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1811 - Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley eloped with Harriet Westbrook.1830 - The passenger-carrying train locomotive Tom Thumb was demonstrated for the first time at Baltimore, MD. It was the first locomotive of its kind built in America.
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins of Worcester, England began the manufacture of Worcester Sauce. Check here for the ingredients.
1850 - Wagner’s opera, Lohengrin, was performed for the first time.
1883 - The first controlled flight in a glider was made by John J. Montgomery at Wheeler Hill, CA. He soared 603 feet at a height of about 15 feet.
1907 - United Parcel Service began on this day; ‘united’ for the consolidated shipments and ‘service’ because that’s what they offered. Today, United Parcel Service “operates an international small package and document network in more than 200 countries and territories, spanning both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. With its international service, UPS can reach over four billion people.”
1914 - Three German cruisers were sunk by ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. It was the first major naval battle of World War I. The Germans lost 1,000 sailors. There were 33 British casualties.
1922 - The Walker Cup, the oldest international team golf match in America, was held for the first time at Southampton, NY.
1922 - The first commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on WEAF in New York City. Announcer H.M. Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The Queensboro Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called Toll Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph, in those days) sold their block programming, five one-minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 plus long-distance toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid $100 for 10 minutes of commercial airtime.
1931 - You Rascal You was recorded by Henry Allen, with the Luis Russell Band, for the Victor label.
1941 - The Football Writers Association of America was organized.
1945 - Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and future baseball great Jackie Robinson met. They discussed the difficulties Robinson, a black athlete, would face in major league baseball. Robinson received $600 a month and a $3,500 signing bonus to play for Montreal Royals - a Dodger farm team - for the 1946 season. He moved up to the Dodgers as the 1947 season began and went on to enjoy a brilliant career.
1947 - Manolete (Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez), the famous bullfighter, was wounded by -- you guessed it -- a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain. He was gored in the upper right leg and died the following day at age 30. (It is now believed that Manolete died after receiving a blood transfusion of the wrong type.)
1954 - That’s All Right (Mama) b/w Blue Moon of Kentucky became Elvis Presley’s first hit single on local charts in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips had debuted the single on his Red Hot and Blue show on WHBQ radio -- and the rest is history...
1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond began his filibuster against the Civil Rights Act. He set the record for longest filibuster in the United States Senate at 24 hours, 18 minutes.
1963 - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in the shadows of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Some 250,000 people witnessed one of the most stirring speeches of the century.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, connecting Seattle & Bellevue, Washington, opened. The bridge provides a second, northern route across Lake Washington. The old bridge was replaced in 2017 by a new floating bridge.
1964 - The Beatles appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1968 - Thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators clashed with police in the streets and parks of Chicago, Illinois as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1972 - Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Spitz completed the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes, 7/10ths of a second. His performance set a world record.
1973 - Some 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
1978 - U.S. Civil War historian and writer Bruce Catton died. He was 78 years old. Catton won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for his A Stillness at Appomattox.
1981 - For the third time in 10 days, a world record in the mile run was set. Sebastian Coe, who broke Steve Ovett’s record on August 19 and lost it to Ovett on August 26, broke it again -- by a full second -- in Brussels, Belgium. Coe’s new record time was 3:47.33.
1982 - Sugar Babies closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater on Broadway after 1208 performances.
1984 - The Jacksons’ Victory Tour broke the record for concert ticket sales. The group surpassed the 1.1 million mark in only two months.
1985 - Academy Award-winning Actress Ruth Gordon died of a stroke in her sleep. She was 88 years old. Gordon won an Oscar (Actress in a Supporting Role) for her performance as Minnie Castevet in Rosemary’s Baby (1968). And she won an Emmy (Lead Actress in a Comedy Series) for Taxi (episode: Sugar Mama: 1978). Other Ruth Gordon films/TV performances include Inside Daisy Clover, Harold and Maude, The Big Bus, Columbo: Try and Catch Me, Perfect Gentlemen, and Every Which Way But Loose.
1987 - U.S. actor and film director, John Huston, died in Middletown, RI. He was 81 years old. His list of great films is a long one, and includes The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Best Director Oscar: 1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Moulin Rouge (1952), Moby Dick (1956), The Misfits (1961), and The African Queen (1951).
1988 - An Italian Air Force jet collided with two other jets and then plunged into a crowd during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany. 70 spectators were killed by flaming debris. 400 others were injured.
