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1789 - The Power of Sympathy, by William Hill Brown, was published anonymously in Boston, MA. The book has been called the first American novel.1812 - The famous Y-bridge in Zanesville, OH was approved for construction. Good thing. The traffic tie-ups were a mess waiting for those ferry boats in the morning and afternoon trying to cross the Muskingum River.
1865 - For the first time, an oil well was drilled by a torpedo. Col. Edward A.L. Roberts of New York City successfully experimented with the torpedo to open an obstructed well bore at the Ladies’ Well on Watson Flats, near Titusville, PA. Roberts was issued a patent for the device in 1869.
1908 - Smoking by women became illegal. The Sullivan Ordinance was enacted in New York City, but, from pictures we’ve seen, some women continued to smoke even though it was against the law.
1915 - The first Kiwanis club was formed -- in Detroit, Michigan. The name was taken from an old Indian term which, when translated, means “we make ourselves known.” Kiwanis International now has over 550,000 members in some 7,000 clubs covering 90 countries worldwide.
1922 - The first slalom event in skiing was held -- in Mürren, Switzerland.
1924 - Soviet leader Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin) died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Lenin was founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and its aftermath, and had grappled with anarchy and war.
1925 - Nome, Alaska alerted the world by radio to a diphtheria epidemic that threatened to wipe out its entire population. The famous Iditarod race is run each year to commemorate the emergency delivery of diphtheria antitoxin that saved the people of Nome.
1927 - The first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was presented in Chicago, IL. Listeners heard selections from Faust.
1932 - Annunzio Paolo Mantovani gave a memorable concert at Queen’s Hall in England to ‘glowing notices’. This was the beginning of the musician’s successful recording career that provided beautiful music to radio stations for nearly five decades. Better known as just Mantovani, his music still entertains us with hits like, Red Sails in the Sunset, Serenade in the Night, Song from Moulin Rouge and Charmaine.
1936 - Edward VIII was proclaimed King of England following the death of his father, George V. Edward VIII abdicated in December that year and was succeeded by his brother who reigned as George VI.
1942 - Nostalgia buffs will want to grab the greatest hits CD of Count Basie (on Verve) and crank up One O’Clock Jump. Just one of the many signature tunes by Bill Basie; the tune was originally recorded on Okeh Records this day.
1946 - The Fat Man debuted on ABC radio. J. Scott Smart, who played the portly detective, weighed in at 270 pounds in real life.
1951 - A new women’s golf record was established by Mildred (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias as she won the Tampa Women’s Open. Her medal-play score was a record 288 for 72 holes. Medals and records were commonplace to Babe. She won two gold and one silver medal in the 1932 Olympics for the javelin throw, the 80-meter hurdles and the high jump, respectively. She was equally adept at basketball, baseball, billiards and golf; a member of the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, LPGA Hall of Fame (Babe was a founding member of the LPGA), National Track and Field Hall of Fame, Olympic Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame. We now refer to her as the Famous Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
1954 - The USS Nautilus, the first atomic-powered submarine, was launched in Groton, CT. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower christened the vessel with a bottle of champagne. We wonder if the Nautilus was ever used as an oil well-drilling submarine.
1954 - The gas turbine automobile was introduced in New York City. This XP 21 Firebird packed a lot of punch, with a 370 horsepower, ‘whirlfire’ turbopower jet to power it. Racing gloves and helmet sold separately.
1957 - Singer Patsy Cline appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s nighttime TV show. She warbled the classic, Walking After Midnight, which quickly launched her career.
1959 - The Kingston Trio (Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard) received a gold record for Tom Dooley. The single could be considered an early folk-form of rap music, considering its less than wholesome message about a guy named Tom Dooley who was going to be hanged - “Poor boy, you’re bound to, die.” The Kingston Trio recorded many hits, including: Greenback Dollar, M.T.A., Reverend Mr. Black, Tijuana Jail, and the war protest song, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?.
