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1890 - Denton ‘Cy’ Young pitched his first major-league baseball game on this day. He led the Cleveland Spiders past the Chicago White Sox. Young went on to enjoy a great baseball career, winning a total of 511 games (95 more than second place Walter Johnson) ... averaging more than 23 victories over 22 seasons, playing for Cleveland, St. Louis, and Boston (where he played in the first World Series, and won). The Cy Young Award was established in 1956, when the Baseball Writer's Association of America bestowed the honor on the best pitcher in major-league baseball for that year. The award has been presented every year since. In fact, from 1967 on, two Cy Young awards have been presented annually to the best pitcher in each major league.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia as World War I expanded.
1921 - The first tennis match on radio was broadcast on KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Davis Cup match between Great Britain and Australia was aired; but much to the wonderment of KDKA’s listeners. Tennis anyone? On radio? It rates right up there with radio wrestling or, maybe, pantomime...
1926 - Nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle from New York became the first woman to swim the English Channel and she picked this day to do it. She accomplished the feat in 14 hours and 31 minutes, breaking the men’s record by 2 hours.
1926 - You would have paid $10 a seat to see the first talking picture, Don Juan, starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor. The movie was shown at New York’s Warners’ Theatre on this day in glorious black and white, but using the Vitaphone system, combining pictures and sound in movies for the first time.
1928 - One of radio’s first serials was heard as Real Folks (a.k.a. Real Folks from Thompkins Corner) debuted on NBC.
1930 - Joseph Crater, 41 years old and a New York Supreme Court Justice, mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. His wife, Estelle, declared Judge Crater to be legally dead in 1937.
1939 - After becoming a success with Ben Bernie on network radio, Dinah Shore started her own show on the NBC Blue radio network. Dinah sang every Sunday evening. Dinah also had a successful TV career spanning over two decades.
1945 - More than 200,000 civilians died from the explosion and/or radiation when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time an atomic bomb had been dropped over a populated place; and the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in warfare. The aftereffects of this WWII event are still felt today.
1948 - Seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias won the decathlon competition at the Olympic Games being held in London, England.
1949 - Chicago White Sox baseball star Luke Appling played in the 2,154th game at shortstop (breaking Rabbit Maranville’s record) of his 19-year, major-league career.
1952 - Satchel Paige, at age 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major-league baseball game. Paige shutout the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in a 12-inning game.
1962 - After 307 years, Jamaica gained its independence from Great Britain and became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1967 - Dean Chance of the Minnesota Twins pitched five innings of perfect baseball, leading his team to victory over the Boston Red Sox. Chance was only the third player to pitch a shortened, perfect game.
1969 - Willie ‘Pops’ Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit the first fair ball to sail completely out of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Willie Stargell’s blast measured 506 feet from home plate.
1971 - Chay Blyth finished the first solo world sail against prevailing winds. The record-setting trip took 292 days.
1973 - After one of the biggest promotional blitzes in TV history, writer/reporter Sally Quinn joined Hughes Rudd as co-host of the CBS Morning News. Not long after her TV debut, Quinn found that she wasn’t suited so much for TV and went back to writing for The Washington Post.
1973 - Stevie Wonder came close to losing his life, following a freak auto accident. Wonder, one of Motown’s most popular recording artists, was in a coma for 10 days. Miraculously, he recovered and was back in the recording studio in less than eight weeks.
1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator from 1952-1959, died in Spain. He had fled Cuba after being overthrown by Fidel Castro.
1978 - Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, died of a heart attack in his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo at age 80. He had led the Roman Catholic church for 15 years.
1981 - Stevie Nicks’ first solo album, Bella Donna, was released. The lead singer for Fleetwood Mac scored a top-three hit with Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around (9/05/81) from the album. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were featured on the track. Nicks went on to record a total of 11 hits for the pop-rock charts through 1988.
1981 - Golfing legend Lee Trevino was disqualified from the PGA Championship in Duluth, GA when the ‘Super Mex’ had his scorecard signed by Tom Weiskopf instead of himself. Ouch!
1986 - Timothy Dalton became the fourth actor to be named “Bond ... James Bond.” Dalton, 38, and his studio, United Artists, ended months of speculation as to who would star as Agent 007 in the 15th James Bond film. The character of Bond was created by writer Ian Fleming. Other stars to play the role of the suave, debonair and deadly double agent include: Roger Moore, Sean Connery and George Lazenby, with Pierce Brosnan as the James Bond for the 1990s.
