standoff, China agreed to free the 24 crew members of an American spy plane after U.S. President George W. Bush (II) said he was “very sorry” for the death of a Chinese fighter pilot whose plane had collided with the American aircraft.
2002 - U.S. Representative James A. Traficant Jr. (D-Ohio) was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks. (Traficant was later expelled from Congress. He was released from prison Sep 2, 2009, after serving seven years of an eight-year prison sentence. He died Sep 27, 2014 when a tractor he was driving into a pole barn flipped over and trapped him underneath.)
2003 - New movies in the U.S.: Anger Management, with Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzman, Harry Dean Stanton, Michelle Rodriguez, Woody Harrelson and John Turturr; and House of 1000 Corpses, starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick, Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostyn, Rainn Wilson, Walton Goggins, Tom Towles and Dennis Fimple.
2004 - The London Sunday Times reported that an Indian steel tycoon paid £73 million for a mansion in London, breaking the world record for the most expensive house purchase.
2005 - A nine-story building in Bangladesh collapsed when a boiler (on the ground floor) exploded, killing 73 people. The factory, Spectrum Sweaters Ltd., produced nearly 80,000 pieces of clothing a day for export, mainly to the United States, Belgium and Germany. At the time, Bangladesh had about 2,500 garment factories employing some 1.8 million workers.
2005 - Miss North Carolina, Chelsea Cooley, was crowned Miss U.S.A. in the 54th annual pageant.
2006 - A jury in New Jersey awarded $9 million to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx. The jury concluded that manufacturer Merck & Co. had failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians.
2007 - Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died in New York City at 84 years of age. Vonnegut was regarded by many as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature. He mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound in books such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and Hocus Pocus.
2007 - The Pentagon extended Iraq and Afghan tours of duty for all U.S. troops from twelve to fifteen months.
2008 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Krazzy 4, with Juhi Chawla, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Suresh Menon and Rajpal Yadav; Prom Night, starring Brittany Snow, Dana Davis, Jessica Troup, Scott Porter, Collins Pennie, Kelly Blatz, Idris Elba, Jonathan Schaech, Jessalyn Gilsig, Kellan Lutz and Craig Susser; Smart People, with Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes and Christine Lahti; Street Kings, starring Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Naomi Harris, Amaury Nolasco and Common and The Game; and U, Me Aur Hum, with Ajay Devgan and Kajol.
2008 - New regulations allowed thousands of Cubans to get title to state-owned homes. It was the first legal decree formally published since Raul Castro succeeded his ailing brother Fidel as president of the communist island country.
2009 - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Russian business leaders in Moscow to encourage them to take an active part in rebuilding Iraq’s economy.
2010 - More than 20,000 people gathered at tailgate parties and other spots to watch fireworks go off one last time over Texas Stadium. This, just before a ton of dynamite lit up the Dallas Cowboys’ longtime home and brought it to the ground. The Cowboys had played 38 seasons in Texas Stadium.
2010 - Million Dollar Quartet debuted at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway. The ‘jukebox musical’ written by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott dramatized the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956 at Sun studio in Memphis that featured Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis. The show was nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Levi Kreis. Kreis won the award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Jerry Lee Lewis. Million Dollar Quartet played 489 performances, closing Jun 12, 2011.
2011 - 50-year-old Indonesian lawmaker Arifinto Session III resigned after he got caught watching sexually explicit videos on his computer -- during a parliamentary debate. Arifinto was a member of the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party, who had helped pass a tough anti-pornography law.
2011 - Reno photographer Joseph Naso (77) was arrested in South Lake Tahoe for the killings of four women in Northern California between 1977 and 1994. Naso was accused of killing Roxene Roggasch in 1977, Carmen Colon in 1978, Pamela Parsons in 1993 and Tracy Tafoya in 1994. All four were found strangled in rural areas of Northern California.
2012 - The Nebraska Legislature approved a bill that provided support for an expected new route for TransCanada Corp’s Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The revised route bypassed an environmentally sensitive region in the state. Governor Dave Heineman approved the route in January 2013.
2012 - A huge earthquake struck beneath the Indian Ocean and triggered a burst of large quakes around the world. At least four faults ruptured within 100 seconds to create a giant quake with a combined magnitude of 8.7 off the island of Sumatra.
