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1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for the commercial transportation of people and freight.1849 - If one wanted to make the trip from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast by steamboat, one had best be prepared for a long journey. Regular steamboat service to California via Cape Horn arrived in San Francisco for the first time. The SS California left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, making the trip in four months, 21 days. We suspect that the marketing phrase was not “Ain’t we got fun?”
1893 - It was a grand day at the home of Edward G. Acheson of Monongahela, PA, as he gathered friends and family around to show off his newly received patent for Carborundum, an abrasive or refractory of silicon carbide, fused alumina and other materials.
1930 - Ted Lewis and his orchestra recorded On the Sunny Side of the Street for Columbia Records on this day. Mr. Lewis was heard as the featured vocalist as well, on the tune that has been recorded hundreds of times and is an American music standard.
1940 - The first televised basketball game was shown -- over W2XBS in New York City -- from Madison Square Garden. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh. Pitt won, 50-37.
1945 - U.S. tanks broke through the natural defense line west of the Rhine and crossed the Erft River.
1951 - The investigating committee headed by U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver reported there were at least two major crime syndicates operating in the United States.
1957 - Johnny Longden rode winner number 5,000 in his career at Santa Anita race track. He was the first jockey to reach this plateau.
1960 - The Soviet Union team got championship honors as the 1960 Winter Olympics ended in beautiful Squaw Valley, CA (near Lake Tahoe).
1966 - The famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, England closed because of financial difficulties. During its peak of success, the club was best known as the home of The Beatles.
1971 - Jack Nicklaus, ‘The Golden Bear’, won the Professional Golfers Association Championship for the second time. He completed the cycle of winning golf’s four major titles -- twice. The Big Four in golf are: The U.S. Open, the Masters, the PGA Championship and the British Open.
1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon wrapped up an historic week-long visit to China, convinced the trip helped to create a new “generation of peace.”
1975 - 43 people were killed in London when a subway train sped past its final stop and smashed into the end of a tunnel. Some 70 other passengers were injured in the crash which left the front three carriages crushed into the rear of the train. The cause of the disaster remains unknown.
1977 - Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, comedian on The Jack Benny Show, died. He was 71 years old.
1979 - Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond, premiered on Broadway in New York City. The play did not do too well, however, and closed on June 16th of that year. The 1981 film did much better
1983 - M*A*S*H became the most watched television program in history, as the final original episode of the fictitious, but uncommonly real, 4077th M*A*S*H unit of the Korean conflict aired this night in 1983. An estimated 125-million people in the U.S. tuned in to see the broadcast on CBS. The program earned a 60.3 rating and a 77 percent share. According to Nielsen Media Research, the 60.3 rating was the average audience rating or the percent tuned to M*A*S*H during the average minute, while the share measured the percentage of TV households whose sets were turned on that night and were tuned to the 2 1/2 hour special of M*A*S*H.
1984 - It was Michael Jackson Night at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The gloved one set a record for most wins by taking home eight of the gramophone statuette honors. He broke the previous record of six awards set by Roger Miller in 1965. The reason: the biggest selling album of all time, Thriller, which sold more than 35-million copies around the world soon after its release in 1983.
1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme (1969-1976, 1982-1986) was shot to death in central Stockholm while walking home from a movie theater with his wife, Lisbeth. Palme, 59, a social democrat, was serving his second term as prime minister. He believed in open government and shunned tight security.
1989 - Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, defeated acting Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer in the Democratic primary election.
1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL on a secret mission to place a spy satellite in orbit.
1991 - A ceasefire in Kuwait was announced. Allied and Iraqi forces suspended their attacks as Iraq pledged to accept all United Nations resolutions concerning Kuwait.
1993 - U.S. Federal agents shot it out with members of an armed religious cult near Waco, Texas and didn’t fare very well. Four agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and two cult members were killed and another 12 agents were wounded. The agents had planned to arrest Branch Davidian cult leader, David Koresh on federal firearms charges, but were surprised when the cult members opened fire with heavy weapons. The assault was a failure, and the 51-day siege by the Feds began.
1994 - The Brady Law went into effect in the United States. The law amended a 1968 law that prohibited felons from buying guns and imposed a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases to allow for a criminal record check.
