April 14
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1865 - John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, was permitted upstairs at Ford’s Theatre. Thus, he gained access to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s private theatre box as Lincoln watched the performance of Our American Cousin. It was just after 10 p.m. when Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln in the head. After shooting the President, Booth leaped to the stage below, shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus always to tyrants!”, the state motto of Virginia.) He broke his leg in the fall but managed to escape the theatre (which was in Washington, D.C.), mount a horse, and flee to Virginia. Booth was hunted down and shot as he hid in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. the next day.1894 - The kinetoscope was demonstrated by its inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, in New York City. A viewer that held 50 feet of film -- about 13 seconds worth -- showed images of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. The demonstration was actually called the first peep show, as one had to peep into the device to see what was on the film. Movies were not projected on a screen at that time.
1902 - James Cash Penney opened his first store -- in Kemmerer Wyoming. In partnership with Thomas M. Callahan and William Guy Johnson, J.C. Penney named the store Golden Rule. The dry goods and clothing store had a first-year profit of $8,514.36 on sales of $28,898.11.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt denounced ‘reform journalism’ as “muckraking” in a speech he gave this day. OK, since you asked: reform journalism was the forerunner of today’s investigative reporting. Roosevelt said, “Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake, speedily becomes, not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil.” A good observation to be heeded by journalists of any age.
1910 - The Philadelphia Athletics, under manager Connie Mack, played the Washington Senators in what became a most historic game. This game was not only the season opener; but also, the first time a United States President had thrown out the first ball. The president was William Howard Taft. The game was held in Washington, DC and appropriately, The Senators won 3-0. And so began a baseball tradition. Play ball!
1912 - “Up in the crows nest, Frederick Fleet was staring into the darkness. It was around 11:30 p.m. on a very odd calm moonless night when he noticed a black object immediately in their path, he knew it was ice!” The Royal Mail Steamship Titanic of the White Star Line struck an iceberg at approximately 11:40 p.m. The great ship, on its maiden voyage, sank just under three hours later. 1,517 passengers were lost at sea. (See TWtD, April 15.)
1912 - Frederick Rodman Law was a stunt man and became the first man to intentionally jump from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York without intending to take his own life. He was OK after the leap.
1935 - Babe Ruth played his first game for the National League in Fenway Park in Boston, MA. This time, he was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old Red Sox. Ruth was in his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this, his last season, Ruth played only 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before hanging up his spikes for good.
1941 - Hildegarde recorded the standard Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup on Decca Records. Hildegarde was the elegant singer with the long white gloves who was accompanied by the Harry Sosnik Orchestra. It took another 14 years, but Nat ‘King’ Cole turned the song into an even bigger hit, landing at number 7 on the pop music charts.
1942 - The Destroyer Roper sank the German submarine U-85 about 15 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
1944 - The first Jews (some 5,200 persons) to be transported from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
1945 - Future U.S. Senator Robert Dole was crippled by an artillery shell while participating in Operation Craftsman at Po Valley in Italy. Bob Dole spent nearly 40 months in army hospitals and lost most of the use of his right arm as a result.
1945 - In other World War II action this day: The U.S. 7th Army and allied forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Germany; U.S. forces attacked Motobu peninsula on Okinawa; B-29s damaged the Imperial Palace during a firebombing raid over Tokyo; Arnhem and Zwolle were freed from Nazis.
1949 - The trials of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg ended on this day.
1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. The videotape machine had a price tag of $75,000. These early Ampex units were too large to fit in a small room. That’s back when bigger was better.
1958 - Pianist Van Cliburn was presented on national TV for the first time on Steve Allen’s NBC-TV show.
1958 - 13-year-old Laurie London reached the top spot on the music charts with He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, knocking Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star down a peg or two.
1960 - The musical Bye Bye Birdie opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke starred in the Broadway show which ran for 607 performances.
1965 - Perry E. Smith and Robert E. Hickok were hanged in Kansas for murdering the Clutter family, a crime made famous by Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.
