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1493 - Christopher Columbus left the Caribbean for Europe. With him were six native Americans. Columbus believed he had sailed around the world to India, so he called the natives “Indians.”1885 - Dr. William Grant of Davenport, IA performed the first successful appendectomy on this day. The operation was performed on Mary Gartside.
1896 - Utah (45th state) entered the United States of America; capital: Salt Lake City; bird: seagull; flower: sego lily; nickname: Beehive State. The entrance of Utah into the Union followed the Mormon’s abandonment of polygamy.
1928 - NBC radio debuted one of radio’s first variety shows. The Dodge Victory Hour starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra and singer Al Jolson. The cost to produce this one show was $67,600.
1932 - NBC Blue presented The Carnation Contented Hour. The show continued on network radio for 19 years as a showcase for top singers and musicians. Why The Carnation Contented Hour? Because Carnation evaporated milk comes only from contented cows, of course.
1935 - Bert Ambrose and his orchestra recorded the song that became the group’s theme song. It was titled, Hors d’oeuvres and was cut in London for Decca Records.
1935 - Bob Hope was first heard on network radio as part of The Intimate Revue with Jane Froman, James Melton and the Al Goodman Orchestra. The variety show, sponsored by Bromo Seltzer, lasted only fourteen weeks.
1936 - The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by The Billboard magazine this day. Named Chart Line, the list showed the most-played songs on the three major radio networks. Joe Venuti, jazz violinist, was at the top of the chart with a little ditty called, Stop! Look! Listen!.
1943 - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of TIME magazine as the 1942 ‘Man of the Year’. Remember, the award goes to the “single person (man, woman, or even idea) who, for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year.”
1948 - Britain granted independence to Burma. Burma renamed itself the Union of Myanmar.
1950 - RCA Victor announced that it would manufacture long-playing (LP) records. This news came two years after Columbia Records debuted the ‘album’.
1953 - 25,000 people attended the funeral of country star Hank Williams in Montgomery, Alabama. Williams had died three days earlier at age 29 in the back seat of his 1952 Cadillac.
1954 - Elvis Presley strolled into the Memphis Recording Service and put $4 on the counter. He recorded Casual Love Affair and I’ll Never Stand in Your Way, two songs that so impressed record executive Sam Phillips that he had Elvis record his first professional sides for Sun Records the following August.
1957 - Collier’s magazine was published for the last time. The periodical had been published for 69 years.
1965 - The Fender Guitar Company was sold to CBS for $13 million.
1965 - T.S. Eliot died. He was 76 years old. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
1970 - The New York City transit fare was raised from 20 cents to 30 cents. The fare increase was to be used make up large deficits in operations and for system repairs.
1970 - Television history was made when super dog Lassie was hit by a car while pushing a child away from danger. Lassie was seen on TV, for the next month, suffering from amnesia.
1982 - Some say this was one of broadcasting’s strangest days, as Bryant Gumbel moved from NBC Sports to the anchor desk. He joined Jane Pauley as co-host of the Today show on NBC.
1984 - Wayne ‘The Great One’ Gretzky scored eight points for the second time in his National Hockey League career. Edmonton’s Oilers defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. Gretzky had four goals on his own and four assists. He was the Number One Star and Player of the Game for his effort.
1984 - 1984 was released. This was the last Van Halen album with David Lee Roth as lead singer. Sammy Hagar replaced Roth in the Van Halen band.
1985 - Boston Celtics president Red Auerbach was honored at the Boston Gardens this night. The former coach was recognized for leading the Celtics to nine NBA basketball titles. Announcer Johnny Most saw them all.
1986 - Phil Lynott, former lead singer of the group Thin Lizzy, died in London, England. He was 35 years old. The Irish-born singer was being treated for an infection of the kidneys and liver. The Boys are Back in Town was Thin Lizzy’s big hit in 1976.
1987 - An Amtrak train bound from Washington to Boston collided with Conrail engines approaching from a side track in Chase, MD. Sixteen people were killed.
1990 - In Sindh Province, Pakistan, an overcrowded 16-car passenger train collided with standing freight train. 210 people were killed.
