January 16
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1866 - Mr. Everett Barney patented the all-metal screw clamp skate. Remember those? They would clamp on to the edges of the soles of shoes and you tightened them with a key. With the advent of athletic shoes, there was no place to clamp the skates so the clamp skate disappeared. In its place? Roller blades!1883 - The U.S. Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect. Today’s the day to hug a postal worker, for one.
1920 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages. It was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment, but the times were very dry for over a decade.
1921 - The motion picture, The Kid, opened in movie houses. The classic starred Charlie Chaplin and featured a little tyke, soon to be a Hollywood favorite. Jackie Coogan continued to make movies until his death in 1984.
1938 - Benny Goodman and his band, plus a quartet, brought the sound of jazz to Carnegie Hall in New York City. When asked how long an intermission he wanted, he quipped, “I don’t know. How much does Toscanini get?”
1939 - The shrill siren call of radio’s I Love a Mystery was heard for the first time as the show debuted on NBC’s West-Coast outlets.
1942 - Kay Kyser and the band recorded A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) for Columbia Records. The tune is about the problems associated with wearing the garish, exaggerated ‘hep’ fashion.
1945 - The U.S. First and Third armies linked up at Houffalize, It was the beginning of the end of Battle of the Bulge.
1954 - South Pacific closed at the Broadway Theatre in New York -- after 1925 performances.
1956 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser pledged to reconquer Palestine as his government made Islam the state religion.
1957 - The Cavern Club opened for business in Liverpool, England. The rock club was just a hangout for commoners. Then, things changed -- big time. It all started in the early 1960s when four kids from the neighborhood popped in to jam. They, of course, turned out to be The Beatles.
1957 - Three B-52s took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, round-the-world flight by jet planes. The trip took 45 hours, 19 minutes.
1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a contract which made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League. ‘The Commerce Comet’ stepped up to the plate for $75,000 for the 1961 season. Over in the National League, Willie ‘Say Hey’ Mays, was making more money than any baseball player. He had a contract for $85,000.
1964 - Hello Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City. Carol Channing starred in the role of Mrs. Dolly Levi. The musical was an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play, The Matchmaker. The show, with an unforgettable title song, was hailed by critics as the “...possible hit of the season.” It was possible, all right. Hello Dolly! ran for 2,844 performances (over seven years). And, it returned to Broadway in the 1990s, again starring Carol Channing.
1967 - Alan S. Boyd was sworn in as the first U.S. secretary of transportation.
1972 - David Seville died on this day in Beverly Hills, CA. Born Ross Bagdasarian, the musician was the force, and artist, behind the Alvin and the Chipmunks novelty songs of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Some may remember that Seville appeared in the films, Viva Zapata, Stalag 17 and Rear Window. Seville first claimed fame, not through the novelty impact of the hit, The Chipmunk Song (it sold 3.5 million copies in five weeks); but by writing Rosemary Clooney’s biggest hit, Come On-a My House, in the early 1950s and the number one hit, Witch Doctor, in 1958.
1972 - Super Bowl VI (at New Orleans): Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3. No Superdome yet. Super Bowl VI was played in Tulane University Stadium, in 39-degree weather, and Roger Staubach’s Cowboys were all over the Dolphins. MVP: Cowboys’ QB Staubach. Tickets: $15.00.
1976 - The album, Frampton Comes Alive, was released by Herb Alpert’s A&M Records. The double LP soon reached the top spot of the album charts and stayed perched there for 17 weeks. It sold 19 million copies in its first year in the record racks.
1979 - The Iranian revolution overthrew the shah. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi departed Iran for Egypt, leaving behind a civilian government (to be headed by by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini).
1984 - Michael Jackson didn’t get to sit down much at the 11th annual American Music Awards this night. The ‘Gloved One’ got up and down to receive eight awards, including favorite pop and soul male vocalist, pop and soul album winner for Thriller, pop and soul video winner for Beat It and best pop song for Billie Jean.
1985 - Leonard Nimoy, who roamed among the stars in the Star Trek TV series and movies, got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Live long and prosper, Mr. Spock.
