February 4
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1895 - The first rolling lift bridge opened over the Chicago River at Van Buren Street, Chicago. The bridge used steel trusses or girders across the navigable channel supported by, and rigidly connected to, large steel rollers as curved steel bases, like rocking chair rockers, weighted in the rear to counterbalance the span. To open, the bridge rolled back on its rockers until upright, like a jackknife.1901 - Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines opened in New York City, marking the first time that Ethel Barrymore received billing as a star.
1913 - Louis Perlman of New York City received a patent (#1,052,270) for his famous, demountable tire-carrying rims. We call them wheels.
1932 - The first Winter Olympics in the United States were held at Lake Placid, NY. The venue would again be the home of the Winter Olympics in 1980, when the U.S. Hockey Team won its “Do you believe in miracles?” gold medal.
1937 - Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra recorded A Study in Brown, on Decca Records.
1938 - The play, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, opened in New York City at the Henry Miller Theatre. The play was a Pulitzer prize-winner for the writer.
1939 - World mile record-holder Glenn Cunningham said in the newspaper that “running a four-minute mile is beyond human effort,” and that the best mile run will always be 4:01.66. That, of course, was his own best time. The mark has been shattered several times since. The current world record of 3:43:13 was set by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj [Golden Gala Meet, Rome, Italy, July 7, 1999].
1941 - The Salvation Army, the YMCA and YWCA, the National Catholic Community Services, the National Travelers Aid Association and the National Jewish Welfare Board pooled their resources, at the request of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to form a new organization. The United Service Organizations (USO) was created to provide unduplicated recreational services to members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were on leave.
1944 - The U.S. Seventh Infantry Division captured Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
1948 - The island nation of Ceylon became an ‘independent dominion’ within the British Commonwealth. Ceylon, now known as the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island in the Indian Ocean about 28 kilometers (18 miles) off the southeastern coast of India with a population of some 19 million.
1952 - Baseball great Jackie Robinson signed a contract with New York’s WNBC and WNBT (TV) to serve as Director of Community Activities.
1953 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis appeared in the film, The Stooge, which premiered this day at the Paramount Theatre in New York City. The comedy duo went dramatic in this film -- which had been sitting on the shelves of the Hal Wallis Studios until that time.
1957 - Smith-Corona Manufacturing Inc. of New York began selling portable electric typewriters. The first machine was a ‘portable’ of 19 pounds! Soon, other manufacturers offered similar models, made of lighter-weight plastics, with a lot less of the sophisticated workings inside.
1964 - The FAA began six months of testing for reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Sounds like an enjoyable experience for the people of OKC.
1966 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet aircraft crashed in Tokyo Bay killing 133 passengers and crew.
1969 - Bowie Kuhn took office as Commissioner of Baseball. He succeeded General William D. ‘Spike’ Eckert and served for 16 seasons, until Sep 30, 1984.
1969 - 33-year-old John Madden became head coach of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders. In his first season Madden took the Raiders to a 12-1-1 record and earned them a spot in the AFC Conference Championship Game. Madden went on to become the youngest head coach in the modern NFL era to win 100 games in his first ten seasons.
1973 - The comic strip Hagar the Horrible debuted 136 newspapers. Like his earlier strip, Hi and Lois, Dik Browne’s Hagar the Horrible revolves around a man who has amusingly imperfect success in dealing with both his job and his home life. In this case, the man is a Viking rather than a suburbanite, and his ‘job’ is looting and pillaging. Hagar now appears in some 2,000 papers throughout the world, and has been translated into over a dozen languages, including Swedish, as no less than 58 of Sweden’s daily papers carry the strip about their ancient countryman.
1976 - Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, was renamed Maputo.
1976 - An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale -- and its resulting mudslides -- killed 23,000 people near Guatemala City. 1.5 million people were made homeless.
1978 - Junius Richard Jayawardene was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s first president.