1986 - Phil Katz released his file compression program, PKARC version 1.0, for IBM computers. (Katz died on April 14, 2000 from complications related to chronic alcoholism -- at 37 years of age.)
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to order a worldwide embargo on trade with Iraq to punish the Saddam Hussein regime for invading Kuwait.
1991 - TV newsman Harry Reasoner died in Norwalk, CT. He was 68 years old.
1992 - Americans led by Carl Lewis swept the long jump at the Barcelona Summer Olympics, while Kevin Young won the 400-meter hurdles and Mike Marsh the 200 meters.
1993 - Louis Freeh was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be director of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1994 - Italian singer Domenico Modugno, whose Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) topped the charts in 1958, died of a heart attack near his home on the island of Lampedusa off Sicily in Italy. He was 66 year old.
1995 - Thousands of people in Hiroshima, Japan, set glowing lanterns afloat in rivers, capping a day of tributes on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
1996 - NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin announced the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago. The evidence came from a fossil found on a meteorite in Antarctica believed to have come from Mars billions of years ago.
1997 - A Korean Air Boeing 747, Flight 801, plowed into a hillside short of the Guam International Airport, killing 226 of the 254 aboard. “There was a big ball of fire just before the crash,” said Rudy Delos-Santos, a reporter at radio station KOKU who lives near the crash site. The South Korean plane “plowed through the jungle for a minute or so before it came to a rest.” The impact broke the fuselage into six pieces. The tail, with its distinctive Korean Air logo, was the only part of the plane still recognizable.
1998 - Monica Lewinsky testified before a federal grand jury for 8 1/2 hours, during which she admitted having a sexual affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1999 - Two memorable movies opened in U.S. theatres. The Sixth Sense, with Bruce Willis starring as a child psychologist and Haley Joel Osment, who plays an 8-year-old who is visited by ghosts. As of July 24, 2001, it had rung up $293,501,675 at the box office. Not nearly so successful, but great fun just the same, was The Thomas Crown Affair. Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo starred in this redo of the 1968 Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway flick and it went on to garner some $124 million at the box office.
1999 - Also opening this day: The animated The Iron Giant, featuring the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Mcdonald, John Mahoney, Eli Marienthal and M. Emmet Walsh; and Mystery Men, an action, comedy with Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Janeane Garofalo, Greg Kinnear, William H. Macy, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Stiller, Wes Studi and Pras.
1999 - Tony Gwynn became the 22nd baseball major leaguer to reach three-thousand hits.
2000 - Workers at Verizon, the largest local telephone company in the U.S., went on strike over working conditions and union representation. It turned out to be an 18-day walk-out.
2001 - Harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler died in London at 87 years of age. Adler was known for his original collaborations with musicians such as George Gershwin, Kate Bush, Sting and composer Vaughan Williams, but also his own virtuoso performances.
2001 - Brazilian author Jorge Amado died. He was 88 years old. Amado was the grand old man of Brazilian literature. In a writing career that spanned six decades, Amado did more than any other writer in the 20th century to shape his Brazil’s self-image at home and abroad.
2001 - Banamex (Banco Nacional de MexicoBanco Nacional de Mexico) was acquired by Citigroup in a $12.5 billion deal.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed the Trade Act of 2002 The law restored broad trade negotiating authority to U.S. presidents.
2002 - Surgeons in Los Angeles completed a 22-hour operation on conjoined Guatemalan twins, Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez and sister Maria Teresa. UCLA doctors donated their services in the $1.5 million operation. The twins returned to Guatemala Jan 13, 2003.
2003 - Freaky Friday opened across the U.S. The Disney Comedy stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky, Christina Vidal, Julie Gonzalo, Harold Gould, Haley Hudson and Ryan Mulgarini.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger told Jay Leno and a national TV audience on The Tonight Show of his candidacy to replace Gray Davis as governor of California.
2004 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Code 46, starring Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Jeanne Balibar, Togo Igawa, Essie Davis, Nina Fogg, Bruno Lastra, Emil Marwa, Nabil Massad, Taro Sherabayani, Christopher Simpson and Benedict Wong; Collateral, with Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill, Dennis Farina, Irma Hall, Javier Bardem and Bodhi Elfman; and Little Black Book, starring Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Kathy Bates, Holly Hunter, Rashida Jones, Sharon Lawrence, Josie Maran, Julianne Nicholson, Jason Antoon, Samantha Murphy, Rick Overton, Gavin Rossdale and Kevin Sussman.
