December 22
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1891 - The first Black Josephite Catholic priest was ordained in the U.S.. He was Charles Uncles of Baltimore.1894 - The United States Golf Association was formed -- in New York City.
1920 - WEAF, in New York City, aired the first broadcast of a prize fight from ringside. The fight was broadcast from Madison Square Garden where Joe Lynch defeated Peter Herman to retain the bantamweight title. Bantamweights top the scales at 118 pounds. Just think, either of those boxers could have been mistaken for the microphone stand.
1937 - The Lincoln (named for the U.S. president of the same name) Tunnel in New York opened to traffic. Originally called the Midtown Hudson Tunnel, the tube between Weehawken, New Jersey and midtown Manhattan allowed only one lane of traffic in each direction. (A new northbound-only tube opened to traffic Feb 4, 1945 and a southbound tube opened May 25, 1957.)
1941 - Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra recorded Blues in the Night on Decca. The song became one of Lunceford’s biggest hits. Between 1934 and 1946 Jimmy Lunceford had more hits (22) than any other black jazz band (except Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway).
1943 - Due to wartime restrictions on crude rubber, sporting goods manufacturers were forced to use synthetic rubber for baseballs. The shells of the baseballs were made of balata, a substance obtained from a particular type of tropical tree, that was also used in golf balls. (Hitting decline significantly as a result.)
1944 - During the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans demanded the surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium. Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe reportedly replied, “Nuts!” (Some sources say that his actual language was stronger than that.)
1956 - Colo the gorilla was born at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo, tipping the scales at 3 1/4 pounds. It was the first gorilla to be born in captivity.
1958 - The Chipmunks were at the #1 position on the music charts. Alvin, Simon, and Theodore sang with David Seville. The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late), the novelty tune that topped the charts for a month, is still a Christmas favorite today.
1968 - Julie Nixon, daughter of the President-elect, married Dwight David Eisenhower, grandson of the former President.
1972 - Folk singer Joni Mitchell received a gold record for the album, For the Roses. The album included the song, You Turn Me on, I’m a Radio.
1975 - Mike and Gloria Stivic (Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers) had a baby on All In the Family on CBS-TV.
1981 - London was the scene of a rock ’n’ roll auction where buyers paid $2,000 for a letter of introduction from Buddy Holly to Decca Records. John and Cynthia Lennon’s marriage certificate was worth $850 and an autographed program from the world premiere of the Beatles film Help! brought $2,100.
1984 - CBS Records announced plans for the release of Mick Jagger’s first solo album, set for February, 1985. The Rolling Stone went solo after a 20-year career with the self-proclaimed “greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world.” The album: She’s the Boss.
1986 - Joe Paterno was named Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine. It marked only the second time a coach had won the honor. The first to do so was UCLA’s basketball legend, John Wooden. The magazine also chose this issue to change its own logo to a two-line design (which had absolutely nothing to do with Joe Paterno).
1989 - Playwright Samuel Beckett died in Paris at the age of 83.
1990 - Lech Walesa took the oath of office as Poland’s first popularly elected president.
1992 - A Libyan Boeing 727 collided with a MiG 23 near Tripoli. All 157 people on the jetliner were killed, while both pilots on board the fighter ejected safely.
1993 - Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, philanthropist Michael Jackson, fighting child molestation allegations, issued a video statement in which he said he was “totally innocent of any wrongdoing.”
1995 - These motion pictures opened in the U.S.: The funny Dracula: Dead and Loving It, starring funny folks Leslie Nielsen, Peter Macnicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony, Harvey Korman and Mel Brooks; the cute/entertaining Grumpier Old Men with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Kevin Pollak, Daryl Hannah, Burgess Meredith and Ann Guilbert; and the thriller Sudden Death, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Ross Malinger, Kate Mcneil, Dorian Harewood and Raymond J. Barry.
1996 - Kordell Stewart of the Pittsburgh Steelers ran 80 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter of an 18-14 loss to the Carolina Panthers. He set an NFL record for the longest scoring run by a quarterback.
1997 - Actress Hunter Tylo, whose pregnancy got her fired from TV’s steamy soap Melrose Place, was awarded $4.9 million by jurors who agreed she was wrongfully terminated.
1998 - The American Basketball League (ABL) suspended operations and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The league blamed its problems on a lack of both TV exposure and sponsor support.
1999 - Two astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery started three days of spacewalks to repair the crippled Hubble Space Telescope so it could focus correctly on stars, galaxies and other celestial objects.
