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1821 - Missouri or ‘muddy water’ was the name of the river and the Indian tribe that lived in the area ... long before Missouri became the 24th state of the USA on this day. Missouri, the gateway to the West, calls the hawthorn its state flower and the bluebird, its state bird. St. Louis (1820) and St. Charles (1821-1826) were both capital cities of Missouri before Jefferson City. Missouri is also known as the Show Me State. In 1899, Missouri Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver said, “...frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.” The phrase stuck.1846 - The famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was established by the United States Congress as an institute of learning. An Englishman, James Smithson, made it possible to create the institution with his generous monetary gift of $500,000; hence, the name, Smithsonian.
1866 - The transatlantic cable was finished and Britain’s Queen Victoria, then at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight, sent a telegram to U.S. President Buchanan, “The Queen congratulates the President on the successful completion of an undertaking which she hopes may serve as an additional bond of Union between the United States and England.”
1869 - O.B. Brown of Malden, MA patented the motion-picture projector. Unfortunately, there were no films yet available. Popcorn was around, however.
1885 - The nation’s first electric streetcar railway opened in Baltimore, MD. The line, with a third rail, or underground conduit for power between the tracks, operated for four years. In 1889, an overhead trolley electrification system was developed. That’s the one that is still commonly used to power streetcars.
1921 - Future U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio while at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello. The poliomyelitis was a crippling viral disease that left Roosevelt paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of his life.
1929 - Grover Cleveland Alexander of the St. Louis Cardinals got his final major-league baseball win as he defeated Philadelphia 19-16. Alexander tied Christy Mathewson for the National League record of career victories with a total of 373. Alexander got his first major-league win in 1911. He played for three National League teams: Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis.
1944 - The U.S. completed the recapture (begun July 20, 1944) of the island of Guam from the Japanese. After the island was secured, a large American base was established for B-29 Superfortresses. Japanese guerrilla activities continued until the end of World War II, and some even were holdouts for many years afterwards.
1949 - U.S. President Harry S Truman signed the National Security Act, renaming the National Military Establishment as the Department of Defense.
1954 - Workers at the Studebaker auto plant in South Bend, IN agreed to take pay cuts of from $12 to $20 weekly in an attempt to help the faltering automaker. The sacrifices didn’t help. Studebaker soon merged with Packard, and disappeared altogether after 1958. A rebound was attempted in 1959, with the compact Lark, but, alas, Studebaker closed its South Bend plant in December 1963; production continued through March 1966 at the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada plant, where a blue and white 1966 Cruiser marked the end of 114 years of Studebaker vehicle production.
1954 - Sir Gordon Richards announced his retirement as a racing jockey to become a trainer. Sir Gordon rode 4,870 winners into the winner’s circle in his 34-year racing career. In the end it was only a serious injury that finished his career. This came after a horse fell on him in the paddock in 1954. After recovering he set about a second racing career as a trainer. He continued to meet with success in his new career and carried on training until 1969.
1965 - Karen Muir of Kimberley, South Africa, age 12 (and 328 days), set a women’s world record this day. Young Karen did the 110-yard backstroke in 1:08.7 at Blackpool, England. (Muir was the youngest person in the world to break a World record in any sport.) In case you are wondering, since 1969 world records have been recognized using metric distances only.
1966 - Orbiter 1 was launched from Cape Kennedy and became the first craft to transmit Lunar photographs of possible landing sights. Orbiter 1 crashed into the far side of the moon on October 29.
1969 - Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult. This, one day after Manson and his gang murdered actress Sharon Tate and four others.
1972 - A one million kg. heavy meteorite grazed the atmosphere above Canada.
1973 - For the first time in his golfing career, Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the final two rounds of the PGA Golf Championship. This one was in Cleveland, OH.
1973 - The first BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train travelled thru the Transbay Tube to Montgomery Street Station. The trains average 70-mph westward and 80-mph eastward.
