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1841 - John Hampson of New Orleans, LA, received a patent (U.S. #2,223) for venetian blinds. Now if he could have just invented self-cleaning venetian blinds...1878 - A group of 100 lawyers got together at Saratoga Springs, New York and formed the American Bar Association.
1888 - William Burroughs of St. Louis, MO patented his adding machine. It was an invention that bore the name of Burrough’s office machine company for many years.
1912 - The first boy reached the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in the Boy Scouts of America program. He was Arthur R. Eldred of Oceanside, NY.
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals became the first professional football team to go out of town for training camp. The team started practice in Coldwater, MI.
1938 - A classic recording was made this day. Fats Waller waxed Ain’t Misbehavin.
1944 - The Soviet Union and Great Britain met with the United States at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. The talks helped pave the way for the establishment of the United Nations.
1945 - President Harry S Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped some $50 billion in aid (food, oil, and materiel) to the United Kingdom (and British Commonwealth), Free France, the Republic of China, and later the Soviet Union and other Allied nations during World War II.
1948 - Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist ‘Axis Sally’, pleaded innocent in Washington, DC, to charges of treason. (Gillars served 12 years in prison.)
1950 - The United Nations moved into its new permanent facilities in New York City -- on land donated by the Rockefeller family.
1959 - The United States said aloha to their new, fellow Americans. The Hawaiian Islands became the State of Hawaii by a proclamation signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1965 - Gemini 5 was launched into earth orbitwith Pete Conrad and Gordon Cooper aboard. During its eight-day flight, the first satellite (a rendezvous evaluation pod) was launched from a manned spacecraft.
1968 - The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to put down its bid for independence from Moscow.
1971 - Sixteen-year-old Laura Baugh became the youngest winner of the United States Women’s Amateur Golf tournament.
1976 - RCA Victor Records announced that sales of Elvis Presley records had passed the 400 million mark.
1980 - Linda Ronstadt debuted on Broadway in the production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s, The Pirates of Penzance.
1984 - Victoria Roche was the first girl to compete in a Little League World Series game. The reserve outfielder from Belgium played in the annual event held in Williamsport, PA with her brother, starting outfielder Jeremy Roche.
1983 - On Broadway the musical La Cage aux Folles opened at the Palace Theatre. The production was well received, to say the least, getting nine nominations for Tony Awards and winning six, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. And audiences flocked to 1,761 performances thru Nov 15, 1987.
1984 - Clint Eastwood contributed a hand print and the words, “You made my day,” to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Mann’s Chinese Theatre (previously Grauman’s, now TCL Chinese Theatre).
1986 - The Boston Red Sox made history against the Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox whipped the Indians 24-5 in the worst loss in the Tribe’s 85-year history. Greg Swindell made his major-league debut on the mound for the Indians. Dennis ‘Oil Can’ Boyd got a 17-run lead for Boston and, luckily, held on for the win.
1988 - More than 1,000 people were killed in an earthquake at Bihar, India, the Himalayan region and Nepal. Registering 6.6 on the Ritcher scale, it killed more than 850 people and left 15,000 injured.
1992 - U.S. marshals moved onto the property of Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho and began a shoot out. Weaver’s 14-year old son, Sammy, was killed, as was Marshall Bill Degan. Federal agents were then held at bay for 11 days and before it ended Weaver’s wife was shot dead. The battle began when officers attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Randy Weaver on weapons charges.
1993 - The soundtrack from Sleepless in Seattle hit number one on the Billboard LP chart. Other hit albums: #2 Black Sunday (Cypress Hill), #3 janet. (Janet Jackson), #4 Zooropa (U2), #5 Core (Stone Temple Pilots).
1993 - In a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach the Red Planet. The fate of the $980 million mission remains unknown, but is assumed to be a failure.
1994 - Ernesto Zedillo won the presidential election in Mexico. An unprecedented 78% of registered voters voted in the election.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. The law was aimed at making health insurance easier to obtain -- and keep.
1996 - The new Shakespeare’s Globe opened in England. The first production at the newly reconstructed theatre was Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
1997 - Goeffrey Bible, CEO of Philip Morris Companies said that cigarettes might have killed 100,000 Americans. It was the first acknowledgement by the company of a possible link between smoking and death.