1999 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: the pro-football flick Any Given Sunday, starring Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid and James Woods; and Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey as the late Andy Kaufman.
2000 - Flicks debuting in the U.S.: Cast Away, with Tom Hanks starring as a FedEx systems engineer stranded on a desert island with only a volleyball to talk to; Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, starring Christopher Plummer, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell and Gerard Butler as Dracula; The Family Man, with Nicolas Cage as a Wall Street bachelor who wakes up in a suburban New Jersey bedroom married ... with children; Miss Congeniality, starring Sandra Bullock as a bumbling FBI agent in her undercover job as a contestant in the Miss United States pagent; and the comedy State and Main, with Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti Lupone, William H. Macy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
2000 - Former Missouri governor and U.S. senator John Ashcroft was nominated to be U.S. Attorney General in Bush administration.
2001 - Passengers and flight attendants subdued Richard Colvin Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. He appeared to have explosive materials inserted into his shoes. The flight was diverted to Boston and the FBI confirmed that Reid’s shoes were packed with explosives. Reid, who became known around the world as the ‘the shoe bomber’, was sentenced to life in prison for the act.
2002 - 50-year-old Joe Strummer, lead singer of the legendary British punk band The Clash, died in Broomfield, England.
2003 - A 6.5 earthquake jolted the central California coast. Two people were killed in Paso Robles when the 1892 Mastagni Building and its 15-foor clock tower collapsed. Damages from the quake were put at $100 million.
2004 - It was opening day in the U.S. for Hotel Rwanda, starring Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte and Antonio David Lyons. Also debuting was Meet the Fockers, with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner.
2004 - Europe’s Court of First Instance ruled that Microsoft Corporation had to divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of the program that plays music and video.
2005 - India’s most advanced INSAT-4A telecommunications satellite was successfully launched by the European Ariane-5G launch vehicle of Arianespace, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.
2006 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Good Shepherd, starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, John Turturro, William Hurt, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Macht, Tammy Blanchard, Vladimir Mashkov and Joe Pesci; Night at the Museum, with Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Carla Gugino, Kim Raver, Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Rami Malek, Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan and Owen Wilson; and We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, David Strathairn, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara and Arlen Escarpeta.
2006 - Residents of Almazan, a small town in rural Spain, won the top prize of 390 million euros (£262m; $514m) in the first category (called, El Gordo,‘the fat one’) of the Spanish Christmas Lottery.
2007 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to discuss the political and military situation in the war-torn country. It was the first-ever trip to Afghanistan by a French president.
2008 - The Russian ruble continued its plunge as the Central Bank again eased its support of the currency, under pressure from plunging oil prices and other economic woes.
2008 - Toyota Motor Corp. projected its first-ever operating loss ($1.66 billion), acknowledging that its nine-year stretch of global vehicle-sales growth had stalled.
2009 - A U.S. federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Microsoft Word program by January 2010 and pay Canadian software company i4i $290 million for violating a patent. The court upheld the ruling of a lower court that Word’s handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files infringed upon Toronto-based i4i’s patented XML-handling algorithms. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Microsoft’s appeal June 9, 2011.
2009 - The Pan American Development Foundation reported that poverty had forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti’s cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought.
2010 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Country Strong, with Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester, Tim McGraw and Sean Symons; Little Fockers, starring Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Jessica Alba, Owen Wilson and Barbra Streisand; Somewhere, with Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Elle Fanning, Stephen Dorff and Laura Ramsey; True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper and Hailee Steinfeld.
2010 - President Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign promise and signed a landmark law repealing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the U.S. armed forces (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell).
2010 - Two firefighters were killed when a roof collapsed in a vacant burning building. The tragedy took place exactly 100 years after the Chicago Union Stock Yards fire that killed 21 firemen.
2011 - Italy’s Senate voted to give final approval to a $40-billion austerity and growth package designed to eliminate its budget deficit by 2013 and stimulate its economy. The move was part of a broader plan to help stabilize the euro.
2012 - During a jailhouse meeting, Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon. The Pope forgave Paolo Gabriele for stealing and leaking private Vatican papers. In what had become known as the Vatileaks scandal, Gabriele told investigators he had leaked the documents because he saw ‘evil and corruption everywhere in the Church’ and that information was being hidden from the pope.
2013 - Millions of Spaniards were glued to their TVs as some €2.5 billion ($3.4 billion) was distributed in the Spanish Christmas Lottery -- considered the biggest in the world. (A new tax kicked in in 2013 and winners, for the first time, had to pay a 20% tax on their winnings if their prize was greater than €2,500 ($3,425).)
