April 28
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1788 - Maryland was one of the first of the United States of America, entering the Union as number seven on this day. It was named in honor of England’s Charles I’s queen, Henrietta Maria. Maryland’s capital city, Annapolis, is famous as the home of the U.S. Naval Academy. Maryland, the Free State or Old Line State, calls the black-eyed Susan its state flower, and the Baltimore Orioles are the ... yes, the state’s baseball team ... but also, the state bird/s. Using this same reasoning, you’d think that baseball would be the state sport. Silly us. Maryland’s state sport is jousting. Yeah ... and several other Maryland’s state symbols are equally puzzling: state folk dance: square dancing, state boat: skipjack. State boat? Other more reasonable Maryland symbols include: dog - Chesapeake Bay retriever; fish - rockfish; crustacean - Maryland blue crab; tree - white oak; insect - Baltimore checkerspot butterfly. Maryland, My Maryland is the official state song. Its state motto: Fatti maschii, parole femine. In English: Manly deeds, womanly words.1789 - There truly was mutiny on the Bounty. A rebel crew took over the British ship and set sail to Pitcairn Island. A popular book about the event has been passed down generation to generation as one of the classic works of literature.
1896 - The Addressograph was patented by J.S. Duncan of Sioux City, IA.
1926 - American League baseball owners agreed to have home plate umpires carry resin on the field for the benefit of pitchers with sweaty hands. However, it was mandated that pitchers were not to ask for the sticky powder. This scheme was scrapped when someone, possibly a disgruntled pitcher, came up with the idea of putting resin in absorbent bags to be left in the area of the pitching mound and used by the pitcher as needed.
1932 - A vaccine against yellow fever was announced this day.
1937 - The first animated-cartoon electric sign was displayed on a building on Broadway in New York City. The sign was the creation of Douglas Leigh. It consisted of several thousand light bulbs and presented a four-minute show that featured a cavorting horse and ball-tossing cats.
1939 - Imagine a car that sold for $325, was 10-feet long, had an 80-inch wheelbase and a four-gallon gas tank. We just described the Crosley which was offered for sale in the U.S. for the first time. The Crosley became fairly popular -- but wouldn't survive. Once the war effort got underway, auto manufacturing was cut back for defense needs. After World War II, people wanted luxury and size in their automobiles; considered better for family needs. The little Crosley fought an uphill battle and was replaced less than 15 years later by the popular German Volkswagen Bug.
1940 - Pennsylvania 6-5000, the classic Glenn Miller signature song, was recorded on Bluebird Records. Looking at the original label on the old 78-RPM disk, we find record number 10754, in fact.
1945 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans after they attempted to flee the country.
1947 - Explorer Thor Heyerdahl set sail from the Peruvian coast in his 45-foot, hand-built raft, Kon Tiki. The 4,300-mile voyage across the Pacific Ocean concluded 101 days later. Heyerdahl wrote a popular book about the ordeal called -- you guessed it -- Kon Tiki.
1952 - World War II with Japan officially ended as the Treaty of San Francisco, that had been signed by the United States and 48 other nations, took effect.
1957 - One of TV’s most respected personalities was seen for the first time coast to coast. Mike Wallace was the host of The Mike Wallace Interview, a Sunday night program that featured the grilling of greats, including Gloria Swanson, Steve Allen and stripper, Lili St. Cyr.
1959 - The TV program, Hallmark Hall of Fame, featured one of the best TV dramas on the air, according to critics. Eugene O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness starred a who’s who of American performers including Lloyd Nolan, Helen Hayes, Burgess Meredith and Betty Field.
1959 - Arthur Godfrey was seen for the last time in the final telecast of Arthur Godfrey and His Friends on CBS-TV. The show had been a part of the CBS lineup for 10 years. We remember the Little Godfreys: Tony Marvin (announcer), singers Carmel Quinn, Lou Ann Sims, Frank Parker, Janette Davis, Marion Marlowe and Julius LaRosa. “Howaya, Howaya, Howaya.”
1961 - Warren Spahn pitched his second no-hit game for the Milwaukee Braves. He beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0. Not bad for a guy who was 41 years old at the time.
1962 - The fourth American runner to break the four-minute mile was Jim Grelle. He broke the mark at 3 minutes, 59.9 seconds in Walnut Creek, CA. Talk about cutting it close...
