December 28
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1732 - The Pennsylvania Gazette, owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of Poor Richard’s Almanack. The ad promised “...Many pleasant and witty verses, jests and sayings ... new fashions, games for kisses ... men and melons ... breakfast in bed, &c.” Poor Richard’s Almanack was published from 1733 to 1757 by Richard Saunders, who was really Ben Franklin. An almanac is a calendar, but Franklin found room on his calendars to include short, witty sayings about daily situations. This unique idea was a popular success and Franklin became very rich.
1846 - Exactly one year and one day after the 28th state entered the Union, the United States of America grew one state larger by adding Iowa. The 29th state’s name is derived from an American Indian word meaning ‘the beautiful land’. It is widely thought that Iowa’s nickname, the Hawkeye State, is in honor of Black Hawk, the famous Indian chief who led the Sauk and Fox tribes against the Iowa area settlers in the Black Hawk War of 1832. Iowa City was the first capital of Iowa. 11 years later, Des Moines, the state’s largest city, became the permanent capital. The Iowa state bird is the eastern goldfinch, the state flower, the wild rose, and the state motto: “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.”
1869 - William Finley Semple of Mt. Vernon, Ohio patented “the combination of rubber with other articles adapted to the formation of an acceptable chewing gum.” Yikes! Sounds to us, here in the lab, that this guy was trying to make tires, not chewing gum!
1877 - John Stevens, of Neenah, WI, applied for a patent for his flour-rolling mill which boosted production by 70%. We can thank John for all of that flat flour we have today.
1902 - The first World Series of pro football was played -- at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York and Syracuse played in the indoor football game before 3,000 on this day. Syracuse, with Glen (Pop) Warner at guard, won 6-0 and went on to win the tournament.
1912 - The first municipally-owned street cars took to the streets of San Francisco, California. The first car was named, RICE-A-RONI. (We’re still checking that last fact.)
1941 - The Helen Hayes Theater, on CBS radio, was called the first casualty of World War II. Lipton Tea dropped sponsorship of the program as it prepared for shortages in tea imports from India.
1944 - The musical, On the Town, opened in New York City for a run of 462 performances. It was Leonard Bernstein’s first big Broadway success. The show’s hit song, New York, New York, continues to be successful.
1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance.
1948 - Premier Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt was assassinated by a member of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood because of his failure to achieve victory in the war against Israel.
1956 - After five years on television, the last Ding Dong School was seen on NBC-TV. Miss Frances (Dr. Frances Horwich) rang the bell for one last time this day.
1957 - At the Hop, by Danny and The Juniors, hit #1 on the music charts. It stayed at the top spot for seven weeks. The title of the tune was originally Do the Bop, but was changed at the suggestion of ‘America’s Oldest Living Teenager’ Dick Clark. Trivia: Danny and The Juniors filled in for a group that failed to appear on Clark’s American Bandstand show in Philadelphia. He called The Juniors to come into the studio immediately. They did and lip-synced At The Hop (written by Junior, Dave White and a friend, John Medora). It took off like a rocket to number one. (A few years later, Danny and The Juniors handed stardom to Chubby Checker when they failed to appear on Clark’s show.)
1958 - An exciting football game was played this day. The National Football League championship game saw quarterback Johnny Unitas lead the Baltimore Colts over the New York Giants, 23-17, in an extra sudden-death overtime.
1961 - Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana premiered at the Royale Theatre in New York City. The play ran for a not-so-impressive 316 performances.
1963 - American journalist and writer A.J. (Abbott Joseph) Liebling died. (“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”)
1964 - Principal filming of the movie classic, Doctor Zhivago, began on location near Madrid, Spain. When completed, the film was 197 minutes long and so spectacular that it received ten Oscar nominations, winning five of the Academy Awards, including Best Original Score. Remember Lara’s Theme?
