January 11
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1878 - For the first time, milk was delivered in glass bottles -- by one Alexander Campbell in New York. Up to that time, moo juice had been ladled out of a container by the milkman, right into the customer’s own container. Why, we remember, the milkman would ladle milk into our pockets so we’d have something to drink for lunch. But it never lasted till then for some reason.1902 - Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time by H.H. Windsor. Initially, there were only five paying subscribers and a few hundred others who paid a nickel at newsstands. In September, 1903 the magazine became a monthly.
1913 - The first sedan-type car was unveiled at the National Automobile Show in New York City. The car was manufactured by the Hudson Motor Company.
1928 - Ol’ Man River was recorded on Victor Records this day by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Bing Crosby crooned as the song’s featured vocalist. The tune came from the Broadway musical, Showboat.
1935 - Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. She had also been the first woman to solo across the Atlantic three years earlier.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt flew from Miami, FL to Trinidad on his way to meet with Winston Churchill in Casablanca. Roosevelt thus became the first U.S. president to visit a foreign country during wartime.
1947 - The Amazing Mr. Malone (aka Murder and Mr. Malone) debuted on ABC radio. The program starred Frank Lovejoy as criminal lawyer John J. Malone.
1949 - The Los Angeles Open golf tournament was won by Lloyd Mangrum, who admitted that he wore a lucky pair of pajamas under his pants. One of our golfing friends likes to take his lucky ferret with him in his pants. “Sure beats a five wood!” he says.
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (The Chocolate Soldier), died. He was 83 years old.
1958 - Lloyd Bridges starred as Mike Nelson, an ex-Navy frogman who became an underwater trouble shooter, in Sea Hunt on CBS-TV. The show remained on the network for four years. The underwater sequences, for those wondering, were filmed in Silver Springs, Florida. The above-water sequences were filmed at Marineland of the Pacific.
1963 - Whiskey-A-Go-Go opened this night on Sunset Boulevard in Boss Angeles, and what an opening it was! Bright lights and mini-skirted dancers in cages were the prominent features of America’s first discotheque.
1964 - Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said that (cough) smoking cig (cough, cough) arettes is a (cough) definite health hazard.
1964 - The head football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, the popular Bud Wilkinson, resigned from the University of Oklahoma.
1966 - 550 people were killed by landslides in mountains near Rio de Janeiro after heavy rain.
1970 - Thanks to his winning the Los Angeles Open golf tournament, Billy Casper was the second golfer in history to top the $1-million mark in career earnings.
1970 - Super Bowl IV (at New Orleans): Kansas City Chiefs 23, Minnesota Vikings 7. QB Len Dawson, Jan Stenerud and the Chiefs socked it to coach Bud Grant’s Vikings. MVP: Chiefs QB Dawson. Tickets: $15.00.
1973 - Major-league baseball agreed to allow the American League to experiment with the designated hitter rule for the next three years. At last check, they were still experimenting with it...
1978 - Two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule linked up with the Salyut 6 orbiting space station, where the Soyuz 26 capsule was already docked.
1980 - Rupert Holmes was at the top of the pop music charts, with Escape (The Pina Colada Song).
1984 - Thriller, the album by Michael Jackson, became the all-time best-selling LP. Thriller, with ten-million copies sold, surpassed the previous bestseller, the soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever. Among its precedent-shattering achievements, Thriller spent 37 weeks at number one on the Billboard album chart (longer than any contemporary rock or pop album -- only the cast album of South Pacific at 69 weeks and the West Side Story soundtrack at 54 weeks had longer runs at the top). And Thriller produced seven top-10 singles, ahead of Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper and Bruce Springsteen, who have each taken four top-10 singles off one LP. As of early 2002, Thriller was still the biggest-selling record ever, having sold more than 40-million copies.
1986 - Author James Clavell signed a deal with Morrow/Avon Publishing for $5 million as an advance for the book Whirlwind. The book is a 2,000 page novel. Now, for the bean-counters who might not figure this out, that comes to... $2,500 a page!
1989 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivered his farewell address from the Oval office in the White House.
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev visited Lithuania, where he sought to assure citizens that they would have a say in their republic’s future.
1992 - Paul Simon was the first major international star to perform in South Africa following the end of a U.N. cultural boycott. Simon opened a concert tour in Johannesburg this day. The crowd was estimated at 30,000 to 40,000. Simon’s tour had the backing of South Africa’s leading black political group, the African National Congress.
1994 - NATO leaders concluded a summit in Belgium by warning Bosnian Serbs that NATO would order bombing raids in former Yugoslavia to relieve embattled Muslim enclaves.