1986 - “Old newsmen never die, they just fade to black.” Walter Cronkite, five years after his retirement from the CBS Evening News remained, polls showed, the most trusted man in America. “And that’s the way it is.” Dan...
1987 - Hu Yaobang resigned as head of China’s Communist Party, declaring he had made mistakes in dealing with student turmoil and intellectual challenges to the Communist system.
1988 - George Michael’s Faith started a sixteen-week run as the number-one album in the U.S. The tracks: Faith, Father Figure, I Want Your Sex, One More Try, Hard Day, Hand To Mouth, Look at Your Hands, Monkey and Kissing a Fool.
1991 - Astronomers presented pictures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of the heart of M15, a dense cluster of stars within our Galaxy. The pictures showed that M15 is in the process of recovering from a deep implosion of its core regions, caused by “a massive gravitational instability.”
1992 - Officials of the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war that had left at least 75,000 people dead.
1993 - Actor Glenn Corbett (Shenandoah, Chisum, Midway) died. He was 63 years old.
1994 - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams played before 2,500 people in Ho Chi Minh City. He was the first Western entertainer to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
1996 - Jimmy Buffett’s sea plane Hemisphere Dancer was shot at by Jamaican police who mistook him for a drug smuggler. U2’s Bono was in the plane with Buffett at the time. Jimmy wrote a song about the incident, Jamaica Mistaica, that appears on the album Banana Wind.
1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of commedian Bill Cosby, was murdered in Los Angeles. The 27-year-old was shot in a roadside robbery attempt while changing a tire on a freeway off-ramp. A Ukrainian émigré teenager, Mikail Markhasev, was convicted the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Markhasev admitted his guilt in 2001 and made a public apology.
1998 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Fallen (an evil presence moves from person to person by touch), starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Donald Sutherland; Half Baked (“Caution: This Film Causes Extreme Laughter.”), with David Chappelle, Guillermo Diaz, Jim Breuer and Harland Williams; and Hard Rain (a lazy dam operator accidentally floods town while a bank heist is going sour), starring Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Ed Asner, Richard Dysart, Betty White, Wayne Duvall and Mark Rolston.
1999 - Brandy’s single, Have You Ever, was #1 (for the first of two weeks) on the Billboard Hot 100.
2000 - Socialist Ricardo Lagos (61) won the presidential elections in Chile by a 51.3% to 48.7% margin over Joaquin Lavin, a former aide to General Pinochet.
2001 - Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was killed in a shooting at his home. He was replaced as president by his son, Joseph.
2001 - Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
2002 - Richard Reid was indicted in Boston, Massachusetts, on federal charges that he had tried to blow up a Paris-to-Miami jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes; the bombing attempt was thwarted when flight attendants and passengers subdued him.
2003 - AOL Time Warner chief executive Dick Parsons was tapped to be the media conglomerate’s new chairman, succeeding Steve Case.
2003 - The space shuttle Columbia carried a crew of seven into space on a 16-day mission. Cololnel Ilan Ramon was aboard as Israel’s first astronaut. (The mission ended tragically on Feb 1, when the shuttle broke up during its return descent, killing all seven on board.)
2004 - These films were new in U.S. theatres: Along Came Polly, with Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Hank Azaria, Alec Baldwin, Bryan Brown, Jsu Garcia, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mitch Silpa; Teacher’s Pet, with Nathan Lane, Shaun Flemming, Rob Paulsen, Debra Jo Rupp, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers and Jerry Stiller; and Torque, starring Martin Henderson, Jaime Pressly, Ice Cube, Jay Hernandez, Matt Schulze, Adam Scott, Will Yun Lee, Faizon Love, Christina Milian and Fredro Starr.
2004 - President George Bush (II) sidestepped the U.S. Congress and installed Mississippi judge Charles Pickering to the federal appeals court.
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Finland’s longest serving prime minister, died. The 73-year-old Sorsa headed four coalition governments from 1972 to 1987 and led the Social Democrats, Finland’s largest party, for twelve years.