1968 - The (double) album named The Beatles (called by most, The White Album) was #1 in the U.S. It was the Beatles’ first album on their own Apple label and was #1 for nine weeks. The tracks: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, I’m So Tired, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Don’t Pass Me By, Why Don’t We Do It in the Road, I Will, Julia, Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature’s Son, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution I, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9, and Good Night.
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published first volume of his Gulag Archipelago in Paris. It was an expose of the Soviet prison and labor camps. The publication led to his expulsion from the Soviet Union in February of 1974.
1974 - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan killed 5,200 people. Another 16,000 were injured.
1981 - WEA Records (Warner-Elektra-Atlantic) raised the price of its 45 rpm records from $1.68 to $1.98 this day. The company was the leader of the pack with other labels soon boosting their prices. Within a few years, the 45 rpm record was boosted right out of existence.
1983 - The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson drowned in Marina Del Ray, California while diving at the location where his boat Harmony was docked. Autopsy reports showed Wilson was legally drunk. He had been diving to bringing up personal items that he had previously thrown overboard. Some accounts say that Dennis brought up a wedding photo of him and ex-wife Karen Lamm from their first wedding, and then he dove again, but didn’t resurface.
1986 - Starting a comeback after being sidelined seven months for back surgery, Pat Cash (ranked 412th among world tennis competitors) won the Davis Cup (men’s international tennis team championship) for Australia by defeating Mikael Pernfors.
1988 - British investigators of the explosion that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 Dec 21 over Lockerbie, Scotland, concluded that a bomb caused the blast aboard the jumbo jet.
1989 - Alexander Dubcek was named chairman of Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly. Dubcek was the former Czechoslovak Communist leader deposed in the 1968 Soviet-led invasion.
1991 - Nine people died in a crush to get into a basketball game at City College in New York. The game was promoted by rapper Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs
1993 - Journalist William L. Shirer author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, died in Boston. He was 89 years old.
1997 - One woman was killed, and more than 100 other people hurt, when a United Airlines jumbo jet en route from Tokyo to Honolulu encountered severe turbulence over the Pacific.
1998 - “For rewriting the book on crime and punishment, for putting prices on values we didn’t want to rank, for fighting past all reason a battle whose casualties will be counted for years to come...” Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr were TIME’s 1998 Men of the Year.
1999 - TV star Clayton Moore, of Lone Ranger fame, died at age 85. Moore’s episodes of The Lone Ranger ran from 1949-1957.
1999 - Seattle canceled its public New Year’s Eve (Y2K) celebration because of terrorism fears.
2000 - President-elect George W. Bush selected former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to return to the Pentagon and push for a missile defense plan that was central to the Bush campaign. “This is a man who has great judgment,” Bush said. “He has strong vision and he's going to be a great secretary of defense -- again.” Rumsfeld served as defense secretary under President Ford from 1975 to 1977; before that, he was Ford’s chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to NATO under President Nixon and an Illinois congressman.
2000 - Montgomery Ward, originator of mail/telephone-order shopping that operated general merchandise stores in thirty states, announced that it was closing down after 128 years. In addition to its retail outlets, the company closed ten distribution centers.
2000 - The U.S. Census Bureau released its first numbers from the 2000 census. They showed that population in the U.S. had risen to 281,424,602, up 13.2 percent from 1990.
2001 - Charlotte Gray opened in U.S. theatres. The movies stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser, Ron Cook and James Fleet.
2001 - Buffalo, NY dug out from a five-day storm that left nearly 7 feet of snow.
2001 - A 45-car crash (plus six tractor-trailers) on snow-slickened I-80 near Williamsport, PA resulted in the deaths of six people.
2002 - Iraq delivered to U.N. officials a list of over 500 scientists who had worked on Iraqi nuclear, chemical, biological and missile programs. The list was in response to a key demand made by Security Council Resolution 1441, aimed at forcing Iraq to verify it had no weapons of mass destruction.
2004 - Actor Jerry Orbach died of prostate cancer at age 69. He had played the sardonic, seen-it-all cop on TV’s Law & Order and starred on Broadway as a song-and-dance man. Orbach appeared in some 60 movies during his 45-year career.
