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1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.1793 - Ralph Hodgson of Lansingburg, NY patented one of the world’s greatest inventions: oiled silk.
1862 - The Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in Atlantic Monthly. The lyric was the work of Julia Ward Howe. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is still being sung and to the tune of a song titled, John Brown’s Body. Or is it the other way around? Is John Brown’s Body sung to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic? Put this one on the list of things we’ll have to get back to you on...
1893 - A bloodless coup succeeded in Hawaii. Queen Liliuokalani was deposed by wealthy merchants who wanted Hawaii to join the United States. Hawaii had seen an influx of Portuguese sailors; had also been under the control of the British Empire; then allied itself with the U.S.
1904 - Enrico Caruso recorded his first sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company. He did ten songs in the session ... for $4,000.
1911 - The first old-age home for pioneers opened in Prescott, Arizona. Situated atop a granite promontory overlooking the City of Prescott, the Arizona Pioneers’ Home began as the brainchild of three prominent Prescott citizens, A.J. Doran, Frank M. Murphy and Johnny Duke. Their goal was to repay the faithful and longtime Arizona residents who helped pioneer and build the state.
1929 - Weightlifter Charles Rigoulot of France, achieved the first 400 pound ‘clean and jerk’ as he lifted 402-1/2 pounds. His first words after accomplishing the feat? “My back. I think I hurt my back.” (We’re fairly certain that’s what he said.)
1939 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded And the Angels Sing, on Victor Records. The vocalist on that number, who went on to find considerable fame at Capitol Records, was Martha Tilton.
1940 - Frank Sinatra sang Too Romantic and The Sky Fell Down in his first recording session with the Tommy Dorsey Band. The session was in Chicago, IL. Frankie replaced Jack Leonard as lead singer with the band.
1941 - Downbeat magazine reported this day that Glenn Miller had inked a new three-year contract with RCA Victor Records. The pact guaranteed Miller $750 a side, the fattest record contract signed to that time.
1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
1949 - Louis B. Mayer, the Mayer in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), became a millionaire once more. This deal had nothing to do with the movies, though. He sold his breeding farm of race horses for a million dollars.
1949 - RCA Victor countered Columbia Records’ 33-1/3 long play phonograph disk with not only a smaller, 7-inch record (with a big hole in the center), but an entire phonograph playing system as well. The newfangled product, the 45-rpm, which started a revolution (especially with the new rock and roll music), soon made the 78-rpm record a blast from the past.
1953 - CBS-TV debuted Private Secretary. Ann Sothern played Susie McNamera, private secretary to NY talent agent, Peter Sands (played by Don Porter). Susie, you will remember, kept trying to improve Peter’s professional -- and personal -- life, screwing it up seriously in the process. Private Secretary ran during the regular TV seasons on CBS (last show was September 10, 1957) and ran on NBC-TV in the summers of 1953 and 1954.
1954 - A television classic was born on CBS-TV, as The Secret Storm was shown for the first day of what would become a 20-year run on the network.
1959 - Texas Instruments filed for a patent on the ‘solid circuit’. Their first integrated circuit (IC), as it later became known, was the size of a pencil point, and was shown off for the first time in March 1959.
1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in at an all-white lunch counter. They had been refused service at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC. This was the first of many such protests throughout the U.S.
1964 - The headline in Billboard magazine read, “Indiana Gov. Puts Down ‘Pornographic’ Wand Tune.” Governor Matthew Welsh had declared Louie, Louie, by The Kingsmen (on Wand Records), to be pornographic.
1968 - Elvis Presley celebrated the birth of his daughter, Lisa Marie. Lisa Marie married and divorced the ‘Gloved One’, Michael Jackson, in the ’90s.
1971 - The soundtrack album from the movie, Love Story, starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw, with music by Frances Lai, was certified as a gold record on this day.
1971 - Evonne Goolagong scored her first major singles victory as she defeated Margaret Court in the finals of the Victorian Open, played in Melbourne, Australia.
1972 - The first scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35 was introduced -- for $395.
1976 - The Rich Man, Poor Man mini-series premiered on ABC TV.
