February 25
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1836 - Sure as shootin’, Samuel Colt received a patent for a pistol that used a revolving cylinder containing powder and bullets in six individual tubes. (Pre-assembled loads [cartridges] came later.) Up to that time, the single-shot flintlock pistol had been the fastest firearm around. Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1855 and some 30 million Colt pistols and rifles have been sold since.1924 - Ty Cobb, one of the legends of baseball, issued an edict to his team, the Detroit Tigers, that outlawed the playing of golf during training camp. A report in the Detroit Free Press said that Cobb went so far as to confiscate players’ golf clubs! Wow! Talk about being a little ‘teed off’, huh?
1925 - The Glacier Bay National Monument was established in Alaska.
1928 - The Federal Radio Commission issued the first U.S. television license to Charles Jenkins Laboratories in Washington, DC. The first commercial TV license was issued in 1941.
1940 - The first televised hockey game was broadcast. The New York Rangers whipped the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV in New York City. The Rangers won, 6-2.
1948 - Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia. Clement Gottwald became the new premier.
1953 - The musical, Wonderful Town, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Based on the book, My Sister Eileen, the musical starred Rosalind Russell in the role of Ruth Sherwood, Edie Adams as Eileen Sherwood, and George Gaynes as Robert Baker. It won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress and ran for 559 performances.
1957 - Buddy Holly and The Crickets traveled to Clovis, NM, to record That’ll Be the Day (one of the classics of rock ’n’ roll) and I’m Looking for Someone to Love. Both songs were released on Brunswick Records in May of that year.
1963 - Please Please Me was the second record released in the U.S. by the Beatles. Some labels carried a famous misprint, making it an instant, and valuable, collector’s item. The label listed the group as The Beattles.
1964 - Twenty-two-year old Cassius Clay won the world heavyweight boxing title by defeating Sonny Liston in the seventh round in Miami, FL. Clay had been an 8-1 underdog. In fact, only 8,297 fans showed up for the bout.
1966 - Nancy Sinatra was high-stepping this day with a gold record award for the hit, These Boots are Made for Walkin’. When she cracked open the wooden-framed award to check out the gold disk inside, she heard Pink Shoe Laces by Dodie Stevens. Nancy was reported to have been incensed.
1971 - Oh! Calcutta!, the avant-garde theatrical revue moved to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. The show had been wowing audiences off Broadway since 1969 and continued at the Belasco through Aug 12, 1972 for a total of 1,314 performances.
1972 - Germany gave in to ransom demands from the Arab terrorist hijackers of a jumbo jet and paid $5 million for the release of its passengers.
1973 - The Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music opened at Broadway’s Shubert Theater.
1976 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could ban the hiring of illegal aliens.
1981 - Christopher Cross won five Grammy Awards at ceremonies in Radio City Music Hall in New York City. He was awarded the Album of the Year award for Christopher Cross and his hit, Sailing, won for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Christopher was also voted Best New Artist of 1980. All in all, a very good night for Mr. Cross...
1984 - Ironweed, by William P. Kennedy, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this day. The novel, about a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past -- and present, also captured the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. (Ironweed was made into a movie in 1987, directed by Hector Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.)
1984 - Michael Spinks defeated Eddie Davis in a unanimous decision to retain the light heavyweight championship; in 12 rounds in Atlantic City, NJ.
1986 - We are the World captured four Grammy Awards. The song, featuring more than 40 superstar artists gathered at one time, was awarded the Top Song, Record of the Year, Best Pop Performance and Best Short Video Awards.
1986 - President/dictator Ferdinand Marcos decided to get out of the Philippines while he still could. The widow of a slain anti-Marcos politician, homemaker Corazon Aquino had been elected President earlier in the month. She was able to take over when Ferdinand performed his escape act.
1989 - Mike Tyson stoppped (knocked out) Frank Bruno in the fifth round in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tyson was the WBA, WBC & IBF undisputed world heavyweight champ.