1963 - The Tony Awards were presented for the 17th time. The ceremonies were held at the Americana Hotel, New York. Winners included Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (best Play); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (best Musical); Arthur Hill in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (best Actor Dramatic); Uta Hagen in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (best Actress Dramatic); Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (best Actor Musical); and Vivian Leigh in Tovarich (best Actress ).
1965 - The U.S. Marines evacuated Americans during a Dominican Republic revolution. The U.S. troops stayed until October 1966.
1967 - Muhammad Ali, the former Cassius Clay, refused induction into the U.S. Army. Critics and supporters spent years discussing the boxing champ’s refusal to serve in the armed forces. In fact, Ali’s world heavyweight crown was later taken away from him as a result of his actions, which he said were based on religious grounds.
1967 - Expo67 was officially opened in Montreal by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Commemorating Canada’s centennial, the World’s Fair became a big success, attracting 50 million visitors in six months.
1969 - French President Charles de Gaulle resigned follwing a voter referendum. Voters had rejected his proposals to transform the French Senate into an advisory body while giving extended powers to regional councils.
1969 - The album Chicago Transit Authority was released. It was the soon-to-be-super group’s first album. They shortened their name to Chicago after the Transit Authority in the Windy City threatened to file suit for the use of their name. (The Chicago Transit Authority LP went on to stay on the Billboard 200 chart for 171 weeks.)
1971 - Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. became the first black admiral in the U.S. Navy. Gravely was promoted to Rear Admiral on this day. He later commanded the Navy’s Third Fleet, one of four numbered fleet commands in the U.S. Navy at that time.
1973 - The Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd, topped the U.S. album chart for one week before settling in to become the longest-running U.S. chart album of all time. Though it was only number one the first week, The Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the chart for 741 weeks.
1979 - Blondie’s single, Heart of Glass, hit #1 for a week in the U.S.: “Once I had a love and it was a gas; Soon turned out had a heart of glass; Seemed like the real thing only to find; Mucho mistrust, love’s gone behind...”
1980 - President Carter accepted the resignation of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing American hostages in Iran.
1985 - The little town of Parker, TX, not far from Dallas, reported a 2-to-1 edge in the ratio of tourists to residents. Some of the good citizens of the town of just over 1,000 residents were not pleased, either. Some 2,100 tourists each day converged on the town to visit Southfork Ranch, the home of the Ewing family of the CBS-TV hit, Dallas.
1988 - Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (a Boeing 737), from Hilo to Honolulu, landed safely after fatigue cracking caused the top portion of the fuselage to peel away. All on board survived except for a flight attendant who was sucked out of the plane and lost at sea. Scores of passengers and crew were injured. Yet the pilot managed to land the crippled jet on the island of Maui.
1988 - Singer and songwriter B.W. Stevenson died following heart surgery. He was 38. Stevenson wrote Three Dog Night’s 1973 hit Shambala and also had a hit of his own that year with My Maria.
1990 - A Chorus Line closed on Broadway after a record 15 years and 6,137 performances at the Shubert Theatre. The show enchanted more than 6.5 million theatergoers, won 10 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. At the final performance, the audience and cast paid tribute to the musical’s creator, Michael Bennett, who had died of AIDS in 1987.
1992 - The Agriculture Department unveiled its Food Pyramid diet chart.
1993 - A Zambian plane crashed at Libreville, Gabon. Thirty people were killed in the crash. The dead included eighteen soccer players -- the entire Zambian national team -- and five team officials.
1994 - Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, a 31-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), pleaded guilty in Alexandria, Virginia, to espionage and tax evasion charges. He had given U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union/Russia. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His wife, Rosario Ames, was sentenced on Oct 20, 1994 to 63 months in prison.
1997 - The musical horror-drama Jekyll & Hyde opened on this day at Broadway’s Plymouth Theatre. The big show played an almost-four-year run and became the longest-running show in the history of the Plymouth Theatre, closing after 1,543 performances on Jan 7, 2001.
1998 - British explorer David Hempleman-Adams finished a 600-mile trek across the polar ice cap to the North Pole, becoming the first person to reach the earth’s magnetic and geographic poles and climb the highest peaks in each of the seven continents. Hempleman-Adams, 41, began knocking off earthly challenges in 1980, and had failed twice before to reach the geographic North Pole.
1998 - The Arizona Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution requiring English to be used in official state and local business.