1979 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, whose prison sentence for bank robbery had been commuted by President Jimmy Carter, left a federal prison near San Francisco.
1982 - Late Night with David Letterman premiered on NBC TV. Late Night followed The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
1986 - Denny Crum, suffering from the flu, used the telephone to coach his Louisville basketball team. The Louisville Cardinals won 92-71 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, KY. Achoo!
1987 - Terry Williams of Los Gatos, CA won the largest slot machine payoff to that time. He put $4.9 million in his pockets after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, NV. It is not known if his pants fell down from carrying all that money or not, but we believe so. It’s happened to us with just $9 worth of nickels.
1991 - 35 people were killed when a US-Air jetliner landed atop a commuter turboprop plane on the same runway at Los Angeles International Airport.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush (I) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement of general principles that concluded decades of East-West rivalry and encouraged a future relationship of cooperation. The signing in Washington DC marked the official end of the ‘Cold War’.
1995 - The Federal Reserve boosted interest rates by 0.5 percent -- from 4-3/4 percent to 5-1/4 percent. It was the seventh U.S. rate hike in a year.
1996 - Both houses of the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a rewrite of the 1934 Communications Act. Some highlights: allowed local and long-distance telephone companies, as well as cable TV providers, to offer a mixture of goods and services; Deregulate cable TV rates; allowed consumers access to a greater variety of cable, telephone and other communications services. And, in one of the most controversial changes, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 revised the National Multiple Radio Ownership Rule and Local Radio Ownership Rule, allowing most of the stations in the U.S. to be snatched up by a few corporations.
1997 - Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Herb Caen died in San Francisco at 80 years of age.
1999 - The Morse code SOS was officially retired and replaced by the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.
2000 - U.S. Senator John McCain defeated Texas Governor George W. Bush to win the Republican New Hampshire primary election; Vice President Al Gore edged Bill Bradley to win the Democratic primary.
2000 - The Millennium Wheel in London, the world’s largest Ferris wheel, began operating after a month-long delay.
2001 - Tony and Linda Calliea claimed their Michigan Big Game lottery win for $107 million. They selected the lump sum option. Their $57.7 million was a very nice lump.
2002 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Birthday Girl, starring Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent Cassel; and Slackers, starring Devon Sawa, Jason Schwartzman, James King, Jason Segel, Michael C. Maronna, Laura Prepon and Mamie Van Doren.
2003 - The U.S. space shuttle Columbia plummeted to Earth in flames, crashing in central Texas, and taking the lives of all seven astronauts on board. NASA said the first hints of trouble came when heat and hydraulic sensors stopped working on the shuttle’s left wing. Within a few minutes, contact with the ship was lost. During the shuttle’s launch, cameras had recorded a chunk of foam breaking off from the fuel tank and striking Columbia’s left wing. An independent panel later determined that the foam fatally damaged the wing, allowing super-hot gasses to enter the shuttle causing it to break apart during reentry in Earth’s atomosphere. The astronauts killed in the crash were: Commander Rick Husband, Pilot William ‘Willie’ McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialist David Brown, Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist Laurel Clark, and Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon.
2004 - Super Bowl XXXVIII (at Reliant Stadium, Houston): New England Patriots 32, Carolina Panthers 29. It was one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever with a thrilling back-and-forth final quarter. How thrilling? New England QB Tom Brady (MVP for the second time in three seasons) set up Patriot kicker Adam Vinatieri’s 41-yard winning field goal with four seconds left. Most of the first half liveed up to predictions that two defensive teams would make for a dull game. They were scoreless for nearly 27 minutes, the slowest start in Super Bowl history, and Vinatieri missed one field goal and another was blocked. But the pace changed in the final three minutes of the first half and again in the fourth quarter, when the teams combined for 37 points, the most in any quarter in any Super Bowl. Brady completed 32 of 48 passes for 354 yards and three touchdowns. The 32 completions were a Super Bowl record. “I don't know about our legacy,” said Charlie Weis, the New England’s offensive coordinator. “But two titles in three years in the environment of the NFL these days is quite an achievement.” Tickets: No longer available to the general public; distributed through NFL teams only. And, from our Super Bowl Did You Know? Dept: The NFL pays for up to 150 Super Bowl rings at $5,000 per ring (plus adjustments for increases in gold and diamonds). The league also pays for 150 pieces of jewelry for the losing team, which may not cost more than one-half the price set for the Super Bowl ring.