2013 - California placed restrictions on the hormone-disrupting chemical known as Bisphenol-A (BPA) and declared it a reproductive toxicant. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had banned the cheminal the previous year, ruling that it could no longer be used to make baby bottles, sippy cups and many other items.
2013 - The New York Post’s coverage of former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s potential New York City mayoral candidacy featured a cover, which blared WEINER’S SECOND COMING! and Anthony: Erect me Mr. Mayor, along with one of the sexual pictures that helped force his resignation. The Post was not the only publication jumping on the “Fry the Weiner” bandwagon. The Daily News said Cuomo Spanks Weiner. The Huffington Post posted, DIRTY WEINER PLUNGES IN HOLE!. NYC’s No.1 blasted with, He couldn’t keep it up. The Daily News chimed in with STICK A FORK IN WEINER. And there were many other nasty headlines.
2013 - Matilda the Musical opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. The stage musical was based on the 1988 children’s novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The show won five 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical and played for 1,554 performances, closing Jan 1, 2017.
2014 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: Draft Day, starring Jennifer Garner, Kevin Costner and Chadwick Boseman; The Railway Man, with Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård and Hiroyuki Sanada; the animated Rio 2, featuring the voices of Rodrigo Santoro, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, Kristin Chenoweth, Jemaine Clement, Amandla Stenberg, John Leguizamo, Jake T. Austin, Andy Garcia and Will i Am; Cuban Fury, with Nick Frost, Chris O’Dowd and Rashida Jones; Hateship Loveship, starring Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christine Lahti andSami Gayle; Joe, starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and Adriene Mishler; Kochadaiiyaan, with Rajnikanth, Deepika Padukone and Sarath Kumar; Oculus, starring Brenton Thwaites, Karen Gillan and Katee Sackhoff; Only Lovers Left Alive, with Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton and Mia Wasikowska; and Perfect Sisters, with Abigail Breslin, Georgie Henley and Mira Sorvino.
2014 - Nuclear tech firm Westinghouse announced a deal with Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company (Energoatom) to deliver fuel for Ukraine’s 15 reactors through 2020. The fuel would help Ukraine reduce its reliance on Russia for energy supplies.
2015 - The U.S. confirmed that the H5N2 strain of avian bird flu had been found among 38,000 turkeys at a commercial farm in Minnesota. Bird flu was also confirmed at two farms in South Dakota.
2016 - South Korea said two senior North Korean officials, including an army colonel who specialized in espionage against the South, defected to South Korea the previous year.
2017 - A Brazil Supreme Court justice dealt Brazil’s President Michel Temer a heavy blow opening probes into 100 politicians. AIt was part of an ongoing corruption scandal that had involved billions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes by companies including construction giant Odebrec.
2017 - Florida’s Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency as wildfires burned more than 23,800 acres across the state. 107 active wildfiresm were burning in Florida.
2018 - Striking Air France pilots and other cabin crew forced the cancellation of some 30 percent of the airline’s flights worldwide.
2018 - POTUS Trump threatened a missile strike on Syria. The threat came as Trump weighed how to punish Damascus after President Bashar al-Assad’s forces carried out an April 7 chemical attack on civilians, killing at least 40 people.
2019 - Actor Geoffrey Rush won his defamation case (and a record $2.9m judgment) against a Sydney, Australian newspaper publisher and journalist. "The Daily Telegraph" had accused Rush of inappropriate behavior toward an actress. Rush sued the newspaper and the journalist Jonathon Moran, claiming their reporting had conveyed the imputation that Rush was a “pervert,” a “sexual predator” and “committed sexual assault.”
2019 - British police dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorean embassy after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information. On May 1, 2019 he was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison in the United Kingdom.
