December 5
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1792 - George Washington was re-elected president of the United States and John Adams was re-elected vice president.1868 - The first American bicycle school opened in New York City. It announced courses for velocipede riding.
1876 - The fabulous Stillson wrench was patented by D.C. Stillson of Somerville, MA. What the heck is a Stillson wrench? It was the first practical pipe wrench.
1908 - Numerals were used for the first time on football uniforms worn by college football players. The University of Pittsburgh Panthers proudly displayed their new numbers in a game with Washington and Jefferson.
1929 - The American League for Physical Culture was barely organized this day in New York City. Just what is the ALPC? If you guessed nudist organization, you were correct!
1933 - Drinkers toasted the end of Prohibition in the U.S. It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, which had prohibited all booze).
1941 - The Russian counteroffensive in Moscow started, as Russian troops began driving out the Nazi army.
1944 - Troops of the British 27th Lancers liberated Ravenna, Italy. The forces were able to overcome German fortifications along the city’s two rivers manned by three infantry divisions supported by tanks and 88mm guns. Ravenna was renowned for its treasures of Byzantine art.
1948 - The first church service in sign language for the hearing impaired was broadcast from St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church for the Deaf in Jamaica, Long Island. WPIX-TV, Channel 11 in New York aired the telecast.
1951 - The first push button-controlled garage opened in Washington, DC. A single attendant, without entering a car, could automatically park or return an auto to or from the ‘Park-O-Mat’ in less than a minute.
1952 - The Abbott and Costello Show started a 52-episode, syndicated run on TV. Comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello became such big hits that those same 52 episodes were run over and over on local and network TV for years.
1952 - Mutual radio broadcast The Green Hornet for the final time. The show left the air after 15 years on Mutual, NBC and ABC. The Green Hornet reappeared in 1966, this time on TV.
1955 - On this day, after many years of rivalry, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to become the AFL-CIO. Not all national unions belong to the AFL-CIO. The Teamsters Union was kicked out in 1957 and the United Auto Workers pulled out in 1968.
1962 - U.S. President John Kennedy discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with senior staff (including Defense Secretary McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor).
1967 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg were arrested for protesting the Vietnam war.
1968 - I Do! I Do! opened at Broadway’s 46th Street Theatre. Directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, the musical was presented a very successful 560 times, closing on June 15, 1968. Mary Martin and Robert Preston starred. Carol Lawrence and Gordon MacRae played matinees starting in October 1967 and then replaced Martin and Preston in December 1967.
1973 - Paul McCartney released his Band on the Run album. There were 32 tracks on the LP, including Jet, Bluebird, No Words, Picasso’s Last Words and Helen Wheels.
1977 - Egypt broke diplomatic relations with five Arab nations -- Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen -- which were hostile to President Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures to Israel.
1978 - The American space probe Pioneer Venus I, in orbit around Venus, began beaming back its first information and picture of the planet to scientists on Earth.
1979 - Feminist Sonia Johnson was formally excommunicated by the Mormon Church because of her outspoken support for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
1983 - The first video arcade game licensed by the National Football League was unveiled in Chicago. Bally Manufacturing named it, appropriately enough, NFL Football.
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at age 37, was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association. He decided to push those weary bones just one more year by signing with the Los Angeles Lakers -- for $2 million. Other NBA greats who played for 16 seasons include John Havlicek of Boston, Dolph Shayes of Philadelphia, Paul Ilas of Seattle and Elvin Hayes of Houston.
1985 - Walter Pleate, America’s oldest military veteran, died on this day at age 108. He was one of a dozen living veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898).
1985 - A bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite claret (initialed by Thomas Jefferson) sold at Christie’s London for 105,000 British Pounds ($157,500).
1988 - A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted PTL founder Jim Bakker and former aide Richard Dortch on fraud and conspiracy charges. (Bakker was convicted of all counts Oct 24, 1989; Dortch pleaded guilty to four counts and cooperated with prosecutors in exchange for a lighter sentence.)
