April 24
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1849 - The New York Knickerbockers became the first baseball team to wear uniforms. The ball players wore blue trousers, white shirts andstraw hats. Sharp!1888 - P.F. Collier published a weekly periodical for the first time. Collier’s became the publication’s name at a later date. The magazine was popular for 69 years.
1901 - Four games were scheduled to open the brand new American League baseball season. Three of them, however, were rained out. The Chicago White Stockings beat the Cleveland Blues 8-2 before a paid crowd of over 10,000 fans in the only game played. The new league, nicknamed the junior circuit, was made up of teams in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Buffalo, Indianapolis and, initially, Minneapolis, fell out of the league, with new teams in Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and, later, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, Ft. Worth and Toronto joining the American League.
1934 - Laurens Hammond announced news that would be favored by many churches across the land. The news was the development of the pipeless organ. That is the same Hammond who fostered many of the developments that would make electronic keyboards so popular in modern music.
1936 - Benny Goodman and his trio recorded China Boy for Victor Records. Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson and Goodman recorded the session in Chicago.
1945 - A new commissioner of baseball was named. He was Albert B. ‘Happy’ Chandler.
1949 - Dick Powell starred in Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC radio. The show stayed on the air for four years. Later, it would have a three-year run on TV starring David Janssen in the title role.
1949 - The 3rd annual Tony Awards show was held in New York City. Winners included Death of a Salesman (best Play); Kiss Me Kate (best Musical); Rex Harrison in Anne of the Thousand Days (best Actor Dramatic); Martita Hunt in The Madwoman of Chaillot (best Actress Dramatic); Ray Bolger in Where’s Charley? (best Actor Musical); and Nanette Fabray in Love Life (best Actress Musical).
1952 - Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the Gruen Guild Playhouse in an episode titled, The Tiger. Not long after this start, Burr would be seen in the hugely popular Perry Mason and much later in Ironside.
1954 - Billboard magazine, the music industry trade publication, headlined a change to come about in the music biz. The headline read, “Teenagers Demand Music with a Beat -- Spur Rhythm and Blues” ... a sign of times to come. Within a year, R&B music by both black and white artists caught the public’s fancy.
1955 - X-Minus One, a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC radio this day.
1957 - The first Ricky Nelson single, I’m Walkin’ (a cover of the Fats Domino smash) backed with A Teenager’s Romance, was released. Nelson’s debut was a big hit, selling a million copies.
1959 - Your Hit Parade ended after a nine-year run on television and many more years on radio. The show debuted in 1935. On the final show, these were the top five songs on Your Hit Parade:
1 - Come Softly to Me
2 - Pink Shoelaces
3 - Never Be Anyone Else But You
4 - It’s Just a Matter of Time
5 - I Need Your Love Tonight1960 - The 14th annual Tony Awards show was held at the at the Astor Hotel, New York. Winners included The Miracle Worker (best Play); Fiorello! (best Musical); Melvyn Douglas in The Best Man (best Actor Dramatic); Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (best Actress Dramatic); Jackie Gleason in Take Me Along (best Actor Musical); and Mary Martin in The Sound of Music (best Actress Musical).
1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 18 batters in a game this day, becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
1963 - Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics retired from the NBA. Mr. Basketball’ wouldn’t give up the game, however, as he went on to coach Boston College to a record 117 wins and 38 losses.
1965 - Game of Love, by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, made it to the top spot on the Billboard music chart. Game of Love stayed for a short visit of one week, before Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits took over the top spot with Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.
1969 - The singing family, The Cowsills, received a gold record for their hit single, Hair, from the Broadway show of the same name.
1970 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell.
1979 - Georgia on My Mind, written in 1930 with lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael, was declared the state song of Georgia. Georgia-born singer Ray Charles made the song famous in 1960.
1980 - The United States launched an abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
1985 - There were a reported 832,602 millionaires in the United States on this day, according to researchers. The average millionaire was 57 years old. A majority (85 percent) held college degrees. 20 percent were retired and 70 percent were self-employed.
1986 - The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, died. She was 89 years old. England’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne because of his love for Simpson in 1936.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery was launced from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the $1.5-billion Hubble Space Telescope. The Space Telescope was named after American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble.