1999 - Actor Rory Calhoun died in Burbank, CA at 76 years of age. Calhoun starred in the TV series The Texan (1958-1960) -- and more than 80 films.
2000 - These films were new in U.S. theatres: The Big Kahuna, starring Kevin Spacey, Danny Devito and Peter Facinelli; The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, featuring Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston amd Jane Krakowski; Frequency, starring Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell and Noah Emmerich; Timecode, with Xander Berkeley, Golden Brooks, Saffron Burrows and Viveka Davis; and Where the Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing and Joan Cusack.
2001 - A Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off for the International Space Station with two cosmonauts and California businessman Dennis Tito (60) on board. Tito, who paid some $20 million for the experience, was the founder of the Wilshire Associates investment firm.
2002 - Bernard J. Ebbers, the 60-year-old CEO of WorldCom Inc., resigned as the stock dropped to 2.35 from a high of 64.5 in June 1999. (The fraud at WorldCom topped $11 billion and led to a massive bankruptcy filing in July 2002. Nearly 17,000 employees lost their jobs as a result of the scheme to bury expenses and inflate revenue. On July 13, 2005 a federal judge gave Ebbers 25 years behind bars.)
2003 - Ten of the largest U.S. Wall Street firms agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle government charges involving abuse of investors during the late 1990s. The settlement, which called for one of the largest penalties ever levied by securities regulators, changed the way major investment firms do business.
2004 - 60 Minutes II (CBS-TV) broadcast photos showing U.S. abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
2005 - Steve Wynn opened the new $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas casino-resort -- on the site of the old Desert Inn.
2006 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Akeelah and the Bee, with Keke Palmer, Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Marlow, Sara Niemietz and Eddie Steeples; RV, starring Robin Williams, Kristin Chenoweth, Jeff Daniels, Tony Hale, Cheryl Hines, Josh Hutcherson and Jojo Levesque; Stick It, with Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym and Vanessa Lengies; United 93, starring J. J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Polly Adams, Opal Alladin, Nancy McDoniel, Starla Benford, Trish Gates, Simon Poland, Khalid Abdalla, David Alan Basche, Lisa Colón-Zayas, Meghan Heffern, Olivia Thirlby and Cheyenne Jackson; and Water, with Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas and Sarala.
2006 - Mexican lawmakers approved a bill allowing people to possess small amounts of marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin for their personal use.
2007 - Elton John, George Clooney, Bob Geldof, Mick Jagger and other actors and musicians issued a statement calling on world leaders to take decisive action over atrocities in Darfur. The statement was released to coincide with the Global Day for Darfur, marking four years of the conflict.
2007 - The 7-week, first Cricket World Cup ended in Jamaica with Australia defeating Sri Lanka.
2008 - The Internal Revenue Service began depositing tax-rebate checks in thousands of bank accounts as a U.S. economic stimulus program began.
2008 - The Olympic torch arrived in Vietnam from North Korea. Tens of thousands of citizens had been mobilized to celebrate the relay in Pyongyang in the flame’s first visit to North Korea.
2009 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an FCC rule penalizing broadcasters for isolated utterances of expletives before 10 pm. The new rule came about after the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, when U2 singer Bono said on live television that winning a trophy was “really, really fucking brilliant!”
2010 - Smart phone pioneer Palm Inc. agreed to be bought out by Hewlett-Packard Co. for $1.2 billion. Palm Pilot was the name of its first generation of personal digital assistants in 1996 (then a division of U.S. Robotics).
2011 - Exelon Corporation, the largest operator of nuclear plants in the U.S., said it was buying Constellation Energy Group for about $7.9 billion in stock. This added stakes in 5 reactors and made it the largest U.S. electricity marketer.
2012 - North Korea began sending electronic GPS jamming signals that affected civilian flights in South Korea. More than 250 flights in and out of South Korea had experienced GPS signal jamming. The signal-scrambling may have been intended to “test electronic warfare devices by the North Korean military or block mobile phone signals inside the North,” said an official of the South’s military.
2013 - A New York Times report, citing current and former advisers to Afghan President Karzai, said tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade. “The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan”, one American official said, “was the United States.”
2014 - Detroit, Michigan, struggling with an $18 billion debt, reached a 5-year collective bargaining deal with some 3,500 of 10,000 city workers. The deal included restoration of some pay for city workers who had faced wage freezes and a 10% pay cut in recent years.