2004 - Funk legend Rick James died at 56 years of age. James was best known for his 1981 hit Super Freak -- before his career disintegrated amid drug use and violence that sent him to prison.
2005 - British politician and former Cabinet Minister Robin Cook died suddenly at the age of 59.
2005 - Cuban veteran singer Ibrahim Ferrer died in Havana at 78 years of age. Ferrer was the front man of the Buena Vista Social Club band.
2006 - Tigers Woods captured the Buick Open championship (with a 23-under-par 198) and became the youngest player to win fifty career championships.
2007 - American Home Mortgage Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection. It was a casualty of the U.S. mortgage industry plunged into distress.
2008 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy drama stars Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Jesse Williams.
2009 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Justice Sonia Sotomajor to the Supreme Court on a largely partisan vote of 68-31.
2009 - Two well-dressed thieves walked into a London Bond Street jewelry store and, after brandishing handguns at shop workers, made off with some $65 million worth of gems. A total of 10 male suspects were eventually arrested in connection with the robbery.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Cairo Time, with Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig and Elena Anaya; Flipped, starring Aidan Quinn, Morgan Lily, Rebecca De Mornay, Penelope Ann Miller and Anthony Edwards; Step Up 3-D, with Harry Shum Jr., Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Kylie Goldstein and Rick Malambri; The Disappearance of Alice Creed, with Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan; The Other Guys, starring Mark Wahlberg, Will Ferrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Lindsay Sloane and Dwayne Johnson; The Wildest Dream, with Conrad Anker, Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes, Leo Houlding and Liam Neeson; and Twelve, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Emma Roberts, Chace Crawford, Ellen Barkin and Zoë Kravitz.
2010 - Britain and Pakistan agreed to do more together to fight Islamist militancy. Pakistan’s visiting President Asif Ali Zardari held official talks with Prime Minister David Cameron, a week after the British leader had ignited a diplomatic row by accusing Pakistan of exporting terrorism.
2011 - AntiSec, a computer hacker group made up of members of Anonymous and LulzSec, bragged that it had hacked into some 70 law enforcement Web sites across the southern and central United States. Some of the material that was stolen carried sensitive information, including tips about suspected crimes, profiles of gang members and security training. AntiSec said the attacks were an attempt at retaliation for arrests of some Anonymous sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain.
2012 - The New York State Department of Financial Services charged that London-based Standard Chartered Bank schemed with the Iranian government to launder $250 billion between 2001 and 2007. Standard Chartered agreed (a week later) to pay $340 million to settle the claims that it laundered tainted money for Iran -- and lied to regulators.
2013 - Masked farmers dumped pallets holding tens of thousands of eggs in front of a grocery store in Ploumagoar, France. Actions like this had been going on for several nights in the region due to low egg prices. Over-production and expensive renovations to meet new European norms on hen houses had reduced egg farmer incomes.
2013 - 18-year-old Colombia-born Israel Hernandez-Llach died after Miami Beach police shocked him with a Taser as he ran away from officers who caught him spray-painting the wall of a McDonald’s.
2014 - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its highest alert amid the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
2015 - Cleveland, Ohio was the scene of first major Republican debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump grabbed the most headlines from the night, but the prime-time debate didn’t yield a clear victor. Debating Trump were former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
2015 - Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton opened at the Richard Rogers Theatre in New York. The big Broadway musical incorporates hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes and employs color-conscious casting of non-white actors as the Founding Fathers and other historical figures. In 2016 Hamilton received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations, winning 11, including Best Musical. It was also the recipient of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album -- and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2016 - A fast-moving fire that appeared to be accidental swept through a birthday party in a basement bar in northwest France, killing 13 people and injuring six others. More than 80 firefighters battled the blaze at the downtown Cuba Libre bar in the city of Rouen, Mayor Yvon Robert said, calling the fire “very brief.”
