February 12
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1878 - Frederick W. Thayer, the captain of the Harvard University Baseball Club, patented the now-familiar, baseball catcher’s mask. We thought he was sitting in the dugout, scouting pitchers -- but instead, he was drawing pictures of this contraption. Sure beats eating a baseball sandwich, though.1880 - The National Croquet League was organized in Philadelphia, PA. And they ate croquettes at their awards banquet (well, maybe).
1908 - The now-famous New York-to-Paris automobile race began via Seattle and Yokohama, Japan. The race started at Times Square in New York City. Six automobiles were entered in the race. George Schuster got the checkered flag after 170 days. He spent 88 of them actually driving.
1924 - Bandleader Paul Whiteman presented his unique symphonic jazz at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. The concert marked the first public performance of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue. The composer, himself, was at the piano this night. Distinguished guests included John Philip Sousa and Jascha Heifetz.
1924 - Calvin Coolidge, known by many as the ‘Silent President’, made the first presidential political speech on radio. The speech originated from New York City and was broadcast on five radio stations. Some five million people tuned in to hear the President speak.
1924 - The Eveready Hour became radio’s first sponsored network program. The National Carbon Company took the honor of being the first sponsor of a network show. Today, the battery maker “keeps on going, and going, and going, and going...”
1940 - Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the comic-strip hero, Superman. The identity of the man from planet Krypton was unknown to listeners for six years. The secret eventually leaked out that Superman’s voice was actually that of Bud Collyer, who would later host the hit television program, To Tell the Truth on CBS.
1942 - Mildred Bailey recorded More Than You Know on Decca Records.
1949 - Annie Get Your Gun closed at the Imperial Theater on Broadway after 1147 performances.
1950 - Albert Einstein warned against the dangers of the hydrogen bomb.
1954 - Pierre Etchebaster, the reigning, world, open-court tennis champion for the previous 16 years, retired at age 59. He may have said, “I’ve had enough of this racket,” but, we haven’t confirmed that at this time. We do know, however, that he ‘netted’ quite a name for himself throughout the tennis world, and his popularity is forever ‘set’ in the history of the sport. Pierre Etchebaster was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1978.
1955 - The McGuire Sisters’ Sincerely single went to #1 -- for six weeks.
1964 - The Beatles played two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City, concluding a very successful American tour.
1968 - Singer and famed guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, received an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, WA, where he had dropped out at the age of 14. The legendary psychedelic blues musician who founded The Jimi Hendrix Experience and later, The Band of Gypsies (with Buddy Miles on drums), recorded several highly acclaimed albums, including Are You Experienced and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hit songs included: The Wind Cries Mary, Purple Haze and All Along the Watchtower. Hendrix also did a screaming psychedelic version of The Star-Spangled Banner. Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970.
1972 - Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together knocked American Pie out of the top spot on the music charts. The record stayed at the top for one week, before giving way to Nilsson’s Without You. Green returned to his gospel roots in 1980 and is a minister in Memphis, TN. He recorded 14 hit songs with six of them making it to the Top 10.
1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs along Interstate 71. These new signs showed the distance in both miles and kilometers. The metric system, though standard in many nations around the world, never quite caught on in the United States, except on major-league baseball stadium fences -- and in a few scattered locations around the country.
1976 - Actor Sal Mineo was murdered in Los Angeles. Lionel Ray Williams was eventually convicted for killing Mineo. Although there was considerable confusion relating to what witnesses had seen in the darkness the night Mineo was murdered, it was later revealed that prison guards had overheard Williams admitting to the crime. Among the films Mineo starred in were Exodus and Rebel Without a Cause. He also enjoyed modest success as a recording artist, scoring a top-ten hit in 1957 with Start Movin’.
1985 - Johnny Carson surprised his audience by shaving the beard he had been sporting on The Tonight Show. Carson quipped: “I had to do it when a little old lady said that she had confused me for one of the Smith Brothers.” There was silence from the studio audience, until Johnny timed it perfectly by saying, "You know, the cough drop guys." Uproarious laughter.
1991 - Former New York City Mayor Robert Wagner died at 80 years of age. Wagner served three terms as mayor of New York City (1954-1965).
