February 11
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1752 - Through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin, the Pennsylvania Hospital opened. It was the very first hospital in America.1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his tavern warm on this winter day in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel. As a result, that area of northeast Pennsylvania became an important coal mining area for generations. Those who settled in the area to work the coal mines were referred to as ‘coal crackers’.
1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln and his wife left Springfield, IL by train for Washington, DC (and their new gigs as president and first lady). About 400 miles into the trip, Mary Lincoln reportedly turned to the new President and said, "Did you lock the back door, Abe?" and "I think I left my makeup bag on the counter..." (Verification of some of these facts is pending.)
1916 - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presented its first concert. The symphony was the first by a municipal orchestra to be supported by taxes.
1929 - The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City. The treaty was signed by Cardinal Gaspaar i for Pius XI and by Benito Mussolini for Victor Emmanuel III.
1938 - Larry Clinton and his Orchestra recorded Martha on Victor Records. Bea Wain was heard warbling the vocals on the tune.
1940 - NBC radio presented The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street for the first time. The famous Blue network series included several distinguished alumni -- among them, Dinah Shore and Zero Mostel. The chairman, or host, of The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street was Milton Cross. He would say things like, “A Bostonian looks like he’s smelling something. A New Yorker looks like he’s found it.” The show combined satire, blues and jazz and was built around what were called the three Bs of music: Barrelhouse, Boogie Woogie and Blues.
1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe. The General’s efforts in World War II made him so popular that he was elected President of the United States less than a decade later.
1945 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement. Agreement came about after a week of intensive bargaining in Yalta (a Soviet resort town on the Black Sea) by the leaders of the three major Allied powers.
1949 - Willie Pep recaptured the world featherweight boxing title by defeating Sandy Sadler in New York City.
1953 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower refused an appeal for clemency by convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor was the first black woman to become a stewardess (flight attendant) by making her initial flight this day on Mohawk Airlines from Ithaca, NY to New York City.
1960 - Jack Paar walked off NBC’s Tonight Show. The previous night, Paar had told a joke during his monologue, and although Paar didn’t say “toilets,” but “water closets,” it offended the NBC censors, who cut the joke (a total of four minutes) out of the show. Paar was incensed when he found out, so on this night he complained about the NBC censors, said “good night” and left. (He returned on March 7, following a trip to Hong Kong, and stayed around for another two years as host of Tonight.)
1966 - Willie Mays became the highest-paid baseball player in either league as he signed a two-year contract with the San Francisco Giants for a salary of about $130,000 a year.
1968 - The new 20,000 seat Madison Square Garden officially opened in New York. It was the fourth arena to be named Madison Square Garden. The showplace for sports and entertainment opened with a gala show hosted by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
1970 - Variety reported this day that Walt Disney had secretly taken its Song of the South movie out of circulation back in 1958. Originally released in 1946, the live-action/animated flick featuring Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, Uncle Remus and kids, Johnny and Ginny, won an Academy Award (1947) for the song, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. James Baskett won an Oscar for his Uncle Remus role. Variety said Song of the South was pulled because of ...racist attitudes reflected in the Negro roles in the film. (The studio did an about-face and rereleased the film in 1972 -- and several times since.)
1975 - The movie, Shampoo, opened. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden, Lee Grant (who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress), Tony Bill, William Castle and Howard Hesseman starred. And, making her film debut a year before Star Wars made her famous: Carrie Fisher.
1979 - They’re Playing Our Song opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. The romantic musical comedy ran for 1082 performances, closing Sep 06, 1981. The show starred Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz (daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) in her Broadway debut.
1979 - 43 million watched the movie Elvis! on ABC-TV. Kurt Russell played the king.
1982 - ABC-TV’s presentation of The Winds of War concluded on this night. The 18-hour miniseries cost $40 million to produce and was the most-watched television program in history at the time -- topping another ABC presentation, Alex Haley’s Roots. An audience estimated at 140 million people watched one or more nights of the program.
1985 - Kent Hrbek became the first player in the history of the Minnesota Twins to sign a contract for $1 million. The first baseman signed a five-year, $6-million pact at the same time that the Twins celebrated their 24th year as an American League franchise.
