August 11
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1874 - Harry S. Parmelee of New Haven, CT gave us reason to relax and cool off on this hot summer day. Mr. Parmelee received a patent for the sprinkler head.1896 - Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, CT received a patent for the pull-chain, electric-light socket! Pull the chain, the light goes on. Pull it again, the light goes off. Pull it again and the chain comes off...
1909 - The liner Arapahoe was the first American ship to use the radio distress call, SOS. The ship found itself in trouble off Cape Hatteras, NC and radioed for help. The call was heard by the United Wireless station at Hatteras. Morse code is no longer an internationally acceptable form of communication for ships at sea and most ships now use mobile phones, fax machines, and e-mail to communicate. The Global Maritime Distress and Safety system, which uses the satellite-based Global Positioning System, is the internationally accepted manner in which to transmit a ship’s exact location and problem ... instantly.
1924 - The first presidential film -- with sound -- recording was made in Washington DC. The film featured a little speech by U.S. President Calvin Coolidge on the lawn of the White House.
1934 - The first federal prisoners arrived at the prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California.
1941 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded Elmer’s Tune on Bluebird Records.
1943 - Benjamin F. White became the first four-time winner of the Hambletonian. White rode Volo Song to the win in a field of 11 racehorses.
1949 - General Omar Bradley was promoted to Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bradley was the first person to hold that position.
1951 - WCBS-TV in New York City became the first station to televise a baseball game in color. And they didn’t stop there. They were also the first station to broadcast two games in color, as this was doubleheader day at Ebbets Field between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves. (The Dodgers won the first game 8-1; the Braves took the nitecap, 8–4.)
1952 - Hussein bin Talal was proclaimed King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He was known to his people as "Al-Malik Al-Insan" (the humane king).
1954 - A formal peace became effective in Indochina, ending more than seven years of fighting between the French and Communist Vietminh.
1958 - Elvis Presley received a gold record for the hit, Hard Headed Woman. The song was featured in the movie King Creole.
1961 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves got his 300th major-league victory as he and his team beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1.
1965 - Thirty-four people died, more than 3,000 were arrested and there was over $40 million in damage to property in the Watts area of Los Angeles. All of this was the result of a six-day riot which began on this day, and was caused by a minor confrontation between the California Highway Patrol and two young black men.
1970 - Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each of the two major leagues. Bunning, who later became a U.S. Senator, pushed the Phils over the Houston Astros, by a score of 6-5.
1971 - Republican New York mayor John Lindsay had a change of political heart as he made the switch from the GOP to the Democratic Party.
1977 - Pistol Pete Maravich signed a five-year basketball contract with the New Orleans Jazz for $3 million.
1979 - Get The Knack, the debut album by The Knack, reached number one on the Billboard chart. And the group’s first single, My Sharona, topped the Hot 100. The Knack were an overnight sensation, but their fall from grace was almost as rapid. Attacked by critics as cynical fakes, the Knack was history by 1982.
1984 - The Cincinnati Reds honored All-Star and Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench by retiring his uniform (#5) this day.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, “...I have signed legislation today that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.“ The remark was made during a time when technicians had the microphone open and the President didn’t think he was being heard. He was just jesting as he was testing. Funny, actually, that this could happen to ‘Dutch’ Reagan -- a former radio sportscaster for WHO in Des Moines, Iowa and other radio stations -- not to mention TV and film. The remark, literally, bombed ... though nothing more serious happened.
1992 - The Mall of America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton named Army General John Shalikashvili to be the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding retiring General Colin Powell. (The appointment was effective Oct 25, 1993.)
1995 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Dangerous Minds, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Bruklin Harris, Renoly Santiago, Wade Dominguez, Beatrice Winde and Lorraine Toussaint; and A Walk in the Clouds, with Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Quinn, Giancarlo Giannini, Angelica Aragon, Evangelina Elizondo and Freddy Rodriguez.
