August 1
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1291 - A pact was made to form the Swiss Confederation. The anniversary of this founding has been celebrated as National Day in Switzerland since 1891, the 600th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.1873 - The first cable streetcar in America began operation on Clay Street Hill in San Francisco, CA.
1876 - Colorado, the 38th state, entered the United States of America this day. It is the only state to enter the union in the one hundredth year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Consequently, Colorado is called the Centennial State. The Rocky Mountains are Colorado’s most famous feature; which explains why the Rocky Mountain columbine is the state flower. The lark bunting is the state bird. Denver, Colorado’s largest city, is also the state capital.
1893 - Henry Perky and William Ford of Watertown, NY woke up early and found their patent sitting on the breakfast table. They had invented shredded wheat. Pass the bananas and milk, please...
1894 - George Samuelson and Frank Harbo completed a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean -- in a rowboat! They landed in England after having left New York on June 6th. We can think of easier ways to cross the ocean...
1927 - One of country music’s most influential groups, The Carter Family, made their first recordings for Victor Records at a makeshift studio in Bristol (to be known as the Bristol Barn Sessions). Among the six titles recorded was Single Girl, Married Girl.
1937 - Mutual radio debuted The Goodwill Hour, with its familiar phrase, “You have a friend and advisor in John J. Anthony.”
1940 - The first book written by 23-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy was published. It was titled, Why England Slept. Later, Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage would become a best-seller for the man who would become the United States’ 35th President.
1941 - Parade magazine called it “...the Army’s most intriguing new gadget.” The gadget was “a tiny truck which can do practically everything.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America couldn’t have won World War II without it. The tiny truck was the Jeep, built at the time by the Willys Truck Company. Parade was so enthusiastic about the Jeep that it devoted three pages to the vehicle.
1942 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded Charleston Alley, on Decca Records.
1942 - The American Federation of Musicians went on strike. Union president James C. Petrillo told musicians that phonograph records were “a threat to members’ jobs.” As a result, musicians refused to perform in recording sessions over the next several months. Live, musical radio broadcasts continued, however.
1943 - This day marked the groundbreaking ceremony in Oak Ridge, TN for the first uranium 235 plant. (Uranium 235 was needed to build the A-bomb.) The uranium manufacturing facility cost $280,000,000 to build and was completed in the summer of 1944.
1944 - 13-year-old Anne Frank made the last entry in her diary; a diary she had kept for two years while hiding with her family to escape Nazi deportation to a concentration camp. Three days later the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Jewish family was in hiding. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
1946 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Fulbright Act into law. The law authorized the scholarship program named for Senator William J. Fulbright (D-AR).
1950 - Pitcher Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first major-league baseball player to be called to active military duty during the Korean War.
1950 - The U.S. Territory of Guam was created. In 1949, U.S. President Harry S Truman had signed the Organic Act making Guam an unincorporated territory of the United States with limited self-governing authority, and granting American Citizenship to the people of Guam.
1953 - The first aluminum-faced building constructed in America was completed. It was the Alcoa (Aluminum Corporation of America) Building in Pittsburgh, PA.
1957 - The United States and Canada reached an agreement to create the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
1958 - After 26 years at 3 cents, the cost of mailing a first-class letter in the United States went up a penny.
1960 - Chubby Checker’s The Twist was released. The song inspired the dance craze of the 1960s. Round and around and around...
1966 - 25-year-old sniper Charles Joseph Whitman ascended to the observation deck of the University of Texas Tower and let loose a fusillade that left 13 killed and many more wounded. Whitman had also killed his wife and mother the night before.
1971 - The Concert for Bangladesh was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Billy Preston performed. A multirecord set commemorating the event was a super sales success. Together, the concert and the album raised over $11 million to help the starving minions of Bangladesh.
1976 - Games of the XXIst Olympiad ended in Montreal. They were among the most controversial in Olympic history. Thirty-two nations withdrew from the games, six East European athletes defected to Canada, a Soviet athlete was dismissed for cheating, three other participants were disqualified for steroid use, and a Soviet sprinter reported a death threat.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds failed to get a hit in five times at bat in Atlanta. As a result, his consecutive hitting streak ended at 44 games -- just 12 short of Joe DiMaggio’s major-league baseball record with the New York Yankees.
