August 30
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1682 - William Penn sailed from England. He later established the colony of Pennsylvania (which, as some of you may know, is now one of the United States) and now stands on top of City Hall in Philadelphia, PA. Not him, really, but a famous statue of him...1800 - A planned slave revolt near Richmond, Virginia was foiled by a thunderstorm and betrayed by participants. The leader of the aborted revolt was former slave Gabriel Prosser. He and his main conspirators were captured and hanged.
1806 - The last issue of the Daily Advertiser was published. It was known as New York City’s second daily newspaper.
1905 - Ty Cobb appeared in his first major-league baseball game. He played for the Detroit Tigers.
1922 - The New Orleans Rhythm Kings recorded Tiger Rag, one of the most familiar ragtime jazz tunes ever. It was released on the General record label.
1926 - The first running of the Hambletonian happened in Syracuse, New York. Guy McKinney was the first horse to win first place in the famous race.
1939 - Isoroku Yamamoto was appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. Yamamoto was killed in April 1943 after American code breakers identified his flight plans, enabling the United States Army Air Forces to shoot down his plane. His death was a major blow to Japanese military morale during World War II
1944 - Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, fell to Soviet troops.
1945 - Hong Kong was liberated from Japan as a British naval squadron reoccupied the colony.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur landed in Japan for the first time to set up Allied occupation headquarters.
1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed the Treaty of Mutual Defense.
1953 - Kukla, Fran (Allison) and Ollie, along with the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, were featured on St. George and the Dragon, the first network telecast in ‘compatible color’.
1963 - The hotline communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation. Purpose of the link-up: to prevent the risk of accidental nuclear war. The U.S. end of the hotline was installed in the Pentagon; the Soviet end was in the Kremlin. Teletype machines were used at each end of the 10,000 mile circuit. A tape encryption system was used to keep the messages secure. The hotline was active 24 hours a day.
1965 - After 40 years in baseball, Casey Stengel announced his retirement.
1968 - The Beatles released their first singles for their own Apple label. The initial session included the big hits Revolution and Hey Jude.
1972 - The stars came out for charity as John and Yoko Lennon hosted the One-to-One concerts in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Among the music greats appearing were Stevie Wonder and Roberta Flack. Over $250,000 was raised to aid mentally retarded children.
1972 - President Nixon announced that John Dean had completed his investigation into the Watergate wiretapping debacle. And he added that no one from the White House was involved. Well, good. That takes care of that...
1974 - The Brady Bunch, a typical 1970s scrubbed-face American family sitcom which first aired on TV Sept. 26, 1969, came to an end on this day. This original series starred Robert Reed as the architect-widower with three sons (played by Barry Williams as Greg, Christopher Knight as Peter and Mike Lookinland as Bobby), who married a widow (Florence Henderson). The new Mrs. Brady had three daughters (played by Maureen McCormick as Marcia, Eve Plumb as Jan and Susan Olsen as Cindy). Add a nutsy housekeeper, Alice (Ann B. Davis), a family dog and cat and ABC-TV ended up with one giant TV success viewed weekly by millions of youngsters ... and their loving parents. Don’t you miss those Friday night family gatherings in front of the TV?
1974 - The largest fountain in America, the visual symbol of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was dedicated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania this day. The fountain takes up one-fifth of 36-acre Point State Park at the convergence of the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers. 90 percent of the fountain is unseen. That’s the part that pumps water from an underground river (a fourth, unnamed river that runs under the city and flows south, unlike the other three rivers), stores it and feeds it into the fountain. Designed by Charles Stotz and Louis Fosner and built by Robert R. Busse, the fountain is controlled by computers and operates automatically. Wind velocity specifies the height of the water column (2 feet in diameter by up to 200 ft. high. 24 white and gold quartz-iodine lights present a dramatic display of shifting colors by night. That’s how you can see the fountain in all its glory whenever the Pittsburgh Steelers play on Monday Night Football. The most interesting structural fact and a very complicated procedure -- this fountain was built to withstand water pressure from beneath, so the pressure would not push it up and cause it to float.
1979 - Hurricane David hit the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. The hurricane began a rampage through the Caribbean and up the eastern seaboard of the United States that took some 1,100 lives.
