February 14
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Events on This Day
---- - Hearts and flowers to you on this Valentine’s Day!
1803 - Moses Coats celebrated St. Valentine’s Day by receiving a patent on the apple parer. Makes a delightful gift! Buy a pair of parers. One for you and one for your significant other.
1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the famous photo.
1859 - Oregon, the 33rd state, entered the United States of America this day, exactly ten years and six months to the day since it was organized as a territory. Oregon’s many national parks and recreational areas are home to the state animal, the beaver, which also provides the state with its nickname, the Beaver State. Oregon’s agricultural industry raises more hazelnuts than any other state, hence the state nut is the hazelnut. The fishing industry is also very large in this northwestern state, making the Chinook salmon the official fish. The Douglas fir, a popular Christmas tree in many American households, comes from the forests of Oregon and is the state tree. Other official Oregon state symbols are state bird: western meadowlark; state flower: Oregon grape; state insect: swallowtail butterfly. “She flies with her own wings” (Alis volat Propriis) is Oregon’s state motto. The state gemstone: sunstone; state rock: thunder egg; state song: Oregon, My Oregon; and state dance: square dance. What’s the state capital of Oregon, you ask? No, not Portland, but Salem, and that’s our final answer.
1899 - A law mandating the use of voting machines in federal elections was passed by the U.S. Congress on this day.
1912 - Arizona (probably derived from the word arizonac, from two Papago Indian words meaning ‘place of the young spring’) entered the United States of America this day. For almost five decades, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, was considered to be the last (48th) state. From its beautiful deserts come the state bird: the cactus wren; the state flower: the saguaro cactus’ flower, the state reptile: Arizona ridgenose rattlesnake; state fossil: petrified wood; state gem: turquoise; the oasis, the capital city of Phoenix. More American Indians live in Arizona than any other state, representing over 14 different tribes. But the Spanish influence is everywhere, including the official state neckwear: the bolo tie. Many outsiders don’t think of Arizona as having mountains, snow, lakes and rivers. Just to prove it, Arizona has a state fish: the Arizona trout. From the Grand Canyon to the Painted Desert, Arizona is proof of its state motto: Ditat Deus (God enriches).
1920 - The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago. Its first president was Maude Wood Park.
1924 - The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation changed its name this day. C.T.R. president Thomas J. Watson announced the change -- to International Business Machines Corporation (I.B.M.).
1932 - The U.S. won its first Olympic bobsled competition (both the two-man and four-man races) at the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, NY. Twelve other teams competed in the event. This was also the first bobsledding competition in the United States. The four-man team included Edward Eagan, who was also the 1920 Olympic light heavyweight boxing champion. Eagan's winter gold medal made him the first person to take home gold in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
1941 - Frank Leahy was named head football coach at the University of Notre Dame.
1949 - The very first session of Knesset was held in Israel. The Constituent Assembly, as it was known temporarily, met in the Jewish Agency building in Jerusalem.
1954 - U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy appeared on Meet the Press. The program also marked the first time a news broadcast was televised in color.
1957 - Lionel Hampton’s only major musical work, King David, made its debut at New York’s Town Hall. The four-part symphony jazz suite was conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
1957 - The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was organized -- in New Orleans, LA.
1962 - Impressing millions with her polished TV presence and knowledge of antiquarian history, U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosted a televised tour of the White House that showcased the building’s interior restoration.
1966 - Rick Mount of Lebanon, IN became the first high school male athlete to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
1966 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers set a National Basketball Association record as he reached a career high of 20,884 points after seven seasons as a pro basketball player.
1968 - Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central mergeed to become Penn Central Transportation Company.
1972 - The musical, Grease, opened at the Eden Theatre in New York City. The play later moved to the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway where it became the longest-running musical ever with 3,388 performances. A hit movie based on the stage play starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and produced the hit song, Grease, by Frankie Valli, You’re the One That I Want and Summer Nights by Travolta and Newton-John.
1974 - Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille - the Captain and Tennille - were married in California.
1979 - Twenty-year-old rookie Don Maloney of the New York Rangers scored his first goal in the National Hockey League. It came on his first ever NHL shot! We figure the probability of that happening must be in the many million-to-one category.
