January 7
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1782 - The Bank of North America opened in Philadelphia, making it the first commercial bank in the United States.1785 - French aeronaut/balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard successfully made the first air-crossing of the English Channel from the English coast to France. Mr. Blanchard and his American passenger, Dr. John Jeffries, had to shed all of their clothes as the wind died and the balloon’s airbag cooled too quickly over the sea. Blanchard also owns the one-trip record for the most consecutive number of times saying, “Gosh, I hope we make it.”
1887 - This is one of those truer-than-true factoids that makes us wonder (as so much does). Thomas Stevens completed the first worldwide bicycle trip, after starting his trek in April 1884. Stevens and his trusty bike traveled 13,500 miles, arriving back in San Francisco, California almost three years later. Any questions you may have about the trip are answered here.
1894 - W.(William) K. (Kennedy) L.(Laurie) Dickson received a patent for motion picture film. His demonstration included a 47-frame film. The demo ran about two seconds and showed comedian Fred Ott sneezing. Congratulations W.K.L., and bless you Fred!
1896 - Maybe you or someone you know received one for Christmas: a genuine Fannie Farmer Cookbook. There really was a Fannie Farmer, you know. Her first and now famous, Boston Cooking School Cookbook, was published this day. She became known as ‘the mother of level measurement’ and the cookbook became a best seller.
1904 - The distress signal, “CQD”, was established this day. It didn’t last long. Four years later, “SOS” became the radio distress signal because it was quicker to transmit by wireless radio and could not be misinterpreted.
1924 - George Gershwin began work on the incomparable score of Rhapsody in Blue (he completed it some three weeks later). Incidentally, George was only 26 years old at the time. And, George didn’t even have an interest in music until his family got him a piano when he was twelve. Nine years later he had his first hit, Swanee, with lyrics written by Irving Caesar. No matter how you hear it, Rhapsody in Blue will remain the signature of one of the most influential of composers, songwriters and pianists in American music history.
1926 - A famous marriage that endured for many years is remembered this day. It’s the wedding anniversary of George Burns and Gracie Allen who were married by a Justice of the Peace in Cleveland, Ohio.
1927 - 31 calls were made on this, the first day of transatlantic telephone service. Service began between New York and London. The calls cost $75.00 (equivalent to about $1,250 today) for five minutes.
1929 - The debut of Buck Rogers 2429 A.D. took place in newspapers around the U.S. this day. The comic strip title was later changed to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
1933 - The famous WWVA Jamboree, later known as Jamboree USA, was first broadcast on radio station WWVA from Wheeling, West Virginia. Jamboree USA is still running and is the second oldest country music program -- after the The Grand Ole Opry.
1940 - The gate to Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch opened. The ‘singing cowboy’ would entertain on CBS radio for the next 16 years.
1941 - The NBC Blue radio network presented the first installment of The Squeaky Door. You might not remember the show by its original title, but how about when it became known as Inner Sanctum?
1941 - Good-for-Nothin’ Joe was recorded by the sultry Lena Horne. She sang the classic song with Charlie Barnet and his orchestra on Bluebird Records.
1943 - Something for the Boys opened at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical. Produced by Mike Todd, the show ran for a healthy 422 performances, closing Jan 08, 1944.
1949 - The first photographs of genes were published in the Science journal by Dr. Daniel Chapin Pease and Dr. Richard Freligh Baker of the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).
1950 - Ernest Tubb made his first appearance at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. Ernest also did a 15-minute radio program each day that became very popular in West Texas. So popular, in fact, that he bought the radio station that had aired the program for years and years: KGKL in San Angelo, Texas.
1950 - More Opry news: Hank Snow also made his debut on The Grand Ole Opry. Later that year (and well into the next), his recording of I’m Movin’ On parked itself on the Billboard country chart for 49 consecutive weeks.