2004 - Starbucks opened its first coffee shop in France. The store is located in the heart of the city at 26 Avenue de l’Opera, one of Paris’ popular tourist and shopping districts.
2005 - The 62nd annual Golden Globes: The Aviator won for best movie drama and best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio); and Hillary Swank won best actress for her role in Million Dollar Baby.
2005 - Adriana Iliescu of Bucharest, Romania became the world’s oldest woman to give birth. Adriana, 67 years old, gave birth to a baby girl.
2006 - President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya declared the ongoing drought to be a national disaster and appealed for $150 million to feed the hungry. 2.5 million people were close to starvation due to the lack of rain over the previous three years. Not helping the situation were corrupt officials who were stealing food aid.
2007 - Actor Ron Carey died in Los Angeles. He was 71 years old. Carey played Officer Carl Levitt in the Barney Miller (1976-1982) TV sitcom. His many movies include High Anxiety (1977) and History of the World: Part I (1981), both with Mel Brooks.
2008 - Texas was ranked as the biggest polluter in the U.S. And the state would have been the 7th worst polluter in the world if it were a nation.
2009 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Hotel for Dogs, with Don Cheadle, Emma Roberts, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Simmons, Troy Gentile and Robinne Lee; Paul Blart: Mall Cop, starring Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Shirley Knight, Raini Rodriguez, Stephen Rannazzisi and Adam Ferrara; My Bloody Valentine 3-D, with Jaime King, Jensen Ackles, Kerr Smith, Edi Gathegi, Kevin Tighe, Megan Boone and Betsey Rue; and Notorious, with Jamal Woolard, Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie, Antonique Smith, Naturi Naughton, Dennis White and Julia Pace Mitchell.
2009 - British DJ and pop singer Boy George (47) was sentenced to 15 months in jail for imprisoning a 29-year-old Norwegian male escort after a nude photoshoot. George, whose real name is George O’Dowd, admitted to handcuffing Audun Carlsen to his bed in 2007, as he investigated the Norwegian’s alleged tampering with his computer. (O’Dowd was released from prison May 11, 2009 after serving four months.)
2009 - Bankrupt electronics retailer Circuit City announced that it had failed to find a buyer and would liquidate its 567 U.S. stores. The shut down would result in the loss of some 30,000 jobs. (Circuit city’s last day of sales was on March 8, 2009.)
2010 - Senegal offered free land to Haitians wishing to ‘return to their origins’ following the devastating Jan 12 earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.
2010 - A small part of Antarctica had turned ‘green’ as the ice-covered continent’s biggest wind farm was formally switched on. The joint New Zealand-U.S. project on Antarctica’s Ross Sea coast was designed to generate enough electricity to power 500 homes.
2011 - At the 68th Golden Globes ceremony four awards went to the film The Social Network (picture [drama], director, screenplay, score), Natalie Portman won best actress for Black Swan and Colin Firth was best actor for The King’s Speech.
2011 - Survivors of mudslides in Brazil that killed some 730 people carried food, water and blankets to friends, neighbors and relatives still stranded in remote, stricken villages.
2012 - The last of 158 U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in Honduras left the country. The U.S. ordered the withdrawl fearing for the safety of the volunteers. Honduras, plagued by gang violence, was considered to have the highest murder rate in the world.
2013 - U.S. President Obama signed 23 gun-related executive orders, including one that nominated acting ATF Director B. Todd Jones to lead the agency permanently.
2013 - The U.S. grounded Boeing’s 787s until the problem with battery fires in the jetliners was solved. The FAA emergency order affected only United Airlines, the lone U.S. carrier to operate the 787 Dreamliners.