1983 - Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space, blasting off aboard the Challenger space shuttle.
1984 - President Ronald Reagan (honorary member), along with Red Barber, Bill Stern, Graham McNamee, Don Dunphy and Ted Husing were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame, in ceremonies at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
1984 - Prince was pictured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine (issue 429). He was shown with his left armpit exposed.
1986 - Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox became the first 20-game winner of the year. Clemens was the first Red Sox pitcher to achieve that feat since 1978.
1989 - A federal jury in New York found ‘hotel queen’ Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion. She served 18 months behind bars, a month at a halfway house and two months under house arrest. (Helmsley was acquitted on extortion charges.)
1991 - The Republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Long overshadowed by his rival Carl Lewis, American Mike Powell broke Bob Beamon’s 1968 world record in the long jump. Powell jumped 8.95 m (29.36 ft) at the track and field World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
1993 - Actor Richard Jordan (The Hunt for Red October, Posse), died shortly after finishing the movie Gettysburg. Jordan was the managing artist for the L.A. Actors Theater in the 1970s where he produced, directed and wrote his own plays. Richard Jordan was 56 years old.
1993 - Late Show with David Letterman debuted on CBS-TV. CBS remodeled the Ed Sullivan Theater (on 54th Street in New York City) for Letterman, who had just spent over a decade on NBC (Late Night with David Letterman). The first musical guest to appear on the new show was Billy Joel.
1995 - James Taylor and former wife Carly Simon got back together for their first concert together in 16 years. Livestock ’95 was a benefit performance on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusettes to raise funds for a new barn for the island’s agricultural society.
1996 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres: The Crow: City of Angels, with Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Iggy Pop and Thuy Trang; First Kid, with Sinbad, Brock Pierce, Blake Boyd and Timothy Busfield; The Stupids, starring Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex Mckenna and Christopher Lee; and The Trigger Effect, with Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Kyye Maclachlan, Michael Rooker, Richard T. Jones and Bill Smitrovich.
1997 - Mo Money Mo Problems, by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy & Mase, hit #1 (for two weeks) on U.S. singles charts. An entire generation fell in love to: “You tell me who flopped who copped the blue drop; Who jewels got robbed who’s mostly Goldie down to the tube sock...” and so much more.
1997 - Armored-car driver/robber Philip Noel Johnson was arrested as he crossed back into the United States from Mexico on a bus headed for Houston. Johnson had stolen an armored car containing $18.8 million on Mar 29, 1997 in Jacksonville, Florida. He later pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping (he had taken a co-worker hostage), money laundering and interfering with interstate commerce. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The loot was found Sep 18, 1997.
2001 - The Nikkei fell to 10,938 in Japan, a 17-year low, after the government reported declines in industrial output and consumer spending.
2002 - FearDotCom debuted in the U.S. The crime, thriller stars Stephen Dorff, Natascha Mcelhone and Stephen Rea.
2003 - Harley-Davidson celebrated its 100th anniversary in Milwaukee with a parade of 10,000 Harleys. Some 250,000 bikers packed the roads around Milwaukee for the three-day celebration.
2003 - Tough-guy actor Charles Bronson died of pneumonia. He was 81 years old. Bronson, coal miner turned actor, starred in more than 60 films including the Death Wish series.
2004 - Republicans opened their national convention in New York City with speeches by Rudolph Giuliani and U.S. Senator John McCain.
2005 - The damage from Hurricane Katrina was becoming known: New Orleans, LA suffered catestrophic flooding when levees along Lake Pontchartrain broke; the storm surge destroyed the Interstate 10 causeway connecting the east side of New Orleans to mainland Louisiana over the east tip of Lake Pontchartrain; reports set the death toll in Biloxi, MS as high as 80 with Mayor A.J. Holloway declaring that Katrina “is our tsunami,” comparing the catastrophe to the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami; the American Red Cross declared that the relief effort would exceed in scope that after the September 11, 2001 attacks; Michael Brown, director of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), pledged full federal assistance.
