February 3
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1862 - Thomas Edison, always looking for a way to do something new, came up with this idea: He printed the Weekly Herald and distributed it to train passengers traveling between Port Huron and Detroit, MI. Strange thing is ... it was the first time a newspaper had been printed on a train! We suppose the news was ’on track’ -- Extra! Extra!1869 - Actor Edwin Booth opened his new theatre in New York City. The first production was Romeo and Juliet. Even at that time, tickets didn’t come cheap. Some sold as high as $125 for this presentation.
1930 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover appointed Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded the classic, Amapola, on Decca Records. Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly joined in a vocal duet on this very famous and popular song of the Big Band era.
1947 - Percival Prattis of Our World in New York City became the first black news correspondent admitted to the House and Senate press gallery in Washington, DC.
1950 - Ed, Gene, Joe and Vic, The Ames Brothers, reached the #1 spot on the pop music charts for the first time, as Rag Mop became the most favorite song in the U.S. The brothers enjoyed many successes with their recording efforts: You You You [1953], The Man with the Banjo and The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane [1954], Tammy and Melody d’Amour [1957]. Ed Ames had been with the Russ Morgan Band and, after the brothers split in the late 1950s, went on to enjoy a lucrative television and recording career. He recorded My Cup Runneth Over and Who Will Answer, both hits in the 1960s. He also played Mingo on the Daniel Boone TV series. Ed is fondly remembered for one of the funniest moments of The Tonight Show on NBC when he competed with host Johnny Carson in a hand axe-tossing contest. Mingo won, with hilarious results that are still shown in every celebration of The Tonight Show.
1951 - Dick Button won the U.S. figure skating title for the sixth time. Button went on to become a fixture on figure-skating telecasts on ABC-TV.
1951 - The Tennessee Williams play, The Rose Tattoo, opened on Broadway in New York. The drama starred Maureen Stapleton, Delle Rose and Martin Balsam, and ran for 306 performances, closing that year on Oct 27.
1958 - The Benelux Economic Union Treaty between Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands was signed on this day.
1959 - An American Airlines Electra crashed in New York City’s East River, killing 65 people.
1959 - 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died in an airplane crash near Mason City, Iowa. February 3rd has been remembered as ‘The Day the Music Died’ since Don McLean made the line popular in his 1972 hit, American Pie.
1962 - POTUS John F. Kennedy banned alltrade with Cuba except for food & drugs.
1964 - The first gold record for The Beatles was awarded to the British group for the single, I Want To Hold Your Hand. The group also won a gold LP award for Meet The Beatles. The album had been released in the United States only 14 days earlier. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
1964 - The Warren Commission, investigating the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, heard its first witness, Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow, Marina.
1967 - LIFE magazine featured the tragic January 27 fire and deaths of three astronauts in a launch pad fire.
1971 - Lynn Anderson received a gold record for the single, Rose Garden. The Grand Forks, ND country singer was raised in Sacramento, CA. In addition to being a singer, she was an accomplished equestrian and California Horse Show Queen in 1966.
1972 - The first Winter Olympics in Asia opened at Sapporo, Japan.
1984 - A sellout crowd of 18,210 at Madison Square Garden in New York City saw Carl Lewis beat his own world record in the long jump by 9-1/4 inches.
1989 - Former first baseman Bill White was the first African American to head a major professional sports league in the United States. He became National League president this day.
1990 - Jockey Willie Shoemaker raced for the 40,352nd and last time. He finished fourth at the Santa Anita Racetrack aboard 7-10 favorite "Patchy Groundfog". Shoemaker won 1100 stakes and 8,833 wins (a world record that stood until Laffit Pincay Jr. topped it in 1999) in 40,350 races. In 42 years, Shoemaker won 11 Triple Crown races, including four Kentucky Derbies, five Belmont Stakes, and three Preakness Stakes; 1,009 stakes races; and 10 national money titles. He earned more than $123 million in purses, about $10 million of which went into his pocket. (Shoemaker’s life took a tragic turn on April 8, 1991, when he was left paralyzed from the neck down after an auto accident.)