1990 - Iraq declared occupied Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq and renamed Kuwait City Kadhima. A puppet regime under Alaa Hussein was set up. Saddam Hussein, saying he sympathized with his foreign captives, pledged to free detained women and children. (Alaa Hussein was convicted of treason in 2000 and sentenced to death.)
1991 - UPI (United Press International) started to reorganize under Chapter 11, listing $65.2 million in liabilities and $22.7 million in assets.
1993 - Billy Joel’s album River of Dreams hit #1 in the U.S. It was his first album to debut at #1 and stayed at top for three weeks. The album tracks were sequenced in the order they were written: No Man’s Land, The Great Wall of China, Blonde Over Blue, A Minor Variation, Shades of Grey, All About Soul, Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel), The River of Dreams, Two Thousand Years, Famous Last Words.
1995 - Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announced a $10 billion deal creating the biggest bank in the U.S.
1996 - The 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana ended with the issuing of a divorce decree. Under the terms of the divorce settlement, Diana was stripped of her ‘Royal Highness’ title.
1998 - Why Do Fools Fall in Love opened in U.S. theatres. “Three different women (played by Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox and Lela Rochon) married Frankie Lymon. Now as they fight to get a piece of his millions, they will have to prove who married him first and who loved him most.”
1999 - Three crewmen aboard the Mir space station returned safely to Earth after bidding farewell to the 13-year-old Russian orbiter. (MIR broke up in the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean March 23, 2001, ending its reign as the heaviest artificial object to orbit Earth.)
2000 - Foster’s Brewing of Australia announced a deal to buy the Beringer winery in California for $1.5 billion. The deal created the world’s largest premium wine company.
2002 - Two former WorldCom executives were indicted -- charged with fraud. Former Chief Financial Officer Scott Sullivan and former Director of General Accounting Buford Yates were indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on seven counts of securities fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and filing false statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Prosecutors accused Sullivan of overseeing a long-running conspiracy to hide operating expenses in order to boost WorldCom’s earnings. Yates eventually pleaded guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy and agreed to help prosecutors.
2003 - The U.S. Library of Congress said Pulitzer Prize-winner (The Wild Iris) Louise Glück would be chosen as U.S. Poet Laureate. Her books of poetry include The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999); Ararat (1990); and The Triumph of Achilles (1985).
2003 - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reported that the hippos of Congo’s Virunga National Park had been nearly wiped out by poachers and civil war.
2003 - The Rage in Placid Lake debuted in U.S. theatres. The comedy stars Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Garry Macdonald and Nicholos Hammond.
2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, pizza delivery man in Erie, PA, was killed when a bomb strapped to his chest exploded while he was in police custody. Wells claimed a customer had strapped the bomb on him and ordered him to rob a bank. In July 2007 the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI announced that Wells had been named as a co-conspirator because of his participation in the planning of the robbery, and that Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes had been charged with felonies in the case. A third person in the case, Floyd Stockton, was given immunity in a deal with prosecutors to testify against Barnes and Diehl-Armstrong. It is believed that Wells was intentionally killed by Diehl-Armstrong and her co-conspirators to reduce the number of witnesses against herself and others.
2004 - London’s Notting Hill Carnival began with more than a million revelers expected to turn out to celebrate the three-day event’s 40th year.
2005 - Hawaii, represented by Ewa Beach (Oahu), defeated Williemstad, Curaçao, 7-6, to win the Little League World Series.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina continued to strengthen, reaching Category Five status. It had the second lowest barometric pressure (908 mb) for an American hurricane in recorded history, with only the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 having a lower measurement.
2006 - Tropical Storm Ernesto hit Cuba west of the U.S. naval air base at Guantanamo. The soon-to-be hurricane had already killed two people in Haiti.
2006 - Ed Benedict, legendary animator, died in Auburn, CA at 94 years of age. Benedict was the main character designer for the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and Fred Flintstone.
2007 - Las Vegas Sands opened its $2.4 billion Venetian Macao, the world’s largest casino-resort.
2007 - Burning Man went up in flames four days early. The giant sculpture was set on fire (during a rare lunar eclipse) by Paul Addis of San Francisco, who was booked into the county jail on charges of arson, possession of fireworks, destruction of property and resisting a public officer. Burning Man was quickly rebuilt for the official flaming a few days later.
2008 - Grant Wilkinson was jailed for life for running Britain’s biggest-ever illegal gun factory. He converted dozens of replica submachine guns into deadly weapons used in nine gangland murders. He had legally purchased 90 replica Mac-10s in 2004, saying they were for use on the set of the James Bond film Casino Royale.