1994 - Celine Dion’s The Power of Love was the #1 single in the U.S. It ruled the musical roost for four weeks: “We're heading for something; Somewhere I've never been; Sometimes I am frightened; But I'm ready to learn; Of the power of love.”
1994 - The XVIIth Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer, Norway. The games ran through Feb 27th.
1997 - Dangerous Ground opened in U.S. theatres. The movie cast Ice Cube with Elizabeth Hurley. Go figure...
1998 - U.S. federal district judge T. Hogan struck down President Bill Clinton’s new Line-Item Veto Act as unconstitutional.
1998 - At Nagano, Norwegian Bjorn Daehlie became the first man to win six Winter Olympic gold medals, as he placed first in the 10-kilometer classical cross-country race.
1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The romantic comedy Blast From the Past, starring Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek and Dave Foley; the romantic Message in a Bottle, with Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, John Savage, Illeana Douglas, Robbie Coltrane, Jesse James and Paul Newman; and the comedy My Favorite Martian, starring Jeff Daniels, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn, Christine Ebersole and Michael Lerner.
2000 - Hall-of-Fame football coach Tom Landry, who led the Dallas Cowboys to five Super Bowls in 20 consecutive winning seasons, died in Irving, Texas at 75 years of age. He had been hospitalized with leukemia for several months.
2001 - A court allowed Napster to continue operating, pending a case against it. The legal action did, however, open the peer-to-peer file sharing service to millions of dollars in damages that dramatically changed how it did business.
2002 - The war crimes trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic began at the Hague in the Netherlands.
2003 - Kemmons Wilson founder of the Holiday Inn chain, died in Memphis, TN. He was 90 years old.
2004 - Some 90 gay and lesbian couples wed in San Francisco. Over the following few days, many more took their vows.
2005 - Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and U.S. presidential candidate, was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
2006 - A storm dumped a record-breaking 27 inches of snow on New York City, closed many major airports, and left 200,000 without power in Washington DC and Baltimore MD.
2007 - Peter Ellenshaw, Adademy-Award-winning (Mary Poppins 1965) special effects artist for Walt Disney, died at 93 years of age. Ellenshaw worked on many Disney feature films. His talent and experience with special visual effects were so respected that Disney called him out of retirement (after ten years) to work on its The Black Hole movie in 1979.
2008 - General Motors Corporation reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company.
2008 - Barack Obama won 75% of the primary vote in Washington DC, nearly two-thirds in Virginia and approximately 60% in Maryland.
2008 - Speedo introduced its new LZR Racer swimsuit. By June 2008, 38 of 42 world swimming records were broken by swimmers wearing the suit.
2009 - Canada announced that its federal police would stop using stun guns against suspects merely resisting arrest or refusing to cooperate. At least 20 Canadians had died after being zapped by stun guns.
2009 - A Continental Airlines commuter plane, Continental Connection 3407 from Newark, NJ, coming in for a landing at Buffalo, NY, nose-dived into a house in the suburbs. The fiery explosion that ensued killed all 49 people aboard the plane and one person in the house. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the U.S. in 2 1/2 years. Historian Alison Des Forges, prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda, was among the victims of the crash. (The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found the probable cause of the crash to be the pilots’ inappropriate response to stall warnings.)
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: My Name Is Khan, with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol; The documentary, October Country, written and directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher; and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief, starring Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman and Ray Winstone; The Wolfman, with Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik; and Valentine’s Day, starring Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, Anne Hathaway, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Taylor Lautner, George Lopez, Shirley MacLaine, Emma Roberts, Julia Roberts and Taylor Swift.
2010 - A massive iceberg, about the size of Luxembourg, struck Antarctica, dislodging another giant block of ice from the huge floating Mertz Glacier and shaved off a new iceberg.
2010 - Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a horrific crash on a training run as the XXI Olympic Winter Games began in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2011 - Italian auto giant Fiat, under pressure to abandon plans to move its headquarters to the United States, committed to invest €20 billion to produce 1.4 million vehicles in Italy.