1991 - U.S. postage was raised from 25 cents to 29 cents.
1995 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with a woman, Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins in the pilot’s seat. She was the first woman assigned the position of Space Shuttle Commander.
1996 - Actress Audrey Meadows died in Los Angeles. She was 71 years old. Meadows was well known for her roll (opposite Jackie Gleason) as Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners.
1996 - A 7.0 earthquake hit Lijiang region of Yunnan province in China. 231 people were killed and some 14,000 were injured.
1998 - The state of Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker for the pickax killings of two people in 1983. Tucker was the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
2000 - Former U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst died in Prescott, Arizona at the age of 76. Kleindienst served as A.G. during the Nixon administration and resigned during the Watergate scandal.
2001 - The XFL (Xtreme Football League) debuted. The league was created by Vince McMahon, mastermind behind the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). What was promoted as “Football the Way It Was Meant to Be Played” soon faded into painful memories for TV viewers and fans. The WWF apparently thought that it could pull in millions of wrestling fans to support the league, but was shocked when it discovered that actual football fans were the major supporters of the XFL, and these football fans were turned off by the wrestling-show influence on the games.
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI (at New Orleans): New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17. (The Rams had been a two-touchdown favorite and were trying for their second NFL title in three seasons.) Adam Vinatieri’s 48-yard field goal as time expired won the game after a 53-yard, nine-play drive was engineered by Patriots QB Tom Brady, who was voted the game’s MVP. “This is the perfect example of what happens when guys believe in each other,” said Brady, leader of the team that had been 5-11 the previous year. “The fans of New England have been waiting 42 years for this day,” owner Robert Kraft said. At the start of the season, the Patriots were 50-1 shots to win what was their first title ever (twice before they had lost Super Bowls -- both in the Louisiana Superdome). Tickets: $400.
2003 - Rock and roll music producer Phil Spector (62) was arrested after Lana Clarkson (40) was found shot to death in Spector’s Los Angeles mansion.
2005 - An Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital of Kabul. NATO helicopters found the wreckage two days later. There were no survivors.
2006 - When a Stranger Calls opened in U.S. theatres. The horror thriller stars Camilla Belle and Brian Geraghty.
2007 - Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu. The virus had been found at a farm run by Europe’s biggest turkey producer.
2008 - Super Bowl XLII (University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale (Phoenix) AZ): New York Giants 17, New England Patriots 14. The unbeaten New England Patriots were looking to go 19-0 and complete only the second unbeaten season in NFL history, but the Giants upset the perfect Patriots. MVP: Quarterback Eli Manning, who completed 19 of 34 passes for 255 yards and two touchdowns, threw the 13-yard go ahead touchdown to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds remaining in the game; the score completed a 12-play, 83-yard drive in which the Giants converted three third downs. The Patriots had one last drive, but Tom Brady’s desperation pass on fourth down fell incomplete. Eli Manning’s brother, Peyton, was the MVP of 2007’s Super Bowl XLI: Indianapolis Colts 29-17 over the Chicago Bears). Their father, Archie Manning, played 14 seasons in the NFL without ever getting to the playoffs. Tickets: No longer available to the general public; distributed through NFL teams only.
2010 - New Zealand police warned that a local 19-year-old, who said she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money, did not break any laws. But they warned it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal. Prostitution among consenting adults is allowed in New Zealand brothels and on the streets, and offering sexual services in print ads and online is also legal. But “we would suggest it’s not a safe practice,” National police spokesman Jon Neilson said. “There are definitely issues of personal safety.”
2010 - The U.S. government estimated that health care consumed a record 17.3% of all spending in the U.S. economy in 2009.
2011 - Australia’s biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns after pummeling the coast and churning across the country.
2011 - British lawmakers demanded an explanation for the expenditure of £1.85 million ($2.99 million) of foreign aid money for the pope’s visit to the U.K. in 2010.