1980 - A big day for Dan Rather, as Walter Cronkite announced his retirement from the CBS Evening News. Rather had been selected to replace TV’s best known and most trusted television journalist. Cronkite announced that Rather would take over the anchor desk early in 1981. And “That’s the way it is...”
1984 - British rocker Elton John married sound engineer Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia on this day. (The couple divorced Nov 18, 1988.)
1987 - The largest crowd to see an NBA game gathered at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI. 57,745 folks watched the hometown Detroit Pistons beat the Philadelphia 76ers by a score of 125-107. The mark lasted less than a year, with the Pistons breaking it at the Silverdome once again, drawing 61,983 for a game against Boston on January 29, 1988.
1990 - 92 people were killed and 56 injured in the crash of Indian Airlines flight 605 50 yards short of the runway in Bangalore, India.
1992 - American speed skater Bonnie Blair won her second gold medal of the Albertville Olympics. Blair skated to victory in the 1,000 meters event.
1994 - Michael Jackson sang a cappella passages from his songs Dangerous in a Denver, Colorado courtroom. Jackson used the tunes while testifying in a copyright infringement case. Crystal Cartier had claimed Jackson stole Dangerous from her, but the case was dismissed. The court later began selling audio transcripts of Jackson’s testimony, including his singing, at $15.00 per tape.
1996 - Eva Hart, Titanic survivor, died at 90 years of age.
1997 - These films opened in the U.S.: Absolute Power, starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris and Judy Davis; Fools Rush In, with Matthew Perry Salma Hayek Jon Tenney Jill Clayburgh; That Darn Cat, featuring Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones and George Dzundza; Touch, starring Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Chrisotpher Walken and Tom Arnold; and Vegas Vacation, with Chevy Chase, Beverly D’angelo, Randy Quaid and Wayne Newton.
1998 - Eric Rudolph was declared the suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic. A $100,000 reward was offered for his arrest and conviction. (Police captured Rudolph on May 31, 2003.)
1998 - Usher’s Nice and Slow was number one in the U.S. The single stayed at the top for four weeks: “Let me take you to a place nice and quiet; There ain’t no one there to interrupt; Ain’t gotta rush; I just wanna take it nice and slow; (Now baby tell me what you want to do wit me)... ”
1999 - John D. Ehrlichman died in Atlanta at age 73. Ehrlichman was President Nixon’s domestic affairs adviser who was imprisoned for his role in the Watergate cover-up.
2000 - Seven mountain climbers in Russia were reported killed in an avalanche in the Caucasus Elbrus Range near the Georgia border.
2001 - The Kansas Board of Education approved new science standards restoring evolution to the state’s curriculum.
2003 - Opening in U.S. theatres: Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Colin Farrell, Joe Pantoliano, Jon Favreau, David Keith and Scott Terra; and The Jungle Book 2, featuring the voices of Phil Collins, Jim Cummings, Bobby Edner, Connor Funk, John Goodman, Tony Jay, Bob Joles, Haley Joel Osment, John Rhys-Davies and Mae Whitman.
2005 - Verizon Communications offered to buy MCI Inc. in a $6.75 billion deal. The offer was increased in May to $26 per share, or $8.44 billion.
2006 - Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by U.S. V.P. Dick Cheney in a hunting incident, suffered a minor heart attack as a result of birdshot from the accident having lodged in his heart.
2007 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Music and Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Brad Garrett, Kristen Johnston, Haley Bennett, Aasif Mandvi and Campbell Scott; and Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls, with Gabrielle Union, Idris Elba, Tasha Smith, Gary Sturgis, Tracee Ellis Ross, Lou Gossett, Jr., Malinda Williams, Terri J. Vaughn, Cassie Davis, Juanita Jennings and LaVan Davis.
2008 - New films in U.S. theatres: Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Derek Luke, Abigail Breslin, Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz; Jumper, starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Jamie Bell, Max Thieriot, Shawn Roberts and AnnaSophia Robb; The Spiderwick Chronicles, with Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen and Martin Short; and Step Up 2 the Streets, starring Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Adam G. Sevani and Telisha Shaw.
