April 30
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1812 - There aren’t many states that can boast an abundance of pelicans, but Louisiana, the 18th state to enter the United States of America, has plenty. That’s why it calls itself the Pelican State and the state bird is the eastern brown pelican. Named in honor of Louis XIV of France, Louisiana has several other nicknames: Sportsman’s Paradise, Sugar State, and Creole State. The capital of Louisiana is Baton Rouge and the beautiful magnolia is its adopted flower while the state tree is the bald cypress. All together now, let’s sing You are My Sunshine, Louisiana’s state song. Give Me Louisiana is also considered a state song, and the state motto is: Union, justice and confidence. We’re not too confident in choosing which song to sing, though.1889 - The first national holiday in the United States was celebrated. The citizens of the U.S. observed the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration. Although this is no longer a national holiday, you’ll be happy to know that there are now at least half a dozen holidays -- most on Mondays -- that give folks in the U.S. a day off from work and a reason to have a parade, picnic, or go shopping at the mall to take advantage of the holiday sales. These national holidays include: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving Day.
1900 - Train engineer Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the Cannonball Express as it highballed its way through Vaughn, MS. The famous song about Jones is loosely relatable to the train accident which cost the railroad engineer his life.
1903 - Victor Records made its first Red Seal recording this day. The premiere disk featured Ada Crossley, an opera contralto.
1922 - Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched the major league’s fifth perfect game. The Chisox defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2-0.
1939 - The first passenger train equipped with fluorescent lighting throughout was put into service. The streamliner General Pershing Zephyr of the Burlington Railroad lit up the rails in scheduled service between St. Louis and Kansas City beginning this day.
1939- Baseball’s ‘Iron Horse’, Lou Gehrig, played his last game with the New York Yankees on this day.
1939 - Television began. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first chief executive to appear on TV. Roosevelt spoke at the of the opening ceremonies New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY on WNBT in New York.
1940 - Jimmy Dorsey and his band recorded the bandleader’s signature song, Contrasts, for Decca Records. The song went on to become one of the most familiar big band themes of the era.
1940 - Belle Martell was licensed in California by state boxing officials to be the first American woman prize-fight referee. She retired from the game in June of that year after the California athletic commission denied women permission to be referees.
1944 - The New York Giants (of baseball) whipped the Brooklyn Dodgers 26-8. They also set a major-league record for runs driven in by a team in a single game.
1945 - Nazi madman Adolf Hitler commited suicide -- shooting himself in his Führerbunker in Berlin, Germany. His wife Eva joined him by taking cyanide. Later in the day, in accordance with Hitler’s instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs to the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker, doused with gasoline, and set afire. The next day Nazi Germany attempted to negotiate acceptable surrender terms.
1945 - “How would you like to be queen for a day!” That opening line, delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual radio on this day. The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane. Years later Bailey would take the show to TV for a long, popular run.
1945 - Arthur Godfrey began his CBS radio morning show. His theme was Seems Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in 1972. Godfrey’s show was different in that he used live talent and not records. His popularity with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey the freedom to ad-lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke about the products as well.
1947 - Maps had to be changed as Boulder Dam was changed back to its original name, Hoover Dam. Some people, mostly those who live in the community of Boulder, Nevada, still refer to the dam as Boulder Dam. Many of them think that changing the dam’s name was a damn shame.
1953 - Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle became a team this day at Capitol Records in Hollywood. Sinatra’s new musical style, under Riddle’s direction, brought the crooner to the top of the record world for the second time in his illustrious career.
1955 - Using the 60-inch Berkeley, CA, cyclotron, Glenn T. Seaborg and others produced element 101, a radioactive rare earth metal. Their discovery of mendelevium was announced this day. It was named after Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, father of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
1956 - Alben W. Barkley died at 78 years of age. Barkley was U.S. Vice President from Jan 20, 1949 to Jan 20, 1953 under President Harry S Truman.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit four home runs in a game with the Milwaukee Braves.