1991 - Fu Mingxia, a 12-year-old from China, became the youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event. Mingxia won the women’s 10-metre platform title at the World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush (I), visiting Singapore as part of a Pacific trade tour, announced plans to shift the Navy logistics command to Singapore (from Subic Bay in the Philippines).
1995 - Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the first Republican to hold the post in 40 years and the first Georgia Speaker in over 100 years.
1996 - Ramón Vinay (Sepúlveda), operatic tenor, died. He was 83 years old.
1997 - Michael Jackson ended the first leg of the HIStory tour with the second of two sold-out shows in Honolulu. The two concerts in Hawaii were the only U.S. dates on this tour. The tour had begun in Prague, Czech Republic Sep 7, 1996. (The second leg of the tour began in Bremen, Germany on May 31, 1997 and ended Oct 15 in Durban, South Africa.)
1997 - Harry Helmsley, self-made billionaire and husband of Leona, died in Scottsdale, AZ. His vast real estate holdings included the Empire State Building. He was 87 years old.
1998 - The History of the Future Museum, part of the $70 million Star Trek: The Experience, opened at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and Casino.
1999 - Minnesota inaugurated pro wrestler Jesse Ventura as its 38th governor. The only Reform Party candidate to ever win statewide office, Ventura had shocked the political establishment by defeating Attorney General Hubert H. (Skip) Humphrey III and St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman in an upset victory.
2000 - The Nasdaq composite index was hit for its worst point loss, falling more than 229 points (5.6 percent) to 3,901. The market appeared to be concerned about future Fed rate hikes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 359 points (3.2 percent) to 10,997.
2001 - It was announced that George, the politics and lifestyle magazine founded by the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., would cease publication.
2002 - These films debuted in the U.S.: A Beautiful Mind, with Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly (Oscar for Supporting Actress), Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer, Vivien Cardone and Ron Howard (Oscar for Director); and Gosford Park, with Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Alan Bates, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Derek Jacobi, Emily Watson, Richard E. Grant, Kelly Macdonald, Clive Owen and Ryan Phillippe.
2002 - Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier, was killed by small-arms fire during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan; he was the first American military death from enemy fire in Operation Enduring Freedom.
2003 - Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, 76, died in Santa Monica, CA.
2004 - Historian John Toland died in Danbury, CT. He was 91 years old. Toland’s books include The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (1970), and Adolph Hitler (1976).
2005 - The 109th U.S. Congress convened (term: Jan 4, 2005-Jan 3, 2007). The Republican edge in the Senate was 55 to 45 (w/1 independent). Republicans outnumbered Democrats 231 to 202 (w/1 independent and 1 vacancy) in the U.S. House. The first order of business was aid for victims of the Dec 26, 2004 earthquake/tsunami.
2006 - 77-year-old Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered “a significant stroke,” and was under anaesthesia and receiving breathing assistance. Political power was transferred to his deputy, Vice Minister Ehud Olmert. Sharon never regained consciousness and lingered in a coma until January 11, 2014.
2007 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined the marketers of four weight loss pills $25 million for making false advertising claims ranging from rapid weight loss to reducing the risk of cancer. Marketers of the four products (Xenadrine EFX, CortiSlim, TrimSpa, and One-A-Day WeightSmart) settled with the F.T.C., surrendered cash and other assets worth at least $25 million, and agreed to limit their future advertising claims.
2008 - One Missed Call opened in U.S. theatres. The horror mystery stars Ed Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe and Margaret Cho.
2008 - Airlines flights were grounded and some trucks overturned in Northern California as winds gusted to 80 mph. It was the second wave of an arctic storm that had sent trees crashing onto houses, cars and roads. Some two-million residents, from central California to Washington state, lost power.
2009 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged to create 100,000 jobs through a public works program and said he would press banks to resume normal lending as Britain faced its sharpest economic downturn in decades.
2010 - The Russian government set a minimum price for vodka that more than doubled existing prices in an effort to fight rampant alcoholism.
2010 - Fifteen gay couples braved the cold to exchange vows outside the Statehouse in Concord, as New Hampshire joined Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont in allowing gay marriage.
