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1828 - Robert Turner of Ward, MA received a patent for his self-regulating wagon brake.1833 - Legislation to settle child labor laws was passed in England. The legislation was called the Factory Act and ordered the following:
1)No child workers under nine years of age
2)Employers must have an age certificate for their child workers
3)Children of 9-13 years to work no more than nine hours a day
4)Children of 13-18 years to work no more than 12 hours a day
5)Children are not to work at night
6)Two hours schooling each day for children
7)Four factory inspectors appointed to enforce the law
And you thought you had it tough as a kid...1883 - Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise several inches in the English Channel 32 hours after the explosion.
1885 - The first prize fight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held -- in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
1886 - Li Hung-Chang’s chef devised a tasty dish in New York City. It satisfied both American and Oriental tastes. The delicacy was called chop suey. Who was Li Hung-Chang, you ask? He was China’s Ambassador to the United States.
1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin completed its historic round-the-world flight at Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1943 - Paul Whiteman Presents, a summertime radio replacement show, was heard for the last time. The hostess for the show was Dinah Shore. Whiteman’s 35-piece orchestra serenaded listeners on the NBC radio network. Whiteman’s well-known theme song was Rhapsody in Blue.
1944 - 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
1946 - Ella Fitzgerald and The Delta Rhythm Boys recorded It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight on Decca Records. The song turned out to be one of Lady Ella’s most popular.
1949 - The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb. News of the test emerged on September 22 when the United States, Britain and Canada announced they had detected it.
1952 - 1,403 planes bombed Pyongyang, North Korea. It was the largest bombing raid of the Korean War. The U.S. Fifth Air Force teamed up with the Task Force 77 carrier fleet, First Marine Aircraft Wing, ROK Air Force, and the British to spread destruction on the supply concentrations in and about Pyongyang.
1954 - The Central Terminal at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) opened. Mills Field was the name of the original (1927) San Francisco Airport.
1957 - Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set a filibuster record in the U.S. Senate this day (and part of the previous day). He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes. Yakety yak!
1958 - The Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1962 - A U.S. U-2 reconnaissance flight over Cuba spotted SA-2 SAM (Surface-to-Air-Missile) launch pads. The revelation led to the ‘Cuban Missle Crisis’, a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union from October 16-28, 1962.
1964 - Roy Orbison’s Oh, Pretty Woman was released. It hit number one (for 3 weeks) on September 26th and became the biggest of his career. Oh, Pretty Woman was Orbison’s second #1 hit. The other was Running Scared (6/05/61).
1964 - Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins was released. The family musical comedy fantasy stars Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke as Bert/Mr. Dawes, Sr., with help from David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Reta Shaw, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, Ed Wynn, Jane Darwell, Arthur Malet and James Logan.
1964 - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum closed at the Majestic Theatre Theater on Broadway in New York City. The show had a combined run of 964 performances at the Majestic, Alvin and Mark Hellinger theatres.
1965 - Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Jr. complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5. The duo made a safe landing in the Atlantic Ocean after a record eight days in orbit.
1966 - Mia Farrow withdrew from the cast of the ABC-TV prime time drama Peyton Place, after starring for two years. With Farrow’s exit, her character, Allison, was dropped.
1966 - The Beatles performed at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA. It was the group’s last live appearance before they disbanded in 1970.
1971 - Hank Aaron became the first baseball player in the National League to drive in 100 or more runs in each of 11 seasons.
1977 - Lou Brock got the 893rd stolen base of his baseball career -- breaking the major-league mark set by Ty Cobb.
1981 - Broadcaster and world traveler Lowell Thomas died in Pawling, New York. He was 89 years old.
1982 - British sailors Charles Burton and Sir Ranulph Fiennes arrived in London. They had spent almost three years sailing around the world by way of both poles in their craft named Benjamin Bowring.
1984 - Edwin Moses won the 400-meter hurdles in track competition in Europe. It was the track star’s 108th consecutive victory.
