April 22
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1793 - Philadelphia played host to the first circus attended by George Washington. It would be years before Congress provided a two-ring circus of its own for the President!1864 - The U.S. Congress mandated that all coins minted as U.S. currency bear the inscription “In God We Trust.”
1876 - An eight-team National League began its inaugural season on this day in 1876. A crowd of 3,000 watched as Boston defeated Philadelphia 6-5. The opening season consisted of 70 games -- a lot less than the 162 game season (barring strikes) played today -- and no playoffs! These are the cities that were home to the original eight National League teams: Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. Today, Boston is in the American League, Hartford and Louisville don’t have teams in either league, and Atlanta, Montreal, Houston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Colorado and Florida join the rest of the original teams as members of baseball’s National League.
1878 - The first Egg Roll was held on the grounds of the White House in Washington, DC. The first president on hand for the first Egg Roll was Rutherford B. Hayes. The Egg Roll is still held the day after Easter on the South Lawn of the White House, hosted by the President of the United States and the First Lady. The Vice President and his wife also attend the event. The Egg Roll usually follows a traditional Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds, as well. Roll on!
1889 - At noon, the sound of a gun shot was the only signal needed for thousands of settlers to rush into the Oklahoma territory to claim their pieces of land. The U.S. Federal government had purchased almost two million acres of land in Central Oklahoma from the Crete and Seminole Indians and opened it up on this day to the settlers to claim their stakes. The purchase was made under pressure of cattle ranchers who needed more land for grazing. By the end of the day (April 22, 1889), both Oklahoma City and Guthrie had become cities of around 10,000 people each.
1914 - Babe Ruth, playing for the Baltimore Orioles, made his pitching debut in pro ball. He shut out the Buffalo Bisons, 6-0.
1931 - A contraption known as the autogyro landed on the lawn of the White House. Before the Secret Service could come out with guns blazing, President Herbert Hoover shook hands with pilot, James G. Ray, and gave him a trophy! Don’t try this today.
1940 - The first all-Chinese commercial radio program was broadcast over KSAN radio in San Francisco, CA. Later, KSAN would become a pioneer in playing ‘underground rock’ music which, to many, must have sounded like Chinese, too...
1946 - Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg arrived at WEAF radio in New York City with an entertaining morning show called, Hi, Jinx. WEAF later became WNBC and then WFAN SportsRadio 66.
1951 - The Korean War Battle of Imjin River began. The first Battalion of the ‘Glorious’ Gloucestershire Regiment made a remarkable last-ditch stand to allow the British 29th Brigade to withdraw in the face of the oncoming Chinese army.
1952 - An atomic test conducted at Yucca Flat, Nevada, became the first nuclear explosion shown on live network television.
1954 - The televised Senate Army-McCarthy hearings began. The hearings were the first nationally televised congressional inquiry and a landmark in the relations between TV and American politics.
1959 - The Chicago White Sox took ‘batting practice’ against the Kansas City Athletics, 20-6. Chicago scored 11 runs in the seventh inning with only one hit, a single by Johnny Callison. The Sox got 10 walks and one hit batted. Not to be outdone in the effort, the Athletics contributed three errors.
1962 - The Toronto Maple Leafs won back the Stanley Cup after 11 years. The National Hockey League champions kept Lord Stanley’s cup locked up in Toronto for the next three seasons.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson opened the New York World’s Fair. The fair, on the Flushing Meadows site of the 1939 fair, attracted 50 million visitors the next two years. Among the attractions was an audio-animatronics robot of Abraham Lincoln, created by the Walt Disney Studios, a futuristic unisphere and a house made of formica.
1967 - Randy Matson set a world outdoor record in the shot put with a toss of 71 feet, 5-1/2 inches in College Station, Texas. The shot landed in section E-83 of the grandstand, but fortunately, no one was hurt.
1970 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets struck out 19 batters to tie a National League baseball record. He also set a record by striking out 10 batters consecutively as the ‘Amazing’ Mets defeated the San Diego Padres at Shea Stadium.
1970 - The first Earth Day was observed -- with the purpose of reclaiming the purity of the air we breathe, the water we drink and the environment we live in. With the slogan “Give Earth a Chance,” Earth Day continues to be celebrated on this anniversary or on the vernal equinox.
1972 - Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke walked and rode on the surface of the moon for seven hours, 23 minutes. This during the second of three EVAs (extravehicular activity).
