April 23
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303 A.D. - The Crusaders from the 1300s told the story of Saint George. George used his magic sword to kill a dragon ... just in the nick of time to save the king's daughter from being sacrificed to the fire-breathing beast. As the story goes, this dragon had an insatiable appetite and it was only through his deep faith that George was able to accomplish this deed. other than his becoming a soldier and rising to a high rank under Diocletian. Because of his strong and open belief in Christianity, he was arrested, tortured and put to death at Nicomedia on this day in 303 A.D. He was so revered by the Crusaders, that George was named Patron Saint of England in 1350 A.D. For many years, English soldiers wore the red cross of St. George on a white background as a badge; and it remains a part of the British Union flag. The martyred hero is still honored throughout England on this day, Saint George Feast Day.
1635 - The Boston Latin School, the first public school building in the United States, was established on this day.
1772 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote one of the world’s most familiar -- and beautiful -- national anthems. La Marseillaise is still proudly sung by the French citizenry today.
1789 - Courier De Boston was published for the first time in, of course, Boston, MA. It was the first Roman Catholic magazine in the United States.
1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first black woman lawyer -- in ceremonies held in Washington, DC. In fact, Ray was only the third American woman of any race to complete law school.
1900 - The word, hillbilly, was first used in print in an article in the New York Journal. It was spelled a little differently, as the story said that a Hill-Billie was a “free and untrammelled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills.” The article continued that “he has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.”
1921 - Charles Paddock set a record time in the 300-meter track event by posting a time of 33.2 seconds.
1941 - The Greek Army surrendered to the German Nazis as King George of the Hellenes and the Greek government fled the Greek mainland from the advancing Germans.
1941 - At an America First rally in New York City, aviator Charles Lindbergh said, “It is obvious that England is losing the war.” He opposed U.S. entry into World War II, but changed his position quickly after December 7th that year.
1945 - The concentration camp at Flossenburg, Germany was liberated; and U.S. troops in Italy crossed the River Po.
1951 - The Associated Press began use of its new Teletypesetter circuit. The AP provided a perforated, paper-tape message to a news bureau in Charlotte, North Carolina. The message was then fed to a monitor for preparation into a printer. From there, the newspaper copy was completed.
1954 - Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run on this day.
1956 - The U.S. Supreme court ended racial segregation on buses The High Court ruled that South Carolina and twelve other states must remove the “Whites Only” signs that hung in the front of their buses.
1956 - Elvis Presley made his Las Vegas debut at the New Frontier Hotel’s Venus Room. With "Heartbreak Hotel" at the top of the pop charts, one can imagine the excitement generated by the new ‘King of rock and roll’. Even with a number one hit, Elvis was not yet well-received by the middle-aged audience. Elvis’ manager, Colonel Parker, arranged a show for teenagers on Saturday, and it was just jam-packed, with the kids screaming for Elvis.
1963 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds got his first hit in the major leagues. It was a booming triple off the Pirates’ Bob Friend. ‘Charlie Hustle’ went on to break Ty Cobb’s all-time hitting record more than 20 years later, playing for the Reds, the Phillies and the Expos.
1963 - Barbara Baxley, Jack Cassidy and Barbara Cook starred in She Loves Me, which opened at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City. The Broadway musical ran for 302 performances at the theatre.
1964 - Ken Johnson of the Houston Colts will certainly never forget this day. Johnson tossed the first no-hit game -- for a loss -- in baseball history. Cincinnati’s Reds beat Johnson’s no hitter by a score of 1-0. The Reds capitalized on two costly Houston errors. We wonder what Johnson had to say in the locker room...
1968 - The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged to form the United Methodist Church.
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for the assassination of New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was commuted to life in prison after the U.S. Supreme Court moved to ban the death penalty as unconstitutional.
1972 - The 26th annual Tony Awards show was held at the at the Broadway Theatre, New York. Winners included Sticks and Bones (best Play); Two Gentlemen of Verona (best Musical); Cliff Gorman in Lenny (best Actor Dramatic); Sada Thompson in Twigs (best Actress Dramatic); Phil Silvers in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (best Actor Musical); and Alexis Smith in Follies (best Actress Musical).
