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1809 - The first abdominal surgical procedure was performed -- in Danville, Kentucky. The patient was Jane Todd Crawford and the operation was performed without the aid of an anesthetic. However, during the operation, Ms. Crawford did say, “Eeeeeeeeeee owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwchhhhhhhhhhhh!” We can’t say that we blame her.1816 - John Adamson of Boston, MA received a patent for a dry dock.
1913 - Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda or, Mona Lisa for us art neophytes, was returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a two-year absence. The stolen painting was recovered and was valued at that time at $5,000,000. In 1962, appraisers set the value at one hundred million dollars. It is said that Mrs. Gioconda’s only payment for four years of modeling was free entertainment by jesters, players and singers.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit a European country while in office. Wilson had travelled to the Paris Peace Conference to “insure that the peace that would be signed would be both fair and lasting...”
1928 - The George Gershwin composition, An American in Paris, was presented to the public. The debut was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Walter Damrosch. A tone poem, An American in Paris was used as a ballet for Gene Kelly’s 1951 performance in the movie of the same name. Unfortunately, George Gershwin did not live to see his composition being danced to in the Academy Award-winning An American in Paris. It won six Oscars: Best Art Direction/Set Direction [Color], Best Color Cinematography, Best Costume Design [Color], Best Story and Screenplay, Best Picture ... and Best Score.
1929 - Hoagy Carmichael recorded with Louis Armstrong. They did Rockin’ Chair on Columbia records and cylinders.
1936 - Green Bay beat the Boston Redskins, 21-6, to capture the National Football League championship. It was the last game for the Boston Redskins. The team became the Washington Redskins in 1937.
1940 - The two-sided jump tune, The Anvil Chorus, was recorded by Glenn Miller and his orchestra for Bluebird Records in New York. The 10-inch, 78 rpm record ran six minutes (including flipping).
1942 - The characters of Allen’s Alley were presented for the first time on The Fred Allen Show. This particular segment of the show became very popular and was used by Allen until 1949. Remember the stops along the way in Allen’s Alley? They were at the Brooklyn tenement of Mrs. Nussbaum, the farmhouse of Titus Moody, the shack of Ajax Cassidy and the antebellum mansion of Senator Beauregard Claghorn.
1944 - The U.S. Navy cruiser Nashville, flagship of an invasion fleet headed for Mindoro Island in the Philippines, was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze suicide attack in the Sulu Sea. 138 aboard the Nashville and a destroyer in the fleet were killed.
1948 - The American Federation of Musicians went back to work after an 11½-month strike. During the strike, there was an 11½-month ban on phonograph records as well.
1951 - Future British prime minister Margaret Roberts married Denis Thatcher.
1961 - Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) died at the age of 101. The self-taught artist took up painting in her sixties; having her first showing in New York City at the ripe, young age of eighty. Her style was nostalgic and primitive -- mostly rural scenes: The Old Oaken Bucket, Christmas at Home, The Quilting Bee.
1963 - Capitol Records signed a right of first refusal agreement with The Beatles.
1966 - The first U.S. bombing of Hanoi was carried out on this day.
1967 - King Constantine of Greece and his family fled the country after a counter-coup failed to topple the military-backed government.
1973 - Detroit became the first city to receive a franchise in the fabulously unsuccessful World Football League.
1974 - Former Beatle George Harrison was greeted at the White House. President Gerald R. Ford invited Harrison and Ravi Shankar to lunch -- at the invitation of Jack Ford, the president’s son.
1977 - An improperly loaded chartered DC-3 airliner crashed during takeoff at Evansville, Indiana. All 29 persons on board were killed, including the 14-member University of Evansville basketball team and their coach, Bobby Watson. Also killed were radio broadcaster Marv Bates, three crew members, and two Air Indianapolis officials.
1978 - The Philadelphia Mint struck the first Susan B. Anthony dollar coins, with 1979 dates and the first “P” mintmark since the silver nickels of World War II. Denver production began on January 9, 1979, and San Francisco minting began on February 2, 1979. The Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first coin to honor a woman, was not a hit with the public for several reasons, most importantly because it was often mistaken for a quarter, which was about and eighth of an inch smaller in diameter.
1982 - An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale claimed nearly 3,000 lives and injured 2,000 people in North Yemen. The quake devastated Dhamar province 60 miles southeast of San’a.