1967 - Herman’s Hermits, featuring lead singer Peter Noone, went gold with the single, There’s a Kind of Hush. It was a two-sided hit, with the flip-side, No Milk Today, also receiving considerable play. Hush, however, was a top-five song, while the ‘B’ side just made it into the top 40 at number 35.
1968 - Bob Goalby won the Masters Golf Tournament after Roberto DeVicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard. DeVicenzo signed for a score higher than his actual score on the 17th hole (a par 4 when he actually made a birdie 3). The rules say that you have to stick to the higher score, once you sign for it. The lower score would have pitted DeVicenzo against Goalby in a playoff match and who knows what might have happened? Ouch! On top of this, it was DeVicenzo’s 45th birthday, as well!
1969 - This was a night of firsts at the 41st Annual Academy Awards ceremony. For the first time, the happenings at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles were beamed to TV audiences worldwide. Appropriately, a foreign (British) film was honored as Best Picture: Oliver! (John Woolf, producer), which also won for Best Director (Carol Reed); Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston); Best Sound (Shepperton SSD); Best Music/Score of a Musical Picture/Original or Adaptation (Johnny Green). There was a tie for Best Actress. Barbra Streisand picked up her statuette for her starring role in Funny Girl, and for the second year in a row, Katharine Hepburn was honored as Best Actress, this time for her performance in The Lion in Winter. Other veteran actors received their first Oscars this night: Cliff Robertson for his Best Actor role in Charly; Jack Albertson for his Best Supporting Actor role in The Subject Was Roses and Ruth Gordon for her Best Supporting Actress role in Rosemary’s Baby. Even the Best Music/Song award was presented for the first time to Michel Legrand (music) and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from the The Thomas Crown Affair. Other great 1968 films that were Oscar-winners or nominees: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; For Love of Ivy; Planet of the Apes; Bullitt; The Odd Couple; Romeo and Juliet; The Producers; Rachel, Rachel.
1970 - Milwaukee Buck’s basketball player Lew Alcindor was named NBA Rookie of the Year. (Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar following the 1970-1971 season.)
1980 - Stan Mikita retired after 21 years with the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. His #21 jersey became the first Blackhawks number to be retired.
1980 - Kramer vs. Norma, Apocalypse vs. Jazz. That’s how the honors were divided at the 52nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Johnny Carson was hosting quite a contest! But the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to Melvyn Douglas for his performance in Being There. Was it going to be an upset? Being There was a long shot to win Best Picture and this was its first award all evening. All That Jazz had already won four of the golden statuettes and Apocalypse Now, two. Next, it was Meryl Streep who picked up the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Dustin Hoffman, Best Actor, for their roles in Kramer vs. Kramer, making it a trio of Oscars for Kramer, so far. Then Norma Rae picked up two awards: Best Music/Song, It Goes like It Goes, David Shire (music), Norman Gimbel (lyrics) and Best Actress, Sally Field. But it was in the cards for Kramer vs. Kramer as it won for Best Director (Robert Benton), and then, Best Picture (Stanley R. Jaffe, producer). Going into the evening, All That Jazz and Kramer vs. Kramer each had nine Oscar nominations, Apocalypse Now had eight, and Norma Rae, four.
1985 - Bernhard Langer shot a 282 and won the Masters golf tournament. It was the West German’s first year as a member of the PGA Tour.
1989 - The 1,100,000,000th Chinese was born.
1990 - R&B singer Thurston Harris died of a heart attack in Pomona, California (age 58). His only major hit was Little Bitty Pretty One, which made it into the top-ten in November 1957.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court threw out Apple’s lawsuit against Microsoft. (In 1989, Apple had filed suit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, claiming that the Windows and HP graphical user interfaces [Windows 2.03 and HP’s New Wave] infringed Apple’s copyright on the “look and feel” of the Macintosh desktop.)
