Hot 100.
It was a solid #1 for six straight weeks.
1980 - 42nd Street opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway
in New York City. The musical was produced by David Merrick, directed by Gower Champion and
orchestrated by Philip J. Lang. 42nd Street won the Tony Award for Best Musical and was a big, big
hit, running for over 8 years, closing Jan 08, 1989 after 3,486
performances.
1982 - The group, Fleetwood Mac, received
a gold record for the album Mirage.
1984 - The Cabbage Patch Kids and Trivial
Pursuit were replaced by the latest fad toys: robotic action figures
that fought galactic battles. They were called Transformers.
1984 - Ghostbusters,
by Ray Parker, Jr., started week #3 at the top of the pop music
charts. The hit song was from the movie of the same name starring Bill Murray, Dan
Aykroyd, Rick Moranis and Harold Ramis.
1985 - Samantha Smith and her father were killed in an airplane crash in Maine. Samantha was
the 10-year-old schoolgirl from Manchester, ME, whose 1983 letter to Soviet
President Yuri V. Andropov created a sensation. The letter inquired as to why the
Soviet Union wanted to conquer the world. Andropov was so taken with the letter,
he invited Smith to visit, and on July 7, 1983, she flew to Moscow and spent two
weeks as his guest.
1991 - The Russian Communist party issued a
declaration of full independence for Belarus,
the Soviet state that had declared its independence on July 27, 1991. Russia, Belarus
and Ukraine formed the Commonwealth of Independent States to coordinate economic
activities, defence and foreign relations.
1992 - Hurricane Andrew thrashed the U.S. Louisiana coast.
1993 - 26-year-old Amy Biehl was
murdered in South Africa. Biehl was a graduate of Stanford University, where she had been a student in international
relations. She had traveled to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship and was working
in Capetown to help organize democratic elections. On this day, after driving friends
home outside of Cape Town, Amy was attacked in her car and killed by a mob of four
young men, who thought she was a white South African -- not realizing that she was
working for their cause. The four were convicted of her murder and sentenced to 18
years in prison. But, at the urging of Amy’s parents, they were freed after serving four
years. The Amy Biehl Foundation
was formed by her family and friends to carry on her advocacy work.
1995 - New in U.S. theatres: The Amazing Panda
Adventure, with Stephen Lang, Ryan Slater, Ding Yi and Wang Fei; Beyond Rangoon,
starring Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko, Frances Mcdormand, Spalding Gray and Adelle Lutz;
Desperado,
featuring Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin,
Carlos Gomez and Quentin Tarantino; Lord of Illusions, with Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O’Connor,
Daniel Von Bargen, Famke Janssen, Vincent Schiavelli and Sheila Tousey; and The Show,
starring The Notorious B.I.G., Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, Snoop
Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre.
1996 - Tiger Woods won
his third U.S. Amateur Championship in a row. Steve Scott, a 19-year-old from the
University of Florida, led from the third hole all the way to the next-to-the-last hole
of the 36-hole final and lost on the second playoff hole. Woods is the only golfer to win
three U.S. Amateurs in succession.
1998 - Former (1972-1987) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Lewis F. Powell
Jr. died in Richmond, VA. He was 90 years old. Powell wrote the
majority opinion allowing colleges and universities to consider race among other
factors in student admittance.
1999 - In Too Deep opened in the U.S. The crime thriller stars Omar
Epps, LL Cool J, Stanley Tucci, Pam Grier, Hill Harper and Nia Long.
2000 - These films debuted in the U.S.:
The Art of War,
starring Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroykui Tagawa,
Michael Biehn, Donald Sutherland, Liliana Komorowska and James Hong; Bring It On, with
Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku,
Jesse Bradford, Gabrielle Union, Natina Reed, Shamari Fears and Brandi Williams; The Crew, starring
Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer
Tilly, Lainie Kazan, Miguel Sandoval and Jeremy Piven; and Love & Sex, with
Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Cheri Oteri and Ann Magnuson.