2012 - The Artist won seven BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards including best film at the ceremony in London. Meryl Streep clinched the leading actress prize for her portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher both as a politician at the height of her power and as a frail elderly lady suffering from dementia, in The Iron Lady.
2012 - The 54th Grammy Awards show was presented in/from Los Angeles. British singer Adele won every award she was up for: song, record [Rolling In the Deep], album [21] of the year, best pop solo [Someone Like You], pop vocal album [21] and short form music video [Rolling In the Deep]. LL Cool J hosted the show and was the first official host in seven years. The telecast was the second-highest rated in Grammy history with 39.9 million TV viewers, second only to the 1984 Grammys [43.8 mil]. And that rating was 50% higher than the 2011 show.
2013 - Christopher Dorner, a fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop who had been sought in three murders, died (self-inflicted gunshot wound) after an exchanged of gunfire with police in the San Bernardino, California Mountains. He died as police set fire to the cabin he had taken refuge in. Dorner had been wanted in connection with a series of shooting attacks on police officers and their families from February 3–12, 2013.
2014 - RoboCop opened in U.S. theatres. The action, crime drama stars Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Michael K. Williams, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Samuel L. Jackson, Zach Grenier, Aimee Garcia, Patrick Garrow, K.C. Collins and Daniel Kash
2014 - Comcast agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion in stock. The deal would combine the two largest U.S. cable companies. The proposed merger was approved by Comcast shareholders on October 8, 2014 and by Time Warner shareholders the next day. (After heavy opposition from the U.S. Dept of Justice, Comcast withdrew its offer in April 2015.)
2014 - TV comedy king Sid Caesar died at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. His Your Show of Shows dominated the Saturday viewing habits of millions of Americans in the 1950s.
2015 - England and Wales passed laws banning ‘revenge porn’ -- sexually explicit images posted online by a former partner without their ex’s consent.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Deadpool, with Morena Baccarin, Ryan Reynolds and Gina Carano; How to be Single, with Dakota Johnson, Alison Brie and Leslie Mann; Zoolander 2, starring Olivia Munn, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Wiig, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and Owen Wilson; Cabin Fever, with Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario and Nadine Crocker; It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, starring Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg and Richard Ng; Providence, with Jenn Gotzon, Irene Santiago and Juli Tapken; and Touched with Fire, starring Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby and Christine Lahti.
2016 - Thousands of Egypt’s doctors staged a rare protest against police abuses. This, after accusations that two doctors had been beaten by policemen in a Cairo hospital.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama designated some 1.8 million acres of scenic California desert as national monuments. The action doubled the amount of public land set aside for protection during his presidency.
2017 - British singer-songwriter Adele won five more Grammys (see 2012 above) at the 59th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, including Album of the Year for 25, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year for Hello. James Corden hosted the TV broadcast of the awards show from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. David Bowie and Greg Kurstin won four trophies each. Chance the Rapper won for Best New Artist and two other awards. Check out all of the winners here.
2017 - Swiss voters approved a measure that would make it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens. The vote crushed right-wing nationalists who had stoked fears about granting nationality to more Muslims.
2018 - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that department employees should step in and intervene when they witness sexual harassment. This, a day after POTUS Donald Trump expressed sympathy for those accused of harassment.
2018 - Research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the pace of sea level rise. At the rate the ice was melting, the world’s oceans will be at least two feet higher by the end of the 21st century.
2019 - Macedonia’s new name, North Macedonia, took effect after constitutional changes were published in the Official Gazette and Skopje’s foreign ministry said both Greece and Macedonia had informed the U.N. by letter that the change was in force.
2019 - California Governor Gavin Newsom, in his first State of the State address, said he would shrink the high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles to just a segment from Bakersfield to Merced. During the address, he said that while he respects the vision of his predecessors Governors Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger, “…there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were.” “Let’s be real,” Newsom said. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long. There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.”
2020 - The Anti-Defamation League reported that incidents of white-supremacist propaganda distributed across the U.S. jumped by more than 120%, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of white-supremacist propaganda material had more than doubled.