1987 - Academy Award-winning actor (Cat Ballou: 1965) Lee Marvin died suddenly of a heart attack in Tucson, AZ. He was 63 years old. Marvin played the tough guy in many movies and TV productions, including The Big Heat, The Wild One, The Caine Mutiny, Bad Day at Black Rock, M Squad, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Professionals, The Dirty Dozen, Paint Your Wagon, The Big Red One, Gorky Park and The Delta Force.
1991 - The Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the party’s 75-year controlling regime in the Soviet Union.
1992 - Mary Norton, children’s book author (The Borrowers, Bedknobs and Broomsticks), died at 88 years of age.
1994 - Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to merge, creating the largest U.S. defense contractor.
1996 - In a rousing climax to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, U.S. President Bill Clinton accepted his nomination for a second term, declaring, “Hope is back in America.”
1997 - Four feature flicks were released in the U.S.: Columbia’s Excess Baggage, starring Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken; United Artists’ Hoodlum, with Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth and Vanessa Williams; and She’s So Lovely, from Miramax, with Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn and John Travolta.
1997 - Japan’s Supreme Court ruled that the country’s education ministry broke the law by removing mention of a Japanese World War II atrocity from a high school textbook. Novelist Ryotaro Shiba was quoted as saying, “A country whose textbooks lie ... will inevitably collapse.”
1999 - Hurricane Dennis wallowed along the coast toward the Carolinas, prompting evacuation orders for the fragile Outer Banks barrier islands.
2001 - George Rivas, ringleader of a Texas prison breakout, was sentenced to death for killing an Irving policeman, Aubrey Hawkins, while on the run.
2003 - Jeepers Creepers 2 opened in U.S. theatres. The horror, thriller stars Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck and Travis Schiffner.
2003 - Jeffrey Lee Parson, age 18, suspected of writing a variant of the Blaster, a virus-like computer worm, was arrested in his hometown, the Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins.
2003 - France raised the death toll from its August heat wave 14,802. Because of the usually relatively mild summers in France, most people did not know how to react to very high temperatures
2004 - As the Republican National Convention got underway, some 400,000 demonstrators marched through the fortified streets of Manhattan. The protesters disagreed with the foreign and domestic policies of U.S. President George Bush (II).
2004 - Closing ceremonies were held in Athens, Greece, for the 28th Olympiad. During one of the final events, lead marathon runner Vanderlei Lima of Brazil was pushed into the crowd by an intruder, but still managed to finish third -- behind Stefano Baldini of Italy and Meb Keflezighi of the U.S.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast near Buras, LA. Katrina ripped holes in the top of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in the weather on storm refugees inside. In Mississippi, many of the 13 floating casinos in Biloxi and Gulfport smashed into historic homes and buildings. The Grand Casino Biloxi destroyed the historic Hotel Tivoli. Storm surges and winds from Katrina caused some 40 oil spills and 193,000 barrels of oil and other petrochemicals were driven across fragile marshy ecosystems southeast of New Orleans.
2006 - 50-year-old polygamist fugitive Warren Steed Jeffs was arrested in Nevada. He had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for sex crimes in Utah and Arizona. Jeffs headed the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which had been separated from the Mormon Church for several decades.
2007 - Balls of Fury debuted in U.S. theatres. The action comedy stars Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, Thomas Lennon and Robert Patrick.
2007 - The Venice Film Festival celebrated its 75th anniversary. Best film (earning the Golden Lion) went to the spy thriller Se, jie and its director Ang Lee.
2008 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel, Gérard Depardieu, Michelle Yeoh, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Strong, Radek Bruna, Melanie Thierry and Lambert Wilson; College, with Gary Owens, Ryan Pinkston, Drake Bell, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell, Haley Bennett, Nick Zano and Camille Mana; Disaster Movie, starring Carmen Electra, Kimberly Kardashian, Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Parker and Ike Barinholtz; and Sukiyaki Western Django, with Quentin Tarantino, Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi and Yoshino Kimura.
2008 - Republican Senator John McCain chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate.
2010 - The Sinabung volcano on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia erupted after some 400 years, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes.