1977 - The United States and Panama reached an agreement on transfering the Panama Canal to Panama at noon on December 31, 1999.
1981 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies connected for career hit number 3,631, becoming the National League leader for hits, breaking the record set by Stan ‘The Man’ Musial. Rose had been one hit away from that record before a 50-day players’ strike kept the mark at bay. At the time, Rose was third on the all-time hit list -- behind Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron.
1984 - Mary Decker’s chances for a medal in the 3,000-meter run at the Summer Olympics fell to the ground in Los Angeles. Zola Budd, representing great Britain, collided with Decker. The U.S. runner, and the favorite to win, fell, sprawling off the track.
1985 - Madonna’s album Like a Virgin became the first solo album by a female artist to be certified for sales of five million copies.
1986 - Billy Martin’s uniform number 1 was retired by the New York Yankees. He was the 13th Yankee great to receive the honor.
1986 - Me and My Girl made its debut at the Marquis Theatre in New York City. The Broadway musical won three (actor, actress, choreography) of the 11 Tony Awards it was nominated for that year. It was a big favorite with audiences, running for 3 years and 1,420 performances, closing Dec 31, 1989.
1987 - A Chorus Line celebrated its 5,000th performance. It was estimated that 25 million theatre goers had seen the musical since it opened in 1975. An estimated 16.7 million people had seen the show on Broadway, with another 8.3 million taking in the touring production. A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on The Great White Way on September 29, 1983 and ended its Broadway run in 1990.
1987 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 2600 mark, after a gain of 43.84 points. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones industrials were at 2635.84. That’s it from the Financial Desk...
1988 - The U.S. Congress voted (The Civil Liberties Act of 1988) to give $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned during WW II.
1989 - Toshiki Kaifu was elected prime minister of Japan, succeeding Sousuke Uno.
1990 - The U.S. spacecraft Magellan went into orbit around the planet Venus.
1991 - Nine Buddhists were found slain at their temple outside Phoenix, Arizona. Two teen-agers were later arrested. One pleaded guilty; the other was convicted of murder.
1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1995 - Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were indicted (11 counts each) for bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The April 19, 1995 blast killed 168 people. The first three counts of the indictment were for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction to kill people and destroy federal property. The eight remaining counts were for killing federal law enforcement agents.
1996 - Bob Dole announced that former housing secretary Jack Kemp would be his running mate on the Republican ticket for the upcoming presidential election.
1999 - An Indian fighter jet shot down a Pakistani naval patrol plane over disputed territory. All 16 crew members in the Pakistani plane were killed.
2000 - The California State Legislature approved a bill to make March 31, the birthday of the late labor leader Cesar Chavez (he died in 1993), a holiday for state workers. Gov. Gray Davis signed the bill into law on August 18, 2000. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said, “Cesar Chavez is the first union leader in the United States to be celebrated with a paid holiday, what could be more important as Latinos are changing the face of America?”
2000 - The Reform Party’s convention opened in Long Beach, CA amid a struggle for control between delegates supporting Pat Buchanan and party leaders. $12.5 million in federal matching funds was at stake. The Federal Election Commission awarded the campaign money to Buchanan in September.
2001 - New movies in the U.S.: American Pie 2, with Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Tara Reid; the animated Osmosis Jones, featuring Molly Shannon, Chris Elliot, Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood and William Shatner; and The Others with Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Christopher Eccleston, Eric Sykes and Elaine Cassidy.
2002 - In baseball news: Sammy Sosa hit three 3-run homers in the Chicago Cub’s 15-1 rout of Colorado Rockies; and Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Willie McCovey’s 1969 record for intentional walks in a season -- Bonds got his 46th of the year on this day.
2003 - Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major-league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. (Even with that triple play, St. Louis still beat Atlanta 3-2.)
2003 - Great Britain sweltered through its hottest day on record as the heat wave that baked much of Europe sizzled relentlessly on.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) nominated Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican congressman, to head the CIA. Goss had spent most of his career as a clandestine operative in Latin America. He took over as CIA Director on Apr 21, 2005.