1995 - A nine-year-old girl survived a Colombian airliner crash near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena. The crash killed the other 51 people on board the jetliner.
1998 - The Denver Broncos beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 24-21, to win the American Football Conference Championship. And the Green Bay Packers defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 23-10, to claim the National Football Conference Championship.
2000 - Park Tae-joon, the leader of the United Liberal Democrats, was appointed South Korea’s prime minister.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed proclamations creating the Grand Parashant National Monument with 1.014 million acres along the northern boundary of the Grand Canyon; the 71,100-acre Agua Fria National Monument near Phoenix; and the California Coastal National Monument, which includes thousands of islands, rocks and reefs along the 840-mile California coast.
2000 - Carlton Fisk and Tony Pérez were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
2001 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the merger of America Online and Time Warner.
2002 - Orange County debuted in U.S. theatres. The comedy stars Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Catherine O’Hara, Schuyler Fisk, John Lithgow, Harold Ramis, Lily Tomlin and Chevy Chase.
2003 - Out-going Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 death-row inmates a day after he freed four other death-row inmates.
2004 - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill charged in a book that President George Bush (II) had entered office in 2001 intent on invading Iraq. Former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind wrote The Price of Loyalty, based on 7,630 journal entries provided by O’Neill.
2005 - At least eight people were killed in a wildfire that raced through southern Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, forcing terrified residents to leap into the sea to avoid the flames.
2005 - The European Union and the U.S. agreed to settle their dispute over subsidies to Airbus SA and Boeing Co. through bilateral talks rather than asking the WTO to resolve it.
2006 - USA Today reported that less than three weeks before the Jan 2 explosion at West Virginia’s Sago Mine, the mine’s owner, International Coal Group, was cited for “combustible conditions” that showed “a high degree of negligence for the health and safety of the miners.”
2007 - Fourteen members of an advisory board to Jimmy Carter’s human rights organization resigned to protest his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The board members accused the former U.S. president of unfairly criticizing Israel.
2008 - New movies in the U.S.: First Sunday, with Ice Cube, Regina Hall, Chi McBride, Loretta Devine, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan and Malinda Williams; In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, with Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Burt Reynolds, Will Sanderson, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani, Brian J. White, Kristanna Loken and Gabrielle Rose; and the animated The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, featuring the voices of Mike Nawrocki and Phil Vischer.
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest, died in New Zealand at 88 years of age. After conquering the world’s highest mountain with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, Hillary devoted much of his life to helping the people of Nepal.
2008 - Bank of America announced its purchase of Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion in stock. The deal that rescued the biggest mortgage lender in the U.S.
2009 - Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture at the 66th Annual Golden Globe awards, and the late Heath Ledger won the best supporting actor Golden Globe for his performance in The Dark Knight. Other winners included Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road, Colin Farrell (In Bruges), and Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky).
2010 - Dutch brewer Heineken announced its acquisition of the beer-making operations of Mexico’s Femsa, the maker of Dos Equis and Sol beers. The all-share deal was valued at €5.3 billion ($7.7 billion).
2010 - Chile inaugurated the Museum of Memory and Human Rights to make sure the tens of thousands of people who were imprisoned, killed or disappeared during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship are not forgotten.
2011 - David Nelson, the last of the Nelson family from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, died. The TV show ran for 320 episodes from 1952 to 1966, with some of the story lines taken from the stars’ own lives. David Nelson’s film credits include Peyton Place, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, The Big Circus, Day of the Outlaw, 30, The Big Show, Love and Kisses and Swing Out, Sweet Land. In 1976, he costarred with his mother in Smash-Up on Interstate 5.
2012 - Loosies opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic comedy drama stars Peter Facinelli, Christy Carlson Romano, Jaimie Alexander, Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano and William Forsythe.
2012 - Former Michigan congressman Mark Deli Siljander was sentenced to a year in federal prison for lobbying for the Islamic American Relief Agency, a charity known to be tied to global terrorists.
2013 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn, Holt McCallany, Wade Williams, James Hébert, Ambyr Childers and Josh Brolin; A Haunted House, with Marlon Wayans, Nick Swardson, David Koechner, Alanna Ubach, Essence Atkins, Cedric the Entertainer and Jamie Noel; Fairhaven, starring Sarah Paulson, Chris Messina, Rich Sommer, Alexie Gilmore and Natalie Gold; Quartet, with Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay and Pauline Collins; Storage 24, starring Noel Clarke, Colin O’Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock and Jamie Thomas King; Struck by Lightning, with Rebel Wilson, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Hyland, Chris Colfer, Allison Janney and Robbie Amell; and Zero Dark Thirty, starring Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle, Harold Perrineau, Jeremy Strong and J.J. Kandel.