1990 - Salman Rushdie, the author who had been sentenced to death by Iran for blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses, appeared in public for the first time in two years.
1992 - The rapper known as Ice Cube hit it big as his The Predator became the #1 album in the U.S. The tracks: The First Day of School (Intro), When Will They Shoot?, I’m Scared (Insert), Wicked, Now I Gotta Wet’ Cha, The Predator, It Was a Good Day, We Had to Tear This ________ Up, ________ ’Em (Insert), Dirty Mack, Don’t Trust ’Em, Gangsta’s Farytale 2, Check Yo Self (Featuring DAS EFX), Who Got the Camera?, Intergration (Insert), Say Hi to the Bad Guy.
1993 - U.S. astronauts began the repair of the Hubble Telescope in space.
1994 - Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatvies. He was the first Republican Speaker of the House in some four decades. (Gingrich took over as Speaker when the House convened on Jan. 4, 1995.)
1995 - Former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo, four aides and a dozen top businessmen were indicted in a bribes-for-favors scandal.
1997 - Good Will Hunting opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgard. Williams won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Affleck and Damon won for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
1998 - James P. Hoffa won the Teamsters presidency after challenger Tom Leedham conceded defeat in the union's presidential election. Leedham said it was difficult to compete against Hoffa’s name recognition, financing and more than four years of campaigning for the top post of the largest private sector union in the U.S.
1998 - R. Kelly & Celine Dion were number one in the U.S with their single, I’m Your Angel.
1999 - AFL-CIO chief John Sweeney welcomed the collapse of World Trade Organization talks in Seattle and the failure to agree on a new round of negotiations, saying, “No deal is better than a bad deal.”
2000 - Florida’s supreme court agreed to a speedy hearing of Al Gore’s appeal of a ruling that had, in effect, awarded George W. Bush Florida’s 25 electoral votes.
2001 - Sir Peter Blake, 53, of New Zealand, two-time America’s Cup winner, was killed on the research vessel Seamaster by river bandits at Macapa, Brazil, near the mouth of the Amazon.
2002 - Trent Lott, Senate Republican leader from Mississippi, made remarks that praised Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform. The resulting firestorm prompted Lott to resign his leadership position. The remarks were made as Thurmond was celebrating his 100th birthday on Capitol Hill; he was the oldest and longest-serving Senator in U.S. history.
2002 - ABC-TV sports executive Roone Arledge died in New York. He was 71 years old.
2003 - New films in U.S. theatres: Honey, with Jessica Alba, Lil’ Romeo, Mekhi Phifer, David Moscow, Zachary Williams, Joy Bryant, and Lonette McKee; The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, and Tony Goldwyn; and What Alice Found, starring Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Michael Maronna, Justin Parkinson, and David Ro.
2005 - The 23rd Southeast Asian Games (known as the 2005 SEA Games) ended; the Philippines achieved the top medal ranking for the first time.
2005 - The United Kingdom began registration of civil unions for same-sex couples, as per the Civil Partnership Act 2004
2005 - Venezuelan parliamentary elections resulted in Hugo Chávez’s party and allies winning all 167 seats. Opposition parties boycotted the election claiming fraud.
2006 - New York became the first U.S. city to ban trans fats at restaurants. The New York City Board of Health ordered unanimously that trans fats must be removed from frying oils by July 2007 and from all foods by July 2008.
2007 - A 19-year-old fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska. Robert Hawkins eventually killed himself, but his victims included six store employees and two customers. Hawkins left a suicide note saying that he wouldn’t be a burden on his family anymore and that “now I’ll be famous.” Make that, “infamous.”
2007 - Medecins Sans Frontieres, an international aid organization, said Angolan soldiers routinely and repeatedly raped Congolese women who crossed the border illegally in search of work in the diamond fields.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Extreme Movie, with Ryan Pinkston, Michael Cera, Frankie Muniz and Jamie Kennedy; Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Toby Jones, Matthew Macfadyen, Oliver Platt and Kate Jennings Grant; and Punisher: War Zone, with Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchinson, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok and Julie Benz.
