December 1
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1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore, opened. Arthur Sullivan conducted the orchestra while William Gilbert played the role of a sailor in the chorus and in the Queen’s Nay-vee.1887 - On this day, give or take a week or two, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in A Study in Scarlet.
1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town, a farm village for wayward boys (and for girls since 1979), in an area west of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1938, Spencer Tracy portrayed Father Flanagan in the movie, Boys Town, and won himself an Oscar.
1918 - Iceland became an independent state under the Danish crown.
1924 - Lady Be Good opened in New York City. George Gershwin wrote the music while Fred and Adele Astaire were well-received by the show’s audience for their dancing talents.
1929 - The game of Bingo was invented by New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe.
1930 - Ruth Nichols became the first woman pilot to cross the North American continent. She also set a transcontinental speed record -- 13 hours, 22 minutes -- beating the record set by Charles Lindbergh.
1941 - With Emperor Hirohito in attendance, the ruling council of Japan unanimously voted to go to war with the United States, Britain and the Netherlands.
1941 - The Director of Civilian Defense, former New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, signed a formal order creating the Civil Air Patrol on this day -- one week before Pearl Harbor. A thankful nation recognized the vital role CAP played during the war and felt that it could continue to provide invaluable help to both local and national agencies. On July 1, 1946, U.S. President Harry S Truman signed Public Law 476 incorporating the CAP as a benevolent, nonprofit organization. And on May 26, 1948, Congress passed Public Law 557, permanently establishing the CAP as the Auxiliary of the new U.S. Air Force.
1942 - Mandatory gasoline rationing extended across the United States. Voluntary rationing had proved to be ineffective.
1945 - Burl Ives made his concert debut. He appeared at New York’s Town Hall. We lovingly listen every year for the voice of this old-time radio personality as the narrator and banjo-pickin’ snowman in TV’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
1951 - A tempest raged over San Francisco and forced the first-ever closure of the Golden Gate Bridge. As gusting winds reached 69 miles per hour, the Bridge was closed for three hours. A team of engineers inspected the entire Bridge for damage and declared it structurally sound. They did, however, recommend that lateral bracing be installed. The project was completed in 1954 and the wind stability of the Bridge was increased by 35 percent.
1953 - Walter Alston was named manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers on this, his 42nd birthday. He became the dean of baseball managers before retiring in 1976.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a yearlong boycott of the buses by blacks. The law requiring blacks to sit toward the rear of buses was eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1958 - Flower Drum Song, the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, premiered on Broadway (at the St. James Theatre). The show was based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It was adapted for a musical film in 1961. This Broadway show was a big hit, drawing audiences to a total of 600 performances.
1959 - Twelve countries, including the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed The Antarctic Treaty in Washington DC. The agreement set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity. (The Antarctic Treaty did not actually take effect until June 23, 1961.)
1960 - Patrice Lumumba was caught in the Congo. The African nationalist leader was the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June-September 1960). He was forced out of office during a political crisis, and was assassinated a short time after his capture.
1968 - Promises, Promises opened on Broadway. The play ran for 1,281 performances, earning $35,000 in profits each week of 1969. Dionne Warwick had a hit version of the title song.
1969 - The U.S. held its first draft lottery since World War II.
1973 - ‘The Golden Bear’, Jack Nicklaus, won the Walt Disney World Open Golf Tournament and became the first golfer to win $2 million in career earnings.
1976 - The Sex Pistols used profanity on the British Today show, and became branded as “rotten punks.”
1980 - George Rogers of the University of South Carolina was named the Heisman Trophy winner. Rogers went on to achieve great success for the Washington Redskins.
1981 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Oscar Robertson as pro basketball’s second all-time leading scorer (second to Wilt Chamberlain). Kareem got to the total of 26,712 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 117-86. Chamberlain’s record fell in 1984, when Kareem’s scores reached 31,259. Kareem wound up his career in 1989 with 38,387 points.
1984 - Just eight days after his miracle pass to lead Boston College over Miami, Doug Flutie was named Heisman Trophy winner for the year. Flutie was only the 13th quarterback to receive the award.
