February 18
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1735 - The first opera performed in America, known as either Flora or Hob in the Well, was presented in Charleston, SC.1908 - U.S. postage stamps in coil form were sold for the very first time. They cost only a penny -- or two...
1913 - The famous French painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, by the French artist, Marcel Duchamp, was displayed at an ‘Armory Show’ in New York City. The work was labeled as America’s first look at modern art. Critics called the work “scandalous” and “meaningless.” Yeah, well, it’s a beautiful, classic work of art no matter if it looks like an android doing The Twist.
1922 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigned his post as U.S. District Judge in Illinois. He hung up his robe and donned a baseball cap, instead. Judge Landis had been baseball commissioner since 1920 and wanted to devote all of his time to America’s pastime.
1927 - Singer Jessica Dragonette starred on radio’s Cities Service Concerts (sponsored by the oil company of the same name) and literally, “sang her way into radio immortality.” She also sang on the Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre in the 1930s. In 1940 she starred on Pet Milk’s Saturday Nite Serenade. Her many fans referred to her as the “first great voice of the air.”
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane. Elm Farm Ollie was a Guernsey who took to the air and as a special added attraction, got a milking in flight (mmmmmoooooooo!) while over St. Louis, MO. The milk was sealed in little paper containers and then parachuted over the city. And you thought we were just winging it with this stuff, didn’t you?
1930 - Pluto, the ninth planet in order from the sun, was discovered this day. Clyde W. Tombaugh stumbled across Pluto using the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. (The announcement of the discovery wasn’t made until March 13, 1930.) Note: In 2006 Pluto was reclassified as a ‘dwarf planet’ by the International Astronomical Union. However, a number of scientists continue to hold that Pluto should be classified as a planet. And debate goes on...
1932 - Sonja Henie won her 6th world women’s figure skating title in Montreal, Canada.
1942 - The Mills Brothers recorded one of their three greatest hits. Paper Doll became Decca record #18318. In addition to Paper Doll, the other two classics by the Mills Brothers are: You Always Hurt The One You Love (1944) and Glow Worm (1952).
1944 - The U.S. Army, Navy and Marines invaded Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. The U.S. took control two days later, completing the capture of the Marshall Islands.
1949 - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar debuted on CBS radio. The program starred Charles Russell as the insurance investigator with the action-packed expense account. The show was the last of the major, dramatic network programs on radio. Johnny Dollar walked into the radio sunset in 1962.
1953 - The new fad in America was 3-D, as demonstrated in the movie, Bwana Devil. The 3-D feature opened at Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. Arch Oboler directed the movie which starred Robert Stack and the three-dimensional Barbara Britton.
1953 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz signed a contract worth $8,000,000 to continue the I Love Lucy TV show through 1955. The deal was the richest contract in television. “Babaloo!”
1960 - The VIIIth Winter Olympic Games were opened in Squaw Valley, California. A lack of snow had prompted organizers to hire Native Americans to do a snow dance, but a deluge of rain was the only result. Snow finally arrived just before the opening ceremonies, which had to be delayed to await the arrival of U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, who would declare the games open. The storm had held up his flight.
1964 - Any Wednesday opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The play established Gene Hackman as an actor. Don Porter and Sandy Dennis also starred in the show.
1969 - A Mineral County Airlines vintage DC-3 airliner, a ‘gambler’s special’ flying vacationers home to California from Hawthorne, Nevada, disappeared over the Sierra Nevada Mountains while on a nighttime flight; almost six months later, in August 1969, searchers finally located the remains of the plane and the bodies of its 32 passengers and crew of three after melting snows exposed the wreckage. The DC-3, while flying in poor weather, had slammed into a near-vertical cliff on the eastern slope of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in California (and highest in the United States outside of Alaska).
1972 - The California Supreme Court declared the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the state constitution. 107 inmates were taken off death row. Among those spared by the ruling was Charles Manson.
1973 - The King Biscuit Flower Hour debuted in the U.S. with a live (nationally syndicated) broadcast of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Mahavisnu Orchestra. The program also featured a then unknown Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
1977 - The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden ‘flight’, reaching altitudes of 16,000 feet above the Mojave Desert.
