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1892 - John H. Stedman of Rochester, NY patented the Stedman Time-Limit Ticket, an early version of the streetcar transfer ticket. Don’t forget. You have to ASK for the transfer.1902 - Fannie Merritt Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, in Boston, MA. Ms. Farmer was the leading cooking authority of her day. Known as the ‘mother of measurements’, she revolutionized food preparation throughout the world with her introduction of precise measurements -- the level teaspoon, tablespoon, cup, etc. And, in 1919, candy maker Frank O’Connor paid Fannie the ultimate compliment by naming his now famous company, Fanny Farmer Candy Shops.
1904 - Harry D. Weed of New York state patented the grip-tread tire chain for automobiles. On those snowy, winter mornings in New York, et al, you can still hear those tire chains as cars ride by. Some still prefer the chains to today’s snow-tread tires.
1913 - The statue of The Little Mermaid, based on the tale by Hans Christien Andersen, was unveiled in Copenhagen. It was a donation from brewer Carl Jacobsen to the City of Copenhagenand has become a famous symbol of the city.
1923 - Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, The Happiness Boys, were heard on radio for the first time. The two were billed as radio’s first comedians and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing commercial.
1926 - Rudolph Valentino died from complications due to surgery to repair a perforated ulcer. He was just 31 years old. The silent-film star’s unexpected demise sent thousands of his fans into public mourning.
1936 - Bob Feller made his pitching debut with the Cleveland Indians. Feller struck out 15 St. Louis Browns in his first outing. Three weeks later, he tied the American League record by striking out 17 Philadelphia Athletics.
1942 - Francisco ‘Pancho’ Segura of Ecuador won the Longwood Bowl at Brookline, MA. Francisco became the first player from South America to win a major U.S. grass-court tennis tournament.
1942 - The Battle of Stalingrad began with 600 Luftwaffe bombers striking the city of 600,000 people. Stalingrad was heavily hit by the attack with the bombers started vast fires and killing 40,000 civilians. The German offensive had begun on June 28, and German armies had added the cities of Kharkov, Sevastopol and Rostov to their conquests on the Eastern front. But the Germans eventually hit a brick wall at Stalingrad and by February 1943 had squandered some 300,000 men. Even before Stalingrad, German casualties on the Eastern front were over 1.5 million. While the Battle of Stalingrad was not Germany’s first setback, it was one of the most important, and one from which the Third Reich could not recover.
1943 - LIFE magazine spotlighted a dance craze that was sweeping the U.S.A. -- the Lindy Hop. The Lindy was named after American aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh.
1944 - World War II: Allied troops in France captured Grenoble and Marseilles this day.
1947 - Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. President Harry S Truman, presented her first public concert. Margaret sang before 15,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert did not get great reviews. In fact, the critics didn’t like Margaret’s singing at all. And Margaret’s dad didn’t like the critics, and said so, from the White House.
1960 - Broadway songwriter Oscar Hammerstein II died in Doylestown, PA. He was 65 years old.
1965 - The U.S. premiere of the motion picture Help!, starring The Beatles, was held for thousands of moviegoers wanting to see the group’s first color motion picture. Their first film, A Hard Day’s Night, had been produced in black and white.
1966 - The Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of the Earth from near the Moon.
1969 - Audrey McElmury of La Jolla, CA won the world cycling championship in Czechoslovakia.
1970 - U.S. swimmer Gary Hall broke three world records at the AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) outdoor swimming meet, held in Los Angeles, CA.
1973 - The Intelsat IV communications satellite was launched.
1977 - Bryan Allen won the Kremer Prize for the first human-powered flight as he pedalled the Gossamer Condor for at least a mile at Schafter, California. The Gossamer Condor now hangs in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. It is displayed next to the Wright Brothers’ 1903 plane and Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, which he flew across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York City. Godunov later (1988) played the semi-psychopathic terrorist in the movie, Die Hard.
1982 - Gaylord Perry was tossed out of a game for throwing an illegal spitball. Perry, pitching for the Seattle Mariners, was given the heave-ho by the home plate umpire in the seventh inning of the game.