1985 - Singer and actress Barbi Benton set a record as she appeared for the fourth time on the cover of Playboy magazine.
1988 - The World Health Organization sponsored the first World AIDS Day, celebrated with a concert in Beijing, a march through the streets of Harare, Zimbabwe, and a display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in seven countries.
1990 - British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries met. They had knocked out a passage in a service tunnel large enough to walk through and shake hands.
1994 - PTL leader Jim Bakker was released from prison. In 1989, Bakker had drawn a 45-year sentence to the big house for defrauding PTL (Praise the Lord) Club contributors of millions of dollars.
1995 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: White Man’s Burden (“Two men at odds in a world turned upside down.”), starring John Travolta and Harry Belafonte; and Wild Bill (“The Name Is Legendary. The Man Is Real.”), with Jeff Bridges and Ellen Barkin.
1997 - Westinghouse Electric Corp. changed its name to CBS Inc., shortly after deciding to sell its traditional businesses such as power-generation equipment and light bulbs.
1998 - Exxon agreed to buy Mobil Oil for $73.7 billion. The deal created the world’s largest corporation.
1999 - An international team of scientists announced it had sequenced the first human chromosome. Just what does this mean? Very glad you asked. All human DNA is contained within 23 pairs of chromosomes. In the center of any normal human cell are 46 X-shaped chromosomes. Within each chromosome is bundled a double-stranded helix of DNA. That is where human genes reside. These genes carry instructions for everything from hair color and height to how the brain is organized. More than 30 human disorders are already associated with changes to genes of chromosome 22 (the one mapped this day). Researchers are hopeful that by using gene therapies, they will be able to make human cells work correctly. Scientists hope these therapies may one day be reliable enough to treat diseases without the sometimes debilitating side effects of some drugs. Dr. Francis Collins, chair of the National Human Genome Research Institute, said, “For the first time we can see the entire landscape of a human chromosome. I think this is probably the most important scientific effort that mankind has ever mounted. That includes splitting the atom and going to the moon.”
2000 - Vicente Fox was sworn in as president of Mexico, ending 71 years of ruling-party domination.
2001 - A baby girl was born to Japan’s Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito. Aiko was the royal couple’s first child in eight years of marriage.
2002 - Edward Latimer ‘Ned’ Beach died at the age of 84. Beach was a former Navy captain and author. His books included Run Silent, Run Deep (1955), Around the World Submerged (1962) and Scapegoats! A Defense of Kimmel and short at Pearl Harbor.
2002 - Russia completed the greatest comeback in a Davis Cup final for 38 years to beat defending champion France 3-2 and win its first-ever title.
2003 - 50-year-old Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. was arrested in Crookston, MN. Rodriguez, described by authorities as a predatory sex offender, was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Dru Sjodin, a North Dakota college student, who was abducted in Nov 2003 while talking on her cell phone.
2003 - Dignitaries from around the world, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, gathered in Geneva to sign what was called the Geneva Accords, drawn up between Israeli and Palestinian activists.
2004 - Tom Brokaw signed off as anchor of the NBC Nightly News for the final time after some 21 years.
2005 - South Africa’s Constitutional Court extended marriage to include same-sex couples. South Africa is the fifth country in the world where same-sex marriages are recognized -- after Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
2005 - The musical version of The Color Purple debuted on at the Broadway Theatre, which is actually on Broadway in New York. The show was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (as was the movie of the same name) by Alice Walker. This original Broadway production ran from through Feb 24, 2008 with 910 performances. It earned eleven Tony Award nominations in 2006. (An enthusiastically acclaimed Broadway revival opened in late 2015 and ran through early 2017, winning two 2016 Tony Awards—including Best Revival of a Musical.)
2006 - World AIDS Day was marked around the world by religious services, demonstrations and warnings that more needed to be done to treat and prevent AIDS.
2006 - Felipe Calderón took the oath of office as Mexico’s president, in a chaotic ceremony before congress.
2006 - The largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. said it would pay $60 million to settle 45 sex abuse lawsuits. The payout was the largest ever by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and among the biggest resulting from the molestation crisis that had plagued the church.