1961 - Soviet authorities awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
1964 - TV sets would be drastically different after a ruling by the FCC stating that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF (channels 2-13) and the new UHF (channels 14-83). As a result, TV dealers scrambled to unload their VHF-only models as fast as possible. Antenna manufacturers were kept busy, as the new UHF receivers required new antennas too.
1969 - U.S. troop strength in Vietnam peaked at 543,482. Over 33,000 had already been killed.
1973 - The Watergate scandal began to take a toll: U.S. President Nixon announced the resignations of his aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
1975 - Saigon -- and all of Vietnam -- fell into communist hands this day, the unofficial end of the Vietnam War. As the U.S. withdrew completely from Saigon, the old noncommunist capital fell to North Vietnamese tanks. Americans commemorate the fall of Saigon with memorial services for the 58,153 Americans who died in Southeast Asia during the war.
1976 - A Memphis, Tennessee federal court convicted porno film star Harry Reems of obscenity. The X-rated actor was found guilty of distributing the film Deep Throat across state lines. A year later, Reems was granted a new trial. This time his conviction was overturned.
1980 - In the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix (Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard) ascended the throne.
1980 - The Cy Coleman musical, Barnum, opened at Broadway’s St. James Theatre. The show was based on the life of showman P.T. Barnum in America and major cities of the world where he took his performing companies. Barnum combined elements of traditional musical theater with the spectacle of the circus. And crowds loved it -- for 854 performances, closing on May 16, 1982.
1983 - Muddy Waters died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Chicago. He was 68. Waters was the patriarch of post-World War II Chicago blues. A list of musicians who passed through his bands reads like a who’s who of Chicago blues greats: guitarists Jimmy Rogers, Pat Hare, Luther Tucker, and Earl Hooker; harp players Little Walter, Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton, James Cotton, and Carey Bell; bass player Willie Dixon; pianists Memphis Slim, Otis Spann, and Pinetop Perkins; and drummers Elgin Evans, Fred Below, and Francis Clay. Waters left his mark on dozens of British and American blues rockers: Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, and the Rolling Stones (who named their group after one of Waters' songs) are just a few.
1987 - Three more compact discs of music by The Beatles went on sale for the first time. The discs were Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver. All became hits again for the Fab Four.
1991 - A cyclone with winds up to 235 km/h (146 mph) hit Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh. The storm killed nearly 140,000 people, left some 4.5 million homeless and caused $2.7 billion dollars in damage.
1992 - A Superior Court jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of using excessive force when they beat black motorist Rodney King. The verdict sparked renewed anger about the racially charged case that had triggered a political uproar in Los Angeles and unleashed a national debate on police abuse.
1993 - Tennis player Monica Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg, Germany. A man who called himself a fan of second-ranked German player Steffi Graf, was later convicted of the crime.
1994 - The Eurovision Song Contest was held in Dublin’s Point Theater. Jean Butler and Michael Flatley got their Riverdance start this day, as they were the interval (intermission) act in the contest.
1994 - Some 250,000 men, women and children, fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda, crossed into neighboring Tanzania.
1995 - After 120 years, the last of the A & S department stores were converted to Macy’s stores by owner Federated Department Stores (FDS).
1995 - More than 10,000 soldiers, students and children in Ho Chi Minh City celebrated the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres signed an accord in Washington extending U.S. help to Israel in countering terrorism.
1997 - U.S. President Clinton’s daughter Chelsea announced her intention to attend Stanford University.
1998 - The U.S. Senate approved the applications of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
1999 - These films made U.S debuts: Entrapment, with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones; and Idle Hands, with Devon Sawa, Seth Green and Jessica Alba.
2000 - The 4th annual gay rights rally (Millennium March), was held in Washington DC. The crowd at the national Mall was estimated at some 750,000 people.
2001 - California businessman Dennis Tito arrived at the international space station aboard a Russian spacecraft.
2002 - Pervez Musharraf was elected to five more years as president of Pakistan. Official government figures showed 97.7% support and over 50% turnout. Independent observers, including the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Pakistani journalists, reported put the election turnout at 25-30%, with widespread fraud and coerced voting.
