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1788 - One peach of a state, Georgia, became the 4th state to enter the United States of America. Nicknamed the Peach State for obvious reasons, Georgia is also referred to as the Empire State of the South. First explored by the Spanish, but named after King George II of England, Georgia became the stronghold of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Atlanta, its capital and largest city has been the center of commerce, communication, politics and transportation for the Southeastern region of the U.S. Like the rest of the 50 states, Georgia has a state bird: the brown thrasher; a state flower: for some reason it's not the peach blossom, but the Cherokee rose; a state tree: the live oak; a state song: Georgia on My Mind; and an official state motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation.1842 - The first wire suspension bridge was opened to traffic -- in Fairmount (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania.
1859 - Erastus Beadle published The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen. Here’s one suggestion: “Always read Those Were the Days because it’s the proper thing to do.” Right there on page 7, we promise!
1872 - Brigham Young, the 71-year-old leader of the Mormon Church, was arrested on a charge of bigamy. He had 25 wives. Imagine taking them all to the grocery store each week?
1893 - The first commemorative postage stamps were issued. They commemorated the lowest prices these stamps would ever be again.
1921 - The first religious broadcast on radio was heard, as Dr. E.J. Van Etten of Calvary Episcopal Church preached on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1932 - Freddy Martin formed a new band and was hired to play the Roosevelt Grill in New York City. Martin became one of the big names in the music business. Merv Griffin later became Martin’s lead vocalist.
1941 - The Andrews Sisters recorded Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy on Decca Records. LaVerne, Maxene and Patty Andrews recorded in Los Angeles and the song was heard in the movie, Buck Privates, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
1942 - Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, fell to invading Japanese troops.
1952 - Libya became an independent constitutional monarchy.
1953 - NBC-TV presented the first program in the series The Life of Riley, starring William Bendix, on this day in 1953. We remember Chester A. Riley as a big, lovable, galoot who had trouble getting things to go right. His philosophy when things went wrong was, “What a revoltin’ development dis is!” When things went right (usually straightened out by wife Peg), however, Riley was very satisfied with life and ‘the life of Riley’ became synonymous in the 1950s with ‘the good life’.
1957 - Gene Fullmer defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to earn the world middleweight boxing title. (Robinson got the title back with a 5th-round knockout of Fullmer on May 1, 1957.)
1959 - CBS radio dropped the curtain on four soap operas. Our Gal Sunday, This is Nora Drake, Backstage Wife and Road of Life all signed off for good.
1960 - Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1965 - ‘Broadway’ Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football when he signed on the dotted line to play with the New York Jets of the American Football League.
1971 - George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass was number one on U.S. album charts. Harrison was the first ex-Beatle to hit #1 with a solo album.
1974 - Singing cowboy Tex Ritter died of a heart attack at the age of 68. His son, John, became a significant television star in Three’s Company, and in movies, including Problem Child.
1974 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, requiring states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was meant to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries, and was also intended to save an estimated 9,000 lives each year. (The law was repealed in 1995, returning the power of setting speed limits to the states.)
1980 - Officials of the Miss America Pageant announced that Bert Parks would not return as host of the annual beauty contest in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Parks sang “There she is, Miss America” for 25 years. He was replaced by Ron Ely, television’s Tarzan.
1983 - The smash musical, Annie, closed on Broadway at the Uris Theatre after 2,377 performances: the sixth longest-running show on the Great White Way. The five longest-running shows at the time were: Fiddler on the Roof, Life With Father, Tobacco Road, Hello Dolly and Music Man. Now you know...
1983 - The final edition of Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, Doonesbury, appeared in 726 newspapers. It had a readership of 60 million people. Doonesbury began anew in September 1984.
1985 - The Rebels of UNLV beat Utah State in three overtime periods, 142-140. The 282 total points scored set a new NCAA mark for total points in a basketball game. It took over three hours to play the game.