2008 - Zimbabwe’s inflation rate, already the highest in the world, soared to a new high of 66,212.3%.
2009 - The Peruvian film La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow), directed by Claudia Llosa, won the prize for Best Motion Picture at the 59th International Film Festival Berlin (Berlinale).
2009 - Mexico City set a new record when nearly 40,000 people locked lips in the city center for the world’s largest group kiss. “We did it! Long live Mexico,” said Mexican singer-actress Susana Zavaleta, who serenaded the crowd before the kiss with the classic Mexican ballad, Besame Mucho, or Kiss Me a Lot, also the name of the event.
2010 - Billionaire Larry Ellison, head of Oracle Corp., and the crew of his trimaran USA-17, won the America’s Cup.
2011 - An Ecuadorean judge ruled that Chevron Corp. was responsible for oil contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador’s northern jungle. The court fined Chevron $8.6 billion. The plaintiffs in the case were some 30,000 Ecuadorean farmers and indigenous residents. They accused Texaco (later owned by Chevron) of making residents ill and damaging forests and rivers by discharging 18 billion U.S. gallons (68,000,000 litres) of formation water into the rainforest. Chevron described the lawsuit as an ‘extortion scheme’ and refused to pay the fine. Chevron had no international obligation to pay, and no assets in Ecuador for the government to seize.
2012 - This Means War opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic action comedy stars Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Chelsea Handler, Abigail Spencer, Laura Vandervoort, Til Schweiger and Angela Bassett.
2012 - Top U.S. Catholic bishop, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, voiced his adamant opposition to a compromise by President Barack Obama to his healthcare mandate that exempts religiously affiliated institutions from paying directly for birth control for their workers, instead making insurance companies responsible.
2013 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Beautiful Creatures, with Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Thomas Mann, and Kyle Gallner; A Good Day to Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jai Courtney, Patrick Stewart, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Yuliya Snigir, Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Anne Vyalitsyna and Nikolett Barabas; the animated Escape From Planet Earth, featuring the voices of Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, Paul Reubens, Sofía Vergara, Steve Zahn, Chris Parnell, Jonathan Morgan Heit, James Corden, Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Jessica Alba, Sarah Jessica Parker and William Shatner; and Safe Haven, with Cobie Smulders, Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, David Lyons, Noah Lomax, Mimi Kirkland and Mike Pniewski.
2013 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that Switzerland, one time home of the secret bank account, and the United States had signed an agreement to make Swiss banks disclose information about U.S. account-holders.
2013 - The Chicago Crime Commission named Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, as the city’s Public Enemy No. 1, for supplying most of the narcotics sold in the Chicago area.
2014 - Movies that made Valentine’s Day debuts included: About Last Night, starring Kevin Hart, Joy Bryant and Regina Hall; Endless Love, with Gabriella Wilde, Alex Pettyfer and Bruce Greenwood; Winter’s Tale, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay and Russell Crowe; Date and Switch, with Sarah Hyland, Dakota Johnson and Nick Offerman; Down and Dangerous, starring John T. Woods, Paulie Rojas and Ross Marquand; Gunday, with Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra; and Easy Money: Hard to Kill, starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela and Dragomir Mrsic.
2014 - President Obama visited the San Joaquin Valley to focus on California’s severe drought. This, while the snow-weary eastern U.S. was digging out from yet another mammoth storm.
2014 - A volcanic eruption on Mount Kelud, Java in Indonesia sent a 17 km (10 mile) ash cloud into the air. More than 100,000 were forced to flee their homes and four people were killed.
2015 - 16-year-old Jason Hendrix was killed in a shootout with Maryland police as they tried to pull him over for speeding. During a search of Hendrix’s home in Corbin, KY, police found the bodies of his parents and a younger sister. Hendrix was said to be angry at his parents for taking away his computer privileges.
2016 - Voters in the Central African Republic cast their ballots, hoping to restore democratic rule after years of bloodshed that killed thousands and split the impoverished nation along religious and ethnic lines. On March 1 the constitutional court confirmed the election of former prime minister Faustin-Archange Touadera.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to shut down the federal investigation into former national security advisor Michael T. Flynn, the day after Flynn resigned.