2020 - Dan David Prize winners were announced. The Israel-based Dan David Prize gives $1 million prizes in three categories each year: past, present and future. Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of Jewish studies won in the "past" category. Women's health rights advocate Debora Diniz and feminist scholar Gita Sen split the prize in the "present" category. Demis Hassabis, founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind, and Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye, an Intel company that develops technology for self-driving vehicles, split the "future" prize.
2020 - Japanese police confirmed the arrest of a mother-and-son duo for making more than 3,200 no-show hotel cancellations, costing the hotels $1 million. Why? Apparently to collect reward points worth some $22,000.
2021 - Movies scheduled to open on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Land, starring Robin Wright, Kim Dickens and Warren Christie; Minari, with Steven Yeun, Yeri Han and Alan S. Kim; Adverse, starring Thomas Ian Nicholas, Mickey Rourke and Penelope Ann Miller; Breaking News in Yuba County, with Mila Kunis, Allison Janney and Juliette Lewis; Fear of Rain, starring Katherine Heigl, Madison Iseman and Harry Connick Jr; Puaada, with Sonam Bajwa and Ammy Virk; and Young Hearts, starring Anjini Taneja Azhar, Quinn Liebling and Alex Jarmon.
2021 - Citigroup Inc reported outgoing Chief Executive Officer Mike Corbat would have to get by on compensation of just $19 million for 2020, a 21% decrease from 2019.
2021 - The Biden administration said 25,000 asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings would be allowed into the United States while their cases proceeded.
2021 - Italy’s health ministry said the highly contagious variant of the COVID-19 virus first found in Britain was accounting for some 17.8% of all new infections in Italy, with the infection rate ticking up in many parts of the country.
2022 - The State Department ordered non-emergency U.S. embassy staff to leave Ukraine amid rising threat of invasion from Russia. President Biden had urged U.S. citizens to leave Ukraine and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Russian forces could invade its neighbor at any time, including before the conclusion of the Beijing Winter Olympics (Feb 20).
2022 - Chief Secretary John Lee said China was helping Hong Kong to cope with an expanding COVID-19 outbreak by providing testing, treatment and quarantine capacity -- as China continued to worm its way back into control of Hong Kong.
2023 - A U.S. fighter jet shot down an unidentified object near Lake Huron, marking the third time in a week that the U.S. military has taken down objects in North American airspace. February 11th, an unidentified object was downed over northern Canada, a day after another object had been shot down over Alaska.
2023 - Super Bowl LVII (57) at State Farm Stadium in Glendale (Phoenix), Arizona: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35. MVP was KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who completed 21 of 27 passes for 182 yards and three touchdowns. And three touchdowns and a two-point conversion scored by the Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts tied the record for most points scored by a player in a Super Bowl (20). The Fox broadcast of the game became the most-watched program in U.S. TV history, with an average of 115.1 million viewers. The halftime show, headlined by singer Rihanna, peaked at 118.7 million viewers. (2015’s Super Bowl 49, with the New England Patriots 28 beating the Seattle Seahawks 24, was the second-most-viewed program in TV history -- 114.4 million viewers. And 2017’s Super Bowl 51 overtime thriller on Fox [New England Patriots 28, Atlanta Falcons 24] was seen by 113.7 million, as Tom Brady lead his team back from a 28-3 deficit.)