2004 - What game? Singer Janet Jackson’s right breast was exposed during the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXVIII. Even though an estimated 140 million people were watching the show on CBS-TV, the move happened so fast that most viewers didn’t even see it. But, not to worry, cable news networks showed pop star Justin Timberlake ripping off part of Jackson’s corset, exposing her breast, enough times that everyone got to see it -- many times. Jackson apologized the following day saying, “The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals. MTV (halftime show producer) was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.” As a result of the outrage stemming from the incident, U.S. broadcasters began using a recorded delay when telecasting live events.
2005 - A jury awarded $15.6 million to Russell Christoff, kindergarten teacher in Antioch, CA. Christoff’s image had been used for years without his permission on Taster’s Choice coffee labels.
2006 - Controversy surrounding the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons escalated as newspapers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain republished the cartoons in defiance of widespread Muslim protests.
2007 - Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti died in Monaco at 95 years of age. Menotti’s operas include The Medium (1946) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951). And he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955).
2007 - Exxon Mobil announced that it had topped its own record for the biggest annual profit by a U.S. company. The oil giant racked up 2006 earnings of $39.5 billion -- some $4.5 million per hour.
2008 - New films in the U.S.: The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola, Parker Posey, Francois Chau and Tamlyn Tomita; Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour; Over Her Dead Body, with Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane and Stephen Root; and Strange Wilderness, starring Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Ashley Scott, Peter Dante, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick, Joe Don Baker, Justin Long, Jeff Garlin and Ernest Borgnine.
2008 - Scientists in Japan and New Zealand said they have created a tear-free onion using biotechnology to switch off the gene behind the enzyme that makes us cry.
2008 - To the sound of blasting samba, men dressed as nuns swilled beer and danced down the streets -- just a part of the kick-off of five days of uninhibited carnival madness in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
2009 - A 5-day World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland ended with the realization that the depth of the global financial crises was unknown and that solutions remained elusive. As a result, the forum focused on nothing less than ‘shaping the post-crisis world.’
2009 - Super Bowl XLIII (at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL): The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23. The Steelers became the first team to win six Super Bowls. MVP Santonio Holmes Holmes made a brilliant 6-yard catch deep in the right corner of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining to give the Steelers their victory. 15-4 in the regular season, the Steelers won their second Super Bowl in four seasons. They led 20-7 in the fourth quarter, only to see Kurt Warner and the Cardinals (9-7) stage a rally to go in front 23-20 (on a 64-yard pass play to All-Pro receiver Larry Fitzgerald) with 2:37 remaining. Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger became a two-time Super Bowl winner a month shy of his 27th birthday. Warner lost for the second time in three career Super Bowl appearances, the first two of which came with the St. Louis Rams. Half-time entertainment was by Bruce Springsteen.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama recorded his first YouTube interview and spent about 40 minutes answering a dozen -- of over 11,000 -- questions submitted by YouTube users.
2010 - NASA’s back-to-the-moon program, Constellation, fell victim to U.S. government budget cuts as President Barack Obama announced the moon trip had been cancelled.
2011 - According to the Keystone XL Assessment, a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, a proposed pipeline from Canada’s oil sands to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico would ‘essentially eliminate’ U.S. oil imports from the Middle East in a decade or two.
2012 - A University of Alabama study said the state’s super-tough
crackdown on illegal immigrants had cost the state $10.8 billion. Among other measures, the Alabama law required police to detain people they suspected of being in the U.S. illegally if they could not produce proper documentation when stopped -- for any reason. The cost-benefit analysis by the university estimated that up to 80,000 jobs had been vacated by undocumented immigrants fleeing the crackdown, costing Alabama’s economy that $10.8 billion. 2013 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Bullet to the Head, with Sylvester Stallone, Christian Slater, Jason Momoa, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Weronika Rosati and Dominique DuVernay; Stand Up Guys, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Mark Margolis, Lucy Punch, Addison Timlin, Vanessa Ferlito and Katheryn Winnick; Warm Bodies, with Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, John Malkovich, Rob Corddry, Cory Hardrict, Diana Laura and Debbie Wong; Girls Against Boys with Nicole LaLiberte, Liam Aiken, Michael Stahl-David and Andrew Howard; The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, starring Chad Michael Murray, Katee Sackhoff, Abigail Spencer, Cicely Tyson, Andrea Frankle and Emily Alyn Lind; and the documentary Koch.
