August 9
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Events on This Day
1831 - The first steam locomotive train began its inaugural run, between Albany and Schenectady, in New York.1859 - Nathan Ames of Saugus, MA patented a revolving stairway, later to be known as the escalator. Please hold on to the handrails, make sure you are wearing shoes and secure all personal belongings -- including small children. And, just because these things tend to run slow, that’s no excuse for running up the escalator steps, OK? Thank you.
1902 - Edward VII was crowned (Westminster Abbey) King of Great Britian and Ireland after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1910 - Alva J. Fisher of Chicago, IL received a patent for an invention that moms, grandmas and single guys certainly came to appreciate: the electric washing machine. Previous to Mr. Fisher’s invention, washing machines were cranked by hand (not easily done) -- or you used a washboard (also sometimes used as a musical instrument).
1932 - Helen Morgan joined the Victor Young orchestra to record Bill, a popular tune from Broadway’s Showboat.
1936 - Jesse Owens became the first American to win four medals in one Olympics. Owens ran one leg of the winning 400-meter relay team in Berlin. His three other gold medals were won in the 100-meter, 200-meter and the long jump events.
1942 - CBS radio debuted Our Secret Weapon. It was a program that featured crime writer Rex Stout, who countered lies being broadcast by the Axis powers through shortwave radio.
1944 - Smokey Bear, an advertising character by the U.S. Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council, made his debut on a poster promoting forest-fire prevention. Remember, “Only you can prevent forest fires.”
1945 - ‘Fat Man’, a plutonium bomb carried by the U.S.A. B-29 bomber, Bockscar, was scheduled to be dropped on the Japanese city of Kokura. It was three days after the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The weather made visibility poor, so the aircraft passed Kokura and chose its secondary target, Nagasaki. Fat Man destroyed over half of Nagasaki and killed more than 70,000 people. This brought the end of World War II. Japan surrendered unconditionally the following day.
1957 - Paul Anka, at fifteen years of age, was headed up the pop charts with Diana. The single spent nine weeks (out of a total of eighteen on the charts) at #1.
1963 - The TV program Ready Steady Go! premiered on ITV in London, England. RSG!, produced by Rediffusion, London, was designed to rival the BBC’s Top of the Pops by giving exposure to such music luminaries as Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.
1965 - Singapore proclaimed its independence from the Malaysian Federation.
1969 - Hot Fun in The Summertime, by Sly and the Family Stone, and Easy to Be Hard, from the Broadway production Hair, were released on this day. Hot Fun made it to number two on the music charts (10/18/69) and Easy to Be Hard climbed to number four (9/27/69).
1969 - Four members of Cult leader Charles Manson committed one of Los Angeles’ most heinous crimes. Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian (all under the direction of Manson) entered the home of movie director Roman Polanski and brutally murdered Polanski’s wife (actress Sharon Tate), movie director Voityck Frykowski, famous hair stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent and coffee heiress Abigail Folger.
1971 - LeRoy Satchel Paige, one of baseball’s pitching legends, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1974 - At noon on this day, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s resignation was official. Mr. Nixon, the subject of the Watergate scandal, had been facing possible impeachment. The previous evening he had given a speech to the American people announcing his resignation. He was the first U.S. President to resign.
1975 - New Orleans, Louisiana was full of celebration -- and it wasn’t even Mardi Gras time. The Superdome was opened as the hometown Saints met the Houston Oilers in an exhibition football game. The Oilers won handily, 31-7, in what was described as “a very lackluster” game. There is nothing lackluster about the Superdome though. The Superdome cost $163 million to construct -- and really is super!
1981 - Major-league baseball teams resumed play at the conclusion of the first mid-season players’ strike. The first game on the schedule following the bitter strike was the All-Star Game. The National League won the game 5-4. 72,086 diehard baseball fans (a record) came out to see the game at Cleveland’s cavernous Municipal Stadium -- and welcome the players back.
1984 - Daley Thompson of Great Britain won the Olympic decathlon at the Summer Games in Los Angeles. Thompson joined Bob Mathias as the only decathletes to win back-to-back gold medals in the event.
1987 - The Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH welcomed Larry Csonka, Len Dawson, ‘Mean’ Joe Greene, John Henry Johnson, Jim Langer, Don Maynard and Gene Upshaw into the sports shrine.