1984 - South Fork Ranch, the home of the fictitious Ewing clan of the CBS-TV show Dallas, was sold. The ranch, a 200-acre spread near Dallas, was to be transformed from a tourist site into a hotel, according to the new owners.
1985 - The gang from the PBS series Sesame Street was seen in a feature film. The plot of the movie, starring Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, revolved around Big Bird leaving Sesame Street and joining a family of dodo birds.
1986 - Darrell Waltrip became the first racecar driver to earn $7 million in a racing career.
1987 - The Pan American Games concluded in Indianapolis, with the United States winning a record 369 medals. 168 of the meals were of the gold variety.
1990 - Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as “guests.” The broadcast was inteded to show his humane intentions toward the detainees and his hopes of averting a shooting war.
1991 - After a failed coup by hard-liners in the Soviet Union, U.S.S.R President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin acted to strip the Communist Party of its power and take control of the army and the KGB.
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hit the Bahamas with 120 mile per hour winds, before heading for Florida.
1993 - Los Angeles police confirmed that pop superstar Michael Jackson was the subject of a criminal investigation. The charges of Jackson sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy were eventually dropped when the boy refused to testify. (Jackson settled with boy’s family for a reported 15 million dollars.)
1996 - It was a big day at the movies with these films opening in the U.S.: Carpool, starring Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman, Rod Steiger and Kim Coates; The Island of Dr. Moreau, featuring Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider and Ron Perlman; Solo, starring Mario Van Peebles, William Sadler, Adrien Brody, Seidy Lopez, Abraham J. Verduzco and Barry Corbin; The Spitfire Grill, with Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton, Kieran Mulroney and Gailard Sartain; and A Very Brady Sequel, featuring Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Henriette Mantel, Christine Taylor, Jennifer Elise Cox, Olivia Hack, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Paul Sutera and Jesse Lee. Now, which one to see first...
1999 - Robert Bogucki was rescued after getting lost in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia on July 11. During the 43 day ordeal Bogucki lost 44 pounds. Bogucki, an Alaskan fireman, was found by a TV camera crew covering the search.
2000 - Richard Hatch shocked U.S. TV viewers when he was crowned the original sole survivor on CBS’ Survivor 1 - Borneo. Hatch won $1,000,000 for his stay on the island of Pulau Tiga in the South China Sea.
2001 - Gary Condit was interviewed by ABC’s Connie Chung. The California congressman denied having any involvement in the disappearance of Chandra Levy, but avoided directly answering questions about whether he and Levy had an affair.
2002 - S1m0ne opened in U.S. theatres. The funny fantasy drama stars Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Evan Rachel Wood, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rachel Roberts, Jay Mohr, Tony Crane and Jason Schwartzman. Also opening on this day: Serving Sara, with Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer, Amy Adams and Vincent Pastore.
2004 - New rules on overtime pay went into effect in the U.S. Under the FairPay rules, workers earning less than $23,660 per year — or $455 per week — were guaranteed overtime protection. The White House and labor groups argued about whether the regulations were a plus or a minus for workers.
2005 - 41 people were killed when TANS Peru flight #204, a Boeing 737-200, crashed near Pucallpa, Peru.
2006 - Annie Donnelly, a 38-year-old bookkeeper for a doctors’ office, pleaded guilty to stealing $2.3 million from her employers. The Long Island mom spent the money on lottery tickets, buying as much as $6,000 worth of tickets a day trying to hit the jackpot.
2006 - Maynard Ferguson, Canadian-born jazz trumpeter and bandleader, died in Ventura, CA. He was 78 years old. Ferguson is probably best remembered for his recording of Gonna Fly Now (Theme from ‘Rocky’).
2007 - University of Minnesota astronomers announced that they had discovered a tremendous hole in the universe. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. The 6-billion-trillion-mile expanse is a billion light years across.
2008 - The U.S. military released Ahmed Nouri Raziak, a cameraman for Associated Press TV News, without charges after detaining him for nearly three months.
2008 - Environmental experts with a German environmental NGO said Nigeria and South Africa were the main emitters of greenhouse gases in Africa, accounting for almost 90 percent of the emissions on that continent.
2008 - Canadian health officials reported the linking of a listeriosis bacterial outbreak to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods. 12 people had died out of 26 confirmed cases of food poisoning.