1975 - Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land premiered in London.
1983 - Actor (Tarzan, Flash Gordon), swim champion (1932 Olympics gold) Larry Buster Crabbe died. He was 73 years old.
1983 - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines died at age 77 in Oakland, California. Known as “the first modern jazz pianist,” Hines was an outstanding musician and a major figure in the evolution of jazz piano.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, GA, made a showy, glitzy announcement that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was called “the most significant soft drink development” in the company’s history. Yeah, well, so much for history. Fans of the original Coke were instrumental in bringing Classic Coke back. The way they did it was, actually, quite ingenious. They didn’t buy the new Coke and it turned out to be one of the biggest corporate flops ever.
1985 - The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize in over a decade was Sunday in the Park with George. Also on this day, Studs Terkel earned his first Pulitzer for The Good War: An Oral History of World War II.
1986 - Composer Harold Arlen died. He was 81 years old. Arlen composed more than 20 top ten songs beginning in 1930 with Get Happy. Other popular songs written by Arlen include Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz), Blues in the Night and Stormy Weather.
1987 - Business Week magazine announced its list of the highest paid executives in the U.S. Lee Iacocca of Chrysler Corporation topped the list ($20.5 million in 1986), followed by Paul Fireman of Reebok International.
1988 - A federal ban on smoking during U.S. domestic airline flights of two hours or less went into effect.
1993 - United Farm Workers founder César Chávez died in his sleep of apparently natural causes. He was 66. Chávez was the Mexican-American leader of the United Farm Workers of America, “an advocate of Gandhi’s philosophy, peace-loving and charismatic.” He achieved national prominence in 1965 when his UFW joined a Filipino farm-work strike protesting abusive treatment. His boycott on grape growers lasted five years and ended only when growers agreed to a union contract, the first big labor victory for migrant workers in the U.S.
1994 - Pink Floyd’s album The Division Bell started a four-week run at #1 in the U.S. The track list: Cluster One, What Do You Want From Me, Poles Apart, Marooned, A Great Day For Freedom, Wearing the Inside Out, Take It Back, Coming Back to Life, Keep Talking, Lost for Words, High Hopes.
1996 - Sotheby’s in New York started an auction (in ran from April 23 to 26) of Jackie Kennedy Onassis memorabilia. The auction raised $34.5 million.
1997 - Titanic opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway. The musical ran for 804 performances, closing on March 21, 1999. And it swept the 1997 Tony Awards winning all five it was nominated for including Best Musical and Best Score. Set on the ocean liner RMS Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912, Titanic produced a Grammy Award nominated cast album, and over the next twenty years the show received hundreds of professional and amateur productions worldwide and became a national and international staple of musical theater.
1998 - James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, died in a Nashville hospital at age 70.
1999 - Debut day in the U.S. for these films: eXistenZ, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm and Willem Dafoe; Lost & Found, starring David Spade, Sophie Marceau, Patrick Bruel, Artie Lange, Mitchell Whitfield, Martin Sheen and Jon Lovitz; and Pushing Tin, with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett and Angelina Jolie.
2000 - Elian Gonzalez spent a secluded Easter Sunday with his father at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, DC. This, one day after the six-year-old boy was forcefully removed from the home of Miami relatives in a pre-dawn raid by U.S. immigration agents.
2001 - USS Greeneville Commander Scott Waddle was given a letter of reprimand (and allowed to retire from the Navy) as punishment for the submarine collision that killed nine people aboard a Japanese fishing vessel off Hawaii.
2002 - Pope John Paul II opened a Vatican meeting with American cardinals to discuss sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy.
2003 - Oornithologist Guy Mountfort, co-founder of the World Wildlife Fund, died at 97 years of age. His books include Portrait Of A Wilderness (1958), The Vanishing Jungle (1969), Saving The Tiger (1981) and Rare Birds Of The World (1988).
2004 - Films opening in the U.S.: 13 Going on 30, with Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Baker, Samuel Ball, Mark Patrick Gleason, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis and Kiersten Warren; and Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke.