2010 - Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the head of the Organization of The Islamic Conference, said Muslims had pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and flood-relief supplies for Pakistan. Some had criticized the Muslim world for not contributing enough.
2011 - 140 elementary schools in the resort city of Acapulco, Mexico closed after teachers refused to show up in fear of extortion threats and kidnappings by drug gangs. At least four teachers in the city had been kidnapped in the previous two weeks.
2012 - The The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy stars Christopher Lloyd, Cary Elwes, Jaime Pressly, Cloris Leachman, Chazz Palminteri and Toni Braxton.
2012 - Argentine authorities announced plans to shoot seagulls in hopes of reducing their population. This, following increased seagull attacks on southern right whales. Seagulls around the city of Puerto Madryn discovered about a decade ago that by pecking at the whales as they come up for air, they can create open wounds. As the gulls continue to peck away at skin and blubber, they seriously injure the whale. Conservationists worried that the amount of damage inflicted by seagulls was multiplying as the gull population grew year by year. Baby whales were particularly vulnerable to the attacks.
2013 - U.S. Attorney-General Eric Holder said that states could allow people to use marijuana, license growers and allow adults to buy it, as long as it was kept away from kids, the black market and federal property.
2014 - New movies in the U.S. included: As Above, So Below, with Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge and Perdita Weeks; Cantinflas, starring Luis Arrieta, Magali Boysselle, Cassandra Ciangherotti; The Congress, starring Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel and Jon Hamm; Jamie Marks Is Dead, with Judy Greer, Liv Tyler and Cameron Monaghan; The Last of Robin Hood, starring Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Kline; and Life of Crime, with Jennifer Aniston, Mark Boone Junior and Kevin Cannon.
2014 - South Korea-based pageant organizers said that a Myanmar beauty queen, who was stripped of her title for allegedly being rude and dishonest, had run off with the $100,000 jeweled crown. (On Sep 2 May Myat Noe said she would not return her bejeweled crown until pageant organizers apologized for calling her a liar and a thief.)
2014 - Malaysia Airlines announced the cutting of 6,000 workers as part of a $1.9 billion restructuring to revive its damaged brand after being hit by two disasters.
2015 - 200 people protesting against the Islamic State group in Rutbhah, the Iraqi province of Anbar, were kidnapped by the extremist militants over the weekend, the deputy mayor of the town, Imad Ahmad told local television. The rare street demonstration was in protest of the execution of a local resident by ISIS.
2016 - Seeking to counter the growing maritime assertiveness of China, the U.S. and India signed an agreement governing the use of each other’s land, air and naval bases for repair and resupply. The agreement would allow the Indian and U.S. navies to have an easier time supporting each other in joint operations and exercises and when providing humanitarian assistance.
2016 - The New York state Board of Parole announced that it had denied parole -- for the ninth time -- to Mark David Chapman, who on Dec. 8, 1980, shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon outside his luxury Manhattan apartment. The 61-year-old Chapman is serving a sentence of 20-years to life in Wende Correctional Facility in western New York. The parole said that the factors supporting Chapman’s parole were outweighed by the premediated and “celebrity-seeking” nature of the crime.
2017 - North Korea fired a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan. The rocket splashed into the Pacific Ocean. POTUS Donald Trump said North Korea had signaled its “contempt for its neighbors”. The foreign ministers of Russia and the United Arab Emirates urged North Korea to stop its provocations and obey U.N. resolutions.
2017 - Texas officials said Houston reservoirs that had contained heavy rains from tropical storm Harvey were starting to overflow, forcing authorities to release more water into the city’s swollen drainage system to alleviate pressure on two dams. In a panicked tweet, officials in Brazoria County warned that a levee at Columbia Lakes - about 50 miles from Houston - had been breached by floodwaters. The county’s twitter account urged any residents who had not already evacuated the area to leave immediately, writing: “GET OUT NOW!!”
2018 - Off-duty cameraman Javier Rodriguez Valladares of the Canal 10 TV station in Cancun, Mexico was shot to death along with another man. Valladares was the third journalist to be killed in Quintana Roo state in 2018.
