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1813 - A patent for rubber was given to J.F. Hummel of Philadelphia, PA.1864 - Theta Xi, a professional fraternity, was founded -- in Troy, NY.
1879 - Electric arc lights were used for the first time -- in Cleveland, OH. The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper reported, “Thousands of people gathered…and as the light shot around and through the Park a shout was raised. Presently the Grays Band struck up in the pavilion, and soon afterward a section of artillery on the lake shore began firing a salute in honor of the occasion.”
1939 - The Whitestone Bridge, connecting the Bronx and Queens, opened. Until that day, the Triborough Bridge, five miles to the west, had provided the only vehicular connection between the two New York boroughs.
1941 - The Boston Bees agreed to rename the National League team the Braves, the name they used prior to 1935.
1945 - American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, where tens of thousands of people had perished.
1945 - Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker. He and Braun committed suicide the following day.
1947 - The first broadcast of Studio One on CBS radio was broadcast. The show was full of great stars, but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a year on radio. The show, however, began a nine-year run on CBS-TV ... with sponsors.
1953 - Coke Time with Eddie Fisher began its run on NBC-TV and Mutual radio. Fisher, a popular performer, was seen and heard on more TV and radio stations in 1954 than any other entertainer. Oh, my! (Papa)
1954 - Ernest Borgnine made his network television debut in Night Visitor on Ford Television Theatre on NBC-TV. The versatile film (Marty) star would later become a sitcom sensation in McHale’s Navy with comedian Tim Conway on CBS and, later, as a helicopter owner in Airwolf.
1960 - Dick Clark told a House of Representatives investigating committee looking into the payola scandal that he, the host of American Bandstand, never took payola for records featured on his daily TV show. Clark would, however, relinquish rights to music publishing that he owned. The value of those rights, Clark indicated 30 years later, amounted to about $80 million.
1961 - “Spanning the globe ... to bring you the constant variety of sport, the constant variety of human competition, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports.” A Saturday afternoon sports program began its long run on ABC-TV. The show, featuring Jim McKay as host, along with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Al Michaels, Jack Whitaker, Heywood Hale Brun and others, was not an immediate hit. Although Roone Arledge’s vision of a worldwide window on televised sports got off to a slow start, ABC’s Wide World of Sports became one of TV’s most popular and enduring programs.
1962 - The (16th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Winners included A Man for All Seasons (best Play); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (best Musical); Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (best Actor Dramatic); Margaret Leighton in Night of the Iguana (best Actress Dramatic); Robert Morse in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (best Actor Musical); and Anna Maria Alberghetti in Carnival and Diahann Carroll in No Strings (best Actress(es) Musical).
1965 - An earthquake rattled Seattle, WA. Seven people were killed and damage was estimated at $12.5 million.
1965 - The Australian government announced it would send troops to South Vietnam to join the ‘police action’ undertaken by the U.S.
1968 - Hair made its way from Greenwich Village to to the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway. The show certainly opened eyes. It was the first time that actors appeared nude in a Broadway musical. Hair ran for 1,844 shows on and off Broadway. It was even more successful in its London run later. Big songs from the show: Hair (The Cowsills) and Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The 5th Dimension).
1969 - Sir Duke, Duke Ellington, celebrated his 70th birthday. He was honored with the presentation of the Medal of Freedom, the U.S. government’s highest civilian honor.
1975 - U.S. marines executed Operation Frequent Wind. It was the evacuation of Americans, foreign nationals, and various Vietnamese official and citizens associated with Americans from Saigon, Vietnam to ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. The following day, Saigoan fell to North Vietnamese troops and organized South Vietnamese resistance to the Communist forces of North Vietnam ended.
1979 - Jaime Roldos Aguilera of the Concentration of Popular Forces party was elected president of Ecuador. (Aguilera was killed in a plane crash on May 24, 1981.)
1981 - Steve Carlton, the Philadelphia Phillies pitcher, became the first left hander in the major leagues to get 3,000 career strikeouts. He fanned Montreal’s Tim Wallach in the first inning of a game that saw the Phillies beat the Expos 6-2. Carlton was only the sixth major leaguer to strikeout 3,000 batters.