1995 - Denver International Airport opened after 16 months of delays and billions of dollars in budget overruns.
1996 - Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill won best rock album and album of the year at the Grammy Awards. Seal’s Kiss from a Rose won the record and song of the year prizes.
1997 - The headline read, “Botched L.A bank heist turns into bloody shootout.” Two robbers, masked and wearing body armor, bungled a bank heist in North Hollywood, CA. As the pair left the bank, they unleashed an arsenal of weapons on police, bystanders, cars and TV choppers before they were killed. Fifteen people were injured, including ten policemen.
1997 - Donnie Brasco opened in U.S. theatres. The horror mystery thriller stars Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
1998 - Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On hit #1 in the U.S. It was the tippy-top chart-topper for two weeks.
2001 - A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Northwest U.S. and rocked the cities of Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. The quake was centered 32.6 miles below the surface of the earth. Damage was later estimated at some $2 billion.
2003 - Cradle 2 the Grave debuted in the U.S. The action thriller stars Jet Li, Dmx, Anthony Anderson, Kelly Hu, Tom Arnold, Mark Dacascos and Gabrielle Union.
2003 - NASA released video taken aboard Columbia that had somehow survived the fiery destruction of the space shuttle. The seven Columbia astronauts, in the final minutes of their lives sipped drinks, put on their gloves, joked and mugged for the camera, unaware of the catastrophe awaiting them.
2004 - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, historian and 12th librarian of Congress, died in Washington DC. He was 89 years old. Boorstin wrote more than twenty books, included a trilogy on the American experience: The Colonial Experience (1959), The National Experience (1966) and The Democratic Experience (1973).
2005 - The U.S. Mint began distributing new Jefferson 5-cent coins to banks. The coin featured a bolder profile of Thomas Jefferson than on previous coins.
2005 - Federated Department Stores announced the acquisition of May Department Stores for $11 billion in cash and stock.
2005 - U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow discovered the bodies of her husband and mother inside her Chicago home. Bart Ross, an unemployed electrician later confessed to the murders in a suicide note. Judge Lefkow had dismissed a lawsuit in which Ross claimed that cancer treatments had disfigured his face.
2006 - Some 4,000 Mexican miners went on strike at copper mines owned by the operator of the Pasta de Conchos coal mine where 65 died in an explosion Feb 19, 2006.
2007 - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. died at 89 years of age. Schlesinger wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, titled A Thousand Days.
2007 - 96-year-old Albert ‘Chinky’ Facchiano, a Genovese family mobster, pleaded guilty in Florida to racketeering. Prosecutors accused him of participating in rackets involving robberies, money-laundering and bank fraud between 2000 and 2003. (Facchiano died Aug 16, 2011.)
2008 - The Pew Center on the States reported that 1% of adult Americans were in jail or prison, an all-time high that cost state governments nearly $50 billion a year. The U.S. led the world in the percentage of residents incarcerated with China a distant second.
2008 - In western Antarctica a 160-square mile chunk of ice on the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf began collapsing. It had been there for some 1,500 years.
2009 - 3½ years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard pulled the last of its troops out of New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said his rebuilt police department was up to the job of protecting the city. “I think we're ready to handle things,” he said.
2009 - A fishing boat from Clearwater, Florida, capsized in the Gulf of Mexico as the four friends were pulling up the anchor. Nick Schuyler was rescued on March 2. Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper (who owned the boat), free-agent defensive lineman Corey Smith and former University of South Florida player William Bleakley remained missing. An investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission later determined that the improperly-anchored boat capsized after one of the passengers tried to throttle forward in an attempt to pry the anchor loose.
2010 - Canada beat the U.S. in the men’s ice hockey final to capture a record 14th gold medal and end the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The victory at a single Winter Games surpassed the previous mark of 13 jointly held by the Soviet Union (Innsbruck, 1976) and Norway (Salt Lake City, 2002). The U.S. had also set a record for the most overall medals at a single Winter Olympics with 37, one more than Germany in 2002.
2013 - International Rivers, a Berkeley, CA-based nonprofit, won a MacArthur Foundation prize worth $750,000 for its work opposing dams and helping countries and corporations around the world to find alternative energy sources.
