January 3
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1825 - The first engineering college in the U.S., Rensselaer School, opened in Troy, New York. It’s still there; now known as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Rah!1871 - A Binghamton, NY chap named Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine this day. How many of you want to reveal your age by saying you remember when oleomargarine was white and was sold in plastic bags with a color tab inside the bag? What fun it was to break that tab and squish the yellow color through the oleomargarine! Let the good times roll!
1888 - Marvin C. Stone of Washington, DC patented the drinking straw. Slurp something yummy in celebration today.
1912 - In the 10th Davis Cup, Australasia beat the U.S. in the lawn tennis championship in Christchurch, New Zealand (5-0). It was the third straight time that the Aussies had beaten the Americans for the title.
1938 - The first broadcast of Woman in White was presented on the NBC Red network. The program remained on radio for 10 years and was one of the first to feature real, honest-to-goodness doctors and nurses in leading roles.
1938 - The March of Dimes was established -- by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- to fight poliomyelitis (Roosevelt himself was afflicted with polio). The organization was originally called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (as the disease was commonly known). The March of Dimes accomplished its mission within 20 years. Research led by Dr. Jonas Salk and supported by funds (those marching little dimes) raised annually by thousands of volunteers, resulted in the announcement in April 1955 that the Salk polio vaccine was “safe, potent and effective.” The foundation also supported the research that led to the Sabin oral vaccine; another safe, effective polio preventative discovered by Dr. Albert B. Sabin.
1939 - Tennis legend Don Budge played a pro tennis match, his first in Madison Square Garden, NY, before 17,725 spectators. Budge was touring the country as the top U.S. tennis player, having won the grand slam of tennis (Australian, French and U.S. Opens and Wimbledon) the year before.
1940 - The Southland Shuffle was recorded on Bluebird Records by Charlie Barnet and his orchestra. A young trumpet player named Billy May was featured.
1944 - More than 500 people were killed when three trains collided inside a tunnel near the village of Torre del Bierzo in the El Bierzo region of Spain’s León province. It was only many years later that the scale of the accident was revealed and there is still some dispute over its actual magnitude. A film about the crash(es) entitled Tunnel number 20 won a Goya Award in 2002 for best short documentary film.
1945 - Allied forces landed on the west coast of Burma.
1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) was hanged in England for treason. He had made Nazi broadcasts to British and American fighting troops.
1947 - Congressional proceedings were televised for the first time in the U.S. as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City saw some of the opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress. Proceedings of the Congress are now regularly broadcast on cable-TV’s C-SPAN.
1953 - Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, became the first mother-son combination to serve at the same time in the United States Congress.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company was the first to introduce an electric watch; now a standard in the watch world.
1959 - Alaska (49th state) entered the United States of America; capital: Juneau; bird: willow ptarmigan; flower: forget-me-not; nickname: The Last Frontier. President Eisenhower signed the proclamation admitting the ‘Land of the Midnight Sun’ to the Union. U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million. The state is nearly 1/5 the size of the total area of the rest of the U.S.
1961 - The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced he was a communist. Tensions between the two governments peaked during the October 1962 missile crisis.
1964 - Barry Goldwater announced that he was a candidate for the U.S. Presidency. Later that year he lost ... big time! Lyndon B. Johnson: 43,126,506; Goldwater: 27,176,799.
1967 - Jack Ruby died in a Dallas hospital. It was Ruby who had shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before he could be tried for the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
1969 - 30,000 copies of the John Lennon, Yoko Ono album, Two Virgins, were confiscated by police in Newark, New Jersey. The nude photo of John and Yoko on the cover violated pornography laws in the state.
1972 - Don McLean received a gold record for his 8-minute-plus (8:32) hit, American Pie.
1973 - The Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS, as it’s known, got out of the baseball business this day by selling the New York Yankees to a 17-person syndicate headed by George Steinbrenner. The price tag: $10 million.
1974 - Following eight years of inactivity, Bob Dylan toured for 39 dates in 25 cities. His first stop was in Chicago, IL. The tour was recorded and later released as a double-LP set titled, Before the Flood.
