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1877 - The American Guernsey Cattle Club was organized in, where else? New York City. Moooooooo!1893 - Elisha Gray of Highland Park, IL patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents, freeing up those who would be autographing these things so that they could take care of other matters.
1923 - The original Broadway production of Wildflower opened at the Casino Theatre on this day. The show ran for 477 performances, closing on March 29, 1924. Considered one of the biggest successes of the 1920s, Wildflower was directed by Oscar Eagle and choreographed by David Bennett, with orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett. Costumes were created by Charles LeMaire. Arthur Hammerstein produced the production. The cast starred Edith Day as Nina, Charles Judels as Gaston and Esther Howard as Lucrezia.
1931 - The American opera, Peter Ibbetson, by Deems Taylor, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1936 - A U.S. Vice President’s flag was established by executive order.
1940 - Movie fans watched the world premiere of the Walt Disney animation, Pinocchio, at the Center Theatre in Manhattan. The showing followed that of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Disney’s second feature-length film. One critic called the show, “The happiest event since the war.”
1948 - Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as U.S. Army Chief of Staff. He was succeeded by General Omar Bradley. Why did Ike quit, you ask? To become president of Columbia University.
1959 - The play, The Rivalry, opened in New York City. It ran for a not-very-successful total of 81 performances, with Richard Boone playing Abraham Lincoln.
1959 - Robert Timm and John Cook set a flight duration record when they finally landed their Cessna McCarran Airfield in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pair had taken off on Dec 4, 1958 and had remained airborne for 64 days, 22 hrs, 19 minutes. Of course, this did require some in-flight refueling.
1964 - More than 3,000 fans jammed JFK Airport in New York City as Beatlemania invaded the U.S. The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr arrived for their first U.S. visit (including an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show). The ‘Fab Four’ controlled the top spot on the pop music charts for the next 15 weeks and owned the top of the album charts for 10 weeks. Meet The Beatles, indeed!
1966 - Crawdaddy! magazine was published for the first time, by Paul Williams, in New York City.
1969 - Tom Jones, ‘The Prince of Wails’, started a TV show. This Is Tom Jones premiered on ABC-TV after the network acquired the rights to the singing sensation’s popular United Kingdom show. The network paid a British production company an estimated $20 million for those rights. And they cried in one of Tom’s hankies all the way to the bank.
1973 - A U.S. Navy A-7 Corsair II fighter jet crashed into an apartment building in downtown Alameda, California; the impact and fire killed the jet’s pilot and ten residents on the ground.
1974 - Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra received a gold record for the disco hit, Love’s Theme.
1974 - The island nation of Grenada won its independence from Great Britain.
1983 - Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk using jet powered backpacks.
1985 - Sports Illustrated released its annual swimsuit edition. It was the biggest regular edition in the magazine’s history, weighing in at 218 pages. Paulina Porizkova joined Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley as the only models to make the cover more than once.
1985 - New York, New York became the official anthem of the Big Apple. The announcement was made by then New York mayor, Ed “How’m I Doin’?” Koch. Sinatra fans rejoiced at the honor.
1987 - Madonna’s Open Your Heart hit #1 in the U.S. It was the third straight number-one single from her True Blue album.
1990 - An 811-foot tanker, the American Trader, spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of Alaskan crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach, California.
1991 - The Reverend Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti’s first democratically elected president.
1994 - Paul Anka was honored at the French music industry’s annual awards in Paris. He was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his song My Way. In 1968 Anka wrote new lyrics to the melody of a French pop hit Comme d’habitude, which means As Usual. Anka called his version My Way, and it became Frank Sinatra’s signature song.
1995 - Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested by Pakistani police in Islamabad after two years on the run from U.S. hunters.
1997 - These films began runs in the U.S.: The Beautician and the Beast, starring Fran Drescher and Timothy Dalton; Dante’s Peak, with Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton; The Pest, starring John Leguizamo and Tammy Townsend; and Suburbia, with Jayce Bartok, Amie Carey, Nicky Katt, Ajay Naidu and Parker Posey.
1998 - The XVIIIth Winter Olympic games opened at Nagano, Japan. Wind, rain, fog and lightning, with a mild earthquake thrown in, played havoc with Alpine skiing during the first five days. Then, good weather moved in and, when the games ended, the Japanese were hailed for their excellent show.