1974 - Redbone won a gold record for the single, Come and Get Your Love. The group, playing American Indian ‘swamp rock’, formed in Los Angeles in 1968. Lolly and Pat Vegas, brothers, had been session musicians and worked on the Shindig TV show. Anthony Bellamy and Peter De Poe were also members of the group. Redbone had one other hit, The Witch Queen of New Orleans. The top five hit, Come and Get Your Love, was the group’s second and final chart success.
1976 - Barbara Walters became the first female newscaster on a network news program. ABC signed Walters to a five-year, five-million-dollar contract to anchor the evening news.
1978 - Actor Will Geer (Grandpa Walton on The Waltons) died. He was 75 years old.
1984 - Photography legend Ansel Adams died of heart failure in Carmel, California. He was 82. He once explained the seeming perfection of his photographs by saying, “Sometimes I get to places when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” His black-and-white images of Yosemite National Park, the Grand Tetons, Monument Valley and other spectacular Western U.S. landscapes are famous worldwide.
1985 - Washington and Lee University researchers reported this day that Martha Washington had 29,650 pounds when she and George were married. Now, before you smart alecks start making cracks about the ‘Father of Our Country’ liking cuddly women, we’d like you to know that 29,650 pounds was worth $5.9 million on their wedding day.
1990 - 200 million people in 141 countries joined in the worldwide 20th anniversary celebration of Earth Day.
1991 - Intel released its 486SX chip in an effort to help bring a lower-cost processor to the PC market.
1992 - In Guadalajara, Mexico, some 200 people were killed by a series of devastating sewer explosions. Nearly 500 people were injured and 15,000 were left homeless.
1993 - The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, honor the victims of Nazi extermination, opened in Washington, D.C. Featured at the dedication ceremonies were speeches by U.S. President William J. Clinton and Israeli President Chaim Herzog.
1993 - The Who’s Tommy, the rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, opened on this day at Broadway’s St. James Theatre. The original cast included Michael Cerveris (Tommy), Marcia Mitzman (Mrs. Walker), Jonathan Dokuchitz (Captain Walker) and Cheryl Freeman (The Gypsy/Acid Queen), "The Who’s Tommy" closed on Jun 17, June 1995, after 899 performances.
1994 - Richard Milhouse Nixon, thirty seventh president of the United States, died. He ended the Vietnam War, opened relations with China, and became the first U.S. president to resign from office to avoid impeachment. Nixon died at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, four days after suffering a stroke. He was 81 and served as president from 1969 until his resignation in 1974 during the Watergate imbroglio.
1996 - Humorist Erma Bombeck died in San Francisco, California at age 69 from complications following a kidney transplant. Bombeck was one of the most popular newspaper columnists in the U.S. and the author of numerous bestselling books on parenthood and housework. “My type of humor is almost pure identification,” she once told The New York Times. “A housewife reads my columns and says, ‘But that’s happened to me! I know just what she's talking about!’”
1997 - 150 heavily armed Peruvian troops stormed the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Lima, freeing 71 hostages who had been held for four months. One hostage, three soldiers and all fourteen Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) guerrillas were killed.
1998 - The Disney Animal Kingdom theme park opened in Orlando, FL.
2000 - In the early morning hours, U.S. Marshalls stormed the Miami home where Elian Gonzalez was staying with relatives, and forcibly removed him. Elian was later reunited with his father at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Elian and his dad returned home to Cuba on April 28. The boy had been at the center of a controversy after being rescued from a disastrous escape attempt from Cuba (in a 17x20-foot boat) in which his mother and stepfather died.
2001 - Hasim Rahman stopped defending champion Lennox Lewis in the fifth round to grab the WBC and IBF heavyweight titles. The fight in South Africa, was one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.
2002 - Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the groundbreaking 1972 porno film Deep Throat, died in Denver from injuries suffered in a car crash April 3, 2002. She was 53 years old.
2003 - Bluegrass songwriter Felice Bryant died in Nashville at 77 years of age. Bryant and her husband, Boudleaux, wrote such tunes as Bye Bye Love and Rocky Top.
2004 - The Queen Mary 2 (QM2) arrived in New York City on its maiden transatlantic voyage. A crew of 1,250 and 2,600 passengers were on board for the six-day crossing from Southampton, England.
2004 - Pat Tillman, former safety for the Arizona Cardinals, was killed in Afghanistan. Tillman had walked away from millions of NFL-related dollars to join the Army Rangers.