2000 - Daniel Wiant (35), former executive of the American Cancer Society,
pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $8 million from the charity.
2001 - Mette-Marit
Tjessem Hoiby, a single mother and former waitress, married Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon in Oslo. The couple lives in Oslo with
Mette-Marit’s son Marius.
2002 - Louisville, KY beat Sendai, Japan,
1-0, to win the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, PA.
2002 - Acclaimed bass-baritone William Warfield,
best known for his rendition of Ol’ Man River in the musical Show Boat,
died in
Chicago. He was 82 years old.
2003 - Voters lined up before dawn to
participate in Rwanda’s first real presidential election since the genocide
of 1994. Incumbent President Paul Kagame scored an overwhelming election win.
2004 - Astronomers reported the discovery of
a planet 14 times bigger than Earth, near the star Mu Arae -- 50 light years away.
2005 - Soon-to-be-infamous Hurricane Katrina
moved across South Florida leaving four people dead in its path.
2006 - A tanker truck loaded with 25 tons of liquid caustic soda, a colorless, transparent
corrosive liquid, fell into a river near the Xuefeng reservoir in Shaanxi
province, China. It took ten tons of hydrochloric acid -- and two days -- to neutralize
the caustic soda in the reservoir that serves some 100,000 residents.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres:
Beerfest,
with Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Cloris
Leachman, Will Forte, Mo'nique, Ryan Blanchard, and Eric Christian Olsen; How to Eat
Fried Worms, starring Luke Benwald, Tom Cavanaugh, Kimberly Williams, and
Hallie Kate Eisenberg; Idlewild, with Andre Benjamin, Antwan Patton, Ving Rhames,
Terrence Dashon Howard, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Paula Jai Parker, Jackie Long,
Paula Patton, Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray, Ben Vereen, and Cicely Tyson; and Invincible,
starring Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Kevin Conway, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rispoli.
2007 - Australia’s multi-billion dollar
racing industry was plunged into turmoil on after an outbreak of equine influenza triggered a national lockdown.
2008 - The Democratic Convention opened in the Pepsi Center of Denver, Colorado, where it was to adopt its national platform
and officially nominate its candidates for President and Vice President of the United
States.
2009 - U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy
[D-Massachusetts] died at his home at Cape Cod, Massachusetts after a yearlong
struggle with brain cancer. 77-year-old Teddy Kennedy was the last surviving brother in
the Kennedy political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history.
2010 - Louis opened in the U.S. The musical drama stars with Anthony
Coleman, Vilmos Zsigmond, Jackie Earle Haley, Shanti Lowry and Anthony Mackie.
2010 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in the capital of communist North
Korea on a private, humanitarian mission. Carter’s goal was to win the release
of Aijalon Gomes of Boston, an American sentenced to eight years’
hard labor for trespassing. (Gomes was released and flew out of North Korea with Carter
two days later.)
2011 - Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
reported its investment of $5 billion in Bank of America. This, to shore up the company
in the same way Buffett had helped prop up Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.
2012 - Little White Lies opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy
drama stars François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche and
Jean Dujardin.
2012 - Egyptian officials reported that
military engineers had blocked 120 tunnels used for smuggling into and out of the Gaza
Strip since the start of security operations in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula.
2013 - The Yosemite Rim Fire grew to more than 200 square miles, threatening two groves of giant California sequoias as well as the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
supplying water and power to San Francisco, consuming some two dozen structures and
threatening 4,500 more.
2014 - The Burning Man festival in the desert north of Reno,
Nevada, was postponed
for a day due to heave rain.
2014 - The 66th annual Emmy Awards show was staged at the Nokia Theatre, Los
Angeles. The British detective series Sherlock won three awards, while the HBO
drama, Breaking Bad was the big winner with five Emmys. The complete list of winners.
2015 - China cut interest rates for a fifth time in nine months in an effort
to shore up its economic growth. European and U.S. shares rebounded as China made the cut.