1998 - Wrongfully Accused, starring Leslie Nielsen, opened in U.S. theatres. Nielsen plays world-renowned violinist, Ryan Harrison, who is out to prove he was framed for murder by a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed terrorist (played by Aaron Pearl). The story spoofs events from many other flicks. Nielson is at his slapstick best with lots of help from Richard Crenna (Fergus Falls), Kelly Le Brock (Lauren Goodhue), Sandra Bernhard (Dr. Fridley), Michael York (the murdered Hibbing Goodhue) and Melinda Mcgraw (Cass Lake). Wrongfully Accused was a box-office dud, for sure, but has become a huge favorite on cable TV.
1998 - Also opening this day: Dance with Me, with Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant, Harry Groener, William Marquez and Scott Paetty; and Dead Man on Campus, starring Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Poppy Montgomery, Lochlyn Munro, Randy Pearlstein, Corey Page, Alyson Hannigan and Mari Morrow.
1999 - Hua Mei, the giant panda cub, was born at the San Diego Zoo weighing a not-so-giant 4-5 ounces. Her parents are Bai Yun and Shi Shi (they arrived at the zoo on Sep 10, 1996 on a 12-year conservation study). Hua Mei was the first panda born in the U.S. in ten years.
2000 - Rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended. Divers announced that none of the 118 sailors survived the massive explosion that sank the sub.
2001 - Robert Tools, the first person to receive a self-contained artificial heart, was introduced (through a video link from his doctor’s office) to the public at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Tools survived with the device for 151 days, and died Nov. 30, 2001
2001 - The McTheft of the Century: U.S. authorities, working with McDonald’s, announced they had broken up a criminal ring that had rigged the Monopoly and Who Wants to be a Millionaire games given out at the restaurants.
2002 - The movie One Hour Photo opened in the U.S. The thriller/drama stars Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle, Dylan Smith and Erin Daniels.
2002 - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced he would not seek a fourth straight term, and would step down in 2004.
2003 - Israel killed senior Hamas political leader Ismail Abu Shanab in a missile strike. This, in retaliation for a suicide bombing of a bus in which 20 people, including six children, were killed.
2005 - More than 800,000 people gathered to see Pope Benedict XVI celebrate the concluding Mass of World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany.
2007 - Hurricane Dean, a Category 5 hurricane, roared into the Caribbean coast of Mexico. It was the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in twenty years. Dean had killed 13 people in the Caribbean.
2007 - The board of MGM Mirage approved a deal with Dubai World in which the holding company for the Persian Gulf state would acquire a 9.5% stake and 50% ownership in the Las Vegas CityCenter project.
2008 - Forbes magazine reported that Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej (80) was the world’s richest royal sovereign with a fortune estimated at 35 billion dollars. Oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (60) of Abu Dhabi was far No. 2 with $23 billion.
2008 - Tropical Storm Fay forced the evacuation of Florida residents as it made landfall for the 3rd time in a week.
2009 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers, Natalie Press and Rose McGowan; Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung and Samuel L. Jackson; My One and Only, with Renee Zellweger, Chris Noth, Kevin Bacon, Steven Weber, Nick Stahl, Mark Rendall and Logan Lerman; Post Grad, starring Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton, Carol Burnett, Rodrigo Santoro and Angel Oquendo; Shorts, with Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader, Jimmy Bennett, Kat Dennings, Trevor Gagnon, Leo Howard, Devon Gearhart, Rebel Rodriguez, Jake Short and Jolie Vanier; The Baader Meinhof Complex, starring Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg, Niels-Bruno Schmidt and Vinzenz Kiefer; The Marc Pease Experience, with Ben Stiller, Anna Kendrick, Jason Schwartzman, Carissa Capobianco, Gabrielle Dennis, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Jared Grimes and Matt Cornwell; World’s Greatest Dad, starring Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson, Henry Simmons and Mitzi McCall; and X Games 3D: The Movie, with Tony Hawk, Travis Pastrana, Shaun White, Mat Hoffman, Ricky Carmichael, Bucky Lasek and Bob Burnquist.
2009 - Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin, a move that prosecutors said made sense in the midst of the country’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.
2009 - Guaranty Bank became the second-largest U.S. bank to fail in 2009 after the Texas lender was shut down by regulators. Most of the bank’s operations were sold at a loss to the Birmingham subsidiary of a major Spanish bank.