1983 - Detroit and Denver played for 3 hours, 11 minutes in pro basketball. The Pistons finally won, 186-183, in triple overtime. NBA single-game records were set for most points by two teams; by one team; assists; and field goals -- plus, hot dogs sold; pennants snapped up by fans; popcorn, peanuts, nachos, too! And, Kiki Vandeweghe of the Denver Nuggets had a career-high night with 51 points.
1985 - In a movie first, the murder mystery, Clue, opened nationally. The film featured three different endings. Newspaper ads indicated which ending was playing at which theatre.
1986 - Duke University won its first NCAA team championship in the school’s 62-year history. The Blue Devils’ soccer team beat Akron, 1-0, to win the crown.
1986 - The Way It Is, by Bruce Hornsby and the Range, hit #1 for a week in the U.S.: “That’s just the way it is; Some things will never change. That’s just the way it is; Aw, but don’t you believe them.”
1988 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the United Nations in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1991 - Five central Asian republics of the Soviet Union agreed to join the new Commonwealth of Independent States being organized by Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
1991 - North Korea and South Korea signed a historic nonaggression agreement, aimed at eventual reconciliation.
1994 - An American Eagle commuter plane carrying twenty people crashed short of the Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15. The crash was later blamed on pilot error.
1996 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: Mars Attacks (“Nice planet. We’ll take it!”), with an all-star cast that includes Jack Nicholson Glenn Close Annette Bening Pierce Brosnan Danny DeVito Martin Short Sarah Jessica Parker Michael J. Fox Rod Steiger, to name a few; Jerry Maguire (“Show me the money!”), starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger; The Preacher’s Wife (“They needed help. What they got was a miracle.”), with Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines and Jenifer Lewis.
1997 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Getty Center museum complex, built on a hilltop overlooking the San Diego (405) Freeway in Los Angeles, was held this day. The public opening was held three days later (Dec 16) for the billion-dollar monument to art and architecture -- one of the largest arts centers in the United States.
1998 - Voters in Puerto Rico rejected U.S. statehood. In the nonbinding plebiscite giving Puerto Ricans the opportunity to express a preference to the future of political status of the island, the “none of the above” option was supported by 50 percent of voters -- indicating that most wished to retain Puerto Rico’s status as a U.S. commonwealth.
1999 - In a presidential campaign debate, Texas Governor George W. Bush and U.S. Senator John McCain fought over tax policy and farm subsidies, while McCain was pushed to defend his centerpiece campaign finance proposals.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush claimed the U.S. presidency five weeks after the election and a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down further recounts of disputed ballots in Florida. Democrat Al Gore conceded the election and delivered a call for national unity.
2001 - Five suspected Islamic militants attacked India’s parliament. The militants killed nine policemen and parliament staffers before being killed themselves.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2002 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: About Schmidt, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Howard Hesseman and Len Cariou; and Star Trek: Nemesis, with Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates Mcfadden, Marina Sirtis, Ron Perlman, Tom Hardy, Dina Meyer and Kate Mulgrew.
2003 - Oklahoma University senior quarterback Jason White won the Heisman Trophy.
2003 - The basketball U.S. and World attendance record was set on this day as the Michigan State Spartans played the Kentucky Wildcats in a college basketball game -- played on the football field of the NFL Detroit Lions. The attendance was 78,129. (No. 8 Kentucky beat No. 21 Michigan State 79-74.) Besides the 65,000 spectators the stadium holds for a Lions football game, there were about 5,000 students -- without seats -- standing, jumping and lounging on the artificial turf. Another 5,000 fans had seats on the floor, some paying as much as $500, as did hundreds of band members from both schools. Others spent $8 for seats in the upper deck that were so far away jersey numbers could only be seen with binoculars. In one end zone, students looked like they were at an outdoor concert. Some sat behind Kentucky’s band and “The Izzone”, Michigan State’s student section, and could only see the heads and shoulders of the players despite the court being elevated on a three-foot platform. Other fans simply laid on their backs and watched the game on the video screens.
2004 - Web search engine Google announced plans to digitally scan the book collections of the libraries of the Univ of Michigan, Stanford, Harvard, New York Public Library and Oxford. The libraries had agreed to allow books published before 1900 to be scanned.
