January 15
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1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast, titled, A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion, appeared on this day in Harper’s Weekly. The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party. The symbol gave everyone such a such a ‘kick’ that it stuck to the Democrats... and it’s still stuck today.1892 - YMCA Canada’s Y Triangle magazine published the story of a new game. James Naismith, a teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Massachusetts (later named Springfield College), had invented the game of basketball on December 21, 1891. Naismith attached peach baskets to the lower rail of a balcony, one at either end of the gym. There were eighteen men in Naismith’s class and he promised them that if this game proved to be a failure he would not try any more experiments on them. They went over the rules, divided the group into two teams of nine players each and tossed up the first basketball in history.
1899 - Edwin Markham’s poem, The Man with a Hoe, which accented laborers’ hardships, was published for the first time. The California school teacher’s work was published by the San Francisco Examiner.
1906 - Willie Hoppe, at the tender age of 18, won his first world billiard championship by defeating the renowned French champ, Maurice Vignaux in Paris. Hoppe was one of the greatest billiard players of all time (between 1936 and 1952, he held the Three-Cushion title 11 times).
1919 - Pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski became the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland.
1922 - The Irish Free State was formed; Michael Collins was the first premier.
1936 - The first all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, Ohio as the home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory.
1942 - Kenny Sargent, “one of the handsomest singers ever to grace a bandstand,” vocalized with the Glen Gray Orchestra on Decca Records’ It’s the Talk of the Town.
1943 - The world’s largest office building was completed, just outside of Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The massive structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors, plus, a whole lot of secret places that we’ll never know about. Why? Because it’s the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States defense effort.
1945 - Art Linkletter starred on the CBS radio debut of House Party. The show continued on the air for 22 years, including a long stint on CBS television. Linkletter wrote books about experiences with kids on the show. Remember, Kids Say the Darndest Things? This segment of the show -- and Art’s resulting books -- were among the most popular of early daytime television.
1947 - The mutilated remains of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, known as the ‘Black Dahlia’ (for the dark outfits she wore), were found dumped in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The Black Dahlia murder case remains unsolved even though some 500 hundred men have confessed to the murder.
1949 - Chinese Communists occupied Tientsin after a 27-hour battle with Nationalist forces.
1951 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ‘clear and present danger’ of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be cause for arrest.
1953 - Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to say farewell as he left office.
1965 - The soundtrack album of the musical, The King and I, starring Rise Stevens and Darren McGavin, earned a gold record.
1967 - Super Bowl I (at Los Angeles): Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. Most Valuable Player was Packers’ QB, Bart Starr. Max McGee scored the first touchdown. 61,946 fans attended the game at ten bucks a ticket.
1969 - The Russian Soyuz 5 went into orbit. The crew maneuvered to dock with Soyuz 4 and Yevgeny Khrunov then became the first space traveler to transfer between linked capsules.
1971 - Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, 600 miles upstream from Cairo, officially opened.
1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KO’d Terry Daniels. Daniels had lasted four rounds.
1973 - Pope Paul VI had an audience with Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir at the Vatican.
1974 - Happy Days began an 11-season run on ABC-TV.
1974 - A group of technical experts determined that the 18-minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes was the result of five separate manual erasures. It was never determined for sure who had performed them.
1978 - Super Bowl XII (at New Orleans): Dallas Cowboys 27, Denver Broncos 10. The first Super Bowl played without a sky. This one opened the Louisiana Superdome. Tom Landry was the Cowboys’ coach, Roger Staubach was their quarterback. Co-MVPs: DT Randy White and DE Harvey Martin (only co-MVPs in Super Bowl history). Tickets: $30.00.
1981 - Hill Street Blues premiered on NBC-TV. It ran through May 19, 1987.
1985 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored actress Myrna Loy at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The 79-year-old actress never received a nomination by the Academy -- though she appeared in 120 films.
1987 - Paramount Home Video reported that, for the first time, it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases: a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of Top Gun. The idea was that Paramount would be able to reduce the price of the video to consumers by $3. The difference would be made up with Pepsi money and more consumers would buy the Tom Cruise flick rather than more expensive videos without the commercial.
1990 - ‘Big’ George Foreman, on the comeback-trail at 42 years of age, knocked out Gerry Cooney in the second round at Atlantic City, NJ. (Foreman became the oldest [age 45] ever to win the heavyweight title when he knocked out Michael Moorer on Nov 5, 1994.)
1992 - The Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918, collapsed as the European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
1993 - Sammy Cahn, who wrote the lyrics to Call Me Irresponsible, High Hopes and many other hits, died in Los Angeles. He was 79 years old.