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Birthdays on This Day February 12
1775 - Louisa Adams (Johnson)
wife of 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams; died May 15, 18521809 - Charles Darwin
naturalist: theory of evolution: On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex; died Apr 19, 18821809 - Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President [1861-1865]; married to Mary Todd [four sons]; assassinated Apr 15, 18651880 - John L. Lewis
U.S. labor leader: United Mine Workers of America; died June 11, 19691881 - Anna Pavlova
Russia’s premier ballerina; died Jan 23, 19311893 - Omar Bradley
5-star U.S. Army General who commanded the highly effective 12th Army Group, which helped ensure the Allied victory over Germany; first Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1949-1953]; died Apr 8, 19811904 - Ted Mack (William Maguiness)
TV host: The Original Amateur Hour, The Ted Mack Family Hour; died July 12, 19761914 - (Gordon) Tex Beneke
bandleader, singer, tenor sax: Glenn Miller Orchestra: Chattanooga Choo Choo, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree; died May 30, 20001915 - Lorne Greene
newscaster: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation [CBC]; actor: Bonanza, The Silver Chalice, Earthquake, Battlestar Galactica; pseudo-singer: Ringo; died Sep 11, 19871917 - Dom (Dominic Paul) DiMaggio
‘The Little Professor’: baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1941, 1942, 1946, 1949-1952/World Series: 1946]; younger brother of Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio; died May 8, 20091919 - Forrest Tucker
actor: Sands of Iwo Jima, The Yearling, Thunder Run, F Troop; died Oct 25, 19861923 - Mel Powell
pianist, composer: Mission to Moscow for Benny Goodman; music educator: Dean of Music at California Institute of Arts; died Apr 24, 19981923 - Franco Zeffirelli (Corsi)
director: The Champ, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Endless Love, Jesus of Nazareth; died Jun 15, 20191926 - Joe (Joseph Henry) Garagiola
baseball: catcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1946]; Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, NY Giants; sportscaster: NBC’s Game of the Week; TV host: Today, Westminster Dog Show; author: Baseball is a Funny Game, It’s Anybody’s Ballgame; died Mar 23, 20161930 - Arlen Specter
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania [1981–2011]; died Oct 14, 20121934 - Bill Russell (William Felton)
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: NBA MVP [1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965]; died Jul 31, 20221935 - Gene McDaniels (Eugene Booker McDaniels)
singer: A Hundred Pounds of Clay, Tower of Strength, Chip Chip; died Jul 29, 20111935 - Ken Still
golf champ: Florida Citrus Open [1969], Greater Milwaukee Open [1969], Kaiser Open [1970]; died Mar 19, 20171936 - Joe Don Baker
actor: Cool Hand Luke, The Natural, Fletch, Citizen Cohn, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, Ring of Steel, Charlie Varrick1936 - Richard Lynch
actor, film villain: Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker, The A-Team, Charmed, Star Trek: The Next Generation; died Jun 19, 20121938 - Judy Blume
author: Superfudge, Blubber, In the Unlikely Event,1938 - Johnny Rutherford
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner: 1974, 1976, 1980 [oldest driver to win an Indy race]1939 - Ray Manzarek
musician: co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors: The End, Light My Fire, People are Strange, Love Me Two Times, Riders on the Storm; died May 20, 20131942 - Pat (Patrick Edward) Dobson
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968], San Diego Padres, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1971/all-star: 1972], Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees, Cleveland Indians; died Nov 22, 20061944 - Moe Bandy
singer: Americana, Where’s the Dress, Till I’m Too Old to Die Young; ten #1 hits, 45 top-ten hits; LP: Good Ol’ Boys [w/Joe Stampley1945 - Maud Adams
actress: Octopussy, Killer Force, The Man with the Golden Gun, Emerald Point N.A.S., Chicago Story1945 - Cliff De Young
actor: Blue Collar, F/X, Sunshine, Master of the Game, Centennial1946 - Joe Schermie
musician: bass: group: Three Dog Night: One, Easy to be Hard, Eli’s Cooming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala; died Mar 25, 20021949 - Stanley Knight
musician: guitar: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Mean Woman [If You Ever Blues], Uncle Elijah, Hot and Nasty, When Electricity Came to Arkansas, Fever in My Mind, Gravel Roads1949 - Len (Leonard Shenoff) Randle