1977 - Apple Computer, Inc., with registered trademarks of ‘Apple’ and the ‘Company’, was incorporated under the laws of the state of California.
1981 - John Lennon’s (Just Like) Starting Over and the album Double Fantasy topped the pop music charts just weeks after the death of the former Beatle.
1985 - Soprano Leontyne Price bid adieu to the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She sang the title role of Aida. Price had been part of the Met since 1961.
1986 - Capital Cities acquired ABC-TV for $3.5 billion. (In 1991, Capital Cities/ABC Inc. was purchased by Disney for $19 billion).
1987 - The first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was ‘Lady Soul’: Aretha Franklin. Bill Haley was among the 14 others inducted on this day.
1988 - Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century. Thatcher served in the P.M. post from 1979 to 1990. Her premiership was the longest since Lord Liverpool’s tenure between 1812 and 1827.
1990 - Ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces, ten days after taking refuge in the Vatican anuncio in Panama City.
1991 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Japan bought MCA Inc. for $6.9 billion.
1992 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 3,200 for the first time, ending the day at 3,201.48.
1993 - The START II treaty was signed between the U.S. and Russia. President George Bush (I) and President Boris Yeltsin agreed to eliminate land-based multiple-warhead missiles and reduce long-range nuclear arsenals.
1997 - Bryant Gumbel ended his 15-year career as host of the NBC morning show Today.
1998 - Funeral services were held in Centerville, Massachusetts, for Michael Kennedy, the son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy. Michael was killed New Year’s Eve in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado.
1999 - Chicagoans dug out from their biggest snowstorm in more than 30 years. Diggers measured 22 inches at O’Hare International Airport when the last of the flakes had settled.
2000 - The last new daily Peanuts strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers.
2001 - The 107th U.S. Congress opened with the Senate split evenly down the middle. Because of the 50-50 divide, the Democrats were initially in control, since Vice President Al Gore could break ties. But the Republicans took over on Inauguration Day when Dick Cheney became vice president. However, the Senate reverted to Democratic control when Vermont Senator James Jeffords switched his affiliation from Republican to Independent in May.
2002 - The conviction of Juan Melendez for a 1983 murder was overturned in Florida after he had spent 17 years on death row.
2002 - Alfred ‘Freddy’ Henry Heineken, builder of the global beer brand, died in the Netherlands. He was 78 years old.
2003 - The Pianist opened in U.S. theatres. The musical drama stars Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer and Ruth Platt.
2004 - A Flash Airlines Flight 604, a charter Boeing 737 carrying 148 people, most of them French tourists on New Year family holidays, crashed into the Red Sea off the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. All on board were killed.
2004 - The NASA spacecraft Spirit landed on Mars at the Gusev Crater. It was the fourth successful U.S. landing on Mars.
2004 - Rescuers in Iran pulled Sharbanou Mazandarani (97) alive from the rubble at Bam, nine days after its massive earthquake.
2005 - Comic book pioneer Will Eisner died in Florida. He was 87 years old. Over his seven-decade career, Eisner created such memorable comic strips as Hawk of the Seas, The Flame, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Muss em Up, Uncle Sam, Wonder Man, Lady Luck, Black Hawk. His most famous comic was The Spirit. Eisner also authored A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories and Comics and Sequential Art.
2005 - Jewish settlers clashed with Israeli troops who came to tear down two structures at an unauthorized West Bank outpost. One soldier was arrested for encouraging comrades to refuse to evacuate. And settlement leaders warned that thousands of additional soldiers might refuse to carry out orders to enforce evictions from the Gaza Strip.
2006 - Parts of Oklahoma City were being evacuated as a grass fire reached the northeastern edge of the city of half a million people.
2007 - Bob Nardelli resigned from his post as chairman of The Home Depot Inc. The home improvement store chain posted big profits during Nardelli’s watch, but left investors disheartened by poor stock performance. Now before you cry to hard for Mr. Nardelli, note that he left with a severance package of $210 million.