1980 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s Liberal Party won Canada’s elections.
1984 - Reed Larson of Detroit got two assists to become the highest scoring American-born player in the history of the National Hockey League. Larson broke the record (previously held by Tom Williams) by scoring his 432nd point.
1985 - Diver Greg Louganis was recognized as the top amateur athlete in the United States, as he received the James E. Sullivan Award of the Amateur Athletic Union in Indianapolis, IN. Louganis had won double gold at the 1984 Olympic Games.
1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1992 - In the New Hampshire primary, U.S. President George Bush (I) won the Republican election while challenger Patrick Buchanan placed a considerably strong second. Among Democrats, Paul Tsongas came in first.
1994 - At the Winter Olympic Games in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen won gold, breaking the world record in the 1,000 meters.
1997 - Trinity Broadcasting Network, a U.S. Christian TV net, cancelled Pat Boone’s weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show. The network said it received thousands of protest phone calls and letters from its ‘prayer partners’. Boone explained that his garb was designed to promote his album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy.
1998 - Long-time Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray died at the age of 83; in Rancho Mirage, California.
1999 - Transamerica Corporation was bought by Aegon NV of the Netherlands in a deal valued at $9.7 billion. The assessed value of the Transamerica Pyramid building in San Francisco was set at $190 million.
2000 - Movies opening in the U.S. were: Boiler Room, with Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel; Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell; and The Whole Nine Yards, with Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Clarke Duncan, Amanda Peet, Rosanna Arquette, Kevin Pollak and Harland Williams.
2001 - Veteran FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested. He was accused of being a Russian spy for more than 15 years. In July 2001, as part of a plea agreement, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy, thus avoiding the death penalty.
2002 - France’s Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat won the Olympic ice dancing gold medal in the competition at Salt Lake City UT. Irina Lobacheva and Ilia Averbukh of Russia were second by a 5-4 judging split, followed by world champions Barbara Fusar Poli and Maurizio Margaglio of Italy.
2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American country singer (Take This Job and Shove It), died in Nashville, TN. He was 64 years old.
2004 - The U.S. federal debt passed the $7 trillion mark. Check the U.S. debt now. Yes, those were the days...
2005 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Because of Winn-Dixie, with Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson and AnnaSophia Robb; Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Tilda Swinton, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale and Peter Stormare; and Son of the Mask, with Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Traylor Howard,Bob Hoskins.
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) declared American Samoa a major disaster area after Hurricane Olaf wiped out nearly all homes in at least one village in the Manua Islands.
2006 - Eight workers at a meat processing plant in Lincoln NE won a record $365 million Powerball jackpot (the winning number was drawn on this day).
2006 - A winter storm packing wind gusts up to 77 mph rolled across the Northeast U.S., downing trees and power lines. The ‘Blizzard of 2006’ had killed four people and thousands were without electricity.
2006 - Character actor Richard Bright was struck and killed by a tour bus in New York City; he was 68 years old. In 1972, Bright appeared in The Godfather as Al Neri, one of Michael Corleone [Al Pacino]’s lieutenants. Bright had supporting parts in The Getaway (1972) and costarred in The Panic in Needle Park (1971).
2007 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans to overhaul gun laws after three teenage boys were shot dead in south London during the month. The killings had prompted a national debate about guns and gangs among youths.
2009 - A Chinese state news agency reported that AIDS was the top killer among infectious diseases in China -- for the first time in 2008. 6,897 people had died in the nine months through September 2008.
2010 - U.S. President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House, brushing aside China’s warning that talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage relations between the countries.
2011 - Motions pictures debuting in the U.S.: Big Momma’s: Like Father, Like Son, starring Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas, Michelle Ang, Portia Doubleday, and Emily Rios; I am Number Four, with Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, and Callan McAuliffe; Brotherhood, with Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta and Jennifer Sipes; The Chaperone, starring Paul Levesque, Kevin Corrigan, José Zúñiga, Kevin Rankin, and Enrico Colantoni; and the documentary The Last Lions, featuring Jeremy Irons.