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Chronicle, with Michael B. Jordan, Dane DeHaan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw, Alex Russell, Ann a Wood and Joe Vaz; Big Miracle, starring Kristen Bell, Drew Barrymore, Dermot Mulroney, John Krasinski, Ted Danson and Vinessa Shaw; The Woman in Black, with Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Janet McTeer, Shaun Dooley, Roger Allam and Sophie Stuckey; and The Innkeepers, starring Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle.
2012 - A storm swept across Colorado forcing the cancellation of some 600 flights at the Denver International Airport. The blizzard dumped six feet of snow in some areas of eastern Colorado. And the death toll from severe cold in Eastern Europe rose to 222, including 101 in the Ukraine, 37 in Poland, 24 in Romania and 16 in Bulgaria.
2013 - Super Bowl XLVII (47): The Baltimore Ravens held off a San Francisco 49ers 2nd-half comeback surge to win 34-31. It was the 49ers first Super Bowl loss (in six appearances) and the second Super Bowl win (in two appearances) for the Ravens. And for the first time in Super Bowl history, the game pitted two brothers against each other: Jim and John Harbaugh, head coaches of the 49ers and Ravens, respectively. Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco (22/33 for 274 yards) was named MVP of the big game. Because of a 34-minute power outage in the third quarter of the game at the New Orleans Super Dome, the game set a Super Bowl record for longest running time: 4 hours and 14 minutes. When the power came back the Ravens were leading 28-6, but San Francisco rallied with 17 unanswered points to get within 28-23, then made it 31-29 later. In the end, with the 49ers just five yards away a go-ahead touchdown, the Ravens defense held on 4th down. FYI: cost of a 30-second TV commercial in the game was $4 million.
2014 - An official European Union report exposed corruption that affected all member countries of the E.U. and cost their economies some €120 billion ($162.19 billion) a year.
2014 - Israel offered Turkey $20 million in compensation to the families of those killed and wounded in its botched 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.
2015 - Six people were killed when a packed commuter train crashed into an SUV that was stopped at a railroad crossing in Valhalla, NY. Twelve more passengers were injured in the crash.
2015 - British lawmakers in the House of Commons voted to allow scientists to create babies from the DNA of three people. It was hoped that the experiment could prevent some children from inheriting potentially fatal diseases from their mothers.
2016 - Australia’s High Court threw out a challenge to the country’s right to deport asylum seekers to the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru. The ruling cleared the way for the deportation of dozens of infants born in Australia to detained asylum seekers.
2017 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: Collide, starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones and Anthony Hopkins; Rings, with Vincent D’Onofrio, Johnny Galecki and Laura Wiggins; The Space Between Us, starring Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson and Carla Gugino; The Comedian, starring Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann and Danny DeVito; Eloise, with Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick and Chace Crawford; the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson; Wheeler, starring Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson and Audrey Spillman; and Youth in Oregon, with Nicola Peltz, Christina Applegate and Josh Lucas.
2017 - The U.N. human rights office reported that Myanmar’s security forces had committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October 2016. This, in a campaign of crimes against humanity and ‘ethnic cleansing’.
2017 - The Trump administration imposed sanctions against multiple entities and people involved in procuring materials and technology to support Iran’s ballistic missile program and the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. The move came after Iran conducted a ballistic missile test. This round of sanctions on Iran was essentially “pre-baked” at Treasury during the Obama Administration, which had been reluctant to initiate them. Since they were ready to go, the Trump administration was able to pull the trigger just two weeks into office.
2018 - Global food conglomerate Nestle was in a battle with tiny Osceola Township, Michigan where residents complained that the Swiss company’s water extraction techniques were ruining their environment. Nestle began pumping water in the region in the early 2000s for its Ice Mountain brand of bottled water, paying just $200 a year to the state of Michigan to pump more than 130 million gallons (590 million liters) of water.
2019 - The New England Patriots won their sixth Super Bowl (tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for the most Super Bowl championships) with a 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl game in history, eclipsing the previous record of 14–7 held by Super Bowl VII. It also marked the first Super Bowl with no touchdowns scored by either team in the first three quarters. And the broadcast of the game on CBS-TV, along with the halftime show headlined by U.S. pop group Maroon 5, saw the smallest Super Bowl audience in 10 years. The Rams ended up as only the second Super Bowl team to not score a touchdown, joining the Miami Dolphins from Super Bowl VI. Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who caught 10 passes for 141 yards, was named MVP. Tickets to the game ranged in price from $3,000-$6,000, but the most expensive was $475,000 for a suite near the 20 yard line.