1964 - Carl Rowan succeeded Edward R. Murrow as head of the United States Information Agency (USIA), which managed the worldwide Voice of America. Murrow had held the office for three years. Rowan came from a news background from NBC, as Murrow did over at CBS.
1966 - George Harrison of the Beatles married Pattie Anne Boyd in Surrey, England. The two met on the set of the movie, A Hard Day’s Night.
1970 - The first Boeing 747, the largest jet airliner in the world, landed at London Heathrow Airport at the end of its maiden transatlantic flight.
1976 - The French Concorde SST aircraft, with its droopy nose and sound-barrier smashing speed, began regular commercial service for Air France and British Airways. Fasten your seat belts, please and hold on tight.
1978 - The soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever reached #1 on the album charts -- a position it held for the next six months. We wear our black shirt and white suit with a pair of John Travolta’s disco boots and, oh yes, a gold chain, too, as we write this! Boogie on, disco children!
1979 - Super Bowl XIII (at Miami): Pittsburgh Steelers 35, Dallas Cowboys 31. MVP: Steelers’ QB Terry Bradshaw -- he passed for 318 yards and 4 TDs (two to John Stallworth, one to Rocky Bleier and one to Lynn Swann, plus a handoff to Franco Harris for a 22-yard run up the middle for TD number five). Tickets: $30.00.
1980 - An Iran Air Boeing 727 flying from Mashad to Tehran crashed on a mountainside in fog, killing all 128 on board.
1984 - Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jackie Wilson died. On Sep 29, 1975, while performing at the Latin Casino near Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Wilson had suffered a massive heart attack that left him in a coma. He remained hospitalized until his death this day, at the age of forty-nine. Wilson’s first hit was Reet Petite, written by a then-unknown Berry Gordy, who would later create the Motown Records empire. Jackie Wilson’s biggest hit was his 1960 double-sided smash Doggin’ Around b/w Night.
1985 - Actor, Patrick Duffy, announced plans to leave the CBS show Dallas at the end of the TV season. He asked that the character of Bobby Ewing not be replaced by another actor. Good thing. Bobby showed up in the new season, miraculously rising from the dead; taking a shower; after being in a tremendous car crash the previous season. And Duffy returned to continue in the role of Bobby Ewing through the final episode in 1991.
1986 - Former major-league player Randy Bass signed to become the highest-paid baseball player in Japanese history. Bass signed a deal for three years at $3.25 million. He played for the Hanshin Tigers.
1987 - Thirty years after its release, Jackie Wilson’s single, Reet Petite (written by Motown founder Berry Gordy), ended a month at the top of England’s music charts. Three years earlier, on this same date, Jackie Wilson died after being in a coma (following a heart attack) for eight and a half years.
1989 - Steve Wahrer, the drummer who helped lift The Trashmen and their hit single Surfin’ Bird to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, died in Robbinsdale, Minnesota of throat cancer. He was 47 years old. Wahrer combined two songs by the Rivingtons (The Bird’s the Word and Pa Pa Ooh Mow Mow) to come up with Surfin’ Bird. And it was Wahrer’s voice that was heard snarling out, “the bird is the word” in the recording.
1990 - Tennis bad boy John McEnroe was disqualified and expelled for throwing a temper tantrum while leading in his Australian Open match against Mike Pernfors. McEnroe holds the distinction of being the first player to be expelled from the Australian Open.
1991 - CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, CBS News London bureau chief Peter Bluff, a cameraman and soundman were captured by Iraqi forces (they were released six weeks later).
1994 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed 3900 for the first time -- to a record 3,914.48.
1996 - In skating news: Rudy Galindo was the upset winner of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, California. He earned two perfect marks along the way to the crown. And Michelle Kwan, 15, captured her first national women’s title, hitting seven triple jumps for her fifth straight first-place finish of the season.