1990 - Opponents of the ruling Sandinistas were elected in an upset victory in Nicaragua. Violeta Chamorro was elected president.
1991 - 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
1992 - Natalie Cole won seven awards at the 34th annual Grammys, including best album (Unforgettable).
1993 - The Florida Marlins baseball team introduced their mascot, Billy the Marlin. According to Billy’s Web page, Billy’s favorite movie is A Fish Called Wanda and his favorite TV show is Flipper.
1994 - Boxing champ Jersey Joe Walcott died at 80 years of age. Walcott won the heavyweight title on his fifth try, accomplishing the feat at the age of 37. He held the record for oldest heavyweight champion until 45-year-old George Foreman won the crown in 1994.
1994 - At the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway: Oksana Baiul of Ukraine won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating; Nancy Kerrigan of the U.S. won the silver; and Chen Lu of China the bronze.
1995 - Madonna’s Take a Bow became the #1 single in the U.S. The smash hit was number one for seven weeks: “Take a bow, the night is over; This masquerade is getting older; Lights are low, the curtains down; There’s no one here.”
1996 - Cambodian activist Dr. Haing S. Ngor (55), who won an Academy Award for his performance in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields, was shot to death outside his Los Angeles apartment. In 1998 three Chinatown gang members were convicted by separate juries in the murder.
1997 - A jury in Media, PA convicted multimillionaire John E. du Pont of third-degree murder. The jurors decided du Pont must have been mentally ill when he killed world-class wrestler David Schultz. (Du Pont died in prison Dec 9, 2010 while serving a 13-30-year sentence; he was 72.)
1998 - Bob Dylan won best album (and best contemporary folk album) for Time Out of Mind at the 40th annual Grammy Awards. Shawn Colvin won song and record of the year for Sunny Came Home.
1999 - Nobel physicist Glenn Seaborg died at the age of 86. Seaborg and Edwin Mullen discovered plutonium in 1940 and together received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951.
2000 - Reindeer Games debuted in theatres across the U.S. The action-thriller stars Ben Affleck, Rudy Duncan, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron and Dennis Farina.
2001 - Commander Scott Waddle of the Navy submarine U.S.S. Greeneville expressed his “most sincere regret” for the collision of his submarine with a Japanese trawler. The tragedy off the island of Oahu in Hawaii killed nine persons.
2001 - The Chinese-language film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became the most lucrative foreign movie in U.S. history.
2003 - Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq was showing new signs of real cooperation, but U.S. President George Bush (II) was dismissive, saying Saddam Hussein would try to “fool the world one more time.”
2004 - The Passion of the Christ opened in U.S theatres. The Mel Gibson-directed drama stars James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Francesco Cabras, Rosalinda Celentano, Claudia Gerini, Ivano Marescotti, Matt Patresi and Sergio Rubini. Gibson also put some 25 million of his own dollars into the film.
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may withhold scholarships from divinity students.
2005 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Cursed, starring Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Judy Greer, Portia de Rossi, Jesse Eisenberg, Shannon Elizabeth, Milo Ventimiglia and Mya; Diary of a Mad Black Woman, with Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Tyler Perry and Cicely Tyson; and Man of the House, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Archer, Brian Van Holt, Paget Brewster, Shea Whigham, Shannon Marie Woodward, Monica Keena, Kelli Garner, Christina Milian, Paula Garces and Vanessa Ferlito.
2005 - Wichita, Kansas police arrested Dennis Rader, a 59-year-old city worker at his suburban home in Park City. He was the notorious BTK (bind, torture, kill) serial killer who killed ten people, terrorizing Wichita in the 1970s. (Rader was sentenced Aug 18, 2005 to ten consecutive life sentences.)
2005 - Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1977, died in Oxford, England. He was 83 years old.
2006 - The search for coal miners trapped in the Pasta de Conchos mine explosion in Mexico was suspended due to toxic levels of natural gas. All 65 trapped miners were presumed dead.
