December 23
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1783 - George Washington returned to Mount Vernon, after the disbanding of his army following the Revolutionary War. His first words upon returning home, “Hey, Martha - what’s for dinner?” And, in a very deep voice, she replied, “BEEF!”1823 - “He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.” These words were published for the first time on this day in the Troy, NY Sentinel. The poem we know as “The Night Before Christmas” or A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore, was published anonymously under the newspaper editor’s title, Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas.
1834 - Joseph Aloysius Hansom patented his Patent Safety Cab on this day. The 2-wheeled, horse-driven cab (cabriolet) with the driver seated above and behind the passengers (he talked with the them through a trap door) became known as the hansom cab. Hansom was also a well-known architect. The Englishman designed the Birmingham Town Hall, Plymouth Cathedral and many other churches, convents, schools and mansions. And it is a good thing he had his architectural business to fall back on. He never made any money from those hansom cabs, even though you can still spot them on the streets of many cities around the world.
1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh arrived at House of Tolerance (brothel), asked for one Rachel, and handed her -- his ear, saying “Keep this and treasure it.” Then he disappeared. Informed of this action, which could only be that of a poor lunatic, the police went to the man’s address the next morning and found him lying in bed and giving almost no sign of life. The unfortunate artist was admitted to hospital as an emergency case.
1913 - The Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson. It established 12 Federal Reserve Banks.
1919 - The first ship designed to be used as an ambulance for the transport of sick and wounded patients was launched. The hospital ship was named USS Relief and had 515 beds.
1920 - The Government of Ireland Act became law on this day. Ireland was divided into two parts, each with its own parliament.
1930 - An unknown actress, like so many others, arrived in Hollywood, under contract to Universal Studios. She was Ruth Elizabeth Davis. Universal changed her name for the movies. Five years later, the actress won an Academy Award for her performance in Dangerous; followed by another Oscar in 1938 for Jezebel. We remember Bette Davis. Nice eyes!
1938 - Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was heard for the final time on the radio. The program was about life in a Kentucky shanty town. It had been on the air for three years. Maybe if they had changed the title a little...
1942 - Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. It was the first of his many famous Christmas shows for American armed forces around the world. The tradition continued for more than three decades.
1943 - The first complete opera to be televised was aired on WRGB in Schenectady, NY. (WRGB was named after GE engineer Dr. W.R.G. Baker. It was not named, as many have thought over the years, for red, blue and green, the three primary colors of a TV picture tube.) Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel was the opera presented. (And that’s not Engelbert, the singer. Hansel and Gretel’s creator was the original Engelbert Humperdinck.)
1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor (they shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work). The device was referred to as the electronic engineer’s dream. In its original form, the transistor wasn’t the tiny silicon component we know today. It took up a lot of space in the lab in New Jersey where it was invented. Today, thousands of transistors can be packed into an incredibly minute space, smaller than a pinhead; and used in electronic applications such as computers, radios, TVs and video games, to name just a few.
1950 - Pope Pius XII announced that St. Peter’s tomb had been located far below the high altar of St. Peter’s basilica in the Vatican.
1954 - The adventure film, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, was released. The movie was one of Walt Disney’s most successful. Kirk Douglas and James Mason starred.
1957 - Actor Dan Blocker made his debut on television in the Restless Gun production of The Child. Two years later, Blocker starred in the very popular Bonanza on NBC, as Hoss Cartwright.
1964 - Radio Caroline and Radio Atlanta (later known as Caroline South and North) were joined at sea by Radio London, which arrived off Frinton (northeast of London) this day. The new ship/station brought a team of ‘Americanised’ deejays, experienced in the art of selling themselves as much as the music. With catchy jingles and contagious slogans like ‘Wonderful Radio London’ and ‘Big L’, Radio London soon became king of the U.K. pirate-radio scene.
1968 - Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. & William A. Anders became the first men to orbit the Moon. The crew of Apollo 8 moved from the Earth’s realm of influence to the Moon’s in preparation for a lunar-orbit injection.