1987 - The most-watched college football game was played this day, as Joe Paterno’s Nittany Lions of Penn State defeated the Miami Hurricanes, 14-10, at the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. The game was so popular that it beat Dallas and Falcon Crest in the TV ratings.
1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement to lift trade restrictions between their countries. (The ratified by both governments and became effective January 1, 1989.)
1988 - An Ashland Oil Company tank collapsed in West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, sending more than 700,000 gallons of diesel oil oozing into the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers near Pittsburgh.
1990 - Actor Alan Hale Jr., Skipper on Gilligan’s Island, died of cancer. He was 68 years old.
1991 - Sharon Pratt Kelly was sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC, becoming the first black woman to head a city of Washington’s size and prominence.
1994 - The newly-elected Republican mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, delivering his inaugural address, said, “On the second day of January of 1994, I dedicate my administration to you -- the people of New York.”
1995 - The most distant galaxy yet discovered was found by scientists using the Keck telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. "8C 1435+63" was estimated to be 15 billion light years away. The discovery was made by a team of astronomers from the University of California, led by Hyron Spinrad. They found the new galaxy to be 150,000 to 200,000 light-years across.
1996 - Former U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count. He had attempted to sway a grand jury investigating 1980s influence-peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Watt was later fined and sentenced to five years’ probation.
1997 - Rain and melting snow swamped the Western U.S., trapping visitors in Yosemite National Park, closing casinos in Reno, NV, and forcing the evacuation of 100,000 Californians.
1998 - Josef Tošovský was sworn in as prime minister of the Czech Republic. He pledged economic reforms, privatization, and efforts to fight crime and corruption.
1999 - Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer, died in Paris. Liebermann led the Hamburg Opera from 1959-1972 and the Paris Opera from 1973-1980. His work included Eleonore 40/45, Penelope, L’Ecole des Femmes and La Foret.
2000 - Retired Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Junior died. He was 79 years old. Zumwalt was known early in his career for modernizing the U.S. Navy and later for ordering the spraying of Agent Orange in Vietnam.
2001 - U.S. President-elect George Bush (II) tapped Democrat Norman Y. Mineta to be his transportation secretary, Spencer Abraham to be energy secretary and Linda Chavez to be secretary of labor. (Chavez later withdrew her name.)
2002 - The new Afghan government confirmed that American bombs had killed the Taliban’s intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah.
2002 - Eduardo Duhalde was sworn in as president of Argentina. He was the fifth president to take office in two weeks.
2003 - Astrologer Sydney Omarr, whose horoscopes appeared in more than 200 newspapers, died in Santa Monica, CA. He was 76 years old.
2004 - Secret Things opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville, Blandine Bury, Olivier Soler, Sylvain Bourguignon, Arnaud Goujon, Lisa Hérédia, Frédéric Marques and Bruno Sx.
2005 - The death toll from the Dec 26, 2004 earthquake/tsunami was estimated at 150,000.
2005 - The creator of the aluminum Bundt pan, H. David Dalquist, died at 86 years of age at his home in Edina, MN. Dalquist founded St. Louis Park-based Nordic Ware, which has sold more than 50 million Bundt pans.
2006 - An explosion in a West Virginia coal mine resulted in the deaths of 12 of 13 miners in what came to be known as the Sago Mine disaster. The survivor, Randal McCloy Jr., remained in a coma for over three weeks after his rescue. A Dec, 2006 report blamed a lightning strike for the spark that set off the methane gas explosion in the mine.
2006 - Fifteen people died when the roof collapsed at the Bad Reichenhall ice rink in Bavaria, Germany.
2007 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon created controversy on his first day in office when he failed to state the United Nation’ opposition to the death penalty -- and to Saddam Hussein’s execution. Ki-moon said capital punishment should be a decision of individual countries.
2007 - Oprah Winfrey opened a school for disadvantaged girls south of Johannesburg, South Africa, fulfilling a promise she made to former President Nelson Mandela and giving more than 150 students a chance for a better future.