1996 - Conductor Rafael Jeronym Kubelík died at the age of 82. Kubelík led the Czech Philharmonic from 1941 to 1948 and the Chicago Symphony from 1050 to 1953. He was musical director at London’s Covent Garden opera house and from 1961 to 1979 and headed the Munich orchestra of Bavarian Radio. He was the son of Czech violinist Jan Kubelik.
1997 - The West-African nation of Benin legalized January 10th as a voodoo holiday -- or Fête du Vodoun.
1998 - British Petroleum announced it was buying, er, merging with Amoco Corp. of the U.S. in a $53-billion deal. BP was already the world’s third-largest oil company, and the deal made it a bigger rival to No. 1 Royal Dutch/Shell and No. 2 Exxon.
1998 - The 308,000 sq.-foot Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center opened in Mashantucket, CT. The museum of Native American culture is owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation.
1999 - A rare tornado touched down in downtown Salt Lake City, killing one person (the first recorded tornado death in the state’s history).
1999 - The Kansas State Board of Education voted to drop the theory of evolution from the public school curriculum in the state. In doing so, Kansas entered center stage in the debate over religious fundamentalism and creationism in U.S. public schools.
2000 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Elaine Stritch, Anthony Lapaglia and Vera Farmiga; Bless the Child, with Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Ian Holm and Angela Bettis; The Replacements, featuring Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brooke Langton and Jack Warden; and Sunset Strip, starring Simon Baker, Anna Friel, Nick Stahl, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg and Tommy Flanagan.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) said his decision to restrict federal financing of embryonic stem cell research placed him at the “a difficult moral intersection, juxtaposing the need to protect life in all its phases with the prospect of saving and improving life in all its stages.”
2002 - US Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The airline was the sixth largest in the U.S.
2003 - Herb Brooks, who coached the U.S. Olympic hockey team to the Miracle on Ice victory over the Soviet Union in 1980, died in a car crash near Minneapolis. He was 66 years old.
2004 - The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement opened in U.S. theatres. The Disney romantic comedy stars Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, John Rhys-Davies, Callum Blue, Caroline Goodall, Sean O'Bryan, Joel McCrary and Chris Pine.
2005 - Tens of thousands of Israelis converged on Tel Aviv to protest the proposed removal of Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip.
2006 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Pulse, starring Kristen Bell, Christina Milian, Ian Somerhalder, Steve Talley, Rick Gonzalez, Samm Levine and Jonathan Tucker; Step Up, with Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Mario, Drew Sidora and Rachel Griffiths; and Zoom, starring Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Rip Torn, Kate Mara, Michael Cassidy and Ryan Newman.
2006 - British officials identified 19 of the suspects accused of planning to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft in the biggest terrorist plot to be uncovered since 9/11, while investigators probed their movements, background and finances.
2006 - Jamie Gold, 36-year-old former Hollywood talent agent, won the $12-million grand prize in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, NV.
2006 - TV talk-show host Mike Douglas died -- on his 81st birthday -- in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. The Mike Douglas Show began in Cleveland in 1961 and ended in 1982. In 1999 he wrote his memoir I’ll be Right Back: Memories of TV’s Greatest Talk Show.
2007 - Republican Mitt Romney won the Iowa Straw Poll, seen as the first test of the 2008 U.S. presidentail race; Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, came in second.
2008 - Russia launched air raids on Georgian territory and demanded that Georgia disarm troops near the breakaway province of Abkhazia.
2008 - U.S. Federal prosecutors in New York City charged Joseph Shereshevsky and Steven Byers, partners in the Chicago-based WexTrust Capital, with raising over $250 million through a Ponzi scheme, mainly from Orthodox Jews.
2009 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died at a Hyannis, MA hospital. Shriver had carried on the family’s public service tradition by championing the rights of the mentally disabled and organized the first Special Olympics in 1968 in Chicago.
2010 - Bosnian officials said they had found 60 partial skeletons in the muddy banks of the manmade Lake Perucac in eastern Bosnia since the water level was lowered for dam maintenance. The victims were killed at the beginning of the 1992-1995 war, thrown into the Drina river, and had become lodged into the banks of the lake. The remains of some 500 victims were found in the following months.