2004 - Films opening in the U.S.: Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius, starring James Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, Aidan Quinn and Malcom McDowell; Envy, with Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Ving Rhames and Christopher Walken; Godsend, starring Robert DeNiro, Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos; Laws of Attraction, with Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Frances Fisher, Nora Dunn; and Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Lizzy Caplan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Daniel Franzese, Tim Meadows and Jonathan Bennett.
2004 - Graphic photos were shown on TV screens across the Middle East. Scenes of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. military police prompted U.S. President George Bush (II) to condemn the mistreatment of prisoners, saying it “does not reflect the nature of the American people.”
2005 - 32-year-old Jennifer Wilbanks of Duluth, Georgia turned up in Albuquerque, NM after being missing for four days. The so-called ‘Runaway Bride’ had been scheduled to be married Apr 30, but apparently got cold feet.
2007 - U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials said Mexican druglords had taken over the business of smuggling migrants into the United States. The illegal immigrants were being used as human decoys to divert the attention of authorities, preventing them from discovering billions of dollars in cocaine shipments coming across the border.
2009 - An 8-year-old girl divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him in exchange for about $13,000. Saudi Arabia had been under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: A Nightmare on Elm Street [remake of Wes Craven’s 1984 slasher film], with Jackie Earle Haley, Katie Cassidy, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Connie Britton, Lia D. Mortensen and Charles E Tiedje; Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Angela Kinsey, Matt Prokop, Rob Riggle, Toby Huss, Skyler Samuels, Samantha Bee and Jim Norton; Gunless, with Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Tyler Mane, Callum Keith Rennie, Graham Greene, Paul Gross, Michael Eklund, Alex Zahara, Jody Racicot and Donavon Stinson; The Good Heart, starring Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Stephanie Szostak, Damian Young, Isild Le Besco, Clark Middleton, Edmund Lyndeck, Nicolas Bro, Uzimann and Susan Blommaert.
2010 - Oil from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico began washing ashore in Louisiana, threatening serious ecological problems.
2011 - Troops from Cambodia and Thailand exchanged fire at the countries’ contested border, marking the ninth straight day of clashes that had left at 16 people dead and displaced nearly 100,000.
2012 - Five people, claiming to be anarchists, were arrested in Cleveland, Ohio for trying to blow up a four-lane bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The explosive devices were inoperable and controlled by an undercover FBI agent. On Sep 5 three of the men admitted their roles in the bomb scheme -- to avoid life in prison. A fourth had pleaded guilty earlier. The fifth faced trial following a defense-requested psychiatric exam.
2013 - The U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the over-the-counter sale of the morning-after pill (Plan B One-Step) to those 15 and older.
2013 - Hungary nationalized the sale of tobacco. It cut the number of licensed outlets from 44,000 to 5,400.
2014 - The state of Shan in Myanmar (Burma) was reported to be producing over one billion yaba pills a year. The small, vanilla-scented, pink pill was rapidly sweeping Asia, its rise powered not just by its saccharine aroma, but also by its primary active ingredient –- methamphetamine. The highly addictive Yaba, which means crazy medicine in Thai, was also popular in Asian communities in the U.S. and was increasingly available at raves and techno parties.
2015 - Blue Origin, a private U.S. space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched an unmanned spaceship. Its New Shepard capsule reached an altitude of 58 miles and landed in the Texas desert.
2016 - Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered a 30 percent increase in the minimum wage. The raise was one of a series of moves by the socialist government to grapple with high inflation and economic stagnation. The increase followed a 25 percent increase on March 1 and was the twelfth since Maduro was elected in April 2013.
2017 - Tornados and flooding in the South and Midwest U.S. killed 10 people. The death toll from a weekend of storms reached 16.
2018 - The Syrian army unleashed a massive bombardment against the town of Rastan and surrounding villages. It was strongman/president Bashar al-Assad’s push to crush the rebels’ last besieged strongholds.
