February 23
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Events on This Day
1821 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries was established. It was the first pharmacy college in the U.S. It became incorporated the following year as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the first college of pharmacy in the Western Hemisphere. Remember those little glass bottles called apothecary jars -- the ones we now use as canisters and for decoration?1839 - William F. Harnden organized the nation’s first express service -- in Boston, MA. The service operated between Boston and New York City.
1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum. He produced it using electricity; and just in time for wrapping the 20th century’s lunch sandwiches, too!
1905 - The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, IL by Attorney Paul Harris. A national association of the very popular civic club was formed in 1910. In 1922 the organization which was for men only, adopted the name Rotary International. It continues with millions of members throughout the world -- both men and women.
1927 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that created the Federal Radio Commission, “to bring order out of this terrible chaos.” The president was speaking, of course, of the nation’s then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across the U.S. The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1934.
1934 - Casey Stengel became manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as he signed his first major-league contracts.
1937 - Bing Crosby sang with Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians, as Sweet Leilani was recorded on Decca Records. The Academy Award-winning song was featured in the movie Waikiki Wedding.
1939 - The 11th Academy Awards were celebrated at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles (for the flicks of 1938). Oscars were doled out for You Can’t Take It with You for Best Picture and Best Director (Frank Capra). Capra, who took home his third Best-Director prize, had won for 1934’s It Happened One Night and 1936’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The Best Actor award was claimed for the second year in a row (Captains Courageous) by Spencer Tracy for Boys Town. Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards were presented to Bette Davis and Fay Bainter, respectively, for their performances in Jezebel; while Walter Brennan took home the prized statuette for Best Supporting Actor in Kentucky. These were Davis’ and Brennan’s second Academy Awards; the first for Davis was awarded three years earlier for Dangerous, and Brennan received his first Oscar two years before for Come and Get It. Walt Disney won an honorary Oscar for the film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Mr. Disney actually received one Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones for his work “ ... which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field,” according to press accounts that day.
1942 - The first shelling of the U.S. mainland during World War II occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery in Ellwood, California (110 miles northwest of Los Angeles); it was the first enemy attack in almost 130 years.
1944 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) dictator Josef Stalin forced one million Chechens into exile and dissolved the republic accusing them of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1945 - Four days of bitter battle had taken its toll on the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division of the U.S. Marines. Although losses were heavy, the Marine platoon succeeded in its mission to neutralize the defenses and scale the heavily fortified Mount Surabachi. The volcanic peak, at the southern tip of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, was one of the first objectives of the Marines’ invasion of this small, strategic island, 750 miles south of Tokyo. Victory was triumphant -- as the famous photograph (by Joe Rosenthal) of these Marines raising the American flag portrayed. Navy Secretary Forrestal was standing on the beachhead below. When he saw Old Glory waving in the breeze, he told Lt. General Holland M. Smith, “The raising of that flag on Surabachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.”
1946 - Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita was hanged in Manila, Philippines, for war crimes. Yamashita had been nown as the ‘Tiger of Malaya’ for his dramatic capture of Malaya and Singapore.
1954 - The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1957 - Porter Waggoner joined the Grand Ole Opry following three successful singles - Satisfied Mind, Eat, Drink and Be Merry and What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House). Waggoner’s syndicated TV show, seen on more than 100 stations in the U.S. and Canada, introduced Dolly Parton to a wide audience in the 1960s.
1960 - Wrecking crews began to demolish the venerable home of the Brooklyn Dodgers: Ebbets Field in New York City. The wrecking ball came in a little high and outside...
1963 - The Chiffons recording of He’s So Fine was released. It later rose to the #1 position (March 30th) for a four-week stay. The song later became the center of one of the most publicized lawsuits in music history. The estate of songwriter Ronnie Marks won the suit against former Beatle George Harrison, saying that the song My Sweet Lord, was a note-for-note copy of He’s So Fine. The Chiffons also scored big with One Fine Day, Sweet Talkin’ Guy and others.
1967 - Jim Ryun set a record in the half-mile run at Lawrence, KS. Ryun ran the distance in 1:48.3.
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers wowed the home crowd at the old Philadelphia Arena by becoming the first pro basketball player to score more than 25,000 career points.
1971 - James Franciscus starred in Longstreet, a made-for-TV movie that became a series in the fall of 1971.
1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $4 million more for the release of Patty Hearst. Hearst had been kidnapped on February 4th and her father, publisher Randolph Hearst, had already coughed up $2 million hoping for her freedom. Randolph said he would consider this request too. What a good pop...