2005 - 97-year-old actor Sir John Mills died at his home in Denham, England (near London). Mills appeared in more than 120 films during a career that stretched over eight decades. His films include Great Expectations, Blind Justice, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Young Mr. Pitt, Swiss Family Robinson, Operation Crossbow, Nanny and the Professor, The Big Sleep, Zulu Dawn, Hotel, Around the World in 80 Days, and Ryan’s Daughter, for which he received a supporting actor Academy Award in 1971.
2005 - President Hugo Chavez proclaimed that Don Quixote was a must-read for Venezuelans, and that the government had printed one million free copies to mark the 400th anniversary of the classic tale. Chavez urged Venezuelans to draw inspiration from the figure of Don Quixote, the would-be knight who rode around on an old nag trying to set the world straight.
2007 - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin died of congestive heart failure at 76 years of age. Yeltsin was the first popularly elected president of the Russian Federation (1991-1999), engineering the final collapse of the Soviet Union (1991) and pushing Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy.
2008 - Transformers co-star Megan Fox was named the world’s sexiest woman in an annual online poll sponsored by FHM magazine.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) promoted General David Petraeus to head of Central Command. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno succeeded him as senior commander in Iraq.
2008 - The U.S. scrapped a $20-million virtual fence, developed by Boeing Corp., on the Arizona-Mexico border. It seems the system failed to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings.
2009 - California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a securities fraud lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co. for deceptively marketing a financial instrument to thousands of state investors who suffered losses of over $1.5 billion.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Paper Man, starring Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow, Hunter Parrish, Kieran Culkin and Arabella Field; and The Back-up Plan, with Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Danneel Harris, Eric Christian Olsen, Anthony Anderson, Noureen DeWulf, Jennifer Elise Cox, Melissa McCarthy, Tom Bosley and Linda Lavin.
2010 - Greece asked for activation of a financial rescue plan by the eurozone and International Monetary Fund, hoping it would help the heavily indebted country get its finances in order.
2011 - Former Sony president Norio Ohga died at 81 years of age. Ohga served as president of the electronics manufacturer from 1982 to 1995 and led it during its evolution into a global entertainment empire covering music, movies and computer games.
2012 - A spring nor’easter packing soaking rain and springtime snow churned up the U.S. Northeast, unleashing a burst of winter, closing some schools and triggering power outages in communities that had been basking in record warmth a few weeks earlier.
2013 - Computer, iPhone, iPad giant Apple Corporation said it was paying an extra $55 billion in cash to its shareholders, expanding a 2012 capital program. It also boosted its quarterly dividend and alloted more cash for buybacks.
2013 - France legalized gay marriage. This, after a wrenching national debate exposed deep conservatism in the nation’s heartland and triggered huge protests that tapped into deep discontent with the Socialist government.
2014 - Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed legislation that allowed people to carry guns in bars, churches and government buildings. The ‘guns everywhere’ law took effect July 1, 2014.
2015 - U.S. and British authorities said German banking giant Deutsche Bank would pay $2.5 billion in fines for its role in a multi-year conspiracy to rig LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) interest rates.
2016 - Police stopped five Western diplomats who were trying to visit lawyer Ni Yulan in Beijing, China after she had been prevented from travelling to the United States to accept an award for her rights work. Yulan was awarded the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award for her work defending people forcibly evicted from their homes. The diplomats, representing the European Union, Germany, Canada, France and Switzerland, tried to visit her rented house in Beijing, but were stopped outside the home by six plainclothes agents, including one who used “dirty words to insult the diplomats.”
2017 - China’s foreign minister called for the complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Wang Yi said, “China is firmly supporting the denuclearisation of the area in the name of stability and peace. China may not have the key to this solution ... but we are happy that more sides are accepting our point of view.”
2018 - A ban on pro-life protests outside an abortion clinic in London came into force. Pro-choice campaigners hoped the ban would set a precedent in Britain.
2018 - A driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 15. 25-year-old Alek Minassian was arrested and charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder. The officer who apprehended Minassian was praised for making a peaceful arrest even as the suspect, claiming to have a gun, shouted “Kill me!”