2006 - Hollywood superstar Glenn Ford died at his home in Beverly Hills, CA at 90 years of age. The Canadian-born actor enjoyed an acting career that spanned seven decades, including performances in films such as Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, 3:10 to Yuma, The Sheepman, Torpedo Run, Pocketful of Miracles, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Midway, The Gazebo and The Teahouse of the August Moon.
2007 - The Michigan Legislature approved moving the state’s presidential nomination to Jan 15. This, just days after national Democrats vowed to punish states that held elections too early.
2007 - A diamond-encrusted skull by 41-year-old British artist Damien Hirst sold for 100 million dollars (75 million euros) in London. It was a record price for a work sold by a living artist.
2008 - Hurricane Gustav strengthened to Category 3 as it streaked toward Cuba and on track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina. 78 people had been killed in the Caribbean.
2008 - A 6.1 earthquake hit southwest China’s Sichuan province, killing least 36 people cracking reservoirs, and turning tens of thousands of homes into rubble.
2008 - Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country to demand government action against a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.
2009 - A passenger train carrying about 1,000 people crashed in the northwest of Yaounde in Cameroon. Nine people were killed.
2010 - Hurricane Earl lashed the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and strong winds, tearing roofs off buildings and cutting power to islanders. As it intensified to category 4, the hurricane took a course that threatened the eastern United States.
2011 - Yoshihiko Noda became Japan’s sixth new prime minister in five years. Noda inherited heafty problems: disaster recovery, nuclear crisis and economic gloom.
2012 - A U.S. federal court in Washington rejected a Texas law that would have required voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in the November election.
2013 - New movies in the U.S. included: Getaway, starring Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez; One Direction: This is Us, with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne; the documentary American Made Movie; Instructions Not Included, with Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont and Alessandra Rosaldo; The Lifeguard, starring Kristen Bell, Mamie Gummer, Martin Starr, Joshua Harto, John Finn and Amy Madigan; and Passion, with Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson, Rainer Bock, and Benjamin Sadler.
2013 - The U.S. found itself alone with France as a partner in a potential strike against Syria. This, after a rejection of military force in Parliament pulled Britain out of the partnership.
2014 - European Union leaders chose Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as new president of their Council and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as the EU’s new foreign policy chief.
2015 - The Obama administration announced its decision to bestow the traditional Alaska Native name of Mt. Denali for what had been known as Mt. McKinley on the eve of POTUS Obama’s 3-day visit to the state. The Koyukon people, who inhabit the area around the mountain, have referred to the peak as “Denali” for centuries. In 1896, a gold prospector named it “Mount McKinley” for then-presidential candidate William McKinley. That was the official name recognized by the U.S. government from 1917 until 2015.
2016 - U.S. Senator John McCain beat back a primary challenge from Republican tea-party activist state Senator Kelli Ward and two other Republicans on the ballot. “I’m humbled by and grateful for our success tonight and for the honor to be the Arizona Republican Party’s nominee for election to the United States Senate,” McCain said. The election in November for McCain was for his sixth U.S. Senate term.
2016 - Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Democrat Representatvie Patrick Murphy each easily won their primaries, setting up a November showdown as the political parties grappled for a majority in the Senate.
2016 - Democrats asked the FBI to investigate whether connections between Donald Trump’s campaign aides and Russian interests led to the cyberattacks at the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The lawmakers said that “overt and covert actions by Trump campaign officials on behalf of Russian interests” had raised “serious questions.”
2017 - Egypt put the names of some 350 people, including prominent Muslim Brotherhood figures, on its terrorism list. The designation banned those on the list from travel, put them on a watch list and granted authorities the right to freeze their assets. Authorities had launched a crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters after former President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster in 2013 following mass protests against his divisive, one-year rule. The Sunni Islamist organization (Muslim Brotherhood) was founded in Egypt.
2017 - Pakistan’s lower house of parliament passed a resolution denouncing POTUS Donald Trump’s claim that Pakistan harbors militants battling U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Trump’s comments also ignited street protests in many Pakistani cities, with police forced to break up the gatherings with tear gas in several instances.
2018 - Eight people were killed and dozens more seriously injured in a head-on crash involving a Greyhound passenger bus and a semi-truck along I-40 in New Mexico - between Grants and Gallup, near Thoreau. Police said it was a blownout tire that caused the truck driver to swerve across the interstate highway and hit the bus head-on.
