August 14
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1848 - The U.S. Congress created the Oregon Territory, made up of today’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming.1873 - The first issue of Forest and Stream magazine was published. The magazine merged with Field and Stream in 1930, and it’s still going strong today.
1880 - Exactly 632 years after rebuilding began, the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, was completed ... only to be damaged again during WWII. The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248. Rebuilding began on this day in 1248.
1888 - Oliver B. Shallenberger of Rochester, PA received a patent (#388,003) for the electric meter. Without Shallenberger, we wouldn’t have to pay our electric bills, now would we?
1888 - Ernest L. Thayer’s Casey at the Bat was recited by actor DeWolf Hopper during a show at Wallack’s Theatre in New York City. The recitation began a long association between Hopper and the famous poem. The actor once commented that he had recited the poem some 15,000 times. A happy day in Mudville for DeWolf Hopper!
1917 - China declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary as the World War I continued to spread.
1933 - WLW in Cincinnati, OH premiered Ma Perkins. Just four months later, Ma moved to WMAQ Radio in Chicago and was heard over the entire NBC radio network. Virginia Payne was 23 years old when she started in the title role. Ma Perkins operated a lumberyard in Rushville Center. Her children were Evey, Fay and John (who was killed in the war). One of the other characters in the show was Shuffle Shober. Virginia Payne played Ma Perkins for 27 years -- and 7,065 episodes.
1935 - The U.S. Congress passed, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law, a bill that established the Social Security Act. This act provided for the establishment of a Social Security Board to administer old-age and survivors insurance.
1936 - The first basketball competition was held at the Olympic Games -- in Berlin, Germany. The U.S. defeated Canada, 19-8.
1945 - This is the day that U.S. President Harry S Truman announced that Japan had surrendered to the Allies [WWII]. Thousands thronged into the streets throughout the United States to celebrate V-J Day. The official ratification of the surrender didn’t take place until September 2, in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
1945 - The CBS radio series, Columbia Presents Corwin, featured Orson Welles doing a special reading about the fall of Japan, titled, Fourteen August.
1947 - Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias turned golfing professional in order to accept $300,000 for a series of golf movies.
1953 - David N. Mullany and his 13-year-old son, David A. Mullany, while trying to come up with a ball that would curve every time it was thrown, wound up inventing the Wiffle Ball. The ball had oblong holes on the top half, and a solid bottom. The original Wiffle bat was wood, but for many years it has been a skinny yellow fungo-shaped plastic bat. You can still buy the bat-and-ball set for a few dollars.
1958 - All 99 passengers and crew aboard a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Super Constellation were killed when the airliner developed mechanical problems and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while on a transatlantic flight from Shannon, Ireland, to Gander, Newfoundland.
1959 - The first meeting to organize the American Football League was held on this day.
1962 - Robbers held up a Massachusetts mail truck in Plymouth, MA, making off with more than $1.5 million unmarked bills. Three of the robbers were later indicted but not convicted because a key witness disappeared, possibly murdered by his criminal associates. The money has never been recovered.
1964 - Singer Johnny Burnette died in a boating accident while fishing at Clear Lake, California. He was 30 years old. Burnette started as a rockabilly singer in a trio with his brother Dorsey on bass and Paul Burlison on guitar in 1955. But it wasn’t until 1960, when he adopted a more middle-of-the-road style, that Johnny Burnette hit the charts. He had two million-sellers that year: Dreamin’ and You’re Sixteen.
1965 - The first nuclear ship named for an African American, USS George Washington Carver, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1968 - A Los Angeles Airways Sikorsky S-61 helicopter, on a scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to the Disneyland-Anaheim Heliport adjacent to Disneyland, crashed and exploded in a Compton city park after it lost portions of its main rotor blade and went into an uncontrolled spin. The crash killed all 21 passengers and crew on board.
1969 - The New York Mets were 9-1/2 games behind the league-leading Chicago Cubs. The Amazing Mets began a comeback that launched the phrase, “You Gotta Believe,” as they began a drive that took them to the National League pennant and the World Series Championship (over the Baltimore Orioles). It was the first championship for the Mets franchise which began in 1962.
1971 - Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was the first no-hitter against the Pirates since 1955.