2020 - Alaska held its presidential primary. Joe biden beat Bernie Sanders 55.3% to 44.7%, claiming 8 of 15 delegates. A total of 19,759 votes were cast.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Another 103 crew members on the U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt had tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases from the ship to 550. The outbreak aboard the nuclear-powered carrier had led to the resignation of Thomas Modly as acting Navy secretary following a mounting backlash for his firing and ridiculing of the ship’s commander, who had pleaded for help with getting the outbreak under control. 2)The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that a Republican-dominated legislative panel had exceeded its authority when it tried to overturn Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s executive order banning religious and funeral services of more than 10 people during the pandemic. 3)New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said public schools would remain closed for the rest of the school year. 4)The Kremlin said a “huge influx” of coronavirus patients was beginning to put a strain on hospitals in Moscow as Russia's death toll rose to more than 100.
2021 - Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died after a police officer shot him during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb. Police later said Officer Kim Potter fired her gun by accident, thinking it was her Taser.
2021 - 29-year-old Hideki Matsuyama won the Masters golf tournament, becoming the first Japanese man to win one of golf’s majors.
2021 - South Korea moved ahead with a coronavirus vaccination drive, after deciding to continue using AstraZeneca PLC’s vaccine for all eligible people 30 years old or over.
2022 - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and to ‘confront’ him with the truth about the war in Ukraine. Nehammer said he came away feeling not only pessimistic about peace prospects, but fearing that the Russian dictator intended to drastically intensify the brutality of the war.
2022 - Canada said that it was imposing sanctions on 33 more companies in the Russian defense sector and looking for additional measures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Canada had already imposed sanctions on more than 700 individuals and entities from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
2023 - The Russian volcano Shiveluch erupted, spewing ash 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) into the air in the eastern Kamchatka region. The eruption spewed ash far into the sky, smothering villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust.
2023 - And speaking of big stuff: The largest cosmic explosion ever recorded (AT2021lwx) was recorded on this day. It was a fireball 100 times the size of the solar system with a brightness 2 trillion times our sun’s. Scientists think it was a large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million light-years away.
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Birthdays on This Day April 11
1864 - Lillie P. Bliss
founder [with 2 other women] of New York City’s Museum of Modern Art; died Mar 12, 19311893 - Dean Acheson
U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S Truman [1949-1953]; died Oct 12, 1971
1893 - Lou Holtz
comedian, actor: Follow the Leader [1930], School for Romance [1934], When Do We Eat? [1934]; died Sep 22, 19801899 - Percy Julian
scientist, inventor: developer of synthetic progesterone, inexpensive production method to produce cortisone, a drug to treat glaucoma, chemical foam to smother oil fires; died Apr 19, 19751907 - Paul Douglas
actor: The Mating Game, Panic in the Streets, Executive Suite, This Could be the Night, The Gamma People; died Sep 11, 19591908 - Jane Bolin
attorney: first black woman graduate of Yale School of Law; first black, female judge; died Jan 8, 20071912 - John Levy
jazz musician: bass: played with George Shearing quintet; died Jan 20, 20121913 - Oleg Cassini
fashion designer: official designer to Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, creating the Camelot look that became synonymous with well-crafted style; died Mar 17, 20061916 - Howard W. Koch
film producer: Crossings, Badge 373, Star Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple; The Untouchables [TV], Jungle Heat, Maverick [TV]; died Feb 16, 20011921 - Dorothy Shay (Sims)
‘Park Avenue Hillbilly’: singer: Feudin’ and Fightin’; actress: Comin’ Round the Mountain; died Oct 22, 19781928 - Ethel Kennedy (Skakel)
widow of slain U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy1931 - Johnny Sheffield
actor: Tarzan Finds a Son, Tarzan’s Secret Treasure, Tarzan’s New York Adventure; died Oct 15, 20101932 - Joel Grey (Katz)