2014 - An overwhelming majority of Egyptians approved the country’s new constitution. The vote was a milestone for Egypt’s interim government that was installed by the military after the July 2014 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
2015 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Blackhat, starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Wei Tang; Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Julie Walters; Vice, starring Thomas Jane, Bruce Willis and Ambyr Childers; The Wedding Ringer, with Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Alan Ritchson and Josh Gad; Escobar: Paradise Lost, starring Josh Hutcherson, Benicio Del Toro and Brady Corbet; The Phoenix Project, with Corey Rieger, Andrew Simpson and David Pesta; Son of a Gun, with Brenton Thwaites, Ewan McGregor and Alicia Vikander; Spare Parts, starring Alexa PenaVega, Marisa Tomei and Jamie Lee Curtis; Three Night Stand, with Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath and Emmanuelle Chriqui; and American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Kyle Gallner.
2015 - Zimbabwe’s government said it was exporting elephants to raise funds for wildlife management. About 60 elephants were sold for between $40,000 and $60,000 each to China, France and the United Arab Emirates.
2016 - Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Michigan. The POTUS ordered federal aid to assist state and local response efforts in the county where the city of Flint had been grappling with lead-contaminated drinking water.
2016 - Paterson opened in U.S. movie houses. The comedy, drama stars Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani -- and English bulldog, Nellie.
2017 - U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died in Houston, TX. He was 82 years old. Cernan, James Lovell and John Young were the only three astronauts to make the trip to the moon twice.
2017 - Turkey’s prime minister announced that the man suspected of carrying out the deadly New Year’s Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub had been arrested. Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara that the man was being questioned by police, and expressed hope that the interrogation would unveil the “forces” behind the attack that left 39 people dead.
2018 - The Mormon church appointed 93-year-old Russell Nelson, a former heart surgeon, to be its new president. This, after the death of Thomas S. Monson on January 2, 2018. Nelson was a member of the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015 to 2018. As church president, Nelson was accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.
2018 - Citigroup reported an $18.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter — effectively wiping out the company’s full-year 2017 profit. The financial conglomerate had to take more than $20 billion in accounting write-downs related to new U.S. tax laws.
2019 - Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled that secret protocols between prosecutors and the country’s domestic intelligence agency were unconstitutional. The decision was expected to cause murder and corruption trials in which prosecutors had relied on evidence that was obtained under the agreement to collapse.
2019 - Britain’s Parliament has approved a law that made it illegal to take so-called ‘upskirting’ photos. The law was finalized in England and Wales in April 2019. The practice of taking an image or video under someone’s clothing in order to see their genitals or underwear was already banned in Scotland.
2020 - The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of POTUS Donald Trump. House Democrats read the formal charges in the chamber ahead of the swearing in of all 100 senators as jurors. This was only the third trial to remove a president in U.S. history. House prosecutors formally recited the charges under presiding Chief Justice John Roberts. At the center of the impeachment was the fact that Trump had violated federal law in withholding security assistance (authorized by Congress) to Ukraine.
2021 - Rock producer Phil Spector, who changed the sound of pop music in the 1960s with his ‘Wall of Sound’ recordings (Da Doo Ron Ron, Be My Baby, He’s a Rebel, etc.), died in a prison hospital in Stockton, CA. His daughter Nicole attributed her father’s death to complications of COVID-19, with which he was diagnosed in December 2020. He was 81 years old and had been serving a 19 years-to-life sentence for the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.
2021 - National Guard troops poured into the U.S. capital ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration, as governors answered the urgent pleas of national defense officials for more troops. This, as they kept anxious eyes on possible violent protests in their own states.
2021 - Germany recorded 18,678 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the previous 24 hours and another 980 deaths. Germany had carried out more than a million vaccinations, but infections and deaths remained high.
2022 - In the Central African Republic a two-day operation began by CAR forces and Russian mercenaries of the private military company, Wagner, near the town of Bria. The operation targeted the Union for Peace rebel group. More than 30 civilians were killed in the attacks, some by stray bullets.
2022 - Thousands of customers were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida as a winter storm swept through. More than an inch of snow per hour fell in some parts of the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. More than 300 flights were canceled at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
2023 - Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida died in Rome. She was 95 years old. Lollobrigida was long referred to as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” after the title of one of her films. Other notable roles came in Golden Globe winner Come September with Rock Hudson, 1953’s Beat the Devil, a John Huston film also starring Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jones, and Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, for which she won Italy’s top movie award for best actress in 1969.
