January 13
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1863 - Thomas Crapper pioneered the one-piece pedestal flushing toilet. He is also said to have pioneered the self raising seat for said toilet, which worked on a system of counter weights that left men free to concentrate on the job at hand.1906 - Hugh Gernsback of the Electro Importing Company advertised radio receivers for sale for the low, low price of just $7.50 in Scientific American magazine. The first ad selling the gizmos guaranteed reception of about one mile. We’ve worked at powerhouse radio stations that used to go that far... and less!
1910 - Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn were heard via a telephone transmitter; rigged by DeForest Radio-Telephone Company to broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1915 - The town of Avezzano in central Italy was struck by a huge earthquake (magnitude 7.0). Some 33,000 people died.
1933 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson made her first appearance in professional basketball as the Brooklyn Yankees beat the stew out of the Long Island Ducklings.
1938 - Singer Allan Jones recorded The Donkey Serenade for Victor Records. The song became the one most often associated with the singer. Allan sang and acted in several Marx Brothers films: A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races; but the film that catapulted him to stardom was the operetta, Firefly, with Jeanette MacDonald. Singer Jack Jones is the son of Allan and wife, actress, Irene Hervey (The Count of Monte Cristo, Play Misty for Me).
1939 - Monty Stratton was listed along with 31 other players on the roster of the Chicago White Sox. Stratton stated that his determination to play ball allowed him to continue pitching even though he used an artificial leg (the result of a hunting mishap).
1941 - The four Modernaires joined to sing with the Glenn Miller Band on a permanent basis beginning this day. Paula Kelly was added to the Miller band between March–August 1941; she and Modernaire Hal Dickinson had married in 1939. The Modernaires became a quintet when Kelly became a permanent member of the group after Glenn Miller joined the U.S. Army.
1942 - Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile which, allowed for a 30% decrease in car weight. Of course, it didn’t cost any less to buy a plastic car. Just ask Corvette owners...
1943 - The U.S. infantry captured Galloping Horse Hill on Guadalcanal
1945 - The Russian Army opened an offensive in South Poland, crashing 25 miles through the German lines.
1955 - Chase National Bank (founded in 1877) and the Bank of Manhattan Company (founded in 1799 as a water company) agreed to merge, becoming the second largest bank in the U.S. (Bank of America was #1).
1957 - Elvis Presley recorded That’s When Your Heartaches Begin for Victor Records at Hollywood’s Radio Recorders studio. Elvis had recorded a little ditty called All Shook Up the previous day at the same studio. All Shook Up became Elvis’ ninth consecutive gold record.
1957 - The Wham-O Company developed the first plastic Frisbee. The most popular theory as to how this flying disc came to be dates back to the 1920s when Yale students invented a game of catch by tossing around metal pie tins from the Frisbee Baking Company in nearby Bridgeport, Connecticut. They would frequently shout “Frisbieeeee” to warn passersby of the oncoming pie plate. Building inspector Fred Morrison puttered with and refined a plastic flying disc that he sold to WHAM-O (for $1 million) on this day in 1955. The disc was introduced to the consumer market in 1957 as the Pluto Platter (the name inspired by the U.S. obsession with UFOs). Wham-O changed the name to Frisbee in 1958, upon hearing the Yale pie-tin story. (Mattel now owns the rights to Frisbee, which has become an American icon.)
1962 - Comedian Ernie Kovacs was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles. He was 42 years old.
1962 - Singer Chubby Checker set a record, literally, with the hit, The Twist. The song reached the #1 position for an unprecedented second time -- in two years. The Twist was also number one on September 26, 1960. The Philadelphia boy made good twice!
1966 - Elizabeth Montgomery’s character, Samantha, on Bewitched, had a baby. Tabitha was the name given to the witch’s daughter. She could wriggle her nose and cause all kinds of problems for daddy, just like her mom.
1968 - Johnny Cash recorded a live album at Folsom Prison. The LP was on the Billboard pop chart for 122 weeks, and from it came the chart-topping country single Folsom Prison Blues.
1973 - Carly Simon’s No Secrets was the #1 album in the U.S. for the first of five weeks. The tracks: The Right Thing to Do, The Carter Family, You’re So Vain, His Friends are More Than Fond of Robin, (We Have) No Secrets, Embrace Me You Child, Waited So Long, It Was So Easy, Night Owl and When You Close Your Eyes.
1974 - Super Bowl VIII (at Houston): Miami Dolphins 24, Minnesota Vikings 7. The Dolphins win their second straight Super Bowl. Fran Tarkenton and the Vikings are the victims. MVP: Dolphins’ RB Larry Csonka. Tickets: $15.00.
1978 - Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died in Waverly, Minnesota. He was 66 years old.
1979 - Singer Donny Hathaway died in a fall from a hotel window in New York City. Only 33, Hathaway was known for his duets with Roberta Flack, including Where is the Love and The Closer I Get to You. He also had a promising career as a record producer, working with such artists as Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Jerry Butler and Carla Thomas.
1982 - Air Florida Flight 90, a boeing 737, attempted to take off from Washington’s National Airport in one of the worst blizzards in history. Ice had built up on the wings of the jetliner as it waited its turn to take off, preventing it from gaining altitude. After crashing into the 14th Street Bridge, the plane fell into the Potomac River. 74 of the 79 people on the aircraft were killed in the accident. Four people on the bridge were killed.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky extended his consecutive scoring streak to 45 games, but the Edmonton Oilers winning streak ended at an unlucky 13 when Gretzky and company lost to the Buffalo Sabres 3-1.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school officials had broad powers to censor school newspapers, school plays and other “school-sponsored expressive activities.”
1989 - New York City subway vigilante Bernhard H. Goetz (getz) was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him. (He was freed the following September.)
1990 - Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder took the oath of office in Richmond, VA. He was the first elected black governor in the U.S.
1992 - The government of Japan acknowledged and apologized for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as ‘comfort women’ (sex slaves) for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
1997 - Seven African-American soldiers received the Medal of Honor for World War II valor. Former Lt. Vernon Baker, the last of the seven still alive, received his medal from President Bill Clinton at the White House.
1998 - The National Football League completed a blockbuster $9.2 billion deal with the Walt Disney Co., which got to keep Monday Night Football for ABC and won the entire Sunday night cable package for ESPN.
1999 - Brazil sent global financial markets into turmoil with its surprise devaluation of its currency.
1999 - Michael Jordan announced his retirement from basketball and the Chicago Bulls -- for a second time.
2000 - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced that he would be stepping down as Microsoft chief executive and handing over the reins to longtime friend and company president Steve Ballmer. Gates assumed the title of ‘chief software architect’.
2001 - An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck El Salvador. More than 840 people were killed.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) fainted briefly after choking on a pretzel while watching a football game.
2002 - The off-Broadway musical, The Fantasticks, was performed for the last time, ending a run of 17,162 shows over some 42 years.
2003 - FAO Inc., owner of the FAO Schwarz, Zany Brainy and Right Start toy-store chains, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2004 - Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada met U.S. President George W. Bush (II) for the first time. Among the many items discussed, Bush announced that Canada would be allowed into a second round of bidding for contracts to rebuild Iraq.
2004 - A U.S. soldier at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq reported U.S. abuses of Iraqi prisoners. (Criminal charges were filed against six U.S. soldiers Mar 20.)
2005 - Following the steroid scandals affecting several stars, major-league baseball owners and players in the U.S. agreed to a more stringent drug policy.
2006 - New flicks in U.S. movie houses: Glory Road, starring Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Mehcad Brooks, Emily Deschanel, Al Shearer, Tatyana Ali and Jon Voight; Last Holiday, with Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardieu, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito; and Tristan + Isolde, starring James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell, David Patrick O’Hara, Mark Strong, Henry Cavill, Bronagh Gallagher and Dexter Fletcher.
2006 - Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupted for the fifth time in three days; the first eruptions in nearly two decades.
2008 - China stepped up its campaign to rein in inflation which was running at its highest level in more than a decade. New rules tweaked the definition of price manipulation to include maliciously hoarding goods to drive up their prices.
2009 - Emmy-winning TV and film actor Patrick McGoohan died at 80 years of age. He created and starred in the cult classic TV show The Prisoner (1967). The British show premiered in the U.S. in 1968. Fans will also remember his Secret Agent (aka Danger Man) TV series. McGoohan’s Emmys were won for guest-starring appearances in the TV series Columbo, Agenda for Murder and By Dawn’s Early Light, both in 1971.
2009 - The Pentagon reported that 61 former detainees from its military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appeared to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
2010 - Wall Street executives admitted underestimating the severity of the 2008 financial crisis and apologized for risky behavior and poor decisions, while defending their bonus and compensation practices. This, to a skeptical Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, meeting in Washington DC tp investigate the financial collapse.
2010 - Heavy snow hit central London as a fresh whiteout covered much of the country, forcing airports to close as businesses counted the cost of the winter up to that point.
2011 - Governor Pat Quinn signedlegislation that raised Illinois income taxes by two-thirds to help drag state government out of the deepest budget hole in its history.
2012 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Contraband, starring Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi and Lukas Haas; Joyful Noise, with Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan and Kris Kristofferson; and The Divide, with Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Eklund, Ashton Holmes and Rosanna Arquette.
2012 - In Nevada Monsignor Kevin McAuliffe was sentenced to 3 years and one month in prison and ordered to repay $650,000 he acknowledged siphoning from his Las Vegas parish to support his gambling habit.
2012 - The cruise ship Costa Concordia ran into a reef at about 9:45 p.m. off the coast of Giglio, an island on Italy’s Tuscan coast. Several hours later, the ship capsized. 32 people died in the mishap. The captain of the ship, 53-year-old Francesco Schettino, was later charged with manslaughter. Schettino’s girlfriend, 26-year-old Domnica Cemortan, was with Schettino on the bridge of the cruise ship when it struck the rocks, and was one of thousands of passengers forced to fight for their lives after the crash.
2013 - Golden Globe winners included Argo (movie); Ben Affleck (director for Argo); Daniel Day Lewis (actor for Lincoln) and Jessica Chastain (actress for Zero Dark Thirty).
2014 - The mediator in the Detroit bankruptcy announced that local and national foundations had pledged $330 million to help the city. The cash infusion would be used to shore up Detroit’s ailing pensions and to protect the artwork at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
2014 - An emotional Dennis Rodman appeared to break down as he apologized on his return from a controversial trip to North Korea, where he sang Happy Birthday to regime leader Kim Jong-Un. “I love my country, America, I love it and I will never trade it for nothing in the world,” the pierced and heavily tattooed ex-Chicago Bull told reporters at Beijing airport. (Rodman checked into an alcohol-rehabilitation center a week later.
2015 - Britain launched a high-profile trade mission to Egypt with more than 40 companies received by Cairo. It was largest such effort by a Western trade delegation since the 2011 uprising. to Egypt with more than 40 companies received in Cairo. Britain, one of the top foreign investors in Egypt, believed boosting an economy battered by unrest since the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak to be vital for long-term Egyptian stability.
2016 - Michigan National Guard members were formally activated in Flint to join door-to-door efforts to distribute bottled water and faucet filters. Filters and water were needed because the city’s water supply was unsafe to drink because of elevated lead levels.
2016 - A record U.S. $1.6 billion Powerball lottery was divided among three winners in California, Florida and Tennessee. (The California winning couple did not claim their $529 million prize until July.)
2017 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Bye Bye Man, with Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount and Cressida Bonas; Monster Trucks, starring Jane Levy, Lucas Till and Rob Lowe; Sleepless, with Michelle Monaghan, Jamie Foxx and Dermot Mulroney; Live by Night, starring Ben Affleck, Scott Eastwood and Zoe Saldana; Patriots Day, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dicky Eklund Jr., Michael Marchand, Rhet Kidd and John Goodman; The Book of Love, starring Jessica Biel, Mary Steenburgen and Maisie Williams; and The Crash, with Maggie Q, AnnaSophia Robb and Minnie Driver; and Go North, with Patrick Schwarzenegger, Jacob Lofland and Sophie Kennedy Clark.
2017 - Moody’s Corp agreed to pay almost $864 million to settle federal and state claims that it gave inflated ratings to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crises.
2017 - The U.S. attorney in Detroit announced that Japan-based Takata had agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive bag inflators.
2018 - A False ballistic missile alert was issued via the Emergency Alert System and Commercial Mobile Alert System over TV, radio and cellphones in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The error was not corrected for some 40 minutes. The alert stated that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, advised residents to seek shelter, and concluded with, “This is not a drill.” The Federal Communications Commission and the Hawaii House of Representatives launched investigations into the incident, leading to the resignation of the state’s emergency management administrator and a revamping of the alert system.
2018 - A plane with 168 people aboard skidded off a runway onto a seaside cliff after landing at the Trabzon airport in northern Turkey. The jet’s 162 passengers had a lucky escape when the wheels of their Pegasus Airlines flight dug into the freezing mud - leaving the Boeing 737-800 dangling precariously off the coastal cliff.
2019 - Two ski patrollers were killed when the devices they were using to trigger avalanches exploded accidentally at the Morillon Ski Resort in the French Alps. At least 26 weather-related deaths had been reported in parts of Europe since Jan 1.
2019 - The FBI arrested 59-year-old Marzieh Hashemi, a prominent American-born anchorwoman on Iranian state TV’s English-language service, after she arrived at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The reason for her arrest was initially kept secret, but according to subsequent court documents she was held as a material witness for a federal investigation but was not accused of any crime. Following testimony before a federal grand jury in Washington DC, Hashemi was released on Jan 23 and returned to Iran. Iranian media later claimed that she had been allowed to make a call to inform her family, but after being held for 48 hours. Press TV has said Hashemi was denied halal food, offered only pork to eat (which is forbidden under Islamic law), and that she had only eaten a packet of crackers since her detainment. It was further alleged that her hijab was forcibly removed and that she is only able to wear a short-sleeved shirt, again contrary to the requirements of her Muslim faith.
2020 - Former Insys Therapeutics V.P. of Managed Markets, Michael Gurry, was sentenced to some three years in prison. The jail term was part of the first federal case meant to hold an opioids manufacturer criminally accountable for the ongoing epidemic in the U.S.
2020 - 54 people were killed by a combination of heavy snowfall, brutal cold and severe flooding in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A deadly winter storm had brought severe impacts to millions of people from parts of the Arabian Peninsula to Pakistan in the previous week.
2021 - A U.S. appeals court ordered the last two scheduled federal executions under POTUS Trump to proceed, overturning a stay from a lower court.
2021 - Scores of major U.S. corporations, banks and insurance companies suspended contributions to political campaigns, following the previous week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s challenge to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
2021 - Jordan began a coronavirus vaccination program intended to inoculate one in four of its ten million population over coming months. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered his government to expand the vaccination effort. And the Vatican began its COVID-19 vaccination program, with Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI among the first to get a shot.
2022 - Stewart Rhodes, leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested and charged -- along with 10 others -- with seditious conspiracy. This, because of their wide-ranging plot to storm the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 to disrupt the certification of the Biden electoral win.
2022 - Prince Andrew renounced his military affiliations and royal patronages. The move came after Andrew’s lawyers failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit that accused him of sexual abuse.
2023 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: The Devil Conspiracy, with Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle and Eveline Hall; House Party, starring Andrew Santino, Allen Maldonado and Jacob Latimore; Plane, with Gerard Butler, Mike Colter and Yoson An; and A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks, Rachel Keller and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
2023 - English actor Julian Sands (age 65, best known for A Room With A View, 24 and Smallville) was reported missing after failing to return from a hike on Mount Baldy in San Bernardino County, CA. Air and ground searches were hampered as California was being battered by storms, icy conditions and threats of avalanches. Remains found in the area six months later were confirmed to be those of Sands. The cause of death was later listed as ‘undetermined’ because of the condition of the body.
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Birthdays on This Day January 13
1832 - Horatio Alger Jr.
Unitarian minister, author of rags to riches tales: Ragged Dick, Luck and Pluck, Tattered Tom, etc.; died July 18, 18991885 - Alfred Fuller
company founder: The Fuller Brush man!; died Dec 4, 19731887 - Sophie Tucker (Abuza)
vaudeville singer: ‘Last of the Red Hot Mamas’; “I’ve been poor, I’ve been rich. Believe me, rich is better.”; died Feb 9, 19661907 - (Irving) Jeff Morrow
actor: The Robe; The Creature Walks Among Us, The Giant Claw; The Story of Ruth, Octaman; died Dec 26, 19931908 - Earle Gilmore Wheeler
U.S. Army General, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff [1964-1970]; died Dec 18, 19751909 - Quentin ‘Butter’ Jackson
musician: trombone: played with Duke Ellington; died Oct 2, 19761919 - Robert Stack (Robert Langford Modini)
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Untouchables [1959-60]; Written on the Wind, Strike Force, Airplane, Unsolved Mysteries; died May 14, 20031922 - Army (Armand) Archerd
show biz columnist, author; died Sep 8, 20091925 - Gwen Verdon (Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon)
dancer; Tony Award-winning actress: Damn Yankees [1956], Can-Can [1954]; High Button Shoes; films: Damn Yankees!, The Cotton Club, Cocoon; died Oct 18, 20001930 - Frances Sternhagen
actress: Raising Cain, Doc Hollywood, Bright Lights, Big City, Outland, Starting Over, Driving Miss Daisy1931 - Charles Nelson Reilly
comedian, actor: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cannonball Run; game show panelist: Match Game P.M.; died May 25, 20071932 - Jon Cypher
actor: Walking to the Waterline, Strictly Business, Favorite Son, Lady Mobster, Masters of the Universe, Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun1933 - Tom Gola
Basketball Hall-of-Famer: NCAA Division I Men’s Record: Career Rebounds: 2,201 for La Salle [1952-1955]; died Jan 26, 20141934 - Rip Taylor
actor: Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, Santa Barbara, The Addams Family, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?, Jackass: The Movie; died Oct 6, 2019; more1935 - Elsa Martinelli (Elsa Tia)
actress: The Boat Men, Candy, Hatari; died Jul 8, 20171938 - Billy Gray
actor: On Moonlight Bay, Two for the Seesaw1943 - Richard Moll
actor: Night Court, Storybook, The Flintstones, Sidekicks, Sword and the Sorcerer, Hard Country1947 - Bill Stanfill
football: Univ of Georgia; NFL: Miami Dolphins [1969–1976]: 1972 Super Bowl VI, 1973 Super Bowl VII champs, 1974 Super Bowl VIII champs; died Nov 10, 20161949 - Brandon Tartikoff
TV executive: president of NBC at age 31; died Aug 27, 19971950 - Bob (Robert Herbert) Forsch
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1982, 1985, 1987], Houston Astros; died Nov 3, 20111950 - Mike (Michael Ray) Tyson
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs1952 - Cornelius Bumpus
musician: keyboards, saxophone: groups: Doobie Brothers: Listen to the Music, Black Water, What a Fool Believes, Minute by Minute; Moby Grape; died Feb 3, 20041957 - Mark O’Meara
golf: 17 PGA Tour victories1959 - Ernie Irvan
NASCAR race car driver: 15 career NASCAR Winston Cup victories; 22 career NASCAR Winston Cup pole positions; 68 top-5s and 124 top-10s and over $11 million in career earnings1960 - Kevin Anderson
actor: Rising Sun, Hoffa, Sleeping with the Enemy, Risky Business1961 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Emmy Award-winning actress: Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine; Saturday Night Live, Hannah and Her Sisters, North, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Veep1961 - Graham ‘Suggs’ McPherson
singer: group: Madness: The Prince, One Step Beyond, House of Fun, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, The Sun and the Rain1962 - Trace Adkins
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: (This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing, Ladies Love Country Boys, You’re Gonna Miss This, There’s a Girl in Texas, The Rest of Mine, Arlington, Swing, I Wanna Feel Something1964 - Penelope Ann Miller
actress: Witch Hunt, Carlito’s Way, Kindergarten Cop, Awakenings, Biloxi Blues, Big Top Pee Wee1966 - Patrick Dempsey
actor: Fast Times, The Right to Remain Silent, Loverboy, Meatballs, Grey’s Anatomy1968 - Traci Bingham
actress: Baywatch, Hollywood Squares, D.R.E.A.M. Team, To Tell the Truth1970 - Keith Coogan
actor: In the Army Now, Cousins, The Waltons, The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove; grandson of actor Jackie Coogan1970 - Shonda Rhimes
screenwriter, producer, director: Grey’s Anatomy [2007 Golden Globe], Private Practice, Scandal, Off the Map, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch1971 - Curtis Conway
football: USC; NFL: Chicago Bears, SD Chargers, NY Jets, SF 49ers1972 - Elmer Dessens
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Arizona Diamondbacks1972 - Nicole Eggert
actress: Baywatch, T.J. Hooker, Who’s the Boss?, Omega Syndrome, Melissa, Frequent Flyer, Submerged, Murder Seen1974 - Sergei Brylin
hockey: NJ Devils1974 - Matt Lepsis
football [offensive tackle]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Denver Broncos [1997–2007]1975 - Andrew Yang
entrepreneur, philanthropist: founded Venture for America (VFA) nonprofit organization; 2020 Democratic presidential candidate [his signature policy was the ‘Freedom Dividend’, universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 a month to every American adult]; 2021 New York City mayoral candidate1976 - Michael Peña
actor: Million Dollar Baby, Ant-Man, The Martian, Gangster Squad Crash, World Trade Center, Shooter, Observe and Report, Tower, Battle: Los Angeles, End of Watch, American Hustle, Fury, CHiPs [2017]1977 - Orlando Bloom
actor: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Black Hawk Down, Lullaby of Clubland1980 - Tyler Bouck
hockey: Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, Vancouver Canucks1980 - Michael Rupp
hockey [right wing]: Phoenix Coyotes, Columbus Blue Jackets, New Jersey Devils: scored Stanley Cup winning goal in 2003 -- the only player to have their first playoff goal turn out to be the Stanley Cup winning goal1982 - Trina Michaels
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Cum Drinkers, Dick Hunters, Double Impact 4, Little Red Rides the Hood 4, Bust Out, Facial Abuse1983 - Alan Webb
U.S. Olympic runner: high school record holder: indoor mile, outdoor mile, 1,500m; Big Ten Conference Cross Country champ [2001]; Big Ten 1,500m champ [2002]; Olympic Trials 1,500m champ [2004]1984 - Nick Mangold
football [center]: NFL: New York Jets: 4× Pro Bowler [2008, 2009, 2010, 2011]1987 - Marc Staal
hockey [defenseman]: New York Rangers [2005- ]: 2014 Stanley Cup finals1989 - Doug Martin
football [running back]: NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers1990 - Liam Hemsworth
actor: The Hunger Games, Neighbours, The Elephant Princess, The Last Song, Love and Honor, The Expendables 21995 - Natalia Dyer
actress: Stranger Things, I Believe in Unicorns, Long Nights Short Mornings, Velvet Buzzsaw, The Greening of Whitney Brown, Yes, God, Yes1995 - Eros Vlahos
actor: Game of Thrones, Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang, Summer in Transylvania, Da Vinci’s Demons1998 - Ashton Locklear
champion gymnast: winner of uneven bars events at the 2014 Pan American and U.S. National Gymnastics Championships; member of U.S. team that won 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships1999 - Nasa Hataoka
named after U.S. space agency, NASA): golf champ: six wins on LPGA Tour; six wins on LPGA of Japan Tour; tied for 2nd at 2018 Women’s PGA Championship; 2nd place at 2021 U.S. Women’s Open; tied for 3rd at 2023 Evian Championship
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Hit Music on This Day January 13
1952Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
(It’s No) Sin (facts) - Eddy Howard
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