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1790 - The location of the capital city of the United States moved from New York City to Philadelphia. The city of Annapolis, Maryland, was the first peacetime U.S. capital. The U.S. Congress met at Annapolis November 26, 1783-June 3, 1784, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, formally ending hostilities between Great Britain and her former colony. New York was the capital from 1785 until 1790, followed by Philadelphia (on this day) until 1800 and then Washington, DC.1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified. Congress had passed the amendment on Jan 31, 1865.
1873 - America’s first international football (soccer) game was played in New Haven, CT. Yale defeated Eton (England) 2-1.
1902 - The 8¢ Martha Washington stamp was issued this day. The stamp was the first U.S. definitive or commemorative stamp to feature a woman.
1883 - Ladies’ Home Journal was published for the first time. The Journal was long the leader of all American women’s magazines in circulation. In 2014 LHJ became a quarterly, available on newsstands only..
1923 - The first presidential address to be carried on radio was broadcast from Washington, DC. President Calvin Coolidge addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message via telegram to Japanese Emperor Hirohito expressing hope that gathering war clouds could be dispelled.
1944 - Red Bank Boogie, Count Basie’s salute to his hometown, was recorded on Columbia Records. The tune is a tribute to Red Bank, New Jersey.
1945 - The microwave oven was patented. During World War II, two scientists invented the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. Installing magnetrons in Britain’s radar system, the microwaves were able to spot Nazi warplanes on their way to bomb the British Isles. The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket. Called the Radar Range, the first microwave oven to go on the market was roughly as large and heavy as a refrigerator.
1947 - Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S Truman. In the President’s words, “Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams wearing away the uplifted land. Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water, but as the last receiver of it. To its natural abundance we owe the spectacular plant and animal life that distinguishes this place from all others in our country.”
1948 - Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for almost 10 years and the redhead introduced such talent as Pat Boone, The Chordettes, Carmel Quinn, The McGuire Sisters, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Steve Lawrence and Al Martino.
1950 - ‘America’s Sweetheart’, Shirley Temple, became Shirley Temple Black. She married Charles Black, a socialite and business executive from San Francisco.
1955 - New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won The $64,000 Question by answering a boxing question.
1956 - Ethel Merman and Fernando Lamas starred as Happy Hunting opened at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre. The show ran for 412 performances, closing on Nov 30, 1957, with Merman happy to see what she considered “a dreary obligation” finally come to an end.
1957 - The first attempt by the U.S. at putting a satellite into orbit, the Vanguard rocket, blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 - Eileen Farrell debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC in the title role of Gluck’s Alcestis.
1960 - Gene Autry was attending the 1960 baseball winter meetings hoping to secure a broadcasting contract for KMPC, his Los Angeles radio station. The ‘Singing Cowboy’ wound up as the owner of the expansion Los Angeles Angels (when no one came forward to bid for the team, Autry made a bid of his own). The team became the showpiece for KMPC. The Angels played their first season in Wrigley Field (capacity 22,000), then rented Dodger Stadium and later moved to Anaheim.
1960 - Domino’s Pizza was founded by Thomas S. Monaghan. The first Domino’s, named Domi-Nick’s at the time, opened in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
1968 - The Commissioner of Baseball, William Eckert was told, “Yer outta here!” after serving three years of his 7-year contract. Bowie Kuhn was his replacement and had as bad a time -- only for a longer period of time.
1969 - Musician Cab Calloway turned actor as he was seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of The Littlest Angel on NBC. The big band singer, known for such classics as Minnie the Moocher, became a movie star in The Blues Brothers (1980) with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd.
1969 - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye, by Steam, reached the #1 spot on the top 40. It stayed at the top for two weeks and was the only major hit for the group that later ran out of ... steam.
1969 - The Rolling Stones staged a rock concert at the Altamount Speedway in Livermore, CA for some 300,000 fans. The Stones hired the Hell’s Angels for security. Fans were beaten and one person, Meredith Hunter, was stomped and stabbed to death by a Hell’s Angel during the show. (The 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter told the story.)