2016 - Ginny Thrasher (USA), just 19 years of age, won the first gold medal of the Rio games by edging Chinese veterans Du Li and Yi Siling in Women’s 10m air rifle. Thrasher finished with a final score of 208, a full point ahead of Li. Yi Siling was third at 185.4. Thrasher was the first American to medal in the 10m air rifle event since Nancy Johnson won gold in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
2017 - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, while meeting with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in Manila, urged his North Korean counterpart to abide by U.N. resolutions. Wang urged North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un to stop provoking “the international community’s goodwill” with missile launches and nuclear tests.
2018 - The Trump administration imposed economic sanctions on Iran, restoring penalties that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord.
2018 - Rick Gates, the star prosecution witness in the financial fraud trial of Paul Manafort, testified that he had embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Manafort, former campaign manager for POTUS Donald Trump. Gates also said he and Manafort had committed crimes together.
2019 - Apple Inc rolled out its virtual credit card, in conjunction with Goldman Sachs bank. The new iPhone add-on was expected to help Apple diversify from device sales -- and build out the Wall Street bank’s new consumer business.
2020 - POTUS Trump signed executive orders barring transactions with TikTok and WeChat, two popular Chinese social media networks. On June 9, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order revoking the Trump ban on WeChat and TikTok. Instead, Biden directed the commerce secretary to investigate foreign influence enacted through the apps.
2020 - The U.S. government sent text messages to cellphones in Russia and Iran offering up to $10 million for information about people trying to attack American voting systems. No word on anyone ever taking the U.S. up on that offer.
2020 - British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc said Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products will produce the company’s potential COVID-19 vaccine in mainland China.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Suicide Squad, starring Margot Robbie, Idris Elba and John Cena; 6:45, with Thomas G. Waites, Augie Duke and Armen Garo; Annette, starring Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard and Simon Helberg; Even in Dreams, with Alison Arngrim, Monica Moore Smith and Tanner Gillman; John and the Hole, starring Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Ehle; She Ball, with Rosa Acosta, K.D. Aubert and Karina Bonnefil; Swan Song, starring Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge and Linda Evans; and Whirlybird, with Marika Gerrard, Katy Tur and Zoey Tur.
2021 - California’s Dixie Fire, named for the road where it started, spanned an area of 679 square miles (1,760 square km) and was just 21% contained. No injuries or deaths had been reported up to this point.
2021 - New York City police officers arrested two Myanmar citizens on charges of plotting to violently attack Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations. Myanmar’s military junta had repeatedly tried to remove Tun from the U.N. position, but the General Assembly had not accredited his proposed replacement.
2021 - In Italy, a “Green Pass” became a requirement for entry to archaeological sites, gyms, theaters, indoor pools and the indoor sections of restaurants, bars and cafes. To obtain a “Green Pass”, individuals had to show they had received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine approved for use in the E.U., had recovered from COVID-19 in the past six months or had negative lab results from a test done within the previous 48 hours. (The “Green Pass” requirement was dropped as of June 1, 2022)
2021 - Tokyo Olympics news: 1)Faith Kipyegon of Kenya retained her Olympic 1,500m title in Olympic Record time of 3:53.11; 2)Jamaican 100/200m champion Elaine Thompson-Herah won her third track gold medal of the games -- as part of the winning Jamaican 4x100m relay team.
2022 - A lightning strike at the Matanzas Supertanker oil storage facility in Cuba set off a series of explosions and a fire that injured 121 people and left 17 firefighters missing. Some 800 people were evacuated from the neighborhood closest to the fire. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Twitter that he had received offers of aid from the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Argentina, and Chile.
2023 - The Barbie film passed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and became the the highest-grossing film by a solo female director, (Greta Gerwig) -- and earned her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
2023 - Overnight shelling throughout Ukraine killed at least three people. One of the attacks, via a Russian-led guided bomb, had landed on a blood transfusion center, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The attacks came as senior officials from 40 countries, including China, India and the United States, held talks in Saudi Arabia on how to get Russia to end its bloody war against Ukraine.