2015 - World Health Organization (WHO) said air pollution in Europe causes illnesses and hundreds of thousands of deaths costing governments a combined $1.6 trillion a year.
2015 - President Barack Obama welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with full pomp and ceremony. Trade and security issues topped their agenda. During a welcoming ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Mr. Obama called Japan, “one of America’s closest allies in the world.”
2016 - Syria air strikes on rebel-held districts, including the densely populated Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, killed 31 civilians as the Syrian army prepared an offensive to retake the city. Monitors and activists said at least 60 people have been killed in airstrikes on Aleppo in the last 24 hours, including at least 27 who were killed when an MSF-supported hospital and nearby buildings were hit.
2017 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: The Circle, starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks and John Boyega; How to Be a Latin Lover, starring Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek and Rob Lowe; Sleight, with Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel and Dulé Hill; Below Her Mouth, starring Erika Linder, Natalie Krill and Sebastian Pigott; Buster’s Mal Heart, with Rami Malek, DJ Qualls and Kate Lyn Sheil; Displacement, starring Courtney Hope, Sarah Douglas and Bruce Davison; Grey Lady, with Eric Dane, Natalie Zea and Amy Madigan; and Voice from the Stone, starring Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas and Caterina Murino.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding offshore oil and gas drilling in areas that President Barack Obama had placed off-limits after the huge BP oil spill in 2010.
2018 - A floating nuclear power plant built in Russia embarked on its first sea voyage so that its reactors could be loaded with fuel. The Akademik Lomonosov was put into service at Pevek in the Arctic, off the coast of Chukotka, providing power for the town and for oil rigs. The project was widely criticized by environmentalists. Greenpeace has dubbed it a “floating Chernobyl.”
2019 - Thousands marched on Hong Kong’s parliament demanding the scrapping of proposed extradition rules that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial -- fearing the rules would end the city’s core freedoms.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)A nonprofit group filed a price gouging complaint with Utah state regulators, saying the $40 per-pack drug was grossly overpriced. Governor Gary Herbert had defended the state’s $800,000 purchase of 20,000 packets of hydroxychloroquine compounded with zinc, but later ordered an investigation of the no-bid contract with a local company that had been promoting the drug. 2)Dr Sirous Asgari, the 59-year-old Iranian scientist who had been pleading for weeks to be released from a U.S. immigration jail due to his fragile health, contracted Covid-19, according to his family and attorneys. Asgari was exonerated in a U.S. sanctions trial, but Ice refused to release him or allow him to return to Iran. 3)Radio Free Europe reported that doctors in Turkmenistan were not allowed to talk about the coronavirus. RFE said face masks were banned, and citizens were being punished for talking about the global pandemic. 4)U.S. coronavirus cases rose to 1,002,498 with 58,365 deaths. More than 3 million people across the globe had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
2021 - President Joe Biden, in his first address to Congress, listed his administration’s accomplishments in his first 100 days in office and called on legislators for some $4 trillion in spending on infrastructure, education, child care and science to “propel us into the future” and keep the U.S. ahead of China.
2021 - Vietnam warned of the dangers of mass gatherings ahead of its upcoming public holidays. Health official said the country was speeding up its vaccine rollout amid a worsening COVID-19 situation among its neighbors. Vietnam had suffered 2,865 cases, and only 35 deaths reported since the pandemic began, one of the best records in Asia.
2022 - Sixteen U.S. states, four environmental groups and the United Auto Workers union filed suits seeking to block a Postal Service (USPS) plan to buy mostly gas-powered next-generation delivery vehicles (to replace its aging fleet), arguing that the agency failed to comply with environmental regulations. In July the USPS altered the plan, saying at least 50 percent of its first $3 billion, 50,000-vehicle purchase would be battery electrics, up from the 20 percent it had initially slated.
2022 - The California High Speed Rail Authority approved plans to link San Jose and Merced. The 90-mile extension was estimated to open in 2031.
2023 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Abby Ryder Fortson; Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World, with Forest Whitaker, Sonja Sohn and John Magaro; and Somewhere in Queens, starring Laurie Metcalf, Jennifer Esposito, Sebastian Maniscalco and Ray Romano.
2023 - Oklahoma lawmakers passed a 6-week abortion ban, modeled after a controversial Texas abortion law that allows private citizens to take civil action against abortion providers. The new law would prohibit abortions at the time when a physician could detect early cardiac activity in an embryo or fetus -- which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy -- before many women even know that they are pregnant. Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed the bill into law about a month later.