2019 - New Zealand granted permanent residency to all survivors of the mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques where 50 Muslim worshippers were killed on Mar 15, 2019.
2020 - Researchers found that the world had lost more than one quarter of its land-dwelling insects in the previous 30 years. Insects were disappearing at a rate of just under 1 per cent a year, according to a study in the journal Science.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill that included funding for small businesses and hospitals. The legislation, known as the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, was the result of weeks of negotiations between congress and the White House. 2)A record 26 million Americans sought unemployment benefits over the previous five weeks, meaning all the jobs created during the longest employment boom in U.S. history were wiped out in about a month. 3)More than 1,100 people had died in Stockholm from the coronavirus. The capital was the hardest-hit city, accounting for more than half of Sweden’s 2,021 fatalities from COVID-19. 4)Cases of the coronavirus increased to 2.62 million globally with 183,761 deaths. World leaders pledged to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines and to share them around the globe (Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to not take part in the video conference launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative).
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: the animated Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train, featuring characters voiced by Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kitô, Hiro Shimono, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Satoshi Hino; Mortal Kombat, starring Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee and Josh Lawson; Bloodthirsty, with Lauren Beatty, Greg Bryk and Katharine King So; and We Broke Up, with Aya Cash, William Jackson Harper and Sarah Bolger.
2021 - California Governor Gavin Newsom directed the state to stop issuing permits for oil fracking and to draw up plans to end all fossil-fuel drilling in the state by 2045.
2021 - France became the first higher-income country to donate COVID-19 vaccines to a developing nation through the UN’s vaccine rollout program for low- and middle-income countries, shipping more than 100,000 doses to Mauritania. President Emmanuel Macron said France will step up vaccine donations to the international COVAX vaccine program in the coming months with a donation of 500,000 shots, including from suppliers other than AstraZeneca.
2022 - Utah Republican Senator Orrin G. Hatch died in Salt Lake City at 88 years of age. Hatch crusaded for conservative causes and outlasted six presidents in his seven-term Senate career.
2022 - Two wildfires merged northwest of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and raced through 15 miles of forest driven by 75 mph (121 kph) winds, destroying more than 200 buildings.
2023 - The Biden administration moved to evacuate U.S. government personnel from Sudan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that all U.S. personnel and their families had been evacuated and that operations at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum had been “temporarily suspended.” Officials said there could be an estimated 16,000 U.S. citizens in Sudan, most of whom are dual nationals.
2023 - NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell resigned after an outside investigation into a complaint of inappropriate conduct. “I had an inappropriate relationship with a woman in the company, which I deeply regret,” Shell said in a statement. “I’m truly sorry I let my Comcast and NBCUniversal colleagues down, they are the most talented people in the business and the opportunity to work with them the last 19 years has been a privilege.” Shell had been named CEO in January 2020 after leading content creation, programming and distribution for NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment.
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Birthdays on This Day April 23
1564 - William Shakespeare
poet, playwright: Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth and at least three dozen more plays and over 150 sonnets; died Apr 23, 16161791 - James Buchanan
15th U.S. President [1857-1861]; never married; nickname: Old Buck; died June 1, 18681813 - Stephen Douglas
Illinois politician who beat Abraham Lincoln for a seat in the state legislature; died June 3, 18611891 - Sergei Prokofiev