2008 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention in Denver, as he accepted its nomination of him for president of the U.S.
2008 - Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City abortion law, setting a precedent for the rest of the country.
2009 - These films debuted in the U.S.: H2: Halloween 2, with Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Daeg Faerch, Danielle Harris, Daniel Roebuck, Ezra Buzzington, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, Dayton Callie, Richard Brake, Matt Bush, Howard Hesseman, Bill Moseley, Caroline Williams, Brea Grant and Bill Fagerbakke; Taking Woodstock, starring Demtri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Henry Goodman, Eugene Levy, Paul Dano, Dan Fogler and Mamie Gummer; and The Final Destination, with Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Krista Allen, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Webb, Nick Zano, Andrew Fiscella and Richard T. Jones.
2009 - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the leaders of the political opposition to be prosecuted over the postelection turmoil. The move increased pressure against the pro-reform movement that had insisted Ahmadinejad won the election by fraud.
2010 - Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld lashed out at the “corrupt” U.S. judiciary which sent him to jail even though he was the whistleblower who led to the U.S. tax fraud case against the bank. He asked, “Why am I the only one in prison when I had revealed everything?” Birkenfeld’s revelations about the bank had led to the U.S. offensive against UBS in 2008, culminating in the bank being forced to hand over 300 client names and to pay a 780-million-dollar fine. Under a 2006 law, the Internal Revenue Service can pay whistleblower awards of up to 30% of the collected proceeds. In 2012 Birkenfeld was awarded $104 million in the largest-ever whistleblower payout to an individual.
2011 - Seawater surged into Manhattan streets as Tropical Storm Irene slammed into New York. For a while, the storm, downgraded from a hurricane but still unleashing furious wind and rain, threatened Wall Street and the heart of the global financial network. 16 people were reported killed in six states.
2012 - Republicans at the U.S. National Convention emphatically approved a toughly worded party platform that would ban all abortions and gay marriages, reshape Medicare into a voucher-like program and cut taxes to energize the economy and create jobs.
2012 - Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov charged President Vladimir Putin with spending billions of taxpayers’ rubles on 20 luxurious residences, 43 jets and four yachts. In a report titled The Life of a Galley Slave, Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, estimated that the maintenance alone on Putin’s residences, jets and cars costs $2.5 billion a year. “Putin has been mistaking government property for his own for a long time,” Nemtsov said. “This is an insolent, cynical and luxurious lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense.”
2013 - At least 11 people were killed and several more feared trapped when a 4-story apartment block collapsed in Vadodara, India.
2013 - Russian police said they had raided an exhibition and confiscated a painting that portrayed President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in women’s lingerie. Artist Konstantin Altunin fled Russia in fear of being arrested after the show’s closure.
2014 - Brazilian prosecutors in Para state announced the dismantling of the country’s largest deforestation gang. They said eight suspected members had been taken into custody for environmental damage estimated at $222 million.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: We Are Your Friends, with Emily Ratajkowski, Zac Efron and Jon Bernthal; 7 Chinese Brothers, starring Jason Schwartzman, Stephen Root and Jonathan Togo; The Second Mother, with Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria and Michel Joelsas; War Room, starring Priscilla C. Shirer, T.C. Stallings and Karen Abercrombie; Z for Zachariah, with Margot Robbie, Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor; and Zipper, starring Lena Headey, Dianna Agron and Patrick Wilson.
2015 - Virginia teenager Ali Shukri Amin was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for helping another teen travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
2016 - Singer Beyonce dominated the MTV Video Music Awards as she won eight awards, including video of the year. And she awed the audience with a 15 minute medley from her Lemonade album. Rihanna was given the lifetime achievement Moonman.
2017 - Engineers released water from Houston area reservoirs to control rushing currents as tropical storm Harvey continued to dump rain on the city. Fears that the rising water would put too much pressure on the dams forced the controlled releases.
2017 - Germany said it had reached a deal with Egypt to stem the flow of migrants from the Arab country. The agreement was part of a broader push by Berlin to head off waves of migrants that had stoked domestic political tensions.
2018 - Fishermen from rival French and British fleets ran their boats into each other in ill-tempered skirmishes over access to the scallop-rich waters off France’s northern coast. French law prevents French boats from fishing for scallops during the summer months before Oct. 1, to help preserve the stocks. But British ships can still fish for the prized delicacies in international waters off the French coast.