2005 - New films opening in the U.S.: The Interpreter, with Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Maz Jobrani and Tsai Chin; King’s Ransom, starring Anthony Anderson, Leila Arcieri, Larry Day, Loretta Devine, Brooke D'Orsay, Ilona Elkin, Donald Faison, Regina Hall, Jay Mohr, Charles Murphy, Nicole Ari Parker, Kellita Smith and Randy Thomas; and A Lot Like Love, starring Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Kal Penn, Ali Larter and Taryn Manning.
2005 - Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty to helping hijackers carry out the Sep 11, 2001 hijackings and said he understood he could be put to death for his role in the attacks.
2006 - After several verbal missteps regarding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, New Orleans, LA Mayor Ray Nagin failed to get a majority vote and was forced into a runoff election with Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu. (Ray Nagin did defeat Landrieu in the May 20, 2006 runoff election.)
2006 - From the 440 Wow, That's A Lot Of People Dept.: The population of Kerala, India, was reported to be about 33 million. It boasted over 91% literacy. The per capita income was about half that of Goa, India’s richest state. Some 3.5 million Keralans worked abroad, 85% in the Middle East.
2007 - The annual Goldman Environmental Prizes were announced on Earth Day. The winners: Julio Cusurichi of Peru for his work in fighting illegal logging; Willie Corduff of Ireland for his efforts to halt an energy project that disregarded local and environmental considerations; Sophia Rabliauskas of Canada for her work in helping to protect the boreal forest in Manitoba; Orri Vigfussen of Iceland for his work on the North Atlantic Salmon Fund; Ts. Munkhbayar for his campaign against unregulated mining in Mongolia; and Hammerskjoeld Simwinga for organizing microloan programs in Zambia.
2008 - The Royal Bank of Scotland announced a record share issue of 12 billion pounds to shore up its finances after huge subprime-related writedowns and the blockbuster takeover of Dutch giant ABN Amro.
2008 - Hillary Clinton won the Democratic party primary in Pennsylvania with about 55% of the vote. Barack Obama got 45% of the vote.
2009 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet approved a new law to require the vast majority of the country’s Internet service providers to block child pornography sites.
2010 - New in U.S. movie theatres: the ecological drama/documentary, Océans; and the comedy drama Accidents Happen, with Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck, Karl Beattie, Viva Bianca, Lachlan Campbell, Flynn Colby, Tyler Coppin and Joshua Denyer.
2010 - CenturyTel Inc. announced its acquisition of Qwest Communications in a stock swap worth $10.6 billion. The deal was finalized on April 1, 2011 when CenturyLink became the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States (behind AT&T and Verizon).
2010 - Israel reported the indictment of five of its citizens, including a retired army general, charging them with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims.
2011 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres: Born to Be a Star, starring Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff, Nick Swardson, Robin Bain, Don Johnson and Pauly Shore; the documentary African Cats, featuring Samuel L. Jackson; Madea’s Big Happy Family, with Philip Anthony-Rodriguez, Cassi Davis, Natalie Desselle, Loretta Devine and Maggie Hollis; Water for Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz, Jim Norton and Hal Holbrook; Deep Gold, with Bebe Pham, Jaymee Ong, Michael Gleissner andAmelia Jackson-Gray; Dum Maaro Dum, with Abhishek Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu , Prateik Babbar, Rana Daggubati amd Harry Key; When Harry Tries to Marry, starring Rahul Rai, Stefanie Estes, Freishia Bomanbehram, Osvaldo Hernandez and Caitlin Gold; and Zokkomon, with Anupam Kher, Darsheel Safary, Manjari Fadnis and Akhil Mishra.
2011 - A tornado tore through a terminal at St. Louis Missouri’s Lambert Airport, causing several injuries and sending people scurrying for shelter as plated glass shattered around them.
2012 - A super-energy-saving 10-watt (60w) LED bulb from Dutch electronics giant Philips went on sale to coincide with Earth Day. The bulb, said to last over 20 years, had won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize and was available from retailers for $50, down from its initial $60 price tag.
2012 - Google launched its Street View in Israel, displaying streets and sites of interest from the Holy Land’s three major cities, and featuring 360-degree street-level images.
2013 - American folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Richie Havens died at his home in New Jersey. He was 72 years old. Havens was the opening performer at the 1969 Woodstock festival. In 1970 he released the album Alarm Clock, which included the George Harrison-written hit single, Here Comes the Sun. Havens recorded some 25 albums during his career.