2018 - Thousands rallied in Moscow in support of internet freedom after authorities blocked access to the popular messaging app Telegram -- because of its refusal to hand over encryption keys to the government. Telegram, which was developed by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, had refused to share data, citing privacy concerns. And it had promised to keep the app running despite the ban.
2019 - Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a bill making her state the first to ban single-use food and drink containers made from polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam.
2019 - POTUS Trump, his family and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block congressional subpoenas seeking their banking and financial records. Deutsche Bank was thought to have loaned more than $2 billion to Trump before he became president.
2020 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of someone who was poisoning pets and wildlife in northern Wisconsin. Poisonings in Florence, Forest and Marinette counties had been going on for about a year. Seven pet dogs had died, along with coyotes, weasels and wolves.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The Director of National Intelligence said the coronavirus was “not man-made or genetically modified.” But they were still investigating if the pandemic might have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab. 2)California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the beaches of Orange County closed. The decision was made after people thronged the seashore during a sweltering weekend despite social distancing orders that aimed to slow the spread of the virus. 3)An armed militia’s involvement in an angry protest in the Michigan statehouse marked an escalation that drew condemnation and shone a spotlight on the practice of bringing weapons to protests. Rally organizer Ryan Kelley said the event was intended to pressure Republicans to reject Governor Whitmer’s restrictions on work and travel. 4)New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the New York City subway system, long celebrated for its all-night service, would shut down each day from 1-5 a.m. so trains and stations could be disinfected. 45)Mayor Bill de Blasio said more than 1,000 New York City employees were being assigned to patrol parks and other public spaces to ensure people were adhering to social distancing guidelines.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Separation, starring Brian Cox, Rupert Friend and Madeline Brewer; About Endlessness, with Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms and Marie Burman; Golden Arm, starring Mary Holland, Betsy Sodaro and Olivia Stambouliah; The Virtuoso, starring Diora Baird, Anthony Hopkins and Abbie Cornish; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, with Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kieran Culkin; and Walking with Herb, starring Edward James Olmos, George Lopez and Kathleen Quinlan.
2021 - A 39-year-old Colorado woman died in a black bear attack near the town of Trimble (just north of Durango). It was only the fourth fatal mauling in the state since record-keeping began in 1960.
2021 - New York’s mayor predicted the city would be up and running again at full strength before July 1. This, while Oregon and Washington states reported a surge COVID-19 cases triggering a fresh wave of shutdowns. The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 was some 100 million.
2022 - 75-year-old Naomi Judd, of the Judds, died at her home outside Nashville. The mother-daughter duo dominated the country music charts in the 1980s with a blend of tight vocal harmonies, traditional arrangements and modern pop aesthetics. Daughter, Wynonna, later disclosed that Naomi had died of a self-inflicted firearm wound. The medical examiner’s report stated that Judd battled anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.
2022 - President Biden praised journalists covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine as he resumed a Washington tradition of speaking at the White House Correspondents Association dinner. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah joked about the event becoming a superspreader, and indeed, a few days later journalists across several news organizations reported positive for the coronavirus.
2023 - Country super star Willie Nelson hosted the second of two 90th birthday concerts for himself at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. Guest performers included Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Keith Richards, Bob Wieir, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliffe, Dwight Yoakam, Sheryl Crow, and Billy Strings -- among others.
2023 - In their inaugural playoff series, the Seattle Kraken became the first expansion team to beat the reigning Stanley Cup champs. Beating the Colorado Avalanche was, “A great accomplishment,” said Kraken forward Yanni Gourde, who had two assists. “Our fans have been amazing. They deserve this.” (The Kraken went on to lose in the second round of the playoffs, 3 games to 4, to the Dallas Stars.)