1968 - The crew of the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo walked across the Bridge of No Return (between North and South Korea), following their release by North Korea. The Captain of the Pueblo, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, and 82 of his crew had been held for 11 months after the ship was seized by North Korea because of suspected spying by the Americans.
1969 - B.J. Thomas received a gold record for the single, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head -- from the motion picture, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Raindrops hit number one on the pop charts on January 3, 1970 and stayed there for 4 weeks.
1969 - Elton John met with arranger Paul Buckmaster, writer Bernie Taupin and producer Gus Dudgeon. The collaboration marked the start of one of the most successful milestones of music in the 1970s. Together, they created Your Song, Friends, Levon, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man and many more.
1972 - The world record for consecutive sit-ups was set by Richard Knecht in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He did 25,222 -- on a hard surface without pinned feet. It took the eight-year-old 11 hours and 14 minutes.
1972 - Some 11,000 people died and 20,000 were injured when a series of earthquakes left the Nicaraguan capital of Managua in ruins.
1975 - The Metric Conversion Act was adopted by Congress to make the metric system America's basic system of measurement. This act, along with the Savings in Construction Act of 1996 directed U.S. federal agencies to convert to the metric system, to the extent feasible, including the use of metric in construction of federal facilities.
1982 - Chaminade defeated previously unbeaten Virginia at home in Honolulu. Chaminade was a school hardly anyone had ever heard of until that upset. Ralph Samson, later to be one of the ‘Twin Towers’ of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, was held to 12 points, as the school of only 850 students won, 77-72. Even Chaminade’s students were at a loss as to how they won. After all, they were never known for their sports. Chaminade alumni still talk about this one.
1982 - 62-year-old actor Jack Webb (Joe Friday on Dragnet) died of a heart attack.
1983 - Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann was named Offensive Player of the Year by the National Football League.
1986 - Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager became the first airplane pilots to make a non-stop trip around the world without refueling; 216 hours of continuous flying; breaking their own record of 111 hours set a year and a half earlier. The couple guided their Voyager on the record-setting, but harrowing and uncomfortable, flight to and from Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California.
1990 - Slovenians voted overwhelmingly in favor of their republic’s secession from Yugoslavia.
1991 - Longtime Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Chuck Noll retired after 23 seasons. Noll had four Super Bowl wins (1975, 1976, 1979, 1980) and an NFL record of 209-156-1.
1994 - U.S. Professional baseball owners imposed a salary cap fiercely opposed by players.
1995 - A fire killed some 540 people, including 170 children, in Dabwali, northwest of New Delhi, India. A tent caught fire during a year-end school party.
1996 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin returned to his office at the Kremlin after a six-month bout with a heart ailment.
1997 - A jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the Apr 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
1997 - Carlos the Jackal, aka Ilich Ramirez Sánchez, was convicted in France of the murder of two French agents and a Lebanese informant in June of 1975. Sanchez was sentenced to life in prison.
1999 - And, speaking of kids born in 1999: Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the father of a baby girl. Bellow’s fifth wife, Janis Freedman, 41, gave birth to Naomi Rose Bellow this day. So, what’s the big deal, you ask? Bellow was 84 years old at the time.
1999 - U.S. President Clinton pardoned Freddie Meeks, a black sailor court-martialed for mutiny during World War Two. Meeks and other sailors refused to load live ammunition following a deadly explosion (more than 300 lives lost) at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine near San Francisco.
2000 - Actor Billy Barty died in Glendale, CA at the age of 76.
2000 - Musical humorist Victor Borge died. He was 91 years old. Victor Borge’s 1953 Comedy in Music ran for 849 performances at the Golden Theater on Broadway.
2002 - U.S. Senate Republicans unanimously elected Bill Frist to succeed Trent Lott as their leader in upcoming Congress.
2003 - The George Bush (II) administration reversed a 2001 Bill Clinton policy and opened some 300,000 acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to possible logging or other development.
2003 - New York Governor George Pataki posthumously pardoned comedian Lenny Bruce for a 1964 obscenity conviction. The pardon was granted in response to a campaign mounted by Bruce’s daughter and former wife, and entertainers such as Robin Williams, the Smothers Brothers, and Penn and Teller.