1980 - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was installed as president of Iran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1983 - Singer Karen Carpenter died at her parent’s home in Los Angeles of heart failure caused by chronic anorexia nervosa. Her death, at the age of 32, brought about more public awareness of the disease, characterized by a loss of appetite brought on by mental illness.
1987 - A proud day for America’s yachtsmen and women: Dennis Conner, Tom Whidden and Peter Isler brought the America’s Cup back ‘up’, defeating Australia’s Kookaburra III with Stars and Stripes ’87.
1987 - The show-biz world was saddened when piano virtuoso Liberace died of AIDS at his Palm Springs, CA estate. He was 67 and had been gravely ill for weeks. Lee, as he was known, was the master of Las Vegas. Thousands flocked to his museum there -- opened by Liberace himself in 1979 and operated by his brother, George. (The museum closed to the public in 2010, due to the sluggish economy and a drop in admissions.)
1990 - Hundreds of thousands of cheering protesters filled Moscow streets demanding that the Communists surrender their stranglehold on power. And, for the first time in decades, the protest was not broken up.
1993 - The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed by the U.S. Congress this day. The law gives employees unpaid leave in the event of a birth or a medical emergency in their family.
1994 - The Federal Reserve increased interest rates for the first time in five years. The surprise announcement triggered a sell-off on Wall Street.
1995 - A standoff between the United States and China escalated into a trade war, with each country ordering stiff tariffs against the other.
1997 - A civil jury in Santa Monica, California found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. The jury awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages to Goldman’s parents. A few days later, the jury added $25 million in punitive damages to go to Nicole Brown Simpson's estate and Goldman’s father. Simpson was later ordered to give up his Heisman Trophy and nearly $500,000 in valuables, including his golf clubs, to help satisfy the judgment.
1998 - An earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Takhar, near the Tajik-Afghan border of Northeastern Afghanistan. The quake left 5,000 dead and over 30,000 homeless, while thousands more were missing. The rumbling lasted under ten minutes and was centered about 150 miles north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Some 15,000 homes were destroyed.
1999 - Gravely ill with lymphatic cancer, Jordan’s King Hussein left the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and was flown home.
2000 - These new films hit U.S. theatres: the comedy Gun Shy, starring Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, Jose Zuniga and Richard Schiff; and the funny, scary Scream 3, with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette and Parker Posey.
2000 - Singer Doris Kenner-Jackson of The Shirelles died in Goldsboro, North Carolina. She was 58 years old.
2001 - From the 440 Sports Desk: NHL All-Star Game: the North America team beat the World squad 14-to-12; and in the NFL Pro Bowl: the AFC defeated the NFC, 38-to-17.
2002 - Tucson, AZ Bishop Manuel D. Moreno told parishioners at a church linked to several abuse lawsuits that the local Catholic diocese would fix its internal problems. “We are putting together broken pieces,” Moreno told 700 parishioners attending Mass early Sunday at Our Mother of Sorrows. “We are making new what has been damaged by sin and neglect and ignorance and betrayal of trust.”
2003 - U.S. President George Bush (II) visited the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he took part in a tribute to the lost crew of the shuttle Columbia.
2003 - Opera singer Jerome Hines, 81, died in New York.
2005 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Boogeyman, starring Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Lucy Lawless, Tory Mussett, Charles Mesure, Philip Gordon, Louise Wallace, Robyn Malcolm, Michael Saccente and Lee Foreman; and The Wedding Date, with Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Holland Taylor, Jack Davenport, Jeremy Sheffield and Sarah Parish.
2005 - Actor Ossie Davis was found dead in his hotel room in Miami. He was 87 years old. Davis was distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen -- and in real life. He was also well known as the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee.
2006 - A stampede at a sports stadium in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines killed 73 people and injured some 320 others, mostly women. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to watch the anniversary presentation of the popular ABS-CBN afternoon TV gameshow, Wowowee.
2007 - Barbara McNair, singer (Bobby, You’re Gonna Love My Baby) and actress (General Hospital, If He Hollers, Let Him Go!, Change of Habit), died in Los Angeles. She was 72 years old. She hosted the Barbara McNair Show on TV from 1969-1972.