2005 - The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users was signed into law by U.S. President George Bush (II). The $286.4 billion measure contained provisions to improve and maintain the transportation infrastructure, especially the highway and interstate road system.
2006 - Saomai, the most powerful typhoon to hit China in fifty years, slammed into the southeastern coast. The storm destroyed hundreds of homes and battered the region with rain and wind. More than a million people were evacuated.
2007 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Rush Hour 3, starring Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Max Von Sydow, Noemie Lenoir, Vinnie Jones, Yvan Attel, Roselyn Sanchez and Roman Polanski; Skinwalkers, with Scott Anderson, Jason Behr, Lyriq Bent, Sarah Carter, Kim Coates, Barbara Gordon, Tom Jackson, Rogue Johnston, Matthew Knight, Elias Koteas, Natassia Malthe, Carl Marotte, Rhona Mitra, Ramona Pringle, Shawn Roberts and David Sparrow; and Stardust, starring Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Peter O’Toole, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro and Ian McKellen (narrator).
2007 - Japan and the U.S. signed an agreement aimed at protecting classified military information to be shared by the two countries promoting closer defense cooperation.
2007 - Three coal miners died in a 500-foot plunge while riding a construction bucket down an air shaft in Indiana.
2008 - Welsh woman Nicole Cooke gave Britain their first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games. She won the women’s cycling road race. And Japan’s Masato Uchishiba won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men’s judo.
2008 - Singer Isaac Hayes died of a stroke in Memphis just 10 days shy of his 66th birthday. His 1971 Theme From Shaft won both Academy and Grammy awards.
2009 - Australia said it was devoting 9 million dollars to help save some 100 indigenous languages which were in danger of dying out.
2010 - Japan apologized to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to strengthen ties between the two countries ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula.
2011 - The Help opened in the U.S. The drama stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O’Reilly, Allison Janney and Anna Camp.
2011 - University of Pennsylvania scientists announced their success with a new approach for treating leukemia. The method turned the patients’ own blood cells into ‘serial killers’ that hunt and destroy cancer cells.
2011 - London police arrested former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw for hacking phones. He was the 12th person arrested in the scandal.
2012 - Movies making debuts in the U.S.: Hope Springs, starring Steve Carell, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Elisabeth Shue, Jean Smart, Marin Ireland and Susan Misner; The Campaign, starring Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Sarah Baker, Dylan McDermott, Katherine LaNasa, Brian Cox, John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd; 2 Days in New York, with Chris Rock, Julie Delpy, Albert Delpy, Alexia Landeau, Alexandre Nahon, Kate Burton and Dylan Baker; The Awakening, with Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu and John Shrapnel; and Red Hook Summer, with Limary Agosto, Sumayya Ali, Turron Kofi Alleyne, De’Adre Aziza, Jonathan Batiste, Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Daniel Breaker.
2012 - Columnist and TV host Fareed Zakaria apologized for lifting several paragraphs by another writer for use in his column in TIME magazine. His column was suspended for a month.
2012 - A federal jury in San Diego found two former Border Patrol agents guilty of smuggling (for money) hundreds of people into the U.S.
2013 - FBI agents killed James Lee DiMaggio in the Idaho wilderness. He had killed a California woman and her young son a week earlier before fleeing with her daughter, Hannah Anderson.
2014 - Missouri police arrested 32 people after rioting and looting erupted in Ferguson spread to neighboring towns. Protests had turned violent over the killing of black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson.
2016 - Fires whipped by high winds ravaged swaths of southern France and Portugal, killing at least four people, burning scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands, including tourists.