2011 - Ford Motor Co. announced plans to team up with Russian automaker, Sollers, to make and distribute cars in Russia. The move came shortly after Italian automaker Fiat SpA backed out of a potential partnership with Sollers.
2012 - A trial began in a $2.6 billion dollar banking fraud case in Iran. 32 people connected to some of the country’s largest financial institutions were charged with financial corruption, including taking bribes. At the center of the fraud was a company called the Aria group, which was founded in 2005 with a mere $50,000. In 2011, estimates put its value at more than $3.5 billion. The $2.6 billion bank fraud was described as the biggest financial scam in the Iran’s history -- and raised uncomfortable questions about corruption at senior levels in Iran’s tightly controlled economy. (In July 2012 the court sentenced four people to death and gave two others life sentences.)
2013 - Eight masked gunmen forced their way through the security fence at the international airport in Brussels, Belgium. The gang drove onto the tarmac and snatched some $50 million worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane -- without firing a shot. Philip Baum, an aviation security consultant in Great Britain, said the robbery was worrying — not because the fence was breached, but because the airport security response did not appear to have been immediate. That, he said, raised questions as to whether alarms were ringing in the right places. (31 suspects in the heist were arrested in a multicountry sweep on May 8, 2013.)
2014 - An elderly nun who broke into what was supposed to be one of the most carefully guarded nuclear facilities in the U.S. was sentenced in Chicago to 35 months in prison. 84-year-old anti-nuclear activist Sister Megan Rice was part of the pacifist group Transform Now Plowshares that had cut through fences and several layers of security at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee.
2015 - The U.S. and Canada agreed on financing the construction of a toll plaza for a new $2.1 billion bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor. A public-private partnership would reimburse costs for the plaza construction by collecting bridge tolls.
2017 - U.S. Republican Senator John McCain delivered a withering critique of POTUS Donald Trump. McCain’s speech highlighted fractures within the GOP as the new administration struggled to overcome a chaotic start. Speaking in Germany at the Munich Security Conference, McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, didn’t mention the Trump by name, but lamented the shift in the U.S. and Europe away from the “universal values that forged the Western alliance seven decades ago.”
2018 - Some 200 British female entertainment stars called for an international movement to end sexual misconduct across society. This, in a letter published ahead of the British Academy Film Awardspresented this day. Harry Potter star Emma Watson donated £1 million to the campaign. Watson was one of the first donors to the U.K. Justice and Equality Fund, which launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for a new advice network.
2018 - The ferocious female-led tragi-comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the big winner at the British Academy Film Awards in London. The drama won five trophies including best film, best British film and best actress for Frances McDormand. Other winners included Gary Oldman (best actor) for playing Winston Churchill. That was one of two awards for the World War Two epic Darkest Hour. Fantasy romance The Shape of Water took three trophies, including best director for Guillermo Del Toro.
2019 - The New York City Commission on Human Rights released guidelines enabling people to seek fines and other remedies if they were harassed or punished in public spaces because of their hair texture or style. “Bans or restrictions on natural hair or hairstyles associated with Black people are often rooted in white standards of appearance and perpetuate racist stereotypes that Black hairstyles are unprofessional,” the commission wrote. New Yorkers have the right to “maintain natural hair or hairstyles that are closely associated with their racial, ethnic, or cultural identities.”
2019 - California, New York and 14 other states filed a lawsuit against POTUS Trump’s “emergency” declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement that Trump was “willing to manipulate the Office of the Presidency to engage in unconstitutional theater performed to convince his audience that he is committed to his ‘beautiful’ border wall. We’re suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states.”
2020 - The Boy Scouts of America, barraged by sex-abuse lawsuits, filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware. The hope was to work out a victim compensation plan that would allow the 110-year-old organization to carry on.
2020 - French President Emmanuel Macron announced measures intended to counter Islamic extremism in France by giving the government more authority over the schooling of children, the financing of mosques and the training of imams. Macron said he was seeking to combat “foreign interference” in how Islam is practiced and the way its religious institutions are organized. “A problem arises when, in the name of religion, some want to separate themselves from the Republic (France) and therefore not respect its laws,” he said.