2015 - Russia banned Britain’s favorite cleaning products, claiming they
were dangerous. It was the latest protest over sanctions placed on Russia by Western
Bloc nations. Moscow had earlier banned a variety of food imports from the European Union
and other countries, including top brands of Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble.
2016 - A U.S. federal jury convicted the son of a Russian lawmaker
for hacking into U.S. businesses to steal credit card information and
orchestrating an international online theft scheme that netted him millions of dollars.
Jurors found Roman Seleznev guilty of 38 charges, including nine counts of hacking and 10
counts of wire fraud. (In April 2017 Seleznev was sentenced to 27 years and ordered to pay nearly $170m in
restitution.)
2017 - Movies opening U.S. theatres included: Birth
of the Dragon, with Billy Magnussen, Philip Ng and Teresa Navarro; Polaroid, starring Kathryn Prescott, Katie Stevens and
Madelaine Petsch; Villa Capri, starring Morgan Freeman, Glenne Headly
and Tommy Lee Jones; All Saints, with Cara Buono, John Corbett and Barry
Corbin; Beach Rats, starring Harris Dickinson, Madeline
Weinstein and Kate Hodge; Bushwick, with Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow and
Christian Navarro; Death Note, starring Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley
and Willem Dafoe; Tulip Fever, with Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan and
Alicia Vikander; and Unleashed, starring Justin Chatwin, Steve Howey and Sean
Astin.
2017 - Network Solutions shut down the stormfront.org website, the oldest
white supremacist site -- founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black. And the stormfront.org
domain name was revoked because it promoted hatred and was
linked to dozens of murders.
2017 - Category 4 hurricane Harvey struck coastal Texas. The most powerful storm to hit the
U.S. mainland in more than a decade, Harvey inflicted $125 billion in damage, primarily from catastrophic
rainfall-triggered flooding in the Houston metropolitan area.
2018 - War hero, presidential contender and U.S. Senator John McCain died
at his home in Sedona, Arizona. He was 81 years old, and was four days from his 82nd birthday. After
being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2017, McCain had reduced his role in the Senate in order to
focus on treatment. Following his death, McCain lay in state in the Arizona State Capitol rotunda
and then in the United States Capitol rotunda. John McCain
endured brutal torture as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. But the senator’s outsized presence came not
only from his military and political record but also from his frank talk and willingness to call out
POTUS Donald Trump for perceived violations of American norms when few others in his Republican
Party would. McCain, in a final message to the United States written before his death, said that he,
“lived and died a proud American”, and expressed hope that the country would emerge from its current
trials “stronger than before.” “Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the
promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here,” McCain wrote.
2019 - Earth Alliance launched a $5-million emergency fund to help preserve the Amazon rain forest. Earth Alliance
was an initiative founded by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth.
2019 - G7 leaders meeting in France said they were preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and
repair the damage. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would not accept the G7 offer
of aid unless he gets an apology from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Mr Bolsonaro said the
French leader insulting him personally by calling him a liar. Mr Macron had accused him of lying
about fighting climate change.
2020 - Sweden’s Public Health Agency said some 3,700 people in Sweden had been told -- in error -- that they had the coronavirus.
The mixup was due to a fault in BGI Genomics’ COVID-19 testing kit from China.
2020 - Louisville, KY police arrested 68 people during a massive demonstration
over the death of Breonna Taylor. She had been fatally shot in her home during a search
for a drug suspect who did not live there.
2020 - Thousands evacuated the Texas and Louisiana coasts as Hurricane Laura
strengthened and headed for a landfall bringing ferocious winds and deadly flooding.
2021 - Vice President Kamala Harris, in a meeting with President Nguyen
Xuan Phuc in Hanoi, called on Vietnam
to join the U.S. in challenging China’s bullying tactics in the South China Sea.
2021 - A grand jury indicted adult film actor Ron Jeremy (68) on more than
30 counts of sexual assault involving 21 women and girls across more than two decades. Ronald Jeremy
Hyatt pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to all of the allegations, which include 12 counts
of rape. In March 2022, the Jeremy trial was suspended due to questions about his mental competence. In January
2023, a judge found him mentally unfit
to stand trial due to “incurable neurocognitive decline”;
he was released to a private residence in November 2023.