pianist, composer: Peter and the Wolf; opera: The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, War and Peace; ballet: Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella; film scores: Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible, Lieutenant Kije; symphonies: Classical Symphony, The Fifth Symphony; Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5; died Mar 5, 19531897 - Lester Bowles Pearson
17th Prime Minister of Canada [1963-1968]; died Dec 27, 19721916 - (Charles Burnham) Bud Wilkinson
football: Minnesota Golden Gophers: on national championship teams [1934-1936]; coach: Oklahoma Sooners [1947-1963]: 145-29-4 record, 3 national titles [1950, 1955, 1956], won 47 consecutive games [1953–1957: longest winning streak in modern football]; St. Louis Cardinals [1978-1879]; died Feb 9, 19941921 - Janet Blair (Martha Jane Lafferty)
actress: My Sister Eileen, The Fabulous Dorseys, The Fuller Brush Man, Black Arrow, Boy’s Night Out, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood; died Feb 19, 20071921 - Warren (Edward) Spahn
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Boston-Milwaukee Braves: winningest left-hander in history [363 wins], all but seven coming with the Braves; 20-game winner 13 times, including six years in a row; led National League in wins 8 times and complete games 9 times; Cy Young Award [1957]; earned Purple Heart, Bronze Star [World War II]; died Nov 24, 20031928 - Shirley (Jane) Temple Black
child actress: Little Miss Marker, Curly Top, Heidi, The Little Colonel, Poor Little Rich Girl, Wee Willie Winkie, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; U.S. delegate to the United Nations and chief of protocol; died Feb 10, 20141930 - Alan Oppenheimer
actor: Murphy Brown, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Home Free, Eischied, Big Eddie, Trancers 4 and 5, Child of Darkness, Child of Light, The Bionic Woman, The Groundstar Conspiracy, Star!1932 - (Roy) Halston (Frowick)
fashion designer: created famous pillbox hat [1962] worn by Jackie Kennedy at JFK’s inaugural; his designs set standard for American designers in 1970s; died Mar 26, 19901935 - Ray Peterson
singer: Tell Laura I Love Her, Corinna, Corinna, The Wonder of You; owner of Dunes record label; sang in film One Way Wahini: Wahine Does the Bird; died Jan 25, 20051936 - Roy Orbison
singer: Only the Lonely, Running Scared, Oh, Pretty Woman, Crying, Dream Baby, It’s Over; died Dec 6, 19881937 - Don Massengale
golf champ: PGA: Bing Crosby Celebrity Pro-Am [1966], Canadian Open [1966]; Senior PGA: Greater Grand Rapids Open [1990], Royal Caribbean Classic [1992]; National Club Professional [1972]; died Jan 2, 20071939 - David Birney
actor: Oh, God! Book 2, Nightfall, Serpico [TV], St. Elsewhere, Great American TV Poll, Bridget Loves Bernie, Live Shot; died Apr 27, 20221939 - Lee Majors (Harvey Lee Yeary II)
actor: The Six Million Dollar Man, Big Valley, The Bionic Woman, The Covergirl Murders1942 - Sandra Dee (Alexandra Zuck)
actress: A Summer Place, Gidget, Tammy and the Doctor; died Feb 20, 20051943 - Tony (Anthony James) Esposito
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks [Calder Memorial Trophy: NHL’s outstanding rookie: 1969-1970/all-star: 1970, 1972, 1980/shared Vezina Trophy for best goaltender [1972, 1974]; played 886 games in NHL, winning 423, losing 307, earning draw in 151; 76 shutouts with a 2.92 goals-against-average; in 99 playoff games, Tony won 45, lost 53 with a 3.07 average; shared goaltending duties with Ken Dryden in 1972 when Team Canada played the Soviet Nationals in famed Series of the Century [Canada edged Soviets, four games to three w/one tied]; brother of Hockey Hall of Famer, Phil Esposito1943 - Gail Goodrich
Basketball Hall of Famer [guard]: UCLA; NBA: Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Jazz; averaged 18.6 points per game and 4.7 assists per game in 1,031 games1943 - Hervé Villechaize
actor: Fantasy Island, The Man with the Golden Gun, Rumpelstiltskin, Two Moon Junction; died Sep 4, 19931944 - Marty Fleckman
golf: Univ. of Houston: [3 NCAA championship teams/individual title: 1965: two-day total of 135/All-American: 1965/medalist honors at Western Amateur: 1966/Walker Cup team: 1967]; pro: Cajun Classic champ: 1967; golf teacher: Meyer Park Golf Course, Houston1947 - Blair Brown
Tony Award-winning actress: Copenhagen; TV: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; film: The Speed of Thought, Dark Matter, The Sentinel, Copshop, Dogville, Benjamin Franklin, Space Cowboys1947 - Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey)
Irish civil rights leader1949 - Joyce DeWitt