1985 - George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees, fired manager Yogi Berra. Berra was canned after only 16 games into the young baseball season. In his place, Steinbrenner brought Billy Martin back ... for the fourth time.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a major-league baseball record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters on the way to a 3-2 win. This record for the Bosox hurler surpassed the 19 strikeouts for a nine-inning game held by Nolan Ryan when he pitched for the California Angels. Tom Seaver of the New York Mets and Steve Carlton of the St. Louis Cardinals also held a piece of the previous 19-KO record.
1988 - Molloko, the first California condor both conceived and hatched in captivity was born at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park.
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down the section of the Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, the wall’s most famous section.
1992 - Rioting erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in suburban Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of most of the charges in beating of Rodney King.
1996 - Former CIA Director William Colby was missing and presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland. His body was later recovered.
1996 - Rent opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre. It was the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City -- under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The rock musical was a smash, running for 5,123 performances, all the way to Sep 7, 2008.
1999 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson arrived in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on his mission to win freedom for three U.S. prisoners of war held by Yugoslavia.
2000 - Lennox Lewis knocked out Michael Grant in the second round of their bout at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lewis retained his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
2002 - A year after the loss of a seat it had held for over 50 years, the U.S. won election to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
2003 - The governor of the state of Virginia signed a tough anti-spam law that called for prison and asset seizures.
2004 - The World War II Memorial, a national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war, opened to the public in Washington DC.
2004 - The last Oldsmobile (named after Ransom Eli Olds) rolled off a General Motors assembly line in Lansing, MI.
2005 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy opened in U.S. theatres. The action comedy stars Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel, Anna Chancellor, Bill Nighy, Sam Rockwell, Warwick Davis, John Malkovich, Steve Pemberton and Stephen Fry. Also opening on this day: xXx: State of the Union, with Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Michael Roof and Nona Gaye.
2005 - JAG ended it’s ten-season TV run with a flip of a challenge coin -- frozen in mid air -- that still leaves us wondering if it was Harm, or was it Mac (Sara), who gave up their career in order for the couple to be together.
2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith died at 97 years of age. Galbraith was an influential Canadian-born economist and author. His more than 40 works include American Capitalism [1952], The Affluent Society [1958], and The New Industrial State [1967].
2006 - While riding a bus in Hong Kong, Elvis Ho Yui Hei asked Roger Chan Yuet Tung to lower his voice while talking on his cellphone. Chan proceeded to berate Ho for nearly six minutes and the encounter was captured on video by another passenger, Jon Fong. The video became famous as Bus Uncle, with some phrases in the recording, such as “I’ve got pressure” and “It’s not over,” quickly becoming part of the local language.
2007 - A section of highway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after a gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames. The inferno melted the steele girders in the bridge. Officials said traffic would be disrupted for months, but the overpass reopened on May 25th. Contractor C.C. Myers got $5 million in bonuses for completing the work so quickly.
2007 - Legally Blonde debuted at the Palace Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The musical was based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name. The cast included Laura Bell Bundy in the lead role of Elle Woods and featured Christian Borle, Orfeh and Michael Rupert. The show was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Legally Blonde wowed the crowds for 595 performances, closing Oct 19, 2008.
2008 - A power outage left wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity, including much of Caracas, the capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power lines in the central state of Guarico.
2008 - 55-year-old James Lee Woodward was freed in Texas after DNA tests overturned his 1981 conviction for the rape and murder of his girlfriend.
2008 - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama angrily repudiated his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for his remarks on race and U.S. foreign policy.
2009 - Egypt began slaughtering the 300,000 pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu -- even though no cases had been reported.
2010 - The U.S. Navy announced that the first women allowed to serve aboard U.S. submarines would be reporting for duty by 2012. It had been 20 years since the Navy first allowed women to serve on its surface warfare ships, but submarines had remained off-limits, mainly because of the cramped quarters.
2011 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Fast Five, starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Matt Schulze; Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, with Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Peter Stormare, Taye Diggs, Anita Briem and Kurt Angle; Prom, with Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell and Yin Chang; Earthwork, starring John Hawkes, Bruce MacVittie and Chris Bachand; The Robber, with Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz, Florian Wotruba and Johann Bednar; Sympathy for Delicious, starring Orlando Bloom, Mark Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney and John Carroll Lynch.
2011 - With a smile that lit up TV screens around the world, Kate Middleton married Prince William at Westminster Abbey in a union that promised to revitalize the British monarchy. A million people roared their approval as the royal couple then paraded through London in an open carriage.