1991 - Freddie Stowers, a black World War I corporal, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to become the first black to receive the highest U.S. medal for valor in combat. The 21-year-old Stowers led a squad from the all-black 371st Infantry Regiment into ‘no-man’s land’ in France and defeated German troops on September 28, 1918, just six weeks before the end of World War I. Stowers was killed and his commanding officer recommended him for the Medal of Honor, but the nomination languished for 70 years. In 1988, after two congressmen resurrected the case, President George Bush awarded the medal posthumously to Stowers’ two surviving sisters.
1991 - Garth Brooks dominated the Academy of Country Music awards with a record six trophies. He was voted entertainer of the year and top male vocalist, and also won for best single and album. Brooks’s The Dance also gave him best song and video awards.
1993 - Former African National Congress president Oliver Tambo died in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was 75 years old.
1995 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average index hit a record 4303.98.
1995 - California Forestry Association president Gilbert P. Murray, 47, was killed by a package bomb mailed to his headquarters in Sacramento. The bomb was eventually attributed to the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski.
1996 - Shania Twain won the top album trophy for The Woman in Me and was named best new female singer at the annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The Woman in Me had won the country album Grammy and Twain was the best new country artist at the American Music Awards the previous January.
1997 - The U.S. ratified the chemical weapons ban. The U.S. was the 75th country to ratify the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention ban signed by 164 states. The signing obliged members to destroy all chemical weapons and production facilities by 2007.
1997 - Comedian Pat Paulsen died in Mexico at 69 years of age. In 1968, Paulsen announced that he was running for president of the United States. He actually got his name on the ballot in 1972.
1998 - These movies opened in U.S. theatres: The Big Hit, with Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate and Avery Brooks; In God’s Hands, starring Patrick Shane Dorian and Matt George; and Tarzan and the Lost City, featuring Casper Van Dien, Jane March and Steven Waddington.
1999 - A heat wave over the previous week in several Indian states killed at least 40 people with 28 dead in Orissa.
2001 - Japanese reformer Junichiro Koizumi was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party in a surprising victory. The LDP was the largest party in a three-party ruling coalition and Koizumi’s election as prime minister was all assured once he became party leader.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (Gail Atwater vs. the city of Lago Vista and Bart Turek, a Lago Vista police officer), 5-4, that police could arrest and handcuff people for minor traffic offenses.
2002 - U.S. cardinals meeting at the Vatican issued a communique for expedited procedures to defrock priests found guilty of sexual abuse of minors.
2003 - A postage stamp honoring Cesar Chavez was issued by the U.S. postal service.
2003 - Canada placed a moratorium on cod fishing off the Atlantic provinces and Quebec due to the depleted stocks of cod.
2004 - Cosmetics pioneer Estee Lauder died in New York City. She was 97 years old. Lauder’s potions and moisturizers turned the clock back for millions of faces around the world.
2005 - Ezer Weizman, former Israeli president (1993-2000), died at 80 years of age. Weizman was a political moderate who pioneered contacts with Palestinian leaders and helped bring about the Jewish state’s first peace treaty with an Arab country. As defense minister in 1979, he was instrumental in negotiating Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt.
2006 - A law went into effect in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil requiring some ‘women-only’ cars on subway and above ground trains -- to deter groping by men.
2006 - Home-products retailer IKEA opened its first store in Japan on this day.
2007 - Japan’s Toyota Motor Corporation reported that it outsold General Motors Corporation by around 90,000 vehicles in the first quarter, unseating its U.S. rival as the world’s biggest automaker.
2007 - Warren E. Avis founder of the Avis Rent-A-Car System (1946), died in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 91 years old.
2008 - Film star Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willfully failing to file his U.S. tax returns. Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges.
2009 - New films in the U.S.: Fighting, with Terrence Howard, Channing Tatum, Zulay Henao, Luis Guzman and Cung Le; Obsessed, with Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell and Christine Lahti; and The Soloist, with Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander and Lisa Gay Hamilton.
2009 - Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo asked for forgiveness for a paternity scandal in which three women claim the former Roman Catholic bishop fathered their children. He vowed not to let the current scandal distract his government from pressing reforms.
2011 - Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission confirmed that it fined Telcel 11.99 billion pesos ($1 billion) for charging competing networks sky-high connection fees.
