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1787 - Delaware, The First State, was first to ratify the proposed U.S. Constitution and was the first state admitted to the Union (on this day). Also known as the Diamond State, Delaware is the smallest Southern state and the second smallest of all 50 states. “So what,” you say. “We want to know what the Delaware state bird is!” Ye of little faith. That was coming next. The Delaware state bird is the blue hen chicken. And, in case you wanted to know even more, the capital of Delaware is Dover and the peach blossom is the state flower.1842 - The New York Philharmonic Society gave its first public concert by performing works of Beethoven. The conductor that historical day was Ureli Corelli Hill. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and one of the oldest in the world.
1891 - The AFL granted a charter to the newly-formed National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers on this day. The union, later to become the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), had sweeping jurisdiction over electrical workers in every branch of the trade and industry.
1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds -- in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Johnny went on to fame swinging from vines as ‘King of the Jungle’, Tarzan, in movies.
1926 - The household refrigerator, operating on gas, was patented. No, not by what you might think of as a major appliance manufacturer. The refrigerator was patented by the Electrolux Servel Corporation.
1934 - Wiley Post established a new altitude record altitude of 50,000 feet. Post, in his aircraft the Winnie Mae, wore a pressurized space suit that he developed himself. Wiley Post is also credited with discovering the jet stream during his record breaking flights. (Post was at the controls of an experimental aircraft when he and humorist Will Rogers were killed as the plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska.)
1935 - Byron Haines, a halfback for the University of Washington, scored all the points as the Huskies defeated the University of Southern California, 6-2. He scored all the points for his team -- and the other team as well. He was responsible for Washington’s touchdown and he was tackled in the end zone giving USC a safety.
1941 - 6:45 a.m.: The USS Ward sank a Japanese midget submarine some three miles from Pearl Harbor. It was the first Japanese sub to be sunk by an American ship. The submarine was finally located on Aug 29, 2002 by two research craft on routine training dives, in an area described as a ‘military junkyard’ about 1,200 feet below the surface. The sub had led four other Japanese midget submarines to Pearl Harbor before the Sunday morning attack by Japanese planes.
1941 - December 7, 1941 is remembered as “a date which will live in infamy”: Pearl Harbor Day. Thousands of lives were lost, a major portion of America’s Pacific fleet was in pieces and the U.S. was catapulted into war in the Pacific. Today, at the onshore USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center, we can see displays of World War II naval history and wartime Hawaii; and view a film about the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. A ferry shuttles back and forth between the visitor center and the memorial where one can actually stand right above the Arizona. In fact, the rusted remains of the Arizona are clearly visible under the waters of Pearl Harbor. The memorial to the 1,100 men, entombed forever within the sunken, once mighty, battleship, straddles the USS Arizona. One wall of the structure bears their names.
1946 - Fire broke out at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, GA. The conflagration killed 119 people, including the hotel’s founder, W. Frank Winecoff.
1948 - NBC presented the Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program for the first time. The talent show earned Dick Contino, an accordionist, the $5,000 prize as the program’s first national winner. Over the years Heidt gave some big stars their big starts: Art Carney, Frankie Carle, Gordon MacRae, the King Sisters, Alvino Rey, Ken Berry, Frank DeVol, Dick Contino, Al Hirt, Fred Lowrey, Ronnie Kemper, Larry Cotton, Donna and her Don Juans, Ollie O’Toole and many others.
1948 - The man referred to as the Babe Ruth of cricket retired in Australia. His name was Donald Bradman. Wisden, cricket’s authoritative almanac, named Sir Donald as the best cricketer of the 20th century. In 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948, he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94.
1952 - My Little Margie, starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell, made its debut on CBS radio. The TV version of the popular show had begun on June 16, 1952. My Little Margie stayed on radio for three years. Miss Storm got a show of her own called The Gale Storm Show. She also recorded several hit songs, including I Hear You Knocking and Ivory Tower between 1955-1957.
1955 - Robert Sarnoff was elected president of NBC. Sarnoff was promoted to put NBC on the road to economic self-sufficiency, replacing the rather flamboyant (and big spending) president/CEO Pat Weaver.
1957 - Singer Pat Boone was at the top of the pop charts for the first of six weeks with April Love. His other number one hits included Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me and Love Letters in the Sand. See what wearing white buck shoes and drinking lots of milk can do for you?
