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1769 - The city of Los Angeles was named on this day. Uh, sort of. Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain, and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, stopped on their way north from San Diego. They really liked the area and decided to name it Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula, which means Smog-free Paradise. Hah! Just kidding. It really means Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula -- Porciuncula being a chapel in Italy.1776 - The actual process of the signing of the Declaration of Independence began on this day. The first of the signatories was John Hancock, the president of the Congress, who signed in bold below the text and in the center of the Declaration. Other delegates, starting with those from the northernmost state, New Hampshire, and continuing to the southermost state, Georgia, then began to sign. Fifty members of the congress signed the declaration on August 2. In all, 56 men eventually signed the Declaration of Independence.
1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son, Samuel Briggs, Jr., became the first father-son pair to receive a joint patent -- for their nail-making machine.
1823 - The New York Mirror and Ladies Literary Gazette was founded. The weekly newspaper later became the daily New York Mirror.
1824 - Fifth Avenue was opened in New York City. It became one of the most famous thoroughfares in the world, the home of many beautiful, fashionable stores.
1876 - Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok was gunned down by Jack McCall, a desperado from Texas, in Saloon #10 at Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory. Hickok was playing poker (with his back to the door) at the time of the shooting. McCall shot Wild Bill in the back, and was hanged for the shooting, never revealing his motive. The poker hand Hickok was holding when he died consisted of a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights. This combination became known as the dead man’s hand.
1887 - Barbed wire, one variety of it anyway, was patented by Chester A. Hodge of Beloit, WI.
1907 - Walter Johnson pitched his first professional baseball game for the Washington Senators. He went on to fan 3,499 batters in his career.
1934 - German President Paul von Hindenburg died in Neudeck, Germany (now in Poland). Adolph Hitler immediately combined the offices of Reich Chancellor and President, declaring himself to be Führer.
1938 - The yellow baseball was first used in a test by the Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals at Ebbets Field, New York City. Ball players said that they had no preference for the yellow ball over the traditional white ball.
1943 - U.S. General George Patton had a bad day. He slapped and kicked U.S. Army Private Charles H. Kuhl.
1943 - Lieutenant (j.g.) John F. Kennedy had a bad day, too. His PT 109, with the future President of the U.S. on board, was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amigiri. Kennedy suffered a back injury that plagued him for the rest of his life. The story of the PT 109 was told in Hollywood style in the 1963 movie, PT 109, starring Cliff Robertson as JFK.
1945 - U.S. President Harry S Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and the new British prime minister, Clement Attlee, concluded the Allied conference at Potsdam. The Potsdam Agreement mainly related to the administration of recently-defeated Germany until the establishment of a permanent new government.
1950 - The U.S. First Provisional Marine Brigade arrived in Korea.
1956 - Albert Woolson, the last veteran of the U.S. Union Army, died at 109 years of age.
1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea.
1968 - A major earthquake in the Philippines rocked Manila, killing 307 people.
1974 - John Dean, counsel to President Nixon, was sentenced to one-to-four years in prison for his part in the Watergate coverup.
1980 - 85 people were killed when a bomb exploded at the train station in Bologna, Italy. The attack has been attributed to the NAR (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei), a neo-fascist terrorist organization. A long, controversial court case began after the bombing. Francesca Mambro and Valerio Fioravanti were sentenced to life imprisonment.
1983 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to designate the third Monday in January as a federal holiday in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
1984 - Charles Schulz’ award-winning comic strip was picked up by the Daily Times in Portsmouth, OH. With the addition of that paper, Peanuts, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Pigpen, Linus, Peppermint Pattie, Woodstock and the gang, became the first comic strip to appear in 2,000 newspapers.
1985 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed while attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Wind shear from a severe thunderstorm was the cause of the crash which killed 136 of the 167 on board the plane.
1990 - As Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Emir fled to Saudi Arabia. The U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned the Iraqi occupation and not only imposed a complete blockade on Iraq, but authorized member states to reverse the invasion by any and all means.
1992 - Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
1992 - At the Barcelona Summer Olympics, American Jackie Joyner-Kersee repeated as heptathlon champion.