1954 - The Duoscopic TV receiver was unveiled. The TV set allowed a person or group to watch two different shows at the same time. It was a primitive, picture-in-picture, split-screen that was tested in New York City and Chicago. The set was a product of DuMont Laboratories; which owned the DuMont Television Network.
1955 - The first black singer at the Metropolitan Opera was Marian Anderson, who appeared as Ulrica in Verdi’s The Masked Ball.
1958 - The Flying V guitar, which is a favorite of rock musicians, was patented this day by the Gibson Guitar Company.
1963 - First-class postage in the U.S. was raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
1968 - U.S. postage rates increased a penny; taking the cost of sending an ounce of mail up to six cents.
1970 - Neighbors of New York landowner Max Yasgur sued him for $35,000 for property damage caused by ‘flower children’ who attended the August 1969 Woodstock Festival. More than 450,000 people attended the three-day event.
1972 - Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist were sworn in as the 99th and 100th members of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972 - U.S. poet John Berryman died after jumping off a bridge. Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize.
1975 - Shenandoah opened at Alvin Theater on Broadway, for 1050 performances.
1979 - In the AFC title game, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Houston Oilers 34-5 for a Super Bowl trip and their third AFC championship title. They played in a steady rain at Three Rivers Stadium. In the NFC championship game, the Dallas Cowboys shut out the Los Angeles Rams 28-0. (The Steelers beat the Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl XIII Jan 21.)
1979 - The Cambodian government of Pol Pot was overthrown. It took the combined forces of Cambodian rebels and Vietnamese troops to end the bloody regime that had killed millions of people.
1980 - The Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The act provided Chrysler $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees.
1985 - A big day for Dayton, Ohio’s Phil Donahue, who broadcast the first of his long-running TV talkfests from New York City, his new home base. Phil started his MultiMedia Productions show in 1967.
1985 - Yul Brynner returned to the Broadway stage this night as The King and I returned to where Yul first began his reign, 33 years before. Through his career to that date, Brynner appeared in 4,434 shows without missing a single performance. His performance as the King of Siam was regal!
1987 - Government sources said the combined local, state, and national debt had risen to $10,047 per person in the U.S.; the Federal debt, alone, amounting to $7,650 per person. (Check the current figures here, be be ready for a big shock...)
1989 - Japan’s longest-reigning monarch, Emperor Hirohito died of cancer. He was 88 years old and had ruled Japan for 62 years. Part of the agreement ending World War II called for Hirohito to renounced his claims of divinity. His radio address announcing Tokyo’s surrender marked the first time most of the Japanese public had heard their emperor’s voice.
1990 - The Tower of Pisa was closed to the public after leaning too far. The closing of the monument allowed “the work of consolidation of the foundations and reduction of the inclination.” The tower reopened on Dec 15, 2001 to guided visits only (with a maximum of 30 people), accompanied by employed personnel (the visit takes about 35 minutes). The work, at a cost of more than 27,370,000 Euro, decreased the leaning of the tower by 40.6 centimeters. The tower began to lean at the beginning of its construction in 1173 because of the marshy ground on which it rests and the inclination had continued to increase each year up to the decision to intervene in 1990.
1991 - The plane that could elude radar was unable to escape the budget-cutter’s knife when U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney cancelled funding for the U.S. Navy A-12 Stealth attack plane.
1992 - Pitchers Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1996 - A blizzard paralyzed the Eastern U.S. The storm moved slowly, taking five days to reach New England from the Gulf of Mexico. The National Weather Service called it a storm of “historic proportions” with more than two feet of snow in the Baltimore and Washington, DC area. The mountains of Virginia and West Virginia got up to three feet. More than 100 deaths were blamed on the storm -- the majority from heart attacks.
1997 - Beryl Bainbridge won the British Whitbread Prize for best novel of 1996 for Every Man for Himself, a tale of the Titanic disaster; Seamus Heaney won the poetry award for The Spirit Level.