2010 - The Creative Arts Emmy Awards were passed out about a week ahead of the full-blown Emmy Awards TV show. Veteran actress Betty White won her fifth Emmy for hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live, and fellow screen star Ann-Margret got a standing ovation after receiving her first statuette (for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Law & Order: SVU).
2010 - The Vincent Van Gogh painting Poppy Flowers was cut out of its frame and stolen from a museum in Cairo, Egypt. None of the museum alarms was working and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were functioning properly. Valued at 50-55-million dollars, the painting of the yellow and red flowers in a vase had been stolen before, in 1977, and was found the following year. Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting again only hours after this theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport. In October 2010 a court convicted 11 officials from the Culture Ministry of gross negligence in allowing the theft to happen. They were sentenced to three years in prison. The painting has yet to be found.
2011 - Northwestern University researchers announced that they had discovered the common cause of all forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease). The culprit is a malfunctioning protein recycling system in the neurons of the brain and spinal cord.
2012 - Walt Disney Company’s ABC-TV announced that it was moving Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show to 11:35 p.m. starting in January 2013. This, to compete directly with David Letterman on CBS and Jay Leno on NBC. The Nightline news show was being bumped to 12:35 a.m.
2013 - The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones opened in U.S. theatres. The action adventure drama stars Lena Headey, Lily Collins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jamie Campbell Bower, Kevin Zegers, Kevin Durand, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Turner, Robert Maillet, Jemima West, Jared Harris, Godfrey Gao, CCH Pounder, Chad Connell and Stephen R. Hart.
2013 - A military judge in Maryland sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for providing more than 700,000 U.S. government files to WikiLeaks.
2014 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation overturning a ban on pets at bars and restaurants. The new law gave businesses the option of allowing dogs in outside spaces.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: American Ultra, with Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg and Topher Grace; Hitman: Agent 47, with Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto and Ciarán Hinds; Sinister 2, starring James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon and Robert Daniel; The Curse of Downers Grove, with Kevin Zegers, Penelope Mitchell and Lucas Till; Digging for Fire, starring Jane Adams, Jeff Baena and Steve Berg; Grandma, with Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner and Marcia Gay Harden; Learning to Drive, starring Grace Gummer, Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson; the documentary Mateo; and She’s Funny That Way, starring Imogen Poots, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston.
2015 - Two people were wounded in a struggle to subdue an attacker who tried to use an assault rifle aboard a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. U.S. servicemen Spencer Stone and Alek Skarlatos, American Anthony Sadler and French-American Mark Moogalian were among the passengers who stopped the Islamist militant gunman. Ayoub el Khazzani had boarded the train in Brussels. Moogalian was the first to see him leaving a restroom with the rifle slung over his shoulder. He tried to tackle him before the attacker fired several shots with a hand gun. Moogalian was hospitalized with a bullet wound. Stone was slashed multiple times, but did help in subduing the attacker.
2016 - Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to withdraw his country from the United Nations and lashed out at U.S. police killings of black men. This, in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which had left hundreds of suspects dead. The U.S. State Department and two U.N. human rights experts had urged Duterte and Filipino authorities to stop extrajudicial killings in the fight against illegal drugs. Philippine police say more than 500 drug suspects have been killed in gunbattles with police in the eight weeks since Duterte was sworn in eight weeks ago.
2016 - The Olympic torch was extinguished after two weeks of high drama at the Rio Games with Tokyo promising another great show in 2020. As the games wrapped up, the final statement showed a third straight gold medal for the U.S. men’s basketball team. And Team USA’s 121 overall medals were the most for the Americans in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1904, and its lead in the gold medal standings — by 19 over Britain — was its widest since 1996.
2017 - A total eclipse of the sun spread across the United States for the first time in 99 years casting a 70-mile-wide path through fourteen states. Photos showed POTUS Trump both with sunglasses on and looking directly at the eclipse without the glasses — known to be harmful to the eyes. (Best caption from social media: “Scientists: Don’t look straight at sun during eclipse. Trump: Hold my glasses.”)