1987 - North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith got his 600th career coaching win as the Tar Heels defeated Wake Forest 94-85. At the time, Smith had 600 wins and 173 losses in his 26-year coaching career.
1989 - The Reverend Barbara C. Harris, 55, of Boston, was consecrated as the first female bishop in the 450-year history of the Anglican Church.
1990 - James ‘Buster’ Douglas knocked out ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson in the 10th round to grab the heavyweight boxing crown for himself. Douglas went into that bout in Tokyo a 35-1 underdog.
1990 - Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s leading antiapartheid figure was freed after 27 years in prison. Mandela walked through the gate of Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, setting off celebrations among his followers. Mandela assumed the forefront of the African black struggle after his release from prison.
1991 - German architect Oscar Nitzchke died in Paris. He was 90 years old. His building designs include the Bronx Zoo African Habitat, the Hotel Avila in Caracas, Time Life Building, Alcoa Headquarters, U.N. headquarters in New York and the Los Angeles Opera House.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the first female U.S. attorney general.
1993 - British Prime Minister John Majors said Queen Elizabeth II would begin paying income tax on all her personal income.
1994 - Actor William Conrad died in Los Angeles. He was 73 years old. Conrad was well known for his role as private eye Frank Cannon in the 1970s TV series, but his showbiz history began on the radio in the 1930s. He estimated that he had appeared in over 7,500 roles on radio. Conrad’s longest-running part was that of U.S. marshal Matt Dillon on the radio version of the western Gunsmoke, which aired on CBS radio from 1952 to 1961.
1995 - The space shuttle Discovery landed at Cape Canaveral, FL ending a historic rendezvous mission with Russia’s Mir space station.
1997 - Bill Parcells became head coach of the New York Jets.
1998 - Skier Jonny Moseley won the first U.S. gold medal at the Nagano Olympics, in men's moguls freestyle; Picabo Street won the women’s super-G.
1999 - The cargo ship New Carissa was set on fire off the Oregon coast. The Japanese-owned tanker had drifted aground after its crew had attempted to anchor it on Feb 4. Unfortunately, after high winds moved the 600-foot freighter and its two heavy anchors, the ship became grounded. The fires were started on this day (with explosives) after the coast guard and a clean-up crew decided to burn the 400,000 gallons of fuel in the ship’s tanks to prevent it from spilling into the sea.
2000 - The films opened in the U.S.: The drama/adventure The Beach, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet; the comedy/adventure Snow Day, with Schuyler Fisk, Adam Brown, Mark Webber and Emmanuelle Chriqui; the animated comedy The Tigger Movie, starring starring Tigger and Winnie the Pooh, too (with Jim Cummings as the voice of both).
2001 - After just 31 years of operation, demolition began on Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The three decades of sports history came crashing down as the stadium was imploded by planted explosive charges. Separate baseball and football stadiums were built nearby and, hopefully, they will last a little longer.
2001 - Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen became the first women to cross the Antarctic land mass on skis, sailing and skiing over 94 days and 1,711 miles.
2002 - The Russian figure skating pair won the gold medal in the Winter Olympics over the overwhelming crowd favorite Canadian team. The judging controversy grew into an international scandal that later prompted the International Skating Union to award a gold medal to Canada also.
2003 - China reported that an unidentified illness had killed at least seventeen people in Guangdong province. The mystery disease (later identified as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) left hundreds hospitalized and sent health officials scrambling to find its source.
2005 - Hitch opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic comedy stars Will Smith, Eva Mendes, Kevin James, Julie Ann Emery, Robinne Lee, Amber Valletta and Jeffrey Donovan. And Pooh’s Heffalump Movie debuted. The animated Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger, too) thriller features the voices of Brenda Blethyn, Jim Cummings, Ken Sansom, David Ogden Stiers and Jimmy Bennett.
2005 - The 485-foot-long Shakidor Dam in Baluchistan, in southwest Pakistan, burst under pressure from a week of steady rain. Some 500 people are still unaccounted for.
2006 - Steve Fossett completed the world record for the longest non-stop, unrefuelled, flight. The Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer landed at Bournemouth airport in southern England after a flight of 76 hours and 45 minutes, covering a distance of 26,389.3 miles (42,469.46 km).