2007 - The 79th annual Academy Awards celebration was held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. The host was TV talker Ellen DeGeneres, who presided over the handing out of the coveted Oscar statuettes. The envelopes please... Motion Picture: The Departed from Warner Bros.; Actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland; Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine; Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen; Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls; Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed; Animated Feature Film: Happy Feet from Warner Bros.; and Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth from Paramount Classics.
2008 - The New York Philharmonic arrived in snowy Pyongyang to play the symphony From the New World in an attempt to ease relations between the U.S. and North Korea.
2009 - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled leases, created under the Bush administration, on federal land for oil-shale development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Salazar said the Bush royalty rates would shortchange taxpayers.
2010 - A 1939 comic book, Detective Comics No. 27, in which the Batman makes his debut, sold at a Dallas auction for $1,075,500. The price was about $75,000 more than the record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic book.
2010 - Canada’s women ice hockey players celebrated their winning of an Olympic gold medal by taking to the ice while drinking beer and smoking cigars.
2011 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Drive Angry, starring Amber Heard, Nicolas Cage, Katy Mixon, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David Morse, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Christa Campbell; Hall Pass, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate, Nicky Whelan, and Richard Jenkins; Of Gods and Men, with Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach and and Jacques Herlin; The Grace Card, with Michael Joiner, Mike Higgenbottom, Louis Gossett Jr, Cindy Hodge, Joy Parmer Moore and Dawntoya Thomason; and Shelter aka 6 Souls, starring Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Conroy, Nathan Corddry, Brooklynn Proulx and Brian Anthony Wilson.
2011 - The U.S. returned to Russia a missing trove of historic archive documents dating back to Catherine the Great. The documents had been stolen after the Soviet breakup. Some of them were stolen from archives in St. Petersburg in the early 1990s. Russian authorities had accused Vladimir Feinberg, a Russian antiques dealer in Israel, of stealing the documents, but had been unsuccessful in obtaining his extradition.
2012 - India was removed from the World Health Organization’s list of polio endemic countries. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said, “It is a matter of satisfaction that we have completed one year without any single new case of polio being reported from anywhere in the country. This gives us hope that we can finally eradicate polio not only from India but from the face of the entire mother earth. The success of our efforts shows that teamwork pays.”
2013 - Horse meat was found in a huge consignment of meatballs served in Ikea store restaurants. Authorities reported they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork. The company withdrew the suspected products in the U.K. and 12 other countries without telling consumers why. Details emerged only after the publication of test results by food watchdogs in the Czech Republic.
2014 - Four police officers in King City in Central California were arrested for taking part in a scheme in which cars belonging to poor Hispanic people were impounded and later sold when the owners could not pay fees. The arrests also included a former police chief and came after a six-month probe of the police department.
2015 - The European Union announced a major plan to boost coordination between its 28 national energy markets. This, in an attempt to wean Europe off unstable Russian gas supplies and provide cheaper energy for consumers.
2016 - Syrian government troops, backed by Russian airstrikes, recaptured a town in Aleppo province from Islamic State militants in a key advance. The action came just two days ahead of a U.S. and Russia-engineered cease-fire.
2017 - Donald Trump announced that he was skipping the annual White House correspondents’ dinner on April 29, the first U.S. president to do so in 36 years. The tradition began in 1921, in which journalists invite the POTUS for a light-hearted roast. The last president to skip the event was Jimmy Carter, who did so twice — in 1978 and 1980. Richard Nixon also skipped it twice — in 1972 and 1974. (Ronald Reagan missed it in 1981 when he was recovering from an assassination attempt.) Nixon warned the press he would do so and followed through. Trump called the press the “enemy of the American people.” That echoed Nixon, who told the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “The press is your enemy.”
2017 - An intelligence report compiled by the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security concluded that citizens affected by POTUS Trump’s travel ban were “rarely implicated in U.S.-based terrorism.” The report concluded that “country of citizenship is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity,” and it said that “relatively few” of the citizens of these countries maintain access to the U.S.” The countries named in the original travel ban were Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Yemen.