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) acknowledged the deaths of 30,000 Iraqi civilians since the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
2005 - Swiss senator Dick Marty, commissioned by the Council of Europe to investigate CIA ‘black sites’ (secret prisons) and prisoner abuse in Europe, said the CIA “disregarded all standards of legality.”
2006 - Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron Corporation, reported to prison in Minnesota to begin serving a 24-year sentence for his crimes as a top executive at the Houston-based energy company. Skilling was convicted of conspiracy, insider trading, making false statements to auditors and securities fraud.
2007 - Opposition leader (and former world chess champion) Garry Kasparov said the Kremlin had stopped him from running for president because his political movement had been unable to rent a hall in Moscow for a nominating convention -- a requirement under Russian law.
2007 - U.S. Senator George Mitchell presented his report on steroid use among professional baseball players. The 409-page report described wide-spread use and recommended tough measures for testing and investigating.
2008 - Cuban President Raúl Castro arrived in Venezuela on his first international visit as Cuba’s president (he took office Feb 24, 2008).
2009 - A grimy, three-car train pulled out of Belgrade, Serbia’s railway station on the first direct trip to Sarajevo in nearly 18 years, restoring a link broken at the start of ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at bankers and their aggressive lobbying efforts to defeat financial reform in an interview for TV’s "60 Minutes". Obama said, “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street.”
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the $4.5 billion Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, part of an administration-wide effort to combat childhood obesity. Thousands of children would get into school-based meal programs and lunches and dinners would be made more nutritious.
2010 - Schools in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and other states closed because of snow and low temperatures. Authorities worked frantically to reach motorists in snow-covered northwest Indiana who were trapped in their cars in biting temperatures.
2011 - California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a new eCrime unit devoted to prosecuting high-tech crimes. Each year over 1 million Californians were said to be victims of identity theft, with losses of over $46 million in 2010. (Harris was elected U.S. VP with Joe Biden as POTUS Nov 3, 2020.)
2012 - The embattled U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, withdrew her name from consideration to be secretary of state in the face of angry Republican opposition.
2012 - U.S. Librarian of Congress James Billington announced singer, songwriter Carole King the winner of Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. King was the first woman to be given that award.
2013 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage; Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, with Tyler Perry, Chad Michael Murray and Tika Sumpter; American Hustle, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper; Hours, with Genesis Rodriguez, Paul Walker and Nick Gomez; and Saving Mr. Banks, starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Colin Farrell.
2013 - A United Nations inquiry concluded that chemical weapons had likely been used in five out of seven attacks investigated by U.N. experts in Syria. The 2 1/2-year Syrian civil war had killed more than 100,000 people.
2013 - Prince Harry became the first member of Britain’s royal family to reach the South Pole. The 29-year-old royal proclaimed, “mission success,” as the Walking with the Wounded charity expedition reached its polar destination. The big moment came on the eve of the anniversary of Norwegian Roald Amundsen first planting his flag on December 14, 1911.
2014 - Congress sent a $1.1-trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2015 to President Obama. The measure, approved in the Senate by 56-40 vote after a vote Thursday by the House of Representatives, capped a week of acrimonious wrangling while averting a U.S. government shutdown.
2015 - Russia warned Turkey to stop staging what it called “provocations” against its forces in or near Syria. The tension started after a Russian warship had to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean to avoid a collision.
2015 - Two children were found dead in a storage locker in Redding, CA. The Salinas custodians (a man and woman) of the children were later charged with murder, child abuse, torture and conspiracy.
2016 - POTUS-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be U.S. secretary of state, calling the oil executive (with close to ties to Russia) “one of the most accomplished international dealmakers in the world.” Trump also picked former Texas Governor Rick Perry to head the U.S. Department of Energy.
2016 - St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. shareholders overwhelmingly approved a $57-billion merger with Bayer AG (German multinational, pharmaceutical and life sciences company). The deal that would combine two of the world’s biggest agricultural companies.
2017 -i The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a third time in 2017. Its short term rate was raised by a quarter point to between 1.25% and 1.5%.
2018 - The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland announced that Janet Jackson, Radiohead and The Cure earned spots in its Class of 2019. Stevie Nicks, already an inductee with her band Fleetwood Mac, was also honored as a solo artist. Def Leppard, Roxy Music and The Zombies rounded out the list of artists to bew enshrined in the hall.