2008 - Oil futures hit an intraday high of $100 per barrel and closed at a record $99.62.
2009 - Some 30 Idaho investors were informed that about $100 million of their investments had been pilfered. State security regulators soon launched an investigation into Daren Palmer and his Trigon Group Inc. under allegations that he had operated a long-running Ponzi scheme.
2009 - Luis Fortuño, Puerto Rico’s new governor was sworn in, inheriting an island government that was battling a recession, a soaring murder rate and a deficit of more than $1 billion.
2010 - French police said about 30 works of art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau, had been stolen from the home of a private collector near Marseilles. The theft came days after a drawing by Impressionist Edgar Degas worth €800,000 ($1.15 million) was stolen from the Cantini Museum in Marseilles.
2011 - President Barack Obama signed a $4.3 billion measure that covered the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others sickened by toxic fumes following the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
2012 - Iran successfully test-fired several cruise missiles. The country’s navy chief said Tehran was in complete control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. French officials described Iran’s missile testing as a “very bad signal sent to the international community.”
2013 - Qatari-based broadcasting company Al Jazeera said it had bought Current TV, the cable channel founded by former U.S. VP Al Gore and partners. The purchase was seen as a move to boost Al Jazeera’s presence in the United States.
2014 - Italy-based Fiat took full ownership of Chrysler in a deal valued at some $4.35 billion.
2014 - South Korea’s military said it would fight a court ruling quashing its move to kick an officer candidate out of the elite Army Academy for having sex with his girlfriend while on leave. The Academy maintains rules against sexual relations as part of its code of conduct that also bans drinking, but the court had ruled that the Academy had abused its authority to discipline cadets in expelling the candidate, and that his conduct did no harm to the institution’s honor. ("How did they know about the sex?" you ask. News reports had said a third person had observed the recruit and his girlfriend visiting an apartment and had informed the Academy.)
2015 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: horror thriller The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, starring Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine and Phoebe Fox; and Ian Cheney’s comedy documentary The Search for General Tso.
2015 - The U.S. imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the cyber attack on Hollywood’s Sony Pictures studios.
2016 - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began arresting immigrants, targeting Central American families who came to the country illegally since 2014. Over the next two days 121 people from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico were arrested -- primarily in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas.
2016 - Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty -- and a recent confidence-building pact -- by landing a plane on an airstrip Beijing had built in a contested part of the South China Sea. Late in 2015 China completed the airfield on Fiery Cross Reef and security experts said it could accommodate most Chinese military aircraft.
2017 - Republicans of the U.S. House of Representatives voted 119-74 in a secret caucus to eviscerate the Office of Congressional Ethics, the independent body created in 2008 to investigate allegations of misconduct by lawmakers following several bribery and corruption scandals. Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, blasted the sneaky maneuver, calling it an “outrage.” But this was only the beginning of a very sneaky year for the U.S. Republican-led Congress.
2018 - Egypt executed four Islamic militants following their conviction by a military tribunal for the killing of three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack.
2019 - Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a letter to shareholders that demand for iPhones was waning and revenue for the last quarter of 2018 would fall well below projections. Cook blaimed weaker than expected sales in China and other developing markets.
2019 - The Red Cross reported hundreds of refugees had crossed into Uganda from Congo in the aftermath of that country’s presidential election. The parade of people heightened concerns about their bringing the Ebola virus with them.
2020 - The owners and operators of GirlsDoPorn, a San Diego-based porn website, were ordered to pay $12.7 million after a judge found them liable for fraud and breach of contract. The court found that they had lied to women about how their explicit videos would be distributed. They had been told the videos would be put on DVDs and sold only to private buyers or independent video stores in Australia, New Zealand, or South America. But the videos were posted on the GirlsDoPorn site for any subscriber to view. (In Dec 2020 40 GirlsDoPorn victims sued Pornhub for hosting “sex trafficking” videos. The 40 Jane Does said they were victims of GirlsDoPorn, alleging that Pornhub hosted videos despite knowing that “GirlsDoPorn was a sex trafficking venture.”)