2004 - Writer, filmmaker and social critic Susan Sontag died (leukemia) at 71 years of age. Her seventeen books included Against Interpretation, and Other Essays.
2005 - M.C. Puri, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, was killed -- and three others were injured -- when a gunman opened fire at India’s premier educational institute, the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore.
2007 - Hundreds of thousands of mourners, weeping and chanting for justice, thronged the mausoleum of Pakistan’s most famous political dynasty in an outpouring of grief for Benazir Bhutto. The government blamed al-Qaida and the Taliban for the assassination of the opposition leader, who was buried alongside her father. Furious supporters rampaged through several cities in violence that left at least 23 dead. The government said that Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull fracture suffered when her head slammed against her car during a suicide attack.
2008 - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the higher than expected turnout in elections in disputed Kashmir a “vote for democracy,” as results showed no one party dominated the voting.
2008 - Eight snowmobilers in Canada were killed when they were hit by a pair of avalanches in southeast British Columbia. Three men survived.
2010 - Iran hanged Ali Akbar Siadat, an Iranian convicted of spying for Israel. Another Iranian was hanged for membership in an exile opposition movement.
2011 - Greek police jailed Abbot Efraim for his involvement in a land swap with the state that had blown up into a major political scandal. Efraim, the abbot of a 1,000-year-old Vatopedi Greek Orthodox monastery, was accused of arranging the land swap that was weighted in favor of the monastery, costing taxpayers some €100 million ($131 million).
2012 - Mexico City lawmakers approved prison terms for animal cruelty, previously considered a civil offense sanctioned with fines and detentions. The legislative assembly unanimously agreed that people who intentionally abuse and cause animals harm would face up to two years in prison and pay up to $500. If the animal is killed, they can face up to four years in prison and a $2,000 fine.
2013 - China formally allowed couples to have a second child -- if one parent was an only child. It was the first major easing of China’s restrictive birth policy in 30 years.
2014 - The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission. About 13,000 foreign troops, mostly Americans, remained in the country under a two-year mission named (they always have to be named something) "Resolute Support". The end of the combat mission came more than 13 years after an international alliance ousted the Taliban government for sheltering the planners of the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.
2014 - Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501, an Airbus 320-200, crashed into the Java Sea during bad weather, killing all 155 passengers and seven crew on board. The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee later released its report concluding that that the sequence of events leading to the crash started with a malfunction in the rudder travel limiter unit that eventually led to a 104-degree roll of the aircraft. The pilots’ response, and apparent miscommunication between them, was a significant link in the chain of events that led to the crash.
2015 - Motörhead frontman Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister died from “an extremely aggressive cancer,” the band announced on its Facebook page. He was 70 years old. Kilmister, who formed the band in 1975, “learnt of the disease on December 26th,” according to the statement.
2016 - Paterson opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy, drama stars Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Helen-Jean Arthur, Owen Asztalos amd Kacey Cockett.
2016 - Actress, singer Debbie Reynolds died at 84 years of age. Reynolds died in Beverly Hills of a stroke, grief-stricken over daughter Carrie Fisher’s death a day earlier.
2016 - POTUS Obama designated two new national monuments: The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, encompassing 300,000 acres, and Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada, protecting some 1.35 million acres. (In Dec 2017 POTUS Trump reduced the Bears Ears acreage after a uranium company launched a concerted lobbying campaign, saying it wanted easier access to the area’s uranium deposits and help with operating a nearby processing mill.)
2017 - A fire in the Bronx, NYC left 12 people dead and four more fighting for their lives. When a mother fled her burning first-floor apartment with two children, she left the apartment door open. FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the apartment’s stairway acted “like a chimney” as the fire burst from the apartment, allowing the flames to spread throughout the building.
2018 - Three men were found guilty in Britain of murdering five people in an explosion. The blast was part of a plot to claim over 300,000 pounds ($380,000) from an insurance policy. Arkan Ali, Hawkar Hassan and Aram Kurd were convicted in Leicester Crown Court for the arson attack.