2016 - Katie Ledecky and the U.S. 4x200 relay team won the gold medal at the Rio Olympics. Since the event became a part of the Olympics in 1996, the Americans have won five of six. Ledecky anchored the group that included Allison Schmitt, Leah Smith and Maya DiRado to a 1.84 second victory over Australia, the only other country to win the event at the Summer Games. Canada was third. The Americans were trailing by 89-hundredths of a second when Ledecky hit the water. She split 1 minute 53.74 seconds, to stop the clock at 7:43.03. Ledecky’s medal haul was up to three gold and one silver in four races so far...
2016 - American cyclist Kristin Armstrong won her third consecutive gold medal in the individual road time trial, becoming the first person to win the same Olympic cycling event three times in a row. What’s more, Armstrong — no relation to Lance — accomplished the feat one day shy of her 43rd birthday, which made her the oldest woman to have won an Olympic cycling gold medal.
2017 - The Kaiser Family Foundation found that mixed signals from POTUS Trump had created uncertainty and led insurers to seek higher premium increases for 2018 than would otherwise have been the case.
2017 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Dog Days, with Nina Dobrev, Finn Wolfhard and Vanessa Hudgens; The Meg, starring Ruby Rose, Jason Statham and Jessica McNamee; Slender Man, with Joey King, Javier Botet and Annalise Basso; Along Came the Devil, starring Sydney Sweeney, Madison Lintz and Jessica Barth; BlacKkKlansman, with Adam Driver, Topher Grace and Alec Baldwin; BuyBust, starring Anne Curtis, Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying and Victor Neri; Elizabeth Harvest, starring Dylan Baker, Matthew Beard and Carla Gugino; Hope Springs Eternal, with Mia Rose Frampton, Stony Blyden and Juliette Angelo; Madeline’s Madeline, starring Helena Howard, Molly Parker and Miranda July; Skate Kitchen, with Kabrina Adams, Tom Bruno and Thaddeus Daniels; and Summer of 84, starring Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis and Caleb Emery.
2018 - Reporters Without Borders announced its restoration of its website in Egypt, exactly one year after it was blocked by the government. RWB said it was able to free the site through a website mirroring technique, which involved copying content and switching servers.
2018 - A California jury ordered U.S. agrochemicals giant Monsanto to pay $289 million in compensation to groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson (46), who was diagnosed with cancer after he repeatedly used Monsanto’s weed killer, Roundup. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, was facing more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the U.S.
2019 - 66-year-old Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted pedophile and disgraced billionaire, was found dead in his prison cell. Epstein had hanged himself in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center in New York City. Court papers in the U.S. Virgin Islands later valued his estate at more than $577 million, including more than $56 million in cash. In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter. It turned out that Epstein had developed an elite social circle and procured many women -- including underage girls -- who were then sexually abused by Epstein and some of his contacts.
2019 - Protesters marched in El Paso, Texas denouncing racism and demanding stronger gun laws -- a week after 22 people were killed in the city in a mass shooting.
2020 - Omeros Corp said its experimental treatment helped six patients, with acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by COVID-19, recover and get discharged from the hospital, sending the drug developer’s shares up 60%.
2020 - A California judge ordered ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers in the state as employees -- eligible for benefits, rather than independent contractors.
2020 - McDonald’s filed a lawsuit accusing former CEO Steve Easterbrook of lying, concealing evidence, and fraud linked to sexual relationships he had with subordinates while he was running the company. McDonald’s sued Easterbrook for the amount of his exit package. (In December 2021, it was reported that Easterbrook had returned $105 million in cash and stock to the company. McDonalds said that “Mr. Easterbrook would return equity awards and cash, with a current value of more than $105 million, which he would have forfeited had he been truthful at the time of his termination and, as a result, been terminated for cause.”
2021 - The Senate passed a $1 trillion infrastructure package -- a top priority for President Biden. The bipartisan victory could provide the nation's biggest investment in decades in roads, bridges, airports and waterways. The Senate also approved a $3.5 trillion budget plan along party lines that would fund climate, education and health care policies.