1981 - Screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (Network, Hospital) died of cancer at 58 years of age.
1981 - MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. The first music video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles. MTV’s original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
1987 - Mike Tyson ‘out-pointed’ Tony Tucker in 12 rounds at Las Vegas, Nevada. He won the right to call himself the “Undisputed world heavyweight champion” as he won the IBF heavyweight title and retained the WBA/WBC heavyweight titles.
1993 - St. Louis was besieged by the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, which had swelled to record levels after months of flooding in nine Midwestern states.
1994 - The Rolling Stones kicked off their 43-city Voodoo Lounge world tour before 55,000 fans at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.
1996 - Here’s today’s Olympic wrap-up: Michael Johnson left his fellow runners in the dust to win gold in the 200 meters in a record 19.32 seconds. He was the first male Olympian to complete the 200/400-meter Olympic double. And French sprinter Marie-Jose Perec became only the second woman in history to win gold medal in both the 200-meter and the 400-meter runs at the same Olympics. Perec joined American Valerie Brisco-Hooks, who won both the 200 and 400 races in 1984 in Los Angeles. The U.S. women’s soccer team claimed the gold medal and capped the first women’s soccer competition at the Olympics, beating China 2-1. And last, but certainly not least, decathlon, four years after failing to make the U.S. sOlympic team.
1996 - MTV launched a sister channel, MTV2. The channel debuted with Where It’s At, by Beck (Hansen).
1996 - Bill Buchanan of the novelty duo, Buchanan and Goodman, died in Los Angeles of cancer. He was 66 years old. Buchanan originated the ‘break-in’ recording technique with Dickie Goodman, where they used bits of original top-40 hits for a humorous ‘interview’. Questions would be asked of celebrities, etc., and their ‘answers’ would be pieces lifted from popular tunes. Buchanan and Goodman first used the concept on The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2) in 1956. The following year brought the hits Flying Saucer the 2nd and Santa and the Satellite (Parts 1 and 2).
1997 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: Air Bud, with Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Eric Christmas, Brendan Fletcher, Norman Browning and Bill Cobbs; Picture Perfect, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Olympia Dukakis and Kevin Dunn; Spawn, with Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Nicol Williamson, Theresa Randle, D.B. Sweeney, Miko Hughes and Melinda Clarke.
1999 - A heat wave that had gripped the U.S. since mid-July finally eased. Nearly 200 deaths were attributed to the heat and humidity.
2000 - A U.S. military court in Germany sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexual assault and murder. Ronghi, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, raped and murdered an eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl.
2001 - Robert Henry Rimmer, author of the 1960s novel The Harrad Experiment, died at 84 years of age.
2002 - Two teenage girls were abducted from their dates at a lovers’ lane outside Lancaster, Calif. The girls were rescued about 100 miles away after their kidnapper crashed his getaway car and was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies.
2003 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: American Wedding, with Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Eugene Levy and January Jones; and Gigli, with Ben Affleck, Terry Camilleri, David Backus, Lenny Venito, Robert Silver, Luis Alberto Martínez, Justin Bartha, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Todd Giebenhain, Brian Sites, Brian Casey, Les Bradford, David Bonfadini and Dwight P. Ketchum.
2004 - Karen Stupples won the Women’s British Open. It was her first major championship.
2006 - The United Kingdom launched its first public terror alert system, with the government announcing that the U.K. faced the ‘severe’ risk of more terrorist attacks.
2006 - Fidel Castro was in seclusion after undergoing intestinal surgery on July 31. Castro had turned over power to his brother Raul.
2006 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and mayors of some of the world’s largest cities announced an initiative to combat climate change and increase energy efficiency in everything from street lights to building materials.
2007 - British Airways was fined a record £121.5 million (€180 million, $246 million) by the U.S. Department of Justice. This, after admitting collusion with Virgin Atlantic over fuel surcharges on tickets.
2007 - A highway bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River collapsed in Minneapolis, MN during afternoon rush hour. 13 people died and hundreds were injured.
2008 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Midnight Meat Train, starring Bradley Cooper, Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart, Peter Jacobson, Barbara Eve Harris and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson; The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, with Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford and Isabella Leong; and Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Judge Reinhold, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham and Richard Petty.