2018 - The Virgin Galactic tourism spaceship Unity climbed to 51 miles above the Mohave Desert, reaching the boundary of space, in a test flight followed by a gliding descent.
2019 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Black Christmas, with Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes and Lily Donoghue; Jumanji: The Next Level, starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black and Kevin Hart; Richard Jewell, with Olivia Wilde, Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell; Code 8, with Stephen Amell, Robbie Amell and Kari Matchett; Hell on the Border, starring Zahn McClarnon, Ron Perlman and Frank Grillo; Mob Town, starring David Arquette, Danny A. Abeckaser and P.J. Byrne; Spiral Farm, with Piper De Palma, Amanda Plummer and Jade Fusco; and Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox and Kevin Garnett.
2019 - Impeachment charges against POTUS Donald Trump went to the full House of Representatives, following approval by the House Judiciary Committee. Trump was accused, in the first article, of abusing his presidential power by asking Ukraine to investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden while holding military aid as leverage, and, in the second article, of obstructing Congress by blocking the House’s efforts to probe his actions.
2019 - Millions of dollars worth of jewelry were stolen from the Kensington (London) neighborhood home of heiress Tamara Ecclestone. Cleaner Maria Mester (47), a Romanian national, and her son bar worker Emil-Bogdan Savastru (29) were later charged with conspiracy to commit burglary.
2020 - Indian workers smashed windows, broke office furniture, and set fires at a Wistron Corp. iPhone factory during protests over wages and working hours. Police said that they had detained 100 people. Apple began assembling iPhones in India in 2017, where it tops the premium smartphone market. However, it only has about a 1 percent share of the total smartphone market in the country, since the iPhone’s price tag puts it out of reach for many Indian consumers.
2020 - Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a nationwide lockdown over the Christmas holidays, closing most stores and schools in Germany and strictly limiting gatherings. Beginning December 16 (thru January 10), most stores, schools and hairdressers would be required to close, with gatherings over the holidays severely limited.
2020 - Pfizer began shipping its vaccine across the U.S. Some three million doses were distributed in this initial batch.
2021 - Victims of disgraced former Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar reached a $380 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and their insurers after a five-year legal battle.
2021 - The European Union imposed sanctions on a group of private Russian military contractors for fomenting violence and committing human rights abuses in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine. The Wagner Group had recruited, trained and sent private military operatives to conflict zones around the world to fuel violence, loot natural resources and intimidate civilians in violation of international law, including international human rights law.
2021 - Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security. The Russian move halted a years-long effort to make global warming more central to decision-making in the U.N.
2022 - Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced that they had produced the first fusion reaction that created more energy than was used to start it. “This milestone moves us one significant step closer to powering our society” with zero-carbon fusion energy, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said. The commercial use of fusion energy remained far off, but President Biden said the milestone demonstrated the need to invest in more research.
2022 - Prosecutors accused disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of fraud and of violating campaign finance laws. This, in what U.S. attorney Damian Williams in New York called one of the “biggest financial frauds in American history.” The collapsed cryptocurrency exchange’s current CEO, John Ray, told House lawmakers that FTX lost $8 billion of client money after placing “absolute concentration of control in the hands of a small group of grossly inexperienced, nonsophisticated individuals.”
2022 - President Biden signed a bipartisan bill protecting same-sex and interracial marriages. He celebrated the historic legislation in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. The Respect for Marriage Act enabled federal protections for same-sex couples, requiring all states to recognize marriages that were legal in the states where they took place. “The road for the moment has been long, but those who believe in equality and justice, you never gave up,” Biden said. “So many of you put your relationships on the line, your jobs on the line, your lives on the line to fight for the law I’m about to sign.”
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Birthdays on This Day December 13
1797 - Heinrich Heine
poet: The Lorelei, Atta Troll, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Germany A Winter’s Tale, Romacero; author: Travel Pictures, The Romantic School, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany; died Feb 17, 18561818 - Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady: wife of 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; died July 16, 18821835 - Phillips Brooks
lyricist: O Little Town of Bethlehem; died Jan 23, 18931897 - Drew Pearson
syndicated newspaper columnist: Merry-Go-Round; died Sep 1, 19691903 - Carlos Montoya
flamenco guitarist; died Mar 3, 19931910 - Van Heflin (Emmett Evan Heflin Jr.)