2012 - An out-of-control SUV flew off an elevated portion of the Bronx River Parkway in NYC, crashing 59 feet below and killing seven people -- all members of the same family.
2013 - SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight. A special jet climbed to 48,000 feet over the Mojave Deset, released the craft and pilots then triggered the ship’s rocket engine.
2014 - National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Donald Sterling (80), owner of the LA Clippers team, would be banned from the NBA for life -- and fined $2.5 million for racist comments. Additional punishment included barring Sterling from any NBA games or practices. The comments had come packaged in a 10-minute recording that occurred during a conversation between Sterling and girlfriend V. Stiviano. On the recording, a man and woman argue about photos posted to Instagram in which she appears with African-Americans. The man says he doesn’t want the woman bringing any black people to games with her.
2015 - U.S. health officials said German measles, aka rubella, had been officially eradicated from North and South America. It had been over five years since the last case originated in the Americas. Vaccines against the disease were first licensed in 1969.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Keanu, with Keegan-Michael Key, Will Forte and Nia Long; Mother’s Day, starring Britt Robertson, Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts; the animated Ratchet and Clank, featuring the voices of James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Rosario Dawson, Bella Thorne, Sylvester Stallone, John Goodman and Paul Giamatti; The Family Fang, starring Christopher Walken, Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman; The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel and Toby Jones; Papa: Hemingway in Cuba, with Minka Kelly, Giovanni Ribisi and Joely Richardson; Sacrifice, featuring Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves and Ian McElhinney; Viva, with Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría and Luis Alberto García; and the documentary A Beautiful Planet.
2016 - U.S. Customs and Border protection reported seven tons of marijuana had been seized inside a truck at the Otay Mesa port of entry in San Diego. That big bunch of weed had a street value of $7.1 million!
2017 - Tens of thousands of protesters turned out in Washington DC, to voice concern over climate change in a mass demonstration dubbed the Peoples Climate March and also marking the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency.
2017 - Russians lined up in central Moscow under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities. One of hundreds shepherded into a queue behind metal barriers by police before handing over their petitions one-by-one, Anna, a 16-year-old Moscow schoolgirl, said she hoped Putin would get the message and not run again. “Nothing positive has happened in our country on his watch and I have the sense that things are getting worse, and that the main problem is the fact that those in power are the same,” she told Reuters.
2018 - U.S. telecommunications companies Sprint and T-Mobile announced a merger deal. Deutsche Telekom would own roughly 43 percent of the combined businesses. T-Mobile CEO John Legere, head of the merged company, said the new firm would deliver “the highest capacity network in U.S. history.”
2019 - A tour helicopter crashed on a busy street in Kailua (suburban Honolulu), Hawaii killing all three people aboard. Paramedics responding to an unrelated call about 30 yards away heard “a horrific bang,” said Shayne Enright, a spokeswoman for Honolulu Emergency Medical Services. When they turned around, they saw the chopper on fire. “When they got there, residents were doing a heroic job trying to put out the fire and also trying to get the victims away from the burning aircraft,” Enright said.
2019 - The Goldman Environmental Prize was given to: (1)Linda Garcia of Vancouver, Washington for rallying local communities to successfully prevent the construction of a large North America oil terminal; (2)Alberto Curamil of Chile: the jailed indigenous activist had protested several hydroelectric projects in the country. His efforts were credited with halting two projects and protecting a critical ecosystem surrounding the Cautin River; (3)Jacqueline Evans for her conservation work that led to the sustainable management of all 763,000 square miles (1.98 million square km) of the Cook Islands’ ocean territory and creation of 15 marine protected areas; (4)Alfred Brownell for exposing alleged abuse by palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia and helping to prevent it from converting some 20 square miles (50 square km) of forest that was home to elephants, pygmy hippopotamuses and chimpanzees. He was forced to flee Liberia in 2016 after the government threatened to arrest him for his activism; (5)Bayarjargal Agvaantseren of Mongolia for leading the fight to create the 2,800 square miles (7,300 square km) Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve; and (6)Ana Colovic Lesoska of North Macedonia for her seven-year campaign that helped stop hydroelectric projects from being built in the country’s largest national park (home to the endangered Balkan lynx).
2021 - The Senate approved a $35 billion measure to clean up U.S. water systems, offering a brief moment of bipartisan cooperation.