2004 - Washington state election officials announced that Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire was the winner in the governor’s race by 130 votes over her Republican opponent Dino Rossi.
2005 - The Ringer debuted in U.S. movie houses. The comedy stars Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Zen Gesner, John Taylor and Jed Rees.
2005 - Astronomers announced that they had discovered new moons and rings around Uranus using the Hubble Space Telescope.
2006 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger broke his leg while skiing with his family in Sun Valley, Idaho.
2007 - As the music biz counted its blessings for the year, the reunited, new wave English band The Police had the highest-earning tour in North America in 2007. According to trade publication Pollstar, the group’s 54-date reunion trek across the U.S. and Canada earned some £66.5 million ($132 million).
2008 - Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it would pay as much as $640 million to settle 63 lawsuits over wage-and-hour violations. The announcement ended years of disputes.
2008 - U.S. President George Bush (II) granted pardons to 14 people and commuted the prison sentences of two others convicted of misdeeds ranging from drug offenses, tax evasion, and wildlife violations to bank embezzlement. One pardon, that of Isaac Robert Toussie, was reversed the next day after it was learned that Toussie's father had donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Republican Party a few months ago.
2009 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: The animated Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel, featuriang the voices of Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Anna Faris, Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler; and Police, Adjective (Politist, adj.), with Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi, George Remes, Dan Cogalniceanu, Serban Georgevici and Alexandru Sabadac.
2009 - An unusually high tide in Italy flooded most of Venice. The tide forced tourists and residents to wade through knee-high waters or take to improvised, elevated boardwalks.
2010 - China announced that it was sharply limiting new vehicle registrations to try to ease massive traffic jams that are rapidly turning Beijing’s streets into parking lots.
2010 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported the United States had grown 9.7% over the previous decade -- to 308.7 million. The new demographics shifted the balance of power somewhat in Congress with Republican-leaning U.S. states gaining a few House of Representative seats. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington all gained one seat, Florida gained two and Texas four. Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania all lost a seat, while Ohio and New York lost two.
2011 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: We Bought a Zoo, starring Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Elle Fanning, Carla Gallo, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, John Michael Higgins, Stephanie Szostak and Colin Ford; Don 2, with Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri and Boman Irani; and In the Land of Blood and Honey, starring Rade Serbedzija, Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Branko Djuric, Nikola Djuricko and Fedja Stukan.
2011 - The U.S. Justice Deptartment rejected South Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo identification before being allowed to vote.
2012 - New Delhi police used tear gas and water cannons for a second day to break up protests by thousands of people demonstrating against the gang rape and beating of a 23-year-old female student on a bus. Some protesters taking part in the demonstrations across India called for the death sentence to be imposed for rape.
2013 - An escaping bank robber killed one Tupelo, Mississippi police officer and injured another. Five days later, Phoenix, Arizona police shot and killed the robber, Mario Edward Garnett, following his attempted robbery of a bank in Phoenix. And apparently, bank robbery wasn’t Garnett’s only area of interest. He had been indicted in August 2010 for posting a threatening message on the White House website.
2014 - Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok and Rafael Hui, the city’s former deputy leader, were jailed for corruption. The trial of the pair had deepened resentment of the cozy ties between Hong Kong officials and big business.
2014 - The Ukrainian parliament renounced Ukraine’s ‘non-aligned’ status with the aim of eventually joining NATO. The stance angered Moscow which viewed the Western alliance’s eastward expansion as a threat to its own security.
2015 - The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Puerto Rico will spend $77 million to upgrade its water infrastructure in a settlement with the federal government. Storm water systems in San Juan were currently releasing, daily, an estimated 6 million gallons of untreated sewage into waterways in and around San Juan in violation of the Clean Water Act.
2016 - New in U.S. theatres: Why Him?, starring Zoey Deutch, James Franco and Bryan Cranston; and The Wasted Times, with You Ge, Ziyi Zhang and Tadanobu Asano.
2016 - The World Health Organization (WHO) said a prototype vaccine for Ebola may be “up to 100 percent effective” in protecting against the deadly virus. The new vaccine was developed in Canada by public health authorities before being taken over by pharmaceutical giant Merck.
