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1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson shot the first photograph from an airplane -- from a Curtiss Hydroplane -- while flying over San Diego, California.1945 - Erskine Hawkins waxed a classic for Victor Records. The tune, with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, was titled Tippin’ In.
1947 - Finian’s Rainbow opened on the Great White Way in New York City. The musical played for 725 performances. Years later, Petula Clark would star and sing in the celluloid version on the silver screen.
1949 - The Radio Corporation of America, sometimes known as RCA, announced a new 7-inch, 45-rpm phonograph record. Soon, the 45, the record with the big hole in the middle, would change the pop music business. RCA even manufactured a record player that played only 45s -- with a fat spindle that made “stacking wax” real simple and automatic for those romantic times when hands were just too busy to be flippin’ records.
1950 - Ben Hogan, appearing for the first time in a golf tournament since an auto accident a year earlier, tied ‘Slammin’ Sammy Snead in the Los Angeles Open. Hogan lost in a playoff.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded his first tunes as an RCA Victor artist. Recording in Nashville, Elvis sang Heartbreak Hotel, I Got a Woman and Money Honey. Heartbreak Hotel was #1 by April 11, 1956 and stayed there for eight weeks. It was #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts and number five on the country music list.
1957 - Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Great Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
1960 - Marty Robbins’ hit tune, El Paso, held the record for the longest #1 song to that time. The song ran 4 minutes and 20 seconds, giving many radio station program directors fits; because the average record length at that time was around 2 minutes, and formats didn’t allow for records much longer than that, (e.g., 2-minute record, 3 minutes for commercials, 60 seconds for promo, 2-minute record, etc.). DJs got used to the longer length quickly, however, realizing it gave them time, before the record ended, to actually think of something to say next...
1961 - Author Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade series, The Maltese Falcon) died. He was 66 years old.
1963 - The Chicago Cubs become the first baseball club to hire an athletic director. He was Robert Whitlow.
1964 - On the cover of LIFE magazine, the memoirs of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur.
1967 - Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat on this day.
1969 - Elvis Presley’s single, Don’t Cry Daddy, entered the Top 10 on the pop charts this day. If you listened to this song carefully, you’d hear a vocal duet with country artist Ronnie Milsap.
1969 - The final issue of The Saturday Evening Post appeared after 147 years of publication. It returned in limited publication years later. Norman Rockwell’s art was a popular item in the Post.
1971 - Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, French fashion designer, died. She was 87 years old.
1971 - Masterpiece Theatre premiered on PBS. Host Alistair Cooke introduced the drama series, The First Churchills.
1976 - C.W. McCall’s Convoy was the #1 single in the U.S. -- on both pop and country charts. “Ah, breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck ... You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c’mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it’s clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. Yeah, that’s a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...”
1978 - The Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule for a rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory. Two other cosmonauts had been living on Salyut Six for a month.
1981 - The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on Broadway. The show, starring pop singers Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith, was made into a movie in 1983.
1984 - Cyndi Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry [1967] to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Lauper went one better for copping the award for Worst Hair Coloring by a Woman on the Planet. Girls Just Want to Have Fun ya know... fer sure.
1984 - “WHERE’S THE BEEF?” Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers this day in the famous and successful commercial campaign for Wendy’s fast-food chain. Dave Thomas spent $8 million on the ads that promoted hamburger sales plus T-shirts, baseball caps, records, greeting cards and countless other items bearing the picture of the elderly cult star.
1989 - Cuba began withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived.
1990 - Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.
1991 - Clint Black became a member of the Grand Ole Opry during the taping of the show’s 65th anniversary celebration.
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt went on trial in Manassas, VA. She was charged with the malicious wounding of her husband John. She had cut off his penis, but was eventually acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
1996 - The third day of the ‘Blizzard of ’96’ saw the northeastern U.S. buried under 1.5 to 3 feet of snow. The big storm caused $1 billion in damage and killed 100 people. New York City had the heaviest snowfall in 48 years. Quick, let’s go make snow angels.