1971 - Elton John put the finishing touches to his Madman Across the Water LP at Trident Studios, London. He recorded Indian Sunset, Rotten Peaches and the title song, Madman Across the Water. Tiny Dancer, Levon, Razor Face, Holiday Inn, All the Nasties and Goodbye had been recorded earlier. On June 10, 2022 the album was reissued as a deluxe edition for its 50th anniversary, featuring 18 unreleased tracks including demos, outtakes and alternate takes, as well as a 40-page book detailing the album’s creation with notes from John and Taupin.
1976 - A charity picnic and softball game was staged to raise money for a new softball field and for the Community General Hospital in Monticello, NY. Gager’s Diner and Bend ’n Elbow Tavern fielded competing teams (a total of 50 men and 20 women) to play a 365-inning ball game. The game began at 10 a.m. and was finally called because of rain and fog at 4 p.m. the following day. The score was Gager’s Diner 491, Bend ’n Elbow Tavern 467.
1980- U.S. President Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were nominated for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in New York.
1980 - 17,000 workers at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, went on strike, which would later result in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1984 - Patricia (Patty) Ann Reagan married Paul Grilley on a movie set in California. The proud poppa, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, gave his daughter away in the private ceremony.
1984 - IBM released PC-DOS v3.0 for PC/AT (with network support). Remember those AT machines? A 286 processor, 20-30meg hard drive and 256k/512k RAM for somewhere between $6000 and $9000. Ah yes, those were the days.
1987 - Mark McGwire set the record for home runs by a rookie, as he connected for his 39th round-tripper of the season. He got the homer off of 317-game winner Don Sutton of the California Angels. McGwire led the the Oakland Athletics to a 7-6 win -- in 12 innings.
1992 - Federal Judge John J. Sirica, who had presided over the Watergate trials of the 1970s, died in Washington, DC at the age of 88.
1994 - Nick Price won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills Tulsa, Oklahoma in record fashion. He finished at 11-under-par 269 for 72 holes, six strokes ahead of Corey Pavin. It was the lowest stroke total in any American major championship. That year Price also became one of only six players since 1945 to capture consecutive majors (w/Hogan, Nicklaus, Palmer, Trevino and Watson).
1994 - Rain turned the final full day of Woodstock ’94 in Saugerties, NY into a mudbath.
1996 - House Arrest debuted in the U.S. The family comedy features Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollak as Janet and Ned Beindorf, parents whose marriage is almost on the rocks. Their kids, Grover and Stacy (played by Kyle Howard and Amy Sakasitz), decide mom and dad are acting childishly, so they lock them up in the basement to force them to sort out their problems. The rest of the cast: Jennifer Tilly, Christopher Mcdonald, Sheila Mccarthy, Wallace Shawn, Caroline Aaron, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Mooky Arizona, Russel Harper and Ray Walston.
1997 - An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1998 - The Avengers opened in U.S. theatres. Academy Award nominees Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman played John Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel (the British agent and his clever partner). Based on the 1960s TV series, the movie version had Oscar-winner Sean Connery playing the “devilishly clever and completely evil” Sir August De Wynter. But all that talent didn’t pay off this time. The film cost $60 million to produce and earned only $25 million (at U.S. box offices).
1998 - Also opening this day: Air Bud: Golden Receiver, starring Kevin Zegers, Cynthia Stevenson, Gregory Harrison, Nora Dunn, Shayn Solberg and Perry Anzilotti; and Return to Paradise, with Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, David Conrad and Jada Pinkett Smith.
1999 - Deaths on this day: Lane Kirkland, former AFL-CIO president (1979-1995), died at age 77; and Baseball Hall of Famer Pee Wee Reese, shortstop for the Dodgers, died at 81 years of age in Kentucky.
2000 - The Russian Orthodox Church declared the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, to be saints. This, 82 years after their murder by a Bolshevik firing squad in 1918.
2002 - Mexican President Vicente Fox angrily canceled a scheduled meeting with U.S. President George Bush (II). The cancellation came a few hours after Texas executed Mexican national Javier Suarez Medina for killing a Dallas police officer.
2003 - Power to major sections of the U.S. was lost around 4 p.m. New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and areas in Southeastern Canada, were affected. The blackout resulted in the shutting down of nuclear power plants in New York state and Ohio, and air traffic was slowed as flights into affected airports were halted. Some 50,000,000 people were affected by the outage. By 9:30 p.m. ET, some power had been restored to New York City, but many areas remained in the dark all night long.
2004 - Africa’s worst desert locust plague in 15 years continued across Chad.