2021 - China launched the main module of its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long term. The Tianhe (Heavenly Harmony) module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan. Tianhe was designed to act as the management and control hub of the space station Tiangong, (Heavenly Palace), with a node that could dock with up to three spacecraft at a time for short stays, or two for longer stays.
2022 - Memory opened in U.S. theatres. The action thriller stars Liam Neeson, Monica Bellucci and Ray Stevenson. (Expert assassin Alex refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization and becomes a target. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss...)
2022 - The Interfax Russian news agency bragged that Vladimir Putin had ordered a diesel submarine in the Black Sea to strike Ukrainian military targets with Kalibr cruise missiles.
2022 - A tornado tore through parts of Kansas, shredding hundreds of homes, tossing cars around like toys, injuring several people and leaving some 15,000 people without power.
2022 - 54-year-old Boris Becker, the six-time Grand Slam tennis champion, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. This, after he was found guilty by a London court of hiding millions of dollars’ worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts. He had transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds after his 2017 bankruptcy from his business account to other accounts, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely ‘Lilly’ Becker.
2023 - Country music legend Willie Nelson hosted the first of two back-to-back birthday concerts for himself at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA. Guest performers included Lyle Lovett, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, George Strait, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Norah Jones, Chris Stapleton, Beck, Edie Brickell, Tom Jones, and Ziggy Marley, among others.
2023 - Elon Musk said he expected SpaceX to spend about $2 billion on its Starship rocket development for the year, as the company pushed to build on its first launch earlier in the month. The rocket took off with only 30 of the 33 Raptor engines ignited at the base of the Super Heavy booster. Musk said SpaceX “chose not to start” three engines, as they were not “healthy enough to bring them to full thrust.” Starship slid laterally off the launchpad as it climbed into the sky, which, Musk said, was “because of the engine failures.” About 27 seconds into that flight, SpaceX “lost communications” with another engine -- an incident that happened “with some kind of energetic event” that removed the heat shield around several engines. “Things really hit the fan” around 85 seconds into the launch, when SpaceX lost “thrust vector control” -- or the ability to steer the rocket. Additionally, Musk reported that it took about 40 seconds for the rocket’s AFTS (Autonomous Flight Termination System, which destroys the vehicle in the event it flies off course) to kick in.
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Birthdays on This Day April 29
1745 - Oliver Ellsworth
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [3rd to be selected]; died Nov 26, 18071863 - William Randolph Hearst
publisher of U.S. newspapers and magazines; influenced the establishment of comic strips; built San Simeon estate; subject of biography, Citizen Kane; grandfather of Patricia Hearst; died Aug 14, 19511899 - Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington
‘Sir Duke’: musician [piano-player], jazz bandleader, composer; created big band pieces, film scores, operas, ballets, Broadway shows, gospel music; died May 24, 1974
1901 - Hirohito
Japan’s longest-reigning emperor [1926–1989]; died Jan 7, 19891904 - Russ Morgan
orchestra leader: You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You, So Tired, Does Your Heart Beat for Me, Let There Be Love, Rhythm of a Mystery; died Aug 7, 19691907 - Fred Zinnemann
Academy Award-winning director: High Noon [1952], From Here to Eternity [1953], A Man for All Seasons [1966]; died Mar 14, 19971909 - Tom Ewell (Samuel Yewell Tompkins)
Tony Award-winning actor: The Seven Year Itch [1953]; The Tom Ewell Show, Easy Money; died Sep 12, 19941912 - Richard Carlson
actor: I Led Three Lives, MacKenzie’s Raiders, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Doomsday Flight, Tormented; died Nov 25, 19771915 - Donald Mills
singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Tiger Rag, Nobody’s Sweetheart, Dinah, Paper Doll, Glow Worm, You Always Hurt the One You Love, Cab Driver; died Nov 13, 19991917 - Celeste Holm