2018 - French President Emmanuel Macron announced that journalists would be moved to a new site out of the presidential Elysee Palace with less access to presidential activity. Macron’s office had increasingly used Facebook and YouTube to spread his message instead of publicly answering media questions. The move was part of a broader effort by the French leader to control his public image.
2018 - A former student went on a shooting rampage at a Florida high school, killing 17 while other panicked students barricaded themselves inside classrooms and frantic parents raced to the scene. The shooting happened about 2 p.m. at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which is about 30 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale. The 17 dead included students and adults. 17 others were injured and taken to local hospitals. It was the deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history, surpassing the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. Following the massacre, student survivors’ anger and frustration towards the perceived inaction of the Republican-dominated legislature on the wider issue of mass shootings and gun violence led to the founding of Never Again MSD, an organization formed by survivors and students of the shooting who demanded legislative action on gun violence. On March 9, 2018 Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that raised the minimum age for buying rifles in the state from 18 to 21. The legislation also established waiting periods and background checks for gun buyers and allowed for the arming of teachers who were properly trained -- and the hiring of school police.
2019 - The U.S. Senate voted 54-45 to confirm William Barr for a second term as U.S. attorney general.
2019 - European plane maker Airbus said it would stop making its superjumbo A380 because of a lack of customers. The European aerospace group said it had made the “painful” decision to stop making the world’s largest superjumbo in 2021 after Emirates, the A380’s biggest customer, reduced an outstanding order for 53 planes to only 14.
2019 - Amazon dropped plans for a big new headquarters in New York City. The new HQ would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, but politicians and activists objected to the nearly $3 billion in incentives promised by NYC to Amazon -- already one of the world’s richest, most powerful companies.
2020 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Downhill, starring Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto and Zach Woods; Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island, with Maggie Q, Lucy Hale and Portia Doubleday; The Photograph, starring LaKeith Stanfield, Issa Rae and Chelsea Peretti; Sonic The Hedgehog, with Jim Carrey, James Marsden and Neal McDonough; What About Love, starring Sharon Stone, Iain Glen and Andy Garcia; Buffaloed, with Zoey Deutch, Judy Greer and Jai Courtney; Olympic Dreams, starring Gus Kenworthy, Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas; Ordinary Love, starring Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville and Amit Shah; Spy Intervention, with Drew Van Acker, Poppy Delevingne and Dave Sheridan; VFW, starring Martin Kove, Stephen Lang and David Patrick Kelly; and You go to my Head, with Delfine Bafort, Svetozar Cvetkovic and Arend Pinoy.
2020 - POTUS Trump removed funding in his 2021 budget for Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military news publication that had been published continuously since World War II for troops stationed around the world. The rationale behind the decision to withhold approximately $15.5 million in funding for "Stars and Stripes" was, “because we need to invest that money, as we did with many, many other programs, into higher-priority issues.” (The decision was reversed in Sep 2020.)
2020 - Federal prosecutors declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, dismissing POTUS Trump’s assertions that McCabe had lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure. The action led to speculation that the Washington-based grand jury probing the matter had taken the rare step of rejecting the charges (against McCabe).
2021 - Bitcoin hit a new high, approaching $50,000, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopted the world’s biggest cryptocurrency. Bitcoin was up some 70% for the year.
2021 - Microsoft President Brad Smith said a hacking campaign that used U.S. tech company SolarWinds Corp as a springboard to compromise a raft of U.S. government agencies was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.”
2021 - The Czech government re-declared its state of emergency to be able to effectively tackle the coronavirus pandemic. This, while Germany closed its borders with the Czech Republic and the Austrian region of Tyrol in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus mutations.
2022 - A study (in the journal Nature Climate Change) found that the U.S. West’s megadrought had deepened so much in 2021 that it was the driest in 1200 years and a worst-case climate change scenario was playing out there. The dramatic drying in 2021 pushed the 22-year drought past the previous record-holder for megadroughts (in the late 1500s).
2022 - The U.S. reported Russian mercenaries with ties to Moscow’s spies had increased their presence in Ukraine in recent weeks, stoking fears that Russia could try to engineer a pretext for an invasion. (As it turned out, the only pretext Putin needed was his fear that Ukraine would join NATO.)