2017 - Reuters reported that a U.N. study had found that North Korea evaded U.N. sanctions by “deliberately using indirect channels” to export banned commodities -- and had generated $270 million doing so since February. This, as South Korean and U.S. forces began computer-simulated military exercises
2018 - A Virginia court found Paul Manafort, former leader of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, guilty of eight financial crimes. Manafort was convicted on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to report a foreign bank account.
2018 - In New York, POTUS Donald Trump’s longtime ‘fixer’, attorney Michael Cohen, admitted to charges that included making illegal campaign contributions. In addition to two counts of violating campaign finance laws, Cohen pleaded guilty to five counts of tax fraud and one of bank fraud.
2019 - Human Rights Watch said the Saudi-led coalition carried out at least five deadly attacks on Yemeni fishing boats in 2018, killing at least 47 fisherman including seven children. The coalition attacks on fishermen and fishing boats appeared to be deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects in violation of the laws of war. The coalition officials who ordered or carried out the attacks or tortured detainees were obviously responsible for war crimes.
2019 - California announced a deal with four automakers to increase vehicle fuel efficiency. The agreement defied the Trump administration’s plan to ease tailpipe emissions standards. Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW signed on to the voluntary agreement with California, but the deal had nationwide impact, as the four automakers accounted for 30 percent of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. annually. The pact laid out the goal of an average vehicle fuel economy of 50 miles per gallon by 2025.
2020 - Movies set to open in U.S. theatres (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe, Jimmi Simpson and Caren Pistorius; The Pale Door, with Melora Walters, Zachary Knighton and Noah Segan; Stage Mother, starring Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier and Calem MacDonald; and Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson and Hannah Gross.
2020 - Six states, led by Pennsylvania, sued the U.S. Postal Service and the postmaster general, saying new service changes had harmed the ability of states to conduct free and fair elections.
2020 - Britain’s AstraZeneca received regulatory approval to conduct part of a Phase III trial of its potential COVID-19 vaccine in Russia. The trial of the AZD1222 vaccine was to involve 150 participants and was to be handled by four medical facilities in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
2020 - 2020 Korean pop group BTS single, Dynamite, was the first video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube.
2021 - U.S. President Joe Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez worked out an agreement for two military bases in southern Spain to be used to receive Afghans who had worked for the U.S. government.
2021 - 84-year-old Don Everly of the pioneering Everly Brothers (By Bye Love, Let It Be Me, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Wake Up Little Suzie), died at his home in Nashville. His brother Phil died in 2014.
2022 - An adviser to the Ukrainian President said Ukraine had nothing to do with the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, a hawkish Russian commentator and the daughter of prominent Russian ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin. She was killed as she was driving back to Moscow from a festival. “We are not a criminal state like the Russian Federation, much less a terrorist one,” the adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, said.”
2022 - A Georgia jury ordered Ford Motor Company to pay $1.7 billion in a civil wrongful-death case over a pickup truck crash that killed a Georgia couple. James Butler Jr, a lawyer for the children of the couple, said Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in the April 2014 rollover crash because their 2002 F-250 had a defective roof. “The damn thing is useless in a wreck,” Butler said. “You might as well drive a convertible.”
2023 - A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, granted former President Donald Trump a $200,000 bond in the racketeering case related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. Under the bond terms, Trump can't communicate directly with his co-defendants except through his lawyers, or intimidate witnesses. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secured the indictment against Trump and 18 others the previous week. Trump and his allies were accused of conspiring to subvert the will of voters in a failed bid to reverse President Biden’s victory.
2023 - Hurricane Hilary headed into Nevada and became the state’s first-ever recorded tropical storm. The storm and its remnants moved up the western U.S., breaking several rainfall records in the process.