2018 - C40 Cities, a global network dedicated to fighting climate change, said 23 global cities and regions representing 150 million people had pledged to significantly cut, by 2013, the pollution-causing garbage they generate.
2019 - Honduras reported 109 deaths at this point in the year from dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease. Some 2 million people had caught the disease in so far in 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean and more than 720 have died, according to PAHO, the regional arm of the World Health Organization (WHO).
2019 - Facebook Inc said it was tightening its political ad rules in the United States, requiring new disclosures for its site, and photo-sharing platform Instagram, ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November 2020. But it was almost a year later -- June, 2020 -- that Facebook, under continuing pressure from advertisers, said it would start labeling political speech that violated its rules, saying it also was taking “other measures” to prevent voter suppression and protect minorities from abuse. Grudgingly, little by little, and only after being forced to do it, did Facebook begin to show some interest in exposing the disinformation it had published for so long.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open in U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The New Mutants, starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlie Heaton; Centigrade, with Vincent Piazza, Genesis Rodriguez and Mavis Simpson-Ernst; Fatima, with Alba Baptista, Harvey Keitel and Joaquim de Almeida; Hard Kill, starring Bruce Willis, Jesse Metcalfe and Sergio Rizzuto; The Personal History of David Copperfield, with Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton; and Still Here, starring Johnny Whitworth, Zazie Beetz and Afton Williamson.
2020 - Brazil’s main prosecutor’s office said that Rio de Janeiro governor Wilson Witzel, an ex-marine and former federal judge, had been removed from office due to corruption charges. Witzel was soon convicted of corruption and kicked out of office. He and his wife Helena had led a sprawling criminal operation in which her law firm was used to receive payment from a company that won state coronavirus contracts. Investigations by Brazilian prosecutors said that Witzel bought 700 million reais ($128.76 million) worth of COVID-19 ventilators which were never delivered.
2020 - Thousands gathered to march in Washington, DC to denounce racism, protest police brutality and commemorate the anniversary of the march in 1963 where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr made his “I Have a Dream” speech.
2020 - Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said the website should have taken down the page and event listing promoting a militia group that called for armed citizens to ‘defend’ Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid ongoing protests there. Info on the event called, “Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property,” and the page, “Kenosha Guard,” were removed after two people were killed in a Kenosha shooting on August 25.
2021 - In Germany police tussled with protesters as thousands of people marched through Berlin chanting slogans and waving banners against COVID-19 restrictions.
2021 - Russia recorded a record number of deaths in July of people infected with coronavirus. 50,421 people suffering from COVID-19 died during the month, sharply higher than the previous record.
2022 - A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card brought $12.6 million, making it the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at auction. The previous record (earlier in 2022) was $9.3 million for the jersey that soccer legend Diego Maradona wore when he scored the ‘Hand of God’ goal in the 1986 world Cup. The card featuring Mantle, who was the most powerful switch-hitter in baseball history, would have been sold originally in a wax-wrapped pack for a penny or a nickel.
2022 - A gunman opened fire in the parking lot of a shopping center in Bend, Oregon, before entering a Safeway grocery store and fatally shooting two people. Police who responded to reports of shots at the Forum Shopping Center found the man believed to be the attacker dead, with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun near the body. Customers and workers “started running out the back emergency exit telling other people to do the same,” said Dexter Chamberlin, who was checking out at the Safeway when the gunfire erupted.
2022 - Irishman Rory McIlroy collected $18 million with a one-stroke win over Scottie Scheffler and Im Sung-jae. He won the (PGA) Tour Championship. Six shots behind at the start, 10 shots back after two holes, McIlroy rallied from a six-shot deficit in the final round against the #1 player in the world (Scheffler) and closed with a 4-under 66 to become the first three-time winner of the FedEx Cup.
2023 - Barbie became Warner Brothers’ highest-grossing global release, overtaking Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Part 2 -- taking in $1.342 billion.