2014 - Russian lawyer, political and financial activist and opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was found guilty of slandering lawmaker Alexei Lisovenko. Navalny had called Lisovenko a “lawmaker-drug addict” and was ordered by the court to pay 300,000 rubles ($8,300, €6,000).
2015 - South Korea said it has reached agreement with Washington on revisions to the 41-year-old treaty that governs its commercial nuclear activities. The revised treaty sets the terms that will govern South Korea’s management of spent nuclear fuel. (South Korea and the U.S. formally ratified the agreement Nov 25, 2015.)
2015 - Something Rotten! opened at the St. James Theatre on Broadway. The musical developed a very sweet record through Jan 01, 2017, with a total of 708 performances.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S theatres included: The Huntsman Winter’s War, with Jessica Chastain, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin; Compadres, starring Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak and Aislinn Derbez; Elvis & Nixon, with Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey and Alex Pettyfer; A Hologram for the King, starring Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw and Sarita Choudhury; Men & Chicken, with David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas; The Meddler, with Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne and J.K. Simmons; Precious Cargo, starring Bruce Willis, John Brotherton and Claire Forlani; and Tale of Tales, with Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones.
2016 - Leaders from 175 states gathered at the U.N. on Earth Day to sign the Paris climate deal, a record turn-out that boosted hopes of quick action on combating global warming. The Paris agreement went into effect on 4 November 2016.
2016 - The European Broadcasting Union barred Romania from the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest for failing to pay millions in debts to the EBU.
2017 - U.S. scientists staged an unprecedented protest in Washington, DC. The March for Science was provoked by steep cuts POTUS Trump proposed for science and research budgets -- and his growing disregard for evidence-based knowledge.
2017 - U.S. V.P. Mike Pence and Australian P.M. Malcolm Turnbull joined forces and urged China to assume a greater role in pressuring North Korea to scuttle its nuclear weapons and missile program.
2018 - Nicaragua’s long-time (1985-1990, 2006- ) President Daniel Ortega sought to ease anger among the populace by revoking a new pension reform plan. Unrest over the plan had killed at least eight people and sparked looting and panic buying, but protests in Managua died down considerably after Ortega’s backtracking announcement. The plan that had upset so many would have increased both employer and employee contributions and reduced benefits and had been meant to cap a rising $76 million deficit at the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS).
2019 - Japan indicted (for the 4th time) Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn. This time on aggravated breach of trust charges. Ghosn had denied all four of the charges leveled at him, which included understating his income, and said he was the victim of a boardroom coup. He accused former colleagues of “backstabbing,” describing them as selfish rivals bent on derailing a closer alliance between Nissan and its top shareholder, France’s Renault.
2019 - The Trump administration said that it would no longer exempt any countries from U.S. sanctions if they continue to buy Iranian oil. The decision meant sanctions waivers for five nations, including China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey, would not be renewed. China, one of Iran’s largest customers, slammed the step, calling it more evidence of US “unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction.” Iran’s commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ navy said Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if Tehran was barred from using it.
2020 - Iran said it had put its first military satellite into orbit. The satellite dubbed the Nour -- meaning light in Persian -- was launched from the Markazi desert, a vast expanse in Iran’s central plateau.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Dr. Rick Bright said he was dismissed from his federal post after pressing for rigorous testing of treatments embraced by POTUS Trump. Bright led the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine. 2)Tyson Foods said it planned to indefinitely suspend operations at its at Waterloo, Iowa plant, its largest pork plant in the U.S., to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus. 3)Bosnia’s top court ruled that a law curtailing freedom of movement for people older than 65 and younger than 18 to try and halt the spread of the coronavirus was not constitutional. 4)South Korean health authorities said patients who tested positive for novel coronavirus after recovering from their first bout of the illness appeared to be far less infectious the second time round. 5)Zimbabwe allowed bakers, millers and other businesses to cut the prices of basic goods, including bread and sugar, to before-pademic levels. This, amid soaring inflation. (Annual Zimbabwe inflation had hit 676.39%, highest in the world.)
2021 - The settlement of a suit against the U.S. Census Bureau enabled undocumented immigrants to be be included in the population count that determines congressional representation. Ex-potus Trump had tried to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census.
2021 - The Czech Republic ordered more Russian diplomats to leave the country. Czech leaders said they held evidence that pointed to the participation of two agents from Russia’s elite GRU Unit 29155 in the 2014 depot blast that killed two people.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: the animated The Bad Guys, featuring characters voiced by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina and Craig Robinson; The Northman, with Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman and Claes Bang; and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicolas Cage, Demi Moore, Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish.