1996 - The 53rd annual Golden Globes: Sense and Sensibility won best dramatic picture; Babe won best comedy; best dramatic acting awards went to Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas and Sharon Stone for Casino, while awards for acting in a comedy or musical went to Nicole Kidman for To Die For and John Travolta for Get Shorty.
1997 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager of 22 years, died of a stroke in Las Vegas (age 87). Parker wasn’t a real colonel and his real name wasn’t Tom Parker. According to James L. Dickerson in his book Colonel Tom Parker, his colonelcy was bestowed upon him in 1948 by the governor of Louisiana and was purely of the honorary variety, though immediately upon receiving it Parker told an underling, “From now on, see to it that everyone addresses me as the Colonel.” His name may (or may not) have been Andreas Cornelius van Kuijk, and he may (or may not) have been born in the Netherlands in 1909, from which he may (or may not) have immigrated to the United States as a teenager. Parker became Presley’s manager in 1955 when Elvis was on the verge of becoming a rock ’n’ roll star. He had firm control over Elvis’ career, taking between 25 and 50 per cent of the singer’s earnings.
1998 - Actor Jack Lord, of Hawaii Five-O fame, died in Honolulu. Lord was 77 years old.
2000 - Movies opening in the U.S,: Play It to the Bone (“No one hits as hard as your best friend.”), starring Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich and Tom Sizemore; and Down to You a comedy with Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Selma Blair and Shawn Hatosy.
2000 - A military junta seized power in Ecuador. The next day, following expressions of international concern, the junta leaders turned the government over to the country’s vice president.
2001 - The Roman epic Gladiator won best dramatic movie and the 1970s rock-and-roll story, Almost Famous, was awarded best comedy at the Golden Globes. Al Pacino was presented with the Cecil B. deMille Award for Lifetime Achievement.
2002 - Pop singer, songwriter Peggy Lee died at age 81 in Bel Air, CA. She is remebered for more than 40 hit songs, such as Why Don’t You do Right?, Lover, and Fever. In 1969 she won a Grammy for Is That All There Is?. Peggy Lee was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
2003 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics had passed African-Americans as the largest U.S. minority group.
2004 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued 532 music downloaders who it said were illegally distributing songs over the Internet.
2005 - Are We There Yet? debuted in U.S. theatres. The romantic comedy stars Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, Jay Mohr, M.C. Gainey, C. Ernst Harth, Nichelle Nichols and Henry Simmons.
2006 - Jennifer Berry, a 22-year-old ballerina from Oklahoma, was crowned Miss America in Las Vegas NV. The beauty pageant was presented without coverage by a major TV network for the first time since 1954 (it aired on Country Music Television).
2007 - More than a foot of snow fell on parts of northern Arizona, while people as far south as Tucson got a rare chance to see (and touch) the white stuff.
2008 - India successfully launched an advanced Israeli spy satellite. The bird made it possible to track events in Iran, the country Israel considered to be its top foe.
2009 - General Motors reported that it had relinquished its crown as the world’s biggest auto maker -- to Toyota -- after 77 years. GM said an 11% drop in 2008 vehicle sales was the reason.
2009 - Arizona’s Republican Secretary of State, Janice Brewer, took over as governor after Democrat Janet Napolitano vacated her office to become President Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security.
2010 - Conan O’Brien said goodbye to NBC-TV for good in a $45-million deal for his exit from The Tonight Show. The deal also allowed Jay Leno back in as host of the late-night program he had hosted for 17 years.
2010 - A Dutch airlift brought 106 children from quake-ravaged Haiti to new lives in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, as anxious families waited to hug children they had been in the process of adopting for months.
2010 - Toyota announced the recall of 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix accelerator pedals with mechanical problems that could cause them to become stuck. The recall came just months after Toyota recalled 4.2 million vehicles due to gas pedals that could get stuck under floor mats, causing sudden acceleration.