1994 - The chiefs of the seven largest U.S. tobacco companies spent more than six hours being grilled by U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on the effects of smoking.
1995 - Singer, actor Burl Ives died at his home in Anacortes, Washington. He was 85. Ives’s folk hits in the 1950s and 1960s included The Blue Tail Fly, Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin’ and Holly, Jolly Christmas. Ives may be best known for his recordings of folk and children’s songs, including Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly, which has the chorus “Jimmy Crack Corn (and I don’t care).” Poet Carl Sandburg once called Ives “the mightiest ballad singer of this or any other century.” He won an Oscar in 1958 for his supporting role in The Big Country, but was best known for his stage and screen portrayal of Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1997 - Clyde Barrow’s bullet-riddled shirt was auctioned off to a Nevada casino for $85,000. On May 23,1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot some four-dozen times by police after the pair had spent the previous two years killing and robbing banks in the Midwest.
1998 - The Grand Forks (North Dakota) Herald won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Its coverage of the flooding, a blizzard and a fire that devastated much of the city, including the newspaper plant itself, “helped hold its community together.” The Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to author Philip Roth for his American Pastoral.
1999 - British entertainer Anthony Newley died in Jensen Beach, FL. The star of the hit show Stop the World: I Want to Get Off was 67 years old.
2000 - These movies made debuts in the U.S.: American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas and Samantha Mathis; and 28 Days, with Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen.
2000 - U.S. stock markets plunged with the DJIA down 616.23 to 10,307.32 and the Nasdaq down 355.61 to 3,321.17. Inflation fears were cited.
2001 - The 24 crew members of a U.S. spy plane held in China for twelve days landed at their home base (Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Washington). They were greeted by thousands of friends, family members and other well-wishers. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blasted the Chinese version of the midair collision that downed the spy plane and led to the 12-day standoff to free the crewmembers. Rumsfeld said the U.S. information that “clearly places the Chinese pilot at fault” for the April 1 collision.
2002 - Tiger Woods became only the third player to win back-to-back Masters titles; he closed with a 1-under-par 71 in a three-stroke victory over Retief Goosen. The other two back-to-back Masters champs were Jack Nicklaus (1965-1966) and Nick Faldo (1989-1990).
2003 - U.S. commandos in Baghdad captured Abul Abbas. He was the leader of a violent Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner "Achille Lauro" in 1985. (Abbas died in 2004 while still in U.S. custody.)
2004 - Tornadoes swept through northern Bangladesh, killing at least 74 people, injuring hundreds and blowing away thousands of flimsy huts.
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) threw out the first pitch of Washington DC Nationals home opener at RFK Stadium. The Nationals brought baseball back to the capital for the first time since the Senators left in 1971.
2005 - The Oregon Supreme Court nullified 3,000 marriage licenses issued in 2004 to same-sex couples in Portland’s Multnomah County.
2006 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Scary Movie 4, with Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Carmen Electra, Leslie Nielsen, Simon Rex, Shaquille O'Neal, Dr. Phillip C. McGraw and Craig Bierko; and the animated The Wild, featuring the voices of Kiefer Sutherland, William Shatner, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard and Janeane Garofalo.
2006 - NBA star Kobe Bryant broke the Los Angeles Lakers’ single-season scoring record as he got 50 points in a game against the Portland Trail Blazers. Bryant started the game needing only 16 points to reach 1,720 on the season and soon dribbled past Elgin Baylor’s long-standing season total of 2,719 points.
2007 - A Chinese rocket placed a navigation satellite in orbit as part of China’s effort to build a global positioning system.
2007 - Crooner Don Ho died in Hawaii at 76 years of age. Don Ho had entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing his signature tune Tiny Bubbles.
2008 - Kidnapped British journalist Richard Butler was rescued by Iraqi troops after he spent two months in captivity in Basra. And the U.S. said it would release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, more than two years after it had detained him on suspicions of links to insurgents. The U.S. said it had determined Hussein was not a threat.