2020 - A Tel Aviv court ordered Facebook to unblock the private account of a worker at an Israeli surveillance company (NSO Group). Similar rulings were expected for other employees in the coming days. Facebook’s messaging service WhatsApp had accused the Israeli firm of helping government spies break into the phones of some 1,400 users in a hacking spree targeting diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials around the world.
2021 - Arkansas state Senator Jim Hendren said that he was leaving the GOP, citing Donald Trump’s rhetoric and the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol promoted by the former POTUS.
2021 - California venture capitalist Imaad Shah Zuberi was sentenced to 12 years in prison for unregistered foreign lobbying, illegal campaign contributions and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from an investigation into a $900,000 contribution Zuberi made to former Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.
2021 - FEMA sent generators, blankets, and other supplies to Texas to help people struggling without power or running water. This, after a blast of extreme winter weather hit the area. President Biden also approved emergency declarations for Oklahoma and Louisiana, two other states hit by the storm.
2021 - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz flew to the Mexican resort city of Cancun with his family, as millions of his fellow Texans struggled through the deadly deep freeze.
2021 - Zimbabwe started giving COVID-19 vaccinations, with Vice President Constantino Chiwenga volunteering for the first jab at a hospital in the capital of Harare. Zimbabwe was one of just a handful of African countries to embark on an inoculation campaign.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in U.S. theatres included: The Cursed, with Boyd Holbrook, Ji-won Uhm, Ji-so Jung and Kelly Reilly; Dog, starring Channing Tatum, Q’orianka Kilcher, Aqueela Zoll, Kevin Nash and Carlos (plays Max the dog); Uncharted, starring Tom Holland, Sophia Ali, Mark Wahlberg and Tati Gabrielle; A Banquet, with Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander and Ruby Stokes; A Fairy Tale After All, with Gabriel Burrafato, Chelsi Hardcastle, Amy Morse and Bridget Winder, with characters voiced by Brian Hull, Lucie Jones and Anna Brisbin; The Ledge, starring Brittany Ashworth, Ben Lamb and Nathan Welsh; Pursuit, starring Emile Hirsch, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow and John Cusack; Strawberry Mansion, with Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney and Ephraim Birney; and Uncharted, starring Tom Holland, Sophia Ali and Mark Wahlberg.
2022 - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the sale of 250 Abrams tanks to Poland. This, as Washington continued to strengthen the defenses of the key eastern European ally amid the mounting threat of war between neighboring Ukraine and Russia.
2022 - At least six people were stabbed in New York City’s subway system, with the first attacks unfolding just hours after Mayor Eric Adams and New York Gov. New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled a new plan to combat violence on public transit. The plan would bar people from sleeping on trains or riding the same lines all night. More teams of police and mental health workers would be deployed to the transit network to start enforcing existing rules more strictly.
2023 - The Global financial system was “dysfunctional and unfair” and was “failing developing countries”. So said U.N. Secretary General António Guterres at the opening of African Union leaders’ summit in Ethiopia.
2023 - Joe Biden may have ordered the military to shoot down a hobbyist group’s small balloon by mistake. The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade said one of their pico balloons went “missing in action” on February 11. A member said that when they heard of the incident, they thought: “That could be one of our balloons.” And the president said the U.S. was updating its guidelines for monitoring and reacting to unknown aerial objects.