2014 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Non-Stop, starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o, Michelle Dockery and Anson Mount; Son of God, with Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Revah and Greg Hicks; The Lunchbox, with Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui; The Bag Man, starring Robert De Niro, John Cusack, Crispin Glover Dominic Purcell, Rebecca Da Costa, Martin Klebba and Celesta Hodge; Repentance, with Mike Epps, Ariana Neal and Selma Pinkard; and Stalingrad, with Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina and Philippe Reinhardt.
2014 - British authorities reported that anti-fraud police had arrested 110 people in Europe and the U.S. in a crackdown on gangs that sold bogus investment shares. The scheme involving 850 victims cost some investors their life savings. Codenamed Operation Rico, the investigation led to 84 arrests in Spain, 20 in Britain, four in Serbia and two in the United States.
2015 - The online video documentary Under the Dome was released and immediately created waves of controversy throughout China. The film pointed out the role that large state-owned enterprises had in creating the semi-permanent smog that cloaked many cities in China. Under the Dome was viewed by some 200 million people -- before it was blocked by the Chinese government.
2016 - Actor George Kennedy died in Eagle, Idaho of a heart ailment. He was 91 years old. Kennedy won a Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the film Cool Hand Luke (1967), but appeared in more than 200 film and TV productions. He is fondly remembered for roles in the four-film Airport series, the Naked Gun series of comedy films and the original Dallas TV series.
2016 - At the 88th annual Academy Awards presentation, the film Spotlight was voted the best picture. Leonardo DiCaprio won the actor Oscar for his role in Revenant. Brie Larson was best actress for Room. Chris Rock hosted the show, which was noted for featuring no African Americans among the nominees in the acting categories.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump addressed Congress for the first time, selling his policies and laying out a case for a $54-billion boost in military spending and cuts in domestic programs and foreign aid. He also called for dramatic changes in immigration, education and health care.
2017 - China and Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have imposed new sanctions on Syria for using chemical weapons against its own citizens. China backed Russia, which had said the vote on the resolution, drafted by France, Britain and the United States, would have harmed U.N.-led peace talks between the warring Syrian parties in Geneva. The peace talks eventually collapsed after Syria stonewalled to get its own way. Feb 2018 update: The U.N. debate continues after renewed allegations of Syria using chemical weapons.
2018 - Much of Britain and Ireland was blanketed in snow as freezing Siberian weather system dubbed ‘the Beast from the East’ continued to disrupt the travel plans of thousands.
2018 - Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, obtained a secret restraining order to block porn actress Stormy Daniels from speaking publicly about Trump’s extramarital dalliance with her.
2019 - Another nasty trick was on the U.S. public by the Trump administration -- and the U.S. Senate: Former coal industry lobbyist Andrew Wheeler was confirmed to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
2019 - British Airways announced a multi-billion dollar order for several dozen Boeing 777 fuel-efficient passenger jets. The order came just two weeks after Airbus said it would no longer make its A380 superjumbo.
2020 - Films showing for the first time on U.S. theatre screens included: The Invisible Man, starring Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Aldis Hodge; 10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up, with Christina Ricci, Hamish Linklater and Lindsey Broad; Blood on Her Name, starring Bethany Anne Lind, Will Patton and Elisabeth Röhm; Disappearance at Clifton Hill, with Tuppence Middleton, Hannah Gross and Marie-Josée Croze; Guns Akimbo, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving and Rhys Darby; The Jesus Rolls, with John Turturro, Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou; Saint Frances, starring Kelly O’Sullivan, Charin Alvarez and Braden Crothers; Straight Up, with James Scully, Katie Findlay and Betsy Brandt; Wendy, starring Yashua Mack, Devin France and Gage Naquin; and The Whistlers, with Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon and Rodica Lazar.
2020 - Donald Trump accused Democrats of exaggerating the danger of the coronavirus, calling their criticism a new “hoax” intended to undermine his presidency.
2020 - The number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the U.S. was confirmed at 62. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also confirmed that four more patients tested positive for the virus in California, Oregon and Washington states. Meanwhile, China’s death toll from the coronavirus reached 2,788, up 44.