1995 - Hurricane Erin came ashore in Vero Beach, FL, killing two people on land and five at sea.
1996 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Chain Reaction, with Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn and Brian Cox; and Emma, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, Greta Scacchi, Polly Walker, Juliet Stevenson, Alan Cumming, Ewan Mcgregor, Sophie Thompson, Phyllida Law, James Cosmo and Edward Woodall.
1997 - Writer William Burroughs, the godfather of the beat generation, died at 83 in Kansas City MO. Burroughs’ work included Naked Lunch (1959), banned, then published in the U.S. in 1962. He also wrote Junkie and Queer.
1997 - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, pop superstar, died of AIDS in Nigeria. He was 58 years old. The saxophone player fused rock with African rhythms into a blend known as "Afrobeat". His albums included Zombie, Army Arrangement and Vagabond in Power. Anikulapo-Kuti’s 27 wives mourned his death.
1998 - Ventriloquist and puppeteer Shari Lewis died in Los Angeles. She was 65 years old. Lewis won a dozen Emmys and a Peabody for children’s programs that began drawing network audiences in 1960. She turned an old sock into a superstar when she created the character Lamb Chop, her sidekick.
2000 - Republicans voted Texas Governor George W. Bush their 2000 presidential nominee at the party’s convention in Philadelphia and ratified Dick Cheney as his running mate.
2001 - Ron Townson, the centerpiece singer for the pop group The 5th Dimension, died of renal failure in Las Vegas, NV. He was 68.
2002 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Full Frontal, starring David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary Mccormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood and Enrico Colantoni; Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat, with -- you guessed it -- Martin Lawrence; The Master of Disguise, starring Dana Carvey, Brent Spiner, Jennifer Esposito, Harold Gould, James Brolin, Maria Canals, Mark Devine, Austin Wolff and Edie Mcclurg; and Signs, with Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Patricia Kalember, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin.
2003 - Saddam Hussein’s two elder sons and a grandson were buried near the deposed Iraqi leader’s hometown of Tikrit. Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed by U.S. troops in the northern city of Mosul after a tipster led troops to their hideout.
2005 - Air France Flight 358 skidded off the runway during a severe lightning storm at Toronto Pearson International Airport. All 309 passengers and crew survived.
2006 - The Paris Commercial Court granted Eurotunnel protection from creditors, enabling the operator of the Channel Tunnel to freeze payments on its debt of €9.0 billion ($11.5 billion).
2006 - South Africans were enduring one of their harshest winters in years. At least four deaths were blamed on flooding from heavy rain that caused travel delays in the south and west of the country. And freezing temperatures and heavy snow were hitting some interior towns that rarely experience such weather.
2006 - America Online confirmed plans to give away many services for free. AOL also announced its intention to shift to an advertising strategy, because so many customers were cancelling their dial-up service and jumping to high-speed Internet connections.
2007 - Canada pooh-poohed Russia’s claim that it owned a large chunk of the resource-rich Arctic. Canada said the Russian tactic was more suited to the 15th century than the real world.
2007 - Days of monsoon rains devastated large swaths of northern India and Bangladesh, killing at least 186 people, stranding millions and washing away vital crops.
2007 - Progress, an unmanned Russian cargo ship carrying over 2.5 tons of supplies, equipment and gifts blasted off for the international space station.
2008 - 40 farm laborers died after a truck carrying them home from the fields plunged into a river near Ghoomsa in Bihar state -- in northern India.
2009 - Red Cross and Nigerian defense officials reported that hundreds of people had been killed during a 5-day riot by a radical Islamic sect in northern Nigeria. Over 700 dead bodies were given a mass burial in Maiduguri town alone.
2010 - Russia declared a state of emergency in seven regions after wildfires had killed 34 people and left thousands homeless. The fires were the result of the worst heatwave on record.
2011 - Waist-deep floods swamped the streets of Manila, Philippines after a night of monsoon rains closed down schools and government offices. Typhoon Muifa killed four people even though it did not make landfall.
2012 - U.S. Treasury Department investigators said the Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011.