1971 - It was payday for Jack Nicklaus. He received $30,000 for capturing the first Disney World golf tournament. His earnings for the season totaled $244,491.
1973 - Following the resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, House Speaker Gerald Ford became the U.S.’s first appointed Vice President. Later, he became the nation’s first non-elected President upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 - Paul Simon’s album, Still Crazy After All These Years, was number one in the U.S. It was Simon’s first #1 solo album and it contained his first recording with Art Garfunkel since their 1969 breakup (My Little Town, which was also included on Garfunkel’s Breakaway album).
1978 - A referendum in Spain approved a new constitution. The new rules provided for a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary form of government.
1984 - Martina Navratilova’s 74-game winning streak over 11+ months came to an end. The 19-year-old tennis star was defeated by Helen Sukova in the semifinals of the Australian Open.
1984 - Two former Beatles debuted in two film releases this day. Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street and George Harrison’s A Private Function were finalized for theatre audiences.
1985 - John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.
1986 - University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy on this day.
1988 - Singer Roy Orbison died of a heart attack in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He was 52 years old. Orbison recorded a long string of hits, beginning in the early 1960s. From Only the Lonely (1960) to Oh! Pretty Woman (1964), Orbison cracked the top-ten eight times and had 19 top-40 entries for Monument Records.
1992 - In India, thousands of Hindu extremists destroyed a mosque, setting off two months of Hindu-Muslim rioting that claimed at least 2,000 lives.
1993 - Academy Award-winning Actor Don Ameche died in Scottsdale, AZ of prostate cancer. He was 85 years old. Ameche won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in "Cocoon" in 1986. He was versatile and popular, usually appearing as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also a popular radio master of ceremonies in the 1930s and 1940s.
1994 - Orange County, California filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. It was the largest municipality in the U.S. to go bankrupt.
1995 - New York Times columnist James Reston died in Washington. He was 86 years old.
1996 - Daylight (“No air. No escape. No time.”) opened in the U.S. The action adventure thriller stars Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman and Viggo Mortensen.
1997 - Unbeaten World Boxing Council welterweight champion Oscar de la Hoya stopped Wilfredo Rivera in the eighth round in Atlantic City, NJ to retain the WBC Welterweight Championship. De la Hoya, who won all five of his fights in 1997, improved to 27-0, 22 by knockout.
1998 - Astronauts on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour completed the most difficult task of their 12-day mission, mating modules from Russia and the United States to create the first two building blocks of International Space Station. “We have capture of Zarya,” Commander Robert Cabana announced when the two pieces came together at approximately 9:07 p.m. EST. “Congratulations to the crew of the good ship Endeavour,” replied Mission Control. “That's terrific.”
1999 - The U.S. airline maintenance company SabreTech was cleared of conspiracy charges in the crash of a plane belonging to cut-rate carrier ValuJet, which killed 110 people. The company was convicted on a series of less serious charges, including the improper packaging of the oxygen cannisters thought to be responsible for the crash. The case involved 144 oxygen generators removed by SabreTech from other ValuJet planes and delivered to the ill-fated flight without the required safety caps or any markings indicating the canisters were hazardous. Investigators blamed the generators for starting a 2,200-degree cargo fire that brought down the DC-9 on May 11, 1996.
2000 - Actor Werner Klemperer died in New York at 80 years of age. Klemperer is best known for playing the bumbling Colonel Wilhelm Klink on TV’s Hogan’s Heroes.
2001 - Japan went into a financial recession for the fourth time in ten years as the GDP shrank 0.5%.
2002 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton and Maggie Gyllenhaal; Analyze That, with Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli and Cathy Moriarty-Gentile; Empire, starring John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Nestor Serrano and Delilah Cotto; and Equilibrium, with Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson, William Fichtner and Angus Macfadyen.