2020 - The first patients arrived at a 1,000-bed hospital -- built in just 10 days -- as part of China’s sweeping efforts to fight the COVID-19 virus that was causing global alarm. A woman (36) in the northern municipality of Tianjin was detained by police after deliberately concealing her contact with someone from a coronavirus-stricken area.
2020 - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Warsaw for the first visit to Poland by a French head of state in six years. He sought to mend relations strained by his criticism of Poland’s controversial overhaul of the judiciary and its rejection of a deal with Airbus in 2016.
2021 - The U.S. and Russia extended the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) for five years, preserving the last treaty limiting deployments of the world’s two largest strategic nuclear arsenals.
2021 - Ukraine closed down several TV channels owned by Russia-linked magnate Viktor Medvedchuk in what Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described as a necessary move to fight Kremlin propaganda.
2021 - A Moscow court ordered the jailing (for 25 days) of one of the country’s leading independent journalists, Sergey Smirnov, editor-in-chief of Mediazona. He had committed the ‘crime’ of retweeting a joke on Twitter.
2022 - Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company announced the discovery of some 2 trillion standard cubic feet of raw gas in an offshore area. The discovery was enabled by new insights from the world’s largest combined onshore and offshore three-dimensional (3D) mega seismic survey.
2022 - More than 20 people died in Argentina after consuming cocaine suspected of containing a poisonous substance. Some 80 others were hospitalized in several towns in Buenos Aires province. The cocaine appeared to have been laced with a synthetic opioid.
2022 - A flaw in Apple’s software was exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021. Reports said the flaw was simultaneously abused by QuaDream, a competing Israeli company.
2023 - 80 for Brady opened in U.S. theatres. The sports comedy film was produced by quarterback Tom Brady (hence the name) and features an all-star cast including Sally Field, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Lily Tomlin. It tells the true story of four 80-something BFFs and New England Patriots fans who make it their mission to watch Tom Brady play in 2017’s Super Bowl LI. But their journey to score tickets is anything but ordinary. Also opening this day: Knock at the Cabin, a horror film starring Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge and Nikki Amuka-Bird.
2023 - A large fire broke out following a train derailment in an Ohio village, prompting the area to be evacuated. At least 50 train cars derailed in the town of East Palestine, located near the state’ border with Pennsylvania. Smoke and flames were seen shooting into the night sky as firefighters battled the inferno.
2023 - The coldest wind chill ever recorded in the U.S. -- minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit -- was registered at Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshire. “The winds were so strong that I fell over at least once that night. I was thankful that I was able to make it back to the observatory,” meteorologist and weather observer for Mount Washington Observatory, Alexis George said. “It’s not something you get used to very easily because it’s a very loud experience. It almost sounds like a freight train.”