2006 - U.S. V.P. Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured his friend, Austin TX attorney Harry Whittington, while they were hunting in Corpus Christi, TX.
2007 - During the first visit by a Russian leader to Saudi Arabia, President Vladimir Putin met King Abdullah and other senior officials. Their discussions centered on regional hotspots as well as economic and military cooperation.
2008 - Dow Jones added Chevron and Bank of America to its DJIA index, while giving the boot to Altria Group and Honeywell International.
2009 - U.S. House and Senate leaders agreed to a $789-billion stimulus package.
2009 - Police found Estelle Bennett, of the Ronettes, dead at her home in Englewood, NJ. She was 67 years old. Bennett sang on 1960s rock hits like Be My Baby, Baby, I Love You and Walking in the Rain, and toured with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
2010 - Volkswagen announced it was recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles in Brazil because of a problem with the rear wheels that could cause them to seize or fall off.
2010 - The U.S. military used a laser gun aboard a Boeing 747 jumbo jet to shoot down a missile near Point Mugu, Ventura County, CA. The airborne laser program began in 1996. The U.S. scrapped the program in 2014, citing affordability and lack of technological know-how.
2011 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: The Eagle, with Channing Tatum, Mark Strong, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland and Denis O’Hare; Gnomeo and Juliet, starring Emily Blunt, James McAvoy, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith and Jason Statham; Just Go With It, starring Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Adam Sandler, Bailee Madison and Heidi Montag; the musical documentary Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, featuring Miley Cyrus, Jaden Smith, Shawn Stockman, Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris and of course, Justin Bieber; Cedar Rapids, starring Sigourney Weaver, Alia Shawkat, Ed Helms, John C. Reilly and Stephen Root; and Certifiably Jonathan, with Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams, Howie Mandel, Nora Dunn, Sarah Silverman, Tim Conway, Jeffrey Tambor, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert Klein, Ryan Stiles, Rob Reiner, Kevin Dunn, David Arquette, Patricia Arquette and Rosanna Arquette.
2011 - Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt’s president following 18 days of mass protests, handing power over to the army and ending three decades of autocratic rule. Cairo erupted in a cacophony of celebration: fireworks and car horns and gunshots in the air. CBS correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the jubilation in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. She was saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. About 23,000 of the nation’s 80,000 prisoners escaped during the 18-day uprising that lead to the ouster of Mubarak.
2012 - 48-year-old singer and actress Whitney Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Her soaring voice had lifted her to the top of the pop music world, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. And she found success in the movies too, appearing in The Bodyguard (1992), as well as Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher’s Wife (1996). But, her personal decline was fueled by years of drug use.
2012 - Snow drifts reaching up to the rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes as the death toll from the big freeze in Europe rose past 550. On the French Mediterranean island of Corsica snow was up to one meter (3.28 feet) thick in the higher villages and all flights were cancelled from Bastia airport.
2013 - U.S. bloodbath du jour: A gunman battling over child custody opened fire in a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware leaving two women dead. He then fatally shot himself.
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI (85) announced that he would resign Feb 28 — the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The Pope cited health concerns as the reason for his departure. The decision set the stage for a conclave to elect a new pope before the end of March.
2014 - A war crimes court in Serbia sentenced the ex-members of the so-called Jackals unit to up to 20 years in prison. The men raped, murdered and robbed victims in four villages in western Kosovo.
2015 - CBS-TV news correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car crash in Manhattan. He was 73 years old. Simon suffered severe head trauma and a broken neck in the crash on the West Side Highway in New York City. His for-hire driver had lost control, resulting in the collision with another vehicle. Simon was extracted from the roof of the limo by rescue workers and transported to a hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
2016 - 49 inmates were killed as two rival factions of the Zetas drug cartel fought for control of the Topo Chico prison in Monterrey, Mexico. During the bloodbath, inmates attacked each other with hammers, cudgels and makeshift blades. The battle demonstrated the power that drug cartels were wielding inside many of Mexico’s jails.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his resort in West Palm Beach, Florida and they played a few rounds of golf at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter. Abe called a North Korea missile launch that flew about 500 km (300 mi) on this day, “absolutely intolerable,” and said North Korea must comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions. Trump, speaking alongside Abe, said that the U.S. was behind Japan, “our great ally,” 100 percent.