1999 - Jordanians mourned the loss of King Hussein bin Talal, who died at age 63 after a long battle with cancer. His eldest son, Abdullah, was sworn in as king hours after his father’s death.
2000 - With an astonishing comeback to win the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Tiger Woods gained his sixth straight PGA Tour victory. He was the first player since Ben Hogan in 1948 to win six in a row.
2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian-born magician, died in Los Angeles from liver cancer. He was 52 years old.
2001 - Actress and singer/songwriter Dale Evans, wife of cowboy star Roy Rogers, died at age 88. Her compositions included Happy Trails and The Bible Tells Me So.
2002 - French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine criticised “simplistic” U.S. foreign policy. The U.S., he said, acted “unilaterally, without consulting others, taking decisions based on its own view of the world and its own interests ... refusing any multilateral negotiation that could limit their decision-making, sovereignty and freedom of action.”
2003 - New films debuting in U.S. theatres: Deliver Us from Eva, with LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union, Essence Atkins, Meagan Good, Mel Jackson, Robinne Lee, Nicole Lyn and Duane Martin; How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, starring Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Kathryn Hahn, Thomas Lennon, Michael Michele and Annie Parisse; and Shanghai Knights, starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong and Donnie Yen.
2003 - Chessmaster Garry Kasparov played to a 3-3 tie against the Deep Junior computer program.
2004 - An Israeli helicopter fired a missile into a car traveling in a crowded Gaza City street, killing Aziz Mahmoud Shami, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group. The attack also killed 12-year-old boy on his way to school and wounded ten Palestinians.
2005 - British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur completed a solo sail around the world. She made the trip in just over 71 days and 14 hours, beating the previous record by 32 hours.
2007 - 14 deaths were blamed on blowing snow and intense cold from a storm in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. The winter weather had kept schools closed for several days across much of Ohio and West Virginia.
2008 - The U.S. Congress passed an emergency stimulus plan that rushed rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, the elderly and other low-income people.
2010 - Super Bowl XLIV (at Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida): New Orleans Saints 31, Indianapolis Colts 17. MVP was Saints quarterback Drew Brees. He was 32-of-39 for 288 yards and two touchdowns. The big play of the game (if you don’t count the Saints’ successful onside kick to open the second half) was the big 75-yard interception return for a touchdown by Saints’ cornerback Tracy Porter that sealed the deal with 3:12 left in the 4th quarter. It was the first trip to the Super Bowl for the New Orleans Saints. The Indianapolis Colts had played in (and won) one other Super Bowl in 2007 when they beat the Chicago Bears 29-17. (The Colts, when they were in Baltimore, had split a pair of Super Bowl appearances, losing SB III but winning Super Bowl V.) The CBS-TV telecast of Super Bowl XLIV was the most-watched TV program in U.S. history, attracting 105.97 million viewers.
2011 - AOL Inc. announced its purchase of news hub Huffington Post for $315 million. Founded in 2005, Huffington Post was owned by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer and a group of other investors. At the time of the sale, the site was attracting some 25 million monthly visitors.
2012 - The 9th Circuit Court in California struck down -- as unconstitutional -- the state’s voter-passed ban on gay marriage, ruling 2-1 that it violates the rights of gay Californians.
2013 - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reported it had taken action in January 2013 against 389 people suspected of committing tax fraud by stealing identities. 109 people were arrested on 189 indictments.
2014 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: the animated The LEGO Movie, featuring the voices of Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Alison Brie, Cobie Smulders, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt, Chris Pratt, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Nick Offerman and Will Arnett; The Monuments Men, starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, and John Goodman; 7 Boxes, with Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa and Lali Gonzalez; Cavemen, with Alexis Knapp, Chad Michael Murray and Skylar Astin; Love & Air Sex, starring Ashley Bell, Zach Cregger and Sara Paxton; Nurse 3D, with Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson and Paz de la Huerta; The Outsider, starring Shannon Elizabeth, James Caan and Jason Patric; The Pretty One, with Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston, Zoe Kazan and Danny Pudi; and Someone Marry Barry, with Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans Jr. and Lucy Punch.