2010 - In Pasadena’s Rose Bowl: Terrelle Pryor passed for 266 yards and two touchdowns, rushed for 72 more and threw a 17-yard scoring pass to DeVier Posey with 7:02 to play, leading Ohio State to a 26-17 victory over the Univ of Oregon.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation’s food-safety system. This first major overhaul of the food safety system since the 1930s emphasized prevention to help stop deadly outbreaks of foodborne illness before they occur, instead of reacting after consumers become ill.
2012 - U.S. car maker Ford said it was opening a new dealership in India every ten days to feed automobile demand in a market it expected to become the third-biggest in the world by the end of the decade.
2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama, wary of Senate Republicans stalling his nominee to lead a new consumer protection agency, put Richard Cordray in charge over their opposition.
2013 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Promised Land, starring Matt Damon, Benjamin Sheeler, Terry Kinney, Carla Bianco, Joe Coyle, Hal Holbrook, Dorothy Silver and Frances McDormand; Texas Chainsaw 3D, with Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Richard Riehle, Elena Sanchez and Trey Songz; All Superheroes Must Die, with Jason Trost, Lucas Till, James Remar, Sophie Merkley and Nick Principe; A Dark Truth, starring Eva Longoria, Kim Coates, Kevin Durand, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Deborah Kara Unger and Steven Bauer; and Sushi Girl, with Tony Todd, James Duval, Noah Hathaway, Andy Mackenzie, Mark Hamill, Cyrus Alexander and Michael Biehn.
2013 - The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners flooded out by Hurricane Sandy. The vote came more than two months after the storm.
2014 - Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Russian President Vladimir Putin reversed his ban on protests and/or demonstrations at the Sochi Winter Olympics (Feb 7-23). But all rallies still had to be approved by security officials.
2015 - A city in central India elected the country’s first transgender mayor, nine months after a court ruled that transgender be recognized as a legal third gender. 35-year-old Madhu Kinnar won the mayoral election in Raigarh in the state of Chhattisgarh.
2016 - Saudi Arabia announced that it was ending air traffic and trade links with Iran and demanded that Tehran “act like a normal country” before it would restore severed diplomatic relations. The moves sent world oil prices on a ‘roller-coaster ride’.
2017 - U.S. department store chain Macy’s said it was closing 68 stores and eliminating more than 10,000 jobs following a disappointing 2016 holiday shopping season.
2018 - POTUS Trump’s legal team demanded that author Michael Wolff and his publisher halt the release of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. They demanded that Wolff apologize or face a possible lawsuit. Henry Hold & Co. responded by announcing it would make the book available on January 5 instead of the original January 9 release date. The book became a New York Times number one bestseller. Trump is depicted as being held in low regard by his White House staff, leading Wolff to state that “100% of the people around him” believed Trump was unfit for office.
2018 -High winds and heavy snow barreled into the Northeast U.S., closing schools and government offices and disrupting travel as work crews scrambled to clear roads before plummeting temperatures would turn the snow into treacherous ice. The cold was blamed for a dozen deaths and utilities along the East Coast said about 65,000 homes and businesses were without power. Four people were reported killed in the Carolinas when their vehicles ran off snow-covered roads. More than 5,000 flights had been cancelled across the U.S.
2019 - Motion pictures making debuts in U.S. theatres included: Escape Room, with Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine and Taylor Russell; the animated Animal Crackers, featuring the voices of Emily Blun, Danny DeVito, John Krasinski, Ian McKellen, Raven-Symoné, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Warburton and Tara Strong; Being Rose, starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin and Pam Grier; State Like Sleep, with Katherine Waterston, Michiel Huisman and Michael Shannon; and The Vanishing, starring Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.
2019 - Five teenage girls were killed by a fire in an ‘escape room’ attraction in Koszalin, Poland. In escape rooms, participants are locked in and race against the clock to solve puzzles and challenges to open a way out.
2019 - Twitter suspended an account that featured links to sensitive personal data and documents stolen by hackers from hundreds of German public figures and politicians. Those affected were from every political party but the far-right Alternative for Germany. The breach, discovered by journalists a day earlier, affected politicians at all levels.
2020 - Apocalyptic Wildfires raged on in Australia, choking the sky with smoke, forcing thousands to flee and prompting the U.S. to send more fire personnel to help battle the blazes. High winds of 100 mph were reported in some communities and temperatures were well over 100 degrees. At points, the flames in Batemans Bay, New South Wales, were so intense that firefighters had to stop battling the wildfires for their own safety.