2021 - Delta Air Lines said employees would have to pay $200 more every month for their
company-sponsored healthcare plan -- if they chose to skip their vaccination against COVID-19.
2022 - California regulators voted to ban the sale
of all new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. The regulation phases out the sale of new gasoline-powered
cars, trucks and SUVs in the most-populous state, culminating in a total ban of new sales of the vehicles
by 2035. The ban would not prevent people from using gas-powered vehicles or take existing cars off the road.
2022 - Restrictive abortion laws, triggered by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v.
Wade, took effect in Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas, banning abortions in the states with few exceptions.
A similar ‘trigger law,’ passed previously and designed to be enforced once a ruling struck down Roe,
took effect in North Dakota the following day. An Oklahoma law imposing higher criminal penalties for
performing illegal abortions went into effect a day later, tightening an existing state ban. The changes
in these five states sharply restricted access to abortion for about 10.1 million women of reproductive
age, between 15 and 49.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Gran Turismo,
starring Orlando Bloom, David Harbour and Darren Barnet; the documentary, The Hill, with
Joelle Carter, Dennis Quaid and Colin Ford; and Retribution, starring Liam Neeson, Jack Champion and Matthew Modine.
2023 - The Kremlin denied that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private plane. Kremlin spokesperson said speculation
that Putin had anything to do with Prigozhin’s apparent death was Western propaganda to smear Putin.
European leaders, U.S. intelligence analysts, Western news outlets and others believe Putin had
Prigozhin killed in retaliation for the brief Wagner mutiny (two months earlier) -- where he demanded
a shakeup of Russia’s military leadership, which Prigozhin had said was bungling the Ukraine invasion.
2023 - Hundreds of monster hunters gathered in the Scottish highlands
for the biggest effort to find the Loch Ness monster in 50 years. The folkloric
creature, popularly known as Nessie, has been sought since the first sighting in the sixth century.
But the group conducting the search might have been the best equipped ever, with infrared cameras,
flying and underwater drones, and a hydrophone that can pick up acoustic signals 60 feet below the
water’s surface. These are not just people with “binoculars and a tub of sandwiches,” Paul Nixon,
head of the Loch Ness Center tourist hub organizing "The Quest" event -- along with the research
group Loch Ness Exploration.
and more...
Birthdays on This Day
August 25
1819 - Allan Pinkerton
first first private detective; died July 1, 1884
1839 - Bret (Francis) Harte
writer: The
Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, How Santa Claus Came to
Simpson’s Bar; died May 5, 1902
1841 - Emil Kocher
Nobel
Prize-winning surgeon [for his pioneering work on thyroid gland: 1909]; died
July 27, 1917
1850 - Charles Richet
Nobel Prize-winning physiologist [1913]; died Dec 4, 1935
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Nobel
Prize-winning biochemist [for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance
for intermediary metabolism: 1953]; died Nov 22, 1981
1908 - Walter Burke
actor: Broadway:
Dearest Enemy, Padlocks, Faust, Madame Butterfly,
Yolanda of Cyprus, Help Yourself; film: The Hustler of Muscle
Beach, The Stone Killer, Support Your Local Gunfighter, Support
Your Local Sheriff!, Double Trouble; died Aug 4, 1984
1909 - Michael Rennie
actor:
The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Devil’s Brigade, The Battle of El