2008 - Delta and Northwest Airlines announced an agreement to a $17.7-billion merger creating the world’s largest air carrier at the time.
2010 - Following recent rains and flooding, swarms of locusts had infested a huge area of eastern Australia -- roughly the size of Spain. The locusts were ravaging farmland.
2010 - U.S. agents in northern California arrested 18 people on charges of defrauding banks and lenders with bogus mortgage loan applications. Losses totaled some $10 million from 2005 to 2009.
2011 - NATO allies met in Berlin seeking to bridge differences over their campaign in Libya, as rebels fighting to topple Moamer Kadhafi reported an intensive bombing blitz by allied warplanes.
2012 - Senior diplomats from Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, known as the P5+1, gathered at the negotiating table in Istanbul. It was the first attempt in 15 months to ease tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program.
2013 - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal indicated his support for allowing women to drive. And Saudi authorities announced on September 26, 2017, that the government would end the longstanding ban on women driving cars.
2013 - Motown The Musical opened on this day at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway. The show was based on Berry Gordy’s founding and running of the Motown record label. Charl Brown played Smokey Robinson, Bryan Terrell Clark was Marvin Gaye, Brandon Victor Dixon was Gordy and Valisia LeKae starred as Diana Ross. Motown The Musical ran for 738 performances, closing Jan 18, 2015.
2014 - The Pulitzer Prize in Public Service was awarded to The Washington Post and The Guardian US, the New York-based newsroom of the British newspaper, for uncovering the U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs. The revelations were based on secret documents handed over by NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
2014 - Google bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar powered drones, for an undisclosed sum. A Google spokesperson said, “It's still early days, but atmospheric satellites could help bring internet access to millions of people, and help solve other problems, including disaster relief and environmental damage like deforestation.”
2015 - POTUS Barack Obama bowed to pressure and agreed to sign legislation giving Congress the right to reject any nuclear agreement with Iran.
2015 - SpaceX successfully launched a cargo ship from Cape Canaveral for the Internalional Space Station, but failed to land the booster stage on a floating platform. It was the sixth SpaceX mission to the ISS. The company was the first private space contractor to dock with the station.
2016 - Germany announced new legal measures requiring migrants and refugees to integrate into society in return for being allowed to live and work in the country. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition agreed to require migrants to learn German and seek work or see their residence rights benefits cut.
2017 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: The Fate of the Furious, starring Charlize Theron, Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell, Vin Diesel, Scott Eastwood, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky and Helen Mirren; the animated Spark, featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Biel and Hilary Swank; Asomatous, with Jack Campbell, Catherine Kresge and Whitney Rose Pynn; Little Boxes, starring Melanie Lynskey, Nelsan Ellis and Armani Jackson; The Lost City of Z, with Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Tom Holland; Norman, starring Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi and Michael Sheen; Tommy’s Honour, with Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill and Peter Mullan.
2017 - Sections of Las Vegas Boulevard remained closed after firefighters contained a fire on the roof of the famed Bellagio Hotel and Casino. The fire had started late the previous evening, prompting the closure of the Las Vegas Strip. The Clark County Fire Department responded to the blaze, which they said was difficult to access given its location, but that they had nonetheless managed to knock down the fire.
2017 - The Trump administration cited privacy and national security as reasons to keep the lists of visitors to the White House a secret. But the move angered government watchdog groups who accused Trump of reneging on his promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington. John Wonderlich, executive director of Sunlight Foundation, said, “By announcing a return to secrecy for White House visitor logs, the Trump administration has continued to evade public accountability and transparency for the highest office.”
2018 - Dave Krieger, editor of The Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado published an editorial critical of Alden Capital Group, the newspaper’s hedge fund owners (for cuts it had made to the paper). And -- wait for it -- on April 26 Krieger tweeted that he had been fired.