2020 - In France a businessman returned from a holiday break to find his collection of 19 top watches, including 11 Rolexes, had been swiped from a safe with police blaming “professional” criminals. Over the weekend burglars reportedly swiped more than €1 million worth of Rolex watches and other prestige timepieces in Paris.
2020 - The Russian government published a plan to adapt the economy and population to adjust to climate change, aiming to mitigate damage -- but also to “use the advantages” of warmer temperatures. Russia was warming faster than the global average with its average annual air temperature increased 2.5 times more rapidly than the average global air temperature since the mid-1970s.
2021 - Google engineers and other workers formed a union, called the Alphabet Workers Union, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies -- and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in California's staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley. Initial membership was over 400.
2021 - Millions of mask-wearing pupils in Kenya returned to school nine months after they were closed because of the coronavirus. Kenya reported almost 97,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 1,600 deaths since the start of the outbreak in March 2020.
2022 - Google acquired ($500 million in cash) Israeli cybersecurity startup Siemplify, as it expanded its security offerings amid rising cyber attacks.
2022 - California adopted state-wide regulations to curb water use as the drought continued to threaten water supplies.
2022 - Thousands of people were stranded in their vehicles in Virginia for hours overnight along a 50-mile (80-km) stretch of Interstate 95. This, after a winter storm dumped a foot (30 cm) of snow.
2023 - Japan offeried families one million yen (about $7,700) per child to move out of Tokyo and into less-populated areas. The program was designed to relieve overcrowding in the capital city area, which had about 37 million residents -- and to give a boost to towns in the countryside impacted by the country’s falling birth rate. The Japanese government already offered incentives for migrating to underpopulated areas, but the new sum was three times the existing one.
2023 - Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase agreed to pay New York regulators a $50 million fine after an investigation showed it allowed customers to open accounts without sufficient background checks, thus violating anti-money laundering laws. Under the settlement, Coinbase had to pump $50 million into its compliance program. The money was to help the U.S.-based exchange block criminals, including drug traffickers and child pornography sellers, from establishing accounts.
2023 - A judge sentenced William ‘Rick’ Singer, the mastermind behind the Varsity Blues college admissions bribery scandal, to three and a half years in prison. Singer, 62, had been forced to cooperat with the FBI, which recorded phone calls and meetings that led to the arrests of dozens of parents and college coaches in 2019. Those convicted and sentenced to prison time include Full House actress Lori Loughlin; her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; and Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman. Prosecutors said Singer’s conspiracy “massively corrupted” a college admissions process that “already favors those with wealth and privilege.”
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Birthdays on This Day January 4
1785 - Jakob Grimm
librarian; fairy tale author [with brother, Wilhelm]: Hansel and Grethel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White; died Sep 20, 18631809 - Louis Braille
developed system of writing that could be felt and interpreted by the blind; not widely recognized until after his death; died Jan 6, 18521827 - Peter Baumgras
artist: works include portrait of Abraham Lincoln; died Oct 18, 19031838 - General Tom Thumb (Charles Stratton)
entertainer: world’s most famous midget; died July 15, 18831869 - Tommy (Thomas William) ‘Corky’ Corcoran
baseball: Pittsburgh Burghers, Philadelphia Athletics, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Cincinnati Reds, NY Giants; minor league umpire; died Jun 25, 19601896 - Everett (McKinley) Dirksen
politician: elected to U.S. Senate in 1950, Republican minority leader [1959], most noted for his sudden, dramatic shifts from opposition to support of various measures; died Sep 7, 19691898 - Jess Neely