2007 - At the 20th annual European Film Awards in Berlin Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the best film prize.
2007 - 23-year-old Zhang Zilin, Miss China, won the Miss World 2007 title in her own country in front of an estimated two billion viewers around the globe.
2008 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced that Robert Gates would remain as Defense Secretary. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton to be Secretary of State.
2008 - California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and called legislators into a special session to try to trim a $11.2 billion budget deficit.
2009 - A rare, 5-carat pink diamond was auctioned off for a record $10.8 million in Hong Kong. The stone, of a ‘vivid pink’ hue and considered near perfect, triggered brisk bidding at Christie’s in Hong Kong.
2009 - Italian police broke up a major mafia clan, issuing 83 arrest warrants and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company. Local politicians and businessmen in the southern city of Bari were among those implicated for collaborating with the Parisi clan.
2009 - California Hall of Fame: Governor Schwarzenegger and First-Lady Maria Shriver inducted Carol Burnett, Andy Grove, Hiram Johnson, Rafer Johnson, Henry J. Kaiser, Joan Kroc, George Lucas, John Madden, Harvey Milk, Fritz Scholder, Danielle Steel, Joe Weider and General Chuck Yeager.
2010 - Harold Martin Smith, wanted for the Nov 16 slaying of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, killed himself in a seedy Los Angeles apartment lobby as police closed in to question him. The break in the case was a tip through TV’s America’s Most Wanted, after Smith bragged to neighbors that he shot Chasen.
2010 - On World AIDS Day South Africa counted the world’s largest HIV-positive population with an estimated 5.7 million people infected, over 11% of its 50 million people.
2011 - Shops around India closed their doors in a strike called to protest a new policy to allow foreign big-box retailers into the country.
2011 - The U.S. Army established a new cyber brigade. The colors of the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade were unfurled for the first time during an activation ceremony at NSA’s Friedman Auditorium, Fort Meade, MD. Mission of the new unit was to provide a proactive cyber defense.
2012 - The USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was taken out of service at a ceremony in Norfolk, VA. The Enterprise had been in active service for 51 years and its retirement reduced the number of carriers in the U.S. fleet to ten. Two carriers are under construction and a new Enterprise is on the drawing boards.
2014 - Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists briefly forced the closure of government headquarters after clashing with police and defying orders to retreat. This, after more than two months of sustained protests in the Chinese-controlled city.
2014 - The U.N. World Food Program suspended a food voucher program that had been serving more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees. The suspension came as the result of a funding crisis after many donors failed to meet their commitments.
2015 - The Cuban government renewed a travel permit requirement on many doctors, requiring them to get permission before leaving the country. The ban was an attempt to counter a ‘brain drain’ that it blamed on the U.S.
2015 - French President Francois Hollande announced the donation of €2 billion ($2.1 billion) to African countries over four years to develop renewable energy and replace climate-harming fossil fuels.
2016 - A Bronx Tale opened at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. The musical ran for a boffo 700 performances before closing on Aug 05, 2018. A Bronx Tale was co-directed by Robert De Niro, who directed the original film, and Jerry Zaks, who directed the one man show on Broadway in 2007. The show also featured choreography by Sergio Trujillo. Tommy Mottola served as the production's leading producer.
2016 - The U.S. Justice Department said Carnival Corp’s Princess Cruise Lines would plead guilty to seven felony charges of polluting the seas -- and trying to cover it up. A record $40-million criminal penalty would be paid and cruise ships from eight of Carnival’s cruise lines would be under a court-supervised environmental monitoring program for five years. The 3,192-passenger Caribbean Princess, discharged oily waste into the sea for years through a ‘magic pipe’ that bypassed the ship’s waste treatment system. An investigation of the discharges began in 2013 after a newly hired engineer on the vessel reported the pipe to British authorities, according to the Justice Department (the ship was sailing out of the U.K. at the time). The Justice Department said its investigation subsequently uncovered other illegal practices that took place on the Caribbean Princess as well as four other Princess vessels – Star Princess, Grand Princess, Coral Princess and Golden Princess.