2007 - 14-year-old Mike Perham became the youngest person to sail solo across the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Caribbean island of Antigua after a six-week voyage. The British teenager had been followed by his father in another boat.
2008 - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses as the candidates moved on to New Hampshire.
2009 - Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared the president of Ghana. It was the closest electoral race the West African nation had seen. The peaceful ballot secured Ghana’s place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.
2010 - Avalanches killed at least four skiers and a rescue doctor in Switzerland. The first avalanche hit a group of skiers and the second one buried rescuers who had come to their aid. A third avalanche killed two skiers near Switzerland’s borders with France and Italy.
2011 - Greek and U.S. experts reported finding rough axes and other tools, thought to be between 130,000 and 700,000 years old. The objects were found close to shelters on the south coast of Crete. The island had separated from the mainland about five million years ago, so whoever made the tools must have traveled there by sea, a distance of some 40 miles.
2011 - Boston scientists and health care giant Johnson & Johnson announced that they were joining forces to bring a blood test for cancer to market. Four big cancer centers also were starting studies using the experimental test. The test was so sensitive that it could spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones.
2012 - Early vote counts gave the Republican Iowa caucus win to Mitt Romney by eight votes over Rick Santorum. But a recount later gave the victory to Rick Santorum by 34 votes. Romney and Santorum each garnered 25% of the vote. Ron Paul got 21%, Newt Gingrich won 13% and Rick Perry won 10%. Michele Bachmann won just 5% and dropped out the race the next day. And the 2012 campaign for U.S. president was underway...
2012 - An expert hired by the state of Ohio said a 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Ohio on New Year’s Eve did not occur naturally and may have been caused by high-pressure liquid injection related to oil and gas exploration and production.
2013 - A 27-year-old Russian was killed when a transparent plastic ball, known as a zorb, veered off course and sailed over a rock ledge at the Dombai ski resort in the rugged Caucasus Mountains. A companion in the zorb survived, but was seriously injured.
2014 - Two creepy new movies opened in the U.S.: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, with Andrew Jacobs, Molly Ephraim and Richard Cabral; and Open Grave, starring Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan and Thomas Kretschmann.
2015 - Search teams hunting for the wreck of Indonesia’s AirAsia Flight QZ8501 that crashed Dec 28 with 162 people on board reported four large parts of the plane on the sea bed.
2016 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an order requiring communities statewide to remove homeless people from the streets when temperatures fell to the freezing mark.
2016 - Mexican officials said they had killed 2 people and arrested three others who were linked to the slaying of a mayor who had taken office only a day earlier.
2017 - Ford Motor Co. said that it was canceling plans to build a $1.6 billion car plant in Mexico and would instead invest $700 million to increase production in Michigan. This, after POTUS-elect Donald Trump had harshly criticized Ford’s Mexico investment plan.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump signed an executive order disbanding his voter fraud commission. Trump had claimed that up to five million people had voted illegally in the 2016 election that won him the White House. This, after Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton led by nearly 3 million in the popular vote. In June 2017, the commission had sent out letters to all 50 states and the District of Columbia seeking information on voters, including names, addresses, birth dates, partial Social Security numbers and voting records. Critics saw the commission as part of a conservative campaign to make it harder for poor people and minority voters to access the ballot box, and to justify unfounded claims made by Trump that voter fraud cost him the popular vote.
2019 - Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington with the goal of checking Donald Trump’s turbulent presidency. In the November 2018 midterm elections, the Democratic Party won a new majority in the House, while the Republican Party hung on to its majority in the Senate.
2019 - A Chinese space probe successfully touched down on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-4 lunar probe, launched in December, made the soft landing and transmitted the first-ever close range image of the far side of the moon.
2019 - Mexico’s government said construction on a partly-built $13 billion new Mexico City airport which the new president wants to cancel had been officially suspended. The recently-elected president said he was respecting the result of a referendum that rejected the new airport for Mexico City, effectively ending the $13 billion project. “The decision taken by the citizens is democratic, rational and efficient,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said after 70 percent voted against the plan. “The people decided.”
