February 9
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1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. We think people always just sat around and talked about the weather, but it took an act of Congress to do something about it! The weather bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS) and is a department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
1895 - The first college basketball game was played as Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated the Porkers of Hamline College, 9-3. That was basketball at its finest, folks...
1932 - America entered the 2-man bobsled competition for the first time at the Olympic Winter Games held at Lake Placid, NY.
1943 - The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific Ocean ended with a U.S. victory. Japanese forces were forced to evacuate.
1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy told the Republican Women’s Club (in Wheeling, WV) that he had a list of known communists employed in the U.S State Department. McCarthy said, “I have here in my hand a list of 205 ... members of the Communist party ... still working and shaping policy in the State Department.” He offered no further proof and didn’t show anybody the list, but this was the beginning of McCarthy’s personal witch hunt for communists in the government that lasted for more than five years.
1953 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the merger of United Paramount Theaters and the American Broadcasting Company. At that time, the ABC network consisted of fourteen stations total: five of its own and nine affiliates, compared with nearly 100 stations each for CBS and NBC.
1955 - Leonard Wibberley’s novel, The Mouse That Roared, was published in Boston by Little, Brown.
1963 - The very first Boeing 727 took off. It became the world’s most popular way to fly. 1,832 of the aircraft were built before production stopped in 1984.
1964 - Several days after their arrival in the U.S., the Beatles made the first of three record-breaking appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. The audience viewing the Fab Four was estimated at 73,700,000 people in TV land. The Beatles sang She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. One could barely hear the songs above the screams of the girls in the audience.
1966 - Liza Minnelli brought her night club act to the Big Apple. She opened in grand style at the Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York.
1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight this day. The milestone ushered in the age of the jumbo jet.
1970 - Sly and The Family Stone received a gold record for the single, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). Sly (Sylvester) Stewart was a DJ in Oakland, CA.
1971 - An earthquake measuring 6.7 struck the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. The temblor, later known as the Sylmar Earthquake, killed 65 people. Property damage reached $500 million.
1976 - Orchestra leader and arranger Percy Faith died in Los Angeles. He was 67 years old. Faith’s hit records included Delicado (1952), The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where is Your Heart) (1953) and Theme from ‘A Summer Place’ (1960), which received the Grammy Award as Record of the Year. Faith recorded 45 albums during his lengthy career with Columbia Records and arranged hits for Guy Mitchell, Tony Bennett and many others.
1981 - Bill Haley died on this day in Harlingen, TX. He was 55. Haley, with his Comets, recorded what became known as the anthem of rock and roll: Rock Around the Clock, from the movie, Blackboard Jungle. The song turned into a multimillion dollar hit and one of many hits Haley and the Comets had, including: Dim Dim the Lights, Razzle Dazzle, Crazy Man Crazy, Rock the Joint, See You Later Alligator and Shake Rattle & Roll. Bill Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1987 - Twenty years after the first woman was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange, the Exchange Luncheon Club decided to install a ladies restroom! Wow! What did those women do for twenty years? Walk across Wall Street? No, actually, the women had to walk down a flight of stairs.
1990 - John Gotti (1940-2002) was acquitted of charges that he commissioned the Westies gang to shoot a union official in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. The acquittal earned him the nickname The Teflon Don.
1990 - The Galileo satellite flew by Venus. The spacecraft’s closest approach was a distance of 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) above the cloudtops. For a day before and several days after the closest approach, Galileo scientists collected measurements of charged particles, dust and magnetism, infrared and ultraviolet spectral observations, data for infrared lower-atmosphere maps, and 81 camera images.
1991 - Lithuanians overwhelmingly voted to secede from the Soviet Union in an independence plebecite ruled illegal by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1993 - NBC News announced it had settled a defamation lawsuit brought by General Motors over the network’s “inappropriate demonstration” of a fiery pickup truck crash on its Dateline NBC program.
1995 - Former U.S. Senator (from Arkansas) J. William Fulbright died in Washington at age 89.
1995 - Actor David Wayne died. He was 81 years old. Wayne won critical acclaim on Broadway (Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill). He was the first actor to receive a Tony award (Finian’s Rainbow). David Wayne moved to Los Angeles in 1977 though his movie credits go back to Portrait of Jennie and Adam’s Rib (1948). Among his many TV roles were the part of Inspector Queen in the Ellery Queen series (1975-1976) and of Willard ‘Digger’ Barnes in Dallas (1978).