2017 - Brazil military police in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo rejected a return-to-work agreement that was aimed at ending a strike that had paralyzed several cities and led to an outburst of violence. 137 people had died during the week-long strike and some 3,000 federal troops had been called in to patrol the streets.
2018 - Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied to mark the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with officials and demonstrators lashing out at the U.S. government. This, just weeks after anti-government protests rocked cities across the country.
2018 - Crooner Vic Damone died in Miami Beach at 89 years of age. He recorded some 2,500 songs over 54 years. Damone is probably best remembered for You’re Breaking My Heart, On the Street Where You Live (from My Fair Lady) and My Heart Cries for You.
2019 - Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government was stronger on national security than the opposition. This, after he signed an agreement with the French government to deliver a fleet of submarines just ahead of federal elections to be held in May (which he and his conservative coalition won).
2019 - 55-year-old Kim Phuc, known as the ‘Napalm Girl’ in an iconic 1972 Vietnam War photo, received a 10,000 euro ($11,350) award in Germany for her work for peace. Phuc, who now lives in Canada, was honored for her support of UNESCO and children wounded in war -- and for speaking out publicly against violence and hatred.
2020 - In the New Hampshire presidential primary: Bernie Sanders won 25.7% of the Democratic primary vote, to Pete Buttigieg’s 24.4%. Amy Klobuchar was third with 19.8% and Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden trailed in single digits. As a result, Andrew Yang said he was ending his presidential campaign that had been built on the promise of a universal basic income of $1,000 a month for every American over 18.
2020 - Southern District of New York judge Victor Marrero approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, allowing two of the largest wireless carriers in the U.S. to combine. The ruling dismissed a challenge brought by a group of state attorneys general. In his decision the judge said, “The court concludes that the proposed merger is not reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition ... and would likely enhance competition in the relevant markets to the benefit of all consumers.”
2020 - The U.N.’s World Health Organization convened outside experts hoping to fast-track promising tests, drugs and vaccines to help slow the outbreak of the new COVID-19 virus. The fast-moving disease had emerged in China, had killed more than 1,000 people, and had spread to two dozen other countries. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the epidemic was “very much an emergency” for China but also “one that holds a very grave threat for the rest of the world.”
2021 - Six people were killed in crashes that involved up to 100 vehicles on I-35 in Fort Worth, Texas as a slurry of winter weather made for slick roads.
2021 - Pfizer filed a registration application for the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in Ukraine. The country received its first batch of 117,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in April.
2022 - The U.S. -- and its allies -- urged their citizens to leave Ukraine immediately to avoid the coming Russian invasion. Washington predicted air assaults could commence at any time.
2022 - After a big backlash, the University of Alabama System’s Board of Trustees voted to name a building after the school’s first Black student instead of having her share the name with a Ku Klux Klan leader (and former governor). Trustees voted unanimously to name the building Autherine Lucy Hall in honor of Autherine Lucy Foster, now 92 years of age. In 1956, Autherine Lucy was the first Black student to enroll in the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in its 136-year history.
2022 - Australia listed koalas along much of its east coast as having become endangered because the native marsupial’s habitats had been hit by prolonged drought, bushfires and developers cutting down trees.
2023 - A passenger van collided with another vehicle in Naawan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines, killing seven policemen and a retired staff sergeant who had attended a police training session.
2023 - The Alican border crossing between Armenia and Turkey was briefly reopened to allow the passage of humanitarian aid following the Turkey–Syria earthquake. The access through that border crossing was the first allowed since 1988.