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Birthdays on This Day April 30
1899 - Ellis Wilson
artist: Guggenheim Fellowship winner [1944]; The Open Market of Charleston, Haitian Funeral Procession; died Jan 1, 19771908 - Eve Arden (Eunice Quedens)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Our Miss Brooks [1953], Anatomy of a Murder, Grease, Stage Door, Tea for Two; died Nov 12, 19901914 - Vermont Royster
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor: The Wall Street Journal; columnist: Thinking Things Over; author: Journey through the Soviet Union, A Pride of Prejudices, My Own, My Country’s Time: A Journalist’s Journey; died July 22, 19961916 - Robert Shaw
conductor: Robert Shaw Chorale; music director of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; died Jan 25, 19991923 - Percy Heath
jazz musician: bass: founder of Modern Jazz Quartet; group: The Heath Brothers; died Apr 27, 20051923 - Al Lewis (Albert Meister)
actor: The Munsters, Car 54 Where are You?, My Grandpa is a Vampire, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Married to the Mob; died Feb 3, 20061925 - Johnny Horton
singer: The Battle of New Orleans, Honky Tonk Man, When It’s Springtime in Alaska, Johnny Reb, Sink the Bismark, North to Alaska; killed in car crash Nov 5, 1960
1926 - Cloris Leachman
Academy Award-winning actress: The Last Picture Show [1971]; Emmy Award-winner: A Brand New Life [1972-73], The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1973-74], Cher [1974-75], Screen Actor’s Guild 50th Anniversary Celebration [1983-84]; Phyllis, Backstairs at the White House, The Facts of Life; died Jan 27, 20211933 - 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, family members have insisted he was born shortly before midnight on April 29. So he celebrates for two days each year ... and so do we.)
1938 - Gary Collins
actor: Born Free, The Iron Horse, Roots, The Sixth Sense, The Wackiest Ship in the Army; died Oct 13, 20121940 - Burt Young
actor: Excessive Force, A Family Matter, Rocky series, Once Upon a Time in America, Convoy, Chinatown, Cinderella Liberty, Roomies; died Oct 8, 20231941 - Johnny Farina
musician: rhythm guitar: group: Santo & Johnny: Sleepwalk, Tear Drop1943 - Bobby Vee (Robert Velline)
singer: Devil or Angel, Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of My Baby, Run to Him, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Come Back when You Grow Up; died Oct 24, 20161944 - Jill Clayburgh
actress: An Unmarried Woman, Luna, Portnoy’s Complaint, Semi-Tough, The Silver Streak, Terminal Man, Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland, Honor Thy Father and Mother, Dirty Sexy Money; died Nov 5, 20101944 - Richard Shoff
singer: group: The Sandpipers: Guantanamera, Come Saturday Morning1946 - Charles XVI Gustavus (Carl Gustaf)
King of Sweden [1973- ]; more1946 - Don Schollander
Olympic Hall of Famer: first swimmer to win 4 gold medals in one Olympics [1964], also won two gold in 1968; International Swimming Hall of Famer: set 8 world records in the 400-meter freestyle and 9 in the 200-meter in his career; Sullivan Award (U.S. outstanding athlete [1964]1948 - Perry King
actor: A Cry in the Night, Kaleidoscope, The Lord’s of Flatbush, Mandingo, Search and Destroy, Switch1949 - Phil Garner
baseball [infielder]: Oakland Athletics [1973–1976], Pittsburgh Pirates [1977–1981: World Series champs 1979], Houston Astros [1981–1987], Los Angeles Dodgers [1987], San Francisco Giants [1988]; manager: Milwaukee Brewers [1992–1999], Detroit Tigers [2000–2002], Houston Astros [2004–2007]1953 - Merrill Osmond
singer: [w/Jessica Boucher]: You’re Here to Remember, I’m Here to Forget; group: The Osmonds: Anytime; brother of Alan, Donny, Jay, Marie, Wayne, Jimmy1954 - Jane Campion