1998 - The government of Canada apologized to the nation’s indigenous peoples for past acts of oppression and pledged $245 million for counseling and treatment programs. The aboriginal population is about 810,000 that includes 38,000 Inuits and 139,000 Metis, people of mixed Indian and white ancestry.
1999 - The Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside over the trial. Bill Clinton was ultimately acquitted of charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2000 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Magnolia (the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California), with Jeremy Blackman, Michael Bowen, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon and Henry Gibson; and Snow Falling on Cedars (“It's Stand By Me and To Kill a Mockingbird blended into one.”), starring Ethan Hawke, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Max Von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune and Celia Weston.
2001 - The price of a First-class postage first class U.S. postage stamp increased from 33 to 34 cents.
2002 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and nine United States Senators arrived at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan for an unannounced visit. The group promised Afghan leaders full support in rebuilding the shattered country.
2003 - Kobe Bryant broke the NBA record for most 3-point field goals (12 -- nine of them consecutive) in a single basketball game.
2004 - Swedish actress Ingrid Thulin died in Stockholm. Her films include Foreign Intrigue (1956), Wild Strawberries (1957) and The Damned (1969).
2004 - Digital radios went on sale in the U.S. The launch officially began in Cedar Rapids, IA where one station was already broadcasting a digital signal.
2005 - White Noise opened in U.S. movie theatres. The romantice drama/thriller stars Michael Keaton, Deborah Unger, Ian McNeice, Chandra West, Colin Chapin, Anastasia Corbett, Mike Dopud, Aaron Douglas, Miranda Frigon, Mitchell Kosterman, Micki Maunsell, Marsha Regis, Suzanne Ristic, Amber Rothwell, Brad Sihvon, Bill Tarling, April Telek and Chuck Walkinshaw.
2005 - The nuclear submarine USS San Francisco ran aground -- hitting the ocean floor -- 350 miles off the island of Guam, injuring about 20 crew members (one died the next day).
2007 - A helicopter crashed into the garden terrace of a restaurant in southeastern France, killing three people on the ground and severely injuring a fourth. The four people on board the helicopter were not hurt.
2008 - A fire tore through a refrigeration warehouse under construction in an industrial district south of Seoul, Korea, killing 40 people.
2008 - Australians battled both fires and heavy flooding that stranded residents in several communities. This, after days of intense summer heat and storms.
2009 - The United States reported that it had released another $99 million as part of an aid package to support Mexico’s police and soldiers in their fight against drug cartels. The U.S. had released $197 million in December as part of the $1.3 billion U.S. anti-drug package, known as the Merida Initiative.
2009 - Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall caused big travel delays across Europe. The storm was blamed for at least 12 deaths.
2011 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Season of the Witch Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham, Ulrich Thomsen, Claire Foy, Robert Sheehan and Christopher Lee; Country Strong, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, Tina White, Leighton Meester and Marshall Chapman; and The Absent, with Damon Abdallah, Sam Ball, Cloud Bannick, Ari Bernstein, and Jennifer Blanc.
2014 - Former New York City police officers and firefighters were among 106 people indicted over a massive disability fraud that totaled hundreds of millions of dollars. The scheme dated back to 1988 with some activities connected to the September 11, 2001, attacks.
2014 - Russia launched the largest security operation in Olympic history -- amid renewed fears of suicide bombings. With a month to go before the opening of the Winter Games in Sochi, “All divisions responsible for ensuring the guests’ security at the Games are being put on combat alert,” said emergencies minister Vladimir Puchkov.
2015 - Iran’s official IRNA news agency said the judiciary had ordered that LINE, WhatsApp and Tango, three popular apps providing free phone and messaging services, be shut down. Social websites including YouTube, Twitter and Facebook had already been blocked by censors in Iran.
2015 - Brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, shouting Islamist slogans, stormed a Paris office of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, the brothers killed ten staff member and two police officers. Cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier was among those killed. Three days later, French police stormed a building north of Paris where the Kouachis were holding a hostage. The brothers were killed in the ensuing battle.