2017 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Breaking Brooklyn, starring Chris Petrovski, Nathan Kress and Louis Gossett Jr.; The Tribes of Palos Verdes, starring Maika Monroe, Cody Fern, Jennifer Garner; and Wonder Wheel, starring Jim Belushi, Juno Temple and Justin Timberlake.
2017 - A Republican tax bill, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was approved by 51 Republican senators. The 479-page bill received no hearings and major changes were being made on the same day as passage. An analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation found that economic growth to be fueled by the bill’s tax cuts would be minimal and that the bill would add $1 trillion to the U.S. deficit over the next decade.
2017 - Former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russia in Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and POTUS Donald Trump. The plea revealed a new layer of lies exposed by the far-reaching Mueller probe and put heightened scrutiny on the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
2018 - Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury battled to a controversial split-decision draw in their WBC heavyweight title showdown in Los Angeles. The close result triggered demands from both camps for a rematch.
2018 - Doctors Without Borders said a “dramatic increase” in sexual violence was happening in South Sudan. Between November 19th and 29th, 125 women and girls walked to a food distribution site in Bentiu in Unity state. The women and girls were raped, whipped and clubbed in attacks so shocking that some aid workers in South Sudan said they were left speechless.
2019 - Heavy snows in the U.S. closed roads and canceled some 900 flights on the busiest day of the year for highways and airports. The storm stranded thousands of travelers who were heading back home after the Thanksgiving holiday.
2019 - China instituted new rules making it a legal requirement for people signing up for mobile phone and data plans to have their faces scanned. Face recognition can be a convenient and powerful tool when used properly but it can also be a dangerous weapon...
2019 - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the world population must stop its “war against nature” and find more political will to combat climate change. Guterres also said Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was leading a push by the United Nations to make the finance sector pay proper attention to the risks posed by climate change.
2020 - The movie Stand! was released in the U.S. Set during the 1919 Winnipeg (Canada) general strike, the historical, musical drama stars Laura Wiggins, Gregg Henry and Marshall Williams.
2020 - Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department had not uncovered any evidence of voter fraud that could have changed the outcome of the presidential race -- contradicting Donald Trump’s claims. “There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results,” Barr said. “And the DHS and DOJ have looked i nto that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that.”
2020 - A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s planned restrictions on H-1B visas for skilled workers from foreign countries. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in California said the government did not follow transparency procedures and its contention that the changes were an emergency response to pandemic job losses were not valid.
2020 - Australia’s national science agency reported that its powerful new telescope in the outback had mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to other new discoveries.
2020 - China landed a robotic spacecraft on the moon. China was the third nation to bring back lunar samples, after the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. The spacecraft, Chang’e-5, was the third successful uncrewed moon landing by China since 2013.
2020 - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam urged residents of the densely populated city to stay at home and avoid unnecessary family gatherings as the global financial hub scrambles to contain a new rise in COVID-19 cases.
2021 - Health officials first identified Omicron variant of Covid-19 in the U.S. White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said the patient, who was fully vaccinated, had just returned to the San Francisco area after traveling in South Africa and had tested positive.
2021 - O.J. Simpson (74) was granted credit for good behavior and discharged from parole. He had served 9 years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery and was released on parole in 2017.
2022 - Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry died at his home in Gaffney, South Carolina. He was 84 and died “of natural causes.” Perry, a master of the spitball, was the first major league player to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues (1972 after a 24-16 season with Cleveland; and 1978 after going 21-16 for San Diego at age 40 in the last of his five 20-win seasons.)
2022 - President Biden and the First Lady hosted their first state dinner at the White House for French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron.
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé; The Shift, starring Neal McDonough, Sean Astin and Jordan Alexandra; and Silent Night, with Joel Kinnaman, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Kid Cudi.