2022 - The Australian government imposed sanctions and travel bans on two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s daughter.
2022 - An Australian court fined Trivago, a unit of U.S.-based online travel firm Expedia Group, A$44.7 million ($32.91 million) for misleading consumers over hotel room rates. It was one of the country’s largest penalties to be levied for a breach of consumer law.
2022 - A Russian general said that Moscow wanted to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine. Major General Rustam Minnekayev said, “Russian control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria (an internationally recognised as a part of Moldova), where there are cases of Russian-speaking people being oppressed.” Moldova condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and barred Moldovans from sticking pro-Russia symbols on their cars.
2023 - A record-breaking outbreak of dengue fever in northwest Argentina killed some 40 people and infected more than 60,000 others. The infection was spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. (The last major outbreak to hit Argentina was in 2020.)
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Birthdays on This Day April 22
1707 - Henry Fielding
author: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling; died Oct 8, 17541724 - Immanuel Kant
philosopher: The Critique of Pure Reason; died Feb 12, 18041870 - Vladimir Lenin
Russian premier [1917-1924]; died Jan 21, 19241904 - J. (Julius) Robert Oppenheimer
physicist: Enrico Fermi Award for work in nuclear physics: designed & built 1st atomic bomb; died Feb 18, 19671906 - Eddie Albert (Edward Albert Heimberger)
actor: Green Acres, Teahouse of the August Moon, Roman Holiday; died May 26, 20051916 - Yehudi Menuhin
violinist: child prodigy: solo with San Francisco Orchestra at age of 7, played with New York Symphony Orchestra at ten; died Mar 12, 19991918 - Mickey (James Barton) Vernon
baseball: Washington Senators [all-star: 1946, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1958], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1956], Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Sep 24, 20081920 - Hal March (Mendelson)
TV emcee: What’s It For, The $64,000 Question, Laughs for Sale; actor: My Friend Irma, The Soldiers, The Imogene Coca Show, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; died Jan 19, 19701921 - Candido Camero
musician: bongos, congas, tres, bass: performed/recorded w/George Shearing, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Tito Puente, Machito; died Nov 7, 20201922 - Richard Diebenkorn
artist: Touched Red, Ochre, Flotsam, Green; died Mar 30, 19931922 - Charles Mingus
musician: bassist, piano; singer, bandleader, composer: 20th century black music; died Jan 5, 19791923 - Bettie Page
1950s American model known as the Queen of Pinups: her long jet-black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs influenced artists for generations; died Dec 11, 2008)1923 - Aaron Spelling
Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Day One, AT&T Presents [1988-1989], And the Band Played On [1993-1994]; Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place; died June 23, 20061926 - Charlotte Rae
actress: Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, The Facts of Life Goes to Paris, The Facts of Life Reunion, 101 Dalmatians: The Series; died Aug 5, 20181933 - Mark Damon (Alan Harris)
actor: Black Sabbath, Between Heaven and Hell, The Fall of the House of Usher1936 - Glen Campbell
Grammy Award-winning singer: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Gentle on My Mind, CMA Entertainer of the Year [1968]; Galveston, Wichita Lineman, Southern Nights, Rhinestone Cowboy; TV host: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour; actor: True Grit, Norwood, Strange Homecoming; died Aug 8, 20171937 - (John Joseph) Jack Nicholson
Academy Award-winning actor: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [1975], Terms of Endearment [1983], As Good as It Gets [1997]; Five Easy Pieces, The Shining, Batman, Broadcast News, Chinatown, Easy Rider, Prizzi’s Honor, The Witches of Eastwicke, Little Shop of Horrors, A Few Good Men1938 - Deane Beman
golf champ: U.S. Amateur twice and British Amateur once; first commissioner of PGA Tour [1974-1994]; created stadium golf1939 - Mel Carter
singer: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me; actor: Quincy, Sanford and Son, Marcus Welby, M.D., Magnum P.I.1939 - Jason Miller