2020 - The embattled Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New York filed for bankruptcy protection amidst a clergy misconduct scandal that was the basis for hundreds of lawsuits, Vatican intervention and the resignation of its bishop.
2021 - Tina Fey (at the Rainbow Room in New York) and Amy Poehler (from the Beverly Hilton) hosted the Golden Globe awards show on TV. Nomadland won for best picture and best director, Chloé Zhao. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, an Amazon Studios release, won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture for a musical or comedy. The late Chadwick Boseman won best actor in a drama for Mar Rainey’s Black Bottom. Andra Day won best actress for her lead role in The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
2021 - U.S. infectious disease official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recommended -- saying he would take -- the newly approved Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, and he encouraged everyone to accept any of the three approved shots.
2022 - The White House denied executive privilege to advisers of former POTUS Trump. Their testimony was being sought by a congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan 6, 2021 Capitol riot. President Biden had determined that executive privilege was “not in the national interest, and therefore is not justified" in certain matters before the committee.”
2022 - The U.S. closed its embassy in Minsk and allowed non-emergency employees and family members to leave its embassy in Moscow. The actions came as Russia pushed on with its invasion of Ukraine for a fifth day.
2022 - The U.S. Treasury banned transactions with the Central Bank of Russia and the Russian foreign investment fund, imposing strict financial sanctions on a Russian economy that was already in a free fall.
2022 - French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated the international community’s demands to halt Russia’s offensive in Ukraine in a phone call with Vladimir Putin. The Russian President repeated his conditions that Kyiv be neutral, “denazified” and “demilitarized” and Russian control over annexed Crimea is formally recognized.
2023 - The collision of a Greek passenger service and a freight train killed 57 people near town of Larissa. The crash -- south of the Tempe Valley in Greece, about halfway between the Greek towns of Tempi and Evangelismos in the Thessaly region -- was one of Greece’s worst-ever rail disasters. The passenger train had been allowed to proceed on the wrong track and the driver was told to pass red signals of danger despite the presence of the freight train on the same track.
2023 - FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that the bureau believed COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab accident in Wuhan, China. “You’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans,” Wray said of the coronavirus, “and that’s precisely what that capability was designed for.”
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Birthdays on This Day February 28
1797 - Mary Lyon
educator: founded Mount Holyoke Seminary, now Mt. Holyoke College, one of the first permanent colleges for women; died Mar 5, 18491820 - Sir John Tenniel
cartoonist, illustrator: Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass; died Feb 25, 19141824 - Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet)
acrobat, aerialist: first to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope [June 30, 1859]; died Feb 22, 18971894 - Ben Hecht
novelist: Eric Dorn; scriptwriter: Wuthering Heights; playwright: The Front Page; died Apr 18, 19641901 - Linus Pauling
Nobel peace prize-winner [1962]; Nobel prize for chemistry [1954]; died Aug 19, 19941903 - Vincente Minnelli (Lester Anthony Minnelli)
Academy Award-winning director: Gigi [1958]; An American in Paris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Judy Garland’s husband; Liza Minnelli’s father; died July 25, 19861907 - Milton Caniff
cartoonist: Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon; died May 3, 19881908 - Earl Scheib
founded Earl Scheib automobile repainting and collision repair company; died Feb 29, 19921914 - Jack Entratter
showman/entrepreneur/producer: Copacabana [New York], Sands Hotel/Casino [Las Vegas]; died Mar 11, 19711915 - Lee Castle (Castaldo)
musician: trumpet, bandleader: led Jimmy Dorsey’s band during time of smash hit: So Rare; died Nov 16,19901915 - Zero Mostel (Samuel Joel Mostel)