2023 - Three Michigan State University students were killed and five others were critically wounded in a shooting at the university. The gunman was later found dead in Lansing of a self-inflicted gunshot. The 43-year-old man had no affiliation to the school -- was neither a current nor former student or faculty member at MSU.
2023 - The U.S. said it had diverted four Russian aircraft flying near Alaska in recent days, in what government officials called a “routine intercept.” The four detected Russian aircraft included an SU-35 fighter jet. NORAD sent five of its own jets to escort the aircraft away from North American airspace and determined that the jets were not a threat, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
2024 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: Bob Marley: One Love, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, James Norton, Lashana Lynch and Michael Gandolfini; and Madame Web, with Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced and Dakota Johnson.
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Birthdays on This Day February 14
1859 - George Ferris
inventor: Ferris wheel; died Nov 22, 18961894 - Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky)
the stingy, violin-playing, perennial-39-year-old comedian of radio, television and vaudeville; died Dec 26, 19741902 - Thelma Ritter
actress: What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?, A New Kind of Love, How the West Was Won, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Misfits, Pillow Talk; died Feb 5, 19691913 - Mel Allen (Israel)
sportscaster: New York Yankees, This Week in Baseball; “How about that!”; died June 16, 19961913 - Woody (Wayne) Hayes
College Football Hall of Famer: Ohio State head coach for 33 years; died Mar 12, 19871921 - Hugh Downs
TV host: The Jack Paar Show, Concentration, Today, 20/20; died Jul 1, 20201923 - Donna Atwood
ice skater: U.S. National Pairs gold-medalist [w/Eugene Turner: 1941]]; died Dec 20, 20101923 - Jay Hebert
golf champ: PGA [1960], captain of 1971 U.S. Ryder Cup team; died May 25, 19971923 - Cesare Siepi
opera basso; LP: Cesare Siepi sings Cole Porter and Italian Songs; video: Don Giovanni [Siepi Version]; died Jul 5, 20101925 - Elliot Lawrence (Broza)
Emmy Award-winning composer, conductor, arranger, musical director: Night of 100 Stars, Night of 100 Stars II, 1993, 1994, 1995 Kennedy Center Honors; Tony Award: musical direction: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; died Jul 2, 20211929 - Vic Morrow
actor: Combat!, Blackboard Jungle, Police Story, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Treasure of Matecumbe, The Bad News Bears, Twilight Zone: The Movie; killed July 23, 1982 [helicopter accident while filming]1931 - Phyllis McGuire
singer: group: The McGuire Sisters: Sincerely, Sugartime; died Dec 29, 20201931 - Bernie ‘Boom Boom’ Geoffrion
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens [NHL MVP: 1961], NY Rangers; died Mar 11, 20061934 - Florence Henderson
opera singer, actress: The Brady Bunch, Fanny; died Nov 24, 20161935 - Mickey (Mary) Wright
golf champion: U.S. Open [1958, 1959, 1961, 1964], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1973], LPGA [1958, 1960, 1961, 1963]; died Feb 17, 20201936 - Andrew Prine
actor: The Miracle Worker, Gettysburg, The Devil’s Brigade; died Oct 31, 20221939 - Razzy Bailey
singer: Midnight Hauler, If Love Had a Face, Too Old to Play Cowboy, Friends, Anywhere There’s a Jukebox, She Left Love All Over Me, 9,999,999 Tears; died Aug 4, 20211940 - Lillie Bryant
singer: group: Billy and Lillie: La Dee Dah, Lucky Ladybug1942 - Michael Bloomberg
businessman, philanthropist, politician: mayor of New York City [2002-2013]; magnate [worth $30 billion]; autobiography [w/help from a ghost writer]: Bloomberg by Bloomberg; more1943 - Bob Murphy
golf champion: U.S. Amateur [1965], NCAA Championship [1966], Florida Open [1967], Philadelphia Golf Classic [1968], Thunderbird Classic [1968], Greater Hartford Open Invitational [1970], Australian Masters [1970], Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic [1975], Jerry Ford Invitational [1979], Canadian Open [1986]; PGA Tour career earnings: $1,642,8611944 - Carl Bernstein