2007 - Super Bowl XLI (Dolphin Stadium, Miami FL): Indianapolis Colts 29, Chicago Bears 17. A wet and wild night of Super Bowl firsts brought Tony Dungy, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts to the top of the NFL. Dungy became the first black coach to win the championship, beating good friend and protege Lovie Smith in a game that featured the first two black coaches in the Super Bowl. It was also the first rainy Super Bowl and the first time an opening kickoff had been run back for a touchdown (Bears rookie Devin Hester sped downfield for 92 yards on the opening play of the game). MVP: Quarterback Peyton Manning who completed 25 of 38 passes for 247 yards and one touchdown, and keeping the Bears on their heels with his play calling at the line of scrimmage. Tickets: No longer available to the general public; distributed through NFL teams only.
2007 - The Queen Mary 2 sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge. She was the largest ship to enter San Francisco Bay.
2008 - Finishing touches were applied to the ‘doomsday’ seed vault, built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters. The vault was built deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
2008 - Kenya reported that violence over disputed elections had eased enough to lift a monthlong ban on live TV broadcasts. The fighting had killed over 1,000 people and made 300,000 homeless since the Dec 27 presidential election.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama imposed $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money.
2009 - A document was released that listed thousands of people identified as customers and victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
2009 - Rain-battered residents in northeastern Australia were advised to be on the alert for snakes in their bathrooms and crocodiles in the road. The local wildlife was in search of dry land and/or a safe haven following repeated heavy storms.
2010 - Dubai’s government announced the discovery of a new offshore oil field, the first such find by the city-state in decades.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Roommate, with Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet, Matt Lanter, Billy Zane and Minka Kelly; Sanctum, with Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Rhys Wakefield, Alice Parkinson and Asim Ahmad; Cold Weather, starring Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raúl Castillo, Robyn Rikoon and Jeb Pearson; the Documentary, Dressed, from Onerock Moving Pictures; and The Other Woman, starring Natalie Portman, Lauren Ambrose, Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Rapp and Scott Cohen.
2011 - Bank of America agreed to pay $410 million to settle lawsuits accusing it of charging customers excessive overdraft fees. BoA said it had changed its overdraft rules, eliminating fees for debit transactions and lowering fees for customers who overdraw their accounts ‘excessively’.
2012 - Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord known as Martin Llanos (aka Hector Buitrago) was captured -- in Venezuela -- along with his brother, Nelson Buitrago (aka Caballo). The arrests signaled the end of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), which dominated the drug trade for over a decade and penetrated all facets of life in the state.
2013 - Alabama police officers stormed an underground bunker, killed Jimmy Lee Dykes, and rescued a 5-year-old boy he had taken hostage. Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, had boarded a school bus on Jan 29 and killed the driver before taking the boy hostage.
2014 - Four people were arrested in lower Manhattan with 350 bags of heroin in their possession. The arrests were made in conjuction with the investigation into the overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2014 - Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella would replace Steve Ballmer as CEO. John Thompson replaced Bill Gates as chairman.
2015 - China announced that users of blogs and chat rooms would be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the Communist political system. The new restrictions were aimed at users who took inappropriate online names such as Putin and Obama, promoted “vulgar culture,” and committed fraud by pretending to be Communist Party officials.
2016 - U.S. authorities announced that Swiss bank Julius Baer, facing a criminal charge, had agreed to pay $547 million and cooperate for three years with American authorities. This, to shut down accounts that enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes.
2017 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security suspended POTUS Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, following a court ruling that blocked its enforcement.
2018 - Heavy snow and freezing rain in Russia knocked down thousands of trees in Moscow and one person was reported killed. About 17 inches, more than half of Moscow’s monthly average of snow, fell in a 24-hour period, breaking a record set in 1957.
2018 - China criticized a U.S. government report that cast the world’s most populous country as a potential nuclear adversary. Beijing called on Washington to reduce its own, much larger, arsenal and join in promoting regional stability.