2018 - Bon Jovi, The Moody Blues, Dire Straits, The Cars, Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2018 induction ceremony was held at Cleveland’s Public Auditorium -- with Howard Stern acting as MC.
2019 - Stuttgart, Germany-based Daimler confirmed it was facing a regulatory probe after a report said authorities have uncovered a previously unknown type of pollution trickery software installed by Daimler in some of its vehicles.
2019 - 37-year-old Pete Buttigieg, liberal mayor of South Bend Indiana, officially launched his presidential bid, joining a crowded field of Democrats vying for their party’s nomination in 2020. Buttigieg highlighted his belief that the U.S. needed both a generational change and an entirely different political figure to lead the country past Trump. Buttigieg’s argument was that he, a gay, veteran mayor from the Midwest, was just that kind of different politician.
2020 - POTUS Trump moved to halt funding for the World Health Organization. His move was met by big boos at home and abroad. American taxpayers covered 15% of the WHO’s $4.5bn annual budget. And U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called the WHO “absolutely critical to the world’s efforts” to fight the coronavirus and said it “must be supported.”
2020 - Switzerland indicted an Iraqi citizen, suspected of being a high-ranking member of the Islamic State, for violating a ban on extremist groups. The Swiss attorney general’s office did not name him, but said he had been in custody since his arrest in May 2017 -- for being a recruiter, trafficker and cash-provider for IS.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. Transportation Department awarded nearly $10 billion to U.S. airports struggling with a massive falloff in travel demand because of the pandemic. 2)Iraq suspended the license of the Reuters news agency after it published a story saying the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country was higher than officially reported. 3)The Coahuila state health department in Mexico said nurses at a public hospital had been told by their managers not to wear protective masks at the start of the pandemic to avoid sowing panic among patients. Two doctors and a hospital administrator died and at least 51 staff members were infected since the coronavirus was detected at the IMSS General Hospital in Monclova, Coahuila state in late March.
2021 - The southeastern Missouri city of Charleston agreed to pay $500,000 to settle part of a lawsuit brought by the family of Tory Sanders, a Black man who had died in jail in 2017 after having his neck pinned down for several minutes by the knee of a white sheriff.
2021 - Several Chinese feminist channels on Douban, a popular social networking forum in China, were abruptly shut down, triggering online anger and prompting calls for women to “stick together.”
2021 - The United Nations reported that nearly half of the women in 57 developing countries were denied the right to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care.
2022 - The U.S. linked North Korean hackers to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency tied to the popular online game Axie Infinity.
2022 - Russia’s communications watchdog said that Google would face fines over its failure to delete from YouTube content that Moscow considered illegal.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. on this day included: Mafia Mamma, with Monica Bellucci, Alessandro Bressanello, Eduardo Scarpetta Toni Collette; Nefarious, with Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi and James Healy Jr.; The Pope’s Exorcist, starring Russell Crowe, Franco Nero and Ralph Ineson; Renfield, starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage and Awkwafina; the animated Sweetwater, with Cary Elwes, Eric Roberts Richard Dreyfuss.
2023 - The European Space Agency’s mission to Jupiter’s moons, the Juice satellite, launched on an Ariane-5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. “We have a mission; we’re flying to Jupiter; we go fully loaded with questions. Juice is coming, Jupiter! Get ready for it,” announced Andrea Accomazzo, operations director at Esa’s mission control in Darmstad, Germany.
2023 - The true origins of Covid may never be revealed, the Chinese official who was in charge of the country’s pandemic response said. Dr George Fu Gao, who was thought to know more about the origins of the disease than any other scientist, said he was “not optimistic” the origin of the virus will ever be known, citing both political and scientific obstacles. “It’s too sensitive; too politicised,” he said.