2011 - Brazilian Judge Patricia Acioli was hit by 21 bullets and died in front of her house. Acioli had put more than 60 officers behind bars, most of them for murder. A police commander and seven officers were soon arrested for her murder.
2012 - Mitt Romney announced that he had chosen Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket in the campaign for U.S. president.
2013 - Syrian rebels launched an offensive in Deir el-Zour, an eastern city near the border with Iraq, in an attempt to extend their advances in the north and west of the country. Rebels had been on the offensive in northern Syria where they captured the town of Khan al-Assal. Opposition fighters had also captured 11 villages in the regime stronghold of Latakia province along the Mediterranean coast, a symbolic blow to President Bashar Assad.
2014 - Actor, comedian Robin Williams was found dead (suicide) at his home in Tiburon, CA. It was later disclosed that he had been suffering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Williams’ films included Good Morning Vietnam (1987), The Dead Poets Society (1989), The Fisher King (1991) and Good Will Hunting (1997). He became famous as Mork on the TV series Mork and Mindy (1978-1982).
2015 - Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s conservative coalition government blocked its members from voting in favor of gay marriage. The politically risky move effectively ruled out any marriage equality bill passing under his government. Risky indeed. Abbot was defeated as prime minister about one month later -- on Sep 14, 2015.
2015 - Kyushu Electric Power Co. in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor. It was the first power plant to begin operating under new safety requirements instituted following the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami disaster in 2011.
2016 - In the absence of any funding from Congress, the Obama administration announced that it was transfering $81 million from existing federal health programs to continue work on developing a Zika vaccine. In a letter addressed to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said she was allocating $34 million in funding to the National Institutes of Health and $47 million to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
2016 - Simone Manuel won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Manuel was the first African-American woman to capture an Olympic gold medal in swimming. “The gold medal wasn’t just for me. It was for people that came before me and inspired me to stay in the sport,” she said. “For people who believe that they can’t do it. I hope I’m an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.”
2016 - Michael Phelps outswam Ryan Lochte -- and everyone else -- to win his fourth gold medal of the Rio Olympics -- and 22nd overall -- with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley. Phelps vs. It was touted as the last showdown between two of America’s greatest swimmers, though there’s never been any question about which one had the upper hand. Phelps became the first swimmer ever to win the same event at four straight Olympics, and finished a full body-length ahead of the field with total dominance on the breaststroke and freestyle legs, finishing in 1 minute, 54.66 seconds.
2017 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: Annabelle: Creation, with Stephanie Sigman, Miranda Otto and Alicia Vela-Bailey; The Glass Castle, starring Naomi Watts, Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson; the animated The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph, Jackie Chan and Isabela Moner; Good Time, with Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Barkhad Abdi; Ingrid Goes West, with Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen and O’Shea Jackson Jr.; The Only Living Boy in New York, starring Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Bridges; and Nocturama (Paris is Happening), with Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers and Hamza Meziani.
2017 - China’s Cyberspace Administration said it has launched probes into three of its largest social networking platforms. Citing reports from internet users, the administration said other users on WeChat, Weibo and Tieba’s platforms “have disseminated content showing violence, terrorism, fake rumours, obscene pornography and more.” China’s internet was already considered one of the most tightly-controlled in the world, with a censorship system known as the ‘Great Firewall’.
2018 - The Israeli army launched drone attacks, targeting Palestinians who were flying balloons carrying incendiary devices across the border into Israel.
2019 - Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters during a 10th straight weekend of anti-government demonstrations. The response from the police, directed by Beijing, was becoming increasingly aggressive. Protesters wanted their local government to address Beijing’s growing influence in Hong Kong politics, arguing that the city was guaranteed a level of independence during its handover to China from Britain, and that that guarantee was not being honored.
2020 - Joe Biden chose U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate in the 2020 presidential election. She was the first Black woman, and the first person of Indian descent, to be nominated for national office by a major party.