2014 - A grand jury in Baltimore returned indictments against 22 people involved in a violent dog-fighting ring. Hundreds of dogs had been forced into brutal combat. The indictments came after authorities raided 18 locations in the Baltimore area and a compound in West Virginia.
2015 - An Egyptian military court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to 10 years in prison over deadly clashes following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. (In April 2014 Badie was sentenced to death, along with 682 others who were allegedly Muslim Brotherhood supporters. He was also sentenced to life in prison in September 2014, and was sentenced to death again in April 2015, along with thirteen other senior Muslim Brotherhood members. He received a sixth life sentence in August 2015.) And you thought you had problems...
2016 - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian air strikes in Syria had killed 35,000 rebel fighters since the start of operations there and that the attacks had prevented the collapse of the Syrian state.
2016 - Spain’s annual Christmas lottery showered some 56 million euros ($58 million) on residents of the struggling town of Pinos Puente in the southern region of Andalucia where nearly a third of the population is out of work. Many charities and associations buy the tickets from the state-run lottery and resell them with a small markup as a way to raise funds. Spain’s annual Christmas lottery, known as El Gordo or The fat One, is ranked as the world’s richest, handing out a total of €2.3 billion in 2016. Unlike other big lotteries that generate just a few big winners, the draw aims to share the wealth, and millions of numbers yield at least some kind of return.
2017 - New motion pictures in the U.S. included: Downsizing, starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau and Kristen Wiig; Father Figures, with Owen Wilson, J.K. Simmons, Christopher Walken, Glenn Close, Ving Rhames and Ed Helms; Pitch Perfect 3, with Hailee Steinfeld, Anna Kendrick and Ruby Rose; All the Money in the World, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, Charlie Plummer, Stacy Martin and Timothy Hutton; Bright, starring Will Smith, Joel Edgerton and Noomi Rapace; and Happy End, with Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz.
2017 - The Trump administration announced that energy companies and other businesses that accidentally kill migratory birds would no longer be criminally prosecuted. The ruling was cheered by industry and denounced by environmental groups.
2017 - California officials said the 65%-contained Thomas Fire, that had been burning through rugged, drought-parched coastal terrain since Dec. 4, had become the largest on record in the state. It surpassed the previous record of the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego County that scorched 273,246 acres and killed 15 people.
2018 - Holocaust survivor Simcha Rotem died in Israel at 94 years of age. Rotem was among the last known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis. Rotem fought Nazis in city streets and helped rebels flee through sewers. He served as the head courier of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), which planned and executed the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
2018 - The Vatican announced that Pope Francis had given to pilgrims and needy persons of Rome a Christmas gift of a new clinic in St. Peter’s Square where they can get free medical help.
2019 - Amazon filed a federal lawsuit contesting the U.S. Defense Department’s recent decision to award a Pentagon cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to rival bidder Microsoft. Amazon contended that politics got in the way of the fair bidding process. Jeff Bezos, the chief executive officer of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, was an outspoken critic of POTUS Donald Trump. (The Pentagon dropped the deal with Microsoft in 2021 -- in part because of the Amazon lawsuit.)
2020 - Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, to fill Kamala Harris’s Senate seat. (Harris had been elected Vice President.)
2020 - Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky was detained by Russian secret service agency FSB for waving a pair of blue boxer shorts in protest of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny by a Novichok nerve agent.
2021 - Movies set to debut in U.S. theatres included: The King’s Man with Djimon Hounsou, Ralph Fiennes and Shaun McKee; The Matrix Resurrections, starring Keanu Reeves, Christina Ricci and Jessica Henwick; the animated, Sing 2, featuring characters voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Reese Witherspoon, Nick Kroll and Scarlett Johansson; The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan and Daniel Ranieri; and P31, with Marina Lazaris, Guy Mayfield and Bri Smilez.
2021 - Auto safety regulators opened an investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles sold since 2017. This, over the automaker’s decision to allow games to be played on the front center touchscreen. Two days later Tesla issued a software update that locked the "Passenger Play" app while the car is in motion.
2021 - As part of a nationwide settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, Amazon.com agreed to let its warehouse employees more easily organize in the workplace.
2022 - U.S. life expectancy fell in 2021 as COVID-19 and drug overdoses killed hundreds of thousands of people, according to National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy fell to 76.4 years at birth, down from 77 years in 2020. Americans had the same life expectancy they had in 1996 and every U.S. age group was facing a rising death rate. “This one, it’s sort of across-the-board bad news ... especially given how much we’ve learned about medicine, how much we’ve spent,” said Eileen Crimmins, a professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.