2020 - Thousands of tourists fled Australia’s wildfire-ravaged eastern coast ahead of worsening conditions and the military started to evacuate people who were trapped. Authorities said 381 homes had been destroyed on the New South Wales southern coast during the week and at least eight people had died in the state and neighboring Victoria.
2021 - Outgoing POTUS Trump pressured Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn the presidential election.
2021 - Digital currency Bitcoin extended its record smashing rally, beginning the year with a surge over $30,000 for the first time. More traders and investors seemed to be betting that Bitcoin was on its way to becoming a mainstream payment method.
2021 - South Korea expanded a ban on private gatherings larger than four people to include the whole country, and extended unprecedented COVID-19 social distancing rules in Seoul and neighboring areas.
2022 - President Biden spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone, reaffirming U.S. support for Ukraine as it faced looming Russian aggression. Biden promised that the U.S. and allies woud act “decisively” if Russia invaded.
2022 - Social networker Twitter permanently banned the personal account of Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for tweets that repeatedly violated its misinformation policy on COVID-19.
2023 - In an NFL game shocker, Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed in cardiac arrest and was revived by emergency workers giving CPR on the field. This, in a televised game with the Bengals in Cincinnati. The cause of the near-fatal collapse on was commotio cordis, a rare event caused by a blow to the chest.
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Birthdays on This Day January 2
1752 - Philip Freneau
Poet of the American Revolution: The Indian Burying Ground; died Dec 18, 18321857 - Martha Carey Thomas
women’s education advocate: 1st president of National College Women's Equal Suffrage League, president of Bryn Mawr College for women [1894-1922]; died Dec 2, 19351861 - Helen Herron Taft
First Lady: wife of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft; died May 22, 19431904 - James Melton
singer: La Traviata; died Apr 21, 19611905 - Sir Michael Tippett
composer: String Quartet No. 1, A Child of Our Time, The Midsummer Marriage, Fourth Symphony, The Mask of Time, The Rose Lake; writer: Those Twentieth Century Blues [autobiography], Tippett on Music, Caliban’s Song; died Jan 8, 19981905 - Pinky (Arthur Carter) Whitney
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1936], Boston Braves, Boston Bees; died Sep 1, 19871913 - Anna Lee
actress: Port Charles, General Hospital, What Can I Do?, Beverly Hills Brats, Scruples, The Beasts Are on the Streets, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years; died May 14, 20041917 - Vera Zorina (Eva Brigitta Hartwig)
dancer, actress: Star-Spangled Rhythm; died April 9, 20031920 - Isaac Asimov
sci-fi writer: I Robot; died Apr 6, 19921922 - Jason Evers
actor: Fer-De-Lance, Barracuda, Basket Case; died Mar 13, 20051927 - Gino Marchetti
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts; died Apr 29, 20191929 - Arthur Prysock
singer: All My Lovin’ Was in Vain, Got to Get You Off My Mind, Everything Must Change, Good Rockin’ Tonight, I Want to Thank You, Girl; died June 21, 19971930 - Julius LaRosa
singer: Anywhere I Wander, Eh Cumpari, Arthur Godfrey’s radio/TV shows; movie: Let’s Rock; DJ: WNEW, NYC; died May 12, 20161935 - John Considine
actor: Gia, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Another World1936 - Roger Miller
songwriter: King of the Road, Invitation to the Blues, You Don’t Want My Love; singer: Dang Me, Chug-a-Lug; 11 Grammys in 1964-65; wrote hit musical: Big River; died Oct 25, 19921937 - Martin Lauer
hurdler: Olypic Gold Medalist: Men’s 4-by-100 meter relay [w/Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf: Rome, 1960]; died Oct 6, 20191940 - Jim Bakker (Orsen)