2020 - Deaths on this day included singer, actor Trini Lopez, who died in Palm Springs, CA at 83 years of age -- from complications related to coronavirus. Lopez gained fame for his cover version of Pete Seeger’s If I Had a Hammer. His other hits included Lemon Tree, I’m Comin’ Home, Cindy and Sally Was a Good Old Girl. He also designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which became collectors’ items. And Sumner Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who built a media empire encompassing CBS and Viacom, died in Los Angeles. He was 97 years old.
2020 - A British appeals court ruled that the use of facial recognition technology violated human rights and data protection laws. Civil rights campaigner Ed Bridges had his face scanned while shopping in 2017 and again as he attended a peaceful anti-arms protest in 2018. The automated facial recognition (AFR) system involved in the case is known as AFR Locate. It captures images of people’s faces and compares them with a watchlist, then throws away the images if there is no match. Liberty, the group that supported Bridges in the case, said in a statement that the ruling was “a major victory in the fight against discriminatory and oppressive facial recognition,” and called for the technology to be banned.
2021 - California required teachers to be vaccinated or to be tested regularly. It was the first state to do so. And Amtrak said it was requiring all of its 18,000 employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 1 or submit to weekly testing.
2021 - Firefighters from across Europe and the Mideast worked alongside their Greek colleagues in rugged terrain, to contain flareups of the huge wildfires that had ravaged Greece’s forests for a week.
2022 - California Governor Gavin Newsom released a plan to capture and store more water. With California expecting an estimated 10 percent decrease in its water supply by 2040 due to rising temperatures and decreasing runoff, the plan called for accelerating infrastructure, including recycling more wastewater and desalinating seawater and brackish groundwater, and reducing water use by 8.4 million households. “The hots are getting a lot hotter. The dries are getting a lot drier,” Newsom said. “We have to adapt to that new reality.”
2022 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) loosened its coronavirus guidelines, dropping an order that that people quarantine after contact with an infected person. The CDC also said it was no longer calling for people to stay at least six feet away from others.
2022 U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said he personally approved the FBI search of Donald Trump’s property. They were looking for missing, classified documents on nuclear weapons.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Gran Turismo, starring Darren Barnet, David Harbour and Orlando Bloom; and The Last Voyage of Demeter, with Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi and Liam Cunningham.
2023 - The International Energy Agency revised -- upwards -- its forecast for global oil demand growth in 2023 as demand was “scaling record highs.” World oil demand already had hit a record 103 million barrels per day in June, the Paris-based IEA said its monthly report.
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Birthdays on This Day August 11
1807 - David Rice Atchison
politician: organizer of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad; president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, president of U .S. for one day? [March 4, 1849], the Sunday before Zachary Taylor (refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday) was sworn in; Atchison counties in KS and MO are named for him; died Jan 26, 18861862 - Carrie Bond
composer: I Love You Truly, A Perfect Day; died Dec 28, 19461902 - Lloyd (Benedict) Nolan
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial [1955]; Airport, Hannah and Her Sisters, Earthquake, Ice Station Zebra, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place, Julia, Martin Kane, Private Eye; died Sep 27, 19851912 - Jean Parker (Lois Green Zelinska)
actress: Apache Uprising, The Gunfighter, The Texas Rangers, Little Women [1933]; died Nov 30, 20051913 - Bob (Robert Boden) Scheffing
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals; died Oct 26, 19851917 - Dik Browne