baseball: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners1950 - Steve Hackett
songwriter, musician: guitar: group: Genesis: Invisible Touch, Turn It on Again, Land of Confusion, Hold on My Heart, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, In Too Deep, That’s All1950 - Michael Ironside
actor: V, Scanners, Top Gun, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, Total Recall, Free Willy, SeaQuest DSV, ER, Starship Troopers, The Perfect Storm, X-Men: First Class1952 - Simon MacCorkindale
actor: Falcon Crest, Manimal, Counterstrike, Obsessive Love, Jaws 3, Death on the Nile; died Oct 14, 20101952 - Michael McDonald
musician: keyboards, singer: I Keep Forgettin’ [Every Time You’re Near], On My Own, By Heart; group: The Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, Black Water; more1953 - Joanna Kerns
actress: The Four Seasons, Growing Pains; gymnast1956 - Arsenio Hall
Emmy Award-winning TV talk-show host: Emmy Award-winning TV talk-show host: The Arsenio Hall Show Show [1990, 1993]; MTV Video Music Awards [1988-1991], The Late Show, The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour; actor: Harlem Nights, Coming to America, Amazon Women on the Moon, Martial Law; entertainer: Thicke of the Night, Motown Revue1963 - Brian Haley
actor: Gran Torino, Baby’s Day Out, Pearl Harbor, The Man Who Wasn’t There, The Departed, Gran Torino, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Adjustment Bureau1964 - Raphael Sbarge
actor: stage: The Curse of an Aching Heart, Hamlet, Ah, Wilderness!, Ghosts, The Twilight of the Golds, The Shadow Box, Voices in the Dark; films: Once Upon a Time, Pearl Harbor, Risky Business, Last of the Ninth, Gardens of the Night, Home Room, The Fair, Message in a Bottle1965 - Alex Meneses
actress: Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, The Hughleys, Amanda and the Alien, Selena, Living in Peril, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Auto Focus, NCIS, Funny Money1966 - Lochlyn Munro
actor: A Night at the Roxbury, Scary Movie, Freddy vs. Jason, Northwood, Charmed, Riverdale, White Chicks1968 - Josh Brolin
actor: Mister Sterling, Milwaukee, Minnesota, D.C. Smalls, Hollow Man, Picnic, Best Laid Plans, The Mod Squad; his father is actor James Brolin1969 - Darren Aronofsky
film director: Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, The Fighter, Noah, Below, The Fountain, The Wrestler1968 - Chynna Phillips
singer: group: Wilson Phillips; daughter of singers John and Michelle Phillips; half-sister of actress Mackenzie Phillips; married to actor Billy Baldwin1973 - Tara Strong
actress: Sabrina, Down Under, Sabrina Goes to Rome, Senior Trip, Reform School Girl, Skin Deep, Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story1975 - Scot Pollard
basketball [center]: Univ of Kansas; NBA: Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers; more1976 - Curtis Brown
hockey [center]: Buffalo Sabres, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks1977 - Melissa Howard
actress: The Real World, Girls Behaving Badly1977 - Raylene (Stacey Briana Bernstein)
actress [1996-2012]: X-rated films: The Video Adventures of Peeping Tom 7, Peckers, Sex with a Stranger, Busty Housewives 3, Brunettes Behaving Badly 21979 - Jesse Spencer
actor: Neighbours, Death in Holy Orders, Uptown Girls, House M.D., Swimming Upstream1980 - Juan Carlos Ferrero
former World #1 tennis champ: French Open [2003]1980 - Sarah Lancaster
actress: Catch Me If You Can, Teacher’s Pet, Rocket’s Red Glare, Lovers Lane, Sorority, Michael Landon, the Father I Knew, Saved by the Bell, Chuck1980 - Christina Ricci
actress: The Addams Family [1991], The Ice Storm, The White Rose, Monster, Anything Else, The Gathering, Pumpkin, The Laramie Project, All Over the Guy, Grey’s Anatomy1988 - Afshan Azad
actress: Harry Potter film series1988 - Mike Posner
songwriter, singer: Cooler Than Me, Please Don’t Go, Bow Chicka Wow Wow; wrote, produced Boyfriend by Justin Bieber, Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth, songs for Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg1990 - Robert Griffin III
football [quarterback]: Baylor University [won the 2011 Heisman Trophy]; NFL: Washington Redskins [2012–2015]; Cleveland Browns [2016]; Baltimore Ravens [2018–2020]1993 - Jennifer Stone
actress: Wizards of Waverly Place, Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, Secondhand Lions, Phineas and Ferb, Mean Girls 2, Deadtime Stories: Grave Secrets
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Hit Music on This Day February 12
1946Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
I Can’t Begin to Tell You (facts) - Bing Crosby with the Carmen Cavallaro Orchestra
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