2004 - Czeslaw Milosz (93), Polish poet and Nobel laureate, died in Krakow. He was known for his intellectual and emotional works about some of the worst cruelties of the 20th century.
2005 - Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashed near Athens. The Boeing 737 had 121 on board. Two Greek air force F-16 fighter aircraft were scrambled to intercept the plane when air traffic control realized they could not communicate with it. The fighter crews reported seeing the Helios Airways co-pilot slumped over the controls, apparently unconscious, and said the pilot was not in his seat. They also reported seeing oxygen masks dangling in the passenger cabin.
2006 - Veteran character actor Bruno Kirby died in Los Angeles at 57 years of age. Kirby was probably best known for playing the best friend in two of Billy Crystal’s biggest comedies, When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers.
2006 - The U.S. State Department began issuing smart chip-embedded passports to Americans, despite ongoing privacy concerns and legal disputes involving companies bidding on the project.
2007 - Mattel issued recalls for some 18 million Chinese-made toys that contained magnets which children might swallow. The toy maker also recalled 436,000 toy cars daubed with lead-based paint.
2007 - Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto died at 89 years of age. Rizzuto spent his baseball entire career from 1941 to 1956 with the New York Yankees, during their dynasty years. After retiring from the game, Rizzuto broadcast Yankee games on radio and TV for 40 years, using his popular catchphrase was “Holy cow,” to express his excitement over a great play.
2008 - The U.S. and Poland completed a deal to install a missile defense facility in the ex-communist state.
2009 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Bandslam, starring Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Alyson Michalka, Lisa Kudrow and Scott Porter; District 9, with Kenneth Nkosi, Sharlto Copley and David James; Earth Days, starring Stewart Udall, Dennis Hayes, Stewart Brand, Rusty Schweickart, Hunter Lovins, Dennis Meadows, Stephanie Mills, Pete McCloskey and Paul Ehrlich; It Might Get Loud, with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White; Ponyo, starring Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin and Betty White; Spread, starring Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva, Sebastian Stan and Rachel Blanchard; The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, with Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Jordana Spiro, Rob Riggle, Ed Helms and Alan Thicke; and The Time Traveler’s Wife, starring Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston and Jane McLean.
2009 - Germany’s Volkswagen and Porsche agreed to a gradual merger (to be final in 2011). Volkswagen paid €3.3 billion ($4.7 billion) for a 42 percent stake in Porsche’s automotive unit.
2009 - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ended a seven-nation African trip at Cape Verde, with a message that Africans must tackle their own problems. But she assured Africans by saying she was leaving the region “even more committed than before I came.” Clinton said, “The Obama administration has delivered a message of tough love. We’re not sugarcoating the problems, we're not shying away from them. We are investing time and effort in the people of Africa.”
2010 - An off-road race truck plowed into a crowd at the California 200 race in the Mohave Desert of California. Moments after the truck sailed off a jump, the crash scattered "bodies everywhere", killing eight people and injuring twelve others.
2011 - The Anonymous Internet hacker group struck a Bay Area Rapid Transit Web site and published customer information. This, in retaliation for BART’s decision to cut off cellular phone service in its facilities to prevent an antipolice protest.
2012 - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the winners of its $100,000 Reinventing the Toilet Challenge. The winning toilet was developed by Michael Hoffman of the California Institute of Technology. The new commode uses the sun to power an electrochemical reactor. The reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen, which can be stored in hydrogen fuel cells as energy. The treated water can then be reused to flush the toilet or for irrigation.
2013 - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning told a military court in Maryland, “I’m sorry” for giving war logs and diplomatic secrets to the WikiLeaks Web site in 2010 -- the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history.
2014 - Korean Air announced its suspension of flights to Kenya in an attempt to prevent the spread of Ebola.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The Man From U.N.C.L.E., starring Alicia Vikander, Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer; Underdog Kids, with Phillip Rhee, Beau Bridges and Mirelly Taylor; Air, starring Norman Reedus, Djimon Hounsou and Sandrine Holt; Amnesiac, starring Kate Bosworth, Wes Bentley and Olivia Rose Keegan; the documentaries Meru, Rosenwald and We Come as Friends; Mistress America, with Seth Barrish, Juliet Brett and Michael Chernus; People, Places, Things, starring Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall and Jessica Williams; Return to Sender, with Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte; and 10,000 Saints, starring Avan Jogia, Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke.