2013 - A U.S. federal judge barred California from enforcing a voter-approved law that required registered sex offenders to disclose their Internet identities to police.
2014 - Ariel Sharon died in a hospital near Tel Aviv. The former Israeli prime minister (2001-2006) died eight years after a debilitating stroke had put him into a coma.
2015 - The 72nd Golden Globe award winners included Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the telecast from from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
2016 - Feld Entertainment, parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announced that they had decided to retire their elephant acts earlier than planned. The announcement came amid increasing scrutiny of circus elephant acts with local governments passing ‘anti-circus’ and ‘anti-elephant’ ordinances in response to concerns over animal cruelty.
2016 - The Alabama Crimson Tide upended the Clemson Tigers 45-40 in the College Football Playoff championship game played in Glendale, Ariz. The win gave Coach Nick Saban his fifth U.S. title, including four in the last seven seasons. Alabama Crimson tight end O.J. Howard had 208 yards receiving and two touchdowns while Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry scored three times. Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson passed for 405 yards with four touchdown throws and rushed for another 73 yards in the Tigers’ first loss of the season. Receiver Hunter Renfrow caught seven passes for 88 yards, two of those were touchdown receptions in the first quarter.
2017 - POTUS-elect Donald Trump denied claims that he had been caught in compromising (sexual) activities in Russia and, oddly, attacked U.S. intelligence agencies for the leak of the information. The claims were included in opposition research reports that were made available to Democrats and U.S. officials in 2016. U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he did not believe the media leaks came from the intelligence community.
2018 - Japanese car giants Toyota and Mazda announced a $1.6 billion joint venture for Alabama. The new car factory would employ some 4,000 people. The decision to build near Huntsville -- in the mostly nonunionized U.S. South -- also won the car giants tax credits, abatements and training worth $370 million.
2018 - Two million people in eastern Ukraine lost their mobile phone access after Vodafone, the last major provider in that devastated region, suffered a fiber optic line cut. The outage meant families living on both sides of the war front had lost the ability to communicate. The intentional outage forced customers into signing with one of two remaining mobile phone carriers -- operated by the Russian-backed authorities.
2019 - New movies showing in U.S. theatres included: A Dog’s Way Home, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Ashley Judd and Barry Watson; Replicas, starring Keanu Reeves, Alice Eve and Thomas Middleditch; The Upside, starring Nicole Kidman, Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston; Ashes in the Snow, with Bel Powley, Peter Franzén and Sophie Cookso; The Aspern Papers, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson; SGT. Will Gardner, with Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Röhm and Gary Sinise; Touch Me Not, with Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis and Christian Bayerlein; and The Untold Story, with Miko Hughes, Nia Peeples and Jordan Ladd.
2019 - Two Bulgaria snowboarders died in an avalanche. Heavy snowfall in the Balkans closed schools, left some remote villages cut off and disrupted traffic and power supplies. Airlines canceled some 120 flights at Frankfurt and 90 at Munich Airport because of concerns about snow. At least 20 weather-related deaths were reported in Europe.
2019 - Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Greece had grounds to pursue a legal claim for billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of the country in World War II.
2020 - A consortium of researchers published a draft genome of the newly discovered coronavirus suspected of causing the outbreak in Wuhan, China, where health authorities reported the first death from the new disease. The patient was a 61-year-old man who frequently visited the live market in Wuhan that most cases had been linked to. The Wuhan Health Commission said 41 people so far had been confirmed to have been infected with the new virus.
2020 - China officially opened the world’s largest radio telescope, which it will use for space research and the hunt for extraterrestrial life. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope -- or FAST -- was the size of 30 football fields, hewed out of a mountain in the southwestern province of Guizhou.
2020 - The president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, won reelection with a record-breaking 8 million votes. It was a major victory over Beijing’s failed campaign of lies and propaganda meant to get her opponent, Han Kuo-yu, elected.
2021 - Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, Airbnb, Mastercard, Verizon and Dow chemical added their companies to a list of suspended donations to members of Congress who voted against election certification. Hallmark even asked for its money back from Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall, two of the senators who opposed certification.
2021 - REMAP-CAP investigators said that an international trial testing convalescent blood plasma on COVID-19 patients with moderate and severe illness had halted enrolment of severely ill COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care. This, after REMAP-CAP found the treatment had no benefit.
2022 - The Justice Department created a new unit to counter domestic terrorism following the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack -- as it faced a growing threat from white supremacists and anti-government activists.