College Football Hall of Famer: Vanderbilt end and halfback; coach: University of Alabama, Clemson: Cotton Bowl winner [1939], Rice: 6 Southwestern Conference titles and 3 bowls; athletic director: Vanderbilt; died Apr 9, 19831905 - Sterling Holloway
actor: Thunder and Lightning, Super Seal, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Walk in the Sun, Death Valley, Twilight on the Rio Grande, The Merry Widow, International House, Willy, The Life of Riley, The Baileys of Balboa; character voices: Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland [Cheshire Cat], The Aristocats, The Jungle Book; died Nov 22, 19921917 - Jesse White
actor: The Bad Seed, Designing Women, Marjorie Morningstar, Four Star Playhouse, Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Munsters, The Addams Family, That Girl, I Dream of Jeanie, Seinfeld; played the Maytag repairman in U.S. TV commercials [1967-1988]; died Jan 9, 19971925 - Johnny Lujack
football: Notre Dame; Heisman Trophy Winner [1947]; died Jul 25, 20231927 - Barbara Rush
actress: Web of Deceit, The Seekers, Superdad, Hombre, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Come Blow Your Horn, The Young Philadelphians, The Young Lions, Magnificent Obsession, When Worlds Collide, Peyton Place, Saints and Sinners, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Flamingo Road1930 - Don Shula
NFL’s most winning football coach [347 career wins (including playoffs)]: Baltimore Colts [1963-1969], Miami Dolphins [1970-1995]; died May 4, 20201933 - Conard Fowkes
actor: Family Business, Prince of the City, Lovin’ Molly, As the World Turns; died Dec 14, 20091933 - Ray Starling
musician: arranger for Stan Kenton; died May 15, 19821935 - Floyd Patterson
heavyweight boxing champion [1956-1959]; died May 11, 20061936 - Mike White
football coach: San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs1937 - Grace Bumbry
opera singer: mezzo-soprano; died May 7, 20231937 - Dyan Cannon (Samille Friesen)
actress: The Pickle, Christmas in Connecticut, Caddyshack 2, Author! Author!, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Heaven Can Wait, The Anderson Tapes, Doctors’ Wives, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice1941 - Kermit Alexander
football: UCLA, San Francisco 49ers1943 - Bobby Burnett
football: Univ. of Arkansas; Buffalo Bills; died Oct 1, 20161944 - Tito (Rigoberto Peat) Fuentes
baseball: SF Giants, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics1946 - Arthur Conley
singer: Sweet Soul Music; died Nov 17, 20031947 - Butch (George) Atkinson
football: Oakland Raiders safety, Super Bowl XI1951 - Barbara Ann Cochran
skier: Olympic Gold Medalist: slalom [1972]1955 - Kathy Forester
singer: group: The Forester Sisters: I Fell In Love Again Last Night, [That’s What You Do] When You’re in Love, Letter Home, Just in Case, Don’t You, Sincerely1956 - Barney Sumner aka Bernie Albrecht (Dicken)
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Joy Division; Transmission: Love Will Tear Us Apart, New Order: Blue Monday, Confusion, Shellshock1956 - Ann Magnuson
actress: Before and After, Cabin Boy, Tequila Sunrise, Desperately Seeking Susan, Perfect Strangers, Anything But Love1957 - Patty Loveless
singer: Lonely Too Long, You Can Feel Bad, Blame It on Your Heart, Chains, Timber, I’m Falling in Love1958 - Nina Foust
golf: LPGA1958 - Matt Frewer
actor: Kissinger and Nixon, National Lampoon’s Senior Trip, Stephen King’s The Stand, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Speed Zone, Supergirl, Max Headroom, Shaky Ground, Doctor, Doctor; cartoon voice: The Exterminator in Itsy Bitsy Spider1958 - Julian Sands
actor: Leaving Las Vegas, Grand Isle, Naked Lunch, Husbands and Lovers, Room with a View, The Killing Fields1960 - Michael Stipe
Grammy Award-winning singer: Out of Time [1991]; group: R.E.M.: Losing My Religion [1991], Radio Free Europe, Talk About the Passion, So Central Rain, [Don’t Go Back to] Rockville, Seven Chinese Brothers1961 - Lee Curreri
musician: keyboards, producer, film composer: Winning the Peace, Exit Wounds, Sleepstalker, Crosses on the Lawn, Teenage Suicide: Don’t Try It!1961 - Cliff Levingston
basketball: Wichita State Univ., Chicago Bulls1962 - Patrick Cassidy