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright: That Championship Season [1973]; actor: Mommy, Murdered Innocence, Small Kill, Light of Day, Toy Soldiers, Monsignor, The Exorcist series, The Ninth Configuration; died May 13, 20011946 - John Waters
actor: Eat Your Make Up!, Something Wild, Forever Hollywood, Sweet and Lowdown; director, writer: Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom1949 - Spencer Haywood
basketball: U.S. Olympic team [gold medal: 1968], University of Detroit [1st player to leave college early for the pros], Denver Rockets [ABA Most Valuable Player/Rookie of the Year: 1970], LA Lakers1950 - Peter Frampton
guitarist, singer: Show Me the Way, Do You Feel Like We Do, I Can’t Stand it No More1952 - Marilyn Chambers
actress [1972-2007]: X-rated films: Behind the Green Door, Resurrection of Eve, Inside Marilyn Chambers, Insatiable, Electric Blue series, Private Fantasies series, Lusty Busty Fantasies, Little Shop of Erotica, Still Insatiable; died Apr 12, 2009; more1953 - Steve Bond
actor: Epoch, My Favorite Martian, To Die For, The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage, The Prey, Witches’ Brew, Cat Murkil and the Silks1953 - Tom Lysiak
hockey: NHL: Atlanta Flames, Chicago Blackhawks1954 - Joseph Bottoms
actor: The Black Hole, Holocaust, Liar’s Edge, Treacherous Crossing, Surfacing, The Dove, Inner Sanctum1959 - Catherine Mary Stewart
actress: Days of Our Lives, A Killer in the Family, The Last Starfighter, Hollywood Wives, Murder by the Book, Weekend at Bernie’s, The Witches of Eastwick, Samurai Cowboy, The Sea Wolf, The Attic1959 - Ryan Stiles
comedian, director, actor: Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Drew Carey Show, Two and a Half Men, Improv-A-Ganza, Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Mad TV, Dharma & Greg, Reno 911!; voice actor: Astro Boy, Star Command, Treasure Buddies, Spooky Buddies1961 - Byron Allen
comedian, TV host: Entertainers, Byron Allen Show, Real People, Jammin’; producer, writer, actor: Case Closed, Funny You Should Ask1964 - Chris Makepeace
actor: My Bodyguard, Vamp, Undergrads, Last Chase, Aloha Summer, The Terry Fox Story, Captive Hearts1966 - Jeffrey Dean Morgan
actor: Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural, Watchmen, The Losers, Taking Woodstock, Kabluey, Something More, Uncaged, The Good Wife1967 - Sheryl Lee
actress: Twin Peaks, Paradise, Texas, Hitched, Vampires, David, Notes From Underground, Don’t Do It, Jersey Girl, Wild at Heart1967 - Wendy Mass
children’s author: A Mango-Shaped Space, The Candymakers, 11 Birthdays; more1967 - Sherri Shepherd
actress: Less Than Perfect, Sherri, Beauty Shop, King of the Open Mics; TV host: The View, Newlywed Game1971 - Ingo Rademacher
actor: General Hospital [Jasper Jacks in more than 1000 episodes], Alex Cross, Hawaii Five-0 [2011], Veronica’s Closet1971 - Missy Robertson
actress: Duck Dynasty, The Doctors, The View, Good Morning America, Inside Edition1972 - Anna Falchi
model, actress: Nessun messaggio in segreteria, Gli Occhi dell’amore, La Principessa e il povero, Giovani e belli, L’Affaire, Desideria e l’anello del drago, S.P.Q.R. 2000 e 1/2 anni fa, Nel continente nero1975 - Salvatore Coco
actor: Heartbreak High, BlackJack: Sweet Science, South Pacific [TV movie 2001], Bootmen, Walk the Talk, Looking for Alibrandi, Airtight, Two Hands1982 - Cassidy Freeman
actress: Smallville, YellowBrickRoad, The Vampire Diaries, Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee, Longmire1983 - Francis Capra
actor: Veronica Mars, Venice Underground, 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out, A Simple Wish, Kazaam, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Heroes1984 - Michelle Ryan
actress: The Bionic Woman [2007], Mansfield Park, EastEnders, The Worst Witch, Covert Affairs1986 - Amber Heard
actress: The Stepfather, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Hidden Palms, Never Back Down, Pineapple Express, Zombieland, The Joneses, And Soon the Darkness, The Ward, Drive Angry, The Rum Diary1986 - Marshawn Lynch
football [running back]: NFL: Buffalo Bills [2007–2010]; Seattle Seahawks [2010–2015]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs], 2015 Super Bowl XLIX; Oakland Raiders [2017–2018]1990 - Machine Gun Kelly (Colson Baker)
rapper: known for his spitfire lyrics; LPs: Lace Up, General Admission, Bloom, Hotel Diablo, Tickets to My Downfall
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Hit Music on This Day April 22
1952Wheel of Fortune (facts) - Kay Starr
Any Time (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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