2008 - Japan approved a law granting citizenship to all children born out of wedlock to Japanese fathers, as long as the fathers acknowledge the children. This, regardless of the nationality of the mothers of the children.
2008 - Dutch-born Hollywood film star Nina Foch died in Los Angeles at 85 years of age. Her films included An American in Paris [1951], Executive Suite [1954, for which she received an Academy Award-nomination], The Ten Commandments [1956] and Spartacus [1960].
2008 - O.J. Simpson was sentenced in Las Vegas to 9-33 years in prison for kidnapping and assaulting two sports memorabilia dealers with a deadly weapon. (The actual sentence served turned out to be 9 years, as Simpson was released Oct 1, 2017 from the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada.)
2009 - Italian tax police seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne and other famous artists in a crackdown on assets hidden by Calisto Tanzi, the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat.
2009 - A blaze sparked by fireworks on stage tore through the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, in the Ural Mountains of Russia. By late December the death toll reached 152 with 74 people still hospitalized. It was the country’s deadliest fire since the fall of the Soviet Union.
2009 - A barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness racing track at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio (25 miles northeast of Cincinnati). The two victims worked in the barns and had been living in the area of the barn where the fire started.
2010 - Mill Valley, CA resident John Leslie Nuzzo died of a heart attack at 65 years of age. Nuzzo was better know to legions of fans as John Leslie, the adult film actor who also directed and produced hundreds of films. Lieslie also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely. He worked with some of the era’s most popular porn stars, including Traci Lords, Seka, Kay Parker, and Annette Haven. When not engaged in adult movie production, Leslie was a prolific painter and photographer, and an accomplished blues musician. He was also well known as a gourmet chef.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama honored five individuals for the year’s Kennedy Center Honors: Oprah Winfrey, Beatle Paul McCartney, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones, country singer Merle Haggard and Broadway composer Jerry Herman.
2011 - NASA’s Kepler mission announced that a planet, dubbed Kepler22b, first detected in 2009, exists in a habitable zone of a solar system 600 light-years away. The Kepler science team uses ground-based telescopes and the Spitzer Space Telescope to review observations on planet candidates the spacecraft finds. (The “habitable zone” is the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface.)
2011 - Scottish artist Martin Boyce, whose works include a modernist reworking of a library table and artificial trees, won Britain’s Turner Prize at a ceremony in Gateshead, north-east England.
2012 - Argentina filed complaints with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over trade barriers it blamed for keeping its beef and lemons out of the United States and blocking biodiesel sales to Europe. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said Argentina was preparing an additional challenge to the subsidies for farmers in the U.S. and Europe, which he says kept Argentina’s exports at a disadvantage.
2013 - Russia said it had begun a criminal inquiry into the illegal trading of Russian children by American families via the Internet.
2014 - New movies in U.S. theatres on this day included: The Pyramid, starring Denis O’Hare, Ashley Hinshaw and James Buckley; Comet, with Emmy Rossum, Justin Long and Eric Winter; Dying of the Light, starring Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin and Alexander Karim; the documentary, Inside the Mind of Leonardo; Life Partners, with Leighton Meester, Gillian Jacobs and Gabourey Sidibe; Murder of a Cat, starring Nikki Reed, J.K. Simmons and Fran Kranz; Pioneer, with Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang and Aksel Hennie; Poker Night, starring Beau Mirchoff, Ron Perlman and Giancarlo Esposito; Still Alice, with Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore and Kate Bosworth; Take Care, starring Leslie Bibb, Tracee Chimo and Kevin Curtis; Top Five, with Adam Sandler, Rosario Dawson and Whoopi Goldberg; and Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, Gaby Hoffmann and Laura Dern.