2016 - Salim Benghalem, a key French member of the Islamic State group, was sentenced in absentia by a Paris court to 15 years in prison. Benghalem had ties to the Charlie Hebdo attackers. Six other men, who had returned from Syria and Iraq, were given sentences of between six and nine years.
2017 - A 64-year-old South Korean Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest the country’s settlement with Japan on compensation for wartime sex slaves. The man set himself ablaze during a large rally in Seoul calling for the ouster of impeached President Park Geun-hye. In his notebook, the man called Park a “traitor” for her government’s 2015 agreement with Japan that sought to settle the long-standing dispute over South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s World War II military, police said.
2017 - Former Volkswagen U.S. executive Oliver Schmidt was arrested in Florida. He headed VW’s U.S. Energy and Environmental Office in 2014 and 2015 and was charged with defrauding the U.S. in the cheating and cover up of emissions tests. (In Dec 2017 Schmidt was sentenced to seven years in prison for concealing software that was used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles.)
2018 - The 75th annual, and increasingly important, Golden Globe Awards were presented at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with Seth Meyers hosting for the first time. The film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won the most awards for the evening with four, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. The Shape of Water and Lady Bird won two awards each. Big Little Lies, The Handmaid’s Tale, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were among the TV shows that received multiple awards.
2019 - The Vatican brought Hong Kong’s former bishop John Tong Hon out of retirement to serve as acting head of the city’s 394,000-strong Catholic community. Tong was a China-friendly cardinal and the move effectively blocked the succession of auxiliary bishop Joseph Ha Chi-shing, the highest-ranking bishop known to be critical of the Chinese government.
2019 - The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute received withering criticism on social media after rescinding its decision to honor political activist and scholar Angela Davis with the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said he was dismayed by the decision, which he said followed “protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies.” Davis has been a controversial figure. Praised by many Marxists and others on the far left, she has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize. Criticism has focused on her support for political violence and her refusal to advocate for prisoners in Marxist-Leninist countries. The institute said it rescinded the award after directors concluded that Davis “unfortunately does not meet all of the criteria on which the award is based.” The statement did not indicate what criteria Davis did not meet, nor did it identify the origin of the complaints.
2020 - CNN and The Washington Post settled with student (Covington Catholic High School, Park Hills, Kentucky) Nick Sandmann who had sued for defamation over its coverage of his encounter with a Native American at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The Jan 18, 2019 encounter was captured in photos and on video and went viral, generating widespread media coverage. A short video showed Sandmann and some of his classmates wearing “Make America Great Again” hats standing very close to a Native American man playing a drum at the March for Life in Washington, DC. Longer videos put the incident into context. Following the incident, Sandmann and Nathan Phillips said they were trying to defuse tensions as people in another group started shouting. At first, the anger focused on Sandmann and the school, which along with some of the students, received threats of violence. As more videos were released, diverging views about what had really happened polarized Americans. The incident was described by The New York Times as an “explosive convergence of race, religion and ideological beliefs.”
2021 - Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick died from injuries sustained “while physically engaging” with pro-Trump rioters who descended on the U.S. Capitol the previous day. A medical examiner later said Sicknick died from two strokes he suffered the day after he was sprayed with a strong chemical irritant during the assault on the Capitol.
2021 - The chief of the Capitol Police and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate announced their resignations. Officials said Capitol Police turned down support from the National Guard before the riots -- and rebuffed help from the FBI as the mob descended.
2021 - Arizona reported nearly 300 coronavirus deaths, a pandemic high, and nearly 10,000 new infections.
2022 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The 355, starring Jessica Chastain, Sebastian Stan, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Edgar Ramírez; The Commando, with Mickey Rourke, Brendan Fehr and Michael Jai White; A Hero, with Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh and Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy; and See for Me, starring Skyler Davenport, Kim Coates and Jessica Parker Kennedy.