2014 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed outrage over a leaked phone conversation in which Victoria Nuland, a top U.S. diplomat, used the f-word regarding the European Union’s handling of the crisis in Ukraine. An angry U.S. State Department said Russia was responsibe for the bugging of the diplomats’ phones.
2015 - Air pollution in Delhi, India was the worst on earth, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Levels of smaller particulates were routinely 15 times above levels deemed safe.
2016 - The Denver Broncos dominated the Carolina Panthers, winning 24-10 in Super Bowl 50 at the brand-new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (near San Francisco), California. The Broncos 3rd Super Bowl win came following a big play by Broncos linebacker Von Miller (voted MVP). Late in the fourth quarter in the one score game, Miller fought off Panthers tackle Mike Remmer’s initial block, dipped his shoulder, kept his balance and reach his long left arm at Cam Newton. The ensuing fumble was Carolina’s fourth of the day and its fourth turnover of the game. And, like the high-powered Steelers (AFC Divional Playoff) and Patriots (AFC Championship) offenses before them, the Panthers’ offense had no answers for this incredible Broncos team. “I’ll take some time to reflect,” QB Peyton Manning said when asked if Super Bowl 50 was the end of his football career. “I got a couple priorities first. I’m going to go kiss my wife and my kids. … I’m going to drink a lot of Budweiser tonight. Take care of those things first.”
2017 - U.S.V.P. Mike Pence cast his vote to confirm charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as U.S. education secretary, breaking a 50-50 Senate tie. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he thought the votes in favor of DeVos could come back to bite the Republicans. “I think a lot of these senators are now joined at the hip with the DeVos anti-public education agenda and very out of step with the public in every state,” Van Hollen said. “This outpouring of opposition was not isolated to Democrats. It was very broad-based.”
2017 - The California Deptartment of Water Resources discovered a large amount of debris coming out of the concrete-lined spillway of the Oroville Dam in northern California. Release of water (because of widespread rainfall) was stopped and engineers found a massive crater in the spillway. A collapse never occurred, but the main spillway suffered significant damage and the bare slope of the emergency spillway was significantly eroded.
2018 - A court in Cambodia allowed the release on bail of seven Westerners who were arrested for posting photos on social media of themselves engaged in sexually suggestive dancing. Three other people remained in detention. The 10 arrested people -- five from the United Kingdom, two from Canada, and one each from Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand -- were detained when police raided a commercially organized party at a rented villa in Siem Reap town and found people dancing while on a pub crawl.
2018 - Los Angeles investor and biotech entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong bought The Los Angeles Times and several other Southern California papers from Chicago-based Tronc Inc. -- for $500 million. Soon-Shiong said, “We look forward to continuing the great tradition of award-winning journalism carried out by the reporters and editors of The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and the other California News Group titles.”
2019 - 5-time Oscar nominee and veteran British actor Albert Finney died in London after a short illness. He was 82 years old. Finney’s memorable roles include Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm, for which he won a Golden Globe and a Bafta. His films also include Two for the Road (1967), Scrooge (1970), Wolfen (1981), Annie (1982) and Shoot the Moon (1982). His four best-actor Academy Award nominations were for Tom Jones (1963), as Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Dresser (1983) and Under the Volcano (1984). And he was nominated for the Supporting Actor Oscar for Erin Brockovich (2000). Throughout his acting career, Albert Finney impressed audiences with his protean ability to step into a role and wear a character’s persona no matter the age, nationality, or métier. Finney’s own rebelliousness would surface time and again throughout his long career. Finney turned down the title role in “Lawrence of Arabia” because he didn’t want to commit to a multi-picture deal and, he said, stardom frightened him. “I hate being committed — to a girl, or a film producer, or to being a certain kind of bigscreen image.”
2019 - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published an online essay in which he accused American Media, Inc. (parent of National Enquirer) owner David Pecker of “extortion and blackmail” for threatening to publish intimate photos of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, if he did not stop his investigation into how his text messages and other photos had been leaked to the National Enquirer. In the blogpost, titled “No thank you, Mr Pecker”, Bezos accused AMI of telling him “they had more of my text messages and photos that they would publish if we didn’t stop our investigation”. Bezos said his ownership of The Washington Post was a “complexifier” because it had made him the enemy of people, including Donald Trump, who had frequently targeted him. Pecker is a longtime POTUS confidant.