2018 - A lawsuit, filed in a Tel Aviv court, carried a claim from five Mexican journalists and activists who alleged they were spied on using software made by Israel-based NSO Group. A second suit, filed in Cyprus, added Qatari newspaper editor Abdullah Al-Athbah to the list of plaintiffs. Researchers said an NSO Israeli surveillance software was being used further afield than previously known, with possible infections detected around the globe.
2019 - New on U.S. theatre screens this day: Don’t Let Go, with Byron Mann, Storm Reid and Mykelti Williamson; Angel of Mine, starring Yvonne Strahovski, Luke Evans and Noomi Rapace; Before You Know It, starring Linda Arroz, Alec Baldwin and Ben Becher; Bennett’s War, starring Michael Roark, Trace Adkins and Ali Afshar; Itsy Bitsy, with Bruce Davison, Elizabeth Roberts and Denise Crosby; Killerman, with Liam Hemsworth, Emory Cohen and Diane Guerrero; Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Ralph Fiennes; and Spider in the Web, starring Ben Kingsley, Monica Bellucci and Itay Tiran.
2019 - U.S. singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s album Lover broke a new record for an international artist in China. Lover surpassed one million combined total streams, downloads and sales within a week of its release.
2019 - California Governor Gavin Newsom reached a deal with apartment owners and developers on legislation that capped how rapidly rents could rise. This, as the state grappled with a housing crisis. California needed to build about 180,000 new homes each year to meet demand for its nearly 40 million people. But the state had averaged only 80,000 new homes in each of the previous 10 years. The new agreement stopped annual rent increases at 5% -- plus inflation -- with a 10% maximum increase.
2020 - France’s defence minister said a senior French military officer was charged with espionage for allegedly passing top secret documents to Russian intelligence.
2020 - United Airlines said it was permanently eliminating a $200 fee for changing tickets for domestic travel. By the following week, most other airlines had eliminated that fee too.
2021 - Thousands of people along Lake Tahoe’s shores to were ordered to evacuate as the Caldor fire intensified. Residents clogged the few roads that led out of the region as the Caldor Fire closed the westbound direction of a major highway that connects the area to Sacramento.
2021 - Taiwan launched an English-language news and media streaming platform. Taiwan+ aimed to get a greater voice on the world stage and help tackle Beijing’s ‘squeeze’ of the Chinese-claimed island on the world stage.
2022 - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died. The 91-year-old had battled a “serious and protracted disease,” Russian media reported, without giving any details. Gorbachev played a central role in winding down the Cold War, with his trademark glasnost and perestroika policies opening the Soviet economy and leading to increasing engagement with the West in the late 1980s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990. At home, he had fans for his liberalizing of society -- and critics who blamed him for the Soviet Union’s collapse.
2022 - The Jackson, Mississippi water treatment plant failed, leaving 150,000 people without safe running water -- and closing many schools and businesses. Disruptions to Jackson’s water services had gone on for years, and the latest collapse came after heavy rainfall.
2023 - Gabon (on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa) military leaders seized power in a coup, placing President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest in Libreville (the country’s capital and largest city).
2023 - Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a category 3 storm in Florida’s Big Bend, killing several people that happened to get in its way.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S.: 1992, starring Ray Liotta, Scott Eastwood and Dylan Arnold; AfrAId, starring Keith Carradine, David Dastmalchian and Katherine Waterston; City of Dreams, with Jason Patric, Paulina Gaitan and Samm Levine; Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, C. Thomas Howell and Mena Suvari; Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck, Tomer Capone and Laurence Fishburne; and You Gotta Believe, with Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker and Luke Wilson.