2022 - Doctors in Maryland successfully transplanted a pig’s heart into a human for the first time. David Bennett Sr. (57) of Maryland, was doing well, according to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center. (Bennett lived for two months after the transplant.)
2022 - The Defense Department awarded a $51.6 million contract to Goldbelt Security LLC to purchase COVID-19 antigen over-the-counter test kits, part of President Biden’s pledge to make 500 million test kits available.
2022 - Authorities report that a Florida letter carrier had stolen some 4,000 pieces of mail -- almost all greeting cards from a retirement community -- looking for cash. The in a month-long theft spree was uncovered by the carrier’s her own parents. Miranda Delee Farleigh (25) admitted that she had an addiction to heroin and that the addiction had caused her criminal behavior.
2023 - A vaccine for bees against American Foulbrood bacteria was approved. It was the first vaccine in the U.S. for any insect. The USDA issued a conditional vaccine license to Diamond Animal Health, the collaborating manufacturer for Dalan Animal Health. “We hope the availability of this product will aid in the prevention and/or treatment of the disease American Foulbrood in honeybees given their central role in American agriculture (e.g. pollination),” said a statement from the USDA.
2023 - Some 520,000 people in California were without power as heavy rain continued to batter the Golden State. In addition to the thousands of homes and businesses with the lights turned off, at least six people had died in the severe weather since the beginning of the year. At least four similarly harsh weather systems had been seen in the state thus far in 2023.
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Birthdays on This Day January 7
1745 - Jacques Montgolfier
inventor [w/brother Joseph]: hot air balloon; died Aug 2, 17991800 - Millard S. Fillmore
U.S. Vice-President [1849-1850]; 13th U.S. President [1850-1853], second Vice-President to inherit the office [became President when Zachary Taylor died]; died Mar 8, 18741908 - Philip Bourneuf
actor: Captains and Kings, Frankenstein, Lassie: Peace is Our Profession, Istanbul Express, Chamber of Horrors; died March 23, 19791908 - Estée Lauder
cosmetics mogul: started Estée Lauder Companies with a jar of skin cream developed by her chemist uncle; died Apr 24, 20041911 - (Thelma) Butterfly McQueen
actress: The Mosquito Coast, Duel in the Sun, Gone with the Wind; died Dec 22, 19951912 - Charles Addams
cartoonist: The New Yorker; TV and films: The Addams Family; died Sep 29, 19881913 - Johnny (John Robert) Mize
‘The Big Cat’: Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1937, 1939-1941/1939 NL batting champ]; NY Giants [all-star: 1942, 1946-1949/NL record for left-handed batters: 51 homeruns: 1947]; NY Yankees [World Series: 1949-1953]; hit a home run in every major league ballpark during career; died June 2, 19931920 - Vincent Gardenia
Tony Award-winning actor: The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Emmy Award-winner [1990]: Age-Old Friends [HBO]; L.A. Law, Breaking Away, All in the Family, The Super, Skin Deep, Moonstruck, Little Shop of Horrors, Death Wish series, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Hustler; died Dec 9, 19921921 - Charles Loloma
jeweler: designed American Indian jewelry; died June 9, 19911922 - Alvin (Ralph) ‘Blackie’ Dark
baseball: Boston Braves [World Series: 1948/Rookie of the Year: 1948], NY Giants [World Series: 1951, 1954/all-star: 1951, 1952, 1954], SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies; died Nov 13, 20141922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal
musician: flutist: recitals world wide; played with New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Houston, Minnesota, San Francisco, San Diego and Cincinnati symphony orchestras; died May 20, 20001928 - William Peter Blatty