2012 - A London court in jailed an Ethiopian diplomat for trying to smuggle a stash of cannabis through London’s Heathrow Airport. Amelework Wondemagegne (36), an official at the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, had tried to claim diplomatic immunity when she was caught at the airport in April with 56 kilograms (123 pounds) of the illegal weed.
2013 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: 2 Guns, starring Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Denzel Washington, James Marsden, Bill Paxton, Evie Thompson and Edward James Olmos; The Canyons, with Lindsay Lohan, Nolan Gerard Funk, James Deen, Gus Van Sant, Amanda Brooks, Tenille Houston and Michelle LaRue; Cockneys vs. Zombies, with Rasmus Hardiker, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Jack Doolan, Georgia King, Ashley Thomas, Tony Gardner, Alan Ford and Honor Blackman; Drift, starring Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Myles Pollard, Robyn Malcolm, Sean Keenan and Steve Bastoni; Europa Report, with Embeth Davidtz, Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Karolina Wydra, Dan Fogler, Anamaria Marinca, Daniel Wu and Isiah Whitlock Jr.; Our Children, starring Niels Arestrupm Tahar Rahim, Émilie Dequenne and Stéphane Bissot; The Spectacular Now, with Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyle Chandler, Bob Odenkirk, Kaitlyn Dever, Andre Royo, Dayo Okeniyi and Gary Weeks; and the animated Top Cat: The Movie, featuring the voices of Jason Harris, Chris Edgerly, Bill Lobley, Ben Diski, Matthew Piazzi, Melissa Disney, Bob Kaliban, Brian Scott McFadden and Fred Tatasciore.
2013 - Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the U.S. and Britain in response to allegations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries’ electronic eavesdropping operations.
2014 - Toledo, Ohio residents were warned not to drink the water after tests at a treatment plant showed a dangerous toxin to be present. The toxin, possibly from algae on Lake Erie, was controlled on Aug 4.
2016 - Heavy rain in usually arid southern Arizona caused flash flooding and water rescues. Flooding closed several major roads and stranded motorists between flowing washes. Nearly 1 inch of rain fell in about 30 minutes in Maryvale, near west side of Phoenix.
2017 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed a decision to delay an Obama-era rule requiring states to curb smog-causing emissions. This, a day after 15 states had sued the E.P.A. agency over its move.
2017 - Mexico’s surveillance scandal widened to encompass a pair of prominent human rights attorneys who had probed several murders. The internet watchdog Citizen Lab said Karla Micheel Salas and David Pena were targeted in 2015, a few weeks after they questioned prosecutors’ handling of the killings of activist Nadia Vera, journalist Ruben Espinosa and three other women in Mexico City. The lawyers’ cellphones were targeted by messages designed to infect them with the same spyware that Citizen Lab previously determined was sent to other Mexican individuals or groups.
2018 - Sweden said it was buying a $1 billion Patriot air defense missile system from U.S. arms manufacturer Raytheon. The move was meant to help boost Sweden’s defenses amid growing tensions with neighborhood bully, Russia.
2018 - And speaking of troublemaker Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said that more than 160 people had been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since the beginning of 2018.
2019 - New on U.S. theatre screens: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, starring Vanessa Kirby, Dwayne Johnson, Eiza González, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Teresa Mahoney and Helen Mirren; the animated Leo da Vinci: Mission Mona Lisa, featuring the voices of Johnny Yong Bosch, Cherami Leigh, Bryce Papenbrook, Faith Graham and Landen Beattie; Luce, starring Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer and Tim Roth; Madness in the Method, with Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith and Gina Carano; The Nightingale, starring Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman and Aisling Franciosi; Otherhood, starring Becki Newton, Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett; and Them That Follow, with Kaitlyn Dever, Walton Goggins and Olivia Colman.
2019 - The United States withdrew from a landmark nuclear missile pact with Russia. This, after POTUS Trump said he had determed that Moscow was in violation of the treaty, something the Kremlin repeatedly denied. Of course, it just so happend that the United States planned to test a new missile that would have been prohibited under the 32-year-old treaty.
2019 - Alaska officials and the union for striking boat workers announced a deal to end a strike that had shut down the state’s ferry system for 10 days.