2015 - Marines raised the U.S. flag at the embassy in Cuba for the first time since 1961. Three U.S. Marines who were present when the flag was taken down were there to help raise it again: Master Gunnery Sergeant Jim Tracy, Lance Corporal Larry C. Morris and Corporal F.W. Mike East. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presided over the ceremony. The historic event marked another step in the thawing of relations between the old Cold War foes. The last U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba was Edward Stettinius in 1945.
2016 - American swimmer Ryan Lochte said he and fellow swimmers Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and James Feigen were held at gunpoint and robbed several hours after the last Olympic swimming races ended the previous night. That claim started unraveling when police said that investigators could not find evidence to substantiate it. Police later said the swimmers, while intoxicated, vandalized a gas station bathroom and were questioned by armed guards before they paid for the damage and left.
2016 - Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt caught U.S. sprinter Justin Gatlin with 40 meters left and began celebrating -- pointing at his chest with his thumb -- before he crossed the finish line. With the win, Bolt became the first man to win the 100-meter dash in three consecutive Olympics, blazing to the Rio finish line in 9.81 seconds.
2017 - United Nations food agencies said nearly eight million people were facing acute hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a result of conflict, especially in the central Kasai region. The number of poeple in need of help had increased by some 30 percent in a year.
2018 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wrote an open letter asking dissident marathoner and Olympics silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa to come home, promising him a “hero’s welcome.” Lilesa had lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. since 2016 when he raised his arms in a gesture against government repression while crossing the finish line in second place at the Rio Olympics. In October Lilesa accepted the invitation to return to Ethiopia.
2018 - The Indian rupee fell to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar because of concern that Turkey’s growing financial crisis could spread to other developing-world economies. Turkey’s central bank had struggled to stop a sharp plunge in its currency that had pushed the dollar’s value higher, driving down many developing-world currencies.
2019 - The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in U.S. theatres. The animated adventure comedy features characters voiced by Awkwafina, Dove Cameron, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Tiffany Haddish, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Jason Sudeikis, Rachel Bloom, Josh Gad, Eugenio Derbez, Nicki Minaj, Pete Davidson, Zach Woods, Colleen Ballinger, JoJo Siwa, David Dobrik, Lil Rel Howery, Leslie Jones, Brooklynn Prince, Beck Bennett, Christiane Paul and Anthony Padilla.
2019 - Japan warned more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes -- and airlines cancelled hundreds of scheduled flights -- as typhoon Krosa bore down.
2019 - Former Blackwater security contractor Nicholas Slatten (35) was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the September 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq. 14 people were murdered in the attack.
2020 - Motion pictures set to open in the U.S. on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: In the Life of Music, with Ellen Wong, Small World Small Band, Ratanak Ben; and Sound of Metal, starring Olivia Cooke, Riz Ahmed and Mathieu Amalric; and Sputnik, with Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk and Pyotr Fyodorov.
2020 - The 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers said that the union’s executive council had endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president, warning “the very survival” of the U.S. Postal Service was at stake.
2021 - Northern California’s Dixie Fire continued to rage in Plumas, Tehama, Lassen and Butte counties. It had burned 552,589 acres and was only 31% contained. And the Caldor Fire erupted 100 miles to the southeast -- soon ravaging Grizzly Flats, a forest community of around 1,200 people.
2021 - Torrential rain triggered floods in wide areas of southwestern Japan, damaging homes and disrupting transportation. All this, just a day after a landslide killed one person and left two others missing.
2022 - Court papers of the FBI search of the Trump residence at Mar-a-Lago showed 11 sets of classified documents were recovered, and some were labelled top secret.
2022 - A man crashed his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol before getting out, firing shots into the air, then fatally shooting himself. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said officers “did not hear the individual say anything,” and investigators had no evidence to suggest a motive.
2022 - Fire at the Abu Sefein Church in Giza, Egypt, resulted in 41 deaths. The fire started during Sunday worship services when some 5,000 worshippers were gathered. Investigations found the fire was caused by a faulty air-conditioning unit and spread to a nursery the church hosted -- killing 18 children. One of the church’s priests was among those killed.
2023 - July 2023 was the warmest month in 174 years, according to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2.02 degrees F above the 20th century monthly average.