2018 - The United Nations reported that Nicaragua’s government had turned a blind eye while armed mobs rounded up protesters, some of whom were later tortured and/or raped with rifles. The report documented human rights violations, including the disproportionate use of force and extrajudicial killings by the Nicaraguan police, disappearances, widespread arbitrary detentions and instances of torture and sexual violence in detention centers.
2019 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that mumps had swept through 57 U.S. immigration detention facilities in 19 states since the previous September.
2019 - Two former New York City police officers narrowly escape serious prison time by pleading guilty to charges of misconduct and receiving a bribe. This, after the pair said they had sex with an 18-year-old drug suspect in the back of a police vehicle in exchange for releasing her. Richard Hall and Eddie Martins pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court to two counts of third-degree felony bribe-receiving and nine counts of misdemeanor official misconduct. Justice Danny Chun agreed to accept their guilty pleas in exchange for five years of probation. the prosecutor had asked for one to three years in prison for the two cops.
2020 - Brazil counted another 758 novel coronavirus deaths in 24 hours and 41,350 new cases. Brazil had registered 120,262 coronavirus deaths and 3,846,153 confirmed cases, making it the hardest hit country in the world (in terms of total deaths).
2020 - France reported 5,453 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus as the Tour de France race began. The crowds that usually packed the start of the Tour de France, were absent and just 100 spectators were allowed for the early afternoon kickoff at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice — where masks were required, as they were for all outdoor spaces.
2021 - A U.S. drone struck a vehicle carrying what were thought to be multiple suicide bombers from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate. However, Afghans later said the strike killed Zemeral Ahmadi, seven children and two other adults from his family. Ahmadi was a longtime employee at an American humanitarian organization. On Sep 17 the Pentagon acknowledged that the attack was a tragic mistake.
2021 - Ed Asner, the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, introduced on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at his home in Tarzana, CA. He was 91 years old. Asner also starred in the spinoff Lou Grant and in film hits like Up and Elf. Asner served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981 to 1985 and was active in political causes both within and beyond the entertainment industry.
2021 - Hurricane Ida wiped out power to almost a million people in Louisiana, including most of New Orleans. The storm left some 26 people dead in the state. Seven of the dead were nursing home residents evacuated to a warehouse facility in Tangipahoa parish. Ida was later confirmed to have struck Louisiana with 150 mph category 4 winds to tie the storm with Hurricane Laura (2020) and the Last Island Hurricane (1856) as the strongest storms in terms of wind to ever impact Louisiana.
2022 - A federal judge sentenced Washington, DC bartender Joshua Pruitt, an aspiring member of the far-right Proud Boys group, to 55 months in prison for his role in the Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Text messages had revealed that Pruitt went to the Capitol ready for violence. He was photographed hurling a sign and throwing a chair during the riot, and he also approached Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as he was being led to safety.
2023 - The Biden administration unveiled the names of the first ten drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations, including several popular blood thinners and diabetes medications. Medicare enrollees paid a total of $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2022 and those who didn’t receive additional financial assistance shelled out as much as $6,500 on average. “Big Pharma is charging Americans more than three times what they charge other countries simply because they could,” President Joe Biden said. “I think it’s outrageous. That’s why these negotiations matter.” The negotiated prices were scheduled to take effect in 2026.