2018 - The closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics took place at Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in South Korea. Flag bearers from each participating country entered the stadium informally in single file, ordered by ganada order of the Korean alphabet, and behind them marched all the athletes, without any distinction or grouping by nationality. Marching alongside the athletes were Soohorang, the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic mascot, and Hodori, mascot of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The Olympic flag was passed to acting Beijing Mayor Chen Jining, signifying transfer of responsibility for Winter Games to China. (See the Olympic winners list here.)
2020 - The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warned the U.S. public to prepare for an outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus, which had spawned more than 80,000 cases around the world but relatively few up to this time in the U.S.
2020 - 49-year-old Michelle Janavs, heiress to the Hot Pockets fortune, was sentenced in Boston to five months in prison. This, after she confessed to paying bribes to a fixer who had promised to get Janavs’ two daughters into the University of Southern California.
2020 - Democratic rivals held a critical debate in North Carolina just ahead of the state’s primary election. Candidates participating in the debate were Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren. Highlights included Bernie Sanders taking heat as the front runner, Bloomberg responding to criticism about his past policies both as mayor and business leader, and Joe Biden emerging as much more forceful.
2021 - Twitter Inc said it expected to double its annual revenue -- to some $7.5 billion -- and reach 315 million users in 2023.
2021 - South Africa started vaccinating 1.1 million people against COVID-19 as it ramped up its immunization program.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: Cyrano, starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr.; Big Gold Brick, with Megan Fox, Oscar Isaac and Lucy Hale; The Burning Sea, starring Kristine Kujath Thorp, Henrik Bjelland and Rolf Kristian Larsen; The Desperate Hour, with Naomi Watts, Colton Gobbo and Sierra Maltby; I’ll Find You, starring Adelaide Clemens, Leo Suter and Stephen Dorff; and Moon Manor, with Debra Wilson, Lou Taylor Pucci and Richard Riehle.
2022 - President Biden nominated federal appellate judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was the first Black woman to serve on the Court. Jackson succeeded Justice Breyer upon his retirement from the court on June 30, 2022.
2022 - President Biden ordered an additional $350 million worth of weapons from U.S. stocks to Ukraine as it struggled to repulse the Russian invasion.
2022 - Four big U.S. corporations agreed to pay roughly $26 billion to settle lawsuits linked to claims that their business practices helped fuel the deadly opioid crisis. Johnson & Johnson would kick in $5 billion to the settlement. Drug wholesalers AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson would pay a combined $21 billion.
2022 - Elements of the 40,000-troop NATO Response Force (NRF) were activated for for the first time, issuing a warning that, “The Kremlin’s objectives are not limited to Ukraine.” NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Tod Wolters activated the multinational force consisting of land, air, sea and special operations forces from the allies that can deploy quickly in support of the NATO alliance.
2023 - Turkey continued to investigate the history of buildings that collapsed during the Feb 6 earthquakes and arrested 184 people. Of the more than 600 people looked at, those formally arrested included 79 construction contractors, 74 people who bore legal responsibility for buildings, 13 property owners and 18 people who had made alterations to buildings. Many Turks had expressed outrage at what they saw as corrupt building practices and flawed urban developments. The death toll was more than 50,000 (including Syria), with nearly two million people left homeless.