2012 - ABC News reported that teenagers were getting drunk by swallowing squirts of hand sanitizer. It was the latest in a string of household products that had been used to induce intoxication. Hand sanitizer worried public health officials because a few squirts of the stuff could have the same effect on a person as several shots of hard liquor.
2012 - Nice Work If You Can Get It premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. The musical featured songs by George and Ira Gershwin, from a book written by Joe DiPietro, Matthew Broderick starred as Jimmy Winter, Kelli O’Hara played Billie Bendix, Terry Beaver was Senator Max Evergreen, Robyn Hurder played Jeannie Muldoon, Judy Kaye as Estonia Dulworth, The Duchess of Woodford and Michael McGrath as Cookie McGee. The show won two Tony Awards in 2012, best actor and actress (for Kaye and McGrath). Nice Work If You Can Get It worked well for 478 performances, closing Jun 15, 2013.
2013 - The adventure drama At Any Price opened in U.S. theatres. The flick stars Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Kim Dickens, Red West, Maika Monroe, Chelcie Ross, Sophie Curtis, Stephen Louis Grush and Marc Grapey.
2013 - Despite record sales during the first three months of 2013, Samsung announced that it was terminating access in Iran to its online mobile app store. The move was a part of the international sanctions placed on Iran because of its nuclear program.
2014 - Four big tech companies -- Adobe, Apple, Google and Intel -- agreed to settle a lawsuit that had accused them of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Valley. The class action lawsuit on behalf of roughly 64,000 workers alleged the companies had conspired to refrain from hiring one another’s employees in order to avert a salary war.
2015 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: The Age of Adaline, starring Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman and Harrison Ford; Little Boy, with Kevin James, Ben Chaplin and Emily Watson; Adult Beginners, with Rose Byrne, Nick Kroll and Bobby Cannavale; The Forger, starring John Travolta, Abigail Spencer and Christopher Plummer; Laugh Killer Laugh, with William Forsythe, Bianca Hunter and Tom Sizemore; See You in Valhalla, starring Sarah Hyland, Steve Howey and Odeya Rush; and Kung Fu Killer, with Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung and Baoqiang Wang.
2015 - A big day on Wall Street, as the S&P rose to a record 2227.69 and the NASDAQ also closed at a record: 5092.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 21.45 points to finish at 18,080.14: not a record, but close.
2016 - A liberal Israeli women’s group held a special Passover prayer service at a Jerusalem holy site. The gathering drew criticism from the holy site's ultra-Orthodox rabbi, who called it a “provocation.” The group planned to hold an all-female “priestly blessing,” a prayer typically done by men, but Israel’s attorney general banned the women from doing so.
2017 - The city of New Orleans continued its project to take down symbols of the Confederacy and Jim Crow South. The 35-foot Liberty Place obelisk, a monument to a white-supremacist uprising in 1874, was removed in the early morning hours under cover of darkness.
2018 - A U.S. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. DACA had shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
2018 - Germany-based Audi recalled some 1.2 million cars and SUVs worldwide because electric coolant pumps were overheating, possibly causing fires.
2019 - The World Health Organization issued guidance for how much screen time children under five should be allowed -- not very much. And none at all for those under one.
2019 - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un arrived in the Russian city of Vladivostok for a summit with President Vladimir Putin. This, while Pyongyang’s nuclear talks with Washington remained in limbo.
2020 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Enemy Lines, starring Ed Westwick, John Hannah and Corey Johnson; The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, with Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera and Aminata Fall; and True History of the Kelly Gang, starring George MacKay, Essie Davis and Nicholas Hoult.
2020 - Trade unions at Poland’s biggest coal group, state-owned PGG, warned that the industry could collapse because of falling demand if the government did not help. Poland was heavily reliant on coal-fuelled power stations for its energy and was the only E.U. member state not to have pledged to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050.
2020 - Politico reported that Donald Trump owes tens of millions of dollars to China, through a real estate debt which falls due in 2022, offering “astonishing leverage” to Beijing. The debt derived from a 30% share Trump owned in a billion-dollar building on the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The deal was refinanced in 2012, with $211m of the funding coming from the state-owned Bank of China.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)A rally outside Wisconsin’s capitol building in Madison drew hundreds of protesters who demanded Democratic Governor Tony Evers reopen the state. This, as Wisconsin reported its largest single day jump of new coronavirus cases. 2)New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pointed to research showing that strains of the coronavirus entered his state from Europe, not China, and said that travel bans enacted by POTUS Trump were too late to halt its spread. 3)Lebanon closed all entrances to a Palestinian refugee camp after four more people tested positive, heightening concerns the virus could further spread among its overcrowded population.