2023 - The Federal Reserve says its own light-touch approach to bank regulation was partly to blame for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2024, and it promised more vigorous oversight in the future. The Fed said its own supervisors were slow to grasp the extent of the problems at the bank, and when problems were identified, supervisors failed to move aggressively enough to ensure those problems were fixed.
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Birthdays on This Day April 28
1758 - James Monroe
5th U.S. President [1817-1825]; married to Elizabeth Kortright [one son, two daughters]; nickname: The Last Cocked Hat; died July 4, 18311871 - Louise Homer
opera singer: contralto: NY Metropolitan Opera House [1900-1919]; died May 6, 19471874 - Sidney Toler
actor: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Charlie Chan in Rio, The Jade Mask, The Scarlet Clue, The Shanghai Cobra, Terror by Night, Meeting at Midnight; died Feb 12, 19471878 - Lionel Barrymore (Blythe)
Academy Award-winning actor: A Free Soul [1930-31]; Camille, Captains Courageous, Duel in the Sun, It’s a Wonderful Life, Key Largo, The Little Colonel; died Nov 15, 19541902 - Red (Charles Frederick) Lucas
‘The Nashville Narcissus’ baseball: pitcher: NY Giants, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates; died July 9, 19861908 - Oskar Schindler
credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, hiding them in his factories which were located in both Poland and the Czech Republic; he is the subject of the novel Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List; died Oct 9, 19741916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini
creator of the luxurious Lamborghini sports car; died Feb 20, 19931917 - Robert Anderson
playwright: Tea and Sympathy, Sand Pebbles, I Never Sang for My Father, The Nun’s Story; died Feb 9, 20091926 - Blossom Dearie
singer: group: Blue Stars: French version of Lullaby in Birdland; own record label: Daffodil Records; died Feb 7, 20091926 - (Nelle) Harper Lee
author: To Kill a Mockingbird; died Feb 19, 20161929 - Carolyn Jones
actress: The Tender Trap, The Seven Year Itch, Marjorie Morningstar, King Creole, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, House of Wax, How the West was Won, The Addams Family; died Aug 3, 19831930 - Richard C. Sarafian
director: Vanishing Point, Maverick, Surfside, Dr. Kildare, 77 Sunset Strip, The Wild Wild West, I Spy, Batman, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing; died Sep 18, 20131934 - Jackie (John George) Brandt
baseball: NY Giants, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1961], Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros1937 - Saddam Hussein
dictator of Iraq [1979-2003]; executed Dec 30, 20061938 - Madge Sinclair
Emmy Award-winning actress: Gabriel’s Fire [1990-91], Trapper John M.D., Roots, Ohara, Me and the Boys, Grandpa Goes to Washington, A Century of Women, The End of Innocence, Coming to America, Convoy, Conrack; died Dec 20, 19951941 - Ann-Margret (Olsson)
actress: Carnal Knowledge, Tommy, Viva Las Vegas, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Scarlett; singer: I Just Don’t Understand1945 - John Wolters
musician: drums: group: Dr. Hook; died Jun 16, 19971948 - Marcia Strassman
actress: Welcome Back Kotter, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Honey I Blew Up the Kids, Another Stakeout; singer; died Oct 24, 20141948 - Pablo (Arnoldo) Torrealba
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox1949 - Paul Guilfoyle
actor: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Howard the Duck, Crime Story, Miami Vice, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Ally McBeal, Justice League Unlimited, Three Men and a Baby, Wall Street, Celtic Pride, Beverly Hills Cop II, Quiz Show, Hoffa, Mrs. Doubtfire, Air Force One, Striptease, Amistad, The Negotiator, Extreme Measures, Session 9, Primary Colors, L.A. Confidential1949 - Bruno Kirby
actor: The Basketball Diaries, Fallen Angels 2, City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally, Good Morning, Vietnam, This is Spinal Tap, Birdy, The Godfather, Part 2, The Harrad Experiment, The Super; died Aug 14, 20061950 - Jay Leno
comedian, TV host: The Tonight Show, Jay Leno’s Garage1950 - Jim Wiley
hockey: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks; head coach: Kansas City Blades, Kentucky Thoroughblades1952 - Chuck Leavell