2020 - Nevada lawmakers passed a bill allowing the state to mail active voters ballots ahead of the November election. Nevada joined seven other states offering automatic mail balloting. Donald Trump, for reasons that only made sense to him, called the bill “an illegal late night coup.”
2020 - Coronavirus infections surged past 100,000 in the Philippines -- a troubling milestone. Medical groups declared that the country was waging “a losing battle” against the virus and asked the president to reimpose a lockdown in the capital. The Department of Health reported a record-high daily tally of 5,032, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 103,185, including more than 2,000 deaths.
2021 - Britain reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers from the U.S. and the E.U. as travel industry leaders urged the government to further ease restrictions and allow people to enjoy the benefits of a successful COVID-19 inoculation program.
2022 - The Taliban faced a nationalist backlash after al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul by a U.S. drone strike. “If the martyrdom of Zawahiri is confirmed, then shame on you that we could not protect the true hero of Islam,” an Afghan named Ehsanullah tweeted.
2022 - Kansas voters kept abortion legal in the state, rejecting a proposal to remove abortion rights from the state Constitution. 59 percent of voters opposed the amendment and 41 percent supported it. The decisive margin, in the red state, marked a major victory for the abortion rights movement in the first test of voter sentiment since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in June.
2023 - Fossils from the Ica desert in Peru may be from the heaviest creature that ever lived. The Perucetus, an extinct genus of early whale, weighing 85 to 340 tons, beat the blue whale for the heavyweight prize. The extraordinary weight of the Perucetus was due to its incredibly thick and dense bones, coupled with its great size.
2023 - The gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 was unanimously sentenced to death by a federal jury. On October 27, 2018, the gunman burst into the Tree of Life synagogue and shot worshippers with an AR-15-style rifle. At the time, the synagogue was hosting three congregations for weekly Shabbat services. Robert Bowers, the 50-year-old shooter, had been found guilty in June 2023 of all 63 charges against him for the attack -- the most deadly ever agains Jewish people in the U.S.
2024 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: The Firing Squad, starring James Barrington, Kevin Sorbo, and Cuba Gooding Jr.; the animated adventure Harold and the Purple Crayon, featuring characters voiced by Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery and Zooey Deschanel; and Trap, starring Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill.
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Birthdays on This Day August 2
1754 - Pierre Charles L’Enfant
architect, engineer, Revolutionary War officer: designed the plan of city of Washington DC; died June 14, 18251834 - Frederic Bartholdi
sculptor: Statue of Liberty, Lion of Belfort; died Oct 4, 19041871 - John French Sloan
artist: South Beach Bathers; cofounder of Ashcan Art; died Sep 7, 19511892 - Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum)
movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers; died Sep 9, 19781894 - Westbrook Pegler
1940s journalist, columnist: anti-communist McCarthyist newspaper man and syndicated columnist: awareded Pulitzer Prize for expose on union racketeering [1940]; died June 24, 19691900 - Helen Morgan (Riggins)
singer, actress: Frankie and Johnny, Show Boat, Applause; died Oct 8, 19411905 - Myrna Loy (Williams)
actress: Thin Man movies, Airport, Topaz, Midnight Lace; died Dec 14, 19931911 - Ann Dvorak (Anna McKim)
actress: A Life of Her Own, Abilene Town, Scarface; died Dec 10, 19791914 - Beatrice Straight
Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Poltergeist, Bloodline, Endless Love; Tony Award: The Crucible [1953]; died Apr 7, 20011915 - Gary Merrill
actor: The Seekers, Twelve O’Clock High, All About Eve, The Great Impostor; died Mar 5, 19901922 - Paul Laxalt