2023 - The Reverend Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr, said she was “exhausted, exasperated, and, frankly, disappointed” to hear politicians repeat her father’s words but “not set aside politics” to end police brutality and voter suppression. “We love to quote King in and around the holiday, but then we refuse to live King 365 days of the year,” she said at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her father was once a pastor. The service was one of the high-profile events honoring King on the 38th federal King holiday, celebrating what would have been his 94th birthday.
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Birthdays on This Day January 16
1853 - André Michelin
one of the pair of brothers who founded Michelin Tyre Company; died Apr 4, 19311903 - Peter Brocco
actor: Adventures of Superman, The Phantom Ring, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Other People’s Money, The War of the Roses, Throw Momma From the Train, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Winds of War; died Dec 20, 19921908 - Ethel Merman (Zimmerman)
singer, Tony Award-winning actress (musical): Call Me Madam [1951]; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, There’s No Business Like Show Business, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; Musical Theater Hall of Famer; died Feb 15, 19841910 - Dizzy (Jay Hanna) Dean
Baseball Hall of Famer: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1934/all-star: 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1938], SL Browns; broadcaster: SL Browns, Mutual Radio net, ABC/CBS Game of the Week; died July 17, 19741917 - Buddy Lester
actor: Smorgasbord, The Man From Clover Grove, Ellery Queen: Don’t Look Behind You, Three on a Couch, Ocean’s Eleven [1960]; died Oct 4, 20021918 - Stirling Silliphant
film writer, producer, director: Village of the Damned, Naked City, Route 66, In the Heat of the Night, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Telefon, Village of the Damned [1995]; died Apr 26, 19961920 - Elliott (Edgeworth) Reid
actor: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, A Woman’s World, Follow Me Boys; radio performer: Suspense; died Jun 21, 20131923 - Roy Lanham
musician: guitar: group: Sons of the Pioneers: Way Out There, There’s a Roundup in the Sky, Blue Prairie, So Long to the Red River Valley, I’m an Old Cowhand [From the Rio Grande]; died Feb 14, 19911924 - Katy Jurado
actress: High Noon, One-Eyed Jacks, Trapeze; died July 5, 20021929 - G.T. (Granville) Hogan
musician: drums: played with Elmo Hope, Earl Bostic; died Aug 8, 20041930 - Norman Podhoretz
author: Making It, Breaking Ranks; editor/editor-at-large: Commentary magazine1933 - Susan Sontag
writer: On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, In America; died Dec 28, 20041934 - Bob Bogle (Robert Lenard Bogle)
musician: guitar, bass: group: The Ventures: Walk, Don’t Run, Perfidia, theme from Hawaii Five-O; died Jun 14, 20091934 - Marilyn Horne
opera singer: Carmen Jones [v/o for Dorothy Dandridge]; more1935 - A.J. (Anthony Joseph) Foyt
racing car driver: Indianapolis 500 Winner [1961, 1964, 1967, 1977]; Daytona 500 Winner: [1972]1938 - Lou Angotti
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, SL Blues; coach: St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins; died Sep 15, 20211942 - René Angélil
husband and manager of singer Celine Dion; appeared in film: L’Apparition; died Jan 14, 20161942 - Bill Francis
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time, The Cover of Rolling Stone; died May 23, 20101943 - Ronnie Milsap
Grammy Award-winning singer: Stand By My Woman Man [1976]; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1974, 1976, 1977]; CMA Entertainer of the Year [1977]; My Heart, Only One Love in My Life, It Was Almost like a song, Lost in the Fifties Tonight, A Woman in Love, [There’s] No Gettin’ Over Me; blind since birth, learned to play several instruments by age 121944 - Jim Stafford
singer: Spiders and Snakes, Wildwood Weed, [w/John Hadley]: You Can’t Get the Hell out of Texas1947 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
conservative radio/TV host: The Dr. Laura Program; author: Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands1948 - John Carpenter
writer, director: Escape from L.A., Village of the Damned, Body Bags, Prince of Darkness, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York, Elvis: The Movie, Halloween1950 - Debbie Allen
dancer, actress: Fame, Roots: The Next Generation, Ragtime, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh; choreographer; sister of actress Phylicia Rashad1951 - Chuck Crist
football: Penn State Univ., New York Giants, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers DB1953 - Bo Harris
football: Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, Super Bowl XVI1953 - Dave Brown
football: Pittsburgh Steelers safety, Super Bowl X1959 - Sade (Helen Folasade Adu)
singer: group: Sade: LPs: Diamond Life, Promise, Stronger than Pride1962 - Denis O’Hare
actor: American Horror Story, True Blood, Charlie Wilson’s War, Milk, Changeling, Dallas Buyers Club; more1962 - Paul Webb
musician: bass: group: Talk Talk1965 - Maxine Jones
singer: group: En Vogue: Hold On, Free Your Mind, My Lovin’ [You’re Never Gonna Get It], Don’t Let Go [Love], Give It Up, Turn It Loose, Whatta Man1966 - Steve Leach
hockey: Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, SL Blues, Carolina Hurricanes, Ottawa Senators, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins1969 - Roy Jones Jr.
pro boxer: four-weight [middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight] world champion: only boxer to start his pro career as a light middleweight and go on to win heavyweight title; more1970 - Ron Villone
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Massachusetts; Seattle Mariners, SD Padres, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates1972 - Joe Horn
football: Itawamba Community College; NFL: KC Chiefs, NO Saints1972 - Richard T. Jones
actor: Hawaii Five-0 [2011], Godzilla [2014], Soul Plane, Numb3rs, Time Bomb, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles1973 - Mario Bates
football: Arizona State Univ; NFL; NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions1973 - Josie Davis
actress: Charles in Charge, Beverly Hills, 90210, Titans, Fear Itself, Rules of Engagement, Shark, Be My Baby, Ghost Whisperer, Two and a Half Men, The Trouble with Romance, NCIS, CSI: Miami, Burn Notice, Chuck, Stealing Roses, Mantervention, Bones, CSI: NY1974 - Kate Moss
supermodel1977 - Mark Simoneau
football: Kansas State Univ; NFL: Atlanta Falcons [2000-2002]; Philadelphia Eagles [2003-2005]; New Orleans Saints [2006-2009]; Kansas City Chiefs [2010]1979 - Aaliyah
singer: Miss You, We Need a Resolution, More Than a Woman, Got to Give It Up, Try Again, Are You That Somebody?; killed in plane crash Aug 25, 20011979 - Jason Ward
hockey [right wing]: Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning1980 - Lin-Manuel Miranda
composer, singer, rapper: created and starred in the multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals: In the Heights, Hamilton; film director: tick, tick...BOOM!1980 - Albert Pujols (José Alberto Pujols Alcántara)
baseball [first base]: St. Louis Cardinals [2001–2011: World Series champs 2006, 2011] “the most feared hitter in baseball”: National League Rookie of the Year [2001], selected as an All-Star nine times, won National League Most Valuable Player Award three times, won National League Hank Aaron Award twice; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim [2012–2021]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2021]; more1985 - Joe Flacco
football [quarterback]: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2008–2018]: MVP of 2013 Super Bowl XLVII; Denver Broncos [2019]; New York Jets [2020]; Philadelphia Eagles [2021]; New York Jets [2021– ]1985 - Renée Felice Smith
actress: NCIS: Los Angeles, Detachment, Nanny Cam, That Thing with the Cat1986 - Mason Gamble
actor: Arlington Road, Rushmore, Gattaca, Dennis the Menace, Spy Hard1989 - Yvonne Zima
actress: The Young and the Restless, ER, Love Hurts, Meeting Spencer, You, Only Better..., Career Virgin, The Absent, Goy, Iron Man 3
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Hit Music on This Day January 16
1946Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
I Can’t Begin to Tell You (facts) - Bing Crosby with the Carmen Cavallaro Orchestra
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