2023 - Former POTUS Donald Trump was indicted for election subversion in Georgia. Prosecutors said Trump and others “joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome” of the 2020 election. The former president had already been charged in three separate cases was facing 91 charges across four indictments. In addition to Trump, 18 co-defendants were named in the 41-count indictment, including his lawyers, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, as well as former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
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Birthdays on This Day August 14
1851 - Doc Holliday
dentist, gambler, gunfighter of the Old West: usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; died Nov 8, 18871863 - Ernest Thayer
writer: Casey at the Bat; died Aug 21, 19401867 - John Galsworthy
Nobel Prize-winning author [1932]; The Forsyte Saga; died Jan 31, 19331909 - Ed Herlihy
radio, TV announcer: [commercial voice of Kraft Foods] The Kraft Music Hall, The Tonight Show, The Perry Como Show; actor: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Malcolm X; died Jan 30, 19991925 - Russell Baker
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer: commentary/The New York Times [1979], biography/Growing Up [1983]; died Jan 21, 20191926 - Buddy (Armando) Greco
singer: Mr. Lonely, The Lady is a Tramp, I Ran All the Way Home; musician: piano; died Jan 10, 20171926 - Alice Ghostley
actress: Designing Women, Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, With Six You Get Eggroll; died Sep 21, 20071929 - Dick Tiger (Ihetu)
International Boxing Hall of Famer: world champion middleweight boxer [1962-1963, 1964], lightweight champion [1965-1968]; bouts: 81 [won 61, lost 17, drew 3, KOs 26]; died Dec 14, 19711930 - Earl Weaver
Baseball Hall of Famer: Baltimore Orioles manager; TV analyst: ABC’s Monday Night Baseball, playoffs, World Series; autobiography: It’s What You Learn After You Know It All that Counts; died Jan 19, 20131935 - John Brodie
College Football Hall of Famer: Stanford University quarterback; San Francisco 49ers; sportscaster: NBC Sports1937 - Joe (Joel Edward) Horlen
baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1967], Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972]; died Apr 10, 20221940 - Dash Crofts
musician: drums, mandolin, keyboard: w/Champs: Tequila; singer: duo: Seals and Crofts: Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Get Closer, We May Never Pass This Way Again, You’re the Love, Hummingbird1941 - David Crosby (Van Cortland)
musician: guitar, songwriter: singer: Immigration Man; groups: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Teach Your Children, Woodstock; Suite: Judy Blue Eyes; died Jan 18, 20231941 - Connie Smith (Meadows)
singer: Once a Day, Ain’t Had No Lovin’, The Hurtin’s All Over, Baby’s Back Again, Just One Time1945 - Joyce Kazmierski
golf: LPGA Tour pro; LPGA teaching pro; owner: Sun Spirit Golf Tours1945 - Steve Martin
Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour [1968-1969]; comedian, actor: All of Me, Roxanne, L.A. Story, Parenthood, Father of the Bride, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, The Jerk, The Man with Two Brains, Three Amigos, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Saturday Night Live, Cheaper by the Dozen series, The Pink Panther series, Only Murders in the Building1946 - Antonio Fargas
actor: Car Wash, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!, Shaft, Starsky and Hutch1946 - Larry Graham
musician: bassist, singer: groups: Sly and the Family Stone; Graham Central Station: Your Love; solo: One in a Million, I Never Forgot Your Eyes1946 - Susan Saint James (Susan Jane Miller)
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Name of the Game [1968-69]; McMillan and Wife, Kate and Allie, Carbon Copy, Love at First Bite, Desperate Women1947 - Danielle Steel (Schuelein-Steel)
author: Vanished, Wanderlust, Daddy, The Ring, Secrets, Going Home1950 - Terry Adams
composer, musician: keyboards: groups: NRBQ [New Rhythm and Blues Quintet/Quartet]: Be Here Now, I Got a Rocket in My Pocket, Paris, Time to Put That Guitar Down, You Gotta Be Loose, Wacky Tobacky, Me and the Boys; Terry Adams Rock and Roll Quartet1950 - Gary Larson
cartoonist: The Far Side1951 - Warren Capone
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X1952 - Debbie Meyer
International Women’s Sports and Olympic Hall of Famer: the 1st swimmer to win three gold medals at one single Olympics [1968: 200, 400 & 800-meter]; 1968 Sullivan Award-winner; AP Woman Athlete of the Year [1969]1953 - James Horner