2019 - Thousands of students skipped classes in the Netherlands to march for action on climate change. This, following the example of young demonstrators in Belgium and other countries. Organizers said they wanted to send a wake-up call to politicians who are wrestling with how best to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.
2020 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Birds of Prey, starring Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell; Cane River, with Tommye Myrick, Richard Romain and Carol Sutton; Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie and Garfield Wilson; Dream Round, with Richard Grieco, Michael Saquella and Alexa Lohman; The Lodge, starring Riley Keough, Richard Armitage and Alicia Silverstone; and Waiting for Anya, starring Anjelica Huston, Sadie Frost and Jean Reno.
2020 - A judge in Boston ordered 62-year-old Douglas Hodge of Laguna Beach, CA to spend nine months in federal prison. Hodge paid bribes to get four of his children into college (the Univ of Southern California and Georgetown) -- as fake athletic recruits.
2020 - Vance Pearson, a former senior official of the United Auto Workers based in St. Louis, pleaded guilty to a corruption scheme that put union cash -- for vacation villas, golf, cigars and booze -- into his pocket.
2020 - POTUS Trump fired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the decorated soldier and national security aide who had played a central role in the Congressional impeachment case against Trump. Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, also was out. At the New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate, Joe Biden had a strong moment when he called on the audience to “stand and give Col. Vindman a show of how much we supported him,” adding that Trump “should be pinning a medal on Vindman and not on Rush Limbaugh.”
2021 - Super Bowl LV (at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa): Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31, Kansas City Chiefs 9. It was a record seventh Super Bowl title (his first six were with the New England Patriots) for Tampa Bay’s Tom Brady, who was named MVP of this one. Kansas City entered the game favored to win, but struggled big time on offense. Costly penalties and injuries caused the Chiefs to play with a reconfigured offensive line that saw only starting center Austin Reiter playing at his normal position. And for the first time under quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs failed to score a touchdown and lost by double-digits, making them only the third Super Bowl team to not score a touchdown.
2021 - Britain’s vaccine deployment minister said a COVID-19 booster in the autumn of 2021 and then annual vaccinations were very probable. A lead researcher for the Oxford team said developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would have a modified shot by autumn 2021.
2022 - Three patients whose lower bodies were left completely paralyzed after spinal cord injuries were able to walk, cycle and swim using a nerve-stimulation device controlled by a touchscreen tablet.
2022 - Victor Rivera, the former head of one of the largest operators of homeless shelters in New York City, pleaded guilty to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors. The scheme had gone on for years, as homelessness grew to record numbers. In addition, nearly a dozen women placed into Bronx Parent Housing Network shelters alleged that Rivera had sexually harassed or assaulted them.
2023 - About 15 million people worldwide live in danger of flooding from melting glaciers, more than half of them in India, Pakistan, Peru, and China, according to a study published journal Nature Communications. With rising temperatures melting glaciers more quickly, the number and area of the world’s glacial lakes has increased by 50 percent since 1990, and flooding events can now be bigger than before. Populations also have grown, putting more people in harm’s way.
2023 - President Biden delivered his second State of the Union address, touting his record and calling for more bipartisan efforts to restore the economy. “To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well,” Biden said. He was met with boos and jeers when he pointed out that 25% of the outstanding U.S. national debt was added under former POTUS Donald Trump’s tenure. Biden also called for police reform in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols, the Black man who died after being beaten by five Memphis officers.