2022 - Britain’s Royal Mail issued a special set of 12 stamps as a tribute to the Rolling Stones, one of the most enduring rock groups of all time.
2023 - Airlines were forced to delay more than 9,000 flights into, out of, or within the United States due to a temporary outage on a critical Federal Aviation Administration pilot-alert system. More than 1,300 flights were canceled. The White House said there was no evidence the problem was caused by a cyberattack. The glitch prevented planes from taking off and stranded many passengers for hours. Industry officials compared the disruption to the shutdown of air traffic after the Sep 11, 2001, terror attacks.
2023 - Guitar legend Jeff Beck, a two-time inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died at age 78. He died after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis.” Beck made his name as a member of the Yardbirds before launching a varied solo career -- and is recognized in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for both.
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Birthdays on This Day January 11
1755 - Alexander Hamilton
statesman, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; died in duel with rival Aaron Burr July 12, 18041815 - Sir John Alexander MacDonald
first prime minister of Canada; died June 6, 18911839 - Eugenio De Hostos
Puerto Rican patriot; scholar, author of more than fifty books; died Aug 11, 19031885 - Alice Paul
women’s rights activist; founder of National Women’s Party [1913]; died July 9, 19771887 - Monte Blue
actor: Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm, Thunder Pass, Song of the Gringo, Wagon Wheels, So This is Paris, Orphans of the Storm; died Feb 18, 19631890 - Max Carey
Baseball Hall of Famer: hit over .300 for six seasons; led league in steals 10 times [NL record]; died May 30, 19761896 - John ‘Paddy’ Driscoll
Pro Football Hall of Famer [quarterback, placekicker]: Hammond Pros, Decatur Staleys, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Bears; was an All-NFL six times; dropkicked a record four field goals in one game (1925); died June 29, 19681910 - Schoolboy (Lynwood Thomas) Rowe
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1934, 1935, 1940/all-star: 1935, 1936], Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1947]; died Jan 8, 19611911 - George Benson
actor: The Happiest Days of Your Life, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, The Man in the White Suit, The Captain’s Paradise, Doctor in the House, Horror of Dracula, The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery, The Creeping Flesh; died Jun 17, 19831912 - Don ‘Red’ Barry
actor: Adventures of Red Ryder, Back Roads, Goldie and the Boxer, The One Man Jury, Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid, Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys, CHiPs; died Jul 17, 19801923 - Carroll Shelby
auto racer: remember the Shelby 350 coupe?; died May 10, 20121924 - Don Cherry
singer: Band of Gold; golf: U.S. Walker Cup Team, champ: Sunnehanna (Johnstown PA) Amateur [1954]; died Apr 4, 20181925 - Grant Tinker
Emmy Award-winning TV executive: Tenth Annual ATAS Governor’s Award [1987], President, NBC; producer: U.S.A. Today - The Television Series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary; married to actress Mary Tyler Moore; died Nov 28, 20161928 - David L. Wolper
TV, film producer: Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [1971], The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich [TV], This Is Elvis, Four Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, Visions of Eight, The Race for Space, The Hellstrom Chronicle; died Aug 10, 20101930 - Rod Taylor
actor: The Birds, Masquerade, The Time Machine; died Jan 7, 20151930 - Jack Nimitz
jazz ‘reed’ musician: toured with Herman, Kenton, helped found Supersax, played w/Oliver Nelson, Bill Berry and Gerald Wilson; died Jun 10, 20091933 - Goldie Hill
country entertainer: I Let the Stars Get in My Eyes; married to country singer, Carl Smith; died Feb 24, 20051934 - Jean Chrétien
prime minister: Canada [1993-2003]1934 - Mitchell Ryan
actor: Love for Rent, Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story, Grosse Pointe Blank, Liar Liar, The Devil’s Own, Ed, A Face to Die For; died Mar 4, 20221942 - Clarence Clemons
musician: sax: group: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Born In the U.S.A., Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, Blinded by the Light, Rosalita [Come Out Tonight], Darkness on the Edge of Town; died Jun 18, 20111942 - George Mira
football: Miami Dolphins QB, Super Bowl VI1943 - Jim Hightower
radio host, author: Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times, Eat Your Heart Out1945 - Christine Kaufmann
actress: Bagdad Cafe, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Taras Bulba, The Last Days of Pompeii; died Mar 28, 20171946 - Naomi (Diane) Judd