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Birthdays on This Day August 21
1904 - (William Allen) Count Basie
bandleader: April in Paris, Open the Door Richard; composer: One O’Clock Jump, Jumpin’ at the Woodside; died Apr 26, 19841906 - Friz Freleng
Academy Award-winning film animator, cartoonist, director, producer [The Pink Phink (1964)]; Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam Speedy Gonzales; died May 26, 1995
1908 - David Farrar
actor: The 300 Spartans, Solomon and Sheba, The Battle of the River Plate, Pearl of the South Pacific, The Black Shield of Falworth, Gone to Earth, Meet Sexton Blake, The Dark Tower, Silver Top; died Aug 31, 19951916 - Murry (Monroe) Dickson
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1943, 1946], Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1953], Philadelphia Phillies, KC Athletics, NY Yankees [World Series: 1958]; died Sep 21, 19891918 - Billy (William) Reay
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens; died Sep 23, 20041920 - Gerry (Gerald Lee) Staley
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1952, 1953], Cincinnati Redlegs, NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox [World Series: 1959/all-star: 1960], Detroit Tigers, KC Athletics; died Jan 2, 20081923 - Chris Schenkel
sportscaster: CBS Sports; ABC Sports: host of Pro Bowlers Tour for 33 years; Lifetime Achievement Emmy [1993]; died Sep 11, 20051924 - Jack (John Francis) Buck
Radio Hall of Fame sportscaster: St. Louis Cardinals, CBS, ABC, NBC; died June 18, 2002
1924 - Jack Weston
actor: Short Circuit 2, Dirty Dancing, The Four Seasons, If Tomorrow Comes, High Road to China, Cactus Flower, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Dirty Dancing, Stage Struck, The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Ritz, Ishtar; died May 3, 19961928 - Art Farmer
musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: worked w/Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis, Lionel Hampton Band; recorded be-bop classic Farmer’s Market; developed musical instrument called ‘flumpet’; died Oct 4, 19991930 - Margaret Rose
Princess: Countess of Snowdon; sister of England’s Queen Elizabeth II; died Feb 9, 20021931 - Pete Retzlaff
football: Philadelphia Eagles: Bert Bell Trophy winner [1965]; died Apr 10, 20201932 - Melvin Van Peebles
actor: Terminal Velocity, Boomerang; actor, screen writer: Sophisticated Gents, Sweet Sweetback’s Badassssss Song; screenwriter: Panther, Greased Lightning, The Story of a Three Day Pass; died Sep 21, 20211936 - Wilt (Wilton) Chamberlain
Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA MVP Award: Philadelphia Warriors [1960], Philadelphia 76ers [1966, 1967, 1968]; died Oct 12, 19991938 - Kenny (Kenneth Donald) Rogers
Grammy and CMA Award-winning singer: She Believes in Me, Lady, Lucille, Islands in the Stream [w/Dolly Parton], What are We Doin’ in Love [w/Dottie West], Through the Years, We’ve Got Tonight [w/Sheena Easton], You Decorated My Life, Coward of the County, The Gambler; groups: The Kirby Stone Four, The New Christy Minstrels, The First Edition; actor: The Gambler series; died Mar 20, 20201939 - James Burton
musician: guitar: played with artists such as Dale Hawkins, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Rick Nelson1939 - Harold Reid
singer: group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses, Class of ’57; died Apr 24, 20201939 - Clarence Williams III
actor: The Mod Squad, Tales from the Hood, Sugar Hill, Purple Rain; died Jun 4, 20211943 - Félix (Bernardo Martinez) Millan
baseball: Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1969, 1970, 1971], NY Mets [World Series: 19731944 - Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Myers)
singer: What the World Needs Now is Love, Put a Little Love in Your Heart; songwriter: Dum Dum, Needles and Pins, When You Walk in the Room, Don’t Doubt Yourself Babe; co-wrote: Bette Davis Eyes1944 - Peter Weir
director: Dead Poets Society, Witness, Green Card, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show1945 - Patty McCormack (Russo)
actress: The Bad Seed, Invitation to Hell, The Ropers, Peck’s Bad Girl, Mama1945 - Willie Lanier
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker: Super Bowl IV1947 - Carl Giammarese
musician: guitar: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, A&E: Biography1949 - Loretta Devine
actress: Boston Public, Grey’s Anatomy, Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher’s Wife, I Am Sam, Urban Legend, Crash, Woman Thou Art Loosed, For Colored Girls, This Christmas, Jumping the Broom1951 - Glenn Hughes
musician: bass guitar; singer: group: Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Black Night, Speed King, Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman1951 - John (Hardin) Stearns
baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets [all-star: 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982]1952 - Joe Strummer (John Mellors)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Clash: 1977, Capital Radio, Career Opportunities, I’m So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, [White Man] in Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz; died Dec 22, 20021954 - Bruce (Michael) Berenyi
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds, NY Mets1954 - Archie Griffin
football: Heisman Trophy winner: Ohio State [1974 & 1975]; Cincinnati Bengals running back: Super Bowl XVI1954 - Steve Smith
musician: drums: group: Journey: Only the Young, Don’t Stop Believin’, Wheel in the Sky, Faithfully, I’ll Be Alright Without You, Any Way You Want It1956 - Kim Cattrall
actress: Breaking Point, Wild Palms, Police Academy, The Bastard, The Rebels, Mannequin, Live Nude Girls1957 - Frank (Enrico) Pastore
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins; died Dec 17, 20121957 - Kim Sledge
singer: group: Sister Sledge: We Are Family, He’s the Greatest Dancer, Lost in Music, Frankie1958 - Steve Case
co-founder [w/Marc Seriff] of America Online; chairman of the Case Foundation1959 - Jim McMahon
football: quarterback: Arizona Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears: Super Bowl XX1964 - Trinity Loren
actress [1985-1996]: X-rated films: Twilight Moans, Playing with a Full Dick, Bums Aways, But Can She Type?, A League of Their Moan, The Wild, Wild Chest; died Oct 24, 19981966 - John Wetteland
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers, Montreal Expos, NY Yankees, Texas Rangers1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss
actress: Mission: Impossible III, The Chumscrubber, Suspect Zero, The Matrix series, Sledge: The Untold Story, Chocolat1970 - Craig Counsell
baseball: Notre Dame Univ; MLB: Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, L.A. Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers1971 - Lou Pote
baseball [pitcher]: Anaheim Angels, Cleveland Indians1973 - Sergey Brin
co-founder [w/Larry Page] of Internet search giant Google1973 - Lou Collier
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies1973 - Steve McKenna
hockey [left wing]: LA Kings, Minnesota Wild, NY Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins1975 - Alicia Witt
actress: Cybill, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Four Rooms, Hotel Room, House of Lies1976 - Ramon Vazquez
baseball: Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox1978 - Reuben Droughns
football [running back]: Univ of Oregon; NFL: Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns1978 - Annie Wu
actress: Ai qing guan zi zai, Asian Charlie’s Angels, Da ying jia, Saat saat yan, tiu tiu mo, Faces of Horror, Hak gam, Jing cha gu shi IV: Jian dan ren wu, Fei hu xiong xin fang qi bi tian gao1979 - Kelis (Rogers)
songwriter, singer: Milkshake, Bossy, Acapella, 4th of July [Fireworks]1980 - John Brotherton
actor: Fuller House, The Conjuring, Guardians of the Galaxy, Furious 7, Precious Cargo1980 - Joanne Froggatt
actress: Downton Abbey, Coronation Street, Bad Girls, dinnerladies, Nature Boy, Red Cap, A Touch of Frost, Other People’s Children, The Street, Rebus, Island at War, Life on Mars1983 - Brody Jenner
TV personality: The Princes of Malibu, Laguna Beach, The Hills, Bromance, Keeping Up with the Kardashians; son of Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner and Linda Thompson1984 - Alizée (Alizée Lyonnet)
French dancer, singer: Moi... Lolita, L’Alizé, J’en ai marre!, Gourmandises, Mademoiselle Juliette, La Isla Bonita, Parler Tout Bas, Les collines, À cause de l’automne1986 - Usain Bolt
Jamaican sprinter: five-time World, three-time Olympic gold medalist; set World and Olympic records in 100-meter, 200-meter, 4x100 meter relays1987 - Carly Steel
TV host: Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, TV Guide Network; actress: Unstoppable, Mortdecai, Castle, We Are Men, The Exes, Hand of God, The Bold and the Beautiful1988 - Kacey Musgraves
Grammy Award-winning singer: Merry Go ’Round, Follow Your Arrow, Butterflies, Space Cowboy; LP: Golden Hour1989 - Hayden Panettiere
actress: Heroes, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, Scream 4, Remember the Titans1992 - R.J. Mitte
actor: Breaking Bad, Stump, House of Last Things, Who’s Driving Doug, Switched at Birth1993 - Mike Evans
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2014– ]: 2021 Super Bowl LV champs1999 - Maxim Knight
actor: Falling Skies, The Cleaner, Criminal Minds, Brothers & Sisters, Special Agent Oso, Sofia the First; more
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Hit Music on This Day August 21
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
Come on-a My House (facts) - Rosemary Clooney
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