1997 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Evita (“The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year”), starring Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce and Jimmy Nail; Jackie Chan’s First Strike (“Jackie Chan fights for America in his biggest action film ever.”; The Relic (“They did the unthinkable. They brought it back.”), with Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt and James Whitmore; and Turbulence (“If you weren’t afraid of flying before, you will be now.”, starring Ray Liotta Lauren Holly Hector Elizondo Brendan Gleeson.
1998 - A 6.2 earthquake hit Zhangbei County in northern Hebei province in China. Fifty people were killed and 11,440 injured. The quake left cracks in the Great Wall of China.
2000 - America Online, “the company that brought the Internet to the masses,” announced that it had agreed to buy Time Warner, the largest traditional media company in the U.S., for $182 billion.
2001 - China sent rats into orbit aboard its Shenzhou II (Sacred Ship), powered by a Long March rocket.
2002 - The White House disclosed the fact that Enron Corporation had sought the Bush Administration’s help shortly before collapsing with the life savings of many workers.
2002 - U.S. Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan to a U.S. base on the island of Cuba.
2002 - Todd Eldredge won his 6th U.S. Figure Skating Championship.
2003 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Just Married, starring Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, Monet Mazur, David Moscow, Valeria Andrews, David Rasche, Veronica Cartwright and Raymond Barry; and Narc, starring Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Busta Rhymes and Chi Mcbride.
2004 - Michelle Kwan won her seventh straight title and eighth overall at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Atlanta; Johnny Weir skated to his first men’s title.
2004 - Fiona Thornewill, a 37-year-old British woman, completed her unaided solo hike to the South Pole in record time. Thornewill walked 700 miles in 42 days breaking the previous record of 44 days for an unaided individual or team for walking or skiing.
2005 - A mudslide at La Conchita in Ventura County, CA destroyed fifteen homes and killed ten people.
2005 - CBS News fired four people in the wake of a 2004 story, aired by Dan Rather, about George Bush and his involvement in the National Guard as a young man.
2007 - The U.S. Postal Service honored jazz great Ella Fitzgerald with a postage stamp. Fitzgerald became the 30th honoree in the popular Black Heritage commemorative stamp series.
2007 - U.S. President George Bush (II) announced his intention to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq. The ‘surge’, as the build-up soon became known, was an attempt to improve the security of Baghdad and the western province of Anbar.
2008 - The Little Mermaid opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The musical is based on the animated 1989 Disney film of the same name and the classic story by Hans Christian Andersen -- about a mermaid who dreams of the world above the sea and gives up her voice to find love. The production closed on August 30, 2009 after 685 performances. During its run, "The Little Mermaid" introduced Broadway debuts by director Francesca Zambello and Sierra Boggess in the title role.
2009 - A winter storm left large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. covered in snow and freezing rain. Ten inches of snow forced some 100 cancellations at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
2010 - Abu Dhabi Sheik Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates ruling family being tried in connection with the videotaped beating of an Afghan man, was cleared of all charges -- even though the video showed the prince beating the man with a stick, whips, electric cattle prods, wooden planks with protruding nails; pouring salt on his wounds; and running him over repeatedly with a car. The victim, identified as Afghani grain dealer Mohammed Shapoor, survived the April 2009 attack.
2010 - China has overtook Germany as the world’s top exporter. China’s December exports jumped 17.7% for their first increase in 14 months.
2011 - Tom DeLay, former U.S. House Majority Leader, was sentenced in Texas to 3 years in prison for a scheme to influence elections.
2012 - Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary getting 39.4% of the vote. Ron Paul was a strong second with 22.8%. Jon Huntsman, President Obama’s former ambassador to China, came in third with 16.8%. Newt Gingrich finished fourth with 9.4%. Rick Santorum was fifth at 9.3%.