U.S. Senator [Nevada: 1974-1987]; died Aug 6, 20181923 - Shimon Peres
Polish-born Israeli statesman: ninth President of the State of Israel [2007 - ]; Prime Minister of Israel [April-June 1977, 1984-1986, 1995–1996; died Sep 28, 20161924 - James Baldwin
author: Go Tell It on the Mountain; died Dec 1, 19871924 - Carroll O’Connor
Emmy Award-winning actor: All in the Family [1971-1972, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979], In the Heat of the Night [1988-1989]; Cleopatra, The Devil’s Brigade, In Harm’s Way, Kelly’s Heroes, Marlowe; died June 21, 20011924 - Joe Harnell
conductor/arranger: Fly Me to the Moon; died July 14, 20051925 - John Dexter
opera director: Mid-America Chorale, M Butterfly, Le Rossignol, The Abduction from the Seraglio; died Mar 23, 19901932 - Leo Boivin
Hockey Hall of Famer: Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars; career: 72 goals, 250 assists; coach: St. Louis Blues: 28-53-16 [1-2 in playoffs]; died Oct 16, 20211932 - Lamar Hunt
Pro Football Hall of Famer: AFC football founder; owner: Dallas Texans, Kansas City Chiefs; U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer; owner: Dallas Tornado, Columbus Crew, Kansas City Wizards; winner of Medal of Honor from National Soccer Hall of Fame; died Dec 13, 20061932 - Peter O’Toole
actor: Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, A Lion in Winter, The Last Emperor; autobiography: Loitering with Intent; died Dec 14, 20131935 - Hank Cochran
songwriter: A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughing, Make the World Go Away, I Fall to Pieces, She’s Got You, Ocean Front Property; died Jul 15, 20101937 - Dave (David) Balon
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, Vancouver Canucks1937 - Billy Cannon
football [running back]: LSU [1959 Heisman Trophy winner]; NFL: Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs; died May 20, 20181937 - Garth Hudson
musician: keyboard: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down1939 - Wes Craven
author: A Nightmare on Elm Street; director: Vampire in Brooklyn, The People Under the Stairs, Shocker, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Swamp Thing, Summer of Fear, The Hills Have Eyes series, Last House on the Left; died Aug 30, 20151941 - Doris Kenner-Jackson
singer: group: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy, I Met Him on a Sunday, Tonight’s the Night, Dedicated to the One I Love, Mama Said; died Feb 4, 20001943 - Tom (Thomas Henry) Burgmeier
baseball: pitcher: California Angels, KC Royals, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1980], Oakland Athletics1943 - Kathy Lennon
singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: The Lawrence Welk Show1943 - Max Wright
actor: ALF, Buffalo Bill, Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, White Mile, Touch and Go, Fraternity Vacation1945 - Joanna Cassidy
actress: Boston Legal, Six Feet Under, Blade Runner, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Under Fire, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Package, Buffalo Bill, Body of Proof1950 - Kathryn Harrold
actress: MacGruder & Loud, The Bronx Zoo, I’ll Fly Away, The Larry Sanders Show, The Companion, Deadly Desire, Into the Night, Heartbreakers, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Modern Romance, The Hunter, Nightwing1951 - Andrew Gold
singer: Lonely Boy, Thank You for Being a Friend; son of composer Ernest Gold; died Jun 3, 20111951 - Joe Lynn Turner
songwriter, singer: group: Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Black Night, Speed King, Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman1953 - Butch Patrick
actor: The Munsters, Lidsville; TV cohost: Queer Edge with Jack E. Jett & Sandra Bernhard1959 - Victoria Jackson
actress: Saturday Night Live [1986-1992], Half Nelson, Based on an Untrue Story, I Love You to Death, Family Business, The Pick-Up Artist, Baby Boom; more1960 - Angella Faith
actress [1991-2006]: X-rated films: Savage Sex Mistresses, Undercover Slave, 72 Cheerleader Orgy, Burglary & Bondage, You Said a Mouthful1960 - Linda Fratianne