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Birthdays on This Day August 30
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
author: Frankenstein; died Feb 1, 1851
1837 - Ellen Arthur (Ellen Lewis Herndon)
wife of Chester A. Arthur [21st U.S. President]; died Jan 12, 1880 [Arthur became President in 1881]1891 - Dr. Claire Straith
cosmetic surgeon; developed many techniques of plastic surgery, designed new surgical instruments for this type of surgery; was instrumental in auto manufacturers use of safety glass; died July 13, 19581896 - Raymond Massey
actor: The President’s Plane is Missing, McKenna’s Gold, How the West was Won, The Great Impostor, Battle Cry , The Naked and the Dead, East of Eden, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dr. Kildare; died July 29, 19831898 - Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford)
Academy Award-winning actress: Come Back Little Sheba [1952]; Hot Spell, The Matchmaker; Emmy Award-winner [1962]: Hazel ; A Touch of Grace; died Oct 16, 19921901 - John Gunther
writer: Inside series: Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America, U.S.A., Africa, Russia Today, Europe Today; Behind the Curtain; foreign correspondent: Chicago Daily News; died May 29, 19701901 - Roy Wilkins
civil rights leader: Executive Director of NAACP; died Sep 8, 19811904 - John Eldredge
actor: Five Guns to Tombstone, I Married a Monster From Outer Space, The First Traveling Saleslady, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Toughest Man Alive; died Sep 23, 19611906 - (Rose) Joan Blondell
actress: The Baron, The Champ, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Public Enemy; died Dec 25, 19791908 - Fred (Fredrick Martin) MacMurray
actor: My Three Sons, The Caine Mutiny, Egg and I, Above Suspicion, The Apartment, The Happiest Millionaire, The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, The Miracle of the Bells; died Nov 5, 19911912 - Nancy Wake
‘White Mouse’: World War II Resistance hero: hid downed Allied servicemen at her home and led them over the Pyrenees to the safety of neutral Spain; later helped organize thousands of French resistance fighters known as the Maquis; was the Gestapo’s most wanted person [1943: 5 million-franc price on her head]; most decorated servicewoman of WWII; died Aug 7, 20111914 - Julie Bishop (Wells)
actress: Westward the Women, Rhapsody in Blue, My Hero; died Aug 30, 20011918 - Ted (Theodore Samuel) Williams
‘The Kid’, ‘The Thumper’, ‘The Splendid Splinter’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Boston Red Sox outfielder [World Series: 1946/all-star: 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946 thru 1951, 1953 thru 1960/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1946, 1949]; died July 5, 20021919 - Kitty Wells (Muriel Ellen Deason)
‘The Queen of Country Music’: Country Music Hall of Famer: Jealousy, It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, I Don’t Want Your Money, I Want Your Time, Payin’ for that Back Street Affair, Makin’ Believe, Searching, Heartbreak U.S.A., We’ll Stick Together [w/husband Johnny Wright]; died Jul 16, 20121922 - Regina Resnik
mezzo-soprano: songs from Kismet; died Aug 8, 20131923 - Vic Seixas
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1953]; U.S. Open [1954]; died Jul 5, 20241927 - Geoffrey Beene
fashion designer; died Sep 28, 20041930 - Warren Buffett
[‘Wizard/Oracle of Omaha’] business magnate, investor, philanthropist: chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway [multinational conglomerate holding company]1931 - John Swigert Jr.
NASA astronaut: flew on Apollo 13: said, “Houston, we have a problem!”; died Dec 27, 19821935 - John Phillips
singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas: Monday Monday, California Dreamin’, Creeque Alley; songwriter: California Dreamin’, San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair]; actress MacKenzie Phillips’ father; died Mar 18, 20011939 - Elizabeth Ashley (Cole)
actress: The Carpetbaggers, Ship of Fools, Stagecoach, Paperback Hero, Dangerous Curves, Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday, Evening Shade1941 - John McNally
singer, musician: guitar: The Searchers: Needles and Pins, Love Potion Number 91942 - Coy (Lander McCoy) Bacon
football: LA Rams [1968-1972], San Diego Chargers [1973-1975]; Cincinnati Bengals [1976-1977]; Washington Redskins [1978-1981]; died Dec 22, 20081943 - Jean-Claude Killy
Olympic Gold Medal skier [3]: downhill, slalom and giant slalom [1968]1944 - Chuck Colbert