1988 - President Reagan nominated Lauro F. Cavazos to be secretary of education. Cavazos was the first Hispanic in U.S. history to be named to a cabinet position. On Sep 20, 1988, he was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. President George Bush (I) asked him to continue as Secretary following the Nov 1988 election and he remained in that position until resigning in December 1990.
1992 - Closing ceremonies were held for the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The Unified Team of former Soviet republics winning 112 medals to 108 for the United States.
1993 - Charges were brought against Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss for running an up-scale call-girl operation in Los Angeles.
1995 - Jerry Garcia, 53-year-old guitarist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, died at a Northern California residential drug treatment center. Cause of death was a heart attack.
1996 - Movies debuting the U.S. theatres: Basquiat, with Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Claire Forlani, Benicio Del Toro, David Bowie and Dennis Hopper; John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A., starring Kurt Russell, Cliff Robertson, Steve Buscemi, Stacey Keach, George Corraface, Peter Fonda, Bruce Campbell, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier and A.J. Langer.
1996 - Sir Frank A. Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, died. He was 89 years old.
1997 - New York City police officer Justin Volpe sodomized Abner Louima in the bathroom of the 70th precinct in Brooklyn. In 1999, Volpe was sentenced to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $277,495 in restitution. In 2001, a settlement awarded Louima $8.75 million.
1998 - Engineers dynamited levees along the Yangtze River to ease the worst flooding in 44 years. The floods killed some 2,000 people.
1999 - “She meant everything to me,” said actor William Shatner after the death of his wife, Nerine. He had found her dead in the swimming pool of their Studio City, California home. “My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.”
1999 - “On a grand night for hitters, pitchers got slammed,” as AP sports writer Ronald Blum put it, “for the first time in 129 years of major league baseball, five grand slams were hit in one day.” 1) Fernando Tatis (St. Louis Cardinals), 2) Jose Vidro (Montreal Expos), 3) Mike Lowell (Florida Marlins), 4) Bernie Williams (NY Yankees) ... 5) Jay Buhner of the Seattle Mariners, being the last to hit the slam, actually set the record.
2000 - Bridgestone Corp. announced that it was recalling 6.5 million of its Firestone branded tires -- that had been implicated in hundreds of crashes, resulting in at least 46 deaths.
2001 - The Irish Republican Army offered publicly to put its arsenal of weapons “completely and verifiably beyond use.”
2002 - These films opened in the U.S.: Blood Work, starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh and Anjelica Huston; and xXx (“A New Breed of Secret Agent”), starring Vin Diesel, Samuel L. Jackson, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas and Joe Bucaro III.
2002 - Oscar-winning actor and NRA president Charlton Heston, 78, revealed that he had Alzheimer’s disease. Heston said doctors have told him he was “suffering symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s.”
2002 - Barry Bonds (SF Giants) hit his 600th home run, joining the ranks of Willie Mays (660), Babe Ruth (714) and Henry Aaron (755).
2003 - Gregory Hines, considered one of the great tap dancers of his generation, died of cancer in Los Angeles. He was 57 years old.
2004 - District Judge Steven Taylor (in McAlester, OK) sentenced Terry Nichols to 161 consecutive life sentences for the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing.
2005 - Israel ordered its settlers on the Gaza Strip to leave their settlements or face eviction.
2006 - World Trade Center opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jay Hernandez.
2006 - Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across southern and western India. 4.5 million people were forced out of their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water.
2007 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to help Ecuador build a $5-billion oil refinery, as the socialist leader pledged to spread his government’s oil wealth to the South American ally.
2007 - All 20 people onboard a flight to Tahiti in French Polynesia were killed in a plane crash off Moorea Island. The small airplane plunged into the sea moments after taking off. It was the territory’s worst-ever plane crash.
2008 - Actor and comedian Bernie Mac died (complications from pneumonia) in Chicago two months short of his 51st birthday. Mac had teamed up in the casino heist caper Ocean’s Eleven and won a Peabody Award for his sitcom The Bernie Mac Show.
2009 - Italian newspapers reported that burglars had made off with jewels and cash worth €11 million ($15.6 million) from the hotel room of a Saudi princess in Sardinia. The robbery sparked a diplomatic incident, but by Sep 15 Sardinia police said most of the jewels had been recovered.
2009 - Mexican lawyer Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, known for defending high-profile drug trafficking suspects, was shot to death at a street market in the northern city of Monterrey.
2010 - A U.S. federal court in Hawaii found Noshir Gowadia, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer, guilty of five criminal offenses relating to his design for China of a low signature cruise missile exhaust system capable of rendering a missile resistant to detection by infrared missiles.