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Birthdays on This Day February 11
1802 - Lydia Child
writer: Hobomok, The Rebels, The Frugal Housewife, The Mother’s Book, [w/husband] An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans; newspaper publisher [w/husband]: The National Antislavery Standard; died Oct 20, 18801833 - Melville W. Fuller
Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [October 8, 1888-July 4, 1910]; died Jul 4, 19101847 - Thomas Alva Edison
inventor of more than 1000 patented ideas; died Oct 18, 19311889 - John Mills
musician: guitar, singer: bass: group: The Mills Brothers [father of the four Mills brothers, took youngest son John, Jr.’s place after his death in 1935]: Paper Doll, You Always Hurt the One You Love, I Love You So Much It Hurts, I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Someday [You’ll Want Me To Want You], Be My Life’s Companion, Glow-Worm; died Dec 8, 19671908 - Philip Dunne
director: Wild in the Country, Ten North Frederick; playwright: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Ten North Frederick, Pinky, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Forever Amber, How Green was My Valley; founder of the Screen Writers Guild; died June 2, 19921909 - Max (Maximillian Adalbert) Baer
‘The Livermore Larruper’: boxer; father of Beverly Hillbillies’ actor Max Baer Jr.; died Nov 21, 19591909 - Joseph Mankiewicz
Academy Award-winning playwright, director: A Letter to Three Wives [1949], All About Eve [1950]; The Honey Pot, Cleopatra, Guys and Dolls, The Barefoot Contessa, Julius Caesar, People Will Talk; playwright: The Keys of the Kingdom, I Live My Life, Forsaking All Others, Diplomaniacs; director: Sleuth, Suddenly Last Summer, Five Fingers, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; died Feb 5, 19931914 - Matt Dennis
pianist, singer: recorded vocals for Paul Whiteman; died June 21, 20021914 - Josh White
musician [guitar], singer, songwriter, actor, civil rights activist; his musical style influenced generations of musical artists; died Sep 5, 19691917 - Sidney Sheldon
author: Bloodline, The Doomsday Conspiracy, The Other Side of Midnight; died Jan 30, 20071918 - Wesley Rose
singer, music publisher: Acuff-Rose Publications; died April 26, 1990
1919 - Eva Gabor
actress: Green Acres, Gigi, The Last Time I Saw Paris; died July 4, 19951925 - Kim Stanley (Patricia Reid)
Emmy Award-winning actress: A Cardinal Act of Mercy - Ben Casey [1963], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - American Playhouse [1985]; The Right Stuff; died Aug 20, 20011926 - Leslie Nielsen
actor: Police Squad, Airplane, Airplane II, Naked Gun series, Dead and Loving It, Forbidden Planet, Wrongfully Accused; died Nov 28, 20101928 - Conrad Janis
actor: Addams Family Reunion, The Cable Guy, Mr. Saturday Night, Brewster’s Millions, Oh, God! Book II, The Buddy Holly Story; died Mar 1, 20221931 - Larry Merchant
author, sportscaster: HBO boxing1934 - Tina Louise (Blacker)
actress: Gilligan’s Island, Rituals, Jan Murray Time, Dallas1934 - Mary Quant
designer: renowned for her 1960s creations: ‘rib jumpers’, mini skirts, dresses, tights, ‘hipster’ belts, sleeveless crochet tops; died Apr 13, 20231935 - Gene Vincent (Craddock)
singer: Be-Bop-A-Lula, Lotta Lovin’, Dance to the Bop; actor: The Girl Can’t Help It; died Oct 12, 19711936 - Burt Reynolds
Emmy Award-winning actor: Evening Shade [1991], Gunsmoke, Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run, The Longest Yard, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; died Sep 6, 20181938 - Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett
singer: The Monster Mash [released 3 times: 1962, 1970, 1973]; died Apr 25, 20071939 - Gerry Goffin
lyricist: w/Carole King: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman; w/Michael Masser: Tonight I Celebrate My Love, Saving All My Love for You; died Jun 19, 20141940 - John Fink
actor: Bad Company, Flawless, BASEketball, Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story, The Client, Battlestar Galactica1941 - Sergio Mendes
musician: Brasil ’66, Brasil ’77, Brasil ’88: Fool on the Hill, Mas Que Nada, The Look of Love1950 - Clarence Ellis
football: Notre Dame, Atlanta Falcons1953 - (John Ellis) Jeb Bush