2012 - The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it had moved its Doomsday Clock one minute closer to midnight -- to 11:55. The clock tick came about because of a collective failure to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, act on climate change, or find safe and sustainable sources of energy -- as exemplified by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
2013 - Barack Obama signed into a law a measure giving himself, George W. Bush and future former U.S. presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection. The new law rolled back a mid-1990s law that had imposed a 10-year limit on Secret Service protection for former presidents.
2014 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres: The Legend of Hercules, with Kellan Lutz, Scott Adkins and Gaia Weiss; The Banshee Chapter, starring Ted Levine, Katia Winter and Michael McMillian; Cold Comes the Night, with Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green; the documentary, Divorce Corp; Dumbbells, starring Mircea Monroe, Taylor Cole and Jaleel White; The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, starring Michael Sheen, Lena Headey and Sam Neill; The Truth About Emanuel, with Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Biel, Alfred Molina; Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lynn Adrianna, Lisa Renee Pitts, Gabe Gomez, Chris Pratt, Artt Butler, May Lindstrom, Rooney Mara, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Brian Johnson and Scarlett Johansson; and Lone Survivor, with Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsch.
2014 - West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency for nine counties. And President Obama ordered U.S. federal aid for the area in the aftermath of a chemical spill that left up to 300,000 people without tap water, closed schools and businesses.
2014 - India’s renovated Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport opened in Mumbai. The project had been delayed for nearly two years and had overrun its construction budget by some 25 percent -- to a total of $2 billion.
2015 - Thousands marched in several cities in Spain to press for easier access to the latest-generation medicines to counter hepatitis C, the deadly liver disease. The ‘Platform of People Affected by Hepatitis C’, which organized the protests, said the Spanish government was supplying the latest drugs, that have up to a 95 percent cure rate, to patients with the highest survival potential and not to those in the later stages of the illness.
2016 - British singer, actor David Bowie died (liver cancer, 69) in New York City. A music star for over five decades, Bowie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Space Oddity was his first big hit in the summer of 1969. His acting roles included his roles included Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006).
2016 - Golden Globe Awards were passed out for the 73rd time. The show, from the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, saw The Revenant win for Best Drama and The Martian get the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy. Other winners included Leonardo DiCaprio (Actor: Drama: The Revenant); Brie Larson (Actress: Drama: Room); Matt Damon (Actor: Musical or Comedy: The Martian); Jennifer Lawrence: Actress: Musical or Comedy: Joy; TV Drama: Mr. Robot; TV Musical or Comedy: Mozart in the Jungle.
2017 - The European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple that had been fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public school swimming lessons for reasons linked to their Muslim faith.
2017 - Stephen Colbert defended Meryl Streep’s comments at the Golden Globes -- and her stand against Donald Trump. On the Late Show, Colbert took the POTUS-elect to task for his Twitter rant in response to Streep’s criticisms of him at the awards ceremony -- especially the part where Trump called the Cecille B. DeMille Award winner “over-rated.” “Wait a second, I’m sorry, what? What? What did you just say? Meryl Streep, overrated?” Colbert said. “Have you seen ‘Sophie’s Choice’? Have you seen ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’? Have you seen that one with the dead people, that she’s even funny in that one? Look, Mr. Trump. You can refuse to release your taxes. You can call to ban an entire religion. You can play footsie with a dictator. But calling Meryl Streep overrated? No! No! Too far!”
2018 - A report by U.S. Senate Democrats warned of deepening Russian interference throughout Europe. The study concluded that even as some Western democracies had responded with aggressive countermeasures, POTUS Donald Trump had offered no strategic plan to bolster their efforts or safeguard the U.S. from continuing to fall victim to the Kremlin’s systematic meddling.
2018 - California Governor Jerry Brown announced a $132 billion state budget and proposed that the state create a public college entirely online to help millions of working adults gain the skills they need to work in the new economy and raise their pay.
2019 - Heavy snowfall continued in parts of Austria and southern Germany, with several places cut off. At least 17 weather-related deaths had been reported in Europe over the past week.