2014 - A French-U.S. fund announcement said thousands of Holocaust survivors and family members in the U.S. and elsewhere would be entitled to compensation from a $60-million French-U.S. fund. The payments were reparations to those deported by France’s state rail company SNCF during the Nazi occupation.
2015 - The New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920, using the prominent placement to urge gun control. The plea came following recent mass shootings in the United States. (The appeal was ignored, as usual, by the U.S. Congress.)
2016 - The State Deptarment reported that a fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana had been shut down after operating for “about a decade” in Accra. The scam was orchestrated by Ghanaian and Turkish organized crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney.
2016 - Golden State’s Klay Thompson scored a career-high 60 points in the Warriors’ 142-106 blowout victory over the Pacers. Thompson also became the first player since the NBA implemented the shot clock to top 50 points in less than 30 minutes.
2017 - Austria’s Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples be allowed to marry in Austria from 2019 on, and said a law to the contrary violated the principle of non-discrimination.
2017 - The Creek Fire in California consumed at least 2,500 acres in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest. The inferno forced residents of some nearby San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles) communities to flee. Four fires in southern California levelled some 180 structures and forced thousands out of their homes. The Thomas fire in Ventura County remained out of control.
2018 - International dignitaries gathered in Washington DC at the funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush.
2018 - A Spanish regional court confirmed a controversial ruling that cleared five men of gang-raping an 18-year-old woman during Pamplona’s 2016 San Fermin festival, a case which led to protests across Spain over chauvinism and sexual abuse. Judges presiding over the wolf pack case - named after the men’s Whatsapp group chat La Manada (“wolf pack” in Spanish)- acquitted them of rape and upheld nine-year jail sentences for the lesser offense of sexual assault.
2019 - General Motors and South Korea’s LG Chem said they would invest $2.3 billion in a joint venture to set up an electric vehicle battery cell plant in Ohio. The new plant would be one of the world’s largest battery facilities and would be built near GM’s closed assembly plant in Lordstown in northeast Ohio.
2019 - Samoa’s government ordered most public and private workers to stay at home and closed roads to nonessential vehicles. This, as teams began going door-to-door to administer vaccines against a measles epidemic that had killed 62 people.
2019 - Democratic presidential hopefull Michael Bloomberg announced his potential gun control policy near the movie theater in Aurora where a gunman killed 12 people and wounded nearly 60 others in 2012, Bloomberg called for a ban on all assault weapons, mandatory permits for gun purchasers and a new position/person in the White House to coordinate gun violence prevention.
2020 - The prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in southern England was closed to visitors because of protesters. The demonstraters were against the British government’s road-building plans, including a new tunnel near the World Heritage Site.
2020 - Iran’s death toll from the global pandemic rose above 50,000, as the country grappled with the worst outbreak in the Middle East. 12,150 new cases brought the total of confirmed cases to 1,028,980.
2021 - Bob Dole, former U.S. Senate majority leader (from Kansas), died at 98 years of age. Dole grew up in Dust Bowl deprivation and suffered grievous wounds during World War II. The longtime Republican senator was a fixture in the United States Senate. As minority leader, he helped orchestrate the sweeping, Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. But he is perhaps best remembered for what he was unable to accomplish: win a seat in the Oval Office of the White House.
2022 - Actress Kirstie Alley, star of the big and small screens -- known for her Emmy-winning role on Cheers -- and films like Look Who’s Talking, died after a brief battle with cancer, her children announced on her social media. She was 71. Following the news, Alley’s friend and former costar John Travolta paid tribute to the actress, “Kirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had. I love you Kirstie... I know we will see each other again.”
2022 - Construction began on the world’s biggest radio telescope -- the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa and Australia -- with a collection area of nearly 500,000 square meters. It was designed to test Einstein’s theories and to search for extraterrestrial life.