actor: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Journey into Fear; died Sep 8, 19771920 - Alf Kjellin
actor; director: The Girls of Huntington House; died Apr 5, 19881923 - Charles Durning
actor: Spy Hard, The Hudsucker Proxy, Dick Tracy, Death of a Salesman, Tootsie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sharky’s Machine, The Final Countdown, When a Stranger Calls, North Dallas Forty, The Hindenburg, Dog Day Afternoon, The Sting, Evening Shade, Studs Lonigan, Eye to Eye, The Cop and the Kid, Captains and the Kings, NCIS; died Dec 24, 20121924 - Chris Kraft
NASA flight director for all Mercury and many Gemini missions; NASA spokesman: voice of Mission Control during Mercury and Gemini space missions; died Jul 22, 20191926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva
author: The Faraway Music; daughter of Russian leader, Joseph Stalin; defected to the West Mar 9, 1967; died Nov 22, 20111927 - Stanley Baker
actor: The Guns of Navarone, Knights of the Roundtable; died June 28, 19761929 - Hayden Fry
football: Baylor Univ [1947-1950]; head coach: SMU [962–1972], North Texas State [1973–1978], Univ of Iowa: [1979-1998: won three Big Ten titles]; died Dec 17, 20191929 - Frank Gehry
Pritzker Prize-winning architect: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Museum, Vitra Design Museum, NYC’s 8 Spruce Street, Miami Beach’s New World Center, Prague’s Dancing House, National Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial1930 - Frank Malzone
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1957-1960, 1963, 1964], California Angels; died Dec 29, 20151931 - Gavin MacLeod
actor: The Love Boat, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, McHale’s Navy, Operation Petticoat; died May 29, 20211931 - Dean Smith
Basketball Hall of Famer; coach: North Carolina Tar Heels; coach of U.S. Olympic Basketball Team [1976]; died Feb 7, 20151934 - Willie Bobo
musician: drums; bandleader: Grazing in the Grass, Evil Ways, Sunny, Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries, Psychedelic Blues, Juicy; died Sep 15, 19831939 - Tommy Tune
Tony Award-winning dancer, actor: My One and Only, Will Rogers Follies, Dean Martin Presents; director: musical theater1940 - Mario Andretti
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer1940 - Joe South (Souter)
musician: guitar, singer: Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Games People Play; songwriter: Down in the Boondocks, Rose Garden; died Sep 5, 20121942 - Frank Bonner
actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, Sidekicks, Just the Ten of Us; died Jun 16, 20211942 - Brian Jones (Lewis Hopkin-Jones)
musician: guitar: group: The Rolling Stones: [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction, Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Woman, Voodoo Lounge; died July 3, 1969 [drowned in a swimming pool]1942 - Dino Zoff
Soccer Hall of Famer [goalkeeper]: Italy’s European Championship team [1968], Udinese, Mantova, Napoli, Juventus, Italian World Cup team [1982: he was the oldest winner of the World Cup]; coach: Juventus, Lazio, Italy, Lazio, Fiorentina1944 - Kelly Bishop
Tony Award-winning actress: A Chorus Line [1976]; Six Degrees of Separation, Proposals, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Bus Stop; films, TV: An Unmarried Woman, Gilmore Girls, Dirty Dancing, Private Parts, Wonder Boys, Me and Him, Queens Logic, Café Society, Miami Rhapsody, Blue Moon, The Thorns, My Wildest Dreams, Kate & Allie, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Murphy Brown, Friends with Kids, A Novel Romance1944 - Sepp Maier
German footballer [goalkeeper]: West Germany: 1974 World Cup champs1945 - Bubba Smith
football [lineman]: Baltimore Colts, LA Raiders, Houston Oilers; actor: Police Academy series, The Wild Pair, Fist of Honor, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Coach; died Aug 3, 20111947 - Stephanie Beacham
actress: The Colbys, Dynasty, Sister Kate, Seaquest DSV, Foreign Affairs, Troop Beverly Hills, The Nightcomers1947 - Marty (Martin Roman) Perez
baseball: California Angels, Atlanta Braves, SF Giants, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics1948 - Bernadette Peters (Lazzara)
actress: The Jerk, Annie, All’s Fair, George M, Dames at Sea, Pennies from Heaven; singer: Gee Whiz1948 - Mercedes Ruehl
actress: Indictment: The McMartin Trial, Lost in Yonkers, Last Action Hero, The Fisher King, Married to the Mob, Big, Radio Days1950 - Tom Riker
basketball: Univ. of South Carolina, NY Knicks1953 - Roland Harper