2020 - POTUS Donald Trump delivered a vicious stump speech at a Miami megachurch. He touted an airstrike that he had ordered in Baghdad that killed the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, declaring, “Qassem Soleimani has been killed and his bloody rampage is now forever gone.” In this first campaign event of 2020, Trump declared that God supported his agenda and pledged to bring prayer to public schools.
2020 - The Wuhan, China Municipal Health Commission said 44 people had been diagnosed with pneumonia, the cause of which is unknown. That number was up from 27 three days earlier. Eleven people were in serious condition. This was apparently one of the first reports of of illness caused by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
2021 - All 10 living former secretaries of defense cautioned against any move to involve the military in pursuing claims of U.S. election fraud, arguing that it would take the country into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory.”
2021 - A South Korean health official said a third wave of COVID-19 was being contained. This, as the country reported the lowest number of new infections in nearly four weeks with the help of tougher restrictions during the New Year holiday season. South Korea expanded a ban on private gatherings larger than four people to the whole country -- and extended social distancing rules in greater Seoul.
2022 - New York attorney general Letitia James subpoenaed two of Donald Trump’s adult children as part of her civil probe into the former president’s business practices.
2022 - A winter storm packing heavy snow and strong winds engulfed parts of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states, forcing federal offices and schools to close. the storm made travel dangerous and knocked out power to some 850,000 people. Much of the federal government in Washington was shut down.
2022 - On the first trading day of 2022, Apple marked a new milestone: it became the first U.S. company to reach a market value of $3 trillion. The milestone was even more notable given that it was less than four years earlier that Apple had topped $1 trillion in value.
2022 - 32-year-old Harpreet Chandi, a captain in the British army, etched her name into polar history after traveling alone for 40 days to reach the South Pole in Antarctica. She began her journey on November 24, 2021 from Hercules Inlet in Antarctica after being dropped by a Twin Otter plane with all her supplies and a small Nordic sledge.
2023 - Fans swamped Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s online toy drive with donations -- as he remained in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals the previous day. Before Hamlin collapsed after a hit and a medical team restarted his heart on the field, the fundraiser had brought in a few thousand dollars. The total after the crisis was approaching $6 million. Hamlin started the GoFundMe in December 2020 to support a toy drive in his community. The NFL later said the game, suspended after the Hamlin collapse, had been cancelled.
2023 - Thousands of fans lined the streets of Santos, Brazil, to pay their final respects to soccer great Pelé as his funeral procession passed. Edson Arantes do Nascimento -- Pelé's real name -- died December 29, 2022 at age 82 after a fight with colon cancer. Brazil’s newly sworn-in president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was among the hundreds of thousands of mourners. “It’s an irreparable loss for Brazil,” Lula said.
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Birthdays on This Day January 3
106 B.C. - Cicero
Roman statesman; died Dec 7, 43 B.C.1793 - Lucretia Mott
women’s rights activist: one of the founders of the movement; teacher, minister, antislavery leader; died Nov 11, 18801879 - Grace Coolidge (Goodhue)
First Lady: wife of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge [1923-1929]; died July 8, 19571883 - Clement Attlee
Britain’s prime minister [1945-1951]; head of Labour Party; died Oct 8, 19671892 - J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien
writer: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit; died Sep 2, 19731894 - Zasu Pitts
actress: Busby Berkeley’s 1934 musical: Dames; TV: The Gale Storm Show [1956-1960]; died June 7, 19631897 - Marion (Cecilia Douras) Davies