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Birthdays on This Day February 7
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‘Man for All Seasons’: statesman, author; found guilty of treason: beheaded July 6, 1535; sainted in 19351804 - John Deere
inventor: first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow; founded Deere & Company [agricultural and construction equipment]; died May 17, 18861812 - Charles Dickens
novelist: David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist; died June 9, 18701867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder
writer: Little House series including Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods; died Feb 10, 19571883 - Eubie (James Hubert) Blake
pianist, bandleader, composer [1,000 songs]: Charleston, Chocolate Dandies, Blackbirds of 1930, Memories of You, Shuffle Along of 1932, Atrocities of 1932, Swing It, Tan Manhattan, Brownskin Models, Hit the Stride; w/Noble Sissle: It’s All Your Fault, Shufflin’ Along, Love Will Find a Way, I’m Just Wild About Harry; died Feb 12, 19831885 - (Harry) Sinclair Lewis
first American Nobel prize-winning author [1930]: Elmer Gantry; refused Pulitzer prize: Arrowsmith [1926]; Main Street; died Jan 10, 19511908 - Buster (Clarence Linden) Crabbe
Olympic Gold medal swimmer, actor: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Billy the Kid; died Apr 23, 19831915 - Eddie Bracken
actor: Summer Stock, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Tales from the Darkside; TV quiz show panelist; died Nov 14, 20021920 - Oscar Brand
folk singer, composer: Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads; music director: NBC-TV Sunday; host: Let’s Sing Out; died Sep 30, 20161921 - Wilma Lee Cooper (Leary)
country singer: Come Walk with Me with husband, Stoney; group: Clinch Mountain Clan with daughter, Carol Lee; died Sep 13, 20111923 - Keefe Brasselle (Brusselle)
actor: Skirts Ahoy!, Streets of Sin; Eddie Cantor Story: singer in title role; died July 7, 19811923 - Dora Bryan
actress: An Angel for May, Bed, Apartment Zero, The Sandwich Man, Small Hotel, The Green Man, Mad About Men, Fast and Loose; died Jul 23, 20141932 - Gay Talese
writer: The Kingdom and the Power, Unto the Sons1934 - King Curtis
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: tenor sax: Memphis, Soul Stew, Soul Twist; murdered in New York City Aug 13, 1971: stabbed to death outside his apartment1937 - Juan (Juan Ramon Cordova) Pizarro
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves [World Series: 1957, 1958], Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1963, 1964], Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros; died Feb 18, 20211946 - Jeff Van Note
football: Atlanta Falcons; broadcaster: color analyst: Atlanta Falcons Football Network1947 - Wayne Allwine
voice actor: Mickey Mouse [1977–2009]; died May 18, 20091948 - Jimmy Greenspoon
musician: organ: group: Three Dog Night: Joy to the World, It Ain’t Easy, Black and White, Shambala; died Mar 7, 20151949 - Alan Lancaster
musician: bass: group: Status Quo [1962-1985]: LPs: Picturesque Matchstickable, Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You1950 - Marilyn Cochran
skier: first American to win a World Cup title: 1969 giant slalom champion; bronze medalist at 1970 World Championships1950 - Burt (Carlton) Hooton
baseball [pitcher]: Univ. of Texas: 3-time first-team All-American [1969-1971]; Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers, Texas Rangers; pitching coach: Univ. of Texas, LA Dodgers organization1951 - Benny (Benigno Felix) Ayala
baseball: NY Mets, SL Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979, 1983], Cleveland Indians1953 - Robert Brazile
football: Houston Oilers1955 - Miguel Ferrer
actor: NCIS: Los Angeles, Twin Peaks, Stephen King’s The Stand, Point of No Return, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Robocop, Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock, Flashpoint, Crossing Jordan; son of actor José Ferrer; died Jan 19, 20171956 - John Posey
actor: Teen Wolf, RoboCop 3, Black Water, Alone, Healing Hands, How to Get Away with Murder1959 - Brian Travers
musician: saxophone: group: UB40: King, Food for Thought, My Way of Thinking, I Think It’s Going to Rain, Dream a Lie, The Earth Dies Screaming, Red Red Wine; short film producer: Labour of Love; died Aug 22, 20211960 - James Spader
Emmy Award-winning actor: Boston Legal [2004, 2005, 2007]; The Blacklist, The Practice, Crash, Wolf, Stargate, True Colors, sex, lies and videotape, Wall Street, Mannequin, Endless Love, The Family Tree1961 - Graham McTavish
actor: The Hobbitt film series, Merlin: The Quest Begins, The Wicker Tree, Red Dwarf, 24, Outlander1962 - (Troyal) Garth Brooks