2021 - Alaska Airlines banned Alaska state Senator Lora Reinbold from its flights for refusing to follow mask requirements. Reinbold was a vocal opponent to COVID-19 mitigation measures.
2021 - Overwhelmed hospitals in India begged for oxygen supplies as the country’s coronavirus infections soared, setting a new world record for cases for the third consecutive day. The number of cases across the country rose to 16.6 million, including 189,544 deaths.
2022 - Egypt released some three dozen prisoners, a week before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is typically a time of amnesty.
2022 - Wind-driven wildfires in Nebraska killed John Trumble, a retired fire chief, and injured some 15 firefighters.
2023 - India surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, according to U.N. estimates, with 1,425,775,850 people (estimated to reach 1.7 billion by 2064).
2023 - Tucker Carlson, popular prime-time host at Fox News, was fired from the cable network. The announcement came days after Fox News’ parent company settled Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million. Dominion had sued Fox and its networks, arguing they had “intentionally and falsely” blamed Dominion for the 2020 loss of former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden by airing unsubstantiated claims that the company’s machines had rigged the election. Carlson was among the top anchors who expressed disbelief and skepticism -- behind the scenes -- about the comments being made on air. Fox News wouldn’t comment about whether Carlson was being taken off air in response to the Dominion defamation case. Carlson said in a video message that one of the first things he realized “when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are” in the U.S. before he went on to rail against “how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are.”
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Birthdays on This Day April 24
1743 - Edmund Cartwright
inventor: power loom; died Oct 30, 18231766 - Robert Bailey Thomas
founder, editor: The Farmer’s Almanac; died May 19, 18461836 - George Bascom
West Point officer who arrested Chief Cochise, who escaped and began the Apache Wars reign of terror; died Feb 21, 18621904 - Willem de Kooning
painter/expressionist; died Mar 19, 19971905 - Robert Penn Warren
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: All the King’s Men [1947], poet: Promises:Poems, 1954-1956 [1958], Now and Then:Poems, 1976-1978 [1979]; 1st official poet laureate of U.S.; died Sep 15, 19891911 - Jack E. Leonard (Leonard Lebitsky)
comedian, actor: The Disorderly Orderly, Three Sailors and a Girl, Journey Back to Oz; died May 9, 19731914 - William Castle
film director: Project X, The Busy Body, I Saw What You Did, Strait-Jacket, The Old Dark House; died May 31, 19771916 - Stanley Kauffmann
theatre critic: The New Republic: Stanley Kauffmann on Films; writer: Distinguishing Features : Film Criticism and Comment, Persons of the Drama : Theater Criticism and Comment; film/theater teacher: Yale School of Drama, CUNY Graduate Center, Adelphi University, Hunter College; author: Notes from a Dark Street; died Oct 9, 20131916 - Eldon Shamblin
musician: guitar, arranger: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: Twin Guitar Special, Twin Guitar Boogie, Faded Love, Ida Red; died Aug 5, 19981922 - (Samuel) Aaron Bell
jazz musician: bass: played w/Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Andy Kirk, Lucky Millinder, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young; composer, teacher; died July 28, 20031922 - J.D. Cannon
actor: Cool Hand Luke, McCloud, The Road Raiders, Rooster, Beyond Witch Mountain, Death Wish II, The Adventures of Nellie Bly, Ike, Raise the Titanic; died May 20, 20051928 - Johnny Griffin
jazz musician: tenor sax: Chicago Riffin’, Flying Home, Soft and Furry, Honeybucket; died Jul 25, 20081933 - Freddie Scott
singer: Hey Girl, Are You Lonely for Me; died Jun 4, 20071934 - Shirley (Lee Foley) Boone
singer: married to singer Pat Boone since 1953; daughter of singer, Red Foley; group: The Boones [w/Pat and daughters Cherry, Linda Lee, Debby and Laura Gene]; died Jan 11, 20191934 - Shirley MacLaine (Shirley MacLean Beaty)