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Birthdays on This Day December 1
1761 - Marie Tussaud (Grosholtz)
museum curator and creator of wax figures: Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in 1834; died Apr 16, 18501886 - Rex (Todhunter) Stout
mystery writer: Nero Wolfe series; died Oct 27, 19751890 - Etta McDaniel
actress: Society Mugs, Mokey, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Magnificent Brute, Smoking Guns; sister of actor Sam McDaniel and actress Hattie McDaniel; died Jan 13, 19461897 - Cyril Ritchard
Tony Award-winning actor: Peter Pan [1955]; films: Hans Brinker, Half a Sixpence, Peter Pan, Blackmail; Kraft Television Theatre, Goodyear TV Playhouse; died Dec 18, 19771911 - Walter Alston
baseball: SL Cardinals; Baseball Hall of Fame manager: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1955], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959, 1963, 1965]; died Oct 1, 19841911 - Calvin Griffith
baseball owner: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins; died Oct 20, 19991912 - Cookie (Harry Arthur) Lavagetto
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers [all-star: 1938-1941/World Series: 1941, 1947: pinch hit game-4-winning double off right field wall]; died Aug 10, 19901913 - Mary Martin
Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer: Peter Pan [1955]; South Pacific, I Do! I Do!, Sound of Music, Night and Day, Star Spangled Rhythm, Birth of the Blues, Rhythm on the River; singer: My Heart Belongs to Daddy, I’ll Walk Alone, Almost Like Being in Love; mother of actor Larry Hagman; died Nov 3, 19901923 - Dick Shawn (Richard Schulefand)
comedian, actor: Rented Lips, Maid to Order, The Check Is in the Mail, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud, Love at First Bite, The Producers, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; died Apr 17, 19871923 - Admiral Stansfield Turner
U.S. Navy Ret, CIA Director; died Jan 18, 20181925 - Cal ‘Buster’ McLish (Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish)
baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1959], Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies; died Aug 26, 20101926 - Keith Michell
actor: Murder, She Wrote, The Prince and the Pauper, The Deceivers, The Miracle, The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, The Tenth Month; died Nov 20, 20151928 - Malachi Throne
actor: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Mission: Impossible, The Six Million Dollar Man, It Takes a Thief; died Mar 13, 20131929 - David Doyle
actor: Charlie’s Angels, Ghost Writer, Love or Money?, The Comeback, Paper Lion, Sweet Surrender, Rugrats, Bridget Loves Bernie; died Feb 26, 19971933 - Lou Rawls (Louis Allen)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Dead End Street [1967], A Natural Man [1972]; You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine, Your Good Thing is about to End, You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Love is a Hurtin’ Thing, Budweiser commercials, TV regular: Dean Martin Presents; group: Soul Stirrers; died Jan 6, 20061934 - Billy Paul (Paul Williams)
singer: Me and Mrs. Jones; died Apr 24, 20161938 - Sandy Nelson
musician: drums: Teen Beat, Let There be Drums; w/Teddy Bears: To Know Him is to Love Him; died Feb 14, 20221939 - (Dianne) ‘Dee Dee’ Lennon
singer: group: The Lennon Sisters: The Lawrence Welk Show, Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters1939 - Lee Trevino
World Golf Hall of Famer: champion: US Open [1968, 1971], U.S. Senior Open [1990], British Open [1971, 1972], PGA: Rookie of the Year [1967], Varden Trophy-winner [1970], Player of the Year [1971], champion [1974, 1984], Seniors Champion [1992], Senior Player of the Year [1990, 1992]; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1971]1940 - Richard Pryor
comedian, actor: Another You, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Harlem Nights, Brewster’s Millions, Superman 3, The Toy, Some Kind of Hero, Silver Streak, The Wiz, California Suite, Blue Collar, Car Wash, Lady Sings the Blues, The Richard Pryor Show, On Broadway Tonight; Emmy Award-winning comedy-variety writer: Lily [1973-1974]; died Dec 10, 20051944 - Eric Bloom
singer, musician: guitar: group: Blue Oyster Cult1945 - John (Paul) Densmore
musician: drums: group: The Doors: Light My Fire, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Riders on the Storm1945 - Bette Midler
Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: The Divine Miss M [1972], You are the Wind Beneath My Wings [1989]; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Rose; Emmy Award-winning entertainer: Bette Midler-Old Red Hair is Back [1977-1978], The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [5/21/1992]; actress: From a Distance, Beaches, For the Boys, Down and Out in Beverly Hill Business, Ruthless People, Hawaii, Fiddler on the Roof, Tommy, The Edge of Night1946 - Gilbert O’Sullivan (Raymond Edward O’Sullivan)
singer: Alone Again [Naturally], Clare, Get Down, What’s in a Kiss?; LP: Back to Front1948 - George (Arthur) Foster
baseball: outfielder: SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972, 1975, 1976/all-star: 1976-1979, 1981/Baseball Writer’s Award (National League): 1977], NY Mets, Chicago White Sox1951 - Treat Williams
actor: The Phantom, The Late Shift, Mulholland Falls, Final Verdict, J. Edgar Hoover, The Men’s Club, The Little Mermaid, Flashpoint, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Prince of the City, Hair, The Eagle Has Landed, Eddie Dodd, Good Advice; died Jun 12, 20231958 - Charlene Tilton
actress: Dallas, A Distant Thunder, Zombie Rights!, Bar Hopping, Favorite Deadly Sins, Center of the Web, For Parents Only1960 - Carol Alt
supermodel, actress: Amazon, Beyond Justice, Thunder in Paradise, Private Parts, Grownups1961 - Jeremy Northam
actor: The Net, Amistad, The Winslow Boy, The Golden Bowl, Enigma1966 - Greg McMichael
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Tennessee; Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics1966 - Larry Walker
baseball [right field]: Montreal Expos [1989–1994], Colorado Rockies [1995–2004], St. Louis Cardinals [2004–2005]1967 - Nestor Carbonell
actor: LOST, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Suddenly Susan, The Tick, Ringer1970 - Golden Brooks
actress: Girlfriends, Beauty Shop, Motives, Imposter, Timecode, Hell’s Kitchen, Drive By: A Love Story1970 - Julie Condra
actress: Final Approach, Beautiful, Michael Landon, the Father I Knew, Touch, Nixon, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray1970 - Sarah Silverman
actress: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Rent, The School of Rock, Run Ronnie Run, Heartbreakers, The Way of the Gun, The Sarah Silverman Program1971 - Emily Mortimer
actress: Scream 3, Match Point, Lars and the Real Girl, Shutter Island, Leonie, Chaos Theory, The Sleeping Dictionary, Jeffrey Archer: The Truth1972 - Ron Melendez
actor: Outlaw Trail, Naked Hotel, Fight or Flight, For My Daughter’s Honor, Children of the Corn III, Voodoo, The Unborn II1975 - David Hornsby
actor: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Joe Schmo Show, Six Feet Under, Jake in Progress, Pretty Bird, How to Be a Gentleman1976 - Dean O’Gorman
actor: Mary Worth, Toy Love, Little Samurai, Fearless, When Love Comes, Doom Runners, Return to Treasure Island1977 - Brad Delson
musician: guitar; founding member of Linkin Park: LPs: Hybrid Theory, Reanimation, Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, Living Things1985 - Janelle Monáe
Grammy Award-winning soul, R&B singer: Tightrope, We Are Young, Q.U.E.E.N., Dance Apocalyptic, Special Education, PrimeTime, Heroes, Electric Lady1986 - Desean Jackson
football [wide receiver, kick returner]: Univ of California, Berkeley; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [2008–2013]: first player to be selected to a Pro-Bowl at two separate positions in the same year [2010: wide receiver & return specialist]; Washington Redskins (2014–2016); Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2017–2018) Philadelphia Eagles (2019– ]1988 - Zoë Kravitz
actress: X-Men: First Class, No Reservations, The Brave One, Californication, The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, It’s Kind of a Funny Story; daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet1992 - Javier Báez
baseball [2nd base]: Chicago Cubs [2014–2021]: 2016 World Series champs; New York Mets [2021]; Detroit Tigers [2022- ]2003 - Jackson Nicoll
actor: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, The Fighter, What’s Your Number?, Fun Size, Staten Island Summer
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Hit Music on This Day December 1
1945It’s Been a Long, Long Time (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
Till the End of Time (facts) - Perry Como
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