2021 - Northern California’s massive Dixie Fire had destroyed 1,045 buildings and covered 783 square miles (2,027 square km). The southeastern Montana Richard Spring Fire grew amid erratic winds. Communities in and around the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation were ordered to evacuate.
2022 - Former POTUS Donald Trump repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment (against self-incrimination) at a deposition into his organization’s business practices conducted by investigators for New York Attorney General Letitia James.
2022 - President Biden signed a bill to expand federal health care services to veterans who had been exposed to toxic ‘burn pits’ on military bases. “We owe you,” said Biden, whose elder son, Beau, served in Iraq and died of cancer. “You’re the very fiber that makes this country what it is.” The law came after a years-long fight to guarantee that the estimated three million exposed veterans would receive treatment for chronic illnesses that some had blamed on burn pits used to dispose of chemicals, medical equipment, human waste, and other materials. Biden said the law was long overdue.
2023 - Virgin Galactic flew its first space tourists to the edge of space from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The tourists on board were health, wellness coach Keisha Schahaff and daughter Anastatia Mayers, the first space travelers from Antigua who won their seats in a fundraiser drawing; and former Olympian Jon Goodwin, who became the second person with Parkinson’s disease to travel to space.
2023 - Hawaii Governor Josh Green said the (Aug 8) wildfires would likely be the largest natural disaster the state had ever seen. President Joe Biden signed a disaster declaration to direct federal resources to the island, but predictions were that it would be several years before Maui was fully able to recover and rebuild following the devastation.
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Birthdays on This Day August 10
1874 - Herbert (Clark) Hoover
31st U.S. President [1929-1933]; married to Lou Henry [two sons]; first U.S. President born west of the Mississippi River; first to have a telephone at his desk; died Oct 20, 19641898 - Jack (John Joseph) Haley
actor: The Wizard of Oz, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; died June 6, 19791902 - Norma Shearer
Academy Award-winning actress: The Divorcee [1929-30]; The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Private Lives, Romeo and Juliet; died June 12, 19831908 - Alexander D’Arcy
actor: The Seven Minutes, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Fanny Hill, Ein Toter hing im Netz, Soldier of Fortune, Man on a Tightrope; died Apr 20, 19961909 - Leo Fender
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: inventor of the first solid-body mass-produced electric guitar: Fender Broadcaster, Stratocaster, Prescision Bass; died Mar 21, 19911913 - Noah Beery Jr.
actor: The Rockford Files, Walking Tall, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The Bastard, Fastest Gun Alive, Million Dollar Kid; died Nov 1, 19941913 - Steve Nagy
Bowling Hall of Famer: bowler of the year [1952, 1955]; first bowler to roll a perfect 300 game on TV; PBA’s Steve Nagy Sportsmanship Award named for him; died Nov 10, 19661914 - Ken Annakin
film writer, producer, director: Genghis Khan, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, The Pirate Movie, Monte Carlo or Bust, The Fifth Musketeer; died Apr 22, 20091914 - Jeff Corey
actor: Color of Night, Conan the Destroyer, Sinatra, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Boston Strangler; died Aug 16, 2002; more1920 - William ‘Red’ Holzman
Basketball Hall of Fame player: Rochester Royals, Milwaukee Hawks [player-coach]; coach: Milwaukee Hawks, St. Louis Hawks, New York Knicks; died Nov 13, 19981922 - Al Alberts
songwriter, singer: group: The Four Aces: Mister Sandman, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Three Coins in the Fountain; TV host: Al Alberts Showcase [Philadelphia]; died Nov 27, 20091923 - Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Louis)