Academy Award-winning actress Terms of Endearment [1983]; Emmy awards: Shirley MacLaine: If They Could See Me Now [1974], Gypsy in My Soul [1976], Shirley MacLaine... Every Little Movement [1980]; Irma La Douce, The Turning Point; sister of actor Warren Beatty; more1936 - Jill Ireland
actress: Assassination, Death Wish 2, Hard Times; author: Life Wish; activist: support of breast cancer victims; died May 18, 19901937 - Joe Henderson
composer, musician: tenor sax: played in sextet at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner; also played with Blood Sweat and Tears; died June 30, 20011940 - Sue Grafton
author: the alphabet series': ‘A’ Is for Alibi, ‘G’ Is for Gumshoe, ‘K’ Is for Killer, ‘N’ Is for Noose, ‘R’ Is for Ricochet, etc.; died Dec 28, 20171940 - Michael Parks
actor: Stranger by Night, ffolkes, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, Chase, Arizona Heat, The Return of Josey Wales; died May 9, 20171941 - Richard C. Holbrooke
U.S. diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, investment banker: U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (January 22, 2009-death), U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (August 25, 1999-January 20, 2001), U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1993-1994); died Dec 13, 20101942 - Barbra (Joan) Streisand
Grammy Award-winning Best Female Pop Vocalist [1963-1965, 1977, 1986], Best Songwriter [1977]; People, The Way We Were, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers; Academy Award-winning Best Song [1976: shared w/Paul Williams]: Evergreen [Love Theme from A Star Is Born]; Academy Award-winning Best Actress: Funny Girl [1968]; I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Owl and the Pussycat, Hello Dolly, Funny Lady, The Way We Were, Yentl; actress/director: Yentl, The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces1943 - Richard Sterban
musician: bass, singer: group: The Oak Ridge Boys: Talk About the Good Times, Where the Soul Never Dies, Cryin’ Again, American Made, Love Song, I Guess It Never Hurts to Cry Sometimes, Everyday, Make My Life with You, Little Things, Touch a Hand Make a Friend1944 - Bill Singer
‘The Singer Throwing Machine’: baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers [all-star: 1969], California Angels [all-star: 1973], Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays1945 - Doug Clifford
drummer: group: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Lookin’ Out My Back Door, Up Around the Bend1945 - Bob Lunn
golf: six PGA Tour victories [no majors], par-3 contest champ [1969 Masters]1947 - Glenn Cornick
musician: bass: groups: Wild Turkey: LPs: Battle Hymn, Turkey, Jethro Tull: Living in the Past, Sweet Dream, Witch’s Promise; died Aug 28, 20141948 - Steve York
musician: bass guitar: group: Manfred Mann Chapter Three: Sometimes, Travelling Lady, Devil Woman, A Study in Inaccuracy, Snakeskin Garter, Konekuf, Time, One Way Glass1949 - Bob Chandler
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XV; died Jan 27, 19951953 - Eric Bogosian
actor: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Witch Hunt, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Special Effects; actor, playwright: Talk Radio, Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll: Eric Bogosian1954 - Vince Ferragamo
football: QB: Univ. of California, LA Rams: Super Bowl XIV1954 - Captain Sensible (Raymond Burns)
musician: bass, singer: Happy Talk, Wot, A Nice Cup of Tea, Brenda, Glad It’s All Over, Relax; group: The Damned: Neat Neat Neat, New Rose1955 - Michael O’Keefe
actor: Three Wishes, Ironweed, The Great Santini, Caddyshack, Gray Lady Down, Mass Appeal, Roseanne, Middle Ages, Against the Law1963 - Billy Gould
musician: bass: group: Faith No More: Epic1964 - Djimon Hounsou
actor: Blood Diamond, Amistad, Gladiator, Monster, Push, Baggage Claim, How to Train Your Dragon 21964 - Cedric ‘The Entertainer’ (Cedric Kyles)
comedian, actor: Back to School, Flash, The Honeymooners, Be Cool, Man of the House, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events1964 - Paul Ryder
musician: bass: group: Happy Mondays: Step On, Kinky Afro1967 - Omar Vizquel