2019 - Saudi Arabia awarded a contract to build a $500 million wind farm. It was a first for the world’s top oil exporter as it began diversifying its energy sector. A consortium led by France’s EDF and Abu Dhabi’s Masdar won the bid for the 400-megawatt Dumat al-Jandal wind project in the northern Al Jouf province.
2020 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: The Informer, with Ana de Armas, Rosamund Pike and Joel Kinnaman; Like a Boss, starring Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek and Tiffany Haddish; Underwater, with Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller and Jessica Henwick; 1917, starring Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth; Just Mercy, with Brie Larson, Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan; The Corrupted, with Sam Claflin, Timothy Spall and Hugh Bonneville; Inherit the Viper, starring Josh Hartnett, Margarita Levieva and Owen Teague; The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, with Mena Suvari, Taryn Manning and Nick Stahl; the animated, Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, with characters voiced by Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Chris Morrell, Andy Nyman, David Holt, Kate Harbour, Amalia Vitale and Joe Sugg; and Three Christs, starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage and Walton Goggins.
2020 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was likely that Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed this week in Iran, killing all 176 on board. Iran later said that it mistakenly shot missiles at the jetliner minutes after takeoff.
2020 - Illinois accountant Sultan Issa pleaded guilty to embezzling big bucks from a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago. Issa used the money to finance a luxurious lifestyle that included yachts and homes. Issa admitted to stealing some $77 million over seven years. He was later sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.
2021 - Memphis police officer Patric Ferguson (29) was taken into custody on charges of kidnapping and murdering 30-year-old Robert Howard after forcing him into the backseat of a squad car. A second person, Joshua Rogers (28), was arrested for assisting Ferguson to relocate the victim’s body. (Apparently, Ferguson was jealous of Howard, who was dating a woman who had previously been in a relationship with the officer.)
2021 - Israel’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, the world’s quickest per capita, shifted to booster shots. This, in a bid to protect the most vulnerable citizens and ease curbs on the economy.
2022 - U.S. and Russian diplomats began meeting in Geneva for talks about Ukraine. The U.S. and Russia were deadlocked about NATO expansion -- and still are.
2022 - Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union to return students to classrooms. A dispute over coronavirus safeguards had canceled a week of classes in the country’s third-largest school district.
2022 - The U.S. Mint announced that writer and poet Maya Angelou had become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the quarter, the first in a series of coins commemorating pioneering American women that began shipping during this week.
2023 - Among the winners at the 80th Golden Globe Awards: Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film The Fabelmans won best drama and best director. The Banshees of Inisherin won best comedy/musical, screenplay, and best comedy actor for Colin Farrell. Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan received Golden Globes for lead comedy actress and supporting actor wins, respectively, for their roles in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Austin Butler (Elvis) and Cate Blanchett (Tár) took the top drama acting prizes. House of the Dragon won best TV drama. Abbott Elementary was given the award for best TV comedy.