1996 - Broken Arrow opened in the U.S. The thriller stars John Travolta and Christian Slater in a “a no-holds-barred race to recover a lost nuclear weapon -- a broken arrow.”
1997 - The Simpsons became the longest-running prime-time animated series. The record was previously held by The Flintstones.
1998 - German Georg Hackl won the men’s luge at Nagano, for his third consecutive Olympics win.
1999 - Heavy snows in Europe caused avalanches that killed twelve people in their homes.
2000 - Some 17,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers began a 40-day strike in Renton, WA. It was one of the biggest ‘white-collar’ strikes in U.S. history.
2001 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Hannibal, with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore, continues the story begun in The Silence of the Lambs; and Saving Silverman, starring Steve Zahn and Jack Black as buddies conspiring to save their best friend, Darren Silverman (played by Jason Biggs), from marrying the wrong woman.
2001 - A collision between the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Greeneville and the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru sank the fishing boat in a matter of minutes. Nine of the 35 persons aboard the Japanese vessel were killed in the collision about nine nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) south of Oahu, Hawaii. The Pearl Harbor-based nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine, was surfacing when it struck the Japanese ship.
2002 - At the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands won the gold medal in the men's 5,000-meter speedskating race. Uytdehaage set a world record of 6:14.66.
2003 - The West beat the East 155-145 in the first double-overtime game in NBA (National Basketball Association) All-Star Game history.
2004 - Tower Records filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The music and entertainment chain had been unable to cope with competition from large retailers, digital downloading and file copying.
2005 - Carly Fiorina’s nearly six-year reign as chief executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) ended as the company’s board forced her out. Patricia Dunn took over as ‘non-executive’ chairman.
2006 - I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, U.S. Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized his disclosing of classified information to reporters.
2007 - New films opening in the U.S.: Hannibal Rising, with Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake and Kevin McKidd; and Norbit, starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
2007 - The U.S. ambassador to Vietnam said the U.S. government would give Vietnam $400,000 toward cleaning up a former U.S. military base contaminated by Agent Orange.
2007 - Scottish-born film and TV actor Ian Richardson died in London at 72 years of age. Richardson played the evil Francis Urquhart in 3 TV miniseries House of Cards (1990), To Play the King (1993) and The Final Cut (1995).
2008 - Senator Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state, slicing into Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama also won almost 90% in the Virgin Islands. On the Republican side, John McCain narrowly won Washington while Mike Huckabee took Kansas and Louisiana.
2009 - Police declared Australian towns that had been destroyed by wildfires to be crime scenes; and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spoke of “mass murder” after investigators said arsonists may have set some of the country’s worst wildfires ever.
2010 - China reported that its first national pollution census had mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste.
2010 - Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level over the strenuous objections of the U.S. and its allies who feared the process wqould eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
2011 - Iran science minister Kamran Daneshjou called for universities to enforce strict sex segregation, saying that allowing men and women to mingle on campus was a sign of the influence of alien western values.
2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama freed ten states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law. His action gave leeway to states that promised to improve how they prepare and evaluate students. The first ten states to receive the waivers are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. New Mexico, only state that applied for the flexibility and did not get it, was said to be working with the Obama administration to get approval. 28 other states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had signaled that they, too, planned to seek waivers. Obama’s action stripped away the fundamental requirement that all students be proficient in reading and math by 2014 for all states showing they offer a viable plan instead.
2013 - The Knights of Malta marked its 900th birthday with a colorful procession through St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, a Mass in the basilica and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who was a member of the Knights. The Knights of Malta is a Roman Catholic religious order, an aid group that runs soup kitchens, hospitals and ambulance services around the globe, and a sovereign entity that prints its own passports and enjoys diplomatic relations with 104 countries — yet has no country to call its own.
2014 - Danish director Lars von Trier presented the long version of his Nymphomaniac Volume I to the Berlin International Film Festival. The cut increased to nearly 2½ hours the first installment of the two-part drama about a woman’s sexual life from girlhood to age 50.
2014 - Severe flooding and landslips (slides) cut off rail links to large parts of southwest England for more than 24 hours as the government came under pressure for its handling of storms battering Britain.
2015 - Evidence published in the journal Nature Geoscience suggested that air pollution tied to industrialization in the northern hemisphere almost certainly reduced rainfall over Central America.
2015 - Los Angeles adopted a program to help its 44,000 down-and-out people without homes, pledging $100 million for the following year. The plan, which could run to $1.87 billion over a decade, also detailed ways the city and other officials could step in to prevent people who are at risk from becoming homeless.