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Birthdays on This Day August 29
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes
physician, author: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Elsie Venner; poet: Old Ironsides; died Oct 7, 18941906 - Joe Sawyer
actor: Rin Tin Tin, How the West Was Won, North to Alaska, The Killing, Taza, Son of Cochise, Red Skies of Montana, The Flying Missile, Deputy Marshal; died Apr 21, 19821908 - George Macready
actor: The Return of Count Yorga, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Night Gallery, Fame Is the Name of the Game, Memorandum for a Spy, Seven Days in May; died July 2, 19731912 - (Patrick) Barry Sullivan
actor: The Bad and the Beautiful, The Road West, Oh, God! , Earthquake, The Bastard; died June 6, 19941914 - Willard Waterman
actor: Hail, Get Yourself a College Girl, The Apartment, How to Be Very, Very Popular, It Happens Every Thursday, Fourteen Hours; died Feb 2, 19951915 - Ingrid Bergman
Academy Award-winning actress: Gaslight [1944], Anastasia [1966], Murder on the Orient Express [1974]; Casablanca; Emmy Award-winner: The Turn of the Screw [1959-60], A Woman Called Golda [1981-82]; died Aug 29, 19821916 - George Montgomery (Letz)
actor: Battle of the Bulge, The Texas Rangers, Young People, Cimarron City; died Dec 12, 20001917 - Isabel Sanford
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Jeffersons [1980-1981]; Desperate Moves, Love at First Bite; died July 9, 20041919 - Billy (William Richard) Cox
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1949, 1952, 1953], Baltimore Orioles; died Mar 30, 19781920 - Charlie (Charles Christopher) Parker Jr.
‘Yardbird’, ‘The Bird’: musician: saxophone: Now’s the Time, Yardbird Suite Confirmation, Relaxin’ at Camarillo; died Mar 12, 19551921 - Wendell Scott
auto racer: first black stock-car driver; NASCAR champion [12-1-63]: won race but because of racial tensions did not receive honor until Jan 1964 when NASCAR officials admitted the flagman’s intentional error; died Dec 23, 1990
1923 - Richard Attenborough
actor: Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Dr. Dolittle, The Great Escape; director: Chaplin, Ghandi, A Bridge Too Far; member House of Lords [1993–2014]; died Aug 24, 20141924 - Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones)
singer: What A Diff’rence a Day Makes, It Could Happen to You, Our Love Is Here to Stay, For All We Know, Baby [You’ve Got What It Takes], A Rockin’ Good Way [To Mess Around and Fall in Love] , Baby Get Lost, This Bitter Earth; w/Lionel Hampton band [1943-46]; died Dec 14, 19631928 - Dick O’Neill
actor: Cagney & Lacey, Car 54, Where Are You?, The Honeymooners, Barney Miller, Sanford and Son, Kaz, M*A*S*H, The Facts of Life, Family Matters, Mad About You, Murder, She Wrote, Three’s Company, Magnum, P.I., Dark Justice, Cheers, Dharma & Greg, Cybill, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Home Improvement; Broadway: Promises, Promises, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Skyscraper; died Nov 17, 19981935 - William Friedkin
Academy Award-winning director: The French Connection [1971]; The Exorcist, To Live & Die in LA, The Boys in the Band; died Aug 7, 20231936 - John McCain
U.S. Senator from Arizona [1987-2018]; 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. president; Congressional Representative from Arizona [1983-1987]; captain in the U.S. Navy, Vietnamese prisoner of war; died Aug 25, 20181938 - Elliott Gould (Goldstein)
actor: Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice, M*A*S*H, The Long Good-Bye, The Night They Raided Minsky’s, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen1940 - James Brady
Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary to Ronald Reagan; seriously wounded when John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan; Brady gun law [requires waiting period and background check on handguns purchased through licensed dealers] named for him; died Aug 4, 20141941 - Ellen Geer
actress: Hard Traveling, Harold and Maude, The Jimmy Stewart Show, Beauty and the Beast1941 - Robin Leach
TV host: Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous; died Aug 24, 20181942 - Sterling Morrison
musician: bass, guitar, singer: group: The Velvet Underground: Heroin, I’m Waiting for the Man, Venus in Furs, I’ll Be Your Mirror, Sister Ray; died Aug 30, 19951943 - Dick Halligan
arranger, musician: trombone, piano, organ, flute: group: Blood, Sweat and Tears: Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie, You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, When I Die1946 - Bob Beamon
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame long jumper: gold medal: 1968/Mexico City: 29 feet, two-and-one-half inches1947 - Bob Lutz