TV evangelist: PTL Club/Heritage USA: defrocked by Assemblies of God after 1987 financial scandal; autobiography: I Was Wrong1942 - Dennis Hastert
politician: member of the U.S. House of Representatives [14th District of Illinois 1987-2007]; Speaker of the House [1999-2007]1947 - Calvin Hill
football: Dallas Cowboys running back, Super Bowl V, VI1949 - Chick Churchill
musician: keyboards: group: Ten Years After: I’m Going Home, Love like a Man1949 - Christopher Durang
actor: Housesitter, The Butcher’s Wife, In the Spirit, Mr. North, Heaven Help Us1949 - Mike Newlin
basketball [guard]: NBA: Houston Rockets, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks1951 - Bill Madlock
baseball: Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1975/NL batting Champ: 1975, 1976], SF Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979/all-star: 1981, 1983/NL batting champ: 1981, 1983], LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers1952 - Alan Beckwith
actor: The China Syndrome, The Dogs of War, UFOria1952 - Wendy Phillips
actress: Executive Suite, A Year in the Life, The Robert Guillaume Show, Homefront, Falcon Crest, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Bugsy, Midnight Run, Death Be Not Proud1957 - Joanna Pacula
actress: Timemaster, Deep Red, Tombstone, Eyes of the Beholder, Husbands and Lovers, Marked for Death, Sweet Lies, Death Before Dishonor, Gorky Park1961 - Gabrielle Carteris
actress: Beverly Hills 90210, Raising Cain1963 - David Cone
baseball [pitcher]: Kansas City Royals [1986], New York Mets [1987–1992]; Kansas City Royals [1993–1994: Cy Young Award 1994; Toronto Blue Jays [1995], New York Yankees [1995–2000]: World Series champs: 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, pitched perfect game July 18, 1999; Boston Red Sox [2001]; New York Mets [2003]1963 - Edgar Martinez
baseball [designated hitter, first, third base: Seattle Mariners1965 - Greg Swindell
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Texas; NFL: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks1967 - Tia Carrere (Althea Janairo)
actress: Relic Hunter, General Hospital, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World 2, True Lies, Operation Delta Force III: Clear Target, The Night of the Headless Horseman, Meet Prince Charming; more1967 - James Marshall
actor: Twin Peaks, A Few Good Men, The Cursed, Alien Lockdown, Down, Soccer Dog: The Movie, She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal, A Few Good Men1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr.
Academy Award-winning (supporting) actor: Jerry Maguire; Pearl Harbor, The Tuskegee Airmen, Outbreak, Losing Isaiah, A Few Good Men, Boyz N the Hood, Coming to America1968 - Scott Mitchell
football [quarterback]: Univ of Utah; NFL: Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals1968 - Evan Parke
actor: King Kong [2005], Second String, My Brother’s Keeper, Planet of the Apes [2001], The Replacements, The Cider House Rules1968 - Chris Spencer
comedian, actor: The Sixth Man, Significant Others, Postal, Wild ’N Out, Two Can Play That Game, Out-of-Body Experience1969 - Patrick Huard
actor: Taxi 0-22, Les Boys en prolongation, Les Guerriers, Nez rouge, La Vie apres l’amour, Les Boys1969 - Rick Tabaracci
hockey [goalie]: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Winnipeg Jets, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames, Tampa Bay Lightning, Atlanta Thrashers, Colorado Avalanche1970 - Glenn Cadrez
football: NFL: NY Jets [1992–1995]; Denver Broncos [1995–2000]: 1998 Super Bowl XXXII, 1999 Super Bowl XXXIII champs; Kansas City Chiefs [2001–2002]1970 - Royce Clayton
baseball: SF Giants, SL Cardinals, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies1970 - Eric Whitacre
Grammy Award-winning composer, conductor [Light and Gold (2012)]; arranged the score for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides1971 - Taye Diggs