Alamein, Phone Call from a Stranger, The Robe, Hotel; died June 10, 1971
1910 - Ruby (Ethel Hilda) Keeler
dancer, actress: 42nd
Street, No, No, Nanette [Broadway revival]; died Feb 28, 1993
1913 - Bob Crosby
bandleader:
group: The Bob Cats: Big Noise from Winnetka, Summertime, South
Rampart Street Parade, Dogtown Blues; brother of Bing Crosby; died Mar 9,
1993
1913 - Don DeFore
actor: Hazel,
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Jumping Jacks, My Friend Irma,
The Stork Club; died
Dec 22, 1993
1913 - Walt Kelly
cartoonist: Pogo;
animator: Fantasia [1940], The Reluctant Dragon [1941]; died Oct 19, 1973
1916 - (Charles) Van Johnson
actor: Three Days
to a Kill, Delta Force Commando 2, Yours, Mine and Ours, The
Doomsday Flight , Brigadoon, The Caine Mutiny, Easy to Love,
In the Good Old Summertime, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Two Girls and
a Sailor; died Dec 12, 2008
1916 - Frederick Chapman Robbins
Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist [for his work on poliomyelitis
viruses: 1954]; died Aug 4, 2003
1917 - Mel Ferrer
actor: Scaramouche,
The Sun Also Rises, War and Peace, The Fall of the Roman Empire,
Sex and the Single Girl; died Jun 2, 2008
1918 - Leonard Bernstein
conductor:
New York Philharmonic Orchestra; composer: West Side Story, On
the Town, My Sister Eileen, On the Waterfront , Jeremiah,
The Age of Anxiety, Kaddish, Chichester Psalms, Mass,
Songfest; died Oct 14, 1990
1918 - Richard Greene
actor: Island
of the Lost, The Castle of Fu Manchu, The Hound of the Baskervilles,
Stanley and Livingstone; died June 1, 1985
1919 - George Wallace
Governor
of Alabama; candidate for U.S. President: paralyzed by gunshot wounds as
subject of assassination attempt [1972]; died Sep 13, 1998
1921 - Monty Hall (Halparin)
TV host: Let’s Make a Deal, Keep Talking, NBC Comedy Playhouse; died Sep 30, 2017
1927 - Althea Gibson
tennis
champion: French Open [1956], Wimbledon [1957, 1958], U.S. Open [1957, 1958]; died Sep 28, 2003
1930 - Sir Sean Connery
Academy Award-winning actor:
The Untouchables [1987]; The Rock, First Knight, The Hunt for
Red October, Highlander, Rising Sun, Outland, The Longest
Day, Dragonheart, Entrapment; “Bond. James Bond.”: Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live
Twice, Diamonds are Forever; died Oct 31, 2020
1931 - Peter Gilmore
actor: On Dangerous Ground, The Lonely Passion of Judith
Hearne, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Great St. Trinian’s Train
Robbery, Carry on Cleo; died Feb 3, 2013
1931 - Regis (Francis Xavier) Philbin
TV host: Live with Regis and Kelly, Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire?, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, Million Dollar Password;
TV announcer: The Joey
Bishop Show; TV field interviewer: Almost Anything Goes; America’s Got
Talent; died
Jul 24, 2020
1933 - Tom Skerritt
Emmy Award-winning actor:
Picket Fences [1992-1993]; Steel Magnolias, A River Runs Through It,
M*A*S*H, The Turning Point, Top Gun, Alien
1936 - Gordon Johncock
auto racer:
Indianapolis 500 winner [1973, 1982]
1938 - David Canary
actor: Secret Santa,
The Dain Curse, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, The St. Valentine’s Day
Massacre, Hombre; died Nov 16, 2015
1939 - Robert Toth
artist, sculptor,
designer: famous for tributes to famous people, such as Darwin, Poe, Lincoln;
his sculptures now grace the halls of the U.S. Capital building, the Pentagon and
Science Museum at the Smithsonian
1942 - Walter Williams
singer: group: The
O’Jays: Love Train, Back Stabbers
1944 - Jacques Demers
hockey: NHL head coach: St Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal
Canadiens
1944 - Anthony Heald
actor: Bushwhacked,
Kiss of Death, The Client, The Ballad of Little Jo, Whispers in