2008 - U.S. and state regulators closed First Priority Bank of Bradenton, Florida, the 8th U.S. bank to fail in 2009.
2009 - The Post-9/11 GI Bill took effect in the U.S., to reimburse veterans for their full undergraduate tuition at public colleges. The law also made an amount equivalent to that tuition available for vets who choose private schools or graduate programs.
2011 - A Berlin, Germany state court ordered breweries to stop advertising beer as something good for peoples’ looks and health. The suit had been filed by consumer advocacy groups to challenge German brewers’ various claims that beer promoted good looks and helped ward off heart, gall bladder, kidney stone and osteoporosis ailments.
2012 - McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC and other fast-food companies in Chile were accused of violating the country’s new law against including toys with children’s meals. Senator Guido Gerardi filed a formal complaint with the health authority accusing the companies of knowingly endangering the health of children by marketing kids’ meals with toys used as an inticement. Gerardi said he wrote the law because nearly a quarter of Chile’s 6-year-olds suffer from childhood obesity.
2013 - The U.S. and Pakistan agreed to re-establish a “full partnership”, ending years of acrimony over U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani soil, the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s support for Taliban insurgents fighting Western troops in Afghanistan -- and other grievances.
2013 - Ariel Castro, the man convicted of holding three women captive in a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood for a decade, was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years.
2014 - Movies debuting in the U.S included: the James Brown biography, Get on Up, with Chadwick Boseman, David Andrew Nash and Nelsan Ellis; Guardians of the Galaxy, starring Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper; Behaving Badly, with Selena Gomez, Mary-Louise Parker and Nat Wolff; Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, starring Sean Astin, Currie Graham and Ryan Donowho; and Calvary, with Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd and Kelly Reilly.
2014 - Southern California Edison laid out its plan to dismantle the twin nuclear reactors at San Onofre that had been shut down in 2012 due to a radiation leak. The project would take twenty years and cost $4.4 billion.
2014 - The state of Colorado began issuing driver’s licenses and identification cards to immigrants regardless of their legal status. The move underscored a big change for a state that ten years prior had passed strict immigration enforcement laws.
2015 - Japanese police arrested Mark Karpeles, head of the MtGox Bitcoin exchange, after a series of fraud allegations led to its spectacular collapse and hammered Bitcoin’s reputation.
2015 - Dozens of topless women — and men — attended a Bare With Us rally in Ontario, Canada to educate the public about a woman’s right to go shirtless if she chooses. The protest was organized in support of three sisters who were stopped by police for biking topless. Ontario women have had the right to go topless in public since 1996.
2016 - McDonald’s announced ingredient changes in some of its products: removing artificial preservatives from its Chicken McNuggets and some breakfast items, and replacing high-fructose corn syrup in its sandwich buns -- with sugar. The fast-food company’s changes affected about 50 percent of the menu, said Mike Adres, president of McDonald’s U.S. operations. Other products freed of artificial preservatives were pork sausage patties, omelet-style eggs served on items like breakfast sandwiches, and scrambled eggs. Also, chickens used in the McNuggets would no longer be raised with antibiotics.
2017 - S.W.A.T.: Under Siege opened in U.S. theatres. The action crime thriller stars Sam Jaeger, Adrianne Palicki and Michael Jai White.
2017 - Rod Wheeler, Fox News contributor and former homicide detective who had investigated the Seth Rich case, sued Fox News for defamation. Wheeler alleged that Fox fabricated quotes implicating Rich, the murdered Democratic national Committee staffer, in the WikiLeaks scandal -- and that Fox coordinated with the Trump administration as it worked the story. In Sep 2018 Fox issued a retraction, but did not apologize or publicly explain what went wrong. To further complicate this mess, Joel and Mary Rich, the murdered man’s parents, sued Fox in March 2018, saying they had PTSD because of the story that they claim painted their son as a traitor.
2017 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as FBI director. From 2003-2005 Wray served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division in the George W. Bush Administration. At his confirmation hearing, when asked if he believed that the investigation into Russian election interference and possible links to Trump’s campaign constituted a ‘witch hunt’, he stated that he did not.