football: Chicago Bears1953 - Paul Krugman
economist: Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, op-ed columnist for The New York Times; won Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics [2008]1954 - Brian Billick
football: head coach: Baltimore Ravens [1999-2007]: Super Bowl XXXV champs 20011955 - Gilbert Gottfried
comedian, actor: The Amazing Floydini, Back by Midnight, Longshot, Goosed, Meet Wally Sparks, Problem Child, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: “Son of a bitch!”; died Apr 12, 20221957 - Phil Gould
musician: drums: group: Level 42: The Chinese Way, The Sun Goes Down [Living It Up], Hot Water, Something About You, Leaving Me Now1957 - John Turturro
actor: Girl 6, Quiz Show, Barton Fink, Miller’s Crossing, The Sicilian, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money, To Live & Die in L.A., Desperately Seeking Susan, Severance1957 - Cindy Wilson
singer: group: B-52s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606 0842, Dance This Mess Around1960 - Dorothy Stratten
actress: They All Laughed, Galaxina, Skatetown, U.S.A., Americathon, Autumn Born; subject of film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story: after her marriage to promoter/star-wannabe Paul Snider ended, he stalked her and eventually shot her to death and then himself; died Aug 14, 19801961 - Rae Dawn Chong
actress: Quest for Fire, The Color Purple, Commando, Choose Me, Beat Street, Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers, Far Out Man, Mysterious Ways, Wild Card1969 - Robert Sean Leonard
actor: The Boys Next Door, Safe Passage, The Age of Innocence, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Dead Poets Society, Manhattan Project1969 - Patrick Monahan
musician, songwriter, singer: group: Train: Drops of Jupiter [Tell Me], Calling All Angels, Hey, Soul Sister, If It’s Love, Drive By, 50 Ways to Say Goodbye1970 - Daniel Handler
journalist, author [under pen name Lemony Snicket]: A Series of Unfortunate Events, All the Wrong Questions; more1971 - Tasha Smith
actress: Why Did I Get Married?, Why Did I Get Married Too?, For Better or Worse, Pastor Brown, Something Like a Business, Red Soil, Jumping the Broom, Addicted1973 - Rebecca Gibson
actress: A Bear Named Winnie, The Winning Season, Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story1973 - Eric Lindros
hockey: Canadian National Team, Oshawa Generals, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Dallas Stars1976 - Ali Larter
actress: Heroes, Varsity Blues, House on Haunted Hill, Final Destination, Legally Blonde, A Lot Like Love, Marigold, Obsessed, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter1977 - Jason Aldean
singer: Why, Big Green Tractor, She’s Country, The Truth, Don’t You Wanna Stay [w/Kelly Clarkson], Dirt Road Anthem, Fly Over States, Take a Little Ride1979 - Sebastien Bourdais
race car driver: won four consecutive Champ Car World Series titles [2004-2007]1979 - Chris Hayes
TV political commentator: All In with Chris Hayes [MSNBC]; editor at large: The Nation1980 - Tayshaun Prince
basketball [small forward]: NBA: Detroit Pistons [2002–2013: 2004 NBA champs]; Memphis Grizzlies [2013–2015]; Boston Celtics [2015]; Detroit Pistons [2015]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2015–2016]1984 - Karolína Kurková
Czech model: Victoria’s Secret Angel, Vogue cover star; actress: My Sexiest Year, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra1985 - Jelena Janković
tennis champ: former World #1 [singles]; Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title [2007 w/Jamie Murray]; career record: 487–267; career titles 12 WTA, 1 ITF1987 - Michelle Horn
actress: Strong Medicine, Family Law, Hostage, Loving Annabelle, Little Athens, The Ruby Princess Runs Away, Return to the Secret Garden, Chance of a Lifetime, Stuart Saves His Family; voice actress: Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride1988 - Aroldis Chapman
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds [2010–2015]; Chicago Cubs [2016]: 2016 World Series champs; New York Yankees [2016], Chicago Cubs [2016], New York Yankees [2017–2022], Kansas City Royals [2023], Texas Rangers 20231991 - Sarah Bolger
actress: Once Upon a Time, In America, The Tudors, Stormbreaker, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Crush, Kiss Me, Starbright
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Hit Music on This Day February 28
1944Bésame Mucho (facts) - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
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