journalist: [w/Bob Woodward] investigative reporting of the Watergate story1946 - Gregory Hines
dancer, actor: Renaissance Man, Tap, The Cotton Club, Eubie!; died Aug 9, 20031948 - Pat O’Brien
TV host: The Insider, Access Hollywood, How’d They Do That?, Entertainment Tonight1948 - Raymond Teller
illusionist: half of Penn & Teller team at the Penn & Teller Theater at Rio Las Vegas; TV: Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!1950 - Roger Fisher
musician: guitar: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On; more1951 - (Alicia) JoJo Starbuck
ice skater: U.S. national pair skating champ [1970, 1971, 1972]1953 - Martha Raddatz
TV news reporter: World News with Diane Sawyer, Nightline1960 - Jim Kelly
Pro Football Hall of Famer [quarterback]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Buffalo Bills [passed for 35,467 yards -- a Buffalo record]; actor: Necessary Roughness, ESPN SportsCentury1960 - Meg Tilly
actress: Journey, Body Snatchers, The Two Jakes, Agnes of God, Psycho 2, The Big Chill, Winnetka Road1962 - Porsche Lynn (Lauren Pokorny)
actress [1986-2008]: X-rated films: Miami Spice, Down and Dirty in Beverly Hills, The Mile High Girls, Flaming Tongues 2, 21 Hump Street, My Bare Lady, Coming of Age, Battling Bitches 21963 - Enrico Colantoni
actor: Person of Interest, Flashpoint, Just Shoot Me!, Veronica Mars, The Wrong Guy, Galaxy Quest, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Contagion, Monk, Numb3rs, Stargate SG-1, Bones1964 - Richard Gabai
actor: Popstar, The Curse of the Komodo, Final Examination, Spider’s Web, Raptor, Sideshow, Final Voyage; more1964 - Zach Galligan
actor: Cyborg 3: The Recycler, Ice, Caroline at Midnight, Gremlins series1969 - Jeff Graham
football [wide receiver]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers1970 - Sean Hill
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers1970 - Simon Pegg
actor: Star Trek [2009], Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission: Impossible film series, The Adventures of Tintin, Run Fatboy Run, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Spaced; more1972 - Drew Bledsoe
football: QB: Washington State, New England Patriots: Super Bowl XXXI; NFL records: pass attempts in a season [691], pass attempts in a game [70], completions in a game [45]1972 - Rob Thomas
songwriter, lead singer: group: Matchbox Twenty: Push, 3AM, Real World, Back 2 Good, Bent, If You’re Gone, Mad Season, Disease, Unwell, Bright Lights, How Far We’ve Come, She’s So Mean1973 - Steve McNair
football [quarterback]: Alcorn State Univ; NFL: Houston Oilers, Tennessee Titans; died Jul 4, 20091976 - Erica Leerhsen
actress: The Texas chainsaw Massacre, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, The Guardian, The Sopranos, Alias1978 - Danai Gurira
actress: The Walking Dead, Black Panther, Mother of George, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame1984 - Matt Barr
actor: Hatfields & McCoys, Commander in Chief, Harper’s Island, Hellcats, The House Bunny, Pedro, Seven Below, Necessary Roughness1986 - Tiffany Thornton
actress: Sonny with a Chance, So Random!, Hatching Pete, Unlucky Charms, The Dog Who Saved Easter, Disney’s Friends for Change Games1988 - Tracy Spiridakos
actress: Revolution, Majority Rules!, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Boy She Met Online, Being Human1990 - Alshon Jeffery
football [wide receiver]: Univ of South Carolina; NFL: Chicago Bears [2012-2016]; Philadelphia Eagles [2017– ]1992 - Freddie Highmore
actor: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Five Children and It, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Arthur and the Invisibles, August Rush, The Art of Getting By, Bates Motel, The Good Doctor
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Hit Music on This Day February 14
1948Ballerina (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
I’ll Dance at Your Wedding (facts) - Buddy Clark with The Ray Noble Orchestra
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