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Birthdays on This Day January 10
1843 - Frank James
train, bank robber: brother of outlaw Jesse James: the James Gang; died Feb 18, 19151878 - Richard ‘Dickie’ Boon
Hockey Hall of Famer: Montreal AAA and Montreal Wanderers; won three career Stanley Cups; credited with being the first to use the poke-check; director, coach: Montreal Wanderers; died May. 3, 19611883 - Francis X. (Xavier) Bushman
actor: The Rosary, Neptune’s Daughter, The Thirteenth Man, Dick Tracy, Hollywood Boulevard, David and Bathsheba, Sabrina, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini; died Aug 23, 19661898 - George Hay
Hockey Hall of Famer: Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Cougars, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings: 73 career goals, 54 assists; died July 13, 19751904 - Ray Bolger (Raymond Wallace Bulcao)
dancer, actor: The Wizard of Oz; died Jan 15, 19871908 - Paul Henreid (Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter Von Wassel-Waldingau)
actor: The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Deep in My Heart, Casablanca, Goodbye, Mr. Chips; director: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Battle in Blue, Battle Shock, Tall Lie; died Mar 29, 19921917 - Jerry Wexler
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: record producer: Atlantic Records: worked with artists such as: Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, LaVern Baker, Ray Charles, Dusty Springfield, The Drifters, Dire Straits, Bob Dylan; died Aug 15, 20081921 - Rodger Ward
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1959 and 1962]; died Jul 5, 20041924 - Max Roach
musician: drums; composer: Freedom Now Suite; educator: taught at Lennox, MA School of Jazz and Yale; Professor of Music at University of Massachusetts, Amherst; died Aug 16, 2007; more1927 - Johnnie Ray
singer: Cry, Please, Mr. Sun, The Little White Cloud That Cried, Walkin’ My Baby Back Home, Just Walking in the Rain; died Feb 24, 19901927 - Gisele MacKenzie (Marie LaFeche)
singer: Your Hit Parade, Hard to Get; died Sep 5, 20031931 - Marlene Sanders
broadcast news personality: WNEW radio, New York; ABC News: reporter, documentary producer, VP of new division; CBS News: correspondent, documentary producer; co-authored Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News; member of Peabody Awards Board of Jurors [1998-2004]; won three Emmy Awards during her career; mother of CNN legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin; died Jul 14, 20151930 - Roy Edward Disney
executive: Walt Disney Company; nephew of Walt Disney; organized the ousting of two top Disney executives: Ron Miller [1984], Michael Eisner [2005]; died Dec 16, 20091935 - Ronnie Hawkins
musician: singer: rock ’n’ roller: Mary Lou, 40 Days; died May 29, 20221938 - Frank Mahovlich
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens1938 - Willie (Lee) ‘Stretch’ McCovey
Baseball Hall of Famer: SF Giants [NL Rookie of the Year: 1959/World Series: 1962/all-star: 1963, 1966, 1968-1971/Baseball’s Writer’s National League MVP Award: 1969], SD Padres, Oakland Athletics; died Oct 31, 20181939 - Scott McKenzie (Phillip Blondheim)
singer: San Francisco [Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair], Like an Old Time Movie; co-writer: Kokomo [Beach Boys]; died Aug 18, 20121939 - Sal Mineo (Salvatore Mineo, Jr.)
singer: Start Movin’, Lasting Love; actor: The Gene Krupa Story; died Feb 12, 19761939 - Bill Toomey
U.S. Decathlon Olympic Gold Medalist [1968]1943 - Jim Croce
songwriter, singer: You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, Time in a Bottle, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, I’ve Got a Name; killed in plane crash Sep 20, 19731944 - Frank Sinatra Jr.
singer: It’s All Right; bandleader; died Mar 16, 20161945 - Rod Stewart
singer, musician: Maggie May, You Wear It Well, Tonight’s The Night [Gonna Be Alright], I Don’t Want to Talk About It, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?, This Old Heart of Mine, Have I Told You Lately; more
1946 - Aynsley Dunbar
musician: drums: groups: Jefferson Starship: Freedom at Point Zero, Jane, Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Find Your Way Back, Winds of Change; Whitesnake: Whitesnake 1987, Still of the Night, What is Love and Here I go Again; Eric Burdon and the New Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place, It’s My Life, Spill the Wine, Don’t Bring Me Down, House of the Rising Sun; played with Pat Travers, UFO, John Lee Hooker, Michael Schenker, Alvin Lee, John Mayall, Spencer Davis1946 - Bob Lang