Academy Award-winning actress: Gentlemen’s Agreement [1947]; All About Eve, High Society, The Tender Trap, Three Men and a Baby; died Jul 15, 20121918 - George Allen
football: head coach: LA Rams, Washington Redskins [Super Bowl VII]: “Losing is like death.”; sportscaster; died Dec 31, 19901928 - Carl Gardner
singer: group: The Coasters: Down in Mexico, Searchin’, Young Blood, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy, Little Egypt; died Jun 12, 20111929 - Ray Barretto
jazz musician: drums: El Watusi, La Moderna, Mr. Blah-Blah; actor: Our Latin Thing, Money; died Feb 17, 20061929 - Mickey (Maurice Joseph ‘Maury’) McDermott
baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox, Washington Nationals, NY Yankees [World Series: 1956], KC Athletics, Detroit Tigers, SL Cardinals; died Aug 7, 20031931 - (Anthony James) Lonnie Donegan
folk singer, musician: guitar, banjo: Rock Island Line, Gambling Man, Cumberland Gap, Lost John, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour [On the Bedpost Overnight]; died Nov 3, 20021933 - Keith Baxter
actor: Berlin Blues, Ash Wednesday, Chimes at Midnight; died Sep 24, 20231933 - Rod McKuen
singer: If You Go Away; poet-song writer; died Jan 29, 20151933 - Willie Nelson
Grammy Award-winning singer: Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, Good Hearted Woman, To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys; songwriter: Crazy [Patsy Cline], Night Life [Ray Price], Hello Walls [Faron Young]; leads annual Farm Aid benefit to raise money for poor farmers; more (Willie’s birth certificate lists his birthday as April 30, 1933. However, his sister, Bobbie Nelson, and other family members insist he was born shortly before midnight on April 29. So he celebrates for two days each year ... and so do we: See TWtD, April 30 for "WILLIE NELSON DAY.2")1934 - Luis Aparicio (Luis Ernesto Montiel)
Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop: Chicago White Sox [AL Rookie of the Year: 1956/all-star: 1958-1962, 1970/World Series: 1959], Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1963, 1964, 1971, 1972/World Series: 1966], Boston Red Sox; shortstop records: most games [2,581], assists [8,016], chances [12,564], double plays [1,553]; stole over 50 bases three straight seasons leading league in steals 9 consecutive times1936 - Zubin Mehta
conductor: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra1936 - Lane Smith
actor: My Cousin Vinny, The Final Days, The Legend of Bagger Vance, The Mighty Ducks, Son-in-Law, The Distinguised Gentleman; died June 13, 20051936 - April Stevens (Carol Lo Tempio)
singer (w/Nino Tempo): Deep Purple, Whispering, Stardust; died Apr 17, 20231937 - Jean Gauthier
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins; died Feb 20, 20131943 - Duane Allen
singer: group: 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 Friend, Elvira1944 - Jim Hart
football [quarterback]: SL Cardinals [record: most yards passing, career: 34,639 yards: 1966-1983]1947 - Joel Larson
musician: drums: groups: The Grass Roots, The Turtles, Lee Michaels: Do You Know What I Mean1947 - Jim Ryun
runner; member U.S. House of Representative [from Kansas 1996–2007]1947 - Tommy James (Jackson)
singer: group: Tommy James and The Shondells: I Think We’re Alone Now, Hanky Panky, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion; solo: Draggin’ the Line, I’m Comin’ Home, Three Times in Love1947 - Johnny Miller
golf champion: U.S. Open [1973], British Open [1976]; shares record for lowest 18-hole total [63]; golf broadcaster: Golf Channel, NBC Sports1951 - Dale Earnhardt
NASCAR auto racer: champ: Winston Cup [7 times], Daytona [34 times], 76 career victories; killed in crash in Daytona 500 Feb 18, 20011952 - Nora Dunn
comedienne: Second City, Saturday Night Live; actress: Working Girl, The Nanny, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Max Keeble's Big Move, Law & Order, Shark; author: Nobody’s Rib1954 - Jerry Seinfeld
Emmy Award-winning producer: Seinfeld [1992-1993]; comedian, actor1955 - Leslie Jordan
Emmy Award-winning actor [2006: Will & Grace]; The Cool Kids, Hearts Afire, American Horror Story TV series; stage: Sordid Lives, My Trip Down the Pink Carpet1955 - Kate Mulgrew
actress: Star Trek: Voyager, Columbo, Ryan’s Hope, Roots, Daddy, Throw Momma from the Train1956 - Susan Pratt
actress: All My Children, Before and After, Survival Run, The Death of Richie, As the World Turns1957 - Daniel Day-Lewis