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Birthdays on This Day February 3
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy)
composer: Wedding March, Elijah, Fingal’s Cave; died Nov 4, 18471811 - Horace Greeley
journalist: founded and edited The New York Tribune: “Go west, young man!”; politician: helped found the Republican Party, ran unsuccessfully for U.S. President [1872]; died Nov 29, 18721874 - Gertrude Stein
poet, novelist, playwright: Q.E.D., Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Picasso, Ida; a Novel, Brewsie and Willie, Reflections on the Atom Bomb, Wars I Have Seen, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; died Jul 27, 19461894 - Norman Rockwell
artist: widely known for his realistic, homespun cover art for The Saturday Evening Post; died Nov 8, 19781903 - Martin Block
Radio Hall of Fame DJ, announcer, host: Make Believe Ballroom; died Sep 18, 19671907 - James A. Michener
novelist: Tales of the South Pacific, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Journey, Hawaii, Iberia, Centennial, Mexico; died Oct 16, 19971918 - Joey Bishop (Gottlieb)
comedian, actor: The Joey Bishop Show, Liar’s Club, The Naked and the Dead, Delta Force, Betsy’s Wedding; member of the ‘Rat Pack’ with Frank Sinatra, et al.; died Oct 17, 20071920 - Henry Heimlich
physician: known for inventing of the Heimlich Maneuver; died Dec 17, 20161920 - Bibi (Margaret) Osterwald
actress: Bridget Loves Bernie, Bank Shot; died Jan 2, 20021922 - Russell Arms
singer: Your Hit Parade; died Feb 13, 20121925 - Shelley Berman
comedian, actor: The Best Man, Motorama, Rented Lips, Curb Your Enthusiasm; died Sep 1, 2017; more1925 - John Fiedler
actor: The Bob Newhart Show [1972]; character voice: Piglet in Walt Disney’s animated Winnie the Pooh; died June 25, 20051926 - Art Arfons
drag racer: ‘The Green Monster’ clocked at over 600 mph; died Dec 3, 20071928 - Frankie Vaughan (Abelson)
singer: Garden of Eden, Tower of Strength; died Sep 17, 19991932 - Peggy Ann Garner
actress: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betrayal; died Oct 16, 19841935 - Jeremy Kemp
actor: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Prisoner of Honor, When the Whales Came, War and Remembrance, Peter the Great, Top Secret!; died Jul 19, 20191938 - Victor Buono
actor: Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Strangler, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, The Man from Atlantis, The Wild Wild West [TV]; died Jan 1, 19821938 - Emile Griffith
International Boxing Hall of Famer: the third fighter in history to hold both the welterweight and middleweight titles; died Jul 23, 20131938 - Elijah Pitts
football: Green Bay Packers running back: Super Bowl I; died July 10, 19981940 - Angelo D’Aleo
singer: group: Dion and The Belmonts: I Wonder Why, A Teenager in Love, Where or When1940 - Fran Tarkenton
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Minnesota Vikings quarterback: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI, also NY Giants quarterback: holds individual NFL career records for passing yards gained, completions, attempts and touchdowns thrown1941 - Carol Mann
golf: U.S. Open Champion [1965]1943 - Blythe Danner
Emmy Award-winning actress: Huff [2005, 2006]; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Husbands and Wives, The Prince of Tides, Inside the Third Reich, Futureworld, 1776, Tattingers, Adam’s Rib, Meet the Fockers1943 - Dennis Edwards
singer: group: The Temptations: Cloud Nine, Running Wild, Psychedelic Shack, Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone1943 - Eric Haydock
musician: bass: group: The Hollies: Searchin’, Just One Look, Here I Go Again, I’m Alive, Bus Stop1943 - Shawn Phillips
singer: We, The Balla of Casey Deiss, Victoria Emmanuele, Bright White, L Ballad, Early Morning Hours, I Took a Walk1944 - Gale Gillingham
football: Green Bay Packers guard: Super Bowl I, II1945 - Bob Griese
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Miami Dolphins quarterback: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII1947 - Melanie (Safka)
singer: Brand New Key, Lay Down, Peace Will Come1947 - Joe (Joseph Howard) Coleman
baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1972], Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, SF Giants1947 - Dave Davies
singer, musician: guitar: co-founder of The Kinks: You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, Tired of Waiting, A Well Respected Man, Sunny Afternoon; solo: Death of a Clown, Susannah’s Still Alive1950 - Morgan Fairchild (Patsy McClenny)
actress: Dallas, Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road, North and South, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Writer’s Block1950 - Pamela Franklin