2017 - Thousands of Israelis held a demonstration in Tel Aviv for the fourth week running calling for the resignation of the “corrupt” government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In one investigation, he is suspected of illegally receiving gifts from rich personalities including Australian billionaire James Packer and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan. In a second case, police suspect Netanyahu sought a secret pact for favourable coverage with the publisher of the top-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper. The alleged scheme, not believed to have been finalized, would have seen Netanyahu receive favourable coverage in return for helping curb Yediot’s competitor, the pro-Netanyahu freesheet Israel Hayom.
2018 - SpaceX launched the most powerful GPS satellite ever constructed. It was the 21st and final SpaceX launch of the year.
2018 - Three major banks stopped offering mortgages for homes in San Francisco at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The action was taken because of unresolved questions about the safety of the land. The 75-acre site is adjacent to America’s largest Superfund site, where hundreds of acres were contaminated with radioactive materials spread by the navy during the Cold War.
2019 - Boeing ousted Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg. This, as the world’s biggest plane maker sought to control the escalating crisis that had resulted in a halt in production of its best-selling 737 MAX jetliner -- following two fatal crashes.
2019 - India and Iran agreed to accelerate the development of the important Chabahar port in Iran. Chabahar was being jointly developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan. It is on the Indian Ocean about 100 km (62 miles) west of the Pakistan border.
2020 - Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said that the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, which it markets abroad, has been approved for use by Argentina’s regulators.
2020 - If you are wondering how much Uncle Sam paid for that Pfizer shot you got, on this day the U.S. government paid nearly $2 billion for 100 million additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The purchase price amounted to $19.50 per shot.
2021 - A Los Angeles police officer opened fire on Daniel Elena-Lopez, who was involved in an assault at a Burlington clothing store. One of the gunshots pierced a wall, killing Valentina Orellana-Peralta (14) in a dressing room of the store in North Hollywood. Elena-Lopez was also killed the police.
2021 - Prominent Egyptian human rights activist Sanaa Seif was released from prison. She had been behind bars since June 2020 - for spreading false news related to the Covid-19 pandemic and using a Facebook account to terrorize people.
2021 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included Babylon, starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Olivia Wilde; I Wanna Dance with Somebody, starring Stanley Tucci, Naomi Ackie and Ashton Sanders; and Empire of Light, with Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward and Colin Firth.
2022 - Supply chain snags had eased and shoppers were not as worried about availability, but they were worried about higher prices on everything from rent to food -- causing them to postpone their holiday buying until the last minute. And many retailers were “sitting on stock” of furniture and electronics, because people had adopted an “if it ain’t broke don’t replace it” approach.
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Birthdays on This Day December 23
1805 - Joseph Smith
Mormon leader, founding prophet, first elder/president of the church; murdered June 27, 18441812 - Samuel Smiles
writer: Thrift: “A place for everything and everything in its place.”; died Apr 16, 19041860 - Harriet Monroe
poet: founder of Poetry magazine; died Sep 26, 19361862 - Connie Mack
Baseball Hall of Famer [catcher, manager]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington [Statesmen, Nationals, Senators)], Buffalo Bisons; manager: Pirates, Milwaukee Western League and Philadephia A’s; holds records for wins [3,731], losses [3,948], and games managed [7,755]; died Feb 8, 19561903 - Fredi (Fredericka Carolyn) Washington
actress: Imitation of Life, Ouanga, One Mile From Heaven; died June 28, 19941907 - Don McNeill