2013 - Chinese car maker Geely said it had bought Manganese Bronze, maker of London’s black taxis since 1948, for 11 million pounds. The deal, which meant production of the vehicles would stay in Britain, was agreed to by PricewaterhouseCoopers, administrators of the British business since October 2012.
2014 - Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano erupted, killing 16 people. The big blowup came just a day after authorities had allowed thousands of villagers who had been evacuated to return to the slopes of Mount Sinabung.
2014 - Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell died at in Innsbruck, Austria ar 84 years of age. Schell, whose family fled Vienna in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in Judgment at Nuremberg.
2015 - Super Bowl XLIX (49): New England Patriots 28-24 over the Seattle Seahawks at Univ of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona -- the second Super Bowl played in that stadium (XLII) and the third held in the Phoenix metro area (XXX at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe). Patriots QB Tom Brady (completed a Super Bowl record 37 of 50 passes for 328 yards and four touchdowns, with two interceptions) was named Super Bowl MVP. “You know, whatever it takes,” Brady said after throwing for four touchdowns, including a 3-yarder to Julian Edelman with 2:02 remaining as New England rallied from a 10-point deficit. “Every team has a journey and a lot of people lost faith in us ... but we held strong, we held together, and it's a great feeling.” The Patriots (ending a decade drought without an NFL title) were 4-4 in Super Bowl wins-losses, while the Seahawks were 1 for 3.
2016 - Republicans in Iowa backed the ultraconservative Ted Cruz for their party’s nomination. Donald “I Have the Best Words” Trump came in second, just ahead of Senator Marco Rubio. Democrat Hillary Clinton battled to a virtual tie with rival Bernie Sanders. As protesters in Iowa interrupted a Donald Trump rally, he encouraged supporters to “knock the crap out of them” -- and pledged to pay any legal fees incurred.
2016 - 26-year-old British mom Tareena Shakil, who took her toddler to Syria and joined the Islamic State (IS) group, was sentenced to six years in prison. Shakil was the first British woman to return from the self-declared caliphate to be convicted of the offense.
2017 - Acting U.S. Secretary of the Army, Robert Speer, ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to issue the final permit needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. Senator John Hoeven and Representative Kevin Cramer, both Republicans, said the permit would give the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners, an easement to run the pipeline under Lake Oahe on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Hoeven said the pipeline would be “built with the necessary safety features to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others downstream.” Protesters said the pipeline threatens the local water supply and Indian sacred sites.
2018 - Australian secret service officers seized hundreds of classified documents from Australian Broadcasting Corp. bureaus in three cities. The action was part of a probe into top-secret government documents mistakenly being sold along with discarded filing cabinets through a secondhand furniture shop.
2018 - Ithaca College researchers reported finding tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than had been previously thought. Extensive defensive fences, ditch-and-rampart systems and irrigation canals suggested a highly organized workforce. “There’s state involvement here, because we see large canals being dug that are re-directing natural water flows,” said Thomas Garrison, assistant professor of anthropology at Ithaca College in New York. The Mayan culture flourished between roughly 1,000 BC and 900 AD.
2019 - New movies in the U.S. included: Miss Bala, with Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Mackie and Ismael Cruz Cordova; An Affair to Die For, starring Claire Forlani, Jake Abel and Titus Welliver; Arctic, with Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smáradóttir; The Least of These: The Graham Staines Story, starring Sharman Joshi, Stephen Baldwin and Shari Rigby; Piercing, with Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska and Laia Costa; Then Came You, with Nina Dobrev, Asa Butterfield and Maisie Williams; and The Unicorn, starring Lauren Lapkus, Nicholas Rutherford and Lucy Hale.