2010 - A small plane crashed in Alaska killing former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (86) and 4 others on a mountainside at Bristol Bay. Four others survived the crash of the 1957 De Havilland DHC-3T.
2011 - The World Food Program [WFP] announced its shipment of 800 metric tons of high energy biscuits to East Africa to help fight the famine in Somalia. The U.N. food agency said the series of nine airlifts would be enough to feed 1.6 million people for one day.
2012 - The U.S. Postal Service reported losses of $57 million per day ($5.2 billion for the three months ending June 30, 2012) and warned it would be missing another payment due to the U.S. Treasury. A congressional mandate to prefund retirement health care benefits continued to cause the deep losses.
2012 - Broward County, Florida Sheriff’s deputies arrested Michael (46) and Margaret Pollara (70). They stole more than $2 million in expensive toys by stashing them inside the boxes of cheaper products that they bought at some 100 Toys R Us stores across the U.S. The mother and son team then sold the big-ticket items online.
2013 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Elysium, starring Matt Damon, William Fichtner, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, Talisa Soto, Diego Luna, Michael Shanks and Carly Pope; the animated Planes, featuring the voices of Val Kilmer, Teri Hatcher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dane Cook, Priyanka Chopra, John Cleese, Anthony Edwards, Brad Garrett, Stacy Keach, Larry the Cable Guy, Cedric the Entertainer, Sinbad, Roger Craig Smith, Carlos Alazraqui and Gabriel Iglesias; Jug Face, with Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Kaitlin Cullum, Larry Fessenden, David Greathouse and Katie Groshong; Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Juno Temple, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Chris Noth, Adam Brody and Hank Azaria; and Prince Avalanche, with Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsc, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne and Gina Grande.
2013 - Two of Germany’s biggest Internet service providers said they would start encrypting customers’ emails. This, in response to reports that the U.S. National Security Agency was monitoring international electronic communications.
2014 - Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager. Angry residents of the predominantly black St. Louis suburb confronted police with the unrest lasting several weeks.
2014 - Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart struck and killed sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr., who had climbed from his car and was on the darkened dirt track trying to confront Stewart during a race in upstate New York.
2015 - David Gonzalez became the 9th person gored to death at Spanish village fiestas during the summer of 2015. Gonzalez had tried to take a selfie with a charging bull on his mobile phone camera in Villaseca de la Sagra.
2016 - Green, not gold, was the color of the day at the Olympic diving venue. The divers at the 2016 Rio Olympics were landing in pristine, well-maintained, crystal-clear blue water one day and many noticed something ... different ... about the water the next day. It was turning green! A proliferation of algae caused by a sudden decrease in alkalinity was the culprit. Apparently the pool system had run out of some of the chemicals used in the water treatment process.
2016 - No such problems with the water in the racing pool as Michael Phelps won his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals. Phelps made up for one of the rare losses in his brilliant career by winning the 200-meter butterfly at the Rio Olympics, a victory that sent him climbing into the stands to kiss his 3-month-old son, Boomer. An hour later, he returned to take what amounted to nothing more than a triumphant victory lap in anchoring the 4x200 freestyle relay, the crowd’s deafening roar growing louder with every stroke. “That was probably one of my most challenging doubles,” the 31-year-old Phelps said. “Doing a double like that is a lot harder than it once was.”
2016 - Katie Ledecky held off Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom to win gold in the 200-meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics. Ledecky touched the finish in 1 minute, 53.73 seconds. The silver went to Sjostrom in 1:54.08, while early leader Emma McKeon won the bronze in 1:54.92. World-record holder Federica Pelligrini of Italy was fourth.
2017 - The Trump administration imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials, including the brother of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez. This, to punish the officials for helping President Nicolas Maduro create a new legislative superbody.
2017 - U.S. credit card processing company Vantiv, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that it was buying British rival WorldPay. The $10.4-billion (£8-billion) deal created a giant in the online payments sector. The combined company processes about $1.5 trillion of payments annually, through over 300 payment methods, in 146 countries.
2018 - VP Mike Pence announced ambitious plans to create a U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military war-fighting service -- by 2020.
2018 - Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for an area in and around Lake Elsinore in southern California where more than 21,000 people were evacuated. Flames and billowing smoke rose into the sky at the edge of the city of 60,000 as the blaze, dubbed the Holy Fire, burned in the nearby Santa Ana Mountains. In Northern California, a mechanic helping to fight the Carr Fire, burning around Redding, was killed in a traffic collision. The 181,000-acre Carr Fire was 51 percent contained. The Mendocino Complex Fire had burned 307,000 acres in three counties north of San Francisco.