2011 - Movies opening in the U.S.: No Strings Attached, with Natalie Portman, Emma Kurtzman, Ashton Kutcher, Cary Elwes, Lake Bell and Kevin Kline; The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell and Jim Sturgess; and The Company Men, with Ben Affleck, Thomas Kee, Craig Mathers, Gary Galone and Tommy Lee Jones.
2011 - Cuba suspended indefinitely all mail service to the United States, extending an earlier ban. Deliveries had been suspended after increased security measures were taken by the U.S.
2011 - Brazilian officials said 400 people were still missing after mudslides that killed at least 767 people.
2012 - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich upset Mitt Romney in the South Carolina Republican primary (40%-28%). Rick Santorum took 3rd place (17%) and Ron Paul was 4th (13%).
2013 - President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands in a formal public ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Obama urged, the nation to set an unwavering course toward prosperity and freedom for all its citizens. The address marked the first time a president had used the occasion to praise progress on gay rights.
2014 - Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife were indicted on 14 counts of federal corruption charges. They were charged with accepting over $165,000 in gifts and loans from the CEO of a dietary supplements company. In Sep, 2014 McDonnell was convicted on 11 of the 14 corruption counts. His wife was convicted on nine corruption counts and obstruction of justice.
2015 - U.S. Federal authorities said Standard and Poor’s credit rating agency had agreed to pay about $80 million to settle an array of government investigations on inflated subprime mortgages. S&P, owned by McGraw Hill, agreed to pay $58 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission and $19 million to Massachusetts and New York states.
2015 - Canada’s central bank lowered its key lending rate to 0.75 percent to bolster an economy facing a major slowdown after plunges in oil prices.
2016 - General Motors opened a Cadillac factory in Shanghai to target China’s luxury car market. The 8 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) factory, operated with its main Chinese partner, Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp., would have an annual production capacity of 160,000 vehicles.
2016 - A British inquiry concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the 2006 Russian intelligence operation that murdered ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London -- with radioactive polonium-210 in London.
2017 - Five men and two women were arrested for the $80 million (€75m, £64m) diamond heist in 2005 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, police in the Netherlands say. The seven Dutch nationals were arrested in Amsterdam and Valencia in Spain. The armed gang, disguised as airport workers, stole the diamonds as they were about to be put onto a plane. The theft was one of the world’s biggest ever jewellery heists.
2017 - Legions of women, many wearing bright pink knit hats, paraded through parks, streets and city squares from Sydney to Paris to Honolulu to Philadelphia, marching in solidarity as a show of empowerment and a stand against Donald Trump.
2018 - Thousands of people on two continents marched to show solidarity with women around the world. The crowds demanded equality, justice and an end to sexual harassment. Demonstrations in London, Paris, Sydney and other European and Australian cities followed much larger women’s marches across the U.S. that had marked the anniversary of POTUS Donald Trump’s inauguration, as well as the protests it inspired.
2019 - China’s state media said researcher He Jiankui, who claimed to have created the world’s first genetically-edited babies, faced a Chinese police investigation. Authorities confirmed that a second woman became pregnant during the experiment. Scientists had reported that the germline genetically edited humans, the twin babies Lulu and Nana, may have inadvertently (or perhaps, intentionally) had their “brains enhanced.” Jiankui’s former university said he had been fired. On Dec 30, 2019, the Shenzhen Nanshan District People’s Court sentenced He to 3 years imprisonment and a 3 million RMB fine.
2019 - France’s data privacy watchdog fined Google 50 million euros ($57 million) for its “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ad personalization for users.” It was the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect in 2018.
2020 - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised to create an ‘Amazon Council’ to protect and ensure the “sustainable development” of the world’s largest rainforest. Under Bolsonaro, the number of fires in the Amazon reached a 10-year high in 2019, prompting world leaders to denounce his environmental record.
2020 - China sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to some 13 years in prison on charges he accepted more than $2 million in bribes. Meng’s wife, living in France under political said the charges against him were politically motivated. And she was suing Interpol, accusing it of failing to protect him from arrest in China and failing to look after his family.