2022 - HLN wrapped its last live broadcast day. The network was launched January 1, 1982, by Turner Broadcasting as CNN2 (later renamed Headline News or CNN Headline News). The end came as a result of “cost-cutting measures” imposed by new owner Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
2023 - Federal prosecutors accused former POTUS Donald Trump of sending supporters, including angry groups like the Proud Boys, to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to criminally prevent Congress from certifying his election loss to President Joe Biden. The new court filing by prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team linked Trump to the Capitol attack directly.
2023 - U.S. students’ performance in math plunged in 2022. U.S. students saw a 13-point drop in their 2022 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) math results when compared to the 2018 exam. And U.S. students fell behind peers in similar industrialized democracies like the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and trailed far behind students in the highest-scoring countries, including Singapore, South Korea and Estonia. It was the first global comparison since the pandemic.
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Birthdays on This Day December 5
1782 - Martin Van Buren
8th U.S. President [1837-1841]; first to be born a U.S. citizen; married to Hannah Hoes [four sons]; nickname: The Little Magician; died July 24, 18621839 - General George Armstrong Custer
U.S. military officer; killed in battle at Little Bighorn, June 25, 18761870 - Bill Pickett
rodeo cowboy: first to bulldog - wrestle a running steer to the ground; died Apr 2, 19321894 - Philip K. Wrigley
corporate executive: Wrigley Gum; died Apr 12, 19771901 - Walt Disney
cartoonist: first color-animated cartoon: Steamboat Willie; creator of: Mickey Mouse, Disneyland; Emmy Award-winning producer: Disneyland film series [1955], Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color [1962-1963]; died Dec 15, 19661902 - Strom Thurmond
U.S. Senator from South Carolina since 1954 [first person in U.S. history to be elected to a major office by write-in ballot]; governor of South Carolina [1947-1951]; died Jun 26, 20031905 - Otto Preminger
director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; died Apr 23, 19861916 - Margaret Hayes
actress: Omar Khayyam, Blackboard Jungle, Sullivan’s Travels, In Old Colorado, Robert Montgomery Presents; died Jan 26, 19771922 - Don Robertson
singer [Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Famer]: I Really Don’t Want to Know, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Please Help Me I’m Fallin’, I Love You More and More Each Day; whistler: The Happy Whistler; died Mar 16, 20151930 - Larry Kert
actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; died June 5, 19911932 - Jim Hurtubise
auto racer: National Sprint Car Hall of Famer; died Jan 6, 19891932 - Little Richard
singer: Good Golly Miss Molly, Tutti Frutti, Slippin’ and Slidin’, Long Tall Sally, Rip It Up, Ready Teddy, The Girl Can’t Help It, Lucille, Keep a Knockin’; preacher; died May 9, 2020; more1934 - Joan Didion
author: Run River, After Henry, Democracy, A Star is Born; died Dec 23, 20211935 - Calvin Trillin
author: American Stories, Remembering Denny, Uncivil Liberties, If You Can’t Say Something Nice; writer: New Yorker magazine1936 - Chad Mitchell
singer: group: Chad Mitchell Trio: Lizzie Borden1938 - John Delphus McDuffie
NASCAR auto racer: killed in Watkins Glen crash Aug 11, 19911944 - Jeroen Krabbé
actor: Immortal Beloved, King of the Hill, The Fugitive, Stalin, Robin Hood, The Prince of Tides, Crossing Delancey, Dynasty1945 - Pam Higgins
golf: touring pro: 3 victories in 14 years on the LPGA Tour1946 - José Carreras
singer: tenor: New York Metropolitan Opera1947 - Jim Messina
musician: duo: Loggins and Messina: Your Mama Don’t Dance, Danny’s Song, Thinking of You, My Music; groups: Buffalo Springfield, Poco; solo: LPs: Oasis, Messina1947 - Jim Plunkett