2009 - Former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, President Karzai’s main challenger, reported evidence that the previous week’s election had been widely rigged by Karzai.
2009 - 18-year-old Stefania Fernandez, Miss Venezuela, won the 2009 Miss Universe pagent. It was the second year in a row that Miss Venezuela had been crowned Miss Universe.
2010 - China removed 13 non-violent crimes from the list of 64 offences that were punishable by death. Crimes that no longer incurred the death penalty included animal smuggling, tax evasion and forgery. And you thought the rules were tough where you live...
2011 - The most powerful earthquake (magnitude 5.8) to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine. Frightened office workers spilled into the streets of New York, and parts of the White House, the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon were evacuated. The quake was centered 40 miles northwest of Richmond, VA. The Washington Monument obelisk was closed (until 2014) due to earthquake damage.
2012 - The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency announced it had stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles. This, after Armstrong dropped his fight against charges that he had used performance-enhancing drugs during his career -- and that he and others were part of a doping conspiracy for several years.
2013 - New motion pictures showing in the U.S.: The World’s End, starring Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Pierce Brosnan, Nick Frost, David Bradley and Paddy Considine; You’re Next, with Sharni Vinson, Nicholas Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney and Amy Seimetz; The Frozen Ground, starring Vanessa Hudgens, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Dean Norris, Radha Mitchell, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Katherine LaNasa, 50 Cent andGia Mantegna; Savannah, with Jim Caviezel, Jaimie Alexander, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jack McBrayer, Bradley Whitford, Sam Shepard, Hal Holbrook, Tracey Walter and Simone Griffeth; Scenic Route, starring Josh Duhamel, Dan Fogler, Miracle Laurie, Christie Burson, Peter Michael Goetz, Jamie Donovan and Ethan Maher; Short Term 12, with Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez andLydia Du Veaux; and The Grandmaster, with Ziyi Zhang, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hye-kyo Song, Cung Le and Chen Chang.
2013 - A Texas jury of military officers convicted Major Nidal Hasan for the deadly Nov 5, 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood (13 killed, 30 others injured). On Aug 28 Hasan was sentenced to death. Hasan is a former U.S Army psychiatrist and Medical Corps officer was described by those who knew him as being socially isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare. Two days before the rampage, which occurred less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan had given away many of his belongings to a neighbor.
2014 - China executed eight people who had been convicted on terrorism charges in the restive western region of Xinjiang. They included three men who authorities say were behind a deadly attack in the heart of Beijing in which an SUV plowed through a crowd.
2014 - India and Pakistan traded gunfire in the disputed Kashmir region, killing two villagers on each side and wounding several others.
2015 - German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel reported that the number of asylum-seekers in Germany would hit 800,000 in 2015, as people from Africa and the Middle East moved into Europe fleeing poverty and war.
2016 - Israel uncovered an illegal Palestinian weapons manufacturing network in the West Bank in one of its largest raids during a months-long crackdown on illicit arms.
2016 - A number of major insurers planned to scale back their participation in Obamacare’s health exchanges, leaving consumers facing higher insurance costs and fewer options. The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, was too complicated and too expensive and still left too many Americans without health insurance, but did more good than harm by adding millions of formerly uninsured Americans to the ranks of the insured.
2017 - UC Berkeley energy Professor Daniel Kammen resigned from his envoy position with the Trump administration, citing the POTUS’s “hate-filled-rally” in Phoenix the night before. Kammen used the first letter in each of seven paragraphs in his resignation letter to spell out I-M-P-E-A-C-H.
2017 - Two Harvard University researchers said they had collected scientific data proving Exxon Mobil Corp made “explicit factual misrepresentations” in newspaper ads it purchased to convey its views on the oil industry and climate science. Researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes said that as early as 1979, Exxon scientists acknowledged burning fossil fuels was adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and causing global temperatures to rise, but they said the company’s position in newspaper ads remained significantly different by consistently asserting doubt about climate science.