screenwriter: The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, Darling Lili, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Promise Her Anything, A Shot in the Dark; died Jan 12, 20171929 - Terry Moore (Helen Koford)
actress: Beverly Hills Brats, Kill Factor, Peyton Place, Come Back, Little Sheba, Gaslight; more1930 - Jack Greene
The Jolly Green Giant: singer: CMA Male Vocalist, Album, Single and Song of the Year: There Goes My Everything [1967]; died Mar 14, 20131930 - Douglas Kiker
newscaster: NBC-TV News; journalist: NBC Magazine with David Brinkley; author: Death Below Deck; died Aug 14, 19911938 - Lou Graham
golf: U.S. Open Champion [1975]1938 - Paul Revere
singer, musician: keyboards: group: Paul Revere and The Raiders: Hungry , Kicks, Him or Me-What’s it Gonna Be, Indian Reservation; died Oct 4, 20141942 - Jim (James Kenneth) Lefebvre
baseball: LA Dodgers [NL Rookie of the Year: 1965/World Series: 1965, 1966/all-star: 1966]; manager: Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers1945 - Tony (Anthony Richard) Conigliaro
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1967], California Angels; died Feb 24, 19901946 - Andy Brown
musician: drums: group: The Fortunes: You’ve Got Your Troubles, Caroline, Here It Comes Again, This Golden Ring, The Idol, Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again1946 - Jann Wenner
publisher: Rolling Stone1948 - Kenny Loggins
musician, singer: I’m Alright, This is It, Welcome to Heartlight, Danger Zone1950 - Erin Gray
actress: Starman, Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T-Force, A Dangerous Place, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Breaking Home Ties, Six Pack, Born Beautiful, The Ultimate Imposter1953 - Morris Titantic
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres1956 - David Caruso
actor: C.S.I.: Miami, N.Y.P.D. Blue, An Officer and a Gentleman, Mad Dog and Glory, Michael Hayes1957 - Katie Couric (Katherine Anne Couric)
TV news anchor (and managing editor): CBS Evening News with Katie Couric; TV host: Today1958 - Linda Kozlowski
actress: Crocodile Dundee series; Backstreet Justice, Village of the Damned, Shaughnessy; wife of actor Paul Hogan1960 - David Marciano
actor: Due South, The Shield, Homeland, Diagnosis: Murder, Judging Amy, Nash Bridges, JAG, The Division, NYPD Blue, NCIS, CSI, CSI: New York, SeaQuest DSV, Joan of Arcadia, House, Lie to Me, Sons of Anarchy1960 - Tierre Turner
actor: The Crow, The Cop and the Kid, Earth 2; stunt man: The Facult, Escape from L.A., Glory1962 - Jeff (Jeffrey Thomas) Montgomery
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds, KC Royals [all-star: 1992, 1993, 1996]1963 - Rand Paul
U.S. Senator [Libertarian]; son of former U.S. House member Ron Paul1963 - Craig (Barry) Shipley
baseball: LA Dodgers, NY Mets, SD Padres, Houston Astros1964 - Nicolas Cage (Nicholas Coppola)
actor: The Best of Times, The Rock, Leaving Las Vegas, Vampire’s Kiss, Raising Arizona, Racing with the Moon, Moonstruck, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Cotton Club, Birdy, Valley Girl, Con Air, Face/Off, The Family Man, Windtalkers; nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire1964 - John Decker (Adam Lee Vaughn)
actor [1993-2005]: X-rated films: Raincoat Fantasies, The Wicked Web, Taboo 16, Sex Freaks, Wild Bananas on Butt Row, Hunchback of Nasty Dames, PornWorld, Erotic Illusions, Love Games1966 - Randy Burridge
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, LA Kings, Buffalo Sabres1966 - Jim Gaffigan
stand-up comedian, actor: Shorties Watchin’ Shorties, Beyond the Pale, King Baby, The Slammin’ Salmon, It’s Kind of a Funny Story; more1966 - Caroline Besette Kennedy
wife of John F. Kennedy Jr; killed July 16, 1999 [w/John and her sister Lauren] when the plane John was piloting crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, MA1967 - Guy Hebert
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Anaheim Mighty Ducks1969 - Erric Pegram