1963 - Instant replay was used for the first time during the Army-Navy game. CBS-TV used the new video technique over and over and over and over and over again.
1970 - Harry Reasoner, who had left CBS News weeks before, joined Howard K. Smith for The ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner. The Smith-Reasoner team lasted almost five years.
1972 - Apollo 17, the sixth and last U.S. moon mission, blasted off from Cape Canaveral. Flight Commander Eugene Cernan was the last man on the moon. The flight returned to Earth Dec 19.
1974 - Kung Fu Fighting, by Carl Douglas, reached the #1 position on the pop charts. It stayed there for two weeks.
1983 - Madrid, Spain, saw its second aviation disaster in ten days (an Avianca Boeing 747 crashed Nov 27, killing 181 people). An Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727 that was accelerating for takeoff. The collision killed all 42 people aboard the DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.
1984 - Michael Jackson was in Chicago to testify that the song, The Girl is Mine, was exclusively his and he didn’t swipe the song, Please Love Me Now. It was a copyright infringement case worth five million dollars. He won.
1988 - Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was in New York City to address the United Nations General Assembly. After speaking about the recent changes in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev amazed the global community when he announced drastic cuts in the Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe and along the Chinese border -- a move that ultimately allowed Soviet satellites to choose their own paths.
1988 - An earthquake struck Armenia in the Soviet Union. The quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale and devastated northwestern Armenia. 25,000 people were killed and another 15,000 injured. Some 517,000 were left homeless.
1991 - Fifty years after Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a visibly moved President George Bush (I) led the U.S. in commemorating the anniversary.
1993 - U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders suggested that the government study the impact of drug legalization.
1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny died. He was Africa’s longest serving leader and the only president Ivory Coast had known.
1995 - The U.S. spacecraft Galileo arrived at Jupiter, and fired its main engine for 49 minutes to attain a successful orbit around Jupiter. The same day, Galileo's atmospheric probe plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere, and relayed information on the structure and composition of the solar system’s largest planet.
1996 - Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit, from her Secrets album, stayed at number one half-way thru Feb 1997.
1997 - Singer actress Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, actor Charlton Heston, opera singer Jessye Norman and ballet master Edward Villella shared the 20th annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.
1998 - President Boris Yeltsin left the hospital in Russia, fired several aides, then returned to the hospital to continue his recovery from pneumonia.
1999 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit against Internet Web site Napster for being a haven for music piracy. (Napster ceased operations in 2001 after losing multiple lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy in June 2002.)
2000 - Al Gore lawyer David Boies pleaded with the Florida Supreme Court to order vote recounts and revive his presidential campaign, while Republican attorneys called George W. Bush the certified, rightful victor.
2001 - These movies opened in the U.S.: The Business of Strangers, starring Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Welller, Mary Testa and Jack Hallett; No Man’s Land, with Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis and Serge-Henri Valcke; and Ocean’s 11, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, Don Cheadle, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Elliot Gould, Carl Reiner, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck and Shaobo Qin.
2001 - Taliban forces abandoned their last bastion in Afghanistan, fleeing the southern city of Kandahar.
2002 - In Australia wildfires raging across Sydney’s northern fringe blackened 250,000 acres.
2003 - A Nicaraguan judge sentenced former President Arnoldo Alemán to twenty years in prison on corruption and money laundering charges. Alemán diverted some $100-million in government funds to his party’s election campaigns during his tenure in office, which ended in Jan 2002.
2003 - Tropical Storm Odette lashed the Dominican Republic with torrential rains, prompting thousands to flee their homes and killed at least 8 people before it dissipated over the Atlantic.
2004 - After Babs the gorilla died at age 30, keepers at Brookfield, IL Zoo decided to allow surviving gorillas to mourn the most influential female in their social family. One by one, the gorillas filed into the Tropic World building where Babs' body lay, arms outstretched. Curator Melinda Pruett Jones called it a “gorilla wake.”
2005 - A U.S. Federal Air Marshal fatally shot Rigoberto Alpizar in a jetway at Miami International Airport in Florida. Alpizar, a U.S. citizen who had disembarked from an American Airlines flight from Medellín, Colombia, claimed to have a bomb. Witnesses on aircraft later disputed the claim that Alpizar had made bomb threats. No explosive was found.