2019 - New on U.S. theatre screens this day: The Art of Racing in the Rain, starring Kevin Costner, Milo Ventimiglia and Amanda Seyfried; Brian Banks, with Aldis Hodge, Greg Kinnear and Sherri Shepherd; Dora and the Lost City of Gold, with Isabela Moner, Benicio Del Toro, Q’orianka Kilcher; The Kitchen, starring Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy and Domhnall Gleeson; Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, with Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza and Gabriel Rush; After the Wedding, starring Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore and Billy Crudup; ECCO, with Lathrop Walker, Tabitha Bastien and Helena Grace Donald; Ode to Joy, starring Morena Baccarin, Melissa Rauch and Martin Freeman; and The Peanut Butter Falcon, with Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson and Zack Gottsagen.
2019 - A federal judge in Virginia ruled that a school board’s transgender bathroom ban discriminated against a former student. It was the latest in a string of decisions that favored transgender students who faced similar policies.
2019 - The Canadian government announced regulations to reduce patented drug prices it said would save Canadians C$13.2 billion ($10 billion) over a decade. The move came despite heavy opposition from pharmaceutical companies. Canada’s health minister, Ginette Petitpas Taylor said, “We are taking the biggest step in a generation to lower the price of drugs in Canada by moving forward with these regulations.”
2020 - A U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to Tucson, Arizona, was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. He was found with thousands of pills and substances that tested positive for cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.
2020 - The Indian Medical Association said 196 doctors had died of COVID-19 and the country recorded nearly 64,000 new cases, raising its total to 2,153,010.
2020 - The U.S. set a record for coronavirus cases, with more than 5 million people infected, according to a Reuters tally, as the country’s top infectious diseases official offered hope that an effective vaccine might be available by year-end. With one out of every 66 residents infected, the United States lead the world in COVID-19 cases, the country has recorded more than 160,000 deaths, nearly a quarter of the world’s total.
2021 - The head of a fund providing restitution to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuses awarded nearly $125 million to about 150 eligible claimants. The financier killed himself at age 66 in a Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. On this same day, Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, sued Prince Andrew in New York, saying that the scion of Britain’s royal family had raped and sexually abused her when she was 17.
2021 - The BBC reported that former Prime Minister David Cameron made $10 million from the Greensill financial services company that he lobbied for before its recent collapse.
2021 - As a herd of 14 elephants returned to the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve in Southern China, authorities evacuated 150,000 people from their path. The elephants, on their own, had taken a 500km (300-mile) trek across the country.
2022 - A federal appellate court panel ruled that the Internal Revenue Service must give former President Donald Trump’s federal income tax returns, and those of his businesses, to the House Ways and Means Committee. The 3-0 decision continued a series of court losses for Trump as he tried to shield his financial documents from investigators.
2022 - President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act, intended to boost U.S. semiconductor chip manufacturing with a more than $200 billion investment over five years. The legislation lowered the cost of goods and made the U.S. less dependent on foreign chip makers, helping avert the type of supply-chain disruptions triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. The White House said that companies had committed to nearly $50 billion in new investments in American semiconductor production in response to the new law.
2023 - President Joe Biden banned U.S. investments in key technology industries, that could be used to enhance Chinese military capabilities. Biden warned in an executive order that certain American investments may contribute to “the development of sensitive technologies and products in countries that develop them to counter U.S. and allied capabilities.” “I find that countries of concern are engaged in comprehensive, long-term strategies that direct, facilitate, or otherwise support advancements in sensitive technologies and products that are critical to such countries’ military, intelligence, surveillance, or cyber-enabled capabilities,” the president added.
2023 - Thousands of people were displaced by the raging wildfires that levelled the historic town of Lahaina. And nearly 11,000 Maui residents were still without power. There was widespread destruction in Lahaina. “Anything in the town center here is just completely devastated,” CNN’s Bill Weir reported. Brian Schatz, a U.S. senator from the state, said on social media that Lahaina was “almost totally burnt to the ground.”
2024 - Movies set to open in U.S. theatres included: Borderlands, starring Haley Bennett, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black; Cuckoo, with Hunter Schafer, Jan Bluthardt and Marton Csokas; and It Ends with Us, starring Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and Jenny Slate.