Academy Award-winning actor: Johnny Eager [1942]; died July 23, 19711913 - Archie Moore
Boxing Hall of Famer: Light Heavyweight Champ: only boxer to have fought both Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali; career: won 194, lost 26, drew 8, KOs 141 [world record], no contest 1; died Dec 9, 19981914 - Larry Parks
actor: The Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again; died Apr 13, 19751915 - Curt Jurgens (Curd Jürgens)
actor: The Spy Who Loved Me, And God Created Woman, The Longest Day, Enemy Below; died June 18, 19821917 - John Hart
actor: The Lone Ranger, Blood Voyage, Simon, King of the Witches, Hold On!, Marnie, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Diary of a High School Bride; died Sep 20, 20091917 - Ann Richards
actress: Sorry Wrong Number, Random Harvest, Three Hearts for Julia, Don’t Call Me Girlie; died Aug 24, 20061918 - Bill Vukovich (William Vucerivoch)
race car driver: Indianapolis 500 winner [1953, 1954]; killed in Indy crash May 30, 19551920 - George Shultz
Secretary of State under U.S. President Ronald Reagan [1982-1989]; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury [1972-1974]; U.S. Director of the Office of Management and Budget [1970-1972]; U.S Secretary of Labor [1969-1970]; died Feb 6, 20211923 - Larry (Lawrence Eugene) Doby
Baseball Hall of Famer: Cleveland Indians center fielder [World Series: 1948, 1954/all-star: 1949-1955]; AL home run [32] leader [1952, 1954], runs [104] scored [1952], RBIs [126 in 1954]; Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers; died Jun 18, 20031925 - Dick Van Dyke
Emmy Award-winning actor/comedian: The Dick Van Dyke Show, [1959-1960], [1963-1964], [1965-1966]; Diagnosis Murder1925 - Wayne Walker
songwriter: first big hit: I've Got a New Heartache [performed by Ray Price]; Are You Sincere, Leaving on Your Mind, Memory No. 1; died Jan 2, 19791926 - Carl (Daniel) ‘Oisk’ Erskine
baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956/all-star: 1954], LA Dodgers1929 - Christopher Plummer (Orme)
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Moneychangers [1976-1977], Madeline [1993-1994]; The Sound of Music; died Feb 6, 20211930 - Robert Prosky
actor: The Natural, Mrs. Doubtfire, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues; appeared in 220 plays, 38 movies, hundreds of TV shows; died Dec 8, 20081934 - Richard D. (Darryl) Zanuck
producer: Jaws, The Sting, The Verdict, Cocoon; died Jul 13, 20121941 - John Davidson
actor, singer; TV game show host: Hollywood Squares1942 - Fergie (Ferguson Arthur) Jenkins
Baseball Hall of Famer [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1967, 1971, 1972/Cy Young Award: 1971], Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox; 20-game winner 7 times; only major league pitcher to strike out more than 3,000 batters while walking fewer than 1,000; Canada’s first Hall-of-Famer1946 - Mike Mosley
auto racer: winner of 5 Indy Car races, competed in 15 Indianapolis 500s; killed in highway accident Mar 3, 19841947 - Lemar Parrish
football: Cincinnati Bengals [1970-1977], Washington Redskins [1978-1981], Buffalo Bills [1982]1948 - Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter
musician: guitarist: groups: Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes1948 - Ted Nugent
musician: guitar, singer: group: Amboy Dukes; solo: Cat Scratch Fever1949 - Randy Owen
musician: guitar, singer: group: Alabama: I Want to Be with You, I Wanna Come Over, My Home’s in Alabama, Tennessee River, Why Lady Why, Old Flame, Feels So Right, Love in the First Degree, Mountain Music, Close Enough to Perfect, The Closer You Get, Dixieland Delight, When We Make Love, Roll on Eighteen Wheeler, 40 Hour Week1949 - Robert Lindsay
Tony Award-winning actor: Me and My Girl [1987]; film: Ghengis Cohn, Strike It Rich, Bert Rigby You’re a Fool1949 - Tom Verlaine (Miller)
musician: guitar, singer: group: Television: Little Johnny Jewel, Venus, Torn Curtain1950 - Brad Dusek
football: Washington Redskins [1974-1981]1950 - Wendie Malick