2006 - U.S. President George Bush (II) and Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that coalition forces would prevail in Iraq, saying success depended on victory over extremists across the entire Middle East.
2007 - The Golden Compass debuted in U.S. movie theatres. The fantasy acton adventure stars Nicole Kidman, Eva Green, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards.
2007 - CompUSA, the computer retailer controlled by Mexican financier Carlos Slim Helu’s Grupo Carso SA, announced that it was going out of business after the 2007 December holidays.
2008 - Gunmen blasted their way into two transport terminals in Pakistan and torched more than 160 vehicles, including 70 Humvees, destined for U.S. troops and the Western-trained Afghan National Army in Afghanistan.
2009 - Virgin Galactic unveiled its first commercial spaceship, the sub-orbital VSS Enterprise, at the Mohave Air and Space Port in California. Initial trips to the edge of space were expected to cost $200,000 per person.
2009 - British TV channel ITV apologized for the death of a rat during filming of its reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in Australia. Two contestants skinned, cooked and ate the rat during filming in Australia. Chef Gino D’Acampo and actor Stuart Manning were later convicted of animal cruelty.
2010 - John James Audubon’s Birds of America, a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, sold for £7.3 million ($10.27 million) at a London auction, making it the world’s most expensive book.
2011 - U.S. Scientists reported strong evidence that water flowed on Mars some 3.5 billion years ago. The evidence was based on the robot rover "Opportunity" finding a vein of gypsum (calcium sulfate) on the rim of a crater.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a bilateral accord, called Beyond the Border, regarding trade and shared border security.
2012 - New movies in U.S theatres: Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Elizabeth Marvel, Blake Ritson, Olivia Colman, Samuel West and Elizabeth Wilson; Playing for Keeps, with Jessica Biel, Gerard Butler, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer, Dennis Quaid and Uma Thurman; Bad Kids Go To Hell, starring Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Mike Gassaway, Chanel Ryan, Augie Duke, Marc Donato, Ali Faulkner and Eloise DeJoria; Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, starring Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Luke Treadaway, Ellie Kendrick and Zoë Tapper; the animated Delhi Safari, featuring the voices of Jane Lynch, Cary Elwes, Christopher Lloyd, Tara Strong, Vanessa Williams, Tom Kenny, Brad Garrett and Jason Alexander; the animated Dino Time, featuring Jane Lynch, Rob Schneider, Tara Strong, Melanie Griffith, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin, Yuri Lowenthal and Jessica Di Cicco; The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, with Kerry Bishé, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Heather Burns, Dara Coleman, Brian d’Arcy James and Marsha Dietlein; and Lay the Favorite, starring Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joshua Jackson, Laura Prepon, Frank Grillo, Joel Murray and Corbin Bernsen.
2013 - Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo. This, as the standoff deepened over what opponents called the Islamist president’s power grab.
2013 - Australia’s first gay marriages were celebrated in the national capital, Canberra. Just five days later, however, Australia’s highest court reversed the law that had allowed those marriages.
2014 - Egyptian security forces raided a bath house, arrested 25 men for homosexuality, and dragged them naked out of the building in downtown Cairo.
2015 - The County of Hawaii said 119 residents and 17 visitors had been confirmed with dengue fever.
2015 - Beijing, China issued its first-ever red alert for smog, urging schools to close and ordering factories and traffic restrictions to keep half of the city’s vehicles off the roads.
2015 - Doubling down on his signature demagoguery that enraged liberals and many moderate Republicans -- but endeared him to his conservative base, POTUS candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” immigrants and visitors alike. This, because of what Trump envisioned to be hatred among “large segments of the Muslim population” toward Americans.
2016 - Amazon completed its first delivery by drone. The delivery was made to a customer near Cambridge, England. Goal of the delivery system was to “safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less.”
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama marked the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by honoring those who gave their lives that day. The iconic memorial that sits over the wreckage of the battleship Arizona was the backdrop for the ceremony.
2017 - U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) announced that he would resign following charges of his sexual harassment and indiscretions. Minnestoa Governor Mark Dayton appointed Lt. Governor Tina Smith to take Franken’s seat. “I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office...,” Franken said in emotional speech in the Senate.
2017 - Bitcoin surged past $17,000 (from $800 a year earlier) as the frenzy surrounding the virtual currency escalated just days before it started trading on major U.S. exchanges. Bitcoin had gained more than $5,000 in the previous two days.