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Birthdays on This Day August 6
1809 - Alfred Tennyson
England’s Poet Laureate [1850]: The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam, The Lady of Shalott, The Lotuseaters, The Idylls of the King, Maud, Enoch Arden, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After; died Oct 6, 18921881 - Leo Carrillo
actor: The Cisco Kid, Pancho Villa Returns, One Night in the Tropics, Phantom of the Opera [1943]; died Sep 10, 19611881 - Sir Alexander Fleming
Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1945]: discovered penicillin; died Mar 11, 19551881 - Louella Parsons (Oettinger)
gossip columnist: competed in print and on radio with nemesis Hedda Hopper; died Dec 9, 19721883 - Scott Nearing
sociologist and natural-food advocate, author [w/wife]: Living the Good Life; Nearing lived to 100 years; died Aug 24, 19831892 - Hoot (Edmund Richard) Gibson
actor: Death Valley Rangers, Frontier Justice, The Marshal’s Daughter, The Prairie King, Sonora Stagecoach, Wild Horse, Roaring Ranch, Fighting Parson; died Aug 23, 19621908 - Helen Hull Jacobs
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1936], U.S. Open [1932, 1933, 1934, 1935]; died June 2, 19971911 - Lucille Ball
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: I Love Lucy [1952, 1953], The Lucy Show [1966-67, 1967-68], 12th Annual Atlas Governor’s Award [1988-89]; The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour, Yours, Mine and Ours, Mame; died April 26, 19891917 - Robert Mitchum
actor: The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Cape Fear, A Family for Joe, African Skies, Night of the Hunter, The Story of G.I. Joe; commercials: “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.”; died July 1, 19971921 - Buddy (William) Collette
musician: reeds, piano, composer: LPs: Now and Then, Blockbuster; died Sep 19, 20101922 - Doug Ford
golf champion: Masters [1957], PGA [1955]; died May 14, 20181927 - Lois Nettleton
actress: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, You Can’t Take It with You, In the Heat of the Night, Centennial, Accidental Family; died Jan 18, 20081928 - Andy Warhol (Warhola)
filmmaker, pop artist: Campbell Soup; “In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.”; died Feb 22, 19871930 - Abbey Lincoln (Anna Marie Wooldridge)
songwriter, singer: Abbey Lincoln’s Affair: A Story of a Girl in Love, We Insist: Freedom Now Suite, Straight Ahead, The World Is Falling Down; actress: The Girl Can’t Help It, For Love of Ivy, Mo’ Better Blues; died Aug 14, 20101938 - Paul Bartel
writer, director, actor: Eating Raoul; writer, director: Not for Publication, Cannonball; director, actor: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills; director: The Longshot, Lust in the Dust, The Secret Cinema, Death Race 2000, Private Parts; actor: The Usual Suspects, The Jerky Boys, Number One Fan, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Rock ’n’ Roll High School, Hollywood Boulevard; died May 13, 20001938 - Peter Bonerz
actor: The Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5; director: Murphy Brown1938 - Bert Yancey
golf: Charlie Bartlett Award: 1978; died Aug 26, 19941941 - Ray (Raymond Leonard) Culp
baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1963], Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1969]1943 - Ray Buktenica
actor: Rhoda, House Calls, Life Goes On1944 - Ed Sneed
golf: PGA champ: 1973 Kaiser International [1973], 1974 Greater Milwaukee Open [1974], 1977 Tallahassee Open [1977], Michelob-Houston Open [1982]; TV golf analyst1945 - Andy (John Alexander) Messersmith
baseball: pitcher: California Angels [all-star: 1971], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974/all-star: 1974, 1975], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1976], NY Yankees1947 - Ken Riley
football: Cincinnati Bengals cornerback: Super Bowl XVI1950 - Dorian Harewood
actor: Sudden Death, Pacific Heights, Full Metal Jacket, Against All Odds, An American Christmas Carol, Sparkle, Viper, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, Trauma Center, Strike Force, Roots: The Next Generation, Glitter, Capitol Critters [voice of Moze]1951 - Catherine Hicks
actress: 7th Heaven, Marilyn, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Bad News Bears, Ryan’s Hope, Tucker’s Witch, Star Trek 41951 - Daryl Somers
TV host: Dancing With the Stars, Family Feud, Hey Hey, It’s Saturday1952 - Pat MacDonald