Grammy Award-winning singer: duo: The Judds: Why Not Me, Have Mercy, LP: Heartland; mother of singers, Wynonna, Ashley1947 - Anna Calder-Marshall
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Male of the Species, Prudential’s On Stage [1968-1969]1948 - Chris Ford
basketball: NBA: Detroit Pistons [1972-1973], Boston Celtics [1973-1982] coach: Boston Celtics [1990-1995], Milwaukee Bucks [1996-1998], Los Angeles Clippers [1999-2000]1949 - Dennis (Frederick) Greene
singer: group: Sha-Na-Na: LPs: Rock & Roll is Here to Stay!, The Golden Age of Rock ’n’ Roll1949 - Dave Burrows
hockey: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs1949 - Bobby Sheehan
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Rockies, LA Kings1952 - ‘Gentle’ Ben Crenshaw
golf champ: NCAA championship in [1971, 1972, 1973], Masters championship [1984]1953 - Freddie Solomon
football: Univ of Tampa; NFL: Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI, XIX; died Feb 13, 20121954 - Gary Brokaw
basketball: Notre Dame; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Orlando Magic [Dir of Scouting/Camps], Charlotte Bobcats [Dir of Player Personnel]1958 - Vicki Peterson
musician: guitar, singer: group; The Bangles: Walk like an Egyptian, Manic Monday1958 - Alyson Reed
dancer, actress: stage: Dancin’, Dance a Little Closer, Cabaret; TV/films: A Grand Night for Singing, Cabaret, Marilyn: An American Fable, A Few Good Men; High School Musical film series, A Chorus Line, Skin Deep, Matlock, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Frasier, Law & Order, Without a Trace, ER, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope, The X Files, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Nip/Tuck, Crossing Jordan, Numb3rs, Boston Legal, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives1959 - Brett Bodine
NASCAR race car driver1960 - Stanley Tucci
actor: Shall We Dance, The Terminal, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Core, Maid in Manhattan, Road to Perdition, Murder One1962 - Kim Coles
actress: In Living Color, Living Single, One, Frasier, Six Feet Under, Celebrity Mole, Wig, Hell on Earth, Kids in America, The Show With A.J. Calloway, Strictly Business; author: I’m Free But It Will Cost You1963 - Jason Connery
actor: The Boy Who Had Everything, Casablanca Express, The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, Midnight in St. Petersburg, Macbeth, Merlin, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell; son of actors Sean Connery and Diane Cilento1967 - Richmond Webb
football: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals1968 - Tom Dumont
musician: guitar: group: No Doubt: Just a Girl, It’s My Life, Hey Baby, Bathwater, Sunday Morning, Hella Good, New, Underneath It All1968 - Wade Flaherty
hockey [goalie]: San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers, Nashville Predators, Vancouver Canucks1969 - Kyle Richards
actress: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, ER, Escape, This Is Kate Bennett..., Halloween, Beulah Land, Eaten Alive1971 - Jay Ashley
actor [1993-2012]: X-rated films: Assficianado, Women of Sin, Sexual Predators, Double Penetrations, Rode Hard and Put Away Wet, Naughty Neighbors, Saw: A Hardcore Parody1971 - Mary J. Blige
singer: No More Drama, Everything, Deep Inside, Sincerity, Be Happy, Reminisce, Give Me You, All That I Can Say1972 - Marc Blucas
actor: Underground, Necessary Roughness, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Killing Floor, First Daughter, The Alamo [2004], View from the Top, Sunshine State, Summer Catch, The ’60s1972 - Christian Jacobs
actor: There Goes My Baby, Pretty in Pink, Gloria, Maggie, Yo Gabba Gabba1972 - Amanda Peet
actress: The Good Wife, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Whole Nine Yards, Ellen Foster, Playing by Heart, Origin of the Species, Saving Silverman, Changing Lanes1973 - Rockmond Dunbar
actor: Earth 2, The Mentalist, Soul Food, C-Note, Prison Break, Dirty Laundry, Heartland, The Family That Preys, The Game, Terriers, Sons of Anarchy1975 - Brad Badger
football: Stanford Univ; NFL: Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders1975 - Rory FitzPatrick
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, SL Blues, Nashville Predators, Buffalo Sabres1976 - Alfonso Boone
football: Mount San Antonio Jr. College; NFL: Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs1982 - Tony Allen
basketball: Oklahoma State Univ; NBA: Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics1982 - Toccara Williams
basketball: Texas A&M Univ; WNBA: San Antonio Silver Stars1985 - Aja Naomi King
actress: How to Get Away with Murder, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, The Blacklist, Damsels in Distress, Emily Owens, M.D, The Birth of a Nation
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1950Dear Hearts and Gentle People (facts) - Dinah Shore
A Dreamer’s Holiday (facts) - Perry Como
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