2019 - The Trump administration announced that it was pulling the U.S. out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, accusing Moscow of violating the Cold War-era pact with “impunity” by continuing to develop banned missiles. POTUS Donald Trump repeated a years-long U.S. accusation that Russia had secretly developed and deployed “a prohibited missile system that poses a direct threat to our allies and troops abroad.” He said the U.S. had adhered to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty since it was signed in 1987, but Russia had not.
2019 - Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam acknowledged that he was photographed in 1984 in a blackface costume. Northam apologized for appearing in the decades-old photo and issued a statement saying, “...A website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive. I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now. This behavior is not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, in medicine, and in public service...”
2020 - United, Delta and American Airlines announced they were suspending services to and from China, increasing the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on both travel and business.
2020 - Australia banned all arrivals from China due to COVID-19.
2020 - Japan moved to contain the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak as strict new measures, including targeting foreign visitors, came into effect. Japan had 17 confirmed cases as of Jan. 31, including some without symptoms.
2020 - Russia began evacuating Russian citizens from China due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Russian Defense Ministry used five airplanes to evacuate its people from China, the state-run RIA state news agency reported.
2020 - China’s death toll from COVID-19 rose to 259 and the number of confirmed cases in China rose to 11,791. A World Health Organization official said other governments need to prepare for “domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads in their countries. At least 24 countries had reported cases since China informed the WHO about the new virus in late December.
2021 - Patricia Ashton Derges, a newly elected Missouri state representative, was charged by a federal grand jury in a 20-count indictment. She was accused of fraudulently administered treatments at the Ozark Valley Medical Clinic, including treatments for Covid-19, that falsely claimed to have stem cells. Missouri House Speaker Rob Vescovo removed Derges from all her committee assignments.
2021 - President Biden met with Senate Republicans to discuss his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, and their $618 billion counterproposal. “It was a very good exchange of views,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who led the group. “I wouldn’t say we came together on a package tonight ... But what we did agree to do is follow up and talk further.”
2022 - Ethiopian Airlines resumed flights using the Boeing 737-Max nearly three years after a crash of one of the aircraft near the country’s capital killed 157 people.
2022 - The U.S. gross national debt topped $30 trillion for the first time. The fiscal milestone underscored the country’s long-term economic health as it grappled with soaring prices.
2022 - Leaders of Britain, Poland and Ukraine met in Kyiv to strengthen their three-way cooperation in the face of the coming Russian military invasion.
2023 - Tom Brady announced his ‘re-retirement’ after a 23-year career. (On Feb 1, 2022, Brady first announced his retirement. One month later, he unretired, and said he was returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.) The New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback won a record seven Super Bowl titles.
2023 - The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short-term interest rate a quarter percentage point. The increase marked a slowdown in the Fed’s campaign to raise borrowing costs to cool the economy and fight persistent high inflation. The central bank raised rates seven times in 2022, with unusually large half- and three-quarter-point increases. The hikes have lifted rates from near zero to a range of 4.5 percent to 4.75 percent.
2023 - The Philippines agreed to give the U.S. greater access to four military bases in a deal that allowed the U.S. to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region to counter China. “It is a really big deal,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. The announcement came with Austin’s trip to the Philippines for talks on enhancing security in the region. “Our alliance makes both of our democracies more secure,” Austin said. The increased access to the bases also will allow “more rapid support for humanitarian and climate-related disasters.”