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Birthdays on This Day April 14
1866 - Anne Sullivan (Macy)
‘The Miracle Worker’: famous for teaching the blind and deaf Helen Keller to read, write and speak; died Oct 20, 19361889 - Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee
historian, author: A Study of History, The Western Question in Greece and Turkey, The World and the West, Acquaintances, and Experiences; died Oct 22, 19751904 - Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud
Academy Award-winning [supporting] actor: Arthur [1981]; Emmy Award-winning actor: Masterpiece Theatre miniseries Summer’s Lease [1990-1991]; Becket, Chariots of Fire, The Elephant Man, Gandhi, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Man for All Seasons, Murder on the Orient Express, The Charge of the Light Brigade, War and Remembrance; died May 21, 20001923 - Roberto De Vicenzo
golf champ: British Open [1967]; won 230 tournaments worldwide during career [see 1968, above]; died Jun 1, 20171924 - Shorty Rogers (Milton Rajonsky)
musician: trumpet, bandleader, songwriter: Keen and Peachy, Martians Go Home, Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud; composer, arranger: film: That Certain Girl; died Nov 7, 19941925 - Rod Steiger (Rodney Stephen Steiger)
Academy Award-winning actor: In the Heat of the Night [1967]; On the Waterfront, The Pawnbroker, Dr. Zhivago, The Longest Day, Back Water, In Pursuit of Honor, Mars Attacks!; died July 9, 20021927 - Gloria Jean (Schoonover)
actress: Copacabana, The Ladies Man; died Aug 31, 20181930 - Bradford Dillman
actor: Compulsion, The Bridge at Remagen, The Way We Were, Court-Martial, King’s Crossing, Falcon Crest; died Jan 16, 20181930 - Jay Robinson
actor: Sinatra, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex [But Were Afraid to Ask], My Man Godfrey, The Virgin Queen, Demetrius and the Gladiators, The Robe; died Sep 27, 20131932 - Loretta Lynn
country singer: Coal Miner’s Daughter, I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl, One’s on the Way, The Pill; 1st woman to earn the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year award; named ACM Artist of the Decade [1979]; died Oct 4, 20221934 - Marty (Richard Martin) Keough
baseball: Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs1935 - Joan Darling (Kugell)
actress: The President’s Analyst, The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan, Sunnyside1936 - Bobby Nichols
golf: PGA Champ [1964]1940 - Julie Christie
actress: Dr. Zhivago, Petulia, Shampoo, Separate Tables, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Fahrenheit 4511941 - Pete (Peter Edward) Rose
‘Charlie Hustle’: baseball: Cincinnati Reds [Rookie of the Year: 1963/all-star: 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1985/World Series: 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1973/manager: 1986-89]; Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1983], Montreal Expos; banished from baseball [1989] for alleged gambling on major-league games; lifetime totals: hits: 4,256, games: 3,562, at bats: 14,053, lifetime batting average: .3031942 - Dick Brooks
auto racer: NASCAR legend; died Feb 1, 20061944 - Mike Brewer
songwriter, singer: duo: Brewer & Shipley: One Toke Over the Line, Tarkio Road, Shake Off the Demon1945 - Ritchie Blackmore
musician: guitar: solo: Getaway, Little Brown Jug, LP: Rainbow; groups: Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water; LPs: Deep Purple in Rock, Made in Japan, Who Do We Think We Are?, Machine Head; Rainbow: Since You’ve Been Gone, All Night Long, I Surrender, Stone Cold, LPs: Rainbow Rising, Straight Between the Eyes, Bent Out of Shape1948 - Larry Ferguson
musician: keyboards: group: Hot Chocolate: Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, I’ll Put You Back Together Again, Every 1’s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances1949 - Dennis Bryon
musician: drums: groups: Amen Corner; Bee Gees: Jive Talkin’, Fanny [Be Tender with My Love], How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, How Deep is Your Love1949 - John Shea
Emmy Award-winning actor: Baby M [1988]; WIOU, Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman, Backstreet Justice, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Small Sacrifices, A Case of Deadly Force, Nativity1952 - Kenny Aaronson