2015 - Voting began in New Hampshire in the first U.S. presidential primary. Republican Donald “They’re bringing drugs, crime and are rapists” Trump got 35% of the vote to beat Ohio’s John Kasich (16%), Ted Cruz from Texas (11%), Florida’s Jeb Bush (11%) and Marco Rubio (10%), and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (7%). Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton 60-38% to win the Democratic primary.
2017 - An electrical failure at the 32-acre West Point Treatment Plant, next to Seattle Washington’s largest park, resulted in catastrophic flooding and damaged an underground network of equipment. The flooding led to a raw sewage flow into the Puget Sound that continued for a week. Damage was estimated at $25 million.
2017 - A French court threw out a complaint by a federation of Catholic families that dating site Gleeden’s business model is illegal and anti-social because it encourages extramarital affairs.
2018 - Movies opening in the U.S. this day included: The 15:17 to Paris, with Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer and Lillian Solange Beaudoin; Fifty Shades Freed, starring Arielle Kebbel, Luke Grimes and Dakota Johnson; the animated Peter Rabbit, featuring the voices of Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie and Elizabeth Debicki; Basmati Blues, starring Brie Larson, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Scott Bakula; The Female Brain, starring Toby Kebbell, Sofía Vergara and Jane Seymour; FourPlay, with Tammy Blanchard, Bryan Greenberg and Dominic Fumusa; and Golden Exits, starring Emily Browning, Craig Butta and Jason Giampietro.
2018 - The White House formally notified the U.S. House intelligence committee that POTUS Trump was refusing to declassify a memo drafted by Democrats that countered GOP allegations about abuse of government surveillance powers in the FBI’s Russia probe. Trump’s rejection of the Democratic memo was in contrast to his enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which he pledged before reading to make public. The POTUS had declassified that document, allowing its publication in full over the objections of the Justice Department.
2018 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, Kim Yo-Jong, took her place among dignitaries from around the world, including U.S. V.P. Mike Pence, at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
2019 - For the 13th weekend, thousands of French ‘yellow vest’ demonstrators marched in Paris, and the protests turned violent. Police used batons and fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators, some of whom threw debris at riot police. Cars, motorbikes and trash bins were set ablaze as the protest moved toward the city's Invalides monument and onto the Eiffel Tower. One demonstrator’s hand was blown off by a flash-ball grenade.
2019 - Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps, which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people, were a “great shame for humanity.”
2020 - 92nd Academy Awards: Parasite, a suspenseful South Korean film, became the first non-English movie to win best picture. Parasite also won the Oscar for best international film, original screenplay and best director. Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) and Renee Zellweger (Judy) picked up the Oscars for best actor and actress. Brad Pitt (Once upon a Time... In Hollywood) and Laura Dern (Marriage Story) won the supporting actor and actress Oscars.
2020 - A storm, named Ciara by the U.K.’s Met Office weather agency, battered the U.K. and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains, halting most travel and producing heaving seas that closed down ports.
2021 - The U.S. Senate began Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. Six Republicans voted with the Democrats to proceed with the trial.
2021 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would ramp up its fight against COVID-19 by requiring citizens returning from the U.S. by land to show a negative COVID-19 test.
2022 - Former POTUS Trump’s longtime accounting firm cut ties with him and his family, saying that nearly a decade’s worth of Trump’s filings should “no longer be relied upon.”
2022 - Former casino executive Gamal Abdelaziz was sentenced to a year and a day in prison. The 64-year-old participated in a conspiracy to secure his daughter’s admission to the University of Southern California as a Division I basketball recruit even though she did not make the varsity team in high school.
2023 - Russia had lost up to half of its operational tank fleet since the start of the Ukraine war -- or about 1,500 tanks. Tanks had been a major focus of the conflict and were seen as key for either country to take territory on the battlefield. The total figure for Russia’s equipment losses -- including tanks and other fighting vehicles -- was almost 9,100, while Ukraine’s total equipment losses stood at about 2,900.
2023 - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national ‘state of disaster’ to respond to the country’s electricity crisis. Daily blackouts had have shined a harsh spotlight on the African National Congress (ANC) party that had ruled since apartheid ended in 1994. The pary had promised electricity and economic growth as dividends of democracy. Instead, officials were talking of trying to avert ‘Armageddon’ -- a total collapse of the electricity grid.
2024 - Lisa Frankenstein opened in the U.S. The horror comedy -- about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse -- stars Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano and Jenna Davis.