1994 - Singer and songwriter Harry Nilsson died at his Los Angeles-area home. He was only 52, but had suffered a serious heart attack a year earlier. Nilsson won a Grammy award for singing Everybody’s Talkin’, the theme from the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. His biggest hit was Without You in 1972.
1995 - The San Francisco 49ers beat the Dallas Cowboys 38-28 in the NFC championship game and the San Diego Chargers edged the Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 in the AFC title game. (The 49ers beat the Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX.)
1997 - Boeing agreed to make rudder changes to its 737 passenger jets at an estimated cost of $120 million. Faulty rudder design had been suspected of causing several crashes.
1998 - Chicago Blues harmonica star Junior Wells died at 63 years of age. His album Hoodoo Man Blues, recorded in the 1960s, was considered by many as one of the best all-time blues albums.
1999 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: At First Sight (“Science gave him sight. She gave him vision.”), with Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly Mcgillis and Nathan Lane; In Dreams (“You don’t have to sleep to dream.”), starring Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Stephen Rea and Aidan Quinn; Varsity Blues (“In a town where winning is everything, these guys have nothing to lose.”), with James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight and Paul Walker; and Virus (“Life on earth is in for a shock.”), starring Jamie Lee Curtis William Baldwin Donald Sutherland Joanna Pacula.
2000 - Masked gunmen opened fire in a hotel lobby in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, killing Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic. Known as Arkan, Raznatovic had been indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia.
2001 - Wikipedia, the multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project, was launched -- by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.
2002 - Arthur Andersen LLP said it was firing senior auditor David B. Duncan, who had organized a “rushed disposal” of Enron documents after federal regulators requested information about the failing energy company.
2003 - The Walt Disney Company scored a big victory as the U.S. Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars.
2004 - Author Olivia Goldsmith, 54, died in New York City of complications from plastic surgery. Her The First Wives Club became a revenge fantasy for wives tossed aside in favor of younger women. It became a hit film in 1996 (starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler).
2005 - The European space probe Huygens, having landed on Saturn’s moon Titan, sent back images of what scientists were calling the strangest landscape in the solar system. Pictures showed a pale orange surface covered by a thin haze of methane and what appeared to be a methane sea complete with islands and a mist-shrouded coastline.
2005 - Stage and screen actress Ruth Warrick died in New York at 88 years of age. Warrick played the inveterate busybody, Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, on All My Children, the TV soap opera that debuted in 1970.
2007 - The editor and a journalist at the Moroccan news weekly Nichane were convicted of publishing an article described as “harmful to Islam.” Casablanca First Instance Court presiding judge Noureddine Ghassin gave three-year suspended sentences to Driss Ksikes, editor of Nichane, and to journalist Sanaa al-Aji. Both were barred from journalistic activity with Nichane for two months and the independent Arab-language magazine was suspended for two months. Plus, Ksikes and al-Aji were fined $9,280 each.
2007 - The 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony was aired on NBC-TV. The film Babel won for best dramatic film; Grey’s Anatomy won best dramatic TV series, while Ugly Betty won for best TV musical or comedy series. Forest Whitaker won the film actor award for The Last King of Scotland; Helen Mirren won the film actress award for The Queen. Dreamgirls won the most awards, with three (including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy).
2007 - California’s top agricultural official said three days of freezing temperatures had ruined as much as 70% of the state’s citrus crop. California’s orange production was reduced by 20 percent as a direct result of the mid-January freeze.
2008 - Citigroup reported a $9.8-billion (sub-prime) loss in 2007’s 4th quarter. It was the largest quarterly deficit in the financial giant’s 196-year history.
2008 - The U.S. government sued the border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, to force the town to surrender 233 acres for the construction of a border fence by the Homeland Security Dept.
2009 - Actor Ricardo Montalban died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88 years old. Montalban became a star in splashy MGM musicals and later as the wish-fulfilling Mr. Roarke in TV’s Fantasy Island. His credits include scores of film and TV appearances. Montalban’s 1980 autobiography was titled Reflections: A Life in Two Worlds.
2010 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals and Evan Jones; and The Spy Next Door, with Jackie Chan, Madeline Carroll, Alina Foley, George Lopez, Billy Ray Cyrus, Amber Valletta and Katherine Boecher.
2010 - Russian lawmakers ended years of resistance to ratify an international agreement intended to strengthen and speed up the work of the European Court of Human Rights.
2010 - The U.S. State Department said it was giving China a formal diplomatic message expressing its concern about cyber attacks that prompted Google to threaten to pull out of China.
2011 - 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan was chosen to be Miss America. The Nebraska teen was the youngest winner in the pageant’s history. The winner was announced after an evening judging the candidates for poise, talent, fitness and knowledge.
2012 - Three Golden Globe awards went to The Artist. The Descendants won two. Meryl Streep won for best actress in a drama (The Iron Lady). George Clooney won for best actor (The Descendants). An Iranian film, A Separation, won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film.
2013 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Safe Act that included the toughest gun restrictions in the U.S. The law included an expanded assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks on those buying ammunition in the state of New York.
2014 - The U.S. Air Force suspended 34 intercontinental ballistic missile launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana for cheating on a proficiency test. The revelations emerged during an investigation into alleged illegal drug possession. The officers ranged in rank from second lieutenants to captains. General Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff, appeared to be disturbed by the allegation as he briefed Pentagon reporters on the matter, but said the USAF was confident the nuclear mission itself was not compromised by the incident.
2014 - Shanghai, China introduced emergency measures to control air pollution, allowing the commercial capital to close schools and order cars off the road in times of severe smog.
2015 - American discount giant Target announced its exit from Canada, after a disastrous launch only two years earlier. Target’s Canadian operations included 133 stores that employed 17,600 people, but CEO Brian Cornell estimated that Target could not be profitable in Canada before 2021.
2015 - Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, maker of the Learjet, suspended its business jets program due to “weak market demand,” resulting in layoffs of 1,000 employees in Mexico and the U.S.
2016 - Movies making U.S. debuts included: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, with John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber and Toby Stephens; the animated Norm of the North, featuring the voices of Bill Nighy, Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Zachary Gordon and James Corden; Ride Along 2, starring Olivia Munn, Glen Powell, Kevin Hart, Ice Cube Nadine Velazquez; The Benefactor, starring Theo James, Dakota Fanning and Richard Gere; Eisenstein In Guanajuato, with Elmer Bäck, Luis Albertiand Maya Zapata; The Lady in the Van, starring Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings and Dominic Cooper; Moonwalkers, with Rupert Grint, Ron Perlman and Robert Sheehan; and A Perfect Day, starring Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko.
2016 - U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell ordered a pause in issuing new coal leases on federal land. It was in the first major review of the country’s coal program in 30 years.
2016 - U.S. officials reported the H7N8 strain of bird flu had been found at a southern Indiana turkey farm. The entire flock of some 60,000 turkeys was euthanized.
2017 - Prince Charles, long a critic of man-made climate change, published the book Climate Change. The 48-page hardback, in the style of the iconic children’s Ladybird series popular in the 1960s and 70s, is co-authored by the former executive director of Friends of the Earth, Tony Juniper, and Cambridge-based polar scientist, Emily Shuckburgh. “His Royal Highness, Emily and I had to work very hard to make sure that each word did its job, while at the same time working with the pictures to deliver the points we needed to make. I hope we’ve managed to paint a vivid picture, and like those iconic titles from the 60s and 70s, created a title that will stand the test of time,” Juniper said.
2018 - Edwin Hawkins, pianist, choir leader and composer, died at his home in Pleasanton, California (near Oakland). He was 74 years old. Hawkins is best remembered for his Northern California Youth Choir recording of "Oh Happy Day," a gospel tune that sold 7 million copies in 1969 and earned him a Grammy.
2018 - Japan’s Softbank invested €460 million ($558 million) in German used car trading platform AUTO1. The Berlin-based company was operatting in over 30 countries, selling more than 40,000 cars a month on its associated sites.
2019 - Musical comedy legend Carol Channing died in Rancho Mirage, CA -- two weeks before her 98th birthday. Channing starred on Broadway and film musicals. She got her start in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) and was best known for her performance as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, a role she performed more than 5,000 times -- and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her films and TV work include Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Alice in Wonderland (1985) and the The Love Boat TV Series (1981-1987).
2019 - Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and Ford CEO Jim Hackett announced their joint formation of a global alliance to develop commercial vans and medium-sized pickups. This, while pledging to explore broader cooperation on future battery-powered and autonomous vehicles and services.
2020 - Pope Francis named Italian lawyer Francesca Di Giovanni to serve as the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs in the Vatican’s Secretariat of State Section for Relations with States. As such, Giovanni became the first woman to hold a managerial position in that branch of the Roman Curia.
2020 - Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923. The deadline for the ERA had expired in 1982 and the measure was expected to be tied up in courts for years.
2020 - A Washington state man returned this day after visiting family in Wuhan, China, and sought help at a clinic on Jan. 19. The CDC [Centers for Disease Control] later confirmed that this was the first U.S. 2019 novel coronavirus infection to be identified.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Wrath of Man, starrng Jason Statham, Niamh Algar and Josh Hartnett; the animated The Emperor’s New Groove, featuring characters voiced by David Spade, John Goodman and Eartha Kitt.
2021 - The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed for bankruptcy and announced its move from New York to Texas. This, after the New York attorney general sought to dissolve the gun rights organization, accusing it of wide-ranging financial misconduct.
2021 - The Philippines extended by two weeks its ban on travelers from more than 30 territories and countries where a more transmissible COVID-19 variant (named Omicron by the World Health Organization) was detected. The restriction also covered Filipinos wanting to return home.
2022 - An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted, triggering a tsunami warning for several South Pacific island nations. Tsunami waves were observed in Tonga’s capital and the capital of American Samoa. The uninhabited volcanic island of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai all but disappeared following the blast. It was the most powerful volcanic blast on Earth in more than 30 years.
2023 - Mexico began inforcing the world’s strictest anti-smoking laws, banning smoking in public places, including beaches and parks. The also totally banned the promotion, advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products.
2023 - Tel Aviv: Some 80,000 people protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to weaken the Supreme Court and other democratic institutions. The controversy had intensified political division less than two weeks after Netanyahu returned to office leading his right-wing government. (In Jan 2024 the Supreme Court ruled 8-7 to overturn the law because of the “severe and unprecedented harm to the core character of the State of Israel as a democratic country.” And it voted 12-3 that it had the authority to overturn the “Basic Laws,” major pieces of legislation that serve Israel similarly to the Constitution for the United States.)
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Birthdays on This Day January 15
1622 - Jean Baptiste Molière (Poquelin)
playwright: The Affected Young Ladies, The School for Wives, Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Misanthrope, The Miser, The Learned Ladies; died Feb 17, 16731870 - Pierre S. DuPont
industrialist: Chairman of the Board of the DuPont Company, board member of General Motors Corp. [at the same time]; humanitarian; died Apr 5, 19541892 - Rex Ingram (Hitchcock)
writer, director: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; died July 21, 19501906 - Aristotle Onassis
Greek shipping magnate: 2nd husband of Jaqueline Kennedy; died Mar 15, 19751908 - Edward Teller
physicist: ‘father of the hydrogen bomb’; died Sep 9, 20031909 - Gene Krupa
drummer: Sing Sing Sing; bandleader: Let Me Off Uptown, Knock Me a Kiss, Chickery Chick, Boogie Blues; films: Some Like it Hot, Ball of Fire, The Gene Krupa Story; died Oct 6, 19731913 - Lloyd Bridges
actor: Sea Hunt, Roots, High Noon, Airplane!, Airplane 2, The Grace Kelly Story, The Rainmaker, The Great Wallendas, Joe Versus the Volcano; Jeff & Beau’s dad; died Mar 10, 19981920 - Steve (Stephen Joseph) Gromek
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1945/World Series: 1948], Detroit Tigers; died Mar 12, 20021920 - Yvonne King
singer: group: The King Sisters; TV: The King Family Show; actress: On Stage Everybody, Larceny with Music, Follow the Band; died Dec 13, 20091920 - Cardinal John O’Connor
spiritual leader of Roman Catholics in the New York Archdiocese; he was a national figure, sought out by U.S. Presidential candidates and world leaders, and was considered Pope John Paul II’s most important American ally; died May 3, 20001926 - Maria Schell (Margarete Schell)
actress: Samson and Delilah, Voyage of the Damned, The Odessa File, The Hanging Tree, The Brothers Karamazov; died Apr 26, 20051929 - Martin Luther King Jr
civil rights activist: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’”; author: Stride Toward Freedom, Strength to Love, Why We Can’t Wait, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, The Trumpet of Conscience; assassinated Apr 4, 1968
1937 - Margaret O’Brien (Angela Maxine O'Brien)
actress: Meet Me in St. Louis, Little Women [1949], The Secret Garden [1949], Amy; more1941 - Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart
singer: group: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Diddy Wah Diddy, Hair Pie, Old Fart at Play; artist; died Dec 17, 20101943 - Mike (Michael Grant) Marshall
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974/all-star: 1974, 1975/NL Cy Young Award: 1974/record: most games pitched in one season (106, 1974)], Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, NY Mets1947 - Andrea Martin
Emmy Award-winning writer: The Energy Ball/Sweeps Week, SCTV Network [1983], actress: Guitarman, Rude Awakening, Soup for One1948 - Ronnie Van Zandt
singer, songwriter: group: Lynyrd Skynyrd; killed in plane crash at Gillsburg MS Oct 20, 19771951 - Martha Davis
singer: group: The Motels: Total Control, Only the Lonely, LP: Shock1951 - Ernie DiGregorio
basketball: Buffalo Braves, L.A. Clippers1952 - Melvyn Gale
musician: cello: group: ELO (Electric Light Orchestra): Evil Woman, Livin’ Thing, Can’t Get It Out of My Head, Showdown, Turn to Stone, Sweet Talkin’ Woman1953 - Randy White
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Cowboys: No.1 draft pick, won three Super Bowls, missed only one game in 14 years, played in nine Pro Bowls1954 - Ray Simpson
lead singer (Cop): group Village People: Y.M.C.A, In the Navy, Macho ManGo West, Can’t Stop the Music, I Am What I Am1957 - Mario Van Peebles
actor: Sonny Spoon, Jaws: The Revenge, Hot Shot, Exterminator 2; director, writer, actor: Posse, Panther, New Jack City1959 - Peter Trewavas
musician: bass: group: Marillion: Lavender, Heart of Lothian1965 - James Nesbitt
actor: Cold Feet, Waking Ned, Lucky Break, Bloody Sunday, Murphy’s Law, Jekyll, Five Minutes of Heaven, Occupation, Outcast, The Way, The Hobbit1967 - Lisa Velez
singer: group: Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam: I Wonder If I Take You Home, All Cried Out, Can You Feel the Beat?, Head to Toe, Let the Beat Hit ’Em, Something ’Bout Love1968 - Chad Lowe
actor: Life Goes On, Siringo, An Inconvenient Woman, True Blood, Silence of the Heart; brother of actor, Rob Lowe1969 - Adam Burt
hockey: Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Philadelphia Flyers, Atlanta Thrashers1969 - Delino DeShields
baseball: Villanova Univ; Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers, SL Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs1971 - Regina King
actress: 227, Boyz N the Hood, Jerry Maguire, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Enemy of the State, Mighty Joe Young, Love and Action in Chicago, Leap of Faith1974 - Mike Minter
football [safety]: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: Carolina Panthers1975 - Mary Pierce
tennis champ: Australian Open [1995], French Open [2000]; won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles, two in doubles1976 - Corey Chavous
football: Vanderbilt Univ; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings1978 - Eddie Cahill
actor: Miracle, Friends, CSI: NY, Lords of Dogtown, This Is Not a Test, The Narrows1979 - Drew Brees
football [quarterback]: Purdue Univ; NFL: San Diego Chargers [2001–2005], New Orleans Saints [2006–2020: MVP: Super Bowl XLIV]1980 - Matt Holliday
baseball [left fielder]: Colorado Rockies: 2007 World Series, Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals: 2011 World Series champs1981 - Zachary Bostrom
actor: Armed and Innocent, A Very Brady Christmas, Harry and the Hedersons, Beverly Hills, 90210, Fame1981 - Pitbull (Armando Pérez)
rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer: Give Me Everything, Timber; LPs: M.I.A.M.I. [Money Is A Major Issue], El Mariel, The Boatlift, Rebelution, Planet Pit1982 - Ben Agosto
ice dancer [w/partner Tanith Belbin]: Olympics silver medalist [2006]; four-time World medalist; Four Continents champion [2004–2006]; U.S. champion [2004–2008]1986 - Claire Castel
(born in Bordeaux, France)(actress [2009- ]: X-rated films: Dorcel Club(TV Series); Road Trip; Clea la soumise; Lana la soumise; Claire & Lana: Pornochic; Claire la soumise; Claire la Sexologue; Luxure: Obedient Wives; First Wife; Ines Escort Deluxe; Fantasmes 4: Bourgeoises & Lesbiennes; Fuck V.I.P. Stars; Initiation of Claire Castel; Mademoiselle de Paris; Orgy: The XXX Championship1986 - Jessy Schram
actress: Veronica Mars, Life, Falling Skies, Last Resort, Once Upon a Time, Mad Men1988 - Skrillex (Sonny John Moore)
2012 Grammy Award-winning electronic musician, singer, songwriter: Best Dance/Electronica Album, Best Dance Recording, Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical1990 - Chris Warren Jr.
actor: High School Musical film series, The Bold and the Beautiful, Good Luck Charlie1991 - Lulu Popplewell
actress: Love Actually, Love in a Cold Climate1996 - Dove Cameron
actress: Liv and Maddie, Descendants film series, Schmigadoon!; more
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Hit Music on This Day January 15
1945Don’t Fence Me In (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
There Goes That Song Again (facts) - Russ Morgan
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