actress: Frasier, Hot in Cleveland, Dream On, Just Shoot Me!1953 - Bob Gainey
Hockey Hall of Famer [left wing]: NHL: Montreal Canadiens: won five Stanley Cups, scored 239 goals, won Frank J. Selke and Conn Smythe Trophies; coach: Minnesota North Stars1954 - John Anderson
musician: guitar, singer: Money in the Bank, Seminole Wind, Straight Tequila Night, I Wish I Could Have Been There, I Fell in the Water, I’ve Got It Made1957 - Steve Buscemi
actor: Boardwalk Empire, Lonesome Dove, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, The Hudsucker Proxy, Pulp Fiction, Desperado, Escape from L.A., Con Air, The Wedding Singer, The Big Lebowski, Armageddon, Franky Goes to Hollywood, The Laramie Project1959 - Pat Torpey
musician: drums: group: Mr. Big: Addicted to That Rush, Big Love, Take a Walk, Strike Like Lightning, Green-Tinted Sixties Mind, Daddy, Brother, Lover1959 - Johnny Whitaker
actor: Family Affair, The Biscuit Eater, Mulligan’s Stew1960 - Richard Dent
football: Chicago Bears defensive end: Super Bowl XX; San Francisco 49ers1961 - Gary Zimmerman
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Univ of Oregon; NFL: Minnesota Vikings [1986-1992], Denver Broncos [1993-1997]; selected to the Pro Bowl 7 times, All-Pro selection 8 times1962 - Rex Ryan
football coach: NFL: New York Jets; twin brother of New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan1962 - Rob Ryan
football: NFL: defensive coordinator of the New Orleans Saints: NFL: New York Jets; son of former head coach Buddy Ryan; twin brother of New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan1967 - Jamie Foxx
Academy Award-winning actor: Ray [2005]; Django Unchained, Dreamgirls, Collateral, The Soloist, The Jamie Foxx Show, In Living Color, Booty Call, The Players Club, Any Given Sunday1967 - Nene Leakes
actress: The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Glee, The New Normal, Let’s Stay Together1967 - Mike Mordecai
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins1969 - Tony Curran
actor: The League of Extraordinary Men, This Life, Blade II, Underworld: Evolution1969 - Sergei Fedorov
hockey [center]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [1986–2013]: 1997, 1998, 2002 Stanley Cup Champs1970 - Bart Johnson
actor: High School Musical film series, The Harsh Life of Veronica Lambert, Murder.com, Daddy Day Camp1973 - Christie Clark
actress: Days of Our Lives, Winter Heat, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Changes, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge1974 - Sara Cox
British model, presenter, TV and radio personality: appeared on such shows as Fashion Snoopers, Make My Day, The Big Breakfast, Food Fight, Exclusive, The Girlie Show, Airport, MTV Hot
1975 - James Kyson Lee
actor: Heroes, How to Make Love to a Woman, Daybreak, Chasing the Hill, Hard Breakers, Why Am I Doing This?1981 - Amy Lee
songwriter, singer: group: Evanescence: Bring Me To Life; collaborations with: Korn, Seether, David Hodges; composed soundtrack to films: War Story [2014] and Indigo Grey: The Passage ]2015] with cellist Dave Eggar, and the song Speak to Me in the film Voice from the Stone [2017]1988 - Rickie Fowler
golf: #1 amateur golfer for 36 weeks [2007-2008]; PGA: 2012 Wells Fargo Championship; 2015 The Players Championship; 2015 Deutsche Bank Championship; 2017 The Honda Classic1988 - Alterraun Verner
football [cornerback]: Univ of California, Los Angeles; NFL: Tennessee Titans; more1989 - Taylor Swift
songwriter, singer: LPs: Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red, 1989; singles: Tim McGraw, Teardrops on My Guitar, Our Song, I’m Only Me When I’m With You, Picture To Burn, Shake It Off, Blank Space; see the Taylor Swift List of awards and nominations1995 - Emma Corrin
acress: The Crown, My Policeman, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, A Murder at the End of the World
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Hit Music on This Day December 13
1948Buttons and Bows (facts) - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
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