2020 - Iran’s ISNA News Agency reported that lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh, who represented Iran’s Kerman province, had offered to pay a $3 million reward to “whoever kills Trump”. The offer came in a speech by Hamzeh to the Iran’s parliament.
2021 - Dr. Anthony Fauci, top U.S. adviser on the pandemic, said the United States would resume funding for the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing COVID-19 vaccines fairly around the globe.
2021 - Government sources said India would give millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine to South Asian countries, drawing praise from its neighbors and pushing back against China’s dominating presence in the region.
2022 - Movies set to open in U.S. theatres included: The King’s Daughter, starring Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Benjamin Walker and Kaya Scodelario; Redeeming Love, with Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis and Famke Janssen; The Laureate, with Fra Fee, Laura Haddock and Dianna Agron; A Shot Through the Wall, starring Kenny Leu, Ciara Renéeand Fiona Fu; The Tiger Rising, with Katharine McPhee, Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah; and Warhunt, starring Mickey Rourke, Jackson Rathbone and Robert Knepper.
2022 - The Biden administration raised the minimum wage for federal employees to $15 an hour. The raise went to some 70,000 federal employees, most of whom worked at the Departments of Defense, Agriculture and Veteran Affairs.
2022 - Canada offered Ukraine a loan of C$120 million ($95.6 million). Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was looking at other ways to support Kyiv as the crisis with Russia intensified.
2023 - Eleven people were killed and nine others injured in a mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park (Los Angeles), CA. The gunman opened fire following a celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year -- he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with police in Torrance the next day. The shooting was the fifth in the U.S. for the month.
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Birthdays on This Day January 21
1738 - Ethan Allen
U.S. Revolutionary War hero; died Feb 12, 17891824 - Stonewall (Thomas) Jackson
Confederate General: one of the Civil War’s most famous military officers; died May 10, 18631897 - J. (Joseph) Carrol Naish
actor: Guestward Ho!, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, radio/TV series: Life with Luigi; died Jan 19, 19731905 - Christian Dior
fashion designer; died Oct 24, 19571917 - Billy Maxted
pianist, songwriter, arranger: many arrangements for Ray Eberle, Red Nichols, Will Bradley, Benny Goodman; bandleader: LP: Bourbon Street Billy Blues [w/Manhattan Jazz Band]; died Sep 27, 20011919 - Jinx (Eugenia) Falkenburg
actress, TV host [w/husband Tex McCrary]: Tex and Jinx, Preview with Tex and Jinx, The Tex and Jinx Film, At Home with Tex and Jinx; TV panelist: Masquerade Party; died Aug 27, 20031922 - Telly (Aristotle) Savalas
Emmy Award-winning actor: Kojak [1973-1974]; The Dirty Dozen, Birdman of Alcatraz, Battle of the Bulge, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Kelly’s Heroes; died Jan 22, 19941922 - Paul Scofield
Academy award-winning actor: A Man for All Seasons [1966]; Scorpio, Anna Karenina, King Lear, Henry V, Hamlet; died Mar 19, 20081924 - Benny Hill
comedian, TV host: The Benny Hill Show; died Apr 20, 19921925 - George Connor
Football Hall of Famer: Holy Cross, Notre Dame Univ; NFL: Chicago Bears; career: all-NFL at all three positions, four Pro Bowls; died Mar 31, 20031926 - Steve Reeves
Mr. Universe; actor: Hercules, Hercules Unchained, Goliath and the Barbarians, The Last Days of Pompeii; died May 1, 20001934 - Audrey Dalton
actress: Casanova’s Big Night, The Prodigal, Titanic1938 - Wolfman Jack (Robert Weston Smith)
radio DJ: icon of 1960s radio, broadcasting from XERF, then XERB in Mexico and heard throughout a major part of the U.S.; TV announcer: The Midnight Special; actor: American Graffiti; author: Have Mercy! Confessions of the Original Rock ’n’ Roll Animal; died July 1, 19951940 - Jack Nicklaus