musician: guitar: group: Stories: Brother Louie; played with Hall & Oates, Bruce and Laing, Aerosmith, Foreigner, Boston, Peter Frampton, Led Zeppelin, Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Foghat, Bob Dylan1958 - Peter Capaldi
Academy Award-winning writer, director: Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life; actor: [12th] Doctor Who, The Thick of It, In the Loop, Soft Top Hard Shoulder, Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War, World War Z, Torchwood: Children of Earth, The Musketeers1960 - Brad Garrett
comedian, entertainer, actor: Everybody Loves Raymond, ’Til Death, The Pacifier, The Moguls1961 - Robert Carlyle
actor: The Full Monty, The Meat Trade, The Tournament, Eragon, 28 Weeks Later, Benny Lynch1963 - Meg Mallon
golfer: won 18 events on the tour and four major titles: PGA: [1991]; US Open [1991, 2004]; du Maurier Classic [2000]1964 - Jeff Andretti
NASCAR, Indy race car driver; son of race car driver Mario Andretti, brother of racer Michael Andretti, nephew of racer Marco Andretti, cousin racer John Andretti1965 - Catherine Dent
actress: The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Nobody’s Fool, One Life to Live, The Pretender, The X-Files, The Invisible Man, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Frasier, Judging Amy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without A Trace, Grey’s Anatomy1966 - Dave Justice
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees
1966 - Greg Maddux
baseball [pitcher]; Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves1966 - Greg Myers
baseball [catcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, California Angels, Minnesota Twins, Atlanta Braves, SD Padres, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics
1967 - Mike Trombley
baseball [pitcher]: Duke Univ; Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, LA Dodgers1968 - Anthony Michael Hall
actor: The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Edward Scissorhands; comedian: Saturday Night Live1970 - Steve Avery
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers1970 - Brian Stablein
football [wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, Detroit Lions1971 - Gregg Zaun
baseball [catcher, first, second base]: Baltimore Orioles, Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Toronto Blue Jays1973 - Adrien Brody
Academy Award-winning actor: The Pianist [2002]; Annie McGuire, Angels in the Outfield, The Thin Red Line, Liberty Heights, The Affair of the Necklace, The Village, King Kong [2005]1976 - Kyle Farnsworth
baseball [pitcher[: Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees1977 - Rob McElhenney
actor: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Latter Days, The Tollbooth, Lost, Living Loaded1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar
actress: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Swans Crossing, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream 2, The Grudge, Lord of the Piercing, Harvard Man, Cruel Intentions, Simply Irresistible, Beverly Hills Family Robinson, Scooby-Doo, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed1980 - Claire Coffee
actress: Grimm, General Hospital, The West Wing, Franklin & Bash, 13 Graves, Death Row, Inventing Adam1984 - Kristina Rose
actress [2007-2013]: X-rated films: Bombshell Bottoms 3, Come as You Please, Kristina Rose: Dirty Girl, Kristina Rose Is Slutwoman, Ass Titans, Naughty Nurse Nancy, Bitchcraft 6, Malice in Lalaland, Caught from Behind, Orgy Masters1988 - Ben Lloyd-Hughes
actor: Divergent, Great Expectations, Young James Herriot1988 - Chris Wood
actor: The Carrie Diaries, Supergirl, Containment, The Vampire Diaries, Masters of the Universe: Revelation1993 - Graham Phillips
actor: The Good Wife, Evan Almighty, Ben 10: Race Against Time; Broadway: 131994 - Skyler Samuels
actress: Wizards of Waverly Place, The Stepfather, Furry Vengeance, The Gates, The Nine Lives of Chloe King1996 - Abigail Breslin
actress: youngest actresses to be nominated for an Academy Award [Little Miss Sunshine]; Janie Jones, Zombieland, My Sister’s Keeper, Nim’s Island, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
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Hit Music on This Day April 14
1944It’s Love, Love, Love (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Skip Nelson)
I Love You (facts) - Bing Crosby
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