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Birthdays on This Day August 28
1749 - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
writer: Faust; died Mar 22, 18321774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton
religious leader: founder of the Sisters of Charity, the first U.S. congregation of Religious Sister; died Jan 4, 1821; she was the first native-born citizen of the U.S. to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church [Sep 14, 1975]1831 - Lucy Hayes
first lady: wife of 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes; died June 25, 18891897 - Charlie (Charles John) Grimm
‘Jolly Cholly’: baseball: Philadelphia Athletics, SL Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1929, 1932]; died Nov 15, 19831899 - Charles Boyer
actor: Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Algiers; died Aug 26, 19781905 - Sam Levene (Samuel Levine)
actor: A Dream of Kings, Three Men on a Horse; died Dec 28, 19801913 - Cornelius Johnson
Olympic Gold medalist: high jump [1936]; died Feb 15, 19461919 - Ben Agajanian
football: SD Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Green Bay Packers, NY Giants, Philadelphia Eagles; kicking coach specialist: Dallas Cowboys; died Feb 8, 20181921 - Nancy Kulp
actress: The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Cummings Show, The Brian Keith Show, The Three Faces of Eve; died Feb 3, 19911924 - Peggy Ryan
actress: Hawaii Five-O, Here Come the Co-Eds, Miss Annie Rooney; died Oct 30, 20041925 - Billy (William Wayne) Grammer
singer: Gotta Travel On, Bonaparte’s Retreat; died Aug 10, 20111925 - Donald (David Dixon) O’Connor
dancer, singer, actor: Singin’ in the Rain, Francis the Talking Mule series, The Donald O’Connor Show, Call Me Madam, Walking My Baby Back Home, There’s No Business Like Show Business, The Buster Keaton Story, Toys, Out to Sea; died Sep 27, 20031828 - Leo Tolstoy
author: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrection; died Nov 20, 19101929 - Roxie Roker
actress: The Jeffersons; died Dec 2, 19951930 - Ben (Biagio Anthony) Gazzara
actor: Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, Anatomy of a Murder, The Bridge at Remagen, QB VII, Voyage of the Damned, Bloodline; died Feb 3, 20121932 - Andy Bathgate
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: New York Rangers: Hart Memorial Trophy winner: [1959]; Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Redwings; died Feb 26, 20161933 - Elizabeth Seal
Tony Award-winning actress: Irma La Douce; films: Radio Cab Murder, Cone of Silence, Vampire Circus1936 - Tony (Andres Antonio) González
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, SD Padres, California Angels; died Jul 2, 20211938 - Marla Adams
actress: Marilyn and Me, Splendor in the Grass, Days of Our Lives, Generations, The Secret Storm1938 - Paul Martin
Prime Minister of Canada [2003-2006]1939 - Clem Cattini
musician: drums: groups: Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: Please Don’t Touch, You’ve Got What It Takes, Shakin’ All Over, Restless, Linda Lu1940 - Richard Sanders
actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, You Can’t Take It with You, Spencer, Berrengers, Forbidden Choices, Neon City1943 - Annie ‘Honey’ Lantree
musician: drums: group: The Honeycombs: Have I the Right, That’s the Way, Is It Because, Something Better Beginning, Colour Slide, Once You Know, Without You It Is Night1943 - Lou (Louis Victor) Piniella
baseball: Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, KC Royals [all-star: 1972], NY Yankees [World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978, 19811943 - David Soul (Solberg)
actor: Starsky and Hutch, Salem’s Lot; singer: Don’t Give Up on Us1944 - Kay Parker
actress [1977-1998]: X-rated films: Sex World, Dracula Sucks, Taboo series, The Seven Seductions of Madame Lau, Nasty Nurses1945 - John Demarie
football [guard, tackle, center]: Cleveland Browns; died Nov 29, 20151945 - Jim Lynch
football: Notre Dame; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker: Super Bowl IV1946 - Mike (Michael Augustine) Torrez
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals, Montreal Expos, Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees [World Series: 1977], Boston Red Sox, NY Mets1948 - Danny Seraphine
musician: drums: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I’m Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?1949 - Hugh Cornwell
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Stranglers: Grip, Peaches, No More Heroes, Walk on By, Golden Brown, Skin Deep, Nice in Nice1950 - Ron (Ronald Ames) Guidry
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees pitcher: [World Series: 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983/Cy Young Award: 1978/AP male athlete of the year: 1978]1951 - Wayne Osmond
singer: group: The Osmond Brothers: One Bad Apple, Any Time1951 - Joel (Randolph) Youngblood
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, NY Mets [all-star: 1981], SL Cardinals, Montreal Expos, SF Giants1952 - Rita Dove