baseball [shortstop]: Seattle Mariners [1989–1993]; Cleveland Indians [1994–2004]; San Francisco Giants [2005–2008]; Texas Rangers [2009]; Chicago White Sox [2010–2011]; Toronto Blue Jays [2012]; 11× Gold Glove winner; coach: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim [2013]; Detroit Tigers [2014–2017]; Chicago White Sox [2017-2018]1968 - Stacy Haiduk
actress: The Young and the Restless, All My Children, Level Seven, The Mannsfield 12, Gabriela, Desert Thunder, A Perfect Stranger, Sketch Artist, Magic Sticks1968 - Todd Jones
baseball [pitcher]: Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers1969 - Melinda Clarke
actress: Cold Sweat, Enterprise: Broken Bow, Spawn, Soldier of Fortune, Mulholland Falls, Return of the Living Dead 3, Out for Blood1970 - Stelio Savante
actor: Ugly Betty, A Million Colours, What If..., My Own Worst Enemy: Conspiracy Theory, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, My Super Ex Girlfriend, Conan1972 - Chipper Jones
baseball [third base, shortstop, left field]: Atlanta Braves [1993, 1995–2012]: 1995 World Series champs1973 - Eric Snow
basketball [guard]: Michigan State Univ; NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers1973 - Lee Westwood
pro golfer: won tournaments on every major continent, including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour; more1974 - Derek Luke
actor: Notorious, Antwone Fisher, Miracle at St. Anna, Teenage Love Affair, Friday Night Lights, Captain America: The First Avenger, HawthoRNe, The Americans1974 - Brian Marshall
musician: bass: groups: Creed: Higher, Are You Ready, My Sacrifice, Torn, My Own Prison, Is This the End?; Alter Bridge: Open Your Eyes, Find the Real, Broken Wings1975 - Thad Luckinbill
actor: The Young and the Restless, Once Fallen, Protect and Serve, The Shadow Effect, Bobby Cannon, Just Married, Generation Gap1976 - Shane McDermott
actor: All My Children, Law & Order, Swans Crossing, Airborne1977 - Eric Balfour
actor: Arresting Behavior, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, What Women Want1977 - Carlos Beltrán
baseball [center field]: Kansas City Royals [1998–2004]; Houston Astros [2004]; New York Mets [2005–2011]; San Francisco Giants [2011]; St. Louis Cardinals [2012–2013]; New York Yankees [2014–2016]; Texas Rangers [2016]; Houston Astros [2017])1977 - Rebecca Mader
actress: Mother’s Little Helpers, The Rainbow Tribe, The Devil Wears Prada, Mimic: Sentinel, Lost, Justice1977 - Billy Miller
football [tight end]: USC; NFL: Denver Broncos, Houston Texans, Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints1980 - Reagan Gomez-Preston
actress: The Parent ’Hood, The Cleveland Show, Love, Inc., A Gang Land Love Story, Dysfunctional Friends, Steven Universe1980 - Austin Nichols
actor: One Tree Hill, The Day After Tomorrow, Wimbledon, John from Cincinnati, The Walking Dead1982 - Kelly Clarkson
singer: A Moment Like This, Miss Independent, Trouble with Love Is, Low, Before Your Love, What’s Up Lonely1984 - Tyson Ritter
musician: bass; singer: group: The All-American Rejects: Gives You Hell, It Ends Tonight, Dirty Little Secret1985 - Courtnee Draper
actress: The Jersey, The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Immaculate Misconception1986 - Kellin Quinn
lead singer: group: Sleeping with Sirens: LPs: With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, Let’s Cheers to This, Feel, Madness1987 - Kris Letang
hockey [defenseman]: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins [2006- ]: 2009, 2016, 2017 Stanley Cup champs1992 - Joe Keery
actor: Stranger Things, No Activity, Death to 2020, Spree, Free Guy1992 - Jack Quaid
actor: The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Just Before I Go, Ithaca, Vinyl1994 - Jordan Fisher
actor: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Liv and Maddie, Grease Live!; Broadway: Hamilton; dancer: won 25th season of Dancing with the Stars [w/partner Lindsay Arnold]1998 - Ryan Newman
actress: Zeke and Luther, Zoom, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, See Dad Run, The Thundermans
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Hit Music on This Day April 24
1945Candy (facts) - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
I’m Beginning to See the Light (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
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