1980 - 21-year-old Eric Heiden won his 5th speed skating gold at the Lake Placid Olympics. Heiden was the first athlete to win five gold medals in a single Winter Olympics.
1982 - Michael Frayn’s Noises Off premiered in London.
1983 - The rock group, Toto, won Grammy Awards for the hit single, Rosanna, and the album, Toto IV, at the 25th annual ceremonies in Los Angeles. The group received four other awards to tie the 1965 record of six Grammies (Roger Miller).
1985 - Breaking with tradition, the TV show, Gimme a Break!, was broadcast live before a studio audience. It was the first TV sitcom to be seen live since television’s Golden Age in the 1950s.
1991 - The U.S. invaded Kuwait in the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) and quickly chased out the occupying Iraqi forces.
1992 - The XVI Winter Olympic Games ended in Albertville, France.
1996 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Before and After, with Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson and Edward Furlong; Rumble in the Bronx, with Jackie Chan and Anita Mui; and Mary Reilly, starring Julia Roberts.
1997 - It had been considered ‘impossible’ until it was accomplished by Dr. Ian Wilmut in July of 1996, at the Roslin Institute, in Roslin, Scotland. Kept secret until this day, the story broke that Dolly, a seven-month old sheep, was the first clone of an adult mammal. Since July 1996, the institute had cloned “seven sheep, including three breeds from different cell types.” And they said the technology was “equally applicable to pigs, goats, rabbits and indeed, any mammal.”
1999 - A jury in Jasper, Texas convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was sentenced to death two days later.
2001 - Movies debuting in the U.S. Monkeybone, starring Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg; and 3000 Miles to Graceland, with Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette, Jon Lovitz and Howie Long.
2001 - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered an indefinite moratorium on civilian visitors operating military equipment, a possible factor in the collision of a U.S. submarine collision with a Japanese fishing boat near Hawaii.
2002 - Penn State pole vaulter Kevin Dare died after landing on his head during the Big Ten indoor championships in Minneapolis.
2003 - In the 45th Grammys in New York City, jazz-pop newcomer Norah Jones won three awards. Bruce Springsteen was also a triple-Grammy winner for his 9/11-inspired album The Rising.
2004 - The Pentagon opened a criminal investigation of fuel overpricing in Iraq by oilfield services giant Halliburton.
2005 - Mexico’s high court blocked prosecution of ex-President Luis Echeverria for ‘dirty war’ crimes in the 1970s ruling that the statute of limitations had run out.
2006 - The roof of a marketplace in Moscow collapsed under heavy snow, killing 56 people. The 1970s-era building was designed by the same architect as the Transvaal Water Park, whose roof collapsed in 2004 killing 28 people.
2006 - A fire in a textile mill in Chittagong, Bangladesh, killed 51 people and injured more than 100.
2007 - New films in the U.S.: The Abandoned, with Jordanka Angelova, Kalin Arsov, Paraskeva Djukelova, Valentin Ganev, Valentin Goshev, Anastasia Hille, Anna Panayotova, Carlos Reig-Plaza, Karel Roden and Svetlana Smoleva; Amazing Grace, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, Rufus Sewell, Ciaran Hinds, Youssou N’Dour, Toby Jones and Stephen Campbell Moore; The Astronaut Farmer, with Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern and Tim Blake Nelson; The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman, Rhona Mitra, Maile Flanagan, Patricia Belcher, Lynn Collins, Mark Pellegrino and Tara Karsian; and Reno 911!: Miami with Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Cedric Yarbrough, Terry Swarsden, Paul Rudd, David Wain, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black, Nick Swardson, Joe Lo Truglio, Paul Reubens and David Koechner.
2007 - 46 of a conference of 49 nations in Norway adopted a declaration calling for a treaty banning cluster bombs. The U.S., Russia, Israel and China, snubbed the conference.
2008 - China said freakish winter storms that coated much of the nation with in snow and ice had left 129 people dead.
2009 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 250.89 (3.4%) to 7114.78, to nearly half the peak it had reached 16 months earlier. It was the lowest close for the Dow in more than 11 years.
2009 - The Grand View Topless Coffee Shop began operation with a staff of 3 topless waitresses and one bare-chested waiter -- in Vassalboro, Maine. (The coffee shop closed in 2011 after town officials ruled that the shop had been putting up signs illegally.)
2010 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced plans to fingerprint and face-scan visitors from about 10 high-risk countries. Rudd also said Australia was also spending A$69 million ($62 million) on new biometric facilities and planning to set up a national control centre to coordinate efforts to fight extremism.
2010 - Florida wildlife officials created a special python hunting season to stop the spread of the nonnative snakes throughout the Everglades. A $26 permit allowed hunters to kill the reptiles from March 8 to April 17.