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Thomas and Beulah [1987]; Sonata Mulattica, The Darker Face of the Earth; U.S. Poet Laureate [1993-1995]; more1953 - Bob Avellini
football: Unive. of Maryland, Chicago Bears1956 - Luis Guzman
actor: Boogie Nights, Carlito’s Way, Welcome to Collinwood, Stonewall, Waiting..., The Salton Sea, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, How to Make It in America1957 - Rick Rossovich
actor: Sons & Daughters, Macgruder & Loud, ER, Fatally Yours, Tropical Heat, Roxanne, Top Gun, The Terminator, The Lords of Discipline1957 - Daniel Stern
actor: Celtic Pride, Bushwhacked, City Slickers series, Home Alone series, Born in East L.A., Hannah and Her Sisters, Diner, Starting Over, Breaking Away, Hometown; narrator: The Wonder Years1958 - Scott Hamilton
Olympic Hall of Famer and figure skating Gold Medalist [1984]; performer: Stars on Ice1960 - Emma Samms (Samuelson)
actress: Dynasty, General Hospital, Illusions, Delirious1961 - Jennifer Coolidge
actress: The White Lotus, American Pie, A Cinderella Story, Legally Blonde, Robots, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Joey, For Your Consideration, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events1964 - Lee Janzen
golf champ: U.S. Open [1993, 1998]1965 - Amanda Tapping
actress: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary, Riese, Life or Something Like It, What Kind of Mother Are You?, Dancing Trees1965 - Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards)
Grammy Award-winning singer: The Woman In Me [1996]; Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?, Any Man of Mine, No One Needs to Know, [If You’re Not in It for Love] I’m Outta Here! , Come On Over1968 - Billy Boyd
actor: The Lord of the Rings series, The Flying Scotsman, On a Clear Day, Instant Credit, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World1968 - Tom Fitzgerald
hockey: NY Islanders, Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators, Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins1969 - Jack Black
actor: High Fidelity, The X Files, Envy, The School of Rock, Lord of the Piercing, Orange County, Shallow Hal, Saving Silverman, Will & Grace, King Kong, Nacho Libre1969 - Jason Priestley
actor: Beverly Hills 90210, Sister Kate, Calendar Girl, Tombstone, The Boy Who Could Fly1971 - Shane Andrews
baseball: Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox1972 - Darby Hendrickson
hockey [center]: Toronto Maple Leafs, NY Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Minnesota Wild, Colorado Avalanche1972 - Jay Witasick
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Maryland; Oakland Athletics, KC Royals, SD Padres, Colorado Rockies1973 - Matthew John Armstrong
actor: Heroes, American Dreams, Abduction of Jesse Bookman, Studio City, The David Cassidy Story, Turks1973 - Kit Pellow
baseball: Univ of Arkansas; Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Seattle Mariners
1973 - J. August Richards
actor: Angel, Paved With Good Intentions, Critical Assembly, Running Mates, The Temptations, Good Burger1975 - Eugene Byrd
actor: Bones, Dead Man, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Confess, Bolden!, Rails & Ties, Marsha Potter Gets a Life, Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble1980 - Carly Pope
actress: Trapped in a Purple Haze, Popular, Say Goodnight, Dirt, Double Bill, Itty Bitty Titty Committee1981 - Jake Owen
singer: Yee Haw, Startin’ With Me, Something About a Woman, Don’t Think I Can Love You, Eight Second Ride, Tell Me1982 - LeAnn Rimes
singer: How Do I Live, Can’t Fight the Moonlight, One Way Ticket (Because I Can), Commitment, I Need You, Written in the Stars; awards: American Music Award, Grammy Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards1983 - Kimberly Kane
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Belladonna’s Spontaneass, Flesh and Fantasy, Wet Nurse, Look Who’s Watching, Ghouls Gone Wild, Skater Girl Fever1983 - Nate Washington
football [wide receiver]: Pittsburgh Steelers [Super Bowls XL, XLIII], Tennessee Titans1984 - Kaya Jones
singer: group: Pussycat Dolls: sold more than 15 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide; solo: LPs: Confessions of a Hollywood Doll, Kaya1984 - Sarah Roemer
model; actress: Disturbia, Asylum, Fired Up!, Waking Madison, The Con Artist, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, The Grudge 21986 - Armie Hammer
actor: The Lone Ranger, The Social Network, Reaper, J. Edgar, Mirror Mirror, Gossip Girl1990 - Katie Findlay
actress: How to Get Away with Murder, The Carrie Diaries, The Killing, After the Dark, Premature, The Dark Stranger2003 - Lexi Underwood
actress: Cruel Summer, Little Fires Everywhere, Will vs the Future, If Not Now, When?, Sneakerella
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Hit Music on This Day August 28
1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Room Full of Roses (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
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