Academy Award-winning screenwriter: The Piano [1993]; film director: Peel: An Exercise in Discipline, Passionless Moments, After Hours, Two Friends, An Angel at My Table, The Piano, Portrait of a Lady, Holy Smoke!1959 - Paul Gross
actor: Republic of Doyle, Eastwick, Passchendaele, Slings and Arrows, Men with Brooms, Due South1959 - Stephen Harper
26th Prime Minister of Canada [2006-2015]1961 - Isiah Thomas
Basketball Hall of Famer [guard]: Detroit Pistons: two NBA championships, scored 18,822 points, 9,061 assists, 1,861 steals; since retiring he has been a businessman, owner, coach1963 - Michael Waltrip
NASCAR race car driver: champ: Daytona 500 [2001, 2003]; brother of racer Darrell Waltrip1964 - Jeff Reboulet
baseball: Louisiana State Univ; Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Orioles, KC Royals, LA Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates1965 - Adrian Pasdar
actor: Profit, Near Dark, Carlito’s Way, Mysterious Ways, Heroes, The Lying Game; film director: Cement; voice actor: Marvel Anime, Ultimate Spider-Man1967 - Turbo B (Durron Butler)
rap singer: group: Snap1968 - T.T. Boy (Phillip Troy Rivera)
actor [1989-2010]: X-rated films: The Fire Down Below, The Hindlick Maneuver, The Last Good Sex, Tales from the Backside, Pump Fiction, Swallow My Pride, Can’t Be the Barbershop: A XXX Parody1968 - Rich Pilon
hockey: NY Islanders, NY Rangers1973 - Marcel Cousineau
hockey [goalie]: Toronto Maples Leafs, NY Islanders, LA Kings1974 - Deanna Brooks
model [Playboy Playmate of the Month in May 1998]; actress: Candy Stripers, The Rowdy Girls, The Weekend Flash1975 - Johnny Galecki
actor: I Know What You Did Last Summer, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Roseanne, American Dreamer, The Opposite of Sex, Vanilla Sky1975 - Elliott Sadler
NASCAR race car driver [Evernham Motorsports]: first career win: Bristol Motor Speedway [2001]; Robert Yates Racing [2003-2006]; Chase for the Cup contender with two wins [top 10 in points: 2004]1978 - Remi Broadway
actor: The Wayne Manifesto, Inspector Gadget 2, Swimming Upstream, Scooby-Doo, The Wilde Girls, Sabrina, Down Under1980 - Luis Scola
basketball [power forward]: NBA: Houston Rockets [2007–2012]; Phoenix Suns [2012–2013]; Indiana Pacers [2013–2015]; Toronto Raptors [2015–2016]; Brooklyn Nets [2016–2017]1981 - Kunal Nayyar
actor: The Big Bang Theory, S.C.I.E.N.C.E, Ice Age: Continental Drift, The Scribbler, Dr. Cabbie, Sanjay and Craig1982 - Lloyd Banks (Christopher Charles Lloyd)
rapper: group: G-Unit: On Fire, Ain’t No Chick, Warrior, I’m So Fly, If You So Gangsta, When the Chips Are Down, South Side Story; actor: Groupie Love1982 - Kirsten Dunst
actress: The Virgin Suicides, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Little Women, Jumanji, Wag the Dog, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Spider-Man1982 - Drew Seeley
singer, actor: The Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Glory Daze, Another Cinderella Story, I Kissed a Vampire, Get the Girl Back, Write Before Christmas, Lethal Admirer1985 - Brandon Bass
basketball [power forward]: NBA: New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets [2005–2007]; Dallas Mavericks [2007–2009]; Orlando Magic [2009–2011]; Boston Celtics [2011–2015]; Los Angeles Lakers [2015–2016]; Los Angeles Clippers [2016–2017]1985 - Gal Gadot
actress: Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Fast and the Furious film series, Date Night, Knight and Day, Entourage, The Beautiful Life, Eretz Nehederet; model: Miss Israel [2004]1986 - Dianna Agron
actress: Glee, I Am Number Four, T.K.O., Skid Marks, It’s a Mall World, Bold Native, Burlesque1988 - Ana de Armas
actress: Blade Runner 2049, Knives Out [2019], No Time to Die, Blonde
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Mockingbird Hill (facts) - Patti Page
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