2011 - An agreement between judges and the Ministry of Justice in the U.K. ordered separating couples to try mediation to resolve disputes over their marriage break up before heading to court. The move was aimed at reducing the number of people who become embroiled in costly divorce battles.
2011 - Demonstrators hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out in Athens, Greece during a mass rally against austerity measures. The rioting was part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around Greece.
2012 - Authorities found about 50,000 hens dead or starving on an abandoned Central Valley, California chicken farm. The farm had been rented by A&L Poultry and raised laying hens on the property near Turlock, south of Modesto. A&L execs apparently abandoned the chickens in early February, leaving them locked in their cages with no food or water.
2013 - The battle for Aleppo International Airport, Syria’s second-largest, intensified. Government forces tried to reverse strategic gains rebels had made in their quest to topple President Bashar Assad. The rebels had made the advances in the battle to control the area after capturing two army bases along the road to the airport. (The Aleppo International Airport was closed for most of 2013, but as of February 2014, government forces had repelled the rebels and the airport was operating normally.)
2014 - The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, ended after 17 days. Russian athletes won 33 medals, their largest total ever.
2015 - The Charles de Gaulle, the only aircraft carrier in the French Navy’s fleet, launched operations in the Gulf against the Islamic State group.
2015 - An ice storm hit wide parts of Texas and neighboring states knocking out power to thousands of people, contributing to hundreds of traffic accidents and causing more than 1,300 flight to be cancelled across the U.S.
2016 - China’s Foreign Ministry reasserted Beijing’s right to develop its South China Sea island outposts. This, following a U.S. think tank’s report that China had built new radar facilities in the disputed Spratly Islands.
2016 - Italy approved ‘protective’ U.S. drone strikes on Libya from an airbase in Sicily, but on a case-by-case basis.
2017 - Donald Trump cancelled an Obama-era directive that let transgender students in public schools use the bathroom that matched their gender identity. In effect, Trump was ordering the states to decide the issue. Civil rights groups said the new directive will put transgender children at risk.
2018 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson; Every Day, with Debby Ryan, Maria Bello and Owen Teague; Game Night, starring Jesse Plemons, Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman; Are We Not Cats, with Michael Patrick Nicholson, Chelsea Lopez and Michael Godere; The Cured, starring Ellen Page, Peter Campion and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor; Death House, with Adrienne Barbeau, Lindsay Hartley and Sid Haig; and Half Magic, starring Stephanie Beatriz, Heather Graham and Angela Kinsey.
2018 - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced steps including prison isolation zones and more stringent licensing rules for faith-based schools. The measures were intended to combat what Philippe called a slow-burning threat from Islamist radicalization
. Philippe unveiled the vast new program to counter radicalization, as jihadis returned from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq and the watch list of people showing risk signs grew.2018 - Rick Gates, former senior advisor to POTUS Trump’s election campaign, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and false-statement charges. This, as he switched from defendant to cooperating witness in the special counsel’s probe of Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election interference.
2019 - A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston, Texas crashed just east of the city. Three people aboard were killed. The 26 year-old jet was part of the Amazon air cargo fleet.
2019 - 93 people died and 200 people were hospitalized after drinking tainted liquor in Assam state, India. The booze was spiked with methyl alcohol. The owner of a local brewing unit and eight others were arrested, according to police official Mukesh Agarwal. He said police were pursuing other people believed to be connected to “the racket” as part of an ongoing investigation. “We shall not spare anyone involved in manufacture and distribution of the tainted liquor,” Sharma said. Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India because the poor cannot afford licensed brands from government-run shops. Illicit liquor is cheap and often spiked to increase potency.
2020 - A third passenger from the virus-infected Diamond Princess cruise ship died. Japan’s health ministry announced 57 more cases of infections from the ship, including 55 crew members still on board and two passengers who had infected roommates and were in a prolonged quarantine at a government facility.
2020 - South Korea raised its infectious disease alert to its highest level due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. The country also reported three more fatalities, raising its death toll to six. And South Korean health authorities said that 18 of the 39 South Koreans from the southeastern region who had made a group pilgrimage to sites in Israel later tested positive for the virus.
2021 - Colorado-based Pilgrim’s Pride pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $107.9 million fine to settle federal charges that it had conspired to fix chicken prices -- and had passed on the costs to consumers and other purchasers.
2021 - President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a renewed US-Canada Partnership Roadmap, as they met via computer because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 - Ukraine received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine, a consignment of 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, raising hopes that authorities can start beating back the spread of COVID-19 in a country whose fragile health care system had been strained.