actress: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Flipper’s New Adventure, David Copperfield, Eleanor and Franklin1952 - Fred (Fredric Michael) Lynn
baseball: Boston Red Sox: [Rookie of the Year: 1975/World Series: 1975/AL Baseball Writers’ Award: 1975/all-star: 1975-1980], California Angels [all-star: 1981-1983], Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, SD Padres1952 - Benny Malone
football: RB: Arizona State Univ. [college all-star: 1974], Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins1955 - Mike Horner
actor [1978-2011]: X-rated films: Inside Desiree Cousteau, Swedish Erotica series, Looking for Mr. Goodsex, Bimbo Bowlers from Buffalo, Natural Born Thrillers, The Mile High Club, Nasty Nymphos 241956 - Nathan Lane
Tony Award-winning actor: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [1996]; Love! Valor! Compassion!, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Guys and Dolls, Present Laughter, On Borrowed Time, The Wind in the Willows, Some Americans Abroad, Broadway Bound, The Producers; Daytime Emmy Award: Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program: Timon and Pumbaa’s Wild Adventure: Live and Learn; Molly Dodd, Miami Vice, Great Performances’ Alice in Wonderland, The Last Mile, Hallmark Hall of Fame’s The Boys Next Door; films: Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Nicholas Nickleby, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Isn’t She Great, The Good Wife1959 - Thomas Calabro
actor: Melrose Place, Dream Street1959 - Lol (Laurence) Tolhurst
musician: drums, keyboard: group: The Cure: A Forest, Charlotte Sometimes, Let’s Go to Bed, Love Cats, The Caterpillar, In-Between Days1960 - Joachim Löw
German footballer [manager]: led the German team to victory at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil1962 - Michele Greene
actress: A Woman Hunted, Give or Take an Inch, The Perfect Wife, A Family Affair, Stranger in the House, Badge of Betrayal1965 - Maura Tierney
actress: NewsRadio, Liar Liar, Primary Colors, Forces of Nature, Oxygen, ER, The Andy Dick Show1968 - Frantisek Kucera
hockey: Chicago Blackhawks, Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals1969 - Jeff Christy
football: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers1969 - Retief Goosen
golf pro: two-time U.S. Open Champion [2001, 2004]; 7 PGA Tour wins, 14 European Tour wins; more1969 - Robert Pack
basketball [guard]: Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Hornets1970 - Warwick Davis
actor: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Willow, Leprechaun series, Gulliver’s Travels, Prince Valiant, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone1971 - Elisa Donovan
actress: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Wolves of Wall Street, Best Actress, A Night at the Roxbury, Encino Woman, Justice League of America1976 - Isla Fisher
actress: Home and Away, Scooby-Doo, I Heart Huckabees, Wedding Crashers, Hot Rod, Definitely, Maybe, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Rango, Bachelorette, Arrested Development, The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me1977 - Maitland Ward
actress: Boy Meets World, White Chicks, Dish Dogs, Killing Mr. Griffin, The Bold and the Beautiful
1978 - Amal Clooney
London-based British-Lebanese lawyer, activist, author; barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in international law and human rights; wife of actor George Clooney1979 - Marie Zielcke
actress: Silvester Countdown, Noch einmal lieben, Models, Highway Society, In the Ghetto, Nina - Vom Kinderzimmer ins Bordell, 60 Minuten Todesangst1982 - Bridget Regan
actress: John Wick, The Leisure Class, Legend of the Seeker, White Collar, Jane the Virgin, Agent Carter, The Last Ship, Paradise Lost1983 - Hillary Scott
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Double Play #2, Darkside, Britney Rears 3: Britney Gets Shafted, Nurses Gone Wild, Chocolate Cream Pies, I Can’t Believe I Took the Whole Thing 4, Chronicles of a Pervert, The Flintstones: A XXX Parody1986 - Lucas Duda
baseball [outfielder, first base]: New York Mets [2010–2017]: 2015 World Series; Tampa Bay Rays [2017]; Kansas City Royals [2018]; Atlanta Braves [2018]; Kansas City Royals [2019])1987 - Daniel Jacobs
boxer: WBA, NABO, NABF Middleweight champ1990 - Sean Kingston
singer, rapper: Beautiful Girls, Rum and Raybans, Party All Night [Sleep All Day], Eenie Meenie, Take You There, Me Love1995 - Aimee Lou Wood
actress: Sex Education, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Living; Broadway: People, Places and Things, Downstate, Uncle Vanya, Cabaret
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Hit Music on This Day February 3
1946Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
I Can’t Begin to Tell You (facts) - Bing Crosby with the Carmen Cavallaro Orchestra
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