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Birthdays on This Day February 25
1841 - Pierre-August Renoir
Impressionist artist: A Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant, Le Moulin de la Galette, Oarsman at Chatou, The Bathers; died Dec 3, 19191873 - Enrico Caruso
world famous Italian tenor: Canio in Pagliacci, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Metropolitan Opera debut in Rigoletto; sang nearly 70 roles; appeared in nearly every country of Europe and North and South America; made some 290 commercially released recordings [1902-1920]; his Vesti la giubba from Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci was the first sound recording to sell a million copies; died Aug 2, 19211895 - Bert Bell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: owner: Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers; NFL Commissioner [1946-1959]: set far-sighted TV policies, established strong anti-gambling controls; died Oct 11, 19591901 - Zeppo (Herbert) Marx
comedian: Marx Brothers: Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts, Horse Feathers; died Nov 30, 19791904 - Adelle Davis
nutritionist: author: Let’s Get Well, Let’s Cook it Right, Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit, Let’s Have Healthy Children; died May 31, 19741908 - George Duning
musician: trumpet, piano: Kay Kyser Band; composer: film scores: Goliath Awaits, The Abduction of Saint Anne, Honor Thy Father, A Great American Tragedy, Any Wednesday; TV series scores: Tightrope, Dennis the Menace, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Cimarron Strip, Mannix; died Feb 27, 20001910 - Millicent Fenwick
human rights activist; U.S. congresswoman; died Sep 16, 19921913 - Jim (James Gilmore) Backus
actor: voice of Mr. Magoo; Gilligan’s Island, I Married Joan, Blondie, The Great Lover, Rebel Without a Cause, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Angel’s Brigade; first host of TV's Talent Scouts; died July 3, 1989
1913 - Gert Fröbe
actor: Goldfinger [“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!”], Alte Sunden rosten nicht, Bloodline, Tod oder Freiheit, Docteur Justice, Ludwig, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; died Sep 5, 19881916 - Ralph Baldwin
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Famer: horse trainer, driver: won Trotter Triple Crown: horse: Speedy Scot [1963]; died Sep 26, 19821917 - (John) Anthony Burgess
author: A Clockwork Orange, Any Old Iron; died Nov 26, 19931917 - Brenda Joyce
actress: Tarzan film series, The Rains Came, Little Tokyo, U.S.A., Thumbs Up; died Jul 4, 20091918 - Bobby (Robert Larrimore) Riggs (Larimore)
tennis champ: Wimbledon Men’s Singles [1939], U.S. Open Men’s Singles [1939, 1941]; died Oct 25, 19951922 - ‘Texas Rose’ Bascom (Flynt)
National Cowgirl Hall of Famer: trick roper; died Sep 23, 19931925 - (Elsie) Lisa Kirk
singer, actress: The Producers, Gypsy; died Nov 11, 19901925 - Bert Remsen
actor: McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, Dick Tracy, It’s a Living, Dallas; died Apr 22, 19991926 - René Thomas
jazz guitarist: LPs: Guitar Groove, Who Cares?, The Italian Session; “A musician for musicians.”; died Jan 6, 19751928 - Larry Gelbart
Emmy Award-winning producer: M*A*S*H [1973-74]; writer: Your Show of Shows, The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom; died Sep 11, 20091929 - Tommy Newsom
musician: tenor sax; arranger, composer, back-up conductor: NBC’s Tonight Show band; died Apr 28, 20071932 - Faron Young
country singer: Hello Walls; actor: The Young Sheriff, Daniel Boone Hidden Guns; founder/publisher: Music City News magazine [Nashville]; died Dec 10, 19961934 - Tony Lema
golf: British Open Champion [1964]; killed in plane crash July 24, 19661935 - Sally Jessy Raphael (Sally Lowenthal)
TV talk-show host: Sally Jessy Raphaël1937 - Tom Courtenay
actor: The Dresser, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, King Rat, Doctor Zhivago, The Last Butterfly1937 - Bob Schieffer
reporter: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram; news anchor: at WBAP-TV [Dallas], CBS News1938 - Diane Baker
actress: The Keeper, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, The Cable Guy, The Silence of the Lambs, A Woman of Substance1939 - Denny (Denver Clayton) Lemaster