2018 - A U.S. federal judge sentenced former U.S. intelligence contractor Reality Winner to more than five years in prison. The 26-year-old admitted that she had leaked a top secret report on Russian interference in U.S. elections to a media outlet. Prosecutors said that Winner, who was working for the defense contractor Pluribus International Corporation, had printed a classified document that showed how Russian military intelligence hacked at least one voting software supplier and had attempted to breach more than 100 local election systems in the days before the November 2016 vote. U.S. attorney Bobby Christine said, “Her betrayal of the United States put at risk sources and methods of intelligence gathering, thereby offering advantage to our adversaries.”
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Angel Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Piper Perabo; Overcomer, with Alex Kendrick, Holly A. Morris and Ben Davies; Becoming Burlesque, starring Shiva Negar, Elise Bauman and Alli Chung; Brittany Runs a Marathon, with Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas and Patch Darragh; Burn, with Josh Hutcherson, Harry Shum Jr and Suki Waterhouse; Give Me Liberty, starring Lauren ‘Lolo’ Spencer, Chris Galust and Maxim Stoyanov; Hot Air, with Neve Campbell, Steve Coogan and Skylar Astin; Jacob’s Ladder, starring Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams and Joseph Sikora; and Vita & Virginia, with Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki and Isabella Rossellini.
2019 - U.S. billionaire industrialist David Koch died at 79 years of age in Southampton, New York. Koch was a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries (asphalt, chemicals, commodities trading, energy, fibers, fertilizers, finance, minerals, natural gas, plastics, petroleum, pulp and paper, ranching). As one of the world’s richest people, he became a major financier of conservative causes and political candidates. David Koch and his brother Charles each had an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion.
2019 - French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to block the Mercosur Free Trade Agreement with the European Union. Macron had accused his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, of lying to him at the G20 summit earlier in the year about Brazil’s commitments to climate change. There had some 77,000 forest fires in Brazil -- the highest number since 2013, with more than half in the Amazon rainforest. “The Amazon rainforest -- the lungs which produce 20 percent of our planet’s oxygen -- is on fire.” Macron said.
2019 - Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to figure out a quid pro quo response to the U.S. test of a new missile that had been banned under a recently-cancelled arms treaty.
2020 - American Airlines begin spraying its airplane cabins with a disinfectant to fight COVID-19 on surfaces for up to seven days. The treatment had been granted emergency approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2021 - The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first to secure an FDA validation. This, as health authorities struggled to win over vaccine skeptics during the relentless pandemic.
2022 - Nicki Minaj’s single Super Freaky Girl debuted at #1. She was the first female rapper to hit #1 right out of the box since Lauren Hill did it in 1998 with Doo Wop (That Thing).
2022 - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak began a 12-year prison sentence for money laundering -- after the High Court rejected his final appeal.
2023 - Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a June mutiny against Russia’s military leadership, was listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed en route to St. Petersburg from Moscow, killing all 10 people aboard, Russia’s aviation authority announced. The brief Wagner rebellion had posed a possible threat to President Vladimir Putin’s government, although Prigozhin said the mercenaries wanted to force out the country’s defense minister, not challenge Putin’s rule. The longtime Putin ally had released several profanity-laced videos criticizing top generals for perceived ineptitude in the Ukraine invasion. President Biden said he didn't know for a fact that Putin ordered Prigozhin killed, but was “not surprised” about his apparent death (meaning that Putin was responsible for the crash).
2023 - India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed on the moon, days after a similar crewless Russian lunar vehicle crashed. India’s craft was the first to touch down on the moon’s rugged south pole. “This moment is unforgettable. It is phenomenal. This is a victory cry of a new India,” a flag-waving Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. Reaching the moon’s south pole was difficult -- India’s previous try failed -- but potentially critical, because the area’s ice could provide fuel, oxygen and water for future missions.
2024 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Blink Twice, starring Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat and Christian Slater; The Crow, with Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs and Danny Huston; The Forge, starring Karen Abercrombie, Priscilla C. Shirer and T.C. Stallings; and Greedy People, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily James and Traci Lords.