2018 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that POTUS Trump had acted unconstitutionally in an executive order he issued in January 2017, declaring that local governments that refused to provide information or access to federal immigration agents (aka sanctuary cities) would be ineligible for federal grants.
2018 - Wells Fargo agreed to pay a $2.1 billion fine to settle allegations it had misrepresented the types of mortgages it sold to investors. This, during the housing bubble that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis.
2019 - Florida’s Surgeon General declared a public health emergency, allowing health officials to test and treat people suspected of carrying the Hepatitis A virus. 56 new cases of Hepatitis A had been reported statewide. Philadelphia also declared an emergency.
2019 - Poland eliminated personal income tax for young employees earning less than $22,000 a year. This, as part of a drive to reverse a ‘brain drain’ and demographic decline that was dimming the prospects of a country that was otherwise experiencing strong economic growth.
2020 - Actor Wilford Brimley died in Salt Lake City, Utah at 85 years of age. Brimley is remembered for his roles in the Oscar-winning movie Cocoon (1985) and The Firm (1993), The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984). He was the long-term face of American TV ads for the Quaker Oats Company. And Brimley promoted diabetes education, appearing in related commercials for Liberty Medical.
2020 - India recorded its steepest spike [57,118] of new coronavirus cases, taking its caseload to some 1.7 million people.
2021 - Hundreds of people turned out in Berlin, Germany to protest the German government’s anti-coronavirus measures. This, despite a ban on the gatherings. Many arrests were made after clashes with police.
2021 - Nearly 22,000 firefighters were battling 91 large, active wildfires covering 2,813 square miles (7,285 square kilometers) in mostly western states. California’s Dixie Fire covered nearly 388 square miles (1,005 square km) in mountains where 42 homes and other buildings were destroyed. The fire was 33% contained. In Montana a wind-driven wildfire destroyed more than a dozen homes, outbuildings and other structures. Evacuations were ordered after flames jumped a highway and moved toward communities near Flathead Lake in the northwestern part of the state. And a fast-moving wildfire on the Big Island of Hawaii grew to 62.5 square miles (101 square km). An evacuation order prompted thousands to flee the Waikoloa Village resort for a time.
2021 - Tokyo Olympic news: 1)U.S. swimmer Robert Finke won the men’s 1,500m gold in 14:39.65; 2)Australian swimmer Emma McKeon won gold in 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay for total 7 medals equaling the record set by Russian gymnast Maria Gorokhovskaya in 1952; 3)Lamont Marcell Jacobs became the first Italian athlete to win the coveted 100m in 9.80; 4)Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar avoided a jump-off by agreeing to share the high jump gold medal after tying; 5)Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas recorded a world record 15.67m as she won the women's gold medal.
2022 - A disciplinary officer appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players Association suspended Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games. The punishment came after 24 women filed lawsuits accusing Watson of sexual misconduct. “Although this is the most significant punishment ever imposed on an NFL player for allegations of nonviolent sexual conduct, Mr. Watson’s pattern of conduct is more egregious than any before reviewed by the NFL,” former federal judge Sue Robinson wrote in a 16-page ruling.
2022 - The U.S. killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Biden announced. Biden said that he approved the operation after U.S. intelligence officials tracked al-Zawahiri, who plotted the 9/11 terrorist attacks with his predecessor Osama bin Laden, to a home in downtown Kabul where he was hiding with his family. “Justice has been delivered, and this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said.
2022 - A federal judge sentenced Guy Reffitt, the first Capitol rioter to go on trial, to 87 months in prison, the longest term yet for a person charged with crimes linked to the Jan 6, 2021 attack on Congress.
2023 - Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Former POTUS Donald Trump on felony charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. -- and trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
2023 - South America heatwave: The temperature in Vicuña, in the Chilean Andres, reached 100F degrees F, the warmest day in northern Chile in 72 years.