2023 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Anyone But You, with Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell and Mia Artemis; Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, starring Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck and Patrick Wilson; The Iron Claw, with Grady Wilson, Valentine Newcomer and Holt McCallany; the animated action Migration, featuring characters voiced by Elizabeth Banks, Awkwafina, Danny DeVito, Carol Kane and Keegan-Michael Key; and Salaar: Cease Fire - Part 1, with Prabhas, Prithviraj Sukumaran and Shruti Haasan.
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Birthdays on This Day December 22
1696 - James Oglethorpe
colonist: founded city of Savannah, Georgia; colonized Georgia; died June 30, 17851858 - Giacomo Puccini
musician, Italian opera composer: La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly; died Nov 29, 19241862 - Connie (Cornelius Alexander) Mack (McGillicudy)
‘The Tall Tactician’: Baseball Hall of Fame catcher: Washington Statesmen, Buffalo Bisons, Pittsburgh Pirates; Baseball Hall of Fame manager: Pittsburgh Pirates [1894-1996], Philadelphia Athletics [1901-1950: retired at age 88]: record for managing most games [7,755], most wins [3,731] and most losses [3,948]; built two championship dynasties w/four pennants in five years (1910-1914) and three in a row: 1929-1931; died Feb 8, 19561869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson
Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1922], The Man Who Died Twice [1925], Tristram [1928]; Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy; died Apr 6, 19351885 - Deems Taylor
composer: operas: The King’s Henchman, Peter Ibbetson; writer; music critic: New York World [1921-25], New York American [1931-32]; intermission commentator for Sunday radio broadcasts of NY Philharmonic [1936 to 1943]; president of ASCAP; married to poet and playwright Mary Kennedy; died July 3, 19661901 - Andre Kostelanetz
music conductor: with Perry Como: Prisoner of Love; arranger: Broadway show tunes; died Jan 13, 19801907 - Dame Peggy (Edith Margaret Emily) Ashcroft
Academy Award-winning actress: Passage to India [1984]; The Heat of the Day, The Jewel in the Crown, Secret Ceremony, The Nun’s Story, The 39 Steps; British Olivier Award [lifetime achievement - 1991]; died Jun 14, 19911909 - Patricia Hayes
actress: Crime and Punishment, Master of the Moor, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Fool, A Fish Called Wanda, Willow; died Sep 19, 19981912 - Lady Bird (Claudia Alta) Johnson
First Lady: wife of 36th U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson; died Jul 11, 20071915 - Barbara Billingsley
actress: Leave It to Beaver, Back to the Beach, Eye of the Demon, Airplane; died Oct 16, 20101917 - Gene Rayburn (Rubessa)
comedian: The Steve Allen Show, Tonight; TV game-show host: Match Game, Make the Connection, Break the Bank; TV panelist: The Name’s the Same; died Nov 29, 19991918 - Frankie Darro (Johnson)
actor: Vanishing Legion, Westward the Women, Broadway Bill, Riding High, Black Gold, Irish Luck; died Dec 25, 19761922 - Ruth Roman
actress: The Killing Kind, Love has Many Faces, Since You Went Away, The Window, Knots Landing; died Sep 9, 19991927 - Peggie Castle (Blair)
actress: The White Orchid, The Finger Man; died Aug 11, 19731934 - David Pearson
race car driver: International Motorsports Hall of Famer: Daytona 500 winner [1976]; died Nov 12, 20181936 - Hector Elizondo
actor: Chicago Hope, Popi, Freebie and the Bean, Foley Square, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Casablanca, Perfect Alibi, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Frankie and Johnny, Pretty Woman, The Flamingo Kid, Young Doctors in Love, The Fan, Cuba, American Gigolo, The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, Pocket Money, Born to Win, B Positive1938 - Matty (Mateo Rojas) Alou
baseball: SF Giants [World Series: 1962], Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1968, 1969], SL Cardinals, Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1972], NY Yankees, SD Padres; died Nov 3, 20111940 - Ellie (Elrod Jerome) Hendricks
baseball: baseball: catcher: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969-1971], Chicago Cubs, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976]; died Dec 21, 20051944 - Steve (Norman) ‘Lefty’ Carlton
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1967, 1968/all-star: 1968, 1969, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979-1982/Cy Young Award: 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1983], Chicago White Sox, SF Giants, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins; won 329 games [second only to Warren Spahn among lefties]; his 4,136 strikeouts exceeded only by Nolan Ryan; shares N.L. record w/19 strikeouts in a game; six 20-win seasons; first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards1944 - Barry Jenkins