2018 - New movies in the U.S. included: Asher, with Famke Janssen, Ron Perlman and Jacqueline Bisset; Ben Is Back, starring Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges and Courtney B. Vance; Dumplin’, starring Jennifer Aniston, Odeya Rush and Dove Cameron; Hospitality, with Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jim Beaver and JR Bourne; Mary Queen of Scots, starring Margot Robbie, Gemma Chan, Saoirse Ronan; Swimming with Men, with Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves and Thomas Turgoose: and Vox Lux, starring Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Willem Dafoe.
2018 - Court filings from prosecutors in New York and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office laid out previously undisclosed contacts between Trump associates and Russian intermediaries. The filings suggested the Kremlin worked early on to influence Trump and his campaign by playing to both his political aspirations and his personal business interests.
2019 - Speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Florida, POTUS Donald Trump said many of the attendees at the event were wealthy and in real estate and that their wealth would guide their votes in the 2020 presidential election. “A lot of you are in the real estate business because I know you very well. You’re brutal killers, not nice people at all. But you have to vote for me, you have no choice,” he said. Trump argued the Israeli-American crowd would not be able to vote for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat running for president, because of her proposed wealth tax plan. The remarks drew sharp criticism from several Jewish groups that argued Trump was peddling anti-Semitic tropes by suggesting Jewish people were motivated by money.
2020 - Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier and the central figure in the book The Right Stuff, died in Los Angeles. He was 97 years old.
2020 - California compelled much of the state to close shop and stay at home. This, as the state instituted some of the harshest coronavirus restrictions in the U.S. California has set a record with more than 30,000 new COVID-19 cases.
2021 - The Federal Trade Commission and seven states, including California, announced a settlement of some $40 million against Vyera Pharmaceuticals. The company had raised the price of Daraprim, a potentially life-saving medication, from $17.50 to $750 per tablet, after obtaining exclusive rights to the drug in 2015.
2021 - Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook signed an agreement with Chinese officials, estimated to be worth about $275 billion, to placate threats that would have hobbled its devices and services in China.
2022 - 25 right-wing extremists were arrested in Germany. They had organized a coup to overthrow the government and install a monarchy, including prince Heinrich XIII and army officers.
2022 - Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock was pronounced the winner over Republican Herschel Walker in the run-off election for the Georgia Senate seat. The win gave the Democrats a 51-49 Democratic majority in the U.S Senate.
2022 - Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, the former chief operating officer and president of the defunct blood-testing company Theranos, was sentenced to some 13 years in prison for fraud. Theranos attracted high-profile investors by claiming its tests could quickly detect several illnesses with only a few drops of blood. This turn out to be a false claim. Theranos was later dissolved after The Wall Street Journal exposed the company and the accuracy of its machinery and testing, and the executives were found to have falsified documents and faked test results. Both Balwani, 57, and Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, 38, were accused of deceiving investors and charged with fraud. Holmes had been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
2023 - Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was indicted for evading $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 through 2019. During that period, Hunter Biden earned more than $7 million, including payments for his work for energy companies in Ukraine and China. Prosecutors said he spent that money on an extravagant lifestyle, instead of paying his taxes.
2023 - A Texas district judge in Austin ruled that a pregnant woman whose fetus had a lethal genetic condition could terminate the pregnancy despite the state’s abortion ban. The lawsuit was the first of its kind since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that had made abortion legal nationwide.