football: Oakland and LA Raiders quarterback: Super Bowl: XV, XVIII; Heisman Trophy winner: Stanford University [1970]; New England Patriots Rookie of the Year [1971], San Francisco 49ers1949 - Lanny Wadkins
golf: PGA champion [1977], PGA Player of the Year [1985]1950 - Steve Furness
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl: IX, X, XIII, XIV1951 - Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito)
actress: Dallas, Glitter, Moviola, Sundown, LBJ: The Early Years, The Prodigal, The Initiation of Sarah1952 - Andy Kim
songwriter, singer: Rock Me Gently, How’d We Ever Get This Way, Rainbow Ride, Baby, I Love You1952 - Jim Tressel
football coach: Youngstown State Univ [1986-2000]; Ohio State Univ: led the Buckeyes to three national championship games [2001-2011]1957 - Art Monk
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins wide receiver: Super Bowl XVIII, XXII, XXVI1960 - Les Nemes
musician: bass: group: Haircut 1001960 - Jack Russell
singer: group: Great White1963 - Carrie Hamilton
actress: Fame, Cool World, Shag: The Movie, Tokyo Pop, Hostage, daughter of comedienne, Carol Burnett; died Jan 20, 20021964 - Pablo Morales
Olympic Gold Medalist: swimmer [1984, 1992]; holds men’s world record for 100 meter butterfly [1986]; head swimming coach: Univ of Nebraska1965 - John Rzeznik
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Goo Goo Dolls: Give a Little Bit, Broadway, Dizzy, Slide, Big Machine, Black Balloon, We Are the Normal, Here Is Gone, Iris, Bang!1967 - Gary Allan
singer: Man to Man, Tough Little Boys, Nothing on but the Radio, Tough All Over; more1967 - Joseph Barbara
actor: Broadway: Grease, Tony and Tina’s Wedding; films: Pride and Loyalty, The Stand-In; TV: All My Children, Another World1968 - Margaret Cho
actress: All-American Girl, TV guest host: Girls’ Night Out1972 - Cliff Floyd
baseball: Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets1972 - Félix Rodríguez
baseball [pitcher]: Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Washington Nationals1973 - Shalom Harlow
fashion model [Donna Karen, Ralph Laure, Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, Christian Dior]; actress: In & Out, Head Over Heels, Happy Here and Now1974 - Charlie Batch
football [quarterback]: Eastern Michigan Univ; NFL: Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers1974 - Lisa Sheridan
actress: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Invasion, FreakyLinks, Legacy, Las Vegas, Diagnosis: Murder, Journeyman, The Mentalist; died Feb 25, 20191975 - Paula Patton
actress: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Precious, Jumping the Broom, Murder Book, Hitch, Swing Vote, Mirrors1976 - Amy Acker
actress: Person of Interest, , Angel, Alias, Dollhouse, The Cabin in the Woods, Once Upon a Time, Happy Town, A Near Death Experience, The Accident1979 - Nick Stahl
actor: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Bully, Seasons of Love, The Thin Red Line, Disturbing Behaviour, Incident in a Small Town, The Man Without a Face, Woman with a Past1982 - Jessica Paré
actress: Mad Men, Stardom, Lost and Delirious, Wicker Park, Hot Tub Time Machine, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Suck, Jack & Bobby, Bollywood/Hollywood, Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story, The Way of the West, Standby)1982 - Keri Hilson
songwriter, singer: Turnin Me On, Knock You Down, Pretty Girl Rock; LPs: In a Perfect World..., No Boys Allowed1985 - Frankie Muniz
actor: Malcolm in the Middle, My Dog Skip, The Andy Dick Show, Dr. Dolittle 21986 - LeGarrette Blount
football [running back]: NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2010–2012]; New England Patriots [2013]; Pittsburgh Steelers [2014]; New England Patriots [2014–2017]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs, 2017 Super Bowl LI champs; Philadelphia Eagles [2017-2018]: 2018 Super Bowl LII champs; Detroit Lions [2018]
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Hit Music on This Day December 5
1949Don’t Cry, Joe (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Betty Brewer)
I Can Dream, Can’t I? (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
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