2022 - Former POTUS Trump said he had nothing but admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. He is “pretty smart,” Mr. Trump said at a Florida fund-raiser, assessing Putin’s impending invasion of Ukraine as if it were a real estate deal.
2022 - The European Union agreed to sanction Russia’s defense minister, a top adviser to President Vladimir Putin, and hundreds of Russian lawmakers who voted in favor of recognizing the independence of separatist areas in southeast Ukraine. This, as Ukraine’s foreign minister urged even harsher economic sanctions on Russia.
2023 - Officials released a report concluding that the toxic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, had been completely preventable. The report said one of the train’s cars carrying plastic pellets was heated by a hot axle that sparked the initial fire. As the temperature of the bearing got hotter, the train passed by two wayside defect detectors that did not trigger an audible alarm message because the heat threshold was not met at that point. A third detector eventually picked up the high temperature, but it was too late by then. The investigation found no evidence the crew did anything wrong prior to the incident.
2023 - Tiger Woods crashed his car while he was driving south of Los Angeles, injuring both of his legs, but breaking his right leg in multiple places. A Los Angeles police officer said he was “very fortunate” to have survived.
2024 - Movies released in the U.S. on this day included: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—To the Hashira Training, featuring characters voiced by Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kitô, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Hiro Shimono; Drive Away Dolls, with Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein; and Ordinary Angels, starring Alan Ritchson, Hilary Swank and Amy Acker.
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Birthdays on This Day February 23
1633 - Samuel Pepys
Administrator of the navy of England, Member of Parliament; famous for his diary of events and quotes written in 1666; died May 26, 17031685 - George Frederick Handel
composer: Messiah; died Apr 14, 17591787 - Emma (Hart) Willard
educator: pioneer in higher education for women: Waterford Academy for Young Ladies, Troy Female Seminary, Emma Willard School; Willard Association for the Mutual Improvement of Female Teachers [1837]; writer: textbooks: geography, history, astronomy, A Treatise on the Motive Powers Which Produce the Circulation of the Blood [written a year before women were admitted to medical schools; died Apr 15, 18701904 - William L. Shirer
journalist, author: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Ghandi: A Memoir; died Dec 28, 19931929 - Elston (Gene) Howard
baseball: NY Yankees [World Series: 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1957-1965/AL Baseball Writers’ Award: 1963], Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967]; died Dec 14, 19801931 - Linda Cristal (Marta Victoria Moya Burges)
actress: Hughes & Harlow: Angels in Hell, The Dead Don’t Die, The High Chaparral; died Jun 27, 20201932 - Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
actress: Star Trek TV series [voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series], Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry; died Dec 18, 20081933 - Lee Calhoun
hurdler: National Track & Field Hall of Fame, Olympic Hall of Fame: the only Olympic athlete to win 110-meter hurdles twice; died June 22, 19891938 - Sylvia Chase
newscaster: ABC News and 20/20; died Jan 3, 20191938 - Diane Varsi
actress: Peyton Place, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; died Nov 19, 19921940 - Peter Fonda
director, actor: Easy Rider, Futureworld, The Wild Angel’s, Love and a .45; Jane’s brother; Henry’s son; Bridget’s Dad; died Aug 16, 20191940 - Jackie Smith
Pro Football Hall of Famer [tight end]: NFL: St. Louis Cardinals, Dallas Cowboys: Super Bowl XIII; career: 480 receptions, 7,918 yards, 40 touchdowns, one Super Bowl, five Pro Bowls1942 - Steve Barri
songwriter, record producer, responsible [with partner P.F. Sloan] for the success of The Grass Roots and Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods1943 - Fred Biletnikoff
Pro Football Hall of Famer [wide receiver]: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl II, XI [MVP]1943 - Bobby (Wayne) Mitchell
golf champ: Cleveland Open [1971], Tournament of Champions [1972]; PGA Tour career earnings: $422,4991944 - Johnny Winter (John Dawson III)
musician: Still Alive and Well, Second Winter; died Jul 16, 20141946 - Ken (Kenneth George) Boswell
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969, 1973], Houston Astros1946 - Rusty Young
musician: steel guitar: group: Poco: Keep on Tryin’, Crazy Love, Heart of the Night1950 - Steve Priest
musician: bass, singer: group: The Sweet: Little Willy1950 - Jim Youngblood