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Birthdays on This Day December 7
1873 - Willa Cather
Pulitzer Prize-Winning author: One of Ours [1923]; O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Alexander’s Bridge; died Apr 24, 19471879 - Rudolf Friml
musician, composer: Rose Marie, Indian Love Call; died Nov 12, 19721909 - Jacob Kainen
artist: lyrical and poetic abstractions; died Mar 19, 20011909 - Arch Oboler
radio playwright: Lights Out; novelist, screenwriter: The Night of the Auk, Five, Bewitched, Escape; died Mar 19, 19871910 - Rod Cameron
actor: Midnight Auto Supply, Psychic Killer, Evel Knievel, The Last Movie, Northwest Mounted Police, Wake Island, State Trooper, City Detective; died Dec 21, 1983; more1910 - Louis Prima
musician: trumpet, bandleader: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, Gleeby Rhythm Orchestra; songwriter: Sing, Sing, Sing, Christopher Columbus, It’s the Rhythm in Me, Sunday Kind of Love, Robin Hood, Bell-Bottom Trousers, Civilization, Oh, Babe; singer: [w/wife Keely Smith]: Just a Gigolo, That Old Black Magic, I Ain’t Got Nobody, I’ve Got You Under My Skin; solo: Wonderland by Night; voice of Orangutan: The Jungle Book; died Aug 24, 19781910 - Edmundo Ros
musician, vocalist, arranger, bandleader: Edmundo Ros and His Rumba Band: Trinidadian musician who brought Latin-American music to Britain; made over 800 recordings during his career; nightclub owner: Regent Street’s Coconut Grove, Londong; died Oct 21, 20111915 - Eli Wallach
actor: Emmy Award-winning actor: The Poppy is Also a Flower [1966-67]; Our Family Honor, Too Much, Legacy of Lies, Mistress, The Two Jakes, The Godfather, Part 3, Tough Guys, Christopher Columbus, Sam’s Son, The Deep, Cinderella Liberty, MacKenna’s Gold, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Tiger Makes Out, The Magnificent Seven, How the West was Won; died Jun 24, 20141923 - Ted Knight
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1972-73, 1975-76]; Too Close for Comfort, The Ted Knight Show; Caddyshack, Countdown, Psycho; died Aug 26, 19861926 - Victor Kiam
business executive: Lever Brothers, Playtex, Remington: chairman: “I liked it [electric shaver] so much, that I bought the company.”; NFL team owner: New England Patriots; died May 27, 20011930 - Dan Sikes
golf: champ: Bay Hill Invitational: 1968; one of golf leaders who laid groundwork for Senior Tour in 1980; died Dec 20, 19871931 - Bobby Osborne
musician: mandolin, singer: duo: Osborne Brothers: Rocky Top, Up This Hill and Down, Tennessee Hound Dog, Georgia Pinewoods; died Jun 27, 20231932 - Ellen Burstyn
Academy Award-winning actress: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore [1974]; The Color of Evening, When a Man Loves a Woman, The Cemetery Club, Same Time Next Year, Harry and Tonto, The Exorcist, The Last Picture Show, The Ellen Burstyn Show, The Doctors1935 - Don Cardwell
baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Atlanta Braves; died Jan 14, 20081940 - Gerry Cheevers
Hockey Hall of Famer: Boston Bruins goalie: longest undefeated streak [32 games]; Stanley Cup winner [1970, 1972]; coach: Boston Bruins1942 - Harry Chapin
songwriter, singer: Taxi, W-O-L-D, Cat’s in the Cradle; Recipient of Special Congressional Gold Medal: Worldwide Humanitarian for the Hungry, Needy and Homeless; died of a heart attack and car crash on Long Island Expressway July 16, 19811942 - Alex Johnson
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, California Angels [all-star: 1970], Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers; died Feb 28, 20151945 - Al Woodall
football: QB: Duke Univ, NY Jets1947 - Johnny Bench
Baseball Hall of Fame catcher: Cincinnati Reds [Rookie of the Year: 1968/all-star: 1968-1980, 1983] World Series: 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976]/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1970, 1972]; ten Gold Glove Awards; broadcaster: CBS radio1947 - Garry Unger
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, SL Blues, Atlanta Flames, LA Kings, Edmonton Oilers1948 - James Keach
actor: Wildcats, Love Letters, Vacation, The Experts, Moving Violations, Comes a Horseman, The Razor’s Edge; director: The Stars Fell on Henrietta, A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story, Sunstroke, Praying Mantis, The Absolute Truth; married to actress Jane Seymour, son of actor Stacy Keach Sr., brother of actor Stacy Keach1948 - Gary Morris
singer: The Wind Beneath My Wings, Baby Bye Bye, I’ll Never Stop Loving You, 100% Chance of Rain, Leave Me Lonely, Making Up For Lost Time [The Dallas Lovers Song] [w/Crystal Gayle], Plain Brown Wrapper, Another World, Bring Him Home; actor: Broadway: Les Misérables, La Boheme1949 - Tom Waits