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Birthdays on This Day February 9
1773 - William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President [1841]; caught a cold on inaguration day and died 30 days later [Apr 4, 1841]; served shortest term of any U.S. president1866 - George Ade
journalist: Chicago Morning News/Record; playwright: The Sultan of Sulu, Peggy from Paris, The College Widow; humorist: Fables in Slang; died May 16, 19441874 - Amy Lowell
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: What’s O’Clock [1926]; Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds; died May 12, 19251891 - Ronald (Charles) Colman
actor: Lost Horizon, Prisoner of Zenda, Around the World in 80 Days, Romola; died May 19, 19581901 - (Waldo) Brian Donlevy
actor: Destry Rides Again, Wake Island, Arizona Bushwackers, Five Golden Dragons, Jesse James, Dangerous Assignment; died Apr 5, 19721909 - Heather Angel
actress: Bulldog Drummond, Night in Montemarte, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Orient Express, Daniel Boone, Kitty Foyle, Pride and Prejudice; died Dec 13, 19861909 - Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha)
‘Brazilian Bombshell’: singer: Mama Eu Quero, The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat; dancer, actress: Copacabana, Springtime in the Rockies, Down Argentine Way; Chiquita Banana; died Aug 5, 19551909 - (David) Dean Rusk
U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; died Dec 20, 19941914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick)
actress, dancer, stripper: You Can’t Have Everything, The Trouble with Angels, The Stripper, My Lucky Star; subject of Broadway show & film: Gypsy; sister of actress, June Havoc; died Apr 26, 19701914 - Ernest Tubb
Country Music Hall of Famer: Walking the Floor Over You; headlined 1st country music show at Carnegie Hall; died Sep 6, 19841914 - Bill Veeck
Baseball Hall of Fame owner: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Chicago White Sox; promoter: outrageous door prizes, ingenious promotional schemes [Bat Day, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, player names on backs of uniforms]; signed AL’s first black player [Larry Doby: 1947] and oldest rookie [42-year-old Satchel Paige: 1948]; died Jan 2, 19861922 - Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Hednick)
actress: Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, The Kissing Bandit, It Happened in Brooklyn, Anchors Aweigh; died Feb 17, 20101923 - Brendan Behan
Irish dramatist: The Quare Fellow [prison drama: 1956], The Hostage [1958], Borstal Boy [autobiography: Borstal Boy: 1958], Brendan Behan’s Island [1962], Hold Your Hour and Have Another [1964], The Scarperer [1964]; jailed for Irish Republican Army activities; died Mar 20, 19641925 - Vic (Victor Woodrow) Wertz
baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1949, 1951, 1952], St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1954/all-star: 1957], Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins; died July 7, 19831928 - Roger Mudd
newsman: CBS News, NBC News, PBS; died Mar 9, 20211931 - Robert Morris
sculptor: Observatory, Transcendence, The Fallen and the Saved, Kansas City’s Bull Wall at the American Royal Arena; died Nov 28, 20181933 - Ronnie Claire Edwards
actress: The Waltons, Boone, Sara, Sordid Lives, Inherit the Wind, 8 Seconds, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Dead Pool, Perfect, Getting Wasted; author: The Knife Thrower’s Assistant; died Jun 14, 20161933 - Jo Ann Prentice
golf: Nabisco/Colgate Dinah Shore Champion [1974]1937 - Clete Boyer
baseball: Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves; died Jun 4, 20071939 - Barry Mann
songwriter: with Cynthia Weil on dozens of 1960s & 1970s ‘Brill Building hits’; singer: Who Put the Bomp [in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp]1939 - Janet Suzman
actress: Nicholas and Alexandra, A Dry White Season, Voyage of the Damned, The House on Garibaldi Street1940 - Brian Bennett
musician: drums: group: The Shadows: Don’t Cry for Me Argentina1942 - Carole King (Klein)
songwriter, singer: Loco-motion, It Might as Well Rain Until September, It’s Too Late, Jazzman1943 - Barbara Lewis
singer: Make Me Your Baby, Hello Stranger, Baby I’m Yours1943 - Joe Pesci
Academy Award-winning actor: Goodfellas [1990]; Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Hey, Let’s Twist!, Star Time Kids, Half Nelson, The Irishman1944 - Alice Walker
author: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Meridian1945 - Bill Bergey