football: RB: Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers, NY Giants, San Diego Chargers1969 - David Yost
actor: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Power Rangers Zeo, Ladykiller1970 - Todd Day
basketball: Univ of Arkansas; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves1970 - Doug E. Doug
comedian, actor: Eight Legged Freaks, Citizen James, My Gym Partner’s a Monkey, That Darn Cat, Operation Dumbo Drop, Cool Runnings1971 - Frank Menechino
baseball: Univ of Alabama; Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays1971 - Jeremy Renner
actor: Marvel’s Hawkeye, The Hurt Locker, Dahmer, S.W.A.T., Neo Ned, 28 Weeks Later, The Town, The Bourne Legacy, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation1972 - Donald Brashear
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers1972 - Johan Witehall
hockey: NY Rangers, Montreal Canadiens1973 - Bobby Engram
football: Penn State Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks1973 - Esta TerBlanche
actress: Three Thieves and a Wedding, The Syndicate, All My Children1973 - Brian Milne
football: Penn State Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Bengals, Seattle Seahawks, New Orleans Saints1974 - Trevor Winter
basketball: Univ of Minnesota; NBA: Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers1975 - Justin Watson
football: San Diego State Univ; NFL: St. Louis Rams1976 - Eric Gagne
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers1976 - Alfonso Soriano
baseball: New York Yankees [1999–2003]: 1999, 2000 World Series champs; Texas Rangers [2004–2005]; Washington Nationals [2006]; Chicago Cubs [2007–2013]; New York Yankees [2013–2014]1977 - Dustin Diamond
actor: She’s Out of Control, Purple People Eater, Saved By the Bell; died Feb 1, 20211979 - Bipasha Basu (‘Bips’)
Indian model: appeared on 40+ magazine covers; actress: Ajnabee, Raaz, Jism, No Entry, Phir Hera Pheri, Dhoom 2, Race, Apharan, Corporate, Bachna Ae Haseeno, Raaz 31981 - Reece Gaines
basketball: Univ of Louisville; NBA: Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets1982 - Lauren Cohan
actress: The Walking Dead, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Chuck, Archer, Death Race 2, Reach Me, Whiskey Cavalier1982 - Francisco Rodríguez
baseball [pitcher]: Anaheim Angels1983 - Brett Dalton
actor: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nurses, Killing Lincoln, Beside Still Waters1984 - Jon Lester
baseball [pitcher: no-hitter May 19, 2008]: Boston Red Sox [2006–2014]: 2007, 2013 World Series champs; Oakland Athletics [2014]; Chicago Cubs [2015–2020]: 2016 World Series champs; Washington Nationals [2021]; St. Louis Cardinals [2021]1985 - Lewis Hamilton
British Formula One race car driver [McLaren team]: 2008, 2014, 2015 Formula One World Champion; more1987 - Lyndsy Fonseca
actress: The Young and the Restless, Nikita, Kick Ass, Desperate Housewives, Moments of Clarity, Danielle, The World’s Biggest Asshole, RePlay1988 - Haley Bennett
actress: Outlaw Country, Music & Lyrics, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Marley & Me, Arcadia Lost, Thank You for Your Service, Rules Don’t Apply, The Girl on the Train, The Magnificent Seven [2016], A Kind of Murder1988 - Robert Sheehan
actor: The Umbrella Academy, Misfits, Love/Hate, Cherrybomb, Killing Bono, The Playboy of the Western World1990 - Liam Aiken
actor: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, I Dreamed of Africa, Stepmom, The Object of My Affection, Montana1990 - Camryn Grimes
actress: Sharing the Secret, The Young and the Restless, Days Of Our Lives1997 - Lamar Jackson
football [quarterback]: Univ of Louisville 2016 Heisman Trophy winner; NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2018– ]
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Hit Music on This Day January 7
1946Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
It Might as Well Be Spring (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Billy Williams)
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