singer: Shiver Me Timbers, Diamonds on My Windshield, Small Change, The Piano Has Been Drinking, Tom Traubert’s Blues, Burma Shave, Potter’s Field, Jersey Girl, LP: Foreign Affairs, Swordfishtrombone; songwriter: I Never Talk to Strangers; actor: Short Cuts, Paradise Alley, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ironweed, The Cotton Club; playwright [w/wife, Kathleen Brennan]: Frank’s Wild Years1954 - Mike Nolan
singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Can’t Stand the Heat, You and Your Eyes So Blue1955 - Priscilla Barnes
actress: Mallrats, Licence to Kill, Time Machine, Delta Fox, Beyond Reason, Three’s Company, The American Girls1956 - Larry Bird
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: Rookie of the Year [1979-80]; NBA MVP [1984, 1985, 1986], AP Male Athlete of the Year [1986], Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year [1986]1956 - Mark Rolston
actor: Aliens, Steal the Sky, Lethal Weapon 2, Robocop 2, Body of Evidence, The Shawshank Redemption, Eraser, Profiler, Rush Hour, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Highway1956 - Ozzie Virgil
baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983/all-star: 1985], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1987], Toronto Blue Jays1958 - Rich Campbell
musician: keyboards, bass, composer, songwriter, singer: groups: Three Dog Night, America; performed with Dave Mason, Natalie Cole1960 - David E. Woodley
actor: PictoCrime, Sick Puppy, Tunnel Vision, Over the Hill, Home and Away1963 - Dale Waddington
actress: Mad Men, Desperate Housewives, A Bag of Hammers, Another Harvest Moon, Wreck the Halls, Saving Sam, Flags of Our Fathers, Double Edge, Grey’s Anatomy1964 - Patrick Fabian
actor: The Last Exorcism, Tales of Everyday Magic, Bad Ass, The Land of the Astronauts, Spring Breakdown, 976-WISH; more1965 - Jeffrey Wright
actor: Westworld [TV], The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Angels in America, Cadillac Records, Basquiat, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Boardwalk Empire1966 - C. Thomas Howell
actor: Two Marriages, Hourglass, Payback, Breaking the Rules, A Tiger’s Tale, Soul Man, Tank, The Outsiders, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial; rodeo cowboy1967 - Tino Martinez
baseball [first base]: Univ of Tampa; Seattle Mariners [1990–1995]; New York Yankees [1996–2001]: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 World Series champs; St. Louis Cardinals [2002–2003]; Tampa Bay Devil Rays [2004]; New York Yankees [2005]1968 - Tom Myslinski
football [guard]: Univ of Tennessee, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys1972 - Christa Campbell
actress: Maniacs, Wicker Man, Day of the Dead, Straight A’s, The Wedding, Unraveled, Everyone Wants the Kush1973 - Terrell Owens
football [wide receiver]: NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles1974 - Al Harris
football [cornerback]: NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers1977 - Fernando Vargas
light middleweight boxer: two-time world champ; won bronze medal as an amateur at 1995 Pan American Games; his nicknames include: Ferocious, The Aztec Warrior and El Feroz1978 - Shiri Appleby
actress: Roswell, ER, Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife, I Love You to Death, The Thirteenth Floor, A Time for Dancing1979 - Sara Bareilles
singer: Love Song; LPs: Careful Confessions, Little Voice, Kaleidoscope Heart, Once Upon Another Time1979 - Jennifer Carpenter
actress: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Dexter, The Factory, Faster, Quarantine, White Chicks, Ash Tuesday, People Are Dead1987 - Aaron Carter
singer: Shake It, I Will Be Yours, Tell Me How to Make You Smile, Life Is a Party, [Have Some] Fun With the Funk, Summertime, Aaron’s Party [Come and Get It], Leave It Up to Me1988 - Nathan Adrian
swimmer, Olympic gold medalist [2008, 2012]: holds American record in 50 and 100-yard freestyle [short course] events1988 - Emily Browning
actress: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Uninvited, Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty [2011], Mr. Beautiful, The Host, Summer in February, Magic Magic, Plush, God Help the Girl, Pompeii, Shangri La Suite, Legend1989 - Nicholas Hoult
actor: X-Men: First Class, About a Boy, Skins, Clash of the Titans, Mr. White Goes to Westminster1990 - Yasiel Puig
baseball [outfielder]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2013–2018]: 2017, 2018 World Series; Cincinnati Reds [2019]; Cleveland Indians [2019]
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Hit Music on This Day December 7
1951Sin (It’s No) (facts) - Eddy Howard
Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
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