actress: Runaway Romany, When Knighthood Was in Flower, The Patsy, Show People, Going Hollywood; died Sep 22, 19611900 - Robert Adair
actor: Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder, Park Plaza 605, The Gambler and the Lady, Portrait of Clare, Me and My Pal, The Prince and the Pauper; died Aug 10, 19541907 - Ray Milland (Reginald Truscott-Jones)
Academy Award-winning actor: The Lost Weekend [1945], We’re Not Dressing, Star-Spangled Rhythm, Lady in the Dark, Let’s Do It Again, X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes; died Mar 10, 19861908 - Dorothea Wieck
actress: Schachnovelle, Menschen im Hotel, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, Unternehmen Schlafsack, Der Mann meines Lebens, Hinter Klostermauern; died Feb 20, 19861909 - Victor Borge (Borge Rosenbaum)
pianist, comedian: phonetic punctuation: "bpft"; died Dec 23, 20001911 - Joseph Rauh
civil rights activist: cofounded Americans for Democratic Action; member: executive board of NAACP; general counsel: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; died Sep 4, 19921911 - John Sturges
director: Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed; died Aug 18, 19921916 - Maxene Andrews
singer [w/sisters LaVerne and Patty]: group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love?, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, Rum and Coca Cola; solo: I Suppose; on Broadway with Patty: Over Here; died Oct 21, 19951916 - Betty (Elizabeth Mary) Furness
actress: Renegades of the West, Flying Down to Rio, Magnificent Obsession; TV host: Penthouse Party, News Gal/Byline, Meet Betty Furness; consumer advocate, TV spokesperson for refrigerators: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse; died Apr 2, 19941921 - John (William Lawrence) Russell
actor: Forever Amber, Rio Bravo, Pale Rider; died Jan 19, 19911922 - Bill Travers
producer, director, actor: Born Free, Ring of Bright Water, Gorgo; died Mar 29, 19941923 - Hank Stram
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach: Kansas City Chiefs: Super Bowls I, IV; sportscaster: CBS radio; died July 4, 20051926 - Joan Walsh Anglund
author: Bedtime Book, Crocus in the Snow; illustrator of children’s books; died Mar 9, 20211926 - Sir George Martin
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame record producer, arranger, keyboard: group: The Beatles; AIR Studios; died Mar 8, 20161930 - Robert Loggia
actor: Independence Day, Wild Palms, Big, Armed and Dangerous, Prizzi’s Honor, Scarface, Psycho 2, Pink Panther series, A Woman Called Golda, Speedtrap, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Mancuso FBI; died Dec 4, 20151930 - Barbara Stuart
actress: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Queen and I, Our Family Honor, The Lawless Years, The Marie Walters Story, The Maxey Gorman Story, Ginny, The McLean Stevenson Show; died May 15, 20111932 - Dabney Coleman
actor: The Guardian, Judicial Consent, The Beverly Hillbillies, Amos and Andrew, Clifford, Never Forget, Short Time, Dragnet, The Man with One Red Shoe, Tootsie, On Golden Pond, 9 to 5, North Dallas Forty, The Other Side of the Mountain, Cinderella Liberty, The President’s Plane is Missing, Buffalo Bill1932 - Clifton ‘Coo Coo’ Marlin
auto racer: Winston Cup star; died Aug 14, 20051935 - Jeremy Kemp (Edmund Walker)
actor: The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Prisoner of Zenda, Duel of Hearts; died Jul 19, 20191939 - Bobby Hull
‘The Golden Jet’: Hockey Hall of Famer: Chicago Blackhawks left wing: Hart Memorial Trophy, NHL’s MVP award [1965, 1966]; Lady Byng Trophy for good sportsmanship [1965]; 1st pro hockey player to score more than 50 goals in one season [54: 1965]; died Jan 30, 20231941 - Quinn O’Hara
actress: The Teacher, Rubia’s Jungle, In the Year 2889, A Swingin’ Summer, Good Neighbor Sam, Las Vegas, NYPD Blue, Baywatch, Diagnosis Murder, Matlock; died May 5, 20171945 - Stephen Stills
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young1946 - John Paul Jones (Baldwin)
musician: bass: film score: Scream for Help; group: Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love, Moby Dick, Ramble On, Immigrant Song, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Black Dog, Rock & Roll, The Battle of Evermore, Stairway to Heaven1946 - Don May