actor: How the West was Fun, Longtime Companion, Love at Stake, Dress Gray, Fever Pitch, Just the Way You Are, Off the Wall, Something in Common, The Bay City Blues, Dirty Dancing1962 - Joe Kleine
basketball: Univ. of Arkansas, LA Lakers, New Jersey Nets, Chicago Bulls1963 - Dave Foley
actor: NewsRadio, The Kids in the Hall, From the Earth to the Moon, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, The Andy Dick Show1964 - Nikki Coghill
actress: Neighbours, Point of No Return, The Saint: Fear in Fun Park, Running From the Guns, Rock n’ Roll Cowboys, Sword of Honour1965 - Rick Hearst
actor: The Bold and the Beautiful, Crossing the Line, Brain Damage, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless1965 - John Jackson
football: Eastern Kentucky Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, SD Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals1965 - Pamela Kerrigan
golf: LPGA1965 - Julia Ormond
actress: The Baby of Mâcon, Captives, Legends of the Fall, Sabrina [1995)], Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Sibirskij tsiryulnik, Resistance1966 - Deana Carter
singer: Strawberry Wine, We Danced Anyway, How Do I Get There, Count Me In, There’s No Limit, Did I Shave My Legs for This?1967 - David Toms
golf: PGA champ [2001]1968 - Jackie Harris
football: Louisiana-Monroe; NFL: GB Packers, TB Buccaneers, Tennessee Oilers/Titans, Dallas Cowboys1969 - Corie Blount
basketball: Rancho Santiago Jr. College, Univ of Cincinnati; NBA: Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns, GS Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers1969 - Marla Runyan
[US] World/Olympic runner1971 - Garrison Hearst
football: Univ of Georgia RB [The Sporting News All-America 1st Team: 1992]; Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals, San Francisco 49ers1971 - Jeremy Licht
actor: The Next One, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Comeback Kid, Valerie, Swamp Thing, St. Elsewhere1973 - Greg de Vries
hockey: Edmonton Oilers, Colorado Avalanche, NY Rangers1973 - Ray Mickens
football: Texas A&M; NFL: NY Jets1973 - Todd Sauerbrun
football: Univ of West Virginia; NFL: Chicago Bears, KC Chiefs, Carolina Panthers1974 - Carl Powell
football: Univ of Louisville; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Cincinnati Bengals1975 - Scott Frost
football: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: NY Jets, Cleveland Browns, TB Buccaneers1976 - Ted Lilly
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays1977 - Dmitri Nabokov
hockey: Chicago Blackhawks, NY Islanders1977 - Graham Elliot
celebrity chef, TV cooking judge: MasterChef, Junior MasterChef, Iron Chef America1977 - Johnny Rutledge
football: Univ Florida; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos1978 - Chris Gissell
baseball: Colorado Rockies1980 - Erin Cahill
actress: Power Rangers series, The Biggest Fan, Creature Unknown, T.H.E.M., Jekyll1980 - Greg Cipes
pro surfer, voice actor: Teen Titans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ben 101981 - Dave Ball
football [defensive end]: UCLA; NFL: San Diego Chargers, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans1983 - Lyla Lei
actress [2002-2012]: X-rated films: Whoriental Sex Academy 5, The West Coast Gangbang Team 6, Horny Housewives in Heat 14, Interracial Anal Creampie 2, Gangland White Boy Stomp 17, The Great American Squirt Off 21985 - Al Jefferson
basketball [center/power forward]: Boston Celtics [2004–2007], Minnesota Timberwolves [2007–2010], Utah Jazz [2010–2013], Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets [2013-2016], Indiana Pacers [2016–2018]1992 - Kris Bryant
baseball [3rd base]: Chicago Cubs [2015–2021]: 2016 World Series champs; San Francisco Giants [2021- ]1994 - Derrick Henry
football [running back]: Univ of Alabama: 2015 Heisman Trophy winner; NFL: Tennessee Titans [2016- ]1996 - Emma Mackey
actress: Sex Education, Badger Lane, Summit Fever, Tic, Eiffel, Death on the Nile2003 - Jaeden Martell
actor: It, It Chapter Two, Knives Out, Metal Lords, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, Masters of Sex, Defending Jacob2004 - Victor Wembanyama
basketball [center/power forward]: NBA: San Antonio Spurs [2023- ]
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Hit Music on This Day January 4
1952Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
Sin (It’s No) (facts) - Eddy Howard
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