politician: Governor of Florida [1999–2007]; father was former U.S. President George Bush; mother was former First Lady Barbara Bush; brother is former U.S. President George W. Bush
1959 - Jeffrey Meek
actor: Break a Leg, She’s No Angel, Code Name Phoenix, Babyraub - Kinder fremder Machte, Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story, As the World Turns, General Hospital, Mortal Kombat: Conquest1961 - Carey Lowell
actress: Licence to Kill, Law & Order, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Empire Falls, Sleepless in Seattle, Six Degrees; wife of actor Richard Gere1962 - Sheryl Crow
Grammy Award-winning singer: All I Wanna Do [1995], The Globe Sessions [1999]1964 - Raoul Ganeev
actor: The Chronicles of Riddick, Crossing, Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice, Along Came a Spider, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Murder at the Cannes Film Festival1964 - Sarah Palin
Governor of Alaska [Dec 4, 2006-Jul 26, 2009]; Mayor of Wasilla, AK [2002-2006]; Republican Vice-Presidential candidate [2008]; more1967 - Derek King
hockey [left wing]: New York Islanders, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Louis Blues1969 - P.J. Sparxx (Laura Brown)
actress [1991-1999]: X-rated films: Where There’s Sparxx There’s Fire, Taboo IX, Muffy the Vampire Layer, The Last Good Sex, Carnival of Knowledge1969 - Jennifer Aniston
actress: Friends, Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide, ’Til There Was You, Waiting for Woody, Rock Star, The Good Girl, Murder Mystery, The Morning Show1971 - Damian Lewis
actor: The Forsyte Saga, Life, Band of Brothers, Homeland1972 - Brian Daubach
baseball: Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets1972 - Kelly Slater
surf champ: 7 ASP World Champion 11 times, including 5 consecutive titles 1994–1998; actor: One Night at McCool’s, Baywatch; TV host: H3O; autobiography: Pipe Dreams1974 - Alex Jones
conspiracy theorist, right-wing radio host: The Alex Jones Show; webmaster: PrisonPlanet.com, infowars.com1976 - Sean Haggerty
hockey [left wing]: Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders, Nashville Predators1977 - Dwayne Hay
hockey [right wing]: Washington Capitals, Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Calgary Flames1977 - Mike Shinoda
songwriter, keyboardist, rhythm guitarist, rapper: group: Linkin Park: In the End, Numb, Breaking the Habit, What I’ve Done, New Divide1979 - Allysin Chaynes
actress [1997-2007]: X-rated films: Hot Bods and Tail Pipe #5, Just 18: Initiation Night Confessions, Dayton’s Naughty Comeback, Baby Doll Lesbian Orgies, Boy Meats Girl1979 - Brandy Norwood
Grammy Award-winning singer: The Boy Is Mine [w/Monica: 1999]; I Wanna Be Down, Baby, Best Friend, Brokenhearted, Sittin’ Up in My Room, Never S-A-Y Never, Top of the World, Have You Ever?, Almost Doesn’t Count, U Don’t Know Me (Like U Used To), What About Us?1980 - Matthew Lawrence
actor: Mrs. Doubtfire, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Gimme a Break!, Brotherly Love, Boy Meets World, The Comebacks1981 - Kelly Rowland
singer: group: Destiny’s Child: LPS: No No No, The Writing’s on the Wall, Survivor; solo: Stole, Can’t Nobody, Dilemma, Put Your Hands Up, Train on a Track1982 - Natalie Dormer
actress: The Tudors, Silk, Game of ThronesSilk, Elementary, Captain America: The First Avenger, A Long Way from Home1985 - Mike Richards
hockey [center]: Philadelphia Flyers [2005-2011]; Los Angeles Kings [2011-2015]: 2012, 2014 Stanley Cup champs; 2010 Vancouver Olympic gold medal w/Team Canada1990 - Q’orianka Kilcher
actress: The New World, Princess Kaiulani, Neverland, Sons of Anarchy, Madison Heights1992 - Taylor Lautner
actor: Twilight film series, Abduction, Valentine’s Day, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D, Cheaper By the Dozen 21994 - Dansby Swanson
baseball [shortstop]: Atlanta Braves [2016–2022]: 2021 World Series champs1998 - Khalid (Donnel Robinson)
songwriter, singer: Location, Young Dumb & Broke, Let’s Go, Coaster, Better, Talk, 1-800-273-8255, Silence, Beautiful People
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Hit Music on This Day February 11
1945Don’t Fence Me In (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Accentuate the Positive (facts) - Johnny Mercer
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