actress: Stage Door, The Best of Broadway, Little Egypt, Inferno; operates cancer clinic for women; died Oct 14, 20201924 - Martha Hyer
actress: Down Three Dark Streets, Showdown at Abilene, Battle Hymn, Some Came Running [Academy Award nomination]; died May 31, 20141928 - Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Big Bad John [1961]; P.T. 109, I.O.U.; TV host: The Jimmy Dean Show; actor: Daniel Boone, Diamonds Are Forever, Fantasy Island, J.J. Starbuck; sausage mogul; died Jun 13, 20101928 - Eddie Fisher
singer: Oh! My Pa-Pa, Anytime, Dungaree Doll, A Man Chases a Girl, Wedding Bells, Heart, On the Street Where You Live, Cindy, Oh Cindy, Song of the Dreamer; TV host: Coke Time with Eddie Fisher; actor: All About Eve, Bundle of Joy, Butterfield 8; father of Carrie Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher; died Sep 22, 20101931 - Tom Laughlin
actor: Billy Jack, The War That Never Ends, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, The Big Sleep, The Master Gunfighter; politics: sought 1992 Democratic Party nomination for President, in 2004 he ran as a Republican, campaigning against Iraq war; died Dec 12, 20131933 - Rocky (Rocco Domenico) Colavito
baseball: Cleveland Indians [4 home runs in a row: 6/10/1959/all-star: 1959, 1965, 1966], Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1961, 1962], KC Athletics [all-star: 1964], Chicago White Sox, LA Dodgers, NY Yankees1940 - Bobby Hatfield
singer: group: The Righteous Brothers: You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’, Just Once in My Life, Unchained Melody, Ebb Tide, [You’re My] Soul and Inspiration, Rock and Roll Heaven; died Nov 5, 20031943 - Jimmy Griffin
musician: guitar, singer: LP: Summer Holiday; group: Bread: Make It With You, Everything I Own, Diary, Baby I’m-a Want You; died Jan 11, 20051943 - Ronnie Spector (Veronica Bennett)
singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You; solo: Try Some Buy Some, Say Goodbye to Hollywood; died Jan 12, 20221947 - Ian Anderson
musician: flute, guitar, mandolin, harmonica, saxophone, keyboards; singer: group: Jethro Tull: Bungle in the Jungle, Living in the Past1947 - George Buehler
football: Oakland Raiders guard: Super Bowl XI1949 - Gene Johnson
musician: mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar; singer: group: Diamond Rio: Meet in the Middle, Mirror Mirror, Mama Don’t Forget to Pray for Me, Norma Jean Riley, Nowhere Bound, In a Week or Two1949 - Ralph Simpson
basketball: Michigan State, Chicago Bulls1950 - Patti Austin
composer, singer: Take a Closer Look, You Don’t Have to Say You’re Sorry, Lost in the Stars, We’ve Got Tonight, How Do You Keep the Music Playing, Through the Test of Time1954 - Schim Schimmel
wildlife artist: pioneer of the ‘eco-surrealism’ school of art; author: Dear Children of the Earth, The Butterfly’s Treasure1956 - Max Hardcore
actor [1991-2009]: X-rated films: Hollywood Hardcore, Mr. Peepers’ Amateur Home Videos, Golden Guzzlers, Planet Max, Max Hardcore Extreme1958 - Don Swayze
actor: Lizzie, Quit, Mystery Woman: In the Shadows, Waterborne, Betrayal, Digital Man, Beach Babes From Beyond1959 - Rosanna Arquette
actress: Pulp Fiction, Silverado, Desperately Seeking Susan, New York Stories, The Executioner’s Song, After Hours1960 - Antonio Banderas (José Antonio Domínguez Banderas)
actor: Too Much, Never Talk to Strangers, Assassins, Interview with the Vampire, Philadelphia, Against of the Wind, Law of Desire, Labyrinth of Passion, Los Tarantos, The Mask of Zorro; fashion model: Ralph Lauren, Gucci1960 - Kenny Perry
golf pro: 14 PGA Tour wins [14]1961 - Jon Farriss
musician: drums, singer: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Melting in the sSun, This Time1962 - Suzanne Collins
author: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Underland Chronicles, Fire Proof: Shelby Woo #11, When Charlie McButton Lost Power, When Charlie McButton Gained Power1965 - Claudia Christian