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Birthdays on This Day August 9
1593 - Izaak (Isaac) Walton
author: The Compleat Angler; died Dec 15, 1683
1901 - Charles Farrell
actor: My Little Margie; developer [w/Ralph Bellamy]: Palm Springs Racquet Club; died May 6, 19901902 - Zino (Rene) Francescatti
French concert violinist; died Sep 17, 19911918 - Robert Aldrich
film director: The Frisco Kid, The Longest Yard, The Killing of Sister George, The Dirty Dozen, The Flight of the Phoenix [1965], Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte; died Dec 5, 19831919 - Ralph (George ‘Major’) Houk
baseball: catcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1947, 1952]; manager: Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees; died Jul 21, 20101925 - Len Sutton
auto racer: finished second to teammate, Rodger Ward at 1962 Indianapolis 500 [by 11.52 seconds]; died Dec 4, 20061927 - Robert Shaw
actor: Battle of the Bulge, Black Sunday, The Deep, Force 10 from Navarone, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, Jaws; died Aug 28, 19781928 - Bob Cousy
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: NBA MVP [1957]; autobiography: The Killer Instinct; actor: Blue Chips1931 - Gene ‘Big Daddy’ Lipscomb (Eugene Allen Lipscomb)
football [defensive tackle]: U.S. Marine Corps; NFL: LA Rams, Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers; died May 10, 19631934 - Merle Kilgore
Songwriter Hall of Famer: Ring of Fire, More and More, Johnny Reb, Wolverton Mountain, Dear Mama, Love Has Made You Beautiful, Fast Talking Louisiana Man; died Feb 6, 20051936 - Julian (Manuel Liranzo) Javier
baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1963, 1968/World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968], Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972]1938 - Rod Laver
tennis champion: Australian Open [1960, 1962, 1969], French Open [1962, 1969], Wimbledon [1961, 1962, 1968, 1969], U.S. Open [1962, 1969]1939 - Billy Henderson
singer: group: Spinners: Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, One of a Kind [Love Affair], The Rubberband Man, They Just Can’t Stop It [Games People Play]; died Feb 2, 20071939 - Claude (Wilson) Osteen
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Senators, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1965, 1966/all-star: 1967, 1970, 1973], Houston Astros, SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox1942 - Tommy (Lee) Agee
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1966, 1967], NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Houston Astros, SL Cardinals; died Jan 22, 20011942 - David Steinberg
Emmy Award-winning comic writer: The 63rd & 64th Annual Academy Awards [1990-1991, 1991-1992]; TV host: The Music Scene; comedian: The David Steinberg Show, Second City1943 - Ken Norton
Boxing Hall of Famer: heavyweight boxing champ [1978]1944 - Sam Elliott
actor: 1883, MacGruber, Gettysburg, Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, TVs Mission Impossible, The Ranch1946 - Jim Kiick
football: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII1949 - Ted (Lyle) Simmons
baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979}, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1981, 1983/World Series: 1982], Atlanta Braves1951 - Steve (Steven Eugene) Swisher
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1976], SL Cardinals, SD Padres1952 - John Cappelletti
football: Penn State: Heisman Trophy Winner [1973]; LA Rams, San Diego Chargers1957 - Melanie Griffith
actress: Working Girl, Night Moves, Smile, A Stranger Among Us, Born Yesterday, Mulholland Falls, Lolita [1997], Crazy in Alabama; actress Tippi Hedren’s daughter1958 - Amanda Bearse
actress: Married......with Children; director: Dharma & Greg, Veronica’s Closet1959 - Michael Kors
sportswear fashion designer: worn by Olivia Wilde, Dakota Johnson, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, Kate Middleton, Lily Aldridge, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Rachel McAdams, Elissa, Heidi Klum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Obama; TV judge: Project Runway1959 - Kurtis Blow (Walker)
rapper; disc jockey1959 - Gerry Pike
actor [1991-1998]: X-rated films: Strange Sex in Strange Places, Confessions of a Slutty Nurse, Intercourse with the Vampire, Pink Lady Detective Agency: Case of the Twisted Sister1961 - Amy Stiller
comedian, actress: The King of Queens, My 5 Wives, Zoolander, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Tropic Thunder, Bored to Death, Little Fockers1962 - John Williams