the Dark, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Silence of the Lambs
1946 - Rollie (Roland Glen) Fingers
Baseball Hall of Fame
pitcher: Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972, 1973, 1974/all-star: 1973, 1974, 1975,
1976], SD Padres [all-star:1978], Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1981, 1982/CY Young Award
winner: 1981/Baseball Writers’ Award 1981]
1946 - Charlie Sanders
Pro Football Hall of
Famer: Detroit Lions
1947 - Anne Archer
actress: Falcon
Crest, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Fatal
Attraction, Narrow Margin, Patriot Games, Clear and Present
Danger, Short Cuts
1949 - John Savage
actor: White Squall,
Shattered Image, The Hunting, The Godfather, Part 3, Silent
Witness, The Onion Fields, Hair, The Deer Hunter, The
Killing Kind, Soldier’s Revenge
1949 - Gene Simmons
musician: group:
KISS: Rock and Roll All
Nite, Beth, I Was Made For Lovin’ You, Forever; actor: Red Surf,
Runaway, Wanted Dead or Alive
1951 - Rob Halford
singer:
group: Judas Priest: Tyrant, Victim of Changes, Ripper,
Beyond the Realms of Death, Take on the World, Living after
Midnight, Breaking the Law
1954 - Elvis Costello (Declan McManus)
musician, songwriter, singer:
I’m Not Angry, Less than Zero, Watching the Detectives, Clubland,
Oliver’s Army, Every Day I Write the Book, I’m Your Toy, Party,
Party, So Young
1954 - Marty Jourard
musician: keyboard
and saxophone: group: The
Motels: Only the Lonely, Danger, Celia, Shame,
Careful, Suddenly Last Summer, So L.A., Cries and Whispers
1958 - Tim Burton
director: Planet of
the Apes [2001], Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,
Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns,
Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow
1960 - Ashley Crow
actress: Heroes,
Minority Report, Dark Angel, Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story,
Little Big League, The Good Son, A Woman Named Jackie
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus
singer: Achy Breaky Heart; father of singer Miley Cyrus
1961 - Ally Walker
actress: Profiler,
Sons of Anarchy, The Protector, Universal Soldier, Singles, While You Were Sleeping,
Kazaam, Happy, Texas, Wonderful World
1962 - Vivian Campbell
musician: guitar:
group: Def Leppard: Pour Some Sugar
on Me, Photograph, Love Bites, Let’s Get Rocked, Two Steps Behind,
Animal, Foolin’, Rocket
1964 - Morgan Englund
actor: The Guiding Light;
Cloris Leachman’s son
1964 - Blair Underwood
actor: L.A. Law,
Downtown, Just Cause, Dangerous Relations, Posse, Heat
Wave, Rules of Engagement, Dirty Sexy Money, The New Adventures
of Old Christine
1964 - Joanne Whalley
actress: Trial by
Jury, Navy SEALS, To Kill a Priest, The Singing Detective,
Dance with a Stranger, What the Butler Saw
1965 - Cornelius Bennett
football
[linebacker]: Univ of Alabama; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts
1965 - Reggie Miller
basketball: NBA: Indiana Pacers: five-time All-Star, set record
for most career 3-point field goals
1966 - Albert Belle
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles
1967 - Tom Hollander
actor: Pirates
of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, In the Loop, Enigma, Pride
& Prejudice, Gosford Park, Hanna, Pride and Prejudice,
Doctor Thorne, Corky, The Night Manager
1968 - Rachael Ray
TV chef/host: 30
Minute Meals, Inside Dish with Rachael Ray, $40 a Day, Rachael Ray’s
Tasty Travels
1970 - Robert Horry
basketball
[forward]: Univ of Alabama; NBA: Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers, SA Spurs
1970 - Jo Dee Messina
singer: I’m Alright, Heads Carolina, Tails California,
Bye, Bye, Stand Beside Me, Bring On the Rain, Lesson on
Leavin’, That’s the Way, Burn; nine #1 singles on Billboard
1970 - Claudia Schiffer