tennis: Univ. Southern Cal, Davis Cup champ [w/Stan Smith]: 19681949 - Tony Greene
football: Buffalo Bills1950 - Doug (Douglas Vernon) DeCinces
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979], California Angels [all-star: 1983], SL Cardinals1953 - Rick Downey
musician: drums: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll, Red and the Black, Flaming Telepaths, This Ain’t the Summer of Love, Astronomy1958 - Michael Jackson
‘King of Pop’: singer: group: The Jackson Five: I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I’ll Be There, solo: Ben; Grammy Award: Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough [1979]; 5 Grammy Awards in 1983: Thriller, Billie Jean, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; 2 in 1984: Beat It; another in 1985 [w/Lionel Richie]: We are the World); 1989 Best Music Video/Short Form Grammy: Leave Me Alone; The Legend Award Grammy; The Girl is Mine, Stay, Stay, Stay [w/Paul McCartney], I Just Can’t Stop Loving You [w/Siedah Garrett], Rock with You, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Ease on Down the Road [w/Diana Ross - from Broadway’s The Wiz]; Captain Eo in Epcot Center’s multimedia show; married and divorced Lisa Marie Presley; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mar 19, 2001; has been dogged by allegations of child sexual abuse (he was tried and acquitted in 2005; died Jun 25, 2009
1959 - Rebecca De Mornay
actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin, Backdraft1959 - Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut: flew two space shuttle missions, was first Canadian to walk in space, served as commander of the International Space Station1965 - Will Perdue
basketball [center]: Vanderbilt Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, SA Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers1966 - Shawn Camp
musician: fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo; singer: Fallin’ Never Felt So Good, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Man, What a Woman, Bound to Cry, Little Bit of Love1966 - Dan Truman
musician: keyboards: group: Diamond Rio: Meet in the Middle, Mirror Mirror, Mama Don’t Forget to Pray for Me, Norma Jean Riley, Nowhere Bound, In a Week or Two1969 - Michael Stephano
actor [1997-2012]: X-rated films: Bring It On: A XXX Porn Parody, Unplanned Parenthood, Video Adventures of Peeping Tom, Let Us Prey, Euro Girls Never Say No, Thy Neighbor’s Daughter, Buttwoman vs. Slutwoman1969 - Pierre Turgeon
hockey [center]: Buffalo Sabres, NY Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, SL Blues and Dallas Stars1971 - Henry Blanco
baseball: LA Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs1971 - Carla Gugino
actress: Spy Kids film series, Sucker Punch, Sin City, Entourage, Watchmen, Karen Sisco, Threshold, Son in Law, Night at the Museum, Race to Witch Mountain, American Gangster, Mr. Popper’s Penguins1975 - Dante Basco
actor: Hook, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, American Dragon: Jake Long1977 - Chris J. Johnson
actor: The Vampire Diaries, Betrayal, Three Blind Mice, Daydream Believer, Straight-Jacket, Cursed, Fifty Pills, Against the Wall, JAG, Desperate Housewives, NCIS, CSI, Miss Match, South Beach1980 - David West
basketball [forward]: New Orleans Hornets [2003–2011], Indiana Pacers [2011–2015], San Antonio Spurs [2015–2016], Golden State Warriors [2016–2018]: 2017 NBA champs1981 - Émilie Dequenne
actress: Rosetta, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Le Grand Meaulnes, Avant qu’il ne soit trop tard, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Une femme de menage, Oui, mais...1981 - Angela Stone
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Cum Play With Me, Teenage Squirt Queens, Wedding Bells Gang Bang, Babes Behind Bars, Backwoods of Memphis, Innocence Brat1986 - Lauren Collins
actress: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Take the Lead, Charlie Bartlett, Picture This1986 - Lea Michele
singer, actress: Glee, New Year’s Eve; Broadway: Les Misérables, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, Spring Awakening1990 - Nicole Anderson
actress: Beauty and the Beast [TV], Make It or Break It, JONAS L.A., Lukewarm, RedLine, Ravenswood1990 - Chris Taylor
baseball [shortstop]: Seattle Mariners [2014–2016]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2016– ]: 2017, 2018 World Series1992 - Noah Syndergaard
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets [2015-2019]: 2015 World Series1993 - Liam Payne
English pop singer [One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful]; solo LP: LP1
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I Wanna Be Loved (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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