‘Hot Rod’: basketball: Tulane Univ., Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks; died Dec 11, 20151963 - Whitney Houston
Grammy Award-winning singer: I Will Always Love You; Greatest Love of All, You Give Good Love, Saving All My Love for You; actress: The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale; died Feb 11, 20121964 - Brett Hull
hockey [right wing]: Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes1964 - Hoda Kotb
TV host: Today, Dateline NBC1966 - Vinny Del Negro
basketball [guard]: North Carolina State Univ; NBA: Sacremento Kings, San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers1967 - Deion Sanders
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Florida St. [All-American: [1987-1988], NFL: Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins; baseball: Atlanta Braves; first athlete to star in a World Series [1992] and a Super Bowl [XXIX]1968 - Gillian Anderson
actress: The X Files, Future Fantastic, Playing by Heart, The House of Mirth, The Crown, Sex Education1968 - Eric Bana
actor: Black Hawk Down, Hulk, Troy, Munich, Star Trek, Chopper, Full Frontal, Romulus, My Father1969 - Stephanie DuValle
actress [1992-2002]: X-rated films: Tales from the Casting Couch, Goldie Locks and the Three Bi Bears, N.Y.D.P. Pink, Biff Malibu’s Totally Nasty Home1969 - Troy Percival
baseball [pitcher]: California/Anaheim Angels, Detroit Tigers1970 - Thomas Lennon
comedian, actor: Reno 911!, Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, The Dark Knight Rises, Sean Saves the World1970 - Pat Mahomes
baseball [pitcher]: Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates1970 - Arion Salazar
musician: bass guitar; singer: group [1994–2007]: Third Eye Blind: Third Eye Blind, Blue, Out of the Vein1970 - Stacy Valentine
actress [1996-2005]: X-rated films: Sorority Sex Kittens 3, Nasty Nymphos 13, My Horny Valentine, Hillbilly Honeys, Dirty Bob’s Xcellent Adventures 36, Cafe Flesh 2, Still Insatiable, Victoria Falls, Sex Commandos, The Devil in Miss Jones 61972 - Juanes (Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez)
musician: keyboards, guitar; singer: LPs: Fíjate Bien [won three Latin Grammy Awards], Un Dia Normal, Mi Sangre, La Vida... Es Un Ratico, P.A.R.C.E., Juanes MTV Unplugged1972 - Liz Vassey
actress: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cooked, Man of the House, Pursuit of Happiness, The Partners, The Secrets of Lake Success, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space1973 - Kevin McKidd
actor: Grey’s Anatomy, Journeyman, Rome, North Square, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Made of Honor, One Last Chance, Hannibal Rising, That Old One1974 - Derek Fisher
basketball: Los Angeles Lakers [1996–2004], Golden State Warriors [2004–2006], Utah Jazz [2006–2007], Los Angeles Lakers [2007–2012], Oklahoma City Thunder [2012], Dallas Mavericks [2012], Oklahoma City Thunder [2013–2014]; coach: New York Knicks [2014–2016], Los Angeles Sparks [2019-2022]1976 - Jessica Capshaw
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, The Practice, Blind Trust, Romeo Fire, Killing Cinderella, The Locusts1978 - Audrey Tautou
actress: The Da Vinci Code, Amélie, Dirty Pretty Things, Priceless, A Very Long Engagement, Coco avant Chanel1979 - Tony Stewart
football [tight end]: Penn State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Cincinnati Bengals, Oakland Raiders1982 - Tyson Gay
track and field star: silver medal at 2010 London Olympic Games in the 4×100 m relay; his 100-meter personal best of 9.69 seconds is the American record1983 - Ashley Johnson
actress: Nearing Grace, King of the Corner, The Failures, What Women Want, Anywhere But Here, Marionette, Annie: A Royal Adventure!1983 - Dan Levy
TV actor, writer, producer: Schitt’s Creek1984 - Vanessa Morley
actress: Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, The X Files, Masterminds, Look Who’s Talking Now, Sabrina the Animated Series1985 - Anna Kendrick
actress: Pitch Perfect film series, Up in the Air, The Twilight Saga, Camp, Rocket Science, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 50/50; Broadway: High Society1990 - Adelaide Kane
actress: Once Upon a Time, Reign, Neighbours, Power Rangers R.P.M., Teen Wolf, Acquainted, The Swing of Things, Cosmic Sin, SEAL Team1990 - Bill Skarsgård
actor: Simple Simon, Allegiant, Hemlock Grove, Battlecreek, It
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Hit Music on This Day August 9
1948You Can’t Be True, Dear (facts) - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Woody Woodpecker Song (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
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