Tony & Academy award-winning actor: Cabaret [1967 & 1972]; singer, dancer: Broadway: Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, George M!; films: Man on a Swing, Buffalo Bill & the Indians, Kafka, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; actress Jennifer Grey’s father1934 - Cleotha Staples
singer: group: The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There, Marching Up Jesus, Tell Heaven, I’m Coming Home; died Feb 21, 20131939 - Louise Lasser
actress: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex [But Were Afraid to Ask], Frankenhooker, Rude Awakening, The Night We Never Met, Slither1944 - Joe Beauchamp
football: Univ. of Iowa, SD Chargers1947 - Peter Riegert
actor: The Mask, Oscar, Crossing Delancey, Local Hero, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Middle Ages1947 - Meshach Taylor
actor: Designing Women, Mannequin, Dave’s World, Buffalo Bill, Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide; died Jun 28, 20141950 - Bill Irwin
actor: Stepping Out, Scenes from a Mall, Hot Shots!, My Blue Heaven, Eight Men Out, Popeye; choreographer: The Regard of Flight1951 - Sid Monge
baseball: pitcher: California Angels, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1979], Philadelphia Phillies, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers1955 - Neville Staple
singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town1958 - Stuart Adamson
musician: guitar, singer: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown; died Dec 16, 20011960 - Angie Sylvers
singer: group: The Sylvers: Boogie Fever, Wish That I Could Talk to You, Through the Love in My Heart, Stay Away From Me, Can You Handle It, Cotton Candy1961 - Vincent Gallo
model, songwriter, actor: Get Well Soon, Buffalo ’66, Hollywood Shalome, Palookaville, Goodfellas, The Way It Is1964 - Bret Saberhagen
baseball [pitcher]: KC Royals [youngest ever AL pitcher to win the Cy Young Award: age 21 in 1985], NY Mets, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox1964 - Tony Tedeschi
actor [1990-2009]: X-rated films: The Good, the Bad & the Nasty, Tongue in Cheek, Beaver & Buttface, Sex Raiders, The Mobster’s Wife, Action Sports Sex1966 - Lisa Stansfield
singer, songwriter: All Around the World, You Can’t Deny It, This Is the Right Time1970 - Delroy Pearson
singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Find the Time, Rain or Shine1970 - Joe Vitiello
baseball [left field, first base]: Univ of Alabama; Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos1972 - Jason Varitek
baseball [catcher]: Georgia Tech Univ; Boston Red Sox [1997–2011] 2004, 2007 World Series champs; Special Assistant to GM for Boston Red Sox1973 - Jennifer Esposito
actress: Blue Bloods, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam, Crash, Spin City, The Looney Tunes Show, Samantha Who?, Bending the Rules1974 - Tricia Helfer
actress: Battlestar Galactica, Dark Blue, Bloodwork, Mistletoe over Manhattan, PostHuman, The Forger, Scent of the Missing, Scribble, 37, The Firm1975 - Todd Dunwoody
baseball [right, left field]: Florida Marlins, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians1976 - Kelvim Escobar
baseball [pitcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, L.A./Anaheim Angels1978 - Ben Clymer
hockey [right wing]: NHL: Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals1980 - Mark Teixeira
baseball [first base]: Texas Rangers [2003–2007], Atlanta Braves [2007–2008] Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim [2008] New York Yankees [2009–2016] 2009 World Series champs; 2× All-Star [2005, 2009], 5× Gold Glove Award [2005–2006, 2009–2010, 2012], 3× Silver Slugger Award [2004–2005, 2009]1981 - Alexandre Burrows
hockey [right winger]: NHL: Vancouver Canucks [2005-2018]: 2011 Stanley Cup finals1981 - Matt Ryan
actor: Constantine, Arrowverse, Justice League Dark, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Constantine: City of Demons, Batwoman, The Flash1983 - Joanna Douglas
actress: New Year, Taking a Chance on Love, All the Good Ones Are Married, Happy Town, Being Erica1984 - Kelli Garner
actress: The Aviator, Bully, Thumbsucker, Man of the House, Dreamland, G-Force, Red Velvet, My Generation, Pan Am, Horns1987 - Joss Stone (Jocelyn Eve Stoker)
singer: Fell in Love with a Boy, Some Kind of Wonderful, Dirty Man, The Chokin’ Kind, You Had Me; LPs: The Soul Sessions, Mind Body & Soul, Introducing Joss Stone, Colour Me Free!, LP11994 - Dakota Blue Richards
actress: The Golden Compass, Dustbin Baby, The Secret of Moonacre, Skins, The Fold, Lightfields2000 - Morgan Lily
actress: 2012, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Henry Poole Is Here, He’s Just Not That Into You, The Ugly Life of a Beautiful Girl, Flipped, Love’s Everlasting Courage
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Hit Music on This Day April 11
1950If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake (facts) - Eileen Barton
Music, Music, Music (facts) - Teresa Brewer
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