musician: bass: group: Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders: Game of Love; Mindbenders: Groovy Kind of Love1948 - Donald Fagen
musician: keyboard: group: Steely Dan: LPs: Countdown to Ecstacy, Pretzel Logic, Katy Lied, The Royal Scam, Aja, Gaucho1948 - Cyril Neville
musician: percussion, singer: group: The Neville Brothers: LP: FiYo on the Bayou; Meters: Sophisticated Cissy, Cissy Strut1949 - Walter Browne
Australian chess champ [1974-1978], [1980-1984]; journalist1949 - George Foreman
boxer: oldest heavyweight champion at age 45 [Nov 5, 1994]; commercial pitchman1949 - Linda Lovelace (Boreman)
actress [1969-1980]: X-rated films: Deep Throat, Exotic French Fantasies, Sexual Ecstasy of the Macumba, Lovelace Meets Miss Jones, Super Climax; died Apr 22, 20021950 - Bonnie Hellman
actress: Sunset Beach, Desperate Housewives, Get Smart [2008], Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Brookwood Sleazebags, A Little Step, Two Heads Are Better Than None, It Came From Outer Space
1952 - Scott Thurston
musician: guitar, keyboards; songwriter: group: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: American Girl, Breakdown, Listen to Her Heart, I Need to Know, Refugee
1953 - Pat Benatar
Grammy award-winning singer: Crimes of Passion [1980], and Fire and Ice [1981], Hit Me with Your Best Shot1953 - Bobby Rahal
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1986]1961 - Evan Handler
actor: Sex and The City, Californication, Ransom, The Chosen, Sweet Lorraine, Taps, The Three Stooges [2000]1961 - Janet Jones-Gretzky
dancer, actress: Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, Dance Fever, The Beastmaster, The Flamingo Kid, A League of Their Own, The Firm: Total Body - Low Impact Aerobics; wife of hocky great Wayne Gretzky1964 - Brad Roberts
songwriter, singer: group: Crash Test Dummies: Keep a Lid on Things, Get You in the Morning, Superman’s Song, Androgynous, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm1967 - Trini Alvarado
actress: The Frighteners, Little Women, Stella, The Chair, Mrs. Soffel, Rich Kids1973 - Ryan Drummond
voice actor: voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in SEGA games; actor: Based on a True Story, Bring It On1973 - Glenn Robinson
basketball: Purdue Univ; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers1974 - Jemaine Clement
comedian, actor: Flight of the Conchords, The Drinky Crow Show, Diagnosis: Death, Dinner for Schmucks, Men in Black 31974 - Hollis Thomas
football: Northern Illinois Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints1974 - Ryôka Yuzuki
actress: All Night Long, Angel of Darkness 3, Ladies in Torture I, Voyeurs, Inc.; anime voice actress: Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, Hell Girl, Real Bout High School, Spirit of Wonder: Scientific Boys Club, X-TV1975 - Jake Delhomme
football: QB: Louisiana-Lafayette; NFL: New Orleans Saints [1997–2002]; Carolina Panthers [2003–2009][Super Bowl record 85-yard touchdown pass (2004SB XXXVIII); Cleveland Browns [2010]; Houston Texans [2011]1976 - Terry Jackson
football: Univ of Florida; NFL: SF 49ers1976 - Adam Kennedy
baseball: Cal State-Northbridge; St. Louis Cardinals [1999) Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels [2000–2006]: 2002 World Series champs; St. Louis Cardinals [2007–2008] Oakland Athletics [2009] Washington Nationals [2010] Seattle Mariners [2011] Los Angeles Dodgers [2012]1977 - Clark Haggans
football: Colorado State Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers1980 - Sarah Shahi
actress: Person of Interest, The Adventures of Beatle Boyin, Damages, For Your Consideration, Plan B, Old School, Class of ’06, Fairly Legal, Reverie1985 - Alex Meraz
actor: The Twilight Saga film series, American Experience, City of Gardens, Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown, Mine Games1989 - Conor Dwyer
swimming champ: 2012, 2016 Olympic gold medalist: U.S. 4x200-meter freestyle relay1994 - Faith Kipyegon
Kenyan athlete: Olympic gold women’s 1,500m 2016, 1920; World Championship gold 2017
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Hit Music on This Day January 10
1949Buttons and Bows (facts) - Dinah Shore
On a Slow Boat to China (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood
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