2018 - Philadelphia Eagles fans celebrated their first Super Bowl win and their first NFL title since 1960 as the Eagles defeated the favored New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl 52. The big game was played at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota (the 6th Super Bowl to be held in a cold-weather city). Quarterback Nick Foles led a late-game comeback to cap a season that began with him playing as a backup and ended with him voted Super Bowl MVP. Several records were set during Super Bowl LII, including most yards gained in an NFL game by both teams combined (1,151), the fewest punts from both teams in a Super Bowl (one), and the most points scored by a Super Bowl losing team (33). The game was settled after the Eagles converted a fumble recovery deep within Patriots territory to a field goal with 1:05 remaining to extend their lead to eight points, and NE QB Tom Brady’s Hail Mary pass fell incomplete as time expired.
2019 - Lisa Kwapniowski, a former pharmacy director, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4.6 million from an Omaha hospital between 2012 and 2018. Kwapniowski had submitted fraudulent invoices from legitimate pharmaceutical suppliers and later submitted reimbursement requests using fraudulent invoices from a company she fraudulently created.
2019 - The Czech Republic joined Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Austria, Denmark and Britain in recognizing Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido as president, arguing that President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election was illegitimate. This, while Guaido accused the Venezuela military of planning to divert aid being stockpiled in Colombia, Brazil and other areas, in order to distribute it through the socialist government’s subsidized food program for its own supporters. (The disputed Maduro is still in power.)
2020 - Cincinnati-based Macy’s Inc said it planned to close 125 of its least productive stores and would slash more than 2,000 corporate jobs by 2023 as a part of its effort to tackle slowing mall traffic.
2020 - Prime Minister Boris Johnson formally launched the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) process in London. This, with a pledge to bring forward the United Kingdom’s target to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2035. COP26 was the abbreviated name of the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. COP26 will be held in Glasgow from Nov 1-12, 2021.
2020 - Miami-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd said had canceled eight cruises out of China through March 4 in response to the coronavirus outbreak. And this was just the beginning...
2021 - Joe Biden ordered an end to arms sales and other support to Saudi Arabia. The military supplies had been used for a war in Yemen that Biden called a “humanitarian and strategic catastrophe.” The president declared that the United States would no longer be “rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions.”
2021 - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said vaccination of Israelis over the age of 60 had reduced the rate of that age group getting COVID-19 by almost half and the number of serious cases was down more than 25% in the previous two weeks.
2022 - New movies set to open in U.S. theatres included: Jackass Forever, with Eric André, Machine Gun Kelly and Johnny Knoxville; Moonfall, starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley; Alone with You, with Emily Bennett, Barbara Crampton and Meghan Lane; Last Looks, starring Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson and Lucy Fry; Last Survivors, with Benjamin Arthur, Mark Famiglietti and Simon Lees; The Long Night, starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk and Jeff Fahey; The Wolf and the Lion, with Molly Kunz, Graham Greene and Charlie Carrick; The Worst Person in the World, starring Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Li and Maria Grazia Di Meo; and Moonfall, starring Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson and John Bradley.
2022 - Attorney Michael Avenatti was convicted of cheating porn actor Stormy Daniels out of some $300,000 she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former President Donald Trump. (On June 2, 2022 Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Daniels. He has been ineligible to practice law in California since May 4, 2020.)
2022 - Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power after a winter storm dumped sleet and heavy snow on a wide swath of the central U.S. Airlines canceled 3,000 flights. And more treacherous weather threatened parts of the Plains and New England.
2023 - A Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by U.S. fighter jets off the eastern seaboard, after drifting across the U.S. for days. The operation ended a remarkable public drama that saw some diplomatic fallout between Washington and Beijing, as the U.S. tracked the balloon from Montana all the way to the Carolinas.
2023 - 24 people died in Chile as wildfires sent much of the South American nation into a state of emergency. The Chilean interior minister said there were 1,429 people in shelters and more than 500 injured as a result of the fires. Chile had seen record-high temperatures, with much of the forested area throughout the country being set ablaze.