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Birthdays on This Day August 23
1754 - Louis XVI
last King of France [1774-1792]; executed Jan 21, 17931785 - Oliver Hazard Perry
American naval officer: Battle of Lake Erie: “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”; died Aug 23, 18191869 - Edgar Lee Masters
poet: Spoon River Anthology; died Mar 5, 19501905 - Ernie Bushmiller
cartoonist: Nancy; died Aug 15, 19821910 - John Nesbitt
film narrator: Mr. Whitney Had a Notion, Miracle in a Cornfield, Golden Hunch, To My Unborn Son, Inflation, Trifles of Importance; died Aug 10, 19601912 - Gene (Eugene Curran) Kelly
dancer, actor: Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris, Anchors Aweigh, The Three Musketeers, Marjorie Morningstar, Inherit the Wind, North and South Book I; director: Singin’ in the Rain, Hello, Dolly!, A Guide for the Married Man, The Cheyenne Social Club; died Feb 2, 19961917 - Tex (Sol) Williams
singer: Smoke, Smoke, Smoke [That Cigarette], Shame on You, The Rose of the Alamo, Bluebird on Your Windowsill, Bottom of a Mountain; actor; died Oct 11, 19851922 - George (Clyde) Kell
Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951], Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1954], Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1956, 1957]; died Mar 24, 20091922 - Jean Darling (LeVake)
actress: March of the Wooden Soldiers, Little Rascals-Book 17; died Sep 4, 20151925 - Robert Mulligan
film director: To Kill a Mockingbird, Fear Strikes Out, The Great Imposter, Love with the Proper Stranger, Inside Daisy Clover, Up the Down Staircase, The Stalking Moon, The Pursuit of Happiness, Same Time, Next Year, Summer of ’42; died Dec 20, 20081929 - Vera Miles (Vera June Ralston)
actress: The Wrong Man, Psycho, The FBI Story, Autumn Leaves, Into the Night, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Sergeant Ryker, Jigsaw, Our Family Business1929 - Peter Thomson
golf champion: British Open [1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965]; died Jun 20, 20181931 - Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Moorhead)
actress: I Dream of Jeannie, Harper Valley P.T.A., The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao1932 - Mark Russell (Ruslander)
comedian: Real People, The Starland Vocal Band Show; died Mar 30, 20231933 - Pete Wilson
politician: Governor of California [1991-1999], U.S. Senator from California [1983-1991], Mayor of San Diego [1971-1983], ) and California State Assemblyman [1967-1971]1934 - Sonny (Christian) Jurgensen
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins QB: shares record for longest pass completion [99 yds. - 1968]; Philadelphia Eagles; broadcasting: sports announcer1934 - Johnny (John Anthony) Romano
‘Honey’: baseball: catcher: Chicago White Sox [World Series: 1959], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1961, 1962], SL Cardinals; died Feb 24, 20191936 - Rudy Lewis
singer: group: Drifters: Up on the Roof, On Broadway; died May 20, 19641940 - Tony Bill
actor: Barb Wire, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Shampoo, Ice Station Zebra, You’re a Big Boy Now, None But the Brave, Come Blow Your Horn, What Really Happened to the Class of ’65?; director: Next Door, Crazy People, The Princess and the Pea, My Bodyguard1940 - Richard Sanders
actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, The Delivery, Sly Dog, Rose Red, Men of Honor, Anoosh of the Airways, Black Circle Boys, Neon City1942 - Patricia McBride
ballerina: New York City Ballet: for many years she was Mikhail Baryshnikov’s only partner1945 - Tom Boerwinkle
basketball: Chicago Bulls; died Mar 26, 20131945 - Rayfield Wright
Pro Football Hall of Famer [tackle]: Dallas Cowboys1946 - Keith Moon
singer, drummer: group: The Who: Substitute, I’m a Boy, Happy Jack, Pinball Wizard, See Me, Feel Me; solo: Two Sides of the Moon; actor: Sextette, Tommy, That’ll Be the Day; died Sep 7, 19781948 - Ron (Ronald Mark) Blomberg
‘Boomer’: baseball: NY Yankees [baseball’s first designated hitter: 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored against the Red Sox at Fenway Park: Apr 6, 1973], Chicago White Sox1949 - Shelley Long
Emmy Award-winning actress: Cheers [1982-83]; Irreconcilable Differences, Outrageous Fortune, Troop Beverly Hills, Night Shift, Don’t Tell Her It’s Me, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Money Pit1949 - Rick Springfield