radio host: The Breakfast Club [The Pepper Pot], ABC Radio, 34 years with Eddie Ballantine, Sam Cowling and Fran Allison; died May 7, 19961911 - James Gregory
actor: The Manchurian Candidate, Barney Miller, PT 109, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Captain Newman, M.D.; died Sep 16, 20021918 - José Greco
flamenco dancer, actor: Ship of Fools, The Proud and the Damned; died Dec 31, 20001921 - Gerald O’Loughlin
actor: The Rookies, Our House, Ensign Pulver, A Matter of Life and Death; died Jul 31, 20151924 - Dan Devine
football coach: Univ of Missouri, Notre Dame Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers; died May 9, 20021924 - Floyd Kalber
newscaster: NBC-TV News, WMAQ-TV, WMAQ-TV [Chicago]; died May 13, 20041925 - Harry Guardino
actor: Hell is for Heroes, Dirty Harry, The Enforcer, Fist of Honor; died July 17, 19951926 - Robert Bly
author: What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?, Iron John: A Book About Men; died Nov 21, 20211929 - Dick Weber
bowler: shares record for most wins [4] in US Open Bowling Tournament [1962-1963, 1965-1966]; founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association; died Feb 13, 20051933 - Akihito
Emperor of Japan; first son of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako1935 - Paul Hornung
‘The Golden Boy’: Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers’: NFL Individual Record for points [176] scored in season [1960]; Notre Dame: Heisman Trophy winner [1956]; died Nov 13, 20201935 - Johnny Kidd (Frederick Heath)
singer, songwriter: Please Don’t Touch; group: Johnny Kidd & The Pirates: You’ve Got What It Takes, Shakin’ All Over, Restless, Linda Lu, A Shot of Rhythm and Blues, I’ll Never Get Over You, Hungry for Love, Always and Ever; killed in car crash near Manchester, England Oct 7, 19661935 - ‘Little’ Esther Phillips (Esther Mae Jones)
pianist, singer: Release Me, What a Diff’rence a Day Makes; Grammy nomination: Best female R & B vocalist [1973], Aretha Franklin won but gave award to Esther; died Aug 7, 19841936 - Willie Wood
Pro Football Hall of Famer [safety]: Green Bay Packers: career: 48 interceptions for 699 yards and two touchdowns, 187 punt returns for 1,391 yards and two touchdowns, played in eight Pro Bowls; died Feb 3, 20201940 - Jorma Kaukonen
musician: guitar: groups: Jefferson Airplane: It’s No Secret, Runnin’ Round This World, Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Triad, Greasy Heart, Lather, Meadowlands, Wooden Ships, We Can Be Together; Hot Tuna: LPs: Thirty Seconds Over Winterland, Early Flight, Flight Log, Black Kangaroo1940 - Eugene Record
singer: group: Chi-Lites: Give It Away, [For God’s Sake] Give More Power to the People, Have You Seen Her, Oh Girl, Homely Girl, Too Good to Be Forgotten; died Jul 22, 2005; more1941 - Tim Hardin
singer, composer: If I Were a Carpenter, Reason to Believe, Hang on to a Dream, Misty Roses, Tippy-Toein’; died Dec 29, 19801942 - Jerry (Jerome Martin) Koosman
baseball [pitcher]: NY Mets [all-star: 1968, 1969/World Series: 1969, 1973], Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies1943 - Elizabeth Hartman
actress: Secret of NIMH, Full Moon High, Walking Tall, Patch of Blue; died June 10, 19871943 - Harry Shearer
actor: The Return of Spinal Tap, The Fisher King, Portrait of a White Marriage, This is Spinal Tap, The Right Stuff, One Trick Pony, Saturday Night Live, voice of Smithers & Otto the Bus Driver: The Simpsons1944 - Wesley Clark
4-star General of the U.S. Army; Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO [1997-2000]1945 - Ron Bushy
musician: drums; cofounder of Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Possession, Unconscious Power, Get Out of My Life Woman, My Mirage Soul Experience1946 - Susan Lucci
Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress: All My Children [1999]; Dallas, French Silk, Lady Mobster, Mafia Princess, Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, Invitation to Hell, Secret Passions; more1948 - Jack Ham
Pro Football Hall of Famer [linebacker]: Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV1949 - Adrian Belew
singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: King Crimson, The Bears; solo hit: Oh Daddy1951 - Johnny Contardo
singer: group: Sha-Na-Na, formerly Eddie and The Evergreens, Dirty Dozen1951 - John McDaniel