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Birthdays on This Day February 4
1802 - Mark Hopkins
educator: Williams College president: U.S. President Garfield said, “All that is needed for a superior education is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”; died Jun 17, 18871805 - Harrison Ainsworth
author: Rookwood, Guy Fawkes, Jack Sheppard, Old St. Paul’s, The Miser’s Daughter, The Tower of London; died Jan 3, 18821902 - Charles Lindbergh
‘Lucky Lindy’: aviator: first to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean: flew The Spirit of St. Louis from NY to Paris [May 1927]; a major name in politics and business; died Aug 26, 19741904 - Hylda Baker
actress: Up the Junction, Oliver!, A Catching Complaint, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; died May 1, 19861904 - MacKinlay Kantor
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Andersonville [1956]; Long Remember, Gettysburg, Signal Thirty-Two; died Oct 11, 19771905 - Eddie Foy Jr.
actor: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Bells Are Ringing, The Pajama Game, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Four Jacks and a Jill; died July 15, 19831911 - Art Mooney
singer, bandleader: I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover, Baby Face, Nuttin’ For Christmas, Honey-Babe; died Sep 9, 19931912 - James Craig (Meador)
actor: The Devil’s Brigade, The Human Comedy; died June 28, 19851912 - Byron Nelson
World Golf Hall of Famer: Masters Champion [1937 & 1942], U.S. Open Champion [1939], PGA Champion [1940 & 1945]; PGA record for most wins in a season [18 tournaments in 1945]; died Sep 26, 20061913 - Rosa Lee Parks
civil rights leader: triggered 1955 boycott of Montgomery AL bus system by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger; died Oct 24, 20051913 - Dick Seaman
British auto racer; killed in racing crash June 25, 19391915 - William Talman
actor: Armored Car Robbery, The Hitch-Hiker, One Minute to Zero; died Aug 30, 19681915 - Norman Wisdom
comedian, actor: The Night They Raided Minsky’s; died Oct 4, 20101918 - Ida Lupino
actress: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, On Dangerous Ground, My Boys Are Good Boys; director: The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, The Trouble with Angels; died Aug 3, 19951921 - Betty Friedan (Goldstein)
feminist author: The Feminine Mystique; founder of the National Organization for Women [NOW]; died Feb 4, 20061922 - Bernard Kalb
news reporter, commentator: CBS News, NBC News, The New York Times; died Jan 8, 20231923 - Conrad Bain
actor: The Edge of Night, Bananas, Maude, Diff’rent Strokes, Mr. President, Postcards from the Edge; died Jan 14, 20131929 - Jerry Adler
actor: The Sopranos, Mad About You, Hudson Street, Northern Exposure, In Her Shoes, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Public Eye, The West Wing, Rescue Me, ’Til Death1929 - Paul Burlison
singer: Train Kept a-Rollin’, Lonesome Tears in My Eyes, Love’s Like Rain, Love My Baby, Trouble Is I’m in Love With You, Boogie to Woodstock; died Sep 27, 20031929 - Neil Johnston
Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Warriors center [1951-1959], coach [1960]; 4-time NBA all-star; died Sep 28, 19781936 - David Brenner
comedian, talk-show host: The David Brenner Show, Nightlife; died Mar 15, 20141936 - Gary Conway
actor: Burke’s Law, Land of the Giants, I was a Teenage Frankenstein1940 - George A. Romero
film director [‘Godfather of Zombies’]: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Knightriders, Creepshow, Monkey Shines, Two Evil Eyes, The Dark Half, Bruiser; died Jul 16, 20171940 - John Schuck
actor: McMillan and Wife, Turnabout, Roots, The Odd Couple, Holmes and Yo Yo, Holy Matrimony, Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, M*A*S*H, Brewster McCloud, Dick Tracy1941 - John Steel
musician: drums: group: The Animals: Baby Let Me Take You Home, House of the Rising Sun1943 - Cheryl Miller
actress: Mountain Man, Dr. Death Seeker of Souls1944 - Florence LaRue (Gordon)
singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away, Stoned Soul Picnic, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Wedding Bell Blues, One Less Bell to Answer1944 - Gary Smith
hockey: goalie: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Oakland Seals, Chicago Blackhawks [NHL’s Vezina Trophy: 1972], Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals1945 - Ron Cerrudo
golf: two-time PGA Tour winner; member of National PGA Teaching Committee; head teaching pro at Hilton Head Island School of Golf1947 - Dan Quayle
44th Vice President of the United States under President George Bush1947 - Jeannie Wilson
actress: Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy, Jackals, The Devil and Max Devlin, Marriage Is Alive and Well, Vega$, Storyville1948 - Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier)
singer: I’m Eighteen, School’s Out, You and Me, No More Mr. Nice Guy; more1948 - Ron Jessie
football [wide receiver]: Detroit Lions [1971–1974]; Los Angeles Rams [1975–1979]; Buffalo Bills [1980–1981]; died Jan 13, 20061949 - Michael Beck
actor: Deadly Game, Megaforce, Xanadu, Madman, Holocaust, Robin’s Hood, Houston Knights, The Warriors, Triumphs of a Man Called Horse, Blackout1950 - Pamela Franklin
actress: The Food of the Gods, Crossfire, Screamer, Satan’s School for Girls, Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, The Letters1951 - Phil Ehart
musician: drums: group: Kansas: Dust in the Wind, Carry on Wayward Son, Play the Game Tonight, All I Wanted, People of the South Wind, Point of Know Return1952 - Lisa Eichhorn
actress: Yanks, The Vanishing, King of the Hill1952 - Jerry Shirley
musician: drums: group: Humble Pie: Natural Born Woman, Big Black Dog, Stone Cold Fever, Shine On, Rollin’ Stone, Four Day Creep, C’mon Everybody1959 - Lawrence Taylor
football: all-American: Univ. North Carolina; Pro Football Hall of Famer: New York Giants1962 - Clint Black
singer: Killin’ Time, Like the Rain, Summer’s Comin’, A Good Run of Bad Luck, State of Mind, A Bad Goodbye, A Better Man; actor: Maverick1969 - Dallas Drake
hockey: Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, SL Blues1969 - Joe Sacco
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, NY Islanders, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers1970 - Gabrielle Anwar
actress: Once Upon a Time, Burn Notice, Scent of a Woman, Body Snatchers, The Three Musketeers, In Pursuit of Honor, North Beach, Without Malice, Mob Dot Com1970 - Nicole Wood
model: Playboy Playmate [Apr 1993]; actress
1971 - Rob Corddry
comedian, Emmy Award-winning actor: Childrens Hospital [2012]; The Unicorn, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart [2002-2006], Hot Tub Time Machine, Operation: Endgame, Cedar Rapids, Butter, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World1973 - Oscar De La Hoya
boxer: Olympic gold medalist [1992], IBF lightweight title [1995], Super Lightweight title [1996], WBC Welterweight title [1997]1975 - Natalie Imbruglia
singer: Scars, Want, Glorious, Torn, Wishing I Was There, Shiver, When You’re Sleeping, Pineapple Head1977 - Gavin Degraw
musician: piano, guitar; singer: Chariot, Follow Through, I Don’t Want to Be, In Love with a Girl, Not Over You, Soldier, Sweeter1982 - Kimberly Wyatt
singer: group: Pussycat Dolls [2003-2010]: Don’t Wanna Fall in Love; Her Majesty & The Wolves: Stars in Your Eyes, Goodbye, Goodnight1985 - Bug Hall
actor: Little Rascals [1994] Solitaire, Mortuary, The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay, Safety Patrol, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Skipped Parts1988 - Carly Patterson
gymnast: All-Around gold, two silver medals at 2004 Athens Olympics
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Hit Music on This Day February 4
1947For Sentimental Reasons (facts) - Nat King Cole
Ole Buttermilk Sky (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas & The Campus Kids)
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