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Birthdays on This Day August 1
1770 - William Clark
explorer: Lewis and Clark Expedition; died Sep 1, 18381779 - Francis Scott Key
attorney, poet: The Star-Spangled Banner: U.S. national anthem; died Jan 11, 18431818 - Maria Mitchell
astronomer: first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; 1st U.S. woman to become a professor of astronomy; died June 28, 18891819 - Herman Melville
author: Moby Dick, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket; died Sep 28, 18911843 - Robert Todd Lincoln
son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; rescued from train accident by Edwin Booth, brother of man who assassinated President Lincoln; died Jul 26, 19261912 - Henry Jones
actor: stage: My Sister Eileen, Hamlet, The Time of Your Life, They Knew What They Wanted, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Sunrise at Campobello; films: The Bad Seed, Picture Windows, Grass Roots, Arachnophobia, Dick Tracy, The Leftovers, Deathtrap, California Gold Rush; died May 17, 19991914 - Lloyd Mangrum
golf champ: winner of 36 professional tournaments including 1946 U.S. Open; died Nov 17, 19731916 - James Hill
producer: Vera Cruz, The Kentuckian, Trapeze, Sweet Smell of Success, The Unforgiven, The Happy Thieves; writer: His Majesty O'Keefe; died Jan 11, 20011921 - Jack Kramer
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1947], U.S. Open [1946, 1947]; died Sep 12, 20091922 - Arthur Hill
actor: Harper, The Andromeda Strain, Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Futureworld, Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, Glitter; died Oct 22, 20061923 - George (Irvin) Bamberger
baseball [pitcher]: NY Giants, Baltimore Orioles; manager: KC Royals; died Apr 4, 20041924 - Michael Stewart (Rubin)
playwright: Midnight Edition, Bye Bye Birdie, Hello, Dolly!; died Sep 20, 19871930 - Geoffrey Holder
dancer, actor: Live and Let Die, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex [But were Afraid to Ask], Doctor Dolittle; died Oct 5, 20141931 - Tom Wilson
cartoonist: Ziggy; died Sep 16, 20111932 - Bobby Isaac
International Motorsports Hall of Famer: In a race in 1973, Bobby Isaac heard a ghostly voice telling him to stop immediately or suffer the consequences. He pulled out of the race and, until the day he died (of a heart attack Aug 14, 1977), he believed that he had pulled out just in time.1933 - Dom Deluise
comedian, actor: Dean Martin Show, Loose Cannons, Cannonball Run 1 & 2, Blazing Saddles, Silent Movie, Smokey and the Bandit, Part 2, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; host: New Candid Camera; died May 4, 20091936 - Yves Saint Laurent (Henry Mathieu)
fashion designer; died Jun 1, 20081937 - Alfonse M. D’Amato
U.S. Senator from New York1939 - Robert James Waller
author: The Bridges of Madison County, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend; professor of economics, business management; died Mar 10, 20171941 - Ronald Brown
U.S. Secretary of Commerce [Clinton Administration]; Democratic National Committee chairman: 1st African-American to head a major political party; killed in plane crash Apr 3, 19961942 - Jerry Garcia
musician: guitar, banjo, lyricist: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Truckin’, Alabama Getaway; died Aug 9, 19951942 - Giancarlo Giannini
actor: A Walk in the Clouds, Once Upon a Crime, Goodnight Michael Angelo, Swept Away...by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August1943 - Geoff Britton
musician: drums: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs, Live and Let Die, Junior’s Farm, With a Little Luck1946 - Rick Coonce
musician: drums:: group: The Grass Roots: Let’s Live for Today, Midnight Confessions; died Feb 25, 20111947 - Rick Anderson
musician: bass: group: The Tubes1948 - Cliff Branch
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV; LA Raiders: Super Bowl XVIII1950 - Milt (Milton Scott) May
baseball: catcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants1950 - Roy Williams
basketball coach: Univ of Kansas [1988–2003]; Univ of North Carolina [2003-2021]: NCAA Tournament champs: 2005, 2009, 20171952 - Greg (Gregory Eugene) Gross
baseball: Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]1953 - Robert Cray
musician: guitar; singer: group: Robert Cray Band: albums: Showdown, Strong Persuader; in film: Animal House1956 - C.J. Laing
actress [1974-1979]: X-rated films: Anyone But My Husband, Sweet Punkin’, Water Power, Barbara Broadcast, Maraschino Cherry1957 - Taylor Negron
comedian, actor: Hope & Gloria, Angels In The Outfield, Young Doctors In Love, Easy Money, Punchline, The Last Boy Scout; died Jan 10, 20151959 - Joe Elliott
singer: group: Def Leppard: Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin’1963 - Demián Bichir
actor: A Better Life, Savages; El Santos vs. La Tetona Mendoza, The Heat, Machete Kills, Dom Hemingway1963 - Coolio (Artis Ivey Jr.)
