January 19
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1825 - Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.1840 - Antarctica was discovered by Charles Wilkes expedition. Simultaneous to Wilkes’ American expedition were those from two of the dominant players in Antarctic exploration, Great Britain and France.
1907 - The first film reviews appeared in Variety magazine. The publication had only been in print two years before it expanded its section covering new vaudeville acts in order to include reviews of films.
1915 - George Claude of Paris, France patented the neon tube advertising sign. His handiwork was regularly seen adorning the Eiffel Tower and many pizza parlors throughout America. Now you can buy a neon sign for your in-home office at the discount warehouse. Probably not in one of George Claude’s wildest dreams...
1937 - Howard Hughes set a transcontinental air record, flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
1942 - The Japanese Army crossed the river Salween to invade Burma. Already victorious in the fighting in China, Hong Kong and the Philippines, the Japanese faced weak opposition from the British and Empire troops defending the vast Burmese frontier.
1947 - The first Sunday color edition of the Steve Canyon comic strip debuted. The strip had begun its daily run the previous Monday (January 13) and continued through June 4, 1988.
1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance added for each year in office.
1952 - The National Football League bought the franchise of the defunct New York Yanks. The NFL permitted the New York Giants to take five players from the Yanks roster. One of the five was Tom Landry, who played (defensive back, punter and kick returner) for the Giants for several years. The NFL sent the Yanks franchise to Dallas where it became the first incarnation of the Dallas Texans, but folded after one season. (In 1953, the NFL reinstated that dead Dallas Texans franchise as the Baltimore Colts). Pay attention now: In 1959, the AFL was organized with a new team named the Dallas Texans as a charter club (in 1963, that team moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.) In 1960, still another new Dallas team (the Cowboys) hired Tom Landry as head coach. FYI: That original New York Yanks club was sold to the NFL in 1952 for a mere $300,000.
1953 - 73.9% of all TV sets in the U.S. (some 44 million viewers) were tuned to CBS-TV this day, as Lucy Ricardo of I Love Lucy gave birth to a baby boy -- just as she actually did in real life -- following the script to the letter! The audience for the program was greater than that watching the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following day (29 million).
1955 - U.S. President Eisenhower allowed a filmed news conference to be used on television (and in movie newsreels) for the first time. The 33-minute conference was cut to 28-1/2 minutes to fit TV formats.
1957 - Philadelphia comedian, Ernie Kovacs, became a major star, when he was able to pull off the challenge of doing a half-hour TV show without uttering a single word of dialogue.
1959 - Dick Clark’s American Bandstand was the number-one daytime TV show in the U.S. Remember Rate-A-Record? Three kids would listen and then rate a new song. Rankings went from 35 to 98. The usual comment, “It has a good beat and you can dance to it.”
1966 - Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, was appointed India’s prime minister. Following the death of her father (May 1964), Gandhi had become minister of information and broadcasting in Lal Bahadur Shastri’s government. Gandhi succeeded him as prime minister this day, after he died suddenly. The following year she was elected to a 5-year term by the Parliament members of the dominant Congress party. She led her party to a landslide victory in the national elections of 1971. Indira Gandhi was assassinated Oct 31, 1984 by Sikh members of her security guard.
1970 - The soundtrack of the film, Easy Rider, the movie that made a star of Peter Fonda, became a gold record. It was the first pop-culture, film soundtrack to earn the gold award.
1971 - Ruby Keeler made her comeback in the play, No, No Nanette, which opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. Keeler played the role of Sue Smith in the revival of the 1925 hit musical. The show played on for 861 performances.
1974 - Notre Dame ended UCLA’s 88-game winning streak -- at South Bend, Indiana. The Fighting Irish posted a 71-70 basketball win over the Bruins of the University of California at Los Angeles.
1976 - The Beatles turned down an offer of $50 million to play together again on the same stage. Rock promoter Bill Sargent was astonished when the group turned down the offer.
1977 - Outgoing U.S. President Gerald R. Ford pardoned Tokyo Rose on this day. Tokyo Rose, whose real name was Iva Toguri D’Aquino, was an American citizen of Japanese descent. Millions of G.I.s knew her voice from World War II Japanese propaganda radio broadcasts. The programs were extremely popular with U.S. servicemen located in remote areas of the Pacific. Although there was little evidence that the broadcasts had any negative effect, D’Aquino had been convicted of treason after the war.
1983 - Klaus Barbie (“the butcher of Lyon”), Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyon, France during the German occupation, was arrested in Bolivia on charges of having tortured and killed thousands of people. After World War II, Barbie was protected and employed by U.S. intelligence agents because of his “police skills’ and anti-Communist zeal.” Klaus Barbie, together with his wife and children, then escaped to Latin America, where he worked primarily as an interrogator and torturer for dictatorships both in Peru and in Bolivia. He was tried in 1987 and died in prison in 1991.
1985 - The New York Times announced that Lee Iacocca’s book, Iacocca, was the best selling hard cover book of 1984. It wasn’t topped in sales until the arrival of Rush Limbaugh’s first tome in the early 1990s.
1989 - Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle teamed up for a version of Stand By Your Man in honor of President-elect George Bush (I). Other celebrities at the pre-inaugural gala included Clint Eastwood, Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra.
1991 - Janet Jackson’s single, Love Will Never Do (Without You), hit #1 (for one week) in the U.S.: “I feel better when I have you near me; Cause no other love around; Has quite the same ooh ooh (ha ha ha!); Like you do do do do babe.”
1992 - City of Angels closed at the Virginia Theater in New York City after 879 performances.
1993 - A pre-inaugural gala in Landover, MD toasted incoming U.S. President Bill Clinton. The party featured a reunion of Fleetwood Mac performing Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow), the unofficial campaign song for Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore. Other performers included Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
1995 - Russian troops regained control of the presidential palace in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
1996 - U.S. debut day for these films: Mr. Holland’s Opus (a frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher), with Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, W. H. Macy, Alicia Witt and Jean Louisa Kelly; and Screamers, a “sci-fi thriller” starring Peter Weller, Poy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin and Andy Lauer.
1997 - The English Patient won best picture and Evita won in the category of best movie musical or comedy at the annual Golden Globes.
1998 - Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Carl Perkins died at age 65 after a series of strokes. Perkins was a Tennessee sharecropper’s son. His first guitar was made from a cigar box and broom handle, and his "Blue Suede Shoes" was written on a potato sack.
2000 - Michael Skakel, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, was charged with bludgeoning to death 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975 (when he was 15 also). (Skakel was convicted in 2002 and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.)
2000 - Actress Hedy Lamarr died in Orlando, FL at age 86. She made her Hollywood debut as Gaby in the 1938 film Algiers; followed a year later with Lady of the Tropics. In 1942, she landed the plum role of Tondelayo in the classic, White Cargo. In 1949, Hedy Lamarr appeared as Delilah opposite Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah.
2001 - New movies in the U.S.: The Gift (a woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared), starring Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear and Hilary Swank; The Pledge (a retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child), with Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn and directed by Sean Penn; and Snatch (weirdos tracking down a priceless stolen diamond), starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Jason Flemyng, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Rade Sherbedgia and Jason Statham.
2003 - At the 60th Golden Globes The Hours won as best drama and Chicago won as best musical or comedy. Jack Nicholson won the prize for his role in About Schmidt and Nicole Kidman won for her role in The Hours. Martin Scorsese won as best director for Gangs of New York.
2003 - The Oakland Raiders won the AFC title game, beating the Tennessee Titans 41-24. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers took the NFC Championship game, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10.
2004 - In the Iowa caucuses John Kerry led the Democrats with 38%, John Edwards was second with 32%, Howard Dean was third with 18% and Dick Gephardt fourth with 11%.
2005 - Assault on Precinct 13 opened in U.S. theatres. The action thriller stars Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Aisha Hinds, Gabriel Byrne, Fulvio Cecere, Kim Coates, Matt Craven, Brian Dennehy, Colin Glazer, Currie Graham, Sasha Roiz and Ja Rule.
2005 - Walter Wriston, longtime head of Citicorp and an advisor to U.S. President Ronald Reagan, died in NY at 85 years of age.
2006 - The 22nd Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the U.S., began in Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah. The festival opened with the world premiere of Friends With Money, written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Jennifer Aniston, Scott Caan, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener and Frances McDormand.
2006 - Thirty-one people died during a four-day cold snap in Russia where temperatures plunged to as low as -31°C (-24°F). In Siberia, the temperature plummeted to minus 61 degrees Celsius (minus 78 Fahrenheit), an all-time record low.
2007 - North Carolina’s Governor Mike Easley announced that online search giant Google was investing some $600 million to build a data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
2007 - Singer, songwriter Denny Doherty, of The Mamas and the Papas, died at his home in Ontario, Canada of an abdominal aneurysm after having undergone surgery a few weeks earlier. He was 66 years old. The group was known for their soaring harmony on hits like California Dreamin’ (1966) and Monday, Monday. Doherty was the third of the band’s four members to die. ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot died of a heart attack in 1974 and ‘Papa’ John Phillips died of heart failure in 2001. Michelle Phillips is the remaining living member of the group.
2008 - Hillary Clinton defeated rival Barack Obama 51-45% in tight Democratic Nevada caucuses. Her delegate count increased to 236, followed by Barack Obama with 136 and 50 for Senator John Edwards. Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts governor, cruised to victory in the little-contested GOP Nevada caucuses.
2008 - Actress Suzanne Pleshette died in Los Angeles. The film and TV star was best known for her role as Bob Newhart’s sardonic wife on the long-running The Bob Newhart Show. Her work also included roles in such films as Hitchcock’s The Birds and in Broadway plays including The Miracle Worker.
2009 - China warned of a rising bird flu risk after a second person died of the virus in less than a month.
2009 - U.S. President George Bush (II), in his final acts of clemency, granted early prison releases to two former U.S. Border Patrol agents whose convictions for shooting a Mexican drug dealer in 2005 fueled the debate over illegal immigration.
2010 - Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassins’ Ball opened in U.S. theatres. The action crime drama stars Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan, Maury Sterling, Martha Higareda, Christopher Michael Holley, Ernie Hudson, Michael Parks, Autumn Reeser and Vinnie Jones.
2010 - The U.S. Justice Department arrested 22 executives and employees of suppliers to the military and law enforcement agencies. The arrests came after a 2½-year undercover sting operation aimed at foiling schemes to bribe a foreign official.
2010 - Japan Airlines filed for one of the country’s largest bankruptcies ever, entering a restructuring that shrank Asia’s top carrier and its presence around the world.
2011 - President Barack Obama announced a deal for cooperation with China on nuclear security. The two nations reached agreement on exports worth $45 billion, including a $19 billion deal with Boeing in which China would purchase 200 Boeing aircraft. The deals were announced at the formal start of a four-day state visit to the U.S. by Chinese President Hu Jintao. President Obama issued a finely tuned call for greater respect for human rights in his speech to welcome his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.
2012 - Eastman Kodak Co, the photography pioneer that invented the hand-held camera, filed for bankruptcy protection, continuing a slide into oblivion for one of the world’s best-known companies.
2012 - Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron complained that bonuses in the financial services sector had “got out of control” in recent years, and announced that cash payments at state-backed banks would again be limited to £2,000.
2013 - Representatives of 140 nations meeting in Geneva adopted the first legally-binding international treaty aimed at reducing mercury emissions. The agreement came after four years of negotiations on how to set limits on the use of the highly toxic metal. 50 nations were expected to ratify the treaty.
2014 - Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos were heading to Super Bowl XLVIII. This, after their 26-16 victory over Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game. Manning threw for 400 yards and two touchdowns to lead Denver to its first trip to the NFL title game in 15 years.
2014 - A 35-yard touchdown pass on fourth down and Seattle’s top-ranked defense forcing two late turnovers gave the Seattle Seahawks a 23-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. The win got the Seahawks an invitation to their second Super Bowl. They had lost the first one in 2006, but went on to win the Feb 2, 2014 version, beating the Broncos 43-8.
2015 - Some 17,000 anti-racism demonstrators took to the streets in several German cities to voice opposition to the PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) anti-Islamic movement. Organizers of the demonstrations in Berlin, Stuttgart, Cologne and Dresden said they were rallying against racism and xenophobia to instead promote a message of tolerance.
2015 - Several thousand Iranians protested outside the French embassy in Tehran, chanting death threats to France/U.S.A./Israel. This, because of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Similar demonstrations saw hundreds of thousands of people rally in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Muslim North Caucasus region of Chechnya, protesting against the cartoon.
2016 - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, facing protests, lawsuits and calls for his resignation over drinking water contamination in Flint, apologized to residents and called for the state to spend big bucks on fixes.
2016 - Russia announced that its air force had delivered more than 40 tons of humanitarian aid to areas of Syria which were blocked by “terrorists.” Russia also reported that it had destroyed over 600 ISIS targets in Syria over 4 days. This, while the U.N. reported the the number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq over two years was “staggering,” with some 20,000 people killed and 40,000 injured.
2017 - Film and TV star Miguel Ferrer died at his home in Santa Monica, CA. He was 61 years old. His films included Robocop, Blank Check, Hot Shots Part Deux, Mulan, Traffic and Iron Man 3. Ferrer’s notable TV roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks, Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan and, most recently, NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles. Miguel Ferrer was the son of Academy Award winner Jose Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney.
2017 - Some 20 firefighters were killed when the 17-story Plasco building, Tehran, Iran’s oldest high-rise, collapsed following a fire. Altogether at least 30 people were killed. Habibollah Elghanian, a prominent Iranian-Jewish businessman, had built the structure. He was arrested for ties to Israel and sentenced to death and executed after the 1979 Islamic revolution. On Jan 27 the final death toll was put at 26 including 16 firefighters.
2018 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: 12 Strong, starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and William Fichtner; Den of Thieves, with Gerard Butler, Jordan Bridges and Pablo Schreiber; Forever My Girl, with Alex Roe, Jessica Rothe and John Benjamin Hickey; The Leisure Seeker, starring Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren and Kirsty Mitchell; Ridge Runners, with Jennica Schwartzman, Austin Haley and Christopher Howell; and This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy, with Christian Nicolson, Sez Niederer and Daniel Pujol.
2018 - Actress Dorothy Malone died in Dallas, Texas ten days before her 94th birthday. Malone won an Academy Award for playing the nymphomaniac Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind in 1956. And she was remembered by TV audiences for playing Constance Mackenzie Carson in the soap opera Peyton Place from 1964 to 1968. Her other work in films included The Big Sleep (1946), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Too Much Too Soon (1958), The Last Sunset (1961) and Basic Instinct (1992).
2018 - French President Emmanuel Macron pledged an “unprecedented” hike in defense spending over coming years to guarantee his country’s domestic security and maintain French military engagement abroad. This, as he repeated his wishes for increased European military cooperation.
2018 - The United Nations reported that half the 2.6 million people displaced in Iraq after a three-year war with Islamic State militants were children and persisting violence had hampered efforts to ease their suffering.
2019 - Scuffles broke out as some 7,000 ‘yellow vest’ demonstrators marched through Paris, France in the 10th consecutive weekend of protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s government. The yellow vest protests, named after the fluorescent jackets French motorists were required to carry in their cars, began in November over plans to raise fuel taxes. The fuel tax hikes were subsequently scrapped, but the movement morphed into a broader protest against Macron’s government and general frustration over taxes and the cost of living.
2019 - Thousands of people marched in support of the third Women’s March. Marches were held across the U.S. on the second anniversary of the first Women’s March, held the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. In November, Women’s March co-founder Teresa Shook accused the four main leaders of the national march organization of anti-Semitism. Shook claimed Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, along with fellow organizers Bob Bland and Carmen Perez, had “steered the Movement away from its true course” and called for all four to step down.
2019 - Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines showed flashes of his old speed while winning a unanimous 12-round decision over Adrien Broner. Pacquiao easily defended his piece of the welterweight title at the bout held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2020 - The San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers 37-20 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. The NFC championship put the 49ers into the Super Bowl. And the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC championship and a trip to Super Bowl LIV (which they won) by beating the Tennessee Titans 35-24 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
2020 - Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing off the coast of Cape Canaveral in Florida. The test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule paved the way for the SpaceX mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time.
2021 - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell blamed POTUS Trump for the deadly riot at the Capitol, saying the mob was “fed lies” and Trump and others “provoked" those intent on overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s election.
2021 - Sweden reported a decline in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in recent weeks, but its Health Agency warned it was too early to say if it represented a lasting slowdown.
2022 - President Biden said that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin would advance into Ukraine, but he also tried to address Russia’s main complaint, saying Ukraine would not be joining NATO in the near future.
2022 - The Supreme Court refused a request from former POTUS Trump to block the release of White House records concerning the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol -- rejecting Trump’s claim of executive privilege and clearing the way for the House committee investigating the riot to start receiving the documents.
2023 - A federal judge in Florida ordered former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba to pay $938,000 in sanctions to 31 defendants in a lawsuit Trump & Habba filed last year alleging a vast conspiracy against Trump in the 2016 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks had thrown out the lawsuit in September, then fined Habba $50,000 to pay the legal fees of one of the defendants, Charles Dolan. This close to million-dollar penalty would be divided among the other defendants, including Trump’s 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. The lawsuit “was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and ... was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” Middlebrooks wrote in a scathing ruling. “No reasonable lawyer would have filed it.”
2023 - Singer, songwriter, guitarist David Crosby, an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash, died at 81 years of age. Crosby had announced eight months ago that he was finished performing live, saying he was “too old” -- but had continued recording at what he called a “startling rate.” “Now I’m 80 years old so I’m gonna die fairly soon. That’s how that works," he said. “And so I’m trying really hard to crank out as much music as I possibly can, as long as it’s really good.”
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S.: I.S.S., with Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina and John Gallagher Jr; and Origin, starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal and Niecy Nash.
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Birthdays on This Day January 19
1736 - James Watt
inventor: condensing steam engine; the watt, a unit of power, was named after him; died Aug 19, 18191807 - Robert E. (Edward) Lee
Civil War: Confederate General surrendered to the North’s General Ulysses S. Grant; died Oct 12, 18701809 - Edgar Allan Poe
poet: The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher; died Oct 7, 18491813 - Sir Henry Bessemer
inventor: the Bessemer process of converting pig iron to steel; died Mar 15, 18981839 - Paul Cézanne
French, Post-Impressionist painter: Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue, Apothéose de Delacroix, Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier, The Card Players, The Bathers; died Oct 22, 19061908 - Merwyn Bogue
Ish Kabibble: comic singer: Three Little Fishies; sang and played trumpet with Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge; big bandleader; combo: The Shy Guys; died June 5, 19941909 - Hans Hotter
opera singer: [as Wotan] Der Ring des Nibelungen; actor: Land, das meine Sprache spricht, Grobstadtnacht, Seine beste Rolle, Lache Bajazzo, Bruderlein fein, Mutterliebe; died Dec 6, 20031922 - Guy Madison (Robert Ozell Moseley)
actor: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Drums in the Deep South, Hell Commandos, Till the End of Time, Bullwhip; died Feb 6, 19961923 - Jean Stapleton (Murray)
Emmy Award-winning actress: All in the Family [1970-1971, 1971-1972, 1977-1978]; Bells are Ringing, Cinderella, Damn Yankees, Klute; died May 31, 20131926 - Fritz Weaver
actor: Holocaust, Marathon Man, Black Sunday; died Nov 26, 20161930 - Tippi (Natalie) Hedren
actress: The Birds, Deadly Spygames, Harrad Experiment, Pacific Heights1931 - Robert MacNeil
Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist: The Story of English: A Muse of Fire [1986-87]; The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, NBC News anchor [1965]1932 - Joe Schmidt
Pro Football Hall of Famer: linebacker: Detroit Lions All-Pro [1954-1959, 1961, 1962]; Detroit Lions coach [1967-1972]1939 - Phil Everly
singer: The Everly Brothers [w/brother, Don]: Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, All I Have to Do is Dream, Bird Dog, Cathy’s Clown; solo: When Will I Be Loved; radio host: In Session; died Jan 3, 20141940 - Mary Mills
golf champ: U.S. Open [1963]; LPGA [1964, 1973]1941 - Tony Anholt
actor: Space, The Protectors, Howards’ Way, The Late Nancy Irving, The Last Days of Pompeii, The Strauss Family, Cosmic Princess, Napoleon and Love, Destination Moonbase Alpha; died Jul 26, 20021942 - Michael Crawford (Dumble-Smith)
actor, singer: The Phantom of the Opera, Condorman, Hello, Dolly!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Knack1943 - Janis Joplin
singer: with Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart, How Hard It Is; formed Kozmic Blues Band, then Full Tilt Boogie Band: Pearl, Me and Bobby McGee; died Oct 4, 19701944 - Shelley Fabares
singer: Johnny Angel, Johnny Loves Me; comedienne-actress, Nanette Fabray’s niece1944 - Dan Reeves
football running back: NFL: Dallas Cowboys [1965–1972]; coach: Dallas Cowboys [1972, 1974–1980]; Denver Broncos [1981–1992]; New York Giants [1993–1996]; Atlanta Falcons [1997–2003]; in nine Super Bowls as a player, assistant coach and head coach; died Jan 1, 20221946 - Dolly Parton
songwriter, singer: ACM Entertainer of the Year [1977], CMA Entertainer of the year [1978]: Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, 9-to-5, You’re the Only One, [w/Kenny Rogers]: Islands in the Stream; Grand Ol’ Opry member; actress: 9-to-5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias; owns Dollywood amusement park in Tennessee1947 - Ann Compton
newscaster: ABC News1947 - Paula Deen
restaurateur, author, actress, Emmy Award-winning TV personality: Paula’s Home Cooking [2007]; Grand Marshal of Tournament of Roses Parade [2011]1947 - Rod Evans
singer: group: Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Black Night, Speed King, Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Demon’s Eye1948 - Terry Hanratty
football [quarterback]: Pittsburgh Steelers [1969-1975]: Super Bowl IX, X; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1976]1948 - Harvey Hinsley
musician: guitar: groups: Outlaws, Cliff Bennett’s Rebel Rousers, Hot Chocolate Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, I’ll Put You Back Together Again, Every 1’s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances1949 - Robert Palmer
singer, guitarist: Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley, Hey Julia, Addicted to Love, Every Kinda People, I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On, It Could Happen To You; died Sep 26, 20031950 - Nate Hawthorne
basketball: Los Angeles Lakers [1973–1974]; Phoenix Suns [1974–1976]; died Nov 23, 20051950 - Jon (Jonathan Trumpbour) Matlack
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [NL Rookie of the Year: 1972/World Series: 1973/all-star: 1974-1976], Texas Rangers1951 - Martha Davis
songwriter, singer: group: The Motels: Only the Lonely, Danger, Celia, Shame, Careful, Suddenly Last Summer, So L.A., Cries and Whispers1952 - Dewey Bunnell
musician: guitar; singer: group: America: A Horse with No Name, Sister Golden Hair, Ventura Highway, Tin Man, Lonely People1953 - Desi Arnaz Jr.
entertainer, singer: group: Dino, Desi and Billy: Through Spray Colored Glasses; see 1953 [above]1953 - Larry Goodenough
hockey: Richmond Robins, Philadelphia Flyers, Vancouver Canucks, Tulsa Oilers, Dallas Blackhawks, Saginaw Gears, Houston Apollos, New Haven Nighthawks, Binghamton Whalers1954 - Katey Sagal
actress: Married... with Children, 8 Simple Rules, Sons of Anarchy, Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man, That 70s Show, Lost, Boston Legal, Futurama film series, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rebel1955 - Paul Rodriguez
comedian, actor: Born in East L.A., Blood Work, D.C. Cab, Tortilla Soup, Rat Race, Ali, The Newlywed Game, A Million to Juan; voice actor: King of the Hill, Dora the Explorer, Beverly Hills Chihuahua1957 - Mickey Virtue
musician: keyboard: group: UB40: Food for Thought, If It Happens Again, Don’t Break My Heart, Red, Red Wine1961 - William Ragsdale
actor: Fright Night, LA Blues, The Last Time, Road House 2: Last Call, Big Momma’s House 2, Pizza My Heart, The Madam’s Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel, Herman’s Head, American Pie, Grosse Point1966 - Sylvain Cote
hockey: Hartford Whalers, Washington Capitals, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, Dallas Stars1966 - Stefan Edberg
International Tennis Hall of Famer: 41 titles, including six grand slams1969 - Wendy Moniz
actress: Nash Bridges, Big Shots, Damages, One Life to Live, 666 Park Avenue1969 - Orlando Palmeiro
baseball: Univ of Miami; California/Anaheim Angels, SL Cardinals, Houston Astros1969 - Junior Seau (Tiaina Baul Seau)
football: Univ of Southern California; NFL: SD Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots; died May 2, 20121970 - T.J. (Timothy Jay) Mathews
baseball [pitcher]: Nevada-Las Vegas College; St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, Houston Astros1971 - Eric Mangini
football: head coach: New York Jets, Cleveland Browns; NFL TV analyst for ESPN1971 - Phil Nevin
baseball: Cal State-Fullerton Univ; Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Anaheim Angels, SD Padres1971 - Shawn Wayans
film writer, producer, actor: In Living Color, The Wayans Bros., Little Man, White Chicks, Scary Movie, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood; brother of Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Kim Wayans1972 - Drea de Matteo
actress: The Sopranos, West Memphis Three, Beacon Hill, Deuces Wild, Swordfish, The Perfect You, ’R Xmas, Sleepwalk, Meet Prince Charming, Assault on Precinct 131972 - Tyrone Wheatley
football: Univ of Michigan and has played NY Giants, Oakland Raiders1973 - Chris Stynes
baseball: KC Royals, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates1974 - Frank Caliendo
comedian, impressionist: MADtv, Fox NFL Sunday, The Bob & Tom Show; known for his impressions of Charles Barkley, John Madden, Robin Williams, William Shatner, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton [and some 100 others]; more1974 - Ian Laperriere
hockey: SL Blues, NY Rangers, LA Kings, Colorado Avalanche1974 - Brian Martin
luge: Olympics: bronze medal [1998], silver [2002]1975 - Fernando Seguignol
baseball: Montreal Expos, NY Yankees1976 - Randy Thomas
football: Mississippi State Univ; NFL: NY Jets, Washington Redskins1976 - Marsha Thomason
actress: Las Vegas, Lost, White Collar, Into the Blue 2: The Reef, LA Blues, The Fast One, The Haunted Mansion, Black Knight, Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement1977 - Keith Newman
football [linebacker]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings
1978 - Bernard Williams
track and field: Olympic 200m silver medalist [2004]; World Outdoor 100m bronze medalist [2001]; U.S. Outdoor 100m champion [2003]; Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist [2000]; World Outdoor 4x100m relay gold medalist [2001, 2003]; NCAA 100m champ [2000]; Pan American Games 100m champ [1999]1980 - Jenson Button
British Formula One driver: Formula One World Champion [2009]1981 - Bitsie Tulloch
actress: Grimm, Lakeview Terrace, Losing Control, Caroline and Jackie, House, Cold Case, The West Wing, Moonlight, Outlaw, Lonelygirl15, The Artist, Parkland1982 - Pete Buttigieg
former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, politician: mayor of South Bend, Indiana [2012-2020]; 2020 candidate for Democratic nomination for POTUS; U.S. Secretary of Transportation [2020- ]1982 - Jodie Sweetin
actress: Full House, Jim Henson Presents Mother Goose Stories, Small Bits of Happiness, Port City1984 - Trever O’Brien
actor: They Call Him Sasquatch, Motocrossed, Michael Landon, The Father I Knew, Homecoming, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, Ring of the Musketeers; brother of actor Austin O’Brien1988 - JaVale McGee
basketball [center]: Washington Wizards [2008–2012]; Denver Nuggets [2012–2015]; Philadelphia 76ers [2015]; Dallas Mavericks [2015–2016]; Golden State Warriors [2016–2018]: 2017, 2018 NBA champs; Los Angeles Lakers [2018–2020]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2020-2021]; Denver Nuggets [2021]; Phoenix Suns [2021-2022]; Dallas Mavericks [2022-2023]; Sacramento Kings [2023- ]1992 - Shawn Johnson
gymnast: Olympic gold medal on women’s balance beam [2008]; U.S. Olympic team [2004–2008, 2011]1992 - Logan Lerman
actor: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 3:10 to Yuma, The Number 23, Meet Bill, Gamer, My One and Only, What Women Want, The Patriot
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1949Buttons and Bows (facts) - Dinah Shore
A Little Bird Told Me (facts) - Evelyn Knight
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