football: Washington Redskins1951 - Kevin Restani
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, San Antonio Spurs1956 - Dave Murray
musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, Running Free: LPs: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Power Slave, Live After Death, Somewhere in Time1958 - Joan Severance
model, actress: Wiseguy, Black Scorpion, Aftershock, The Lost Gold of Khan, Last Sunset, Cause of Death, Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story, Matter of Trust1963 - Jim Harbaugh
football: QB: Chicago Bears [1987–1993]; Indianapolis Colts [1994–1997]; Baltimore Ravens [1998]; San Diego Chargers [1999–2000]; Carolina Panthers [2001]; head coach: Univ of San Diego [2004–2006]; Stanford Univ [2007–2010]; San Francisco 49ers [2011–2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII; Univ of Michigan [2015– ]1964 - Eddie Vedder (Mueller)
songwriter, singer: group: Pearl Jam: LP: Ten; Vedder was highly ranked on Rolling Stone magazine’s Best Lead Singers of All Time list1968 - Lucy Bell
actress: The Wog Boy, Through My Eyes, My Husband My Killer, Sydney: A Story of a City, Oscar and Lucinda, Swinger, The Nostradamus Kid1968 - Rick White
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians1969 - Greg Biffle
NASCAR race car driver: first driver in history to win both the NASCAR Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series titles, 2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion; 2001 NASCAR Busch Series Rookie-of-the-Year, 2002 NASCAR Busch Series Champion1969 - Martha Byrne
actress: Mergers and Acquisitions, When the Cradle Falls, The Beniker Gang, He’s Fired, She’s Hired, Drop-Out Father1971 - Corey Haim
actor: Life 101, Dream a Little Dream series, Oh, What a Night, Fast Getaway, Dream Machine, The Lost Boys, Lucas, A Time to Live, Silver Bullet, Murphy’s Romance, First Born, Demolition University, Without Malice; died Mar 10, 20101975 - Vadim Sharifijanov
hockey [right wing]: New Jersey Devils, Vancouver Canucks1976 - Brett Clark
hockey [defense]: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Atlanta Thrashers, Colorado Avalanche1978 - Victor Martinez
baseball [catcher]: Cleveland Indians [2002–2009] Boston Red Sox [2009–2010] Detroit Tigers [2011, 2013-2018]1978 - Estella Warren
swimming champ, model, actress: I Accuse, Kangaroo Jack, Planet of the Apes, Perfume1979 - Scott Gomez
hockey [center]: NHL: New Jersey Devils [1999-2007: Stanley Cup champs 2000, 2003]; New York Rangers [2007-2009]; Montreal Canadiens [2009-2012]; San Jose Sharks [2012-2013]; Florida Panthers [2013-2015]; St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Blues, Ottawa Senators [2015-2016]1979 - Holly Madison
model, actress: The Girls Next Door, Holly’s World, Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, The Telling; TV dance show contestant: Dancing with the Stars [season 8, eliminated 3rd round]; author: Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention1980 - Lexi Love
actress [2005-2012]: X-rated films: 3 On Me POV, Slippery When Wet, Not Airplane XXX: Cockpit Cuties, Blowbang Competition 1, Farmer’s Filthy Li’l Daughter 21980 - Cody Ross
baseball [outfielder]: Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Florida Marlins, San Francisco Giants: World Series [2010], Boston Red Sox1983 - Jamie Silverstein
ice dancer [w/Justin Pekarek]: 1999 World Junior champion and U.S. silver medalist; [w/Ryan O’Meara] 2006 U.S. bronze medalist1986 - T.J. (Timothy Leif) Oshie
hockey [right winger]: NHL: St. Louis Blues [2008-2015]; Washington Capitals [2015- ]: 2018 Stanley Cup champs1988 - Mallory Hagan
model, Miss Brooklyn [2010]; Miss Manhattan [2011]; Miss New York City, Miss New York [2012]; Miss America [2013]1990 - Anna Maria Perez de Tagle actress: Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, Cake, Fame; Broadway: Godspell revival
2002 - Finn Wolfhard
actor: Stranger Things, It, It: Chapter Two, The Addams Family, Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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Hit Music on This Day December 23
1949I Can Dream, Can’t I? (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Jack Leonard)
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (facts) - Gene Autry
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