supermodel; actress:
Richie Rich, Friends & Lovers, Black and White
1972 - Marvin Harrison
football
[wide receiver]: Univ of Syracuse; NFL: Indianapolis Colts
1973 - Ben Falcone
actor: Bridesmaids,
Identity Thief, The Heat, What to Expect When You’re Expecting,
Enough Said; married to actress Melissa McCarthy
1975 - Justin Magnum
actor [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Devil Made Me Do It, Red Hot Fire Fighter
Babes, Baby Doll Cheerleaders, Greedy Little Bitch, Sexxxy Oil
Wrestling, How the West Was Hung, Dirty Little Bad Girls
1976 - Damon Jones
basketball
[guard]: Univ of Houston; NBA: NJ Nets, Boston Celtics, GS Warriors, Dallas Mavericks,
Vancouver Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, Sacramento Kings, Milwaukee Bucks, Miami Heat
1976 - Alexander Skarsgård
actor: True Blood,
Revelations, Generation Kill, War on Everyone, Battleship,
What Maisie Knew, Tarzan
1977 - Jonathan Togo
actor:
CSI: Miami, Special Unit 2, Harry’s Law, And Lily,
Identical, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Covert Affairs
1978 - Kel Mitchell
comedian, actor: All That, Kenan & Kel, Good
Burger; voice: Motorcity, Wild Grinders
1978 - Pablo Ozuna
baseball: Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox
1980 - Toni Wynne
actress:
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, A
Cinderella Story, Murder 101, Spider-Man 3
1981 - Rachel Bilson
actress: Take Two,
Nashville, Hart of Dixie, The O.C., The Last Kiss, Jumper,
Hart of Dixie
1983 - Sara Stone
actress [2004-2011]: X-rated films: Big and Busty Stripper Babes, Vulvapalooza,
Mommy Needs Money, Thanks for the Mammories, Mrs. Behavin’,
Boobaholics Anonymous
1987 - Blake Lively
actress: Gossip
Girl, Accepted, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The
Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town, Green Lantern, Savages
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day
August 25
1946
The Gypsy
(facts) -
The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful
(facts) -
Frank Sinatra
I Don’t Know Enough About You
(facts) -
The Mills Brothers
New Spanish Two Step
(facts) -
Bob Wills
1955Rock Around the Clock
(facts) -
Bill Haley & His Comets
Hard to Get
(facts) -
Gisele MacKenzie
The Yellow Rose of Texas
(facts) -
Mitch Miller
I Don’t Care
(facts) -
Webb Pierce
1964Where Did Our Love Go
(facts) -
The Supremes
Under the Boardwalk
(facts) -
The Drifters
The House of the Rising Sun
(facts) - The Animals
Dang Me (facts) - Roger Miller
1973Brother Louie
(facts) -
Stories
Let’s Get It On
(facts) -
Marvin Gaye
Delta Dawn
(facts) -
Helen Reddy
Everybody’s Had the Blues
(facts) -
Merle Haggard
1982Eye of the Tiger
(facts) -
Survivor
Hurts So Good
(facts) -
John Cougar
Abracadabra
(facts) -
The Steve Miller Band
Nobody
(facts) -
Sylvia
1991(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
(facts) -
Bryan Adams
It Ain’t Over ’Til
It’s Over
(facts) - Lenny Kravitz
Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
(facts) -
Roxette
You Know Me Better Than That
(facts) -
George Strait
2000Bent
(facts) -
Matchbox Twenty
I Think I’m In Love With You
(facts) -
Jessica Simpson
Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
(facts) -
Nine Days
What About Now
(facts) -
Lonestar
2009I Gotta Feeling
(facts) - Black Eyed Peas
You Belong with Me
(facts) -
Taylor Swift
Knock You Down
(facts) - Keri Hilson featuring
Kanye West &
Ne-Yo
Summer Nights
(facts) - Rascal Flatts
2018In My Feelings
(facts) -
Drake
Girls Like You
(facts) -
Maroon 5 featuring
Cardi B
I Like It
(facts) -
Cardi B,
Bad Bunny &
J Balvin
Meant to Be
(facts) - Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line
and even more...
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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