Academy Award-winning actor: My Left Foot [1990], There Will Be Blood [2008], Lincoln [2013]; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, In the Name of the Father, Age of Innocence, Gandhi, A Room with a View1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer
actress: Dangerous Liaisons, Batman Returns, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Grease 2, Ladyhawke, Scarface, The Witches of Eastwicke, The Age of Innocence1958 - Eve Plumb
actress: The Brady Bunch, Little Women, ... And God Spoke, A Very Brady Christmas, Force of Evil1966 - John Vander Wal
baseball: Western Michigan Univ; Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds1967 - Curtis ‘CuJo’ Joseph
hockey [goalie]: St. Louis Blues, Las Vegas Thunder, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes1967 - Master P (Percy Robert Miller)
entrepreneur, marketing expert, rapper: I Got the Hook Up, I Miss My Homies, Kenny’s Dead, If I Could Change, Goodbye to My Homies, Souljas; on Fortune magazine’s wealthiest men under 40 list [1999] w/net worth of $361 million1968 - Carnie Wilson
singer; group: Wilson Phillips; daughter of The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, sister of singer Wendy Wilson1969 - Paul Adelstein
actor: Prison Break, Private Practice, Intolerable Cruelty, Memoirs of a Geisha, Scandal, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce1970 - Andre Agassi
Tennis Hall of Famer: Wimbledon [1992], U.S. Open [1994]1970 - Uma (Karuna) Thurman
actress: The Truth about Cats and Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Mad Dog and Glory, Final Analysis, Robin Hood, Henry and June, Dangerous Liaisons, Kiss Daddy Goodnight1971 - Sterling Hitchcock
baseball [pitcher]: New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners San Diego Padres
1971 - Darby Stanchfield
actress: Scandal, Jericho, Mad Men, NCIS, Waitress, The Guest Room, Fixing Pete1972 - Derek Mears
actor, stuntman: Friday the 13th, Hatchet III, Zathura, Pirates of the Caribbean film series1975 - Rafael Betancourt
baseball [pitcher]: Isaac Newton College; Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies [2009–2013, 2015]1978 - Tony Armas
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, Washington Nationals, Pittsburgh Pirates1978 - Mike (Michael Carl) Bryan
tennis champ: record [w/twin brother Bob] seven consecutive men’s doubles Grand Slam finals [2005, 2006]; won 45 tour titles [including 11 ATP Masters Series titles], completing a career Grand Slam with victories at the French Open [2003], U.S. Open [2005], Australian Open [2006, 2007], Wimbledon [2006]; Tennis Masters Cup Doubles tournament [2003, 2004]
1978 - Bob (Robert Charles) Bryan
tennis champ: record [w/twin brother Mike] seven consecutive men’s doubles Grand Slam finals [2005, 2006]; won 45 tour titles [including 11 ATP Masters Series titles], completing a career Grand Slam with victories at the French Open [2003], U.S. Open [2005], Australian Open [2006, 2007], Wimbledon [2006]; Tennis Masters Cup Doubles tournament [2003, 2004]1980 - Bre Blair
actress: The Baby-Sitters Club, Nip/Tuck, Something’s Wrong in Kansas, Down Dog, Stripped Down, Cherry Falls, T.N.T., Intruders1983 - Megan Boone
actress: The Blacklist, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Sex and the City 2, Step Up Revolution, Leave Me Like You Found Me, Blue Bloods, Welcome to the Jungle, Law & Order: Los Angeles1983 - Jay Cutler
football [quarterback]: NFL: Denver Broncos [2006–2008]; Chicago Bears [2009–2016]; Miami Dolphins [2017]1983 - David Lee
basketball [power forward, center]: NBA: New York Knicks [2005–2010]; Golden State Warriors [2010–2015]: 2015 NBA champs; Boston Celtics [2015–2016]; Dallas Mavericks [2016]; San Antonio Spurs [2016–2017]1984 - Daniel Girardi
hockey: NHL: New York Rangers [2005-2017]; Tampa Bay Lightning [2017-2019]1988 - Jonathan Toews
hockey [centre]: Chicago Blackhawks [2007– ]: 2010, 2013 Stanley Cup champs; won gold medals with Team Canada at the 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics1993 - Justin Thomas
golf champ: 2017 PGA Championship, 2017 FedEx Cup Champ, 2017 SBS Tournament of Champions, 2017 Sony Open in Hawaii, 2022 PGA Championship1998 - Ella Hunt
singer, actress: Les Misérables, Robot Overlords, Cold Feet, Dickinson, Anna and the Apocalypse
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Hit Music on This Day April 29
1950If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake (facts) - Eileen Barton
My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
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