football: Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles linebacker: Super Bowl XV1945 - Mia Farrow (Maria de Lourdes Villers)
actress: Peyton Place, Hannah and Her Sisters, Rosemary’s Baby1946 - Bob Eastwood
golf: PGA Tour champ: USF&G Classic, Danny Thomas Memphis Classic [1984], Byron Nelson Golf Classic [1985]1947 - Joe Ely
composer, songwriter, musician: guitar: Dam of My Heart, I Had My Hopes Up High, Brainlock, Character Flaw, She Never Spoke Spanish To Me, Tennessee’s Not the State I’m In1947 - Major Harris
singer: Love Won’t Let Me Wait, Each Day I Wake Up, Jealousy, Laid Back Love, Special, Here We Are, Living’s Easy Now; died Nov 9, 20121949 - Judith Light
actress: One Life to Live, Who’s the Boss, Phenom, Ugly Betty1951 - Dennis Thomas
musician: alto sax: group: Kool and the Gang: Celebration, Joanna, Let’s Go Dancin’ [Ooh La, La, La], Cherish, Jungle Boogie, Hollywood Swinging; died Aug 7, 20211953 - Ciarán Hinds
actor: Game of Thrones, The Phantom of the Opera [2004], Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Woman in Black, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Rome, Above Suspicion, Political Animals1955 - Charles Shaughnessy
actor: The Nanny1963 - (James) Travis Tritt
Grammy Award-winnning singer: vocal collaboration w/Marty Stuart [1993]; Anymore, Can I Trust You with My Heart, Help Me Hold On; appeared in: Rio Diablo, The Cowboy Way, Sgt. Bilko, Tales From The Crypt, half-time show at 1993’s Super Bowl1965 - Julie Warner
actress: Baseball Wives, Pros and Cons, Tommy Boy, The Puppet Masters, Indian Summer, Mr. Saturday Night, Doc Hollywood, The Guiding Light1968 - Derek Strong
basketball [forward]: Xavier Univ; NBA: Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, L.A. Lakers, Orlando Magic L.A. Clippers1969 - Jimmy Smith
football [wide receiver]: Jackson State Univ; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars1971 - Sharon Case
actress: Breast Men, Diplomatic Immunity, The Young and the Restless, Valley of the Dolls1974 - Amber Valletta
actress: The Last Time, Man About Town, Transporter 2, Hitch, Max Keeble’s Big Move, The Family Man, Raising Helen1976 - Charlie Day
actor: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Horrible Bosses, Going the Distance, Bad Company, A Quiet Little Marriage, American Dad!1978 - A.J. Buckley
actor: CSI: NY, Walking Tall: The Payback, Disturbing Behavior, Doomsday Prophecy, The Super Hero Squad Show1979 - Ziyi Zhang
actress: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rush Hour 2, House of Flying Daggers, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Founding of a Republic, Sophie’s Revenge, Kristin, Forever Enthralled1980 - Margarita Levieva
actress: Revenge, The Invisible, Adventureland, Spread, The Lincoln Lawyer, Knights of Badassdom, For Ellen, The Loft1981 - Tom Hiddleston
actor: Loki, The Night Manager, Thor, War Horse, The Deep Blue Sea, Midnight in Paris, The Avengers [2012]1982 - Jameer Nelson
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Orlando Magic [2004–2014]; Dallas Mavericks [2014]; Boston Celtics [2014–2015]; Denver Nuggets [2015–2017]; New Orleans Pelicans [2017–2018]; Detroit Pistons [2018]1985 - David Gallagher
actor: 7th Heaven, Look Who’s Talking Now, Angels in the Endzone, Ri¢hie Ri¢h’s Christmas Wish, Super 8, CSI: NY1985 - Rachel Melvin
actress: Days of our Lives, Cry of the Mummy, Boo, Seven Deadly Sins, Castle1987 - Michael B. Jordan
actor: The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Fruitvale Station, Chronicle, Creed, That Awkward Moment, Red Tails, Fantastic Four, Parenthood1987 - Rose Leslie
actress: Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, The Good Fight; stage: The Children’s Monologues, Bedlam1990 - Tyson Houseman
actor: The Twilight Saga film series1990 - Camille Winbush
actress: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Bernie Mac Show, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 7th Heaven, Criminal Minds, That’s Life, The Norm Show, NYPD Blue, Any Day Now1996 - Jimmy Bennett
actor: Daddy Day Care, Hostage, Poseidon, Orphan, Star Trek [2009], Bones, The Return of Captain Kidd, Movie 431996 - Kelli Berglund
actress: Lab Rats, Lab Rats: Elite Force, How to Build a Better Boy, Now Apocalypse, Raising the Bar, Going for Gold, Animal Kingdom
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Hit Music on This Day February 9
1952Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
Cry (facts) - Johnnie Ray
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