Olympic silver medalist: figure skating [1980]; world champ: 1977, 1979; Walt Disney’s World on Ice1962 - Cynthia Stevenson
actress: Surviving Suburbia, Dead Like Me, Men in Trees, Full of It, A Little Thing Called Murder, Agent Cody Banks, From the Earth to the Moon, Forget Paris1964 - Mary-Louise Parker
actress: RED, RED 2, Sugartime, Angels in America, A Place for Annie, The Client, Bullets Over Broadway, Naked in New York, Fried Green Tomatoes, Signs of Life, Weeds1966 - Tim Wakefield
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox1969 - Cedric Ceballos
basketball [forward]: Ventura Jr. College and Cal State-Fullerton; NBA: Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat, Denver Nuggets1971 - Alice Evans
actress: Reunion, The Christmas Card, Save Angel Hope, Fascination, Blue Dove, Hard Labour, The Abduction Club, 102 Dalmatians1973 - Simon Kinberg
English-born American screenwriter: Mr. & Mrs. Smith, X-Men: The Last Stand, Jumper, Sherlock Holmes, X-Men: First Class1973 - Mike Venafro
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, TB Devil Rays, LA Dodgers1974 - Angel Boris
model: Playboy Playmate of the Month [July 1996]; actress: Viper, Beverly Hills 90210, The Still Life, Boa vs. Python, Epoch: Evolution, Peak Experience, Suicide Blonde, Interceptors, Always Something Better1974 - Jeremy Castle
songwriter, singer: I Wanna Make Her Mine, Ain’t It Time For Us To Say Goodbye, Anyway, Leavin’ Me Far Behind, Singin’ Again in Texas, Sleepin’ All Alone, Take My Ring Off Your Finger, You Ain’t Met My Girl; more1975 - Chris Liwienski
football [tackle]: Univ of Indiana; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins1975 - Michelle Thorne
actress [2000-2012]: X-rated films: Blue Kink, Ben Dover’s Polecats, TV Babes XXX, Alice: A Fairy Love Tale1976 - Sam Worthington
actor: Avatar, Terminator Salvation, Clash of the Titans, Wrath of the Titans, Somersault; video game voice: Call of Duty: Black Ops1977 - Edward Furlong
actor: Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Detroit Rock City, American History X, Pet Sematary II1979 - Kris Knight
actor [2003-2011]: X-rated films: M.I.A. (MILFs in Action), Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, Dirty Tortilla, Naked Surrender, Jackin’ the Beanstalk1979 - Colby Lewis
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers1980 - Dingdong Dantes
model, actor: Moments of Love, Mulawin: The Movie, Spirit of the Glass, Bahay ni Lola 2, Annie B., Huling yakap sa tag-araw, Honey, My Love, So Sweet1980 - Aaron Staton
actor: Mad Men, Law & Order: SVU, 7th Heaven, The Good Wife, Without a Trace, Person of Interest1981 - Gen Padova
actress [2001-2011]: X-rated films: Make Mine a Double, Pleasure Freaks, Screwing 101, Young Euro Fever1983 - Danica Stewart
actress: Passions, Bottom’s Up, Self Medicated, The Last Run, Home of the Brave1984 - Brandon Browner
football [cornerback]: NFL: Denver Broncos [2005–2006]; Calgary Stampeders [2007–2010] Seattle Seahawks [2011–2013]; New England Patriots [2014]; New Orleans Saints [2015]1985 - Ms. Panther
actress [2005-2011]: X-rated films: Mamas Gone White, White Kong Dong, Cash For Chunkers, Thick Black Boobalicious Babes, BOOB Stravaganza!1986 - Chayse Evans
actress [2007-2012]: X-rated films: Big Booty Buffet, Frankencock, POV Blow Pops, Interracial Blow Bang, Malice in Lalaland1987 - Missy Nicole
actress [2006-2011]: X-rated films: Gorgeous Teen Nymphos Wrap Your Toes around My Hose, Tamed Teens, Toys Then Boys1988 - Meghan Klingenberg
footballer [defender]: U.S. women‘s soccer [2011-2017]: 2015 World Cup champs; more1988 - Golden Tate
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2010–2013]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs; Detroit Lions [2014–2018]; Philadelphia Eagles [2018]; New York Giants [2019–2020]1992 - Hallie Eisenberg
actress: Paulie, The Insider, Bicentennial Man, Beautiful, The Miracle Worker [TV 2000], The Goodbye Girl [2004], P.J.; Broadway: The Women1995 - Kristaps Porziņģis
basketball center: NBA: New York Knicks [2015–2019], All-Star [2018]; Dallas Mavericks [2019–2022]; Washington Wizards [2022–2023]; Boston Celtics [2023– ]1999 - Mark Lee
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