musician: keyboards: group: The Allman Brothers Band; associated acts: The Rolling Stones, John Mayer, The Black Crowes, Sea Level, Eric Clapton, Gov’t Mule, Aquarium Rescue Unit1952 - Mary McDonnell
actress: Major Crimes, Dances with Wolves, Passion Fish, Battlestar Galactica, Independence Day, Scream 4, Margin Call, The Closer1953 - Tony Peters
football: Washington Redskins safety: Super Bowl XVII1956 - Nancy Lee Grahn
Daytime Emmy Award-winning supporting actress: Santa Barbara [1989], General Hospital [2012]; Murder One, Diagnosis: Murder, Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, Port Charles, Castle; more1958 - Hal Sutton
golf: 14 PGA TOUR Victories1960 - Tom Browning
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals1964 - Barry Larkin
baseball [shortstop, second base]: Univ of Michigan; Cincinnati Reds1966 - John Daly
golf champ: British Open [1995]1967 - Kari Wuhrer
actress: Hellraiser: Deader, The Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting, Do It for Uncle Manny, Spider’s Web, The Rose Technique1968 - Scott Putesky aka Daisy Berkowitz
musician: guitar: founding member of Marilyn Manson: The Love Song, Mobscene, The Fight Song, Tainted Love, The Dope Show, Disposable Teens, Sweet Dreams [Are Made of This]; died Oct 22, 20171969 - Ted Donato
hockey: Harvard Univ; NHL: Boston Bruins, NY Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Dallas Stars, LA Kings, SL Blues, NY Rangers1971 - Simbi Khali
actress: 3rd Rock from the Sun, She TV, Vampire in Brooklyn, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Plump Fiction, We Were Soldiers1971 - Bridget Moynahan
actress: Blue Bloods, Sex and the City, Coyote Ugly, Serendipity, The Sum of All Fears, The Recruit, I, Robot, Lord of War, Six Degrees, Ramona and Beezus, Battle: Los Angeles1971 - Chris Young
actor: Falcon Crest, Max Headroom, Married People, Live-In, P.C.U., Deep Down, The Runestone, December, Book of Love, The Great Outdoors1973 - Jorge Garcia
actor: Hawaii Five-0, Lost, Alcatraz, Once Upon a Time, Curb Your Enthusiasm, When We Were Pirates, Mr. Sunshine, Deck the Halls, Sweetzer, Phineas and Ferb, Once Upon a Time, Californication1974 - Penélope Cruz
actress: Framed, Don Juan, Woman on Top, All the Pretty Horses, Sahara1975 - James Thrash
football [wide receiver]: Missouri Southern State Univ; NFL: Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles1976 - Billy Volek
football [quarterback]: Fresno State Univ; NFL: Tennessee Titans1976 - Jamal Williams
football [defensive tackle]: Oklahoma State Univ; NFL: San Diego Chargers1978 - Dave Power
actor: Shuttle, The Last Supper, Latter Days, U-571, The Good German1978 - Drew Scott
TV host: Property Brothers, Buying and Selling1978 - Jonathan Silver Scott
TV host: Property Brothers, Buying and Selling1979 - Scott Fujita
football [linebacker]: Univ of California; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints1979 - David Gossett
golf champ: John Deere Classic [2001]1980 - Bradley Wiggins
British world and Olympic cycling champ: first Briton since 1940 to win three Olympic medals at a single Games [Athens 2004]; first British winner of the Tour De France [2012]1981 - Jessica Alba
actress: Camp Nowhere, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Flipper, Idle Hands, Dark Angel, Fantastic Four, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer1982 - Drew Seeley
singer: LPs: Drew Seeley, The Resolution; actor: Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, One Tree Hill, Dawson’s Creek, Guiding Light1983 - David Freese
baseball [3rd/1st base]: St. Louis Cardinals [2009–2013]: 2011 World Series champs; Los Angeles Angels [2014-2015]; Pittsburgh Pirates [2016–2018]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2018–2019]1986 - David Krejci
hockey [center]: NHL: Boston Bruins [2006–2023]: 2011 Stanley Cup Champs1996 - Tony Revolori (Anthony Quiñonez)
actor: The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home1997 - Denzel Ward
football: NFL: Cleveland Browns [2018– ]
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Hit Music on This Day April 28
1949Cruising Down the River (facts) - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: The Skyliners)
Forever and Ever (facts) - Perry Como
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