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Birthdays on This Day February 18
1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany
artist and designer best known for his work in stained glass, including lampshades, jewelery, tiles and vases; son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; died Jan 17, 19331892 - Wendell L. (Lewis) Willkie
lawyer, politician: U.S. presidential nominee: Republican Party [1940]; author: One World; died Oct 8, 19441895 - George ‘The Gipper’ Gipp
football: [halfback]: Notre Dame Univ; died Dec 14, 19201898 - Enzo Ferrari
auto racer, auto manufacturer; died Aug 14, 19881901 - Wayne King
‘The Waltz King’: saxophonist, bandleader: The Waltz You Saved for Me; died July 16, 19851907 - Billy De Wolfe (William Andrew Jones)
actor: The Perils of Pauline, Lullaby of Broadway, Tea for Two; died Mar 5, 19741914 - Pee Wee King
bandleader, songwriter: The Tennessee Waltz, Slow Poke, You Belong to Me, You Don’t Need Love Anymore, Gonna Have a Good Time Tonight, Cripple Creek, You’ll See the Day; died Mar 7, 20001915 - Phyllis Calvert
actress: Mrs. Dalloway, All Passion Spent, Oscar Wilde, Men of Two Worlds; died Oct 8, 20021919 - Jack Palance (Vladimir Palahnuik)
Academy Award-winning actor: City Slickers [1991]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Batman, Cyborg 2, Cops and Robbersons, Bronk, Ripley’s Believe It or Not; died Nov 10, 20061920 - Bill Cullen
TV host: I’ve Got a Secret, The Price is Right, The Joker’s Wild, Name that Tune; died July 7, 19901922 - Helen Gurley Brown
feminist; publisher: Cosmopolitan; author: Sex and the Office; died Aug 13, 20121923 - Allan Melvin
actor: With Six You Get Eggroll, Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, Et Tu Otto, Psychological Testing; died Jan 17, 20081925 - George Kennedy
Academy Award-winning actor: Cool Hand Luke [1967]; The Blue Knight, Earthquake!, Naked Gun series, Airplane, Dallas, Delta Force, The Dirty Dozen; died Feb 28, 20161927 - John Warner
Republican U.S. Senator [Virginia 1979-2009]; U.S. Secretary of the Navy [1972-1974]; husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor [1976–1982]1928 - Jim McElreath
Indy Car driver: Indy 500 Rookie of the Year [1962]; died May 18, 20171930 - Gahan Wilson
‘America’s master of the macabre’: cartoonist: Playboy, The New Yorker; died Nov 21, 20191931 - Johnny Hart
cartoonist: B.C., The Wizard of Id; died Apr 7, 20071931 - Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Nobel Prize [1993] and Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Beloved [1988]; National Book Critics Circle Award: Song of Solomon [1977], Jazz, Tar Baby, Sula, The Bluest Eye; died Aug 5, 20191931 - Bob St. Clair
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Francisco 49ers: played in five Pro Bowls; died Apr 20, 20151932 - Milos Forman
Academy Award-winning director: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest [1975], Amadeus [1984]; died Apr 13, 20181933 - Yoko Ono Lennon
singer: Walking on Thin Ice; artist; John Lennon’s widow1938 - Manny Mota
baseball [1962-1982]: San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers [World Series 1981]; coach: longest tenured coach in L.A. Dodgers history [World Series 1988]1939 - Dal (Charles Dallan) Maxvill
baseball: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968], Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1974], Pittsburgh Pirates1941 - Andrea Dromm
actress: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Come Spy with Me, Star Trek [TV]1941 - Herman Santiago
singer: group: Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, The ABCs of Love1941 - Irma Thomas
singer [Soul Queen of New Orleans]: Don’t Mess With My Man, It’s Raining, Ruler of My Heart, Cry On, Time Is on My Side1945 - Judy Rankin (Torluemke)
golf champion: Nabisco Dinah Shore [1976], Du Maurier Classic [1977]1947 - Dennis DeYoung
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Styx: Lady, Sweet Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Babe, The Best of Times; solo: Desert Moon1948 - Sinéad Cusack
actress: Stealing Beauty, Cyrano de Bergerac, Revenge; married to actor, Jeremy Irons; daughter of actor, Cyril Cusack1948 - Keith Knudsen
musician: drums, singer: group: The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes, Real Love; died Feb 8, 20051949 - John (Claiborn) Mayberry
baseball: Houston Astros, KC Royals [all-star: 1973, 1974], Toronto Blue Jays, NY Yankees1949 - Jerry (Julio Ruben Torres) Morales