musician: bass; singer: group: American Breed: Bend Me, Shape Me, I Don’t Think You Know Me, Step Out of Your Mind, Don’t Forget About Me1944 - Tug (Frank Edwin) McGraw
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [all-star: 1972/World Series: 1973], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1980/World Series: 1980]; died Jan 5, 20041946 - Peggy Lipton
actress: Twin Peaks, The Mod Squad; mother of actress Rashida Jones; died May 11, 20191947 - Billy Keller
basketball: Purdue Univ., Indiana Pacers [ABA league champions: 1970, 1972, 1973]1947 - Jon (Paul) Kolb
football: Pittsburgh Steelers tackle: Super Bowl: IX, X, XIII, XIV1948 - Lewis Black
comedian, author, social critic: TV: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil; Grammy awards [best comedy album]: The Carnegie Hall Performance [2007], Stark Raving Black [2011]1950 - Micky Moody
musician: guitar: group: Whitesnake: Fool for Your Loving, Don’t Break My Heart Again1951 - Timothy Bottoms
actor: Last Picture Show, The Paper Chase, The Other Side of the Mountain Part II, Texasville, East of Eden1953 - Robert Parish
Basketball Hall of Famer: Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets, Chicago Bulls1954 - David Paymer
actor: Unforgettable, Nixon, Get Shorty, City Slickers series, Mr. Saturday Night, Ocean’s Thirteen1961 - Karl T. Wright
actor: Jack the Reaper, Ordinary Miracles, These Old Broads, Volcano, Judging Amy, Everyone Hates Chris, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Heroes1963 - Michael Chiklis
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Shield [2002]; No Ordinary Family, Wired, The Commish, Rise, Fantastic Four, The Three Stooges [2000], Carlo’s Wake, The Taxman, Nixon, The Rain Killer, Family Guy, Vegas1963 - Mark Strong
actor: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Body of Lies, Syriana, The Young Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, RocknRolla, Stardust, Kick-Ass, Green Lantern, Kingsman: The Secret Service1966 - Michael Michele
actress: ER, Ali, Dark Blue, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kevin Hill, House M.D., Relative Stranger, Gossip Girl1972 - Cameron Diaz
model; actress: The Mask, Head Above Water, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, There’s Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Charlie’s Angels [2000]1973 - Lisa Ling
writer, journalist: TV host: Our America with Lisa Ling, The View [1999–2002], National Geographic Explorer, The Job1974 - Kris Foster
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles1976 - Lola (Adrienne Mitchell)
actress [1998-2010]: X-rated films: The Seven Deadly Sins, The Million Dollar Snatch, Wet Panty Car Wash, Wildest Sex Ever, Violation of Violet Blue, Cooking in the Kitchen, Drilled and Filled1977 - Jon Adkins
baseball [pitcher]: Oklahoma State Univ, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, New York Mets1977 - Shaun Alexander
football [running back]: Univ of Alabama; NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2000-2007]; Washington Redskins [2008])1978 - Cliff Lee
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians [2002–2009]; Philadelphia Phillies [2009]: 2009 World series; Seattle Mariners [2010]; Texas Rangers [2010]: 2011 World series; Philadelphia Phillies [2011–2014]1978 - Todd Wellemeyer
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Florida Marlins1981 - Adam Wainwright
baseball [pitcher]: St. Louis Cardinals [World Series champs: 2006, 20111982 - Andy Roddick
tennis champ: U.S. Open singles grand slam [2003]; finalist: Wimbledon [2004]1984 - Michael Grant Terry
actor: Bones, Grimm, Wasting Away1986 - Ryan Ross
musician: guitar: groups: Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies, Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off, Nine in the Afternoon; founding member of The Young Veins: Change, Take a Vacation!, Everyone but You1987 - Johanna Braddy
actress: Greek, Hit the Floor, Cold Case, Southland, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Suburgatory, Shameless, The Grudge 3, Hurt, Easy A, Paranormal Activity 3, The Levenger Tapes, UnREAL, Quantico1989 - Bebe Rexha
songwriter, singer: group: Black Cards; Eminem and Rihanna: The Monster; G-Eazy: Me, Myself & I; Martin Garrix: In the Name of Love; more1996 - Trevor Jackson
actor: Broadway: The Lion King; film/TV Eureka, Let It Shine, Cold Case, Harry’s Law, A Moment of Youth, A Beautiful Soul, The Joey & Elise Show; more
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Hit Music on This Day August 30
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
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