2018 - Wells Fargo agreed to pay $575 million to resolve investigations by all 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC into unauthorized accounts opened in customers’ names. More than a quarter of the settlement was destined for the state of California. (In 2016, Wells Fargo paid $190 million to settle federal claims that the bank created phony customer accounts.)
2019 - Thousands of koalas were feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, Australia. New South Wales was home to some 28,000 koalas, but wildfires had significantly reduced their population in recent months.
2020 - Switzerland said it was returning some $200 million from blocked Swiss bank accounts to be given to victims of convicted Ponzi scheme con artist Robert Allen Stanford. The former Texas financier was convicted of fraud by a Houston jury in 2012 in a $7.2 billion scheme that lasted two decades.
2020 - A Chinese court sentenced citizen journalist Zhang Zhan (37) to four years in prison for her uncensored reports from Wuhan during the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak. She started a hunger strike in late June to protest her detention, and was subjected to force-feeding through a nasal tube.
2021 - John Madden died at his home in Pleasanton, CA. He was 85 years old. The Hall of Fame coach and sportscaster became one of America’s most recognizable ambassadors of professional football, reaching millions, and generations, from the broadcast booth and through the popular video game that bears his name.
2021 - Hijackers seized a UPS big rig, kidnapping its driver and stealing its load, during a brazen heist in Atlanta. The attack unfolded at about 3:30 a.m. when the UPS truck was stopped at a traffic light. A gunman jumped into the vehicle amd forced the driver to move the truck to a secluded area where he, along with others, tied the driver up and stole cargo.
2022 - The convicted ringleader behind the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to some 19 years in prison. A federal jury convicted Barry Croft Jr., 47, of conspiracy in August after it was found that he played a major role in the failed ploy to kidnap the governor and try to start a national rebellion. Federal attorneys had sought life in prison for Croft, presenting evidence that he was a direct danger to society. Croft’s sentence came just one day after co-conspirator Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years behind bars on similar charges.
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Birthdays on This Day December 28
1763 - John Molson
beer brewer: founded Molson Beer; died Jan 11, 18361856 - Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President [1913-1921]: asked Congress to declare war on Germany [Apr 2, 1917]; president of Princeton University [1902-1910]; Governor of New Jersey [1911-1913]; married to Ellen Axson [three daughters], Edith Galt; nickname: Schoolmaster in Politics; died Feb 3, 19241900 - Ted Lyons
Baseball Hall of Famer [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox [won 260 games]; died July 25, 19861905 - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines
musician: piano: classic duet with Louis Armstrong: Weather Bird; songwriter: Blues in Thirds, A Monday Date; bandleader; died Apr 23, 19831905 - Cliff Arquette (Charley Weaver)
actor: The RCA Victor Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show, The Jack Paar Show, The Jonathan Winters Show; TV panelist: Hollywood Squares; grandfather of actress Roseanne Arquette; died Sep 23, 19741908 - Lew Ayres
actor: All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda, Advice and Consent, Of Mice and Men, Battle for the Planet of the Apes; died Dec 30, 19961911 - Sam Levenson
humorist: Today I Am a Fountain Pen; died Aug 27, 19801913 - Lou Jacobi
actor: Irma La Douce, Arthur, Avalon, The Diary of Anne Frank, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex; died Oct 23, 20091913 - Charles Maxwell
actor: The Adventures of Superboy, The Search for Bridey Murphy, The Go-Getter, Finger Man, A Life at Stake; died Aug 7, 19931914 - Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples
musician: guitar, singer: group: Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There, Marching Up Jesus, Tell Heaven, I'm Coming Home; died Dec 19, 20001916 - Maris Wrixon
actress: As You Were, The Glass Alibi, White Pongo, The Old Homestead, Sunset in Wyoming, A Shot in the Dark, The Ape, Flight Angels, The Adventures of Jane Arden; died Oct 6, 19991920 - Steve Van Buren
Pro Football Hall of Famer [halfback]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [#1 draft pick; career: rushed for 5,860 yards, scored 464 points; died Aug 23, 20121921 - Johnny Otis (John Veliotes)
‘godfather of rhythm and blues’: composer, song writer, musician: drums, vibes: group: The Johnny Otis Show: Willie and the Hand Jive, Every Beat of My Heart, Roll [Dance] with Me Henry; died Jan 17, 20121922 - Stan Lee
artist, writer: creator of Marvel Comics; died Nov 12, 20181925 - Hildegard Knef
actress: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Three Penny Opera, Svengali, Bluebeard; died Feb 1, 20021929 - Terry Sawchuk
Hockey Hall of Famer [goalie]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, LA Kings, NY Rangers; career: he played in more games (971), seasons (20+) and had more shutouts (103) than any other goalie in NHL history; played in three different professional leagues (USHL, AHL, NHL); died May 31, 1970; more1931 - Martin Milner
actor: Route 66, Adam 12, Columbo, The Halls of Montezuma, Mr. Roberts, Valley of the Dolls; died Sep 6, 20151932 - Dorsey Burnette
singer: Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One; brother of singer Johnny Burnette; died Aug 19, 19791932 - Nichelle Nichols
actress: Star Trek TV and film series, Escape from Heaven, Lady Magdalene’s, Snow Dogs, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space; died Jul 30, 20221934 - Dame Maggie Smith
Tony Award-winning actress: Lettice & Lovage [1990]; Academy Awards: Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [1969], California Suite [1978]; British Academy Award: A Room with a View [1986]; Emmy Awards: My House in Umbria [2003], Downton Abbey [2011, 2012]; Sister Act, Harry Potter film series, Gosford Park, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel1935 - Bruce Yarnell
actor: The Road Hustlers, Irma la Douce, Outlaws; died Nov 30, 19731938 - Charles Neville
musician: saxophone, flute, percussion: group: The Neville Brothers: Mardis Gras Mambo, Cha Booky Doo, Zing Zing, Oooh-Whee Baby, Sitting in Limbo, Iko Iko, Brother John, The Ten Commandments of Love; died Apr 26, 20181946 - Hubert ‘Hubie’ Green
golf champion: U.S. Open [1977]; PGA [1985]1946 - Jorge Velásquez
jockey: Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner [1981 on Pleasant Colony]1946 - Edgar Winter
musician: keyboards, saxophone, singer: group: Edgar Winter’s White Trash: Hangin’ Around, Frankenstein, Free Ride, LP: They Only Come Out at Night1947 - Dick Diamonde (Dingeman Van Der Sluys)
musician: bass: group: The Easybeats: She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Who’ll Be the One, Hello How are You, Good Times1947 - Aurelio (Ituarte) Rodríguez
baseball: California Angels, Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees [World Series: 1981], SD Padres, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles; died Sep 23, 20001950 - Alex Chilton
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Big Star: LPs: No.1 Record, Radio City; The Box Tops: The Letter, Neon Rainbow, Cry like a Baby, Choo-Choo Train, I Met Her in Church, Sweet Cream Ladies Forward March, Soul Deep; died Mar 17, 20101954 - Denzel Washington
Academy Award-winning actor: Glory [1989]; Malcolm X, St. Elsewhere, The Pelican Brief, Crimson Tide, Courage Under Fire, The Hurricane, Remember the Titans1958 - Carlos Carson
football: Louisiana State Univ.1958 - Joe Diffie
singer: Home, You Want Me To, If the Devil Danced [In Empty Pockets], New Way [To Light Up an Old Flame], Is It Cold in Here, Ships That Don’t Come In; died Mar 27, 2020; more1959 - Phil Abrams
actor: Saving Sarah Cain, Murder 101, The Island, Everybody Loves Raymond, The X-Files, Roswell, Friends, The Practice, NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NYPD Blue, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Eli Stone, Grey’s Anatomy, iCarly, The Office1960 - Ray Bourque