football: Tennessee Tech Univ.; linebacker: LA Rams: Super Bowl XIV1951 - Eddie Dibbs
tennis: Univ. of Miami All-American [1971, 1972]; French Open semifinals [1975, 1976], French Open quarterfinals [1979], U.S. Open quarterfinals [1975, 1976, 1979]; 22 career singles titles1951 - Ed ‘Too Tall’ Jones
football: Dallas Cowboys defensive end: Super Bowl X, XI, XIII1951 - Ray Oldham
football: Pittsburgh Steelers safety: Super Bowl XIII1951 - Patricia Richardson
actress: Out of Omaha, Candy Paint, Blonde, Ulee’s Gold, Parent Trap III, Yuri Nosenko, KGB, Home Improvement1952 - Lorne Henning
hockey: NHL: NY Islanders: shares season record for shorthanded goals [3 in 1980]1952 - Brad Whitford
musician: guitar: group: Aerosmith: LPs: Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Draw the Line, Live! Bootleg, Night in the Ruts1955 - Howard Jones
singer: Look Mama, No One is to Blame, New Song, LP: Human’s Lib1955 - Francesca Simon
author: Horrid Henry series of children’s books1958 - John Shelby
baseball [centerfielder]: Baltimore Orioles [1983 World Series champs], Los Angeles Dodgers [1988 World Series Champs], Detroit Tigers; coach Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles; outfield instructor: Milwaukee Brewers1958 - David Sylvian (Batt)
musician: guitar, singer: group: Japan: The Unconventional, The Tenant, Taking Islands in Africa, I Second that Emotion, Ghosts, Cantonese Boy, Bamboo Houses, Forbidden Colours1963 - Bobby (Roberto Martin Antonio) Bonilla
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1988-1991], NY Mets [all-star: 1993, 1995/highest salary in baseball: 1994: $6,300,000], Baltimore Orioles1965 - Kristin Davis
actress: Sex and the City, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Couple Retreat, Sellevision, The Shaggy Dog, The Winning Season, Someone to Love1965 - Michael Dell
business magnate: founder, CEO of Dell, Inc. computer maker1967 - Steve Stricker
golf champ: Kemper Open [1996], Motorola Western Open [1996], WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship [2001], The Barclays [2007]; finished in the top 20 at the U.S. Open six times1967 - Simone Whitmore
physician, owner of North Perimeter OB/GYN: TV host: Bravo’s Married to Medicine; expert/speaker for women’s health issues and leadership1969 - Daymond John
entrepreneur, investor: founded FUBU clothing and hip hop apparel company; TV shark: Shark Tank1969 - Rick Masters
actor [1990-2009]: X-rated films: The Dirtiest Girl in the World, Strange Sex in Strange Places, Sgt Peckers Lonely Hearts Club Gang Bang, Nasty Filthy Cab Rides 6, Submissive Little Sluts 11, Perverted Stories: The Movie1970 - Niecy Nash
comedienne, actress: Reno 911, G-Force, Not Easily Broken, Code Name: The Cleaner, Guess Who, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Cookie’s Fortune; TV host: Clean House
1971 - Melinda Messenger
model, English TV presenter, actress: The Mumbo Jumbo, Virtual Sexuality1972 - Steve Holy
singer: Good Morning Beautiful, Brand New Girlfriend, Love Don’t Run, Blue Moon, The Hunger, Put Your Best Dress On, I’m Not Breakin’1972 - Rondell White
baseball [left, center field, designated hitter: Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins1976 - Kelly Macdonald
actress: Nanny McPhee, Gosford Park, Boardwalk Empire, No Country for Old Men, Intermission, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Brave, Boardwalk Empire, The Girl in the Café, State of Play1981 - Josh Gad
actor: Broadway: The Book of Mormon; TV: Back to You, ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family, Numb3rs, Good Vibes; films: The Rocker, Crossing Over, 21, Love and Other Drugs1982 - Paul Pantano
actor: Second Chance, Stealth, Son of the Mask, Violet Lives Upstairs, Running Down These Dreams, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie1983 - Aziz Ansari
comedian, writer, actor: Parks and Recreation, Get Him to the Greek, Observe and Report, The Rocker, Channel 101, Human Giant, 30 Minutes or Less, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Funny People, Master of None1983 - Emily Blunt
Golden Globe Award-winning actress: Gideon’s Daughter [2007]; The Adjustment Bureau, The Devil Wears Prada, The Young Victoria, Looper, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Five-Year Engagement, The English1988 - Byron Maxwell
football [cornerback]: Seattle Seahawks [2011–2014]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs; Philadelphia Eagles [2015]; Miami Dolphins [2016–2017]; Seattle Seahawks [2017-2018]1994 - Dakota Fanning
actress: Hide and Seek, War of the Worlds, The Cat in the Hat, Uptown Girls, Taken, Sweet Home Alabama, Trapped
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Hit Music on This Day February 23
1948Now is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (facts) - The Art Mooney Orchestra
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