actress: Three’s Company, Call of the Wild 3D, Airplane II: The Sequel1952 - Narada Michael Walden
musician: drums: groups: Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, w/Jeff Beck on LP Wired; singer: solo LPs: Garden of Love Light, Divine Emotion; record producer: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Starship; songwriter: Jump to the Beat1953 - James Russo
actor: Beverly Hills Cop, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Taken By Force, Blue Lake Massacre, Taking Charge, Open Range, My Daughter’s Tears, The Box, Pendulum1954 - Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning documentary writer/director: Bowling for Columbine [2003]; Roger & Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Great ’04 Slacker Uprising, And Justice for All, Canadian Bacon, Sicko; married to producer/costume designer Kathleen Glynn; more1957 - Jan Hooks
actress: Designing Women, Saturday Night Live, The Martin Short Show, The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour, A Dangerous Woman, Coneheads, Batman Returns, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure; died Oct 9, 20141960 - Valerie (Anne) Bertinelli
actress: One Day at a Time, Silent Witness, Ordinary Heroes, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp1960 - Steve Clark
musician: guitar: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin’, LPs: On Through the Night, High’n’Dry, Pyromania, Hysteria; died Jan 8, 19911960 - Craig Sheffer
actor: The Second Front, Dracula II: Ascension, Final Breakdown, Deadly Little Secrets, Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal, Without Malice1961 - George Lopez
comedian, actor: George Lopez (TV series), Tortilla Heaven, Ali G Indahouse, Outta Time, Fidel, Bread and Roses, Fatal Instinct, Ski Patrol1967 - Melina Kanakaredes
actress: Providence, CSI: NY, NYPD Blue, Due South, Oz, The Practice, The Ben Stiller Show, Saint Maybe1973 - Derek Armstrong
hockey [center]: New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings1974 - Barry Watson
actor: Boogeyman, Sorority Boys, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Co-ed Call Girl, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald1977 - John Cena
pro wrestler: among the most world championship reigns in professional wrestling history: won WWE Championship 13 times, five-time United States champ, a four-time world tag team champ, two-time Royal Rumble match winner, one-time Money in the Bank match winner, and has headlined several major WWE pay-per-view events, including its flagship event, WrestleMania, five times; actor: Peacemaker, F9, The Suicide Squad, Trainwreck, Ferdinand, Blockers, Bumblebee1977 - Kirsten Clark
U.S. World Cup/Olympic alpine skier1977 - Eric Edelstein
actor: The Prospects, Hotel for Dogs, 1%, This Is My Friend, Suits on the Loose1977 - Andruw Jones
baseball [outfielder]: Atlanta Braves [1996–2007], Los Angeles Dodgers [2008] Texas Rangers [2009] Chicago White Sox [2010] New York Yankees [2011–2012]1977 - John Oliver
TV host: Last Week Tonight; comedian: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show; more1977 - Kal Penn
actor: Battle Creek, House, Harold & Kumar film series, The Namesake, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas; Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement [2009-2010]1979 - Jaime King
actress: Pearl Harbor, Blow, Slackers, Lone Star State of Mind1979 - Carlos Silva
baseball [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins1981 - Monica Sweetheart
actress [1999-2012]: X-rated films: My Plaything: Monica Sweetheart, Cum Dumpsters 4, Down the Hatch 7, A Perverted Point of View 3, Up Your Ass 18, Pirate Video Deluxe 11: The Academy, Face Dance Obsession, Un-Natural Sex 41984 - Jesse Soffer
actor: Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, Gracie, In Time1985 - Taio Cruz
singer, songwriter: Break Your Heart, Dynamite, Troublemaker, Come on Girl, Dirty Picture, Higher1990 - Dev Patel
actor: Slumdog Millionaire, Lion, Chappie, The Last Airbender, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Man Who Knew Infinity2000 - Chloe Kim
snowboarder: youngest woman to win Olympic snowboarding medal [age 17 at 2018 Winter Olympics]: gold in the halfpipe; 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: first woman to win two gold medals in halfpipe
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Hit Music on This Day April 23
1944It’s Love, Love, Love (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Skip Nelson)
I Love You (facts) - Bing Crosby
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