basketball: Univ. of Dayton; NY Knickerbockers, Buffalo Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, KC-Omaha Kings1949 - Gary (Robert) Lavelle
baseball: pitcher: SF Giants, [all-star: 1977, 1983], Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics1950 - Bart (Clair Barth) Johnson
baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox1950 - Rick MacLeish
hockey: London Nationals, Oklahoma City Blazers, Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings1950 - Victoria Principal
actress: Dallas, Fantasy Island, Scott Turow’s The Burden of Proof, Naked Lie, Blind Witness, Mistress, Pleasure Palace, Earthquake, Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean1956 - Mel (Columcille) Gibson
Academy Award-winning director: Braveheart [1995]; The Passion of the Christ; actor: Braveheart, Maverick, The Man Without a Face, Lethal Weapon series, Forever Young, Hamlet, Bird on a Wire, Tequila Sunrise, Mad Max series, Mrs. Soffel, The Road Warrior, The Year of Living Dangerously, Summer City, Conspiracy Theory, The Patriot, What Women Want1963 - Jim Everett III
football: quarterback: Purdue Univ., LA Rams [Pro Bowl: 1990], New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers1964 - Cheryl Miller
Basketball Hall of Famer: U.S. Olympic, Pan American and Goodwill Games teams [she won gold medal w/each]; coach: USC [44-14], Phoenix Mercury [WNBA]; sports commentator; brother of player Reggie Miller1965 - Luis Sojo
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays, California Angels, Seattle Mariners, NY Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates1969 - Matt LaBounty
football: Univ of Oregon; NFL: SF 49ers, Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks1969 - Steve Poapst
hockey: Washington Capitals, Chicago Blackhawks1969 - Michael Schumacher
Indy race car driver: five F1 championships; youngest double Formula 1 World Champion [1994, 1995]; world champion [2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004]; more1970 - Tony Farmer
basketball: Univ of Nebraska; NBA: Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers1971 - Cory Cross
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, NY Rangers1972 - Drake Berehowsky
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks1972 - Charles Johnson
football: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills1974 - Todd Warriner
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators1975 - James Cannida
football: Univ of Nevada-Reno; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins1975 - Jason Marsden
actor: White Squall, Mr. Saturday Night, Step By Step, Full House, General Hospital1975 - Danica McKellar
actress: The Wonder Years, Hack!, Path of Destruction, Quiet Kill, Raising Genius, The Year That Trembled, Jane White Is Sick and Twisted; author: Math Doesn’t Suck, Kiss My Math1977 - A. J. Burnett
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins [1999–2005]; Toronto Blue Jays [2006–2008]; New York Yankees [2009–2011]: 2009 World Series champs; Pittsburgh Pirates [2012–2013]; Philadelphia Phillies [2014]1978 - Delvin James
baseball: pitcher: Tampa Bay Devil Rays1978 - Kimberley Locke
singer: 8th World Wonder, Wrong, It’s Alright, You’ve Changed, I Can’t Make You Love Me; finalist [3rd]: American Idol1978 - Mike York
hockey: NY Rangers, Edmonton Oilers1980 - Bryan Clay
track & field: World/Olympic decathalon [US]; Olympic silver medalist, Olympic Trials champion, World Indoor silver medalist [2004]; NAIA champion [2000]1981 - Eli Manning
football: QB: Univ of Mississppi; NFL: NY Giants: MVP of Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI]; brother of Peyton Manning; more1983 - Katie McGrath
actress: Merlin, Dracula, Frontier, Supergirl, Jurassic World, W.E., A Princess for Christmas, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword1986 - Nash Overstreet
musician: guitar; singer: group: Hot Chelle Rae: Tonight Tonight, I Like It Like That1989 - Alex D. Linz
actor: Home Alone 3, Final Guardian, Max Keeble’s Big Move, One Fine Day, My Brother the Pig, Vanished, The Young and the Restless, Touched by an Angel1996 - Florence Pugh
actress: The Falling, Lady Macbeth, Midsommar, Little Women [2019]; more2008 - Raegan Revord
actress: Young Sheldon, Grace and Frankie
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The Thing (facts) - Phil Harris
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