musician: groups: Essentials, Barbara K, Cat’s Away, Timbuk 3: The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades, All I Want for Christmas1956 - Stepfanie Kramer
actress: Hunter TV series, The Dogwalker, Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie, Twin Sisters, Take My Daughters, Please, The Man With Two Brains1958 - Randy DeBarge
musician: bass, vocals: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night, I Like It, All this Love, Time Will Reveal1961 - Cara Lott
actress [1981-2009]: X-rated films: The Erotic Adventures of Dr. Storm, Inside Little Oral Annie, From Russia with Lust, Scent of a Wild Woman, Mature Kink Orgy1962 - Michelle Yeoh
actress: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies, Jackie Chan: My Story, Moonlight Express, Yes, Madam, Reign of Assassins, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Kung Fu Panda 21965 - Marc Davis
actor [1993-2012]: X-rated films: Seymore Butts Goes Nuts, Passenger 69, Nurse Tails, Butt Banged Bicycle Babes, Robin Hood: Thief of Wives1965 - David Robinson
Olympic Gold Medalist: 1992 basketball Dream Team; San Antonio Spurs center: NBA Rookie of the Year [1990]1966 - Stan Belinda
baseball [pitcher]: Allegany Community College; Pittsburgh Pirates, KC Royals, Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves1967 - Mike Greenberg
sports TV host: half of the Mike and Mike morning duo on ESPN radio1968 - Lisa Boyle
model: Playboy Playmate [Oct 1995]; actress: Pray for Power, Let the Devil Wear Black, Face/Off, The Nutty Professor [1996], Dreammaster: The Erotic Invader, Showgirls1969 - Elliott Smith
musician: guitar; songwriter, singer: Miss Misery [Good Will Hunting]; died Oct 21, 20031970 - M. Night Shyamalan
screenwriter, film director, producer: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, The Happening, The Last Airbender, Devil1971 - Merrin Dungey
actress: The King of Queens, Alias, Summerland, Scream at the Sound of the Beep, L!fe Happens, Revenge, Hollywood Heights1972 - Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice)
singer: group: Spice Girls: LPs: Forever, Spice, Goodbye, Spiceworld; solo: LP: Schizophonic1972 - Ray Lucas
football [quarterback]: Rutgers Univ; NFL: New England Patriots [1996], New York Jets [1997–2000], Miami Dolphins [2001–2002], Baltimore Ravens [2003]1973 - Asia Carrera
actress [1993-2005]: X-rated films: Twin Peeks, Vagablonde, Interview with a Vamp, Bed & Breakfast, Bangkok Booberella, Encino Housewife Hookers, A is for Asia, Planet of the Babes, Deep Inside Asia Carrera, Betrayal, Love @ First Byte, Free Ride, Misty Beethoven: The Musical!1973 - Vera Farmiga
actress: Up in the Air, Orphan, Henry’s Crime, Source Code, Bates Motel, Safe House, Goats, The Conjuring1976 - Melissa George
actress: Home and Away, Dark City, Hollyweird, Sugar & Spice, Mulholland Drive, Thieves1976 - Soleil Moon Frye
actress: Punky Brewster, The Liar’s Club, The St. Tammany Miracle1977 - Jennifer Lyons
actress: The Ones, Holyman Undercover, Killer Pad, To Kill a Mockumentary, Roomies, Devil’s Prey, Soccer Dog: The Movie1977 - Pierson Prioleau
football [safety]: Virginia Tech; NFL: SF 49ers, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins1981 - Leslie Odom Jr.
actor: Broadway: Hamilton, Rent; films, TV: Smash, CSI: Miami, Person of Interest, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Red Tails1985 - Webb Simpson
golf champ: 2012 U.S. Open, Wyndham Championship [2011], Deutsche Bank Championship [2011]1987 - Charley Chase
actress [2007-2012]: X-rated films: Blo for the Gold, The Sex Files 2 – A Dark XXX Parody, Tristan Taormino’s Expert Guide to Advanced Fellatio, Party of Feet 2, Slutty & Sluttier, Wet Dream on Elm Street1991 - Wilmer Flores
baseball [infielder]: New York Mets [2013-2018]: 2015 World Series; Arizona Diamondbacks [2019]1991 - Kacey Rohl
actress: Wayward Pines, The Killing, Red Riding Hood, Hannibal1995 - Amy Forsyth
actress: TV: The Path, Channel Zero, Rise, Defiance, The Gilded Age; films: A Christmas Horror Story, Hell Fest, We Summon the Darkness, Beautiful Boy, CODA, The Novice2001 - Ty Simpkins
actor: Insidious film series, Jurassic World, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Endgame, The Whale
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Hit Music on This Day August 6
1945The More I See You (facts) - Dick Haymes
Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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