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1967], Houston Astros, Montreal Expos1940 - Ron (Ronald Edward) Santo
baseball: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1963-1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974], Chicago White Sox; died Dec 3, 20101942 - Carl Eller
defensive end: Super Bowl IV, VIII, IX, XI
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Minnesota Vikings1942 - Karen Grassle
actress: Little House on the Prairie, President’s Mistress, Harry’s War, Wyatt Earp1943 - George Harrison
former Beatle [see Feb 24, 1943]; died Nov 29, 20011944 - Matt Guokas
basketball: Philadelphia 76ers; Cleveland Cavaliers TV color analyst, CBS sports analyst1947 - Lee Evans
National Track and Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: set a world record for the 400-meter run at Mexico City Games: 43.86 seconds at an altitude over 1,000 meters [1968]1951 - Cesar (Encarnacion) Cedeno
baseball: Houston Astros [all-star: 1972-1974, 1976], Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1985], LA Dodgers1955 - Jon Brant
musician: bass guitar: group: Cheap Trick: The Flame, I Want You to Want Me, Ain’t That a Shame, Southern Girls, Surrender, Stop This Game, Dream Police1957 - Stuart John Wood
musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love1958 - Jeff Fisher
football: NFL: Chicago Bears [1981–1985]; head coach: Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans [1994–2010]; St. Louis Rams [2012–2016]1961 - David Lansbury
actor: Michael Clayton, Cupid & Cate, The Hurricane, Truman, Scent of a Woman, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey1963 - Paul O’Neill
baseball [first base, right field]: Cincinnati Reds [1985-1992]; New York Yankees [1993-2001]: 5× All-Star [1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998] 5× World Series champion [1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000]1964 - Lee Evans
comedian, actor: There’s Something About Mary, The Fifth Element, Mouse Hunt, Funny Bones, Highbinders, The History of Mr Polly, The Dinner Party, Doctor Who1965 - Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson
comedian, actor: Dennis the Menace Strikes Again, Chairman of the Board, Hourglass, ComiXspotlight, N.Y.U.K1966 - Alexis Denisof
actor: The Avengers, How I Met Your Mother, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Innocent Lies, First Knight, Love, Wedding, Marriage, Much Ado About Nothing1966 - Téa Leoni
actress: Madam Secretary, Tower Heist, Jurassic Park III, Santa Barbara, Wyatt Earp, Deep Impact1966 - Nancy Odell
TV host: Entertainment Tonight1971 - Sean Astin
actor: The Goonies, The B.R.A.T. Patrol, The War of the Roses, Encino Man, Bulworth, Icebreaker, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring1971 - Byron Dafoe
hockey [goalie]: Washington Capitals, Los Angeles Kings, Boston Bruins, Atlanta Thrashers1973 - Anson Mount
actor: Conviction, Hell on Wheels, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Straw Dogs, Safe, Seal Team 6: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, Non-Stop1974 - Kata Dobó (Katalin Kovács)
actress: Európa expressz, Out for a Kill, An American Rhapsody, Rollerball, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1976 - Rashida Jones
actress: Parks and Recreation, Social Network, Monogamy, The Big Year, Friends With Benefits, Our Idiot Brother, Our Thirties1979 - David Hoflin
actor: Ocean Girl, Neighbours, Swimming Upstream, Good Vibrations, Death in Brunswick, Breakaway, A Cry in the Dark1986 - Jameela Jamil
actress: The Good Place, Animals, Mira, Royal Detective1986 - James and Oliver Phelps
actors: Harry Potter film series [Fred and George Weasley]1994 - Fred VanVleet
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Toronto Raptors [2016- ]: 2019 NBA champs1997 - Isabelle Fuhrman
actress: Orphan, The Whole Truth, Salvation Boulevard, Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage, The Hunger Games1997 - Hideki Matsuyama
golf pro: won Asian Amateur Championship [2010, 2011]; five-time PGA Tour winner, eight-time Japan Golf Tour winner; 2017 U.S. Open runner-up
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Hit Music on This Day February 25
1950Dear Hearts and Gentle People (facts) - Bing Crosby
There’s No Tomorrow (facts) - Tony Martin
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