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Birthdays on This Day February 1
1859 - Victor Herbert
cellist, conductor: Pittsburgh Symphony; composer: operettas: Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta; songs: Ah Sweet Mystery of Life [At Last I’ve Found You]; died May 26, 19241894 - John Ford (Sean Aloysius O’Feeney)
Academy Award-winning director: The Informer [1935], The Grapes of Wrath [1940], How Green Was My Valley [1941], The Quiet Man [1952]; died Aug 31, 1973; see Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford for more on Ford’s birthdate1901 - (William) Clark Gable
‘King of the Movies’: Academy Award-winning actor: It Happened One Night [1934]; Painted Desert, Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, The Misfits; married to actress Carole Lombard; died Nov 16, 19601902 - Langston Hughes
author: Way Down South; died May 22, 19671904 - S.J. Perelman (Sidney/Simeon Joseph Perelman)
humorist, writer, Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Around the World in 80 Days [1956]; Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, One Touch of Venus, Strictly from Hunger, Westward Ha!, Around the World in 80 Clichés; died Oct 17, 19791906 - Helen Chandler
actress: Mr. Boggs Steps Out, Midnight Alibi, The Worst Woman in Paris?, Christopher Strong, The Last Flight, Mothers Cry; died April 30, 19651906 - Hildegarde (Hildegarde Loretta Sell)
piano player, singer: Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, Lili Marlene, The Trees of Paris, I Believe in Miracles, A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, Pennies From Heaven, My Ship; died July 29, 20051908 - George Pal
film director: 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Tubby the Tuba, Olio for Jasper, And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street, The Truck That Flew, The Time Machine; died May 2, 19801909 - George Beverly Shea
Gospel singer: sang with Billy Graham for many years; died Apr 16, 20131912 - Clete Roberts
TV news anchor: KNXT, KCBS-TV; actor: The Swinger, Mannix, Mission: Impossible [TV], McCloud, Columbo: Candidate for Crime, M*A*S*H; died Sep 30, 19841917 - Joe Redington Sr.
‘Father of the Iditarod’: conceived the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the 1,000-mile race from Anchorage to Nome, AK; died June 24, 19991919 - Charles S. Dubin
TV director: M*A*S*H, The Defenders, Ironside, Hawaii Five-O [1960s], Kojak, Father Dowling Mysteries; died Sep 6, 20111922 - Renata (Ersilia Clotilde) Tebaldi
operatic diva, lyric soprano: debuted as Elena in Boito's Mefistofele [1944]; debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Otello [1955]; died Dec 19, 20041926 - Stuart (Maxwell) Whitman
actor: Cimarron Strip, The Seekers, Trial by Jury, Private Wars, Omega Cop, Delta Fox, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Rio Conchos, The Longest Day, Ten North Frederick, Silver Lode; died Mar 16, 20201931 - Boris Yeltsin
President of Russia [1991-1999]; died Apr 23, 20071934 - Bob Shane
singer: group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley, M.T.A., Greenback Dollar, Where Have All the Flowers Gone; died Jan 26, 20201937 - Don Everly
singer: group: The Everly Brothers with brother, Phil: Wake Up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy’s Clown, All I Have To Do Is Dream; died Aug 21, 20211937 - Garrett Morris
comedian: Saturday Night Live, actor: The Anderson Tapes, Almost Blue1937 - Ray Sawyer
singer: group: Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show: Only Sixteen, Cover of the Rolling Stone, Sylvia’s Mother; died Dec 31, 20181938 - Jacky Cupit
golf: Canadian Open champ [1961], Western Open champ [1962], US Open runnerup [1963]1938 - Sherman Hemsley
actor: The Jeffersons, All in the Family, Dinosaurs, Amen, Mr. Nanny, Love at First Bite; died Jul 24, 20121942 - Robert Costanzo
actor: Total Recall, Die Hard 2, Dick Tracy, City Slickers, Down and Derby, Boston Legal, Hannah Montana, Friends, Days of our Lives, The Golden Girls1942 - Terry Jones
actor: Monty Python series; director: Monty Python series, Personal Services; died Jan 21, 20201942 - Wayne Rivers
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, SL Blues, NY Rangers1944 - Paul (L. D.) Blair
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966, 1969-1971/all-star: 1969, 1973], NY Yankees [World Series: 1977, 1978], Cincinnati Reds; died Dec 26, 20131944 - Dick Snyder
‘Duck’: basketball: Seattle SuperSonics1948 - Debbie Austin