cartoonist: Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible; died June 4, 19891920 - Mike Douglas (Dowd)
TV host: The Mike Douglas Show; singer: The Men in My Little Girl’s Life; The Music Show, Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge; died Aug 11, 20061921 - Alex Haley
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Roots [1977]; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Queen; died Feb 10, 19921925 - Arlene Dahl
actress: Night of the Warrior, Slightly Scarlet, Three Little Words, One Life to Live; author: beauty book series; TV host: Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, Opening Night; wife of actor Fernando Lamas, mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas; died Nov 29, 20211925 - Carl Rowan
journalist: NBC News, Chicago Daily News; author: Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall, Breaking Barriers, Wait Till Next Year, Go South in Sorrow, South of Freedom; director: U.S. Information Agency; U.S. Ambassador to Finland; died Sep 23, 20001926 - Claus von Bulow
business mogul; on June 10, 1985, a jury acquitted von Bülow of the murder of his wife Sunny [Martha Sunny von Bulow] by insulin injections; subject of film: Reversal of Fortune; died May 25, 20191933 - Jerry Falwell
leader of religious right: Moral Majority head, preacher; died May 15, 20071936 - Bill (William Charles) Monbouquette
baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1960, 1962, 1963], Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees, SF Giants; died Jan 25, 20151937 - Anna Massey
actress: A Doll’s House, Frenzy, Bunny Lake is Missing, Anna Karenina; died Jul 3, 20111938 - Vada (Edward) Pinson
baseball: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1959, 1960/World Series: 1961], SL Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, California Angels, KC Royals; died Oct 21, 19951941 - Bill Munson
football: Utah State Univ., LA Rams, Seattle Seahawks, SD Chargers, Detroit Lions; Asst. G.M.: Buffalo Bills; died July 10, 20001942 - Mike Hugg
musician: drums: groups: Chapter Three, Manfred Mann: 5-4-3-2-1, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Oh No Not My Baby, If You Gotta Go Go Now, Just like a Woman, The Mighty Quinn, Pretty Flamingo, Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James1942 - Otis Taylor
football: Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver: UPI AFC Player of the Year [1971]: Super Bowl I, IV1942 - Guy Villari
singer: group: The Regents: Barbara Ann; died Sep 21, 20171943 - Abigail Folger
coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee; murdered Aug 9, 1969 [w/Sharon Tate and others by Charles Manson’s followers at the Los Angeles home of Roman Polanski]1943 - Jim Kale
musician: bass: group: The Guess Who: No Time, American Woman, No Sugar Tonight, Hand Me Down World, Share the Land, Albert Flasher, Rain Dance, Star Baby, Clap for the Wolfman, Dancin’ Fool1943 - Denis Payton
musician: sax: group: The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Because, Catch Us If You Can; died Dec 17, 20061944 - Ian McDiarmid
Tony Award-winning actor: Faith Healer [2006]; John Gabriel Borkman; films: Star Wars film series, Inspector Morse, Touching Evil, All the King’s Men, Margaret1946 - John Conlee
singer: Common Man, I’m Only in It for the Love, As Long as I’m Rockin’ With You, In My Eyes, Don’t Get Me Started, Where Are the Pieces of My Heart, River of Time, Hit The Ground Runnin’1948 - Ken Mendenhall
football: Univ. of Oklahoma; NFL: Baltimore Colts1949 - Eric Carmen
musician: bass, keyboards, songwriter, singer: group: The Raspberries: Go All the Way; solo: All By Myself, Never Gonna Fall in Love, Almost Paradise, Again, Hungry Eyes, Make Me Lose Control1950 - Erik Braunn
musician: guitar, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida1950 - Adam LeFevre
poet, playwright, actor: Law & Order, I Do and I Don’t, The Sensation of Sight, 12 and Holding, The Warrior Class, The Manchurian Candidate [2004], Two Weeks Notice1950 - Steve Wozniak
founder of Apple Computer, Inc [1976: w/Steve Jobs]1953 - Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea)
wrestler, actor: Mr. Nanny, Suburban Commando, Thunder in Paradise1954 - Bryan Bassett