actress: Babylon 5, Dallas, The Calendar Girl Murders, A Wing and a Prayer, The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, Atlantis: The Lost Empire1965 - John Starks
basketball: NBA: New York Knicks [guard]: NBA All-Star [1994], NBA Sixth Man of the Year [1997], NBA All-Defensive Second Team [1993]1966 - Gerald Williams
baseball: Grambling State Univ; NY Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, TB Devil Rays, Florida Marlins, NY Mets1967 - Riddick Bowe
boxing champ: world heavyweight [1992]1968 - Michael Bivins
singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe1968 - Greg Hawgood
hockey: Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, Vancouver Canucks, Dallas Stars1969 - Misty Rain
actress [1993-2009]: X-rated films: Misty Cam, Worldwide Sex, Brassiere to Eternity, World’s Biggest Gang Bang, Indecent Interview, Pussyman’s Bloopers And Practical Jokes1970 - Bret Hedican
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Anaheim Ducks; two-time U.S. Olympian: 1992 Olympic Winter Games, 2006 Olympic Winter Games1971 - Sal Fasano
baseball: Evansville College; KC Royals, Oakland Athletics, Colorado Rockies, Anaheim Angels1971 - Justin Theroux
actor: Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire; screenwriter: Tropic Thunder, Iron Man 2, Rock of Ages, The Leftovers1972 - Angie Harmon
actress: Rizzoli & Isles, Law & Order, Baywatch Nights, Lawn Dogs, Batman Beyond, Women’s Murder Club1973 - Rick Otto
actor: Red Tails, The Good Humor Man, R.S.V.P., Crazy World, The Wire; married to actress Vanessa Angel1973 - Javier Zanetti
Argentine footballer [midfielder, defender]: retired from football in 2013 after 19 years at Internazionale, during which he won five league titles, scored in the Uefa Cup final win over Lazio, and played a key role in the treble-winning 2010 side that produced Inter’s first European Cup in nearly half a century1974 - Walt Harris
football [cornerback]: Mississippi State Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins1975 - Lamar King
football: Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers1976 - Patrick Johnson
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Oregon; NFL: Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins1976 - Samari Rolle
football [cornerback]: Florida State Univ; NFL: Tennessee Oilers, Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens1979 - Joanna Garcia
actress: Reba, Better with You, Not Another Teen Movie, American Pie 2, Love’s Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder1982 - Devon Aoki
model, actress: 2 Fast 2 Furious, D.E.B.S., Sin City, Dead or Alive, War, Mutant Chronicles; her father [Hiroaki ‘Rocky’ Aoki] founded the Benihana restaurant chain1984 - Ryan James Eggold
actor: The Blacklist, The Blacklist: Redemption, The Single Moms Club, Beside Still Waters, The Young and the Restless, Entourage, Out of Jimmy’s Head, Brothers & Sisters, Dirt, Sons of Liberty; stage: Dead End, Leipzig, Marat/Sade, Amy and Elliot1985 - Jake Stone
actor: Jersey Girl, The Dying Gaul, Sexual Chemistry; Jake from State Farm insurance commercials: started as a real life State Farm agent1987 - Chastity Lynn
actress [2008-2012]: X-rated films: Screw My Girlfriend, While I Watch, The Violation of Amy Brooke, Mother-Daughter Exchange Club, 8 Simple Rules for Banging my Teenage Daughter1989 - Brenton Thwaites
actor: Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Oculus, The Giver, Son of a Gun, Ride1990 - Lucas Till
actor: MacGyver [2016], House, Hannah Montana: The Movie, X-Men: First Class, The Spy Next Door, Battle Los Angeles; featured in Taylor Swift music video, You Belong with Me1994 - Chun In-gee
South Korean golf champ: 2015 U.S. Women’s Open, 2016 Evian Championship, 2022 Women’s PGA Championship
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Hit Music on This Day August 10
1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Again (facts) - Gordon Jenkins
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