actor: Broadway: Rent; films/TV: How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, Murder in the First, The Guiding Light, Slow Burn, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Chicago, Equilibrium, Cross the Line, New Best Friend, House on Haunted Hill1971 - Renée Elise Goldsberry
singer, actress: Broadway: Hamilton, The Color Purple, Rent, The Lion King; TV: One Life to Live, The Good Wife, Altered Carbon; films: Every Secret Thing, Sisters, The House with a Clock in Its Walls1971 - Aaron Williams
basketball [forward]: Xavier Univ; NBL: Utah Jazz, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle SuperSonics, Washington Wizards, New Jersey Nets, Toronto Raptors1972 - Mattias Norstrom
hockey: New York Rangers, LA Kings, Dallas Stars1972 - Garrett Stephenson
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals1973 - Lucy Davis
actress: The Office, Shaun of the Dead, Shades of Ray, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Rag Tale, Nicholas Nickleby, The Gambler, Ugly Betty, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Californication1974 - Ratcliff Thomas
football [linebacker]: Univ of Maryland; NFL: Indianapolis Colts1975 - Dax Shepard
actor: Car Wars, Zathura, Sledge: The Untold Story, Without a Paddle, Cheaper By the Dozen [2003], Hairshirt, Employee of the Month, Let’s Go to Prison, Hit and Run, Parenthood1975 - Jeff Suppan
baseball [pitcher]: Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, KC Royals, SL Cardinals1976 - Cletidus Hunt
football: Kentucky State Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers1976 - Paz Vega
actress: Carmen, Zapping, 7 vidas TV series, Spanglish1977 - Brian Boucher
hockey: Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes1977 - Scott Proctor
baseball [pitcher]: Florida State Univ; MLB: Florida Marlins, New York Yankees and L.A. Dodgers1978 - Yuri Babenko
hockey: Colorado Avalanche1978 - Frank Chamberlin
football: Boston College; NFL: Tennessee Titans, Cincinnati Bengals; died Nov 17, 20131978 - Flower Tucci
actress [2002-2012]: X-rated films: Strictly BuisnASS, The British Are Coming, Sick Girls Need Sick Boys, Law & Lust, Sex Starved MILFs 21979 - Blake Washer
actor: Zombie Bloodbath 3: Zombie Armageddon, The Shivers, Shadow King, Whispers in the Gloom, Vampire Holocaust1980 - Catherine Bailey
actress: The English Harem, The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells, Who Dealt?, EastEnders1980 - Marcus Wilkins
football: Univ of Texas; NFL: GB Packers, Cincinnati Bengals1981 - Kirk Hinrich
basketball: Univ of Kanasas; NBA: Chicago Bulls1981 - Kelton ‘LDB’ Kessee
‘Little Drummer Boy’: musician [drums], singer: groups: Immature/IMx: Never Lie, Constantly, I Don Mind, Feel the Funk, We Got It, Please Don’t Go, Lover’s Groove, Watch Me Do My Thing, I’m Not a Fool1983 - Kate Bosworth
actress: The Horse Whisperer, Young Americans, Remember the Titans, The Newcomers1984 - David Deveau
actor: Little Men, Bleeder, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Drummer Boy1985 - Heather O’Reilly
footballer [midfielder]: U.S. women’s soccer team: Olympic gold medalist [2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London], 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup champs1986 - Asa Akira
actress [2006-2010]: X-rated films: Buttwoman vs. Slutwoman, Asa Akira Is Insatiable series, Vajazzled, Superstar Showdown 2: Asa Akira vs. Kristina Rose; she has appeared in some 400 adult films1987 - Lauren Storm
actress: Flight 29 Down, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Boston Public, Malcolm in the Middle, 24, Joan of Arcadia, CSI: Miami, Still Standing, 7th Heaven, Drop Dead Diva, The Game Plan1991 - Ben Hardy
actor: EastEnders, X-Men: Apocalypse, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Woman in White, The Girl Before
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A Dreamer’s Holiday (facts) - Perry Como
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