2003 - The first big snowstorm of the season in the Northeast U.S. created near whiteout conditions from Pennsylvania to Maine. A foot of snow delayed flights and created hazardous driving conditions that caused at least ten deaths.
2003 - Miss Ireland, 19-year-old Rosanna Davison, won the Miss World competition held at the beach resort of Sanya in China. Second place went to Miss Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, while the host country’s Miss China, Guan Qi, took third.
2004 - China Aviation Supplies Import & Export Group Corporation (CASGC) confirmed an order for 23 Airbus A320 aircraft in Beijing at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People attended by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder.
2005 - An Iranian C-130 Hercules airplane crashed into a ten-story building in a civilian area of the Iranian capital Tehran. All 94 people on board and 34 residents of the building were killed.
2006 - A propane gas leak led to a large explosion in a Milwaukee WI industrial area. Three people were killed at the Falk Corp. transmission parts plant. 46 others were injured.
2006 - Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair headed for Washington to discuss strategic options in Iraq with U.S. President George Bush (II). Shortly before he left Britain, Blair told Parliament the war in Iraq is “not being won.”
2007 - IBM reported that it had made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses. The feat brought closer the day when supercomputing, which has required huge machines, will be done on a single chip.
2007 - India overturned a 1914 law that banned women from tending bar in New Delhi. A January court ruling allowed women to do bar work in hotels and restaurants. Each of India’s 29 states has its own laws governing the sale of alcohol, and many restrict women working behind the bar.
2008 - A Montana state judge ruled that doctor assisted suicides are legal in that state.
2008 - At the 21st annual European Film Awards (in Copenhagen, Denmark), the best film award went to Gomorra, by Italian director Matteo Garrone. The movie chronicles crime and the Camorra (the mafia-like criminal organization) in Naples and Caserta, Italy.
2009 - President Evo Morales easily won reelection in Bolivia. Morales is a coca-grower at odds with Washington but hugely popular at home for empowering the long-suppressed indigenous majority.
2009 - The Kennedy Center Honors, the top U.S. arts awards, were presented by President Obama to rock star Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert De Niro, comedian Mel Brooks, jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
2010 - Haitian medical sources said 140 people had died of cholera in recent days in the southwest part of the country, a region that had been largely spared the epidemic. Officials said the death toll had risen to over 2,000 since the outbreak began in October 2010.
2011 - The recent national pastime of copper stealing was impacting San Francisco’s BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system. The city of Vallejo Public Works Department reported that thieves had stripped $200,000 worth of copper wiring from street lights and signalized intersections in the previous six months.
2012 - Hundreds of marijuana users gathered with their pipes, bongs and/or hand-rolled joints near Seattle’s famed Space Needle to celebrate Washington’s status as the first U.S. state to legalize pot for adult recreational use.
2013 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana; Expecting, with Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell and Jon Dore; the documentary, A Journey to Planet Sanity; and Twice Born, starring Penélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch and Adnan Haskovic.
2013 - Three members of a self-styled ‘Muslim patrol’ in London, who harassed passers-by for wearing short skirts, holding hands and drinking alcohol, were jailed for up to 16 months after admitting a variety of public order and assault charges.
2013 - A 2-year-old boy died just a few days after falling ill in a village in Guéckédou, Guinea. He was later identified as patient zero in the outbreak of Ebola, which was not identified until March 2014.
2014 - In a real twist (to the way these things normally go), New Mexico levied some $54 million in penalties against the U.S. Department of Energy. The fines were the state’s response to violations that resulted in the indefinite closure of the only underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S.
2015 - France’s far-right National Front made historic gains as regional elections were held under a state of emergency. This, just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris. Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Front chalked up scores that reached 40 percent of the vote in several regions.