golf: seven LPGA tour victories, ranked among top 30 LPGA all-time career money list at the time of her retirement1948 - Rick James (James Johnson)
singer: Super Freak, Bustin’ Out, Garden of Love, Fool on the Street, Love Gun, Come into My Life, Big Time, Street Songs, Give It to Me Baby; died Aug 6, 20041949 - Jim Thorpe
golf: champ: Greater Milwaukee Open, Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship [1985], Seiko-Tucson Match Play Championship [1986]1950 - Mike Campbell
musician: guitar: group: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American Girl, Breakdown, Listen to Her Heart, I Need to Know, Refugee1950 - Rich Williams
musician: guitar: group: Kansas: Dust in the Wind, Carry On Wayward Son, Play the Game Tonight, All I Wanted, Point of Know Return1954 - Bill Mumy
actor: Palm Springs Weekend, Twilight Zone-The Movie, Lost in Space, The Rockford Files, Sunshine, Babylon 51957 - Dennis Brown
Jamaican reggae singer: Love Has Found It’s Way, If I Had the World, Prophet Rides Again, Hold on to What You’ve Got, Revolution, Westbound Train, Wolves And Leopards; died Jul 1, 19991959 - Wade Wilson
football [quarterback]: NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders1964 - Jani Lane (John Kennedy Oswald)
lead singer: group: Warrant: LPs: Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, Cherry Pie, Dog Eat Dog, Ultraphobic, Belly to Belly, Under the Influence; solo: Back Down to One; died Aug 11, 20111964 - Linus Roache
actor: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Batman Begins, Coronation Street, Kidnapped, Find Me Guilty, The Chronicles of Riddick1965 - Sherilyn Fenn (Sheryl Ann Fenn)
actress: Twin Peaks, Fatal Instinct, Of Mice and Men, Diary of a Hitman, Wild at Heart, The Wild Life1965 - Brandon Lee
martial artist, actor: Rapid Fire, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Laser Mission, Soldier of Fortune, Ohara; died Mar 31, 19931968 - Kent Mercker
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs1968 - Lisa Marie Presley
daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley; singer: Lights Out, Savior, Nobody Noticed It, Important, Indifferent, To Whom It May Concern; died Jan 12, 20231968 - Pauly Shore
commedian, actor: Pauly, Encino Man, In the Army Now, The Bogus Witch Project1969 - Brian Krause
actor: Charmed, Another World, Cyrus, The Thacker Case, Protecting the King, Ties That Bind, Dreamers, Family Album, Return to the Blue Lagoon1971 - Michael C. Hall
actor: Dexter, Bereft, Paycheck, Six Feet Under1971 - Jill Kelly (Adrianne Moore)
actress [1993-2006]: X-rated films: Perverted Women, The Naked Truth, Lip Service, Jailhouse Nurses, Interview with a Vibrator, Wicked Covergirls, Jill & Jim’s Sex Arena1972 - Rich Becker
baseball [right field]: Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers1973 - Andrew DeClercq
basketball [forward]: Univ of Florida; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic1974 - Walter McCarty
basketball [forward]: Univ of Kentucky; NBA: New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, LA Clippers1977 - Robert Traylor
basketball [forward]: Univ of Michigan; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers1979 - Rachelle Lefevre
actress: Big Wolf on Campus, What About Brian, Boston Legal, Swingtown, Twilight film series, Off the Map, A Gifted Man1980 - Grace Yip
actress: Kakashi, Street Angels, Gen-X Cops, A Man Called Hero, The Masked Prosecutor, Love Paradox, Mafia.com, Headlines, The Troublesome Romance1982 - Jarrett Lennon
actor: Short Cuts, The Servants of Twilight, She’s All That, Amityville: Dollhouse, Just Like Dad, Aliens for Breakfast1984 - Lee Thompson Young
actor: The Famous Jett Jackson, Friday Night Lights, Rizzoli & Isles; died Aug 13, 20131987 - Heather Morris
singer, dancer, actress: Glee, Horrible Parents, Most Likely to Die, The Troupe, Pretty Little Stalker1994 - Julia Garner
actress: Ozark, The Americans, Maniac, Dirty John, Inventing Anna, Grandma, The Assistant, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For1994 - Harry Styles
singer: group: One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful, Little Things, One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks), Gotta Be You, Live While We’re Young, Best Song Ever, Story of My Life
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day February 1
1944My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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