Grammy Award-winning singer: In Another’s Eyes [1998 w/Trisha Yearwood]; Friends in Low Places, The Thunder Rolls; LPs: Ropin’ the Wind [first LP in history to debut at #1 on Billboard’s pop and country charts], The Chase, In Pieces, Fresh Horses, Sevens, Double Live; has sold over 80 million albums -- second only to The Beatles1962 - David Bryan
musician: keyboards: group: Bon Jovi1962 - Eddie Izzard
Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, comedian: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill [1999]; Eddie Izzard: Live at the Ambassadors, The Secret Agent, Inspector Derrick, The Avengers, Mystery Men, It’s the Monty Python Story, Shadow of the Vampire, All the Queen’s Men1965 - Jason Gedrick
actor: Iron Eagle, Born on the Fourth of July, Backdraft, Murder One, EZ Streets, The Last Don II, Falcone1965 - Chris Rock
actor, comedian: Beverly Hills Cop II, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Ninja, The Chris Rock Show, Lethal Weapon 4, Me, Myself & Irene, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Bad Company1968 - Peter Bondra
hockey: Washington Capitals, Ottawa Senators
1970 - Chris Gardocki
football [punter]: Clemson Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears, Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers1972 - Essence Atkins
actress: Dysfunctional Friends, N-Secure, Dance Flick, Football Wives, Deliver Us From Eva, Looking Through Lillian, XCU: Extreme Close Up1972 - Robyn Lively
actress: A Date with Murder, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board, Simon Says, Mystery Woman: Snapshot, Another Party Face, Santa Who?1973 - Tim Bowens
football: Univ of Mississippi; NFL: Miami Dolphins1973 - Juwan Howard
basketball [forward]: Univ of Michigan; NBA: Washington Bullets/Wizards [1994–2001], Dallas Mavericks [2001–2002], Denver Nuggets [2002–2003], Orlando Magic [2003–2004], Houston Rockets [2004–2007], Dallas Mavericks [2007–2008] Denver Nuggets [2008], Charlotte Bobcats [2008–2009], Portland Trail Blazers [2009–2010], Miami Heat [2010–2013]: NBA champs 2012, 2013; coach: Miami Heat [2013]1973 - Victor Webster
actor: Mutant X, Charmed, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, White Collar, Puppy Love1974 - Adrian Brown
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, KC Royals
1974 - Steve Nash
basketball [guard]: Santa Clara Univ; Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks; coach of the Brooklyn Nets1975 - Wes Borland
musician: guitar: group: Limp Bizkit: Counterfeit, Sour, Faith, Nookie, Re-Arranged, N 2 Gether Now, Break Stuff, Crushed1975 - Alexandre Daigle
hockey: Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Flyers, TB Lightning, NY Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota Wild
1978 - Endy Chávez
baseball [center field]: Kansas City Royals, Montreal Expos, Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets1978 - Ashton Kutcher
actor: Two and a Half Men, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where’s My Car?, Reindeer Games, Coming Soon1979 - Cerina Vincent
actress: Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, Not Another Teen Movie, Cabin Fever, Return to House on Haunted Hill, Toxic, Fashion Victim, Complacent, MoniKa, Not Another Teen Movie1985 - Tina Majorino
actress: Scorpion, Napoleon Dynamite, Alice in Wonderland, True Women, Waterworld, Corrina, Corrina, When a Man Loves a Woman, Camp Wilder1985 - Deborah Ann Woll
actress: True Blood, Daredevil, The Defenders, The Punisher, Mother’s Day, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Catch .44, Ruby Sparks, Meet Me in Montenegro, The Automatic Hate1986 - James Deen (Bryan Matthew Seville)
actor [2004-2013]: X-rated films: has appeared in 1,300+ films: The Last Whore House on the Left, Swallow the Leader 3, Teenage Spermaholics 5, Call Girl Confidential, Lascivious Latinas 7, Alexis Texas: Nymphomaniac1988 - Matthew Stafford
football [quarterback]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: Detroit Lions [2009-2020]: 4th QB in NFL history to throw over 5,000 yards in a single season, including one of three in the 2011 NFL season [Drew Brees and Tom Brady]; Los Angeles Rams [2021– ]1989 - Isaiah Thomas
basketball [point guard]: Washington Huskies [3-time all-conference selection]; NBA all-star: Sacramento Kings [2011–2014]; Phoenix Suns [2014–2015]; Boston Celtics [2015–2017]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2017–2018]; Los Angeles Lakers [2018]; Denver Nuggets [2018–2019]; Washington Wizards [2019–2020])1990 - Steven Stamkos
hockey [center]: NHL: Tampa Bay Lightning [2008- ]: won Maurice Richard Trophy winner as the league’s leading goal-scorer [2010, 2012]
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