musician: guitar: group: Foghat: Maybelline, Ride, Ride, Ride, Take It or Leave It, Home in My Hand, Drivin’ Wheel, Fool for the City1954 - Joe Jackson
singer: Steppin’ Out, Is She Really Going Out with Him?, It’s Different for Girls, On the Radio, Happy Ending, Be My Number 21957 - Richie Ramone
musician: drums: group: The Ramones: LPs: Too Tough to Die, Animal Boy, Halfway to Sanity1961 - David Brooks
conservative political columnist: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, National Public Radio [NPR], PBS NewsHour1964 - Nikki Randall
actress [1982-1996]: X-rated films: Talk Dirty to Me, Part IV, Have Body Will Travel, Moonstroked, Jane Bond Meets Thunderthighs, Star Spangled Banger, John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut, Some Like It Hard, The Mile High Club1965 - Marc Bergevin
hockey: NY Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks, Hartford Whalers, TB Lightning, Detroit Red Wings, SL Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks1965 - Embeth Davidtz
actress: Citizen Baines, Schindler’s List, Murder in the First, Bicentennial Man, Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Amazing Spider-Man1965 - Viola Davis
Tony Award-winning actress: King Hedley II [2001]; Academy Award winning supporting actress: Fences [2017]; other films: The Help, Traffic, Antwone Fisher, Solaris; TV: How to Get Away with Murder1968 - Anna Gunn
actress: Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Nobody’s Baby, Treading Water, 12 Mile Road, Red State, Little Red Wagon, Secrets of Eden, Sassy Pants1968 - Charlie Sexton
singer, musician: guitar: Beats So Lonely, Impressed, Restless, Don’t Look Back, Blowing Up Detroit, Cry Little Sister1969 - Dru Berrymore
actress [1994-2008]: X-rated films: Sex Games Vegas, Forbidden Temptations, Woman Under Glass, Into the Mouth of Hell, In Your Face1969 - Ashley Jensen
actress: Ugly Betty, A Cock and Bull Story, Outside the Rules, Topsy-Turvy, Waiting, Down Among the Big Boys, Tickets for the Zoo1974 - Chris Messina
actor: Vicky Christina Barcelona, Argo, Julie & Julia, Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, You’ve Got Mail, Damages, The Mindy Project, Sharp Objects1974 - Carolyn Murphy
fashion model: VH1/Vogue magazine 1998 Model of the Year; TV host: Project Runway All Stars1976 - Will Friedle
voice actor: Batman, Batman Beyond, Kim Possible, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Secret Saturdays, ThunderCats series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Transformers film series; actor: Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World1977 - Francisco Cordero
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers1980 - Allison Baver
Olympic short track speed skater: U.S. National Championship [2007]1983 - Chris Hemsworth
actor: Star Trek film series, Home and Away, Thor, The Avengers, The Cabin in the Woods, Snow White & the Huntsman, Rush, Red Dawn, Vacation, In the Heart of the Sea, Ghostbusters [2016]1983 - Antonique Smith
actress: Broadway: Rent; films: Across the Universe, Notorious, Yelling to the Sky, Abduction, Law & Order, Bored to Death, 100 Centre Street; more1984 - Melky Cabrera
baseball [outfield]: New York Yankees [2005–2009]: 2009 World Series Champs; Atlanta Braves [2010]; Kansas City Royals [2011]; San Francisco Giants [2012]; Toronto Blue Jays [2013–2014], Chicago White Sox [2015–2017]; Kansas City Royals [2017]; Cleveland Indians [2018], Pittsburgh Pirates [2019])1986 - Pablo Sandoval
baseball [infielder]: San Francisco Giants [2008-2014]: 2010, 2012 [MVP], 2014 World Series champs; Boston Red Sox [2015–2017]; San Francisco Giants [2017–2020]; Atlanta Braves [2020–2021])1988 - Patty Mills
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Portland Trail Blazers [2009–2011]; San Antonio Spurs [2012–2021]: 2014 NBA champs; Brooklyn Nets [2021– ]1989 - Úrsula Corberó
actress: Física o química, Isabel, Cómo Sobrevivir a una Despedida, La Casa de Papel [Money Heist]1993 - Alyson Stoner
actress: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Camp Rock, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Step Up, Step Up 3, Phineas and Ferb
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Hit Music on This Day August 11
1950Bewitched (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
Mona Lisa (facts) - Nat King Cole
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