Hockey Hall of Famer: Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche; career: won Norris Trophy five times, 410 goals, 1,169 assists, 1,579 points in 1,612 regular season games; Bourque added 180 points on 41 goals and 139 assists in 214 playoff games; more1960 - Terri Garber
actress: Adam and Eve, Thank You, Good Night, Slappy and the Stinkers, North and South, Beyond My Reach, Toy Soldiers, As the World Turns1960 - Marty Roe
musician: guitar, singer: group: Diamond Rio: Meet in the Middle, Mirror Mirror, Mama Don’t Forget to Pray for Me, Norma Jean Riley, Nowhere Bound, In a Week or Two1962 - Keith Lee
basketball: Memphis State1968 - Michael J. Burg
actor: Standard Time, The Audrey Hepburn Story, Sleepers, Quiz Show, The Guiding Light, As the World Turns1969 - James Trapp
football [safety]: Clemson Univ; NFL: LA/Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, Jacksonville Jaguars1970 - Elaine Hendrix
actress: The Parent Trap, Inspector Gadget 2, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Witness Insecurity, Deep in the Heart, Material Lies, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 21970 - Francesca Lé
actress [1992-2012]: X-rated films: Alice In Hollyweird, When MILFs Attack, Francesca Le Is Lewd and Depraved, Mistress Jaqueline’s Slavegirl Sluts, Cheating Housewives 61972 - Einar Diaz
baseball [catcher, third base]: Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, St. Louis Cardinals1972 - Patrick Rafter
tennis: 11 singles and 10 doubles championships, with back-to-back U.S. Open singles titles [1997, 1998]; first Australian since John Newcombe in 1974 to hold the world #1 ranking [1999]1972 - Adam Vinatieri
football [kicker]: South Dakota State Univ; NFL: New England Patriots [1996–2005]: 1997 Super Bowl XXXI, 2002 Super Bowl XXXVI champs, 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII champs, 2004 Super Bowl XXXIX champs; Indianapolis Colts [2006– ]: 2006 Super Bowl XLI champs1973 - Seth Meyers
actor, comedian: Late Night with Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, Key Party, Spring Breakdown, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Perception, Maestro1974 - Rob Niedermayer
hockey [center]: NHL: Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames, Anaheim Mighty Ducks; more1975 - B.J. Ryan
baseball [pitcher]: Southeastern Louisiana Univ; Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays1976 - Joe Manganiello
actor: True Blood, American Heiress, ER, One Tree Hill, How I Met Your Mother, Spider-Man film series, Magic Mike, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Sabotage, Draft Day, Tumbledown1978 - John Legend (John Roger Stephens)
songwriter, singer: LPs: Get Lifted, Once Again, Evolver, Wake Up!; singles: Ordinary People, Save Room, Stay With You, Everybody Knows, Another Again; session musician, songwriter: worked with Alicia Keys, Twista, Janet Jackson, Kanye West; more1979 - Noomi Rapace
actress: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Prometheus1981 - Sienna Miller
actress: Stardust, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Casanova, Alfie [2004], The Ride, South Kensington1982 - Beau Garrett
actress: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Tron: Legacy, Freelancers, Made of Honor, Entourage1984 - Martin Kaymer
golf pro: PGA Championship [2010]; 19 wins on European Tour and PGA Tour1987 - Thomas Dekker
actor: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010], Kaboom, The Secret Circle1989 - Mackenzie Rosman
actress: 7th Heaven, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Gideon, Proud American, Ligeia, Fading of the Cries, Nightcomer, Beneath1994 - Adam Peaty
Olympic, world swim champ: 2016, 2020 Summer Olympics gold medalist [first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title]; multiple world championships2002 - Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
actress: Never Have I Ever; voice role: Turning Red
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Hit Music on This Day December 28
1945It Might as Well Be Spring (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
White Christmas (facts) - Bing Crosby
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