golf champion: holds the record for winning the most majors, 18 professional titles: 4 U.S. Opens, 3 British Opens, 5 PGA and 6 Masters Championships; one of only 2 players to win back-to-back Masters1941 - Plácido Domingo
singer: world-renowned operatic tenor: Perhaps Love; complete list of recordings1941 - Richie Havens
singer: Here Comes the Sun; died Apr 22, 20131941 - Mike Medavoy
film producer, co-founder of Orion Pictures [1978], former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists [1974–1978], chairman & CEO of Phoenix Pictures; more1942 - Mac (Scott) Davis
singer: Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me; Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife; actor: North Dallas Forty; host: The Mac Davis Show; songwriter: In the Ghetto, Memories; ACM Entertainer of the Year [1975]; died Sep 29, 20201945 - Martin Shaw
actor: The Murder Room, The Scarlet Pimpernel, For the Greater Good, The Most Dangerous Man in the World, The Last Place on Earth, Death in Holy Orders1947 - Jill Eikenberry
actress: L.A. Law, Arthur, The Manhattan Project1947 - Jimmy Ibbotson
musician: guitarist, songwriter: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Sunny Side of the Mountain, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Fishin’ in the Dark, American Dream, Will the Circle Be Unbroken1950 - Billy Ocean
Grammy Award-winning R&B Male Vocal: Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) [1984]; Love Really Hurts Without You, There’ll Be Sad Songs1953 - Paul Allen
investor, philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft Corp; died Oct 15, 2018; more1956 - Robby Benson (Robin David Segal)
actor: Search for Tomorrow, Ode to Billy Joe, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, The Chosen1956 - Geena Davis
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: The Accidental Tourist [1988]; Beetlejuice, Fletch, The Fly, Tootsie, Thelma and Louise, Buffalo Bill, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Commander in Chief1958 - Michael Wincott
actor: Alien: Resurrection, Red Phone: Manhunt, Along Came a Spider, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, A Lonely Place for Dying, Grand Street, Hitchcock; more1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon
basketball: NBA: Houston Rockets [1984–2001]: 1994, 1995 NBA champs; Toronto Raptors [2001–2002]1963 - Cindy Schreyer McCurdy
golf: LPGA1963 - Detlef Schrempf
basketball [forward]: Univ of Washington; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Indiana Pacers, Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers1964 - Siobhan Hunter
actress [1984-1993]: X-rated films: Rambone: The First Time, Sexually Altered States, Despicable Dames, Sex Derby, Little Shop of Whores, Shoot to Thrill, Satisfaction Jackson1967 - Ulf Dahlen
hockey: NY Rangers, Minnesota North/Dallas Stars, SJ Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Capitals1968 - Charlotte Ross
actress: NYPD Blue, Days of Our Lives, The Five Mrs. Buchanans, A Will of Their Own1969 - Karina Lombard
actress: The L Word, The Firm, Legends of the Fall, Last Man Standing, The 4400, Rescue Me, Guardian, Deception, Big Kiss, Le fils à Jo; more1969 - Matt Willig
football: Univ of Southern Cal; NFL: NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons, GB Packers, SL Rams, SF 49ers, Carolina Panthers; actor: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Guns, Girls and Gambling, Sonny with a Chance, Malcolm in the Middle, Pair of Kings, NCIS, Grimm, We’re The Millers, Blunt Talk1970 - Ken Leung
actor: Lost, Shanghai Kiss, Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand, Works of Art, Strip Search, Red Dragon, Keeping the Faith, Welcome to the Dollhouse1971 - Doug Weight
hockey: NY Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, SL Blues1973 - Grady Jackson
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Knoxville; NFL: Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers1974 - Orpheus Roye
football: Florