January 14
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1873 - ‘Celluloid’ was registered as a trademark. It was the wonderful invention of John Hyatt in 1869. While waiting for a patent, he used the celluloid to wrap his Christmas presents. Then he got the idea that somebody might be able to make movies with the stuff.1882 - A country club named The Country Club became the first country club in the United States -- in Brookline, MA. Of course, playing golf in mid-January in New England didn’t work out, so hunters went out to pick off the wildlife right off the fairways.
1907 - The cities of Kingston and Port Royal in Jamaica were virtually leveled by an earthquake. Some 800 people were killed.
1914 - Henry Ford announced the newest advance in assembly line production of cars. The new continuous motion method reduced assembly time of a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1932 - Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his first race. The jockey was riding Eagle Bird for the victory. This after 45 initial losses in his career.
1936 - Harriet Hilliard, vocalist and wife of bandleader Ozzie Nelson, sang Get Thee Behind Me Satan, on Brunswick Records.
1939 - The program, Honolulu Bound, was heard on CBS radio. Phil Baker and the Andrews Sisters were featured on the program. We have no idea what the program was about, but our wild guesses include words like hula, Waikiki, trade winds, sun-drenched beaches, coconuts and pineapple.
1941 - Paul Brown, then head football coach of Massillon High School, was named head coach of Ohio State’s Buckeyes. In seven years of high school competition, coach Brown’s Massillon High team lost only one game.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Allied leaders during the opening day of the famous Casablanca Conference in Morocco. Roosevelt, Gen. Charles DeGaulle, leader of free France, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and General Henri Giraud, High Commissioner of French North and West Africa met to hammer out the strategy that called for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On his way to the conference, Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1949 - An antitrust suit against American Telephone and Telegraph Company was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The action sought to separate the company from its manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, Inc.
1951 - The first National Football League Pro Bowl All-Star Game was played -- in Los Angeles, California. The American Conference defeated the National Conference in a squeaker -- 28-27.
1952 - On this cold East Coast morning at 7 a.m., NBC-TV opened the the first Today show broadcast with a shot of Dave Garroway looking outside through the ‘Window on the World’ in New York City. The program was the first that featured his signature sign-off: hand raised, uttering one word, “Peace.”
1954 - Marilyn Monroe married baseball great, Joe DiMaggio. The marriage lasted nine months. After her death (in 1962), DiMaggio had red roses delivered to her crypt two to three times a week for some twenty years.
1956 - Rock ’n’ roller, Little Richard, was singing the newly released Tutti-Frutti. So, you think this was the hit version, huh? Not so, bubblegum brain. The Pat Boone version became even more popular as a cover record.
1963 - George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama. A pledge in his inaugural address was for “segregation today; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever.”
1964 - A hootenanny was held for the first time at the White House, as the New Christy Minstrels entertained President and Lady Bird Johnson, as well as Italy’s President.
1968 - Super Bowl II (at Miami): Green Bay Packers 33, Oakland Raiders 14. Packers had won every Super Bowl to date. MVP: Packers’ QB Bart Starr. Tickets: $12.00.
1970 - Diana Ross performed for the last time with The Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The show began with a medley of hits and ended with Someday We’ll Be Together.
1972 - Comedian Redd Foxx, whose last name was really Sanford, debuted on NBC-TV in Sanford & Son. Demond Wilson starred as Fred Sanford’s son. Quincy Jones composed the catchy theme song.
1973 - Super Bowl VII (at Los Angeles): Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7. This was the season that Bob Griese and the Dolphins finished with a perfect 17-0 record. MVP: Dolphins’ S Jake Scott. Tickets: $15.00.
1973 - Elvis Presley drew the largest audience for a single TV show to that time -- an estimated one billion viewers in 40 countries. Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii, a live, worldwide concert from Honolulu International Center Arena (later known as the Neal S. Blaisdell Center Arena). Performed at 12:30 a.m. Hawaiian Time, it was beamed live via Globecam Satellite to Australia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, South Vietnam and other countries, and was seen on a delayed basis in approximately 30 European countries. The first American airing was April 4th on NBC-TV. The show was also released as a two-record album, and became one of Elvis’s top-selling LPs.
1976 - The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner, debuted on ABC-TV.
1976 - Ted Turner completed the purchase, and became 100 percent owner and CEO of the Atlanta Braves.
1978 - Actress Marie Blake died. She was 81 years old. Blake is probably best known for playing Blossom Rock, Grandmamma, in The Addams Family TV series.
1984 - Madonna made her debut on American Bandstand. She opened with Holiday.
1985 - Martina Navratilova joined Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert Lloyd as the only professional tennis players to win 100 tournaments. To accomplish this, Martina defeated Manuela Maleeva to win the Virginia Slims competition in Washington, D.C.
1985 - Former Miss America Phyllis George joined Bill Kurtis as host of The CBS Morning News. It was a bomb. Kurtis went back to WBBM-TV in Chicago as a news anchor and Phyllis stuck around a little longer, encouraging people to give hugs, until she was axed.
1986 - Rambo: First Blood, Part II arrived at video stores this day, breaking the record set by Ghostbusters for first day orders. 435,000 copies of the video were sold -- about $21.4 million worth. Yo!
1993 - The Galeras Volcano in Colombia erupted as 15 people gathered at the crater. Only six survived.
1996 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 20-to-16, to win the AFC championship. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Green Bay Packers, 38-to-27, to capture the NFC championship.
1997 - Greek officials confirmed the discovery in Athens of the lyceum (the gymnasium used as the world’s first university) where the philosopher Aristotle taught some 2,500 years ago. Aristotle organized his lyceum as a centre for philosophical speculation and scientific research, particularly in biology and history. The discovery of the long-lost lyceum was made by archaeologist Ephi Ligouri; the site satisfied all known facts concerning the location: to the east of the city walls and on the banks of the river Iliso. The excavation was made urgently before building began for a planned museum of modern art.
1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas reported an enzyme “cellular fountain of youth” to slow aging process and cell death.
1999 - Fosse, a three-act musical revue, opened at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre. The show, showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse, won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical. It closed August 25, 2001, after a stellar run of 1,093 performances.
2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Girl, Interrupted (based on Susanna Kaysen’s account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s), starring Angelina Jolie (Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Winona Ryder, Elisabeth Moss, Brittany Murphy, Clea Duvall and Whoopi Goldberg; The Hurricane (the story of boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, with Denzel Washington, John Hannah and Deborah Kara Unger; and Supernova (about the search and rescue patrol of a medical spaceship in the early 22nd century), starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney and Wilson Cruz.
2001 - The matchup for Super Bowl XXXV was decided as the New York Giants shut out the Minnesota Vikings, 41-to-0, to win the NFC championship and the Baltimore Ravens beat the Oakland Raiders, 16-to-3, to gain the AFC title.
2002 - Two members of Congress released excerpts of a memo to Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay the previous August. The memo from Sherron Watkins, Enron’s vice president of corporate development, expressed concern that the energy trading company would “implode in a wave of accounting scandals.”
2002 - U.S. warplanes began to seal caves with bombs near Khost, Afghanistan. The caves were being used as Afghan hideouts.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) proposed a new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base for trips to Mars and beyond.
2004 - German-born Broadway actress Uta Hagen died at 84 years of age. Her work included the role of Martha in the 1962 Albee Broadway play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe.
2005 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ri’chard, Rob Brown, Channing Tatum and Ashanti; Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Terence Stamp, Hiro Kanagawa, Natassia Malthe and Bob Sapp; and the animated Racing Stripes, voiced by Frankie Muniz, Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, Dustin Hoffman, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Pantoliano, Mandy Moore, Patrick Stewart, Joshua Jackson, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Michael Clarke Duncan and Jeff Foxworthy.
2005 - The Huygens probe successfully landed on Saturn’s largest moon Titan. Three low-resolution pictures were released, including one that appears to show channels cut by liquid, and another showing rocks or ice on the surface of Titan.
2006 - Iran barred CNN reporters because of the network’s mistranslating of comments made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (The ban was lifted three days later.)