singer: Jessie’s Girl; actor: General Hospital, Hard to Hold, The Human Target; more1951 - Lisa Najeeb Halaby (Queen Noor)
widow of Jordan’s King Hussein; active in social and cultural circles in Jordan and internationally1951 - Mark Hudson
singer: group: The Hudson Brothers: So You are a Star; TV: The Hudson Brothers Show1951 - Jimi Jamison
singer: group: Survivor: I Can’t Hold Back, Burning Heart; died Sep 1, 20141953 - Bobby G. (Gubby)
singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Can’t Stand the Heat, You and Your Eyes So Blue; solo singer, songwriter: theme for TV sitcom: Big Deal1956 - David Wolf
U.S. astronaut: in space four times, three of his spaceflights were Space Shuttle missions, and he served a 128-day mission aboard the Russian space station Mir1961 - Dean DeLeo
musician: guitar: group: Stone Temple Pilots: Sour Girl, Sex and Violence, Down, Revolution, Vasoline, Wicked Garden, Big Empty, Plush1961 - Caroline Manzo
TV personality: The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Manzo’d with Children1962 - Emilio (Navaira III)
country, Tejano singer: Have I Told You Lately, Ya, It’s Not the End of the World, No Es el Fin del Mundo, Quedate; died May 16, 20161962 - Glenn Healy
hockey [goalie]: NHL: Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs1962 - Shaun Ryder
singer: group: Happy Mondays1964 - Ray Ferraro
hockey [center]: NHL: Hartford Whalers, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, L.A. Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, St. Louis Blues1967 - Steve Park
NASCAR race car driver: first driver to run in top-5 NASCAR divisions at any track [New Hampshire International Speedway]1968 - Chris DiMarco
golf champ: NIKE Ozarks Open [1997], SEI Pennsylvania Classic [2000], Buick Challenge [2001], Phoenix Open [2002]1970 - Jay Mohr
comedian: Saturday Night Live; actor: Ghost Whisperer, Gary Unmarried, Jerry Maguire1970 - River (Jude) Phoenix
actor: Running on Empty, Stand by Me, This Thing Called Love, Sneakers, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Little Nikita, The Mosquito Coast, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; died Oct 31, 19931972 - Raul Casanova
baseball [catcher]: Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics1974 - Mark Bellhorn
baseball: Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Boston Red Sox1974 - Bobby Estalella
baseball [catcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants, NY Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Toronto Blue Jays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds1974 - Ray Park
stuntman, martial artist, actor: King of Fighters, Fanboys, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, X-Men, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Heroes1975 - Joe Andruzzi
football [guard]: Southern Conneticut State Univ; NFL: GB Packers, NE Patriots, Cleveland Browns1976 - Scott Caan
actor: Hawaii Five-0 [2010], Entourage, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen, Into the Blue, The Dog Problem1976 - Pat Garrity
basketball [forward]: Notre Dame University; NBA: Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic1978 - Kobe Bryant
basketball [guard]: Los Angeles Lakers [1996-2016]: NBA champs: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010; killed in Los Angeles helicopter crash Jan 26, 20201980 - Joanne Froggatt
actress: Downton Abbey, Coronation Street, Robin Hood, Murder in the Outback, Echoes, uwantme2killhim?, Still Life1980 - Rex Grossman
football [quarterback]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Chicago Bears1982 - Natalie Coughlin
swimming champ: twelve-time Olympic medalist1988 - Carl Hagelin
hockey [left winger]: NHL: New York Rangers [2011]: 2014 Stanley Cup finals; Anaheim Ducks [2015- ]1988 - Jeremy Lin
basketball: NBA: Golden State Warriors [2010-2011], New York Knicks [2011-2012, Houston Rockets [2012–2014], Los Angeles Lakers [2014–2015], Charlotte Hornets [2015–2016], Brooklyn Nets [2016–2018], Atlanta Hawks [2018–2019]; Toronto Raptors [2019]: 2019 NBA champs; more1994 - Francesca Reale
actress: Stranger Things, Haters Back Off, Wireless, Yes, God, Yes, Dating and New York
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Hit Music on This Day August 23
1944I’ll Be Seeing You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Amor (facts) - Bing Crosby
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