composer, conductor, orchestrator of film music: Titanic, Commando, Braveheart, Willow, Apollo 13, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Cocoon, Legends of the Fall, Aliens, Glory, The Mask of Zorro, Field of Dreams, Enemy at the Gates, Casper, Troy, Bicentennial Man, The Rocketeer, A Beautiful Mind, Mighty Joe Young, The Perfect Storm, Deep Impact, Avatar, The Amazing Spider-Man; killed in the crash of his private plane Jun 22, 20151954 - Mark (Steven) Fidrych
‘The Bird’: baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [Rookie of the Year: 1976/all-star: 1976, 1977; died Apr 13, 20091956 - Jackée Harry
Emmy Award-winning actress: 227 [1987]; Sister, Sister, The Royal Family, Everybody Hates Chris1959 - Marcia Gay Harden
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Pollock [2001]; So Help Me Todd, Mystic River, Space Cowboys, The Invisible, Flubber, Miller’s Crossing, The First Wives Club, Into the Wild, The Mist, The Hoax, The Invisible, The Dead Girl; Broadway: God of Carnage1959 - Magic (Earvin Jr.) Johnson
basketball: LA Lakers: NBA individual record: career assists [9,921]; NBA MVP [1987, 89, 90]; Olympic Dream Team [1992]; more1960 - Sarah Brightman
songwriter, dancer, singer: Time to Say Goodbye [w/with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli]; actress: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera; UNESCO Artist for Peace [2012–2014]1961 - Susan Olsen
actress: The Bradys, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Bunch1966 - Halle Berry
Academy Award-winning actress: Monster’s Ball [2001]; Extant, Living Dolls, Knots Landing, Boomerang, Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah, Executive Decision, Bulworth, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, X-Men; first runner-up: Miss USA [1986]1968 - Catherine Bell
actress: JAG, Mother of the Bride, Crash Dive, Black Thunder, The Time Shifters1970 - Kevin Cadogan
songwriter, musician: guitar: group: Third Eye Blind: Losing a Whole Year, Semi-Charmed Life, Tattoo of the Sun, Jumper, Never Let You Go, Deep Inside1970 - Renee LaRue
actress [1970-1998]: X-rated films: X-Rated Auditions, Paying the Piper, Very Naughty Angels, Never Quite Enough, Farmer’s Daughters Do Vegas; director: Elements of Desire, Sex Illusions1971 - Scott Michael Campbell
actor: The Flight of the Phoenix [2004], Hart’s War, Panic, An American Daughter, Bulworth, Flubber, After Jimmy, Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story1973 - Wayne Chrebet
football [wide receiver]: New York Jets1974 - Chucky Atkins
basketball: Univ of South Florida; NBA: Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics and LA Lakers1974 - Christopher Gorham
actor: Covert Affairs, Ugly Betty, Popular, Odyssey 5, Jake 2.0, Medical Investigation, Out of Practice, Harper’s Island, The Lincoln Lawyer TV series1975 - Michael Pittman
football [running back]: Fresno State Univ; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, TB Buccaneers1975 - Jeff Posey
football [defensive end]: Southern Mississippi Univ; NFL: SF 49ers, Carolina Panthers, Houston Texans, Buffalo Bills1975 - Mike Vrabel
football [linebacker]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, NE Patriots1978 - Kate Ritchie
actress: Home and Away, Mere Oblivion, Stepfather of the Bride, Home and Away: Hearts Divided1979 - Sandra McCoy
actress: Toxic, Horror High, Cry Wolf, Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough, A Cinderella Story, Down With Love, The Hot Chick; former Los Angeles Laker Girl1983 - Mila Kunis
actress: That ’70s Show, Black Swan, Family Guy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Max Payne, The Book of Eli, Friends with Benefits1984 - Clay Buchholz
baseball [pitcher]: Boston Red Sox [2007-2016]: 2007, 2013 World Series champs; pitched no-hitter Sep 1, 2007; Philadelphia Phillies [2017]; Arizona Diamondbacks [2018]; Toronto Blue Jays [2019]1987 - Tim Tebow
football [quarterback]: Univ of Florida [2007 Heisman Trophy winner]; NFL: Denver Broncos [2010–2011], New York Jets [2012], New England Patriots [2013], Philadelphia Eagles [2015]2004 - Marsai Martin
actress: Black-ish, Little, Fantasy Football
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Hit Music on This Day August 14
1944I’ll Be Seeing You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Amor (facts) - Bing Crosby
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