baseball: SD Padres, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1977], SL Cardinals, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets1950 - John Hughes
film writer, producer, director: Sixteen Candles, Maid in Manhattan, Just Visiting, Reach the Rock, Flubber, Miracle on 34th Street [1994], Baby’s Day Out, Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; died Aug 6, 20091950 - Bruce (Eugene) Kison
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971, 1979], California Angels, Boston Red Sox1950 - Cybill Shepherd
actress: Cybill, Moonlighting, The Last Picture Show, The Long Hot Summer1951 - Dick Stockton
Texas Tennis Hall-of-Famer1952 - Randy (Veronica) Crawford
singer: Imagine, Nightline, One Day I’ll Fly Away, Rainy Night in Georgia1952 - Juice Newton (Judy Cohen)
singer: Angel of the Morning, LPs: Juice, Quiet Lives1953 - Robbie Bachman
drummer: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Let It Ride, Takin’ Care of Business, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Roll on Down the Highway1954 - Marty Howe
hockey: NHL: Hartford Whalers, Boston Bruins; Hartford Whalers radio color analyst; son of NHL Hall-of-Famer Gordie Howe1954 - John Travolta
actor: Welcome Back Kotter, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy, Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Primary Colors, The Thin Red Line, Swordfish, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story; more1957 - Vanna White (Rosich)
TV game show personality: Wheel of Fortune1959 - Jayne Atkinson
actress: Broadway: The Rainmaker, Enchanted April; TV, films: 24, Criminal Minds, The Getaway, Twelve and Holding, Free Willy, The Village, The Revenge of Al Capone, Between Two Women1960 - Andy Moog
hockey: [goalie]: NHL: Edmonton Oilers, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens; career: 372-209-88 [.622 winning percentage]; coach: Dallas Stars1960 - Greta Scacchi
actress: White Mischief, Presumed Innocent, Baltic Storm, Broken Trail1964 - Matt Dillon
actor: My Bodyguard, Drugstore Cowboy, The Outsiders, There’s Something About Mary1964 - Kevin Tapani
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs1965 - Dr. Dre (André Young)
rap singer: pioneered gangsta hip-hop G-Funk: Back ’N The Day, The Chronic, Dr. Dre 2001, First Round Knockout
1967 - John Valentin
baseball: [shortstop, second, third base]: Boston Red Sox, New York Mets1968 - Molly Ringwald
actress: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Facts of Life, Requiem for Murder1970 - Susan Egan
actress: Broadway: Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie; films: The Third Wish, 13 Going on 30, The Almost Guys, The Disappearing Girl Trick, XCU: Extreme Close Up, Lucid Days in Hell1971 - George Teague
football [safety]: Univ of Alabama; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins1973 - Shawn Estes
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres1974 - Jillian Michaels
personal trainer; author: Slim for Life, Master Your Metabolism; TV host: The Biggest Loser, Just Jillian1975 - Sarah Brown
Emmy Award-winning winning actress: General Hospital [1997, 1998, 2000]; Heart of the Beholder, The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story, Hostile Force1975 - Chad Moeller
baseball [catcher]: USC; MLB: Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Los Amgeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds1981 - Alex Rios
baseball [right field]: Toronto Blue Jays [2004–2009]; Chicago White Sox [2009–2013]; Texas Rangers [2013–2014]; Kansas City Royals [2015- ]: 2015 World Series champs]1988 - Maiara Walsh
actress: Desperate Housewives, Cory in the House, Switched at Birth, Revolution, Mean Girls 2, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Starving Games1990 - Didi Gregorius
baseball [shortstop]: Cincinnati Reds [2012]; Arizona Diamondbacks [2013–2014]; New York Yankees [2015-2019]; Philadelphia Phillies [2020–2022]1991 - Malese Jow
actress: Unfabulous, The Vampire Diaries, The Troop, Big Time Rush, The Social Network, Shelter1992 - Le’Veon Bell
football [running back]: Michigan State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [2013-2018]: AFC co-Offensive Player of the Year [2014]; New York Jets [2019–2020]; Kansas City Chiefs [2020]; Baltimore Ravens [2021]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2021]
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Hit Music on This Day February 18
1952Cry (facts) - Johnnie Ray
Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
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