drummer: groups: Nashville Teens, Animals1945 - Diane Sawyer
TV journalist: 60 Minutes, Prime Time Live, 20/20, Good Morning America; anchor: ABC World News [2009-2014]1946 - Rick Nielsen
musician: guitar, singer: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Ain’t That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices1948 - Steve (Steven Patrick) Garvey
baseball: L.A. Dodgers: [World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978/all-star: 1974-1981/N.L. Baseball Writers’ Award: 1974]; SD Padres [World Series: 1984/all-star: 1984, 1985]1949 - Graham Beckel
actor: Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Atlas Shrugged, Six Feet Under, Brokeback Mountain, Las Vegas, Castle, CSI: NY, Killing Lincoln1949 - Maurice Gibb
musician: bass, songwriter, singer: group: Bee Gees: score for Saturday Night Fever, How Deep is Your Love, Stayin’ Alive; married to singer Lulu; died Jan 12, 20031949 - Robin Gibb
musician, songwriter, singer: group: Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart; see Maurice Gibb: twins; died May 20, 20121949 - Ray Guy
football: star punter for Southern Mississippi [1970-72], Oakland Raiders: Super Bowl XI, XV, XVII; died Nov 3, 20221950 - Bob Fitchner
hockey: NHL: Quebec Nordiques1951 - Jan Stephenson
golf champion: Du Maurier Classic [1981], LPGA [1982], U.S. Open [1983]; centerfold model1952 - Charles Phillips
football: Oakland Raiders safety: Super Bowl XI1953 - Ian Turnbull
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins1954 - Bern Nadette Stanis
actress: Good Times, In the Midnight Hours, 36 Hour Layover; author: Situations 101: Relationships, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly; For Men Only; Situations 101: Finances; The Last Night1956 - Erica Boyer (Amanda Gantt)
actress [1974-2000]: X-rated films: Beyond De Sade, Please, Mr. Postman, For Your Thighs Only, Hard to Swallow, Funky Brewster, Best Little Whorehouse in Beverly Hills, Bimbo Bowlers from Boston; died Dec 31, 20091957 - Ricky Ross
singer: group: Deacon Blue: LPs: Raintown, Riches, When the World Knows Your Name1960 - Luther ‘Luke Skyywalker’ Campbell
rapper: group: 2 Live Crew: Throw the ‘D’, Check It Out Y’All, Move Somethin’, H-B-C, C’Mon Babe, Boyz With da Bass, Splak Shop, We Like to Chill; promoter, nightclub owner; founder: Luke Records1962 - Ralph Fiennes
Tony Award-winning actor: Hamlet [1995]; Schindler’s List, The English Patient, The Avengers, The Prince of Egypt, The End of the Affair, The Miracle Maker, Double Down, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Parts 1, 2, Coriolanus1964 - Mike Jackson
baseball [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox1968 - Dina Meyer
actress: Poodle Springs, Johnny Mnemonic, Dragonheart, Starship Troopers, Deadly Little Secrets1970 - Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator from Texas [2013- ]: Tea Party champion; 2016 candidate for Republican POTUS nomination1972 - Vanessa Paradis
French model, singer: Joe le taxi, Walk on the Wild Side; actress: Noce Blanche, Girl on the Bridge, Le soldat Rose Heartbreaker, A Monster in Paris, Café de Flore1973 - Traci Dinwiddie
actress: Supernatural, Black Knight, The Notebook, Summer Catch, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, End of the Spear, Mr. Brooks, Elena Undone, Supernatural1973 - Stanley Pritchett
football [running back]: Univ of South Carolina; NFL: Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons1980 - Chris Carmack
actor: The OC, The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, Into the Blue 2: The Reef, Love Wrecked, Beauty & the Briefcase, Alpha and Omega1982 - Brooke Nevin
actress: My Suicide, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Too Cool for Christmas, Guilty Hearts, Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Running Wild1983 - Joe Dinicol
actor: Betas, The L.A. Complex, The Virgin Suicides, Train 48, Servitude, Bad Meat, Cubicle Warriors1984 - Greg Finley
actor: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Star Crossed, Hypothermia, The Flash1993 - Meghan Trainor
singer: All About That Bass, Lips Are Movin, Dear Future Husband, Like I’m Gonna Lose You; more2000 - Joshua Bassett
singer: Common Sense, Anyone Else, Lie Lie Lie, I Know, Only a Matter of Time; actor: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Better Nate Than Ever, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
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Hit Music on This Day December 22
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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