2007 - Veteran stage, film and TV actress Darlene Conley died in Los Angeles at 72 years of age. Conley played fashion mogul Sally Spectra for 19 years on the soap The Bold and the Beautiful. Over the years, she also appeared in The Birds (1963), Gunsmoke (1955), Mary Tyler Moore (1970), and Robert Kennedy & His Times (1985) Faces (1968), Tough Guys, The Young and the Restless (1973), Capitol (1982), General Hospital (1963), and Days of Our Lives (1965).
2007 - Hurricane-strength winds whipped across southwestern Sweden, leaving more than 100,000 households without power and causing major disruptions in train and boat traffic across Scandinavia. Six people were killed in storm-related accidents.
2008 - The trial of actor Wesley Snipes began in Ocala, Florida. The United States accused Snipes of skipping payment of income taxes from 1999-2004. During this period he earned $38 million and paid no taxes. (On April 24, 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns. Snipes was released from federal prison on April 2, 2013, finishing his period of house arrest on July 19, 2013.)
2010 - Planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain landed at the Port-au-Prince, Haiti airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies. Tens of thousands were feared dead in the Jan 12 earthquake and the international Red Cross estimated 3 million people, a third of Haiti’s 9-million population, needed emergency relief.
2010 - The Doomsday Clock, started in 1947, was set back 1 minute for the first time in its history. In moving the clock from 5 minutes before midnight to 6 minutes before midnight, scientists expressed optimism for humanity’s future. The actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences (BAS) office in Chicago, IL.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres this day: The Green Hornet, starring Christoph Waltz, Cameron Diaz, Seth Rogen, Edward Furlong and Edward James Olmos; The Dilemma, starring Kevin James, Vince Vaughn, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Connelly; Barney’s Version, with Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Minnie Driver and Scott Speedman; Burning Palms with Zoe Saldana, Rosamund Pike, Lake Bell, Shannen Doherty and Jamie Chung; Every Day, with Carla Gugino, Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Eddie Izzard and Brian Dennehy; and The Heart Specialist, starring Wood Harris, Zoe Saldana, Brian J. White, Mya, Scott Paulin and David S. Lee.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama issued a directive relaxing the rules on travel and remittances to Cuba. Americans were allowed to send up to $2000 a year to ordinary Cubans.
2013 - Long lines formed outside travel agencies, migration offices and the U.S. Interests Section in Havana on the first day of Cuba’s Migration Law. Introduced in October 2012, the law eased travel restrictions on Cubans.
2014 - A Chicago federal court sentenced H. Ty Warner, the billionaire businessman behind Beanie Babies, to two years probation for not paying taxes on $25 million he had stashed.
2015 - Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the top of El Capitan completing a 3,000-foot free climb up the Dawn Wall begun 19 days earlier.
2016 - Veteran British actor Alan Rickman, a master of playing menacing screen villains, died after suffering from cancer. He was 69 years old. Rickman is best remembered for playing the villain Hans Gruber in the film Die Hard and/or the mostly malicious teacher Severus Snape in all eight Harry Potter films.
2016 - Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters collided and crashed just before midnight off the island of Oahu, Hawaii. All 12 crew members were killed. The cause of the collision has not been determined.
2017 - A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully blasted off from California. And the rocket’s first stage landed upright on a droneship south of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
2018 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived for his first visit to India. Hew made the trip to work on expanding defense, trade and energy ties. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unexpectedly met Netanyahu when he landed, a gesture of warmth that was not on the original schedule.
2018 - Pope Francis called for hospitality towards migrants, calling it a sin to give in to fear of the other as he marked the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. “It is not easy... to put oneself in the shoes of people so different from us,” the pontiff said during a solemn mass at St Peter’s Basilica. “The sin is to allow these fears to determine our responses, to limit our choices, to compromise respect and generosity, to feed hostility and rejection.”
2019 - Two French policemen went on trial over the gang-rape of a drunk Canadian tourist in April 2014 at Paris police headquarters. The tourist, identified as Emily S., met the policemen at an Irish pub near the police building. After a long drinking session, the off-duty cops from an anti-gang brigade accompanied her to their offices. “I had drunk a lot and couldn’t see myself getting back to my hotel in the state I was in, and I thought that by going to a police station I would feel safer there,” Emily told investigators. Her testimony then differs as to what took place over an hour and a half inside the police headquarters, after which Emily reportedly left the building minus her tights and in a state of shock. “Four policemen wearing condoms raped me,” she told investigators the next day when she reported the matter. She was unsure, however, whether she was raped by three or four men. (The two officers were found guilty on Jan 31 and sentenced to seven years in prison.)
2019 - Indonesia said navy divers had recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that nosedived at high velocity into the Java Sea. The crash on Oct. 29, 2018 killed 189 people and was the deadliest involving the Boeing 737 series. A summary of the final crash report says that “MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) was the primary cause of the crash, a faulty sensor, inadequate maintenance, poor pilot training and a failure to heed previous problems with the same aircraft were all contributing factors.”
2020 - Germany launched an €86 billion ($95 billion) plan to modernize and expand its railway system. The move was also billed as an effort to make transportation greener.
2020 - Michael Avenatti, the brash former attorney for the porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested in Los Angeles. He was accused of violating bail by committing multiple state and federal crimes while awaiting trial in two states.
2020 - Candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination took the stage in Des Moines, Iowa, for their last debate before the Iowa caucuses kicked off the primary season. The six candidates who qualified for this seventh debate were Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren.
2021 - One of Italy’s biggest ever mafia trials was under way. Hundreds of defendants were accused of working for a heinous criminal enterprise with tentacles reaching so far around the world, it was making more money selling drugs than McDonald’s was by selling burgers.
2021 - A team from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan, China to investigate the source of the COVID-19 virus. Chinese authorities barred two scientists because of positive antibody tests.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: Scream (“25 years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro, a new killer emerges”), starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette; Sesame Street, with Anne Hathaway, Bo Burnham and Chance the Rapper; Arctic Void, with Michael Weaver, Tim Griffin and Justin Huen; A Cops and Robbers Story, starring Victoria N. Alcala, Gesley Alexis and June George Bell; Italian Studies, with Vanessa Kirby, David Ajala and Annika Wahlsten; The Pink Cloud, starring Renata de Lélis and Eduardo Mendonça; and Shattered, with Cameron Monaghan, Sasha Luss and Ridely Asha Bateman.
2022 - Britain announced the upgrade of a communications facility on one of two bases it maintains on the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.
2022 - The Transportation Department launched a $27 billion program to repair and upgrade some 15,000 highway bridges as part of an infrastructure law that had been approved by the U.S. Congress.
2022 - Songwriter Dallas Frazier died in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was 82 years old. Frazier’s first big success was the novelty song Alley Oop, sung by the Hollywood Argyles. His tunes were recorded by O.C. Smith, George Jones (who recorded an entire album of Frazier’s songs in 1968), Diana Ross, Engelbert Humperdinck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jack Greene, Connie Smith (who also recorded an entire album of his songs in 1972), Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee, Carola, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Gene Watson, Elvis Presley, Moe Bandy, Roy Head, Charlie Louvin, Rodney Crowell, Dan McCafferty, Poco, and Ronnie Hawkins.
2023 - All 72 people on board were killed in a plane crash in Nepal. Officials said the plane, a regional passenger craft, crashed in the resort town of Pokhara while attempting to land at a newly opened airport. Witnesses said the plane crashed into a steep gorge on the edge of the airport. Investigators later concluded the pilots had likely put the condition levers, which control power, in the feathering position instead of selecting the flap lever. “Following the unintentional feathering of both engine propellers, the flight crew failed to identify the problem and take corrective actions despite the Crew Alerting Panel cautions,” the report said.
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Birthdays on This Day January 14
1741 - Benedict Arnold
American General in Revolutionary War: turncoat, conspired with British; his name became synonymous with treason; died June 14, 18011861 - David Wesson
American chemist: created Wesson Oil; developed system to make pure cottonseed oil palatable [1900]; hydrogenated cottonseed oil [1911]; died May 22, 1934
1875 - Albert Schweitzer
philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian: winner of Nobel Peace Prize [1952]; died Sep 4, 19651892 - Hal Roach
producer: Hal Roach Studios; director: One Million B.C., Road Show, The Devil’s Brother; died Nov 2, 19921906 - William Bendix
actor: For Love or Money, Babe Ruth Story, Blackbeard the Pirate, The Detective Story, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Guadalcanal Diary, Wake Island, Star Spangled Rhythm, The Life of Riley; died Dec 14, 19641908 - Russ Columbo
singer, bandleader, songwriter: You Call It Madness, Let’s Pretend There’s A Moon, Prisoner of Love; died Sep 2, 19341915 - Mark Goodson
TV game show producer: Pop the Question; Goodson-Todman Productions: What’s My Line, I’ve Got a Secret, Family Feud, The Price is Right; died Dec 18, 19921917 - Billy Butterfield (Charles William Butterfield)
musician: trumpet; founding member of World’s Greatest Jazz Band; died Mar 18, 19881919 - Andy Rooney
Emmy Award-winning news writer: Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed [Of Black America Series], CBS News Hour [1969]; feature writer: Pieces of My Mind; syndicated columnist; TV commentator: 60 Minutes; died Nov 4, 20111924 - Guy Williams
actor: Lost in Space, Zorro, The Mississippi Gambler, Seven Angry Men, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, The Sign of Zorro, Zorro, the Avenger, Captain Sindbad; died Apr 30, 19891926 - Warren Mitchell
actor: Till Death Us Do Part, The 10th Man, Crackers, Kokoda Crescent, Hogan in London, Promise Her Anything, Unearthly Stranger, Gala Opening; died Nov 14, 20151926 - Tom Tryon
actor: Texas John Slaughter, The Cardinal, In Harm’s Way, The Longest Day; died Sep 4, 19911929 - Billy Walker
singer: ‘masked singer’: Thank You for Calling, Charlie’s Shoes, Word Games; died May 21, 20061931 - Caterina Valente
singer: The Breeze and I, Malaguena1937 - Sonny (Wilfred Charles) Siebert
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1966], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1971], Texas Rangers, SL Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, SD Padres1937 - Billy Jo Spears
songwriter, singer: Blanket on the Ground, What I’ve Got in Mind, Mr. Walker It’s All Over, Marty Gray; died Dec 14, 20111938 - Jack Jones (John Allan Jones)
singer: Lollipops and Roses, Wives and Lovers, The Impossible Dream, Lady, The Race is On, Love Boat theme1938 - Allen Toussaint
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame producer, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, pianist, session musician; vocalist: Connected; songwriter: Fortune Teller; died Nov 10, 20151940 - Julian Bond
legislator: Georgia [1965]; civil rights leader: helped found Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; chairman of NAACP board of directors; died Aug 15, 20151941 - (Dorothy) Faye Dunaway
Academy Award-winning actress: Network [1976]; Don Juan DeMarco, Casanova, Beverly Hills Madam, Christopher Columbus, Mommie Dearest, Voyage of the Damned, Three Days of the Condor, The Towering Inferno, Chinatown, The Deadly Trap, Little Big Man, The Arrangement, Bonnie & Clyde1941 - Gibby Gilbert
golf: finished in top 31 names on money list every season but one since joining Senior Tour in 1991; surpassed $3 million in Senior earnings during 1997 season; holds course record at the fabled Pinehurst #21943 - Holland Taylor
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Practice [1999]; Two and a Half Men, Bosom Buddies, The Powers That Be, George of the Jungle, Legally Blonde, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, The Chosen One1944 - Graham Marsh
golf: PGA Tour Victory: 1977 Heritage Classic; Senior Tour Victories: 1995 Bruno’s Memorial Classic, 1996 PaineWebber Invitational, Franklin Quest Championship, 1997 Nationwide Championship, 1997 U.S. Senior Open1947 - Gene Washington
football: Minnesota Vikings wide receiver: Super Bowl IV1948 - T-Bone Burnett
musician, songwriter, Grammy Award-winning record producer [2002], O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and album Down from the Mountain [2000]; member of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review tour [1975]1948 - Carl Weathers
actor: Happy Gilmore, Dangerous Passion, Hurricane Smith, Rocky series, Force 10 from Navarone, Semi-Tough1951 - Ron Behagen
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota, Sacramento Kings1959 - Cathal Smyth aka Chas Smash
singer, musician: trumpet: group: Madness: The Prince, One Step Beyond, House of Fun, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, The Sun and the Rain1961 - Mike Tramp
musician: guitar; songwriter, singer: Already Gone, Here I Don’t Belong, Have You Ever, Had I Not Complained, Wait Not for Me; groups: White Lion, Freak of Nature1964 - Sergei Nemchinov
hockey: NY Rangers, Vancouver Canucks, NY Islanders, NJ Devils1964 - Shepard Smith
TV commentator [FOX News: 1996–2019]1967 - Emily Watson
actress: Breaking the Waves, War Horse, Hilary and Jackie, Gosford Park, Cromwell & Fairfax1968 - Johnnie Black
actress [1995-2005]: X-rated films: This Girl Is Freaky, Temporary Positions, Takin’ It to the Limit 10: No Holes Barred!, Julie’s Rage Against the Machine, Screamers, Barnyard Babes, The Claw Chronicles1968 - LL Cool J (James Todd Smith)
rapper: I Need Love, I Can’t Live Without My Radio, Rock the Bells, I’m Bad, Going Back to Cali, Jack the Ripper; actor: Any Given Sunday, SWAT, NCIS: Los Angeles1969 - Jason Bateman
actor: Little House on the Prairie, Breaking the Rules, Necessary Roughness, A Taste for Killing, Juno, Horrible Bosses, Starsky & Hutch, Up in the Air, Zootopia, Identity Thief, Ozark1969 - David Emma
hockey [center]: New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers1969 - Dave Grohl
musician: drums, guitar: groups: Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures; session musician [drums] for: Garbage, Killing Joke, Kristeen Young, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Prodigy, Slash, Iggy Pop, Juliette and the Licks, Tenacious D, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Lemmy, Stevie Nicks, Zac Brown Band and Ghost1970 - Eric Charron
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, TB Lightning, Washington Capitals, Calgary Flames1972 - Kyle Brady
football: Penn State Univ; NFL: NY Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars1974 - Kevin Durand
actor: Dark Angel, Lost, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Legion, Robin Hood, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster, I Am Number Four, Real Steel, Cosmopolis, Resident Evil: Retribution1975 - Shawn Barber
football: Univ of Richmond; NFL: Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, KC Chiefs1975 - Jordan Ladd
actress: Embrace of the Vampire, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Boys Life 3, Cabin Fever; daughter of Cheryl Ladd and David Ladd, granddaughter of Alan Ladd1976 - Brian Kelly
football [cornerback]: USC; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1998-2007]: 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII champs; Detroit Lions [2008]1979 - James Scott
actor: Days of Our Lives, All My Children, EastEnders1979 - Ernest Wilford
football: Virginia Tech Univ; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars1982 - Caleb Followill
musician: guitar; singer: group: Kings of Leon: Manhattan, Closer, Revelry, Sex on Fire, Use Somebody, Notion; albums: Youth and Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak, Because of the Times, Only by the Night, Come Around Sundown1982 - Zach Gilford
actor: Friday Night Lights, Off the Map, The Mob Doctor, The Last Winter, The River Why, In Our Nature1984 - Brandon Meriweather
football [safety]: Univ of Miami; NFL: New England Patriots, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins; Pro Bowl [2009, 2010]1987 - Meryl Davis
ice dancer: Olympic gold medalist [Sochi 2014], Olympic silver medalist [Vancouver 2010]; Dancing with the Stars winner [w/Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Spring 2014]1989 - Emma Greenwell
actress: Shameless, The Path, Love & Friendship, True Blood1990 - Grant Gustin
actor: The Flash, Glee, Rescued by Ruby, Puppy Love1993 - Molly Tuttle
musician: banjo, guitar; songwriter, singer: Crooked Tree, City of Gold
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1944My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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