rapper: LPs: It Takes a Thief, Gangsta’s Paradise, My Soul1964 - Adam Duritz
musician: piano, record producer, lead singer and founding member of Counting Crows: Mr. Jones, Round Here, Einstein on the Beach [For an Eggman], Rain King, A Murder of One, Angels of the Silences1967 - Gregg Jefferies
baseball [outfield, first, second, third base]: New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Anaheim Angels, Detroit Tigers1968 - Stacey Augmon
basketball: Nevada-Las Vegas; NBA: Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers, Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, Orlando Magic1969 - Kevin Jarvis
baseball [pitcher]: Wake Forest Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, SD Padres, Seattle Mariners, SL Cardinals1970 - Jennifer Gareis
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Escape, Boat Trip, Downward Angel, Miss Congeniality, The 6th Day, Gangland, Private Parts1971 - Christina Angel
actress [1992-2002]: X-rated films: Animal Instinct, Sleeping Single, Intercourse with the Vampire1971 - Carrie Bittner
actress [1990-1992]: X-rated films: Twin Cheeks, Positions Wanted, Sweet Licks, Nurse Nancy, A Little Christmas Tail, Private Dancer, One Million Years DD, Business and Pleasure1971 - Alicyn Sterling
actress [1990-1997]: X-rated films: Screwed and Tattoo’d, Nurse Nancy, Young Buns and Old Guns, Little Christmas Tail, Girls Just Wanna Have Toys, Assault With a Friendly Weapon1972 - Todd Bouman
football [quarterback]: Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers1972 - Devon Hughes aka D-Von Dudley
pro wrestler/actor: Extreme Championship Wrestling, Raw Is War, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania 2000, WWF Judgement Day, Armageddon1973 - Tempestt Bledsoe
actress: The Cosby Show, Dream Date, Monsters, Fire & Ice1973 - Jennifer Leigh
actress [1998-2006]: X-rated films: Jenna vs. Jenna, Sex Ahoy!, Oral Consumption 1, Open Wide & Say Ahh!1976 - Tommy Bolin
musician: guitar, bass, drums, piano: groups: Zephyr [1969-1971], The James Gang [1973-1974, Deep Purple [1975-1976]1976 - Nick Capra
actor [2002-2012]: X-rated films: Hungry4sex 2, Hot Buttered Cop Porn, Young Husbands on the Down Low, Finish Me Off1977 - Marc Denis
hockey [goalie]: Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Tampa Bay Lightning1978 - Edgerrin James
football [running back]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Indianapolis Colts [1999–2005]; Arizona Cardinals [2006–2008]; Seattle Seahawks [2009])1979 - Jason Momoa
actor: Game of Thrones, Stargate: Atlantis, Conan the Barbarian, The Red Road1979 - Honeysuckle Weeks
actress: Foyle’s War, Red Mercury, Lorna Doone [2000], Close Relations, Have Your Cake and Eat It, Ruth Rendell: The Strawberry Tree1982 - Candice Nicole
actress [2006-2012]: X-rated films: This Isn't... The Help ... It's A XXX Spoof!, Barely Legal Brown Skin Beauties, Official Fresh Prince of Bel Air Parody, Drippin’ Wet Bubble Butts, Face Invaders 4, Chocolate Fever Orgy1982 - Caroline Shaw
violinist, singer, composer: won 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music [Partita for 8 Voices]1984 - Bastian Schweinsteiger
footballer [midfielder]: Bundesliga club Bayern Munich [vice-captain]; German national team [2000-2016]: 2014 World Cup title [Rio de Janeiro]1986 - Elijah Kelley
actor: 28 Days, Take the Lead, Hairspray, Red Tails, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Wiz Live!, The New Edition Story, Star1989 - Landry Allbright
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Getaway Girls, Blinders, Miracle Valley, Will & Grace1989 - Madison Bumgarner
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants [2009–2019]: 2010, 2012, 2014 World Series champs
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Hit Music on This Day August 1
1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
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