2015 - The rock musical, School of Rock, premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. Based on the 2003 film of the same name, with a screenplay by Mike White, the show ran thru Jan 20, 2019 and 1,309 performances.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (unanimously) that sharing corporate secrets with friends or relatives is illegal -- even if the insider providing the tip does not receive anything of value in return. The ruling upheld the conviction of Bassam Yacoub Salman, an Illinois man convicted of making investments based on inside information he received from a member of his extended family. Salman was prosecuted for earning more than $1.5 million in profits from trading on nonpublic information he received about future health care deals. The tip originated with Salman’s brother-in-law, Maher Kara, an investment banker at Citigroup Global Markets in New York. Kara passed the tip on to his own brother, Michael Kara, who then gave it to Salman. Kara had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud charges. A federal jury in San Francisco in 2013 found Salman guilty of conspiracy and securities fraud charges, and he was sentenced to three years in prison.
2016 - Note to Breitbart: Earth Is Not Cooling, Climate Change Is Real and Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans. With that, the Weather Channel shut down climate change-denying rhetoric from Breitbart.com. The saga began when the right-wing news site Breitbart published an article called “Global Temperature Plunge. Icy Silence From Climate Alarmists.” The article attempted to push the idea that land temperatures had dropped since the middle of the year. By that logic, that meant all climate change is just a grand hoax by “lefties” and “the world’s alarmist community.” In an attempt to back up their point, Breitbart had topped the article with a Weather Channel video featuring meteorologist Kait Parker.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy by announcing his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. And Trump announced plans to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
2017 - French rock star Johnny Hallyday died in Paris at age 74. His power ballads and colorful personal life made him a national treasure, loved by everyone from rebellious teens in the 1960s (he was credited for having brought rock and roll to France) to modern-day presidents.
2017 - TIME magazine named The Silence Breakers as its 2017 ‘Person of the Year’, recognizing the women (and some men) who had come forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault.
2018 - Reports: Donald Trump had separated 81 migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border since his June executive order ending his “zero-tolerance” policy of separating migrant families. The administration had used a legal loophole: When a federal judge struck down the original policy, which had led to more than 2,400 children being torn from their asylum-seeking parents and detained in cages, he ruled that the Trump administration could still separate migrant families if the children seemed in danger, or if the parents have been accused of a serious crime.
2018 - The European Union and France said their total investment in development funding aimed at preventing terrorism in the G5 African Sahel countries (Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger) would rise to 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion). This, as the region continued to struggle with jihadism and lawlessness. The announcement came as the U.N.-backed counterterrorism force, known as the G5 Sahel force, met in Mauritania.
2019 - Films showing for the first time on U.S. theatre screens: the animated, Playmobil: The Movie, The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Anthony Mackie; Daniel Isn’t Real, starring Patrick Schwarzenegger, Miles Robbins and Sasha Lane; I See You, starring Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney and Judah Lewis; In Fabric with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Hayley Squires; The Islands, starring Teuira Shanti Napa, Mira Sorvino and Ricky Sua’ava; Knives and Skin, with Kate Arrington, Tim Hopper and Marika Engelhardt; Little Joe, featuring Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw and Kerry Fox; Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Merritt Wever; A Million Little Pieces, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Odessa Young; A New Christmas, with Swati Bhise, Aurora Heimbach and Preeti Gupta; Trauma Center, starring Bruce Willis, Nicky Whelan and Steve Guttenberg; and The Wolf Hour, starring Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle and Brennan Brown.
2019 - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders promised to invest $150 billion to bring high-speed internet to “every household in America” while breaking up and better regulating monopolies he says currently limit access to drive up their profits. Sanders wasn’t the only POTUS hopeful promising to improve internet access in under-served communities. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren wanted to create a “public option for broadband” managed by a new Office of Broadband Access using an $85 billion federal grant. And former VP Joe Biden released a plan to revitalize rural America that included a $20 billion investment in rural broadband infrastructure.
2019 - Australian firefighters said a giant bushfire on the edge of Sydney, which had blanketed the city in smoke would take weeks to control. The smoky pall over the city had caused a spike in respiratory illnesses and the cancellation of outdoor sports.
2019 - Reddit [social news and aggregation website] banned 61 accounts under its policies against “vote manipulation”. This, just ahead of Britain’s Dec. 12 general election. Reddit said the suspect accounts shared the same pattern of activity as a Russian interference operation dubbed “Secondary Infektion” that was uncovered earlier.
2020 -Former U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes (87) died in Baltimore. Sarbanes represented Maryland in the Senate for 30 years, usually as a leader of financial regulatory reform. Sarbanes, the first Greek American senator, was known for his low-key style, often shunning the limelight. In 2002, Sarbanes co-sponsored the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, which became cited as his most-noted sponsored piece of legislation. Sections of the bill covered responsibilities of a public corporation’s board of directors, added criminal penalties for certain misconduct, and required the Securities and Exchange Commission to create regulations to define how public corporations complied with the law.
2020 - Many U.S. states scrambled to impose lockdowns to stem coronavirus spikes amid a lack of national leadership on how to curb infections until vaccines were widely available. This, while Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, warned that some governors and local officials were ignoring COVID-19 mitigation efforts that were proven to work, putting residents in danger.
2021 - White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden administration officials did not believe it was appropriate to send a delegation of U.S. officials to the Olympic Games in February after the “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang.
2021 - India and Russia signed some 28 investment pacts, including deals on steel, shipbuilding, coal and energy. Moscow and New Delhi also signed a deal that would see India produce more than 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi did the signing.
2022 - Donald Trump’s real estate company, Trump Organization, was convicted of tax fraud in New York. Trump was not personally a defendant in the case, which related to a scheme by his company since 2005 to avoid taxes on compensation in the form of perks including free apartments and luxury cars to then-chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and other executives. But Trump “knew exactly what was going on,” a prosecutor said.
2022 - The 1,574th -- and last -- Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolled off of the production line in Everett, Washington. The finale came some 52 years after the first Boeing 747 was delivered to the now-defunct Pan Am in January 1970. (This last one, a 747-8F freighter, was delivered to Atlas Air on January 31, 2023.)
2023 - Taylor Swift was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Sam Jacobs, Time’s editor-in-chief, said, “In a divided world, this recipient found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light.” He said, “No other person on the planet can move so many people so well. Achieving this feat is often chalked up to be an alignment of the planets. But that would ignore her skill and her power.”
2023 - South Fork Wind, the first large-scale offshore wind farm began supplying electricity to the U.S., 35 miles off Montauk, way out on the tip of Long Island, NY.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Get Away, with Nick Frost, Aisling Bea and Sebastian Croft; The Return, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Charlie Plummer; Werewolves, with Frank Grillo, Katrina Law and Ilfenesh Hadera; and Y2K, starring Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler and Julian Dennison.
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Birthdays on This Day December 6
1864 - William S. Hart
actor: silent screen star: Show People, Tumbleweeds, Wagon Tracks, The Disciple; director: Narrow Trail, Return of Draw Egan, Hell’s Hinges; died June 23, 19461886 - Joyce Kilmer
poet: Trees; killed in action in WWI July 30, 19181887 - Lynn Fontanne
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Magnificent Yankee, Hallmark Hall of Fame [1964-65]; The Pirate [w/husband], Alfred Lunt; died July 30, 19831896 - Ira Gershwin
lyricist: Lady Be Good, The Man I Love, The Man That Got Away, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm; died Aug 17, 19831898 - Alfred Eisenstaedt
photographer: 86 LIFE magazine cover photos: most famous: end of WWII Times Square photo of nurse kissing sailor; died Aug 24, 19951900 - Agnes Moorehead
Emmy Award-winning actress: Night of the Vicious Valentine, The Wild, Wild West [1966-67]; Bewitched, Dear, Dead Delilah, The Singing Nun, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, How the West Was Won, Raintree County, Magnificent Obsession, Show Boat, Johnny Belinda, Dark Passage, Jane Eyre, The Magnificent Ambersons, Citizen Kane; died Apr 30, 19741903 - Tony Lazzeri
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Yankees [World Series: 1926-1928, 1932, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933/A.L. single game record: 11 RBI’s: May 24, 1936], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1938], Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants; .300 hitter 5 times, drove in over 100 runs 7 times; died Aug 6, 19461903 - Kathryn McGuire
actress: Love a la Mode, The Border Wildcat, There It Is, Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo, Buffalo Bill on the U.P. Trail, Easy Going Gordon; died Oct 10, 19781905 - Elizabeth Yates
author: Amos Fortune, Mountain Born, Free Man, Swiss Holiday, The Journeyman, My Diary - My World, My Widening World, One Writer’s Way; died Jul 29, 20011913 - Eleanor Holm
International Swimming and Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter backstroke [1932]; singer: Art Jarrett band; actress: Tarzan’s Revenge; Billy Rose’s Aquacade; interior decorator; died Jan 31, 20041920 - Dave Brubeck
jazz musician: Take Five, LPs: Jazz Goes to College, Dave Brubeck at Storyville, Time Out, Two Generations of Brubeck, Last Set at Newport, All the Things We Are; died Dec 5, 20121921 - Otto Graham
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns [1950-55]: T-formation quarterback: NFL Player of the Year [1953, 1955]; coach: Coast Guard Academy, Washington Redskins; died Dec 17, 20031924 - Wally Cox
actor: Mr. Peepers, School House, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, The Barefoot Executive, The Boatniks, Spencer’s Mountain, State Fair; TV panelist: Hollywood Squares; died Feb 15, 19731925 - Andy Robustelli
Pro Football Hall of Famer: LA Rams defensive end, New York Giants; league Player of the Year [1962]; died May 31, 20111928 - Bobby Van (Bobby King Robert Stein)
actor, dancer: Escape from Planet Earth, Small Town Girl, Kiss Me Kate, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis; died July 31, 19801939 - Steve Alaimo
singer: Every Day I Have to Cry Some; actor: The Wild Rebels, Stanley1941 - Helen Cornelius
singer: There’s Always a Goodbye, [w/Jim Ed Brown]: I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You, Born Believer, If It Ain’t Love By Now, If the World Ran Out of Love Tonight, Lying in Love with You, Fools1943 - Mike Smith
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over, Bits and Pieces, Because, Catch Us If You Can; died Feb 28, 20081944 - Jonathan King
singer: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, Let It All Hang Out; songwriter, producer: Good News Week1945 - Larry Bowa
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies shortstop, Chicago Cubs, NY Mets; manager1945 - James Naughton
actor: The Paper Chase, Planet of the Apes [TV], The Glass Menagerie, The Cosby Mysteries, The First Wives Club, Oxygen; brother of actor David Naughton1947 - Kim Simmonds
musician: guitar: group: Savoy Brown: Train to Nowhere, I’m Tired, A Hard Way to Go, A Little More Wine, I Ain’t Superstitious, Stay With Me Baby, Louisiana Blues1948 - JoBeth Williams
actress: Kramer vs. Kramer, Poltergeist, The Big Chill, American Dreamer, Wyatt Earp, A Season of Hope, The Client, From the Earth to the Moon, Justice, The Rose Technique1949 - Fred O’Donnell
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins1949 - Doug Marlette
cartoonist: 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning; wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Kudzu; died July 10, 20071951 - Gavin Kirk
hockey: WHA: Phoenix Roadrunners, Ottawa Nationals, Edmonton Oilers1951 - Carl Summerell
football: E. Carolina, New York Giants QB1953 - Gina Hecht
actress: Glee, Mork & Mindy, Night Shift, Odessa or Bust, Clockstoppers, Seven Pounds, The Last Word, Without Warning, Desperate Housewives; stage: Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue1953 - Tom Hulce
actor: The Heidi Chronicles, Fearless, The Inner Circle, Parenthood, Dominick & Eugene, Amadeus, National Lampoon’s Animal House1955 - Steven Wright
stand-up comedian: deadpan, monotone; in film: Desperately Seeking Susan1956 - Peter Buck
musician: guitar: group: R.E.M.: Stand, So Central Rain, Seven Chinese Brothers, Radio Free Europe1956 - Rick Buckler
musician: drums, singer: group: The Jam1956 - Randy Rhoads
musician: guitar: group: Quiet Riot: Cum on Feel the Noize, Bang Your Head [Metal Health], Slick Black Cadillac, The Wild and the Young, Mama We’re All Crazy Now; also played with Ozzy Osbourne group; killed in plane crash Mar 19, 19821957 - Steve Bedrosian
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves [Sporting News’ pitcher of the year: 1982], Philadelphia Phillies [Cy Young Award-winner: 1987/all-star: 1987], SF Giants [World Series: 1989], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1991]1957 - Andrew Cuomo
politician: governor of New York State [2011-2021]; NY State Attorney General 2007-2011; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [under President Bill Clinton - 1997-2001; son of former New York governor Mario Cuomo [1983-1994]1958 - Nick Park
Academy Award-winning stop-motion animation filmmaker: Creature Comforts [1989], The Wrong Trousers [1993], A Close Shave [1995], Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [2005]; Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time, Chicken Run, Stage Fright1962 - Colin Salmon
actor: Resident Evil film series, Arrow, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day1962 - Janine Turner
actress: Northern Exposure, Behind the Screen, Cliffhanger, Steel Magnolias, Monkey Shines, Knights of the City1962 - Ben Watt
musician: guitar, keyboard, singer: group: Everything but the Girl: Sean, Come on Home1967 - Judd Apatow
film producer, director: Knocked Up, 40 Year Old Virgin, The Hangover, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Bridesmaids; more1967 - Kevin Appier
baseball [pitcher]: Fresno State Univ; Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, Anaheim Angels1972 - Brittany O’Connell
actress [1992-2010]: X-rated films: Battlestar Orgasmica, Voices in My Bed, Thighs & Dolls, One of Our Porn Stars is Missing, Tongue in Cheek, Stiff Competition 2, Nasty Pants1972 - Sarah Rafferty
actress: Suits, Six Feet Under, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Bones, What If God Were the Sun?, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts1975 - Mark Campbell
football [tight end]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills, New Orleans Saints1975 - Noel Clarke
actor: Doctor Who, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Adulthood, Bliss!, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll1976 - Michael Green
football [safety]: Northwestern Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears [2000–2005], Seattle Seahawks [2006-2007], Washington Redskins [2008]1976 - Lindsay Price
actress: Eastwick, Lipstick Jungle, Pepper Dennis, Coupling, Jack & Jill, The Bold and the Beautiful, Beverly Hills, 902101978 - Darrell Jackson
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Seattle Seahawks1980 - Cindy Crawford
actress [2002-2011]: X-rated films: Secret Suburban Sex Parties, Backside Story, Indecent Desires, I Know What You Did Last Night, Gangbang Auditions 221981 - Ashley Madekwe
actress: Revenge, Victim, Above Their Station, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Bedlam, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Drop Dead Gorgeous1994 - Giannis Antetokounmpo
basketball [forward]: NBA: Milwaukee Bucks [2013– ]: NBA MVP [2019, 2020], NBA championship [2021: NBA Finals MVP]1996 - Stefanie Scott
actress: Beethoven’s Big Break, Flipped, A.N.T. Farm, Wreck-It Ralph, Insidious: Chapter 3, Jem and the Holograms, Small Town Crime, Beautiful Boy, Good Girls Get High, Mary, The Girl in the Woods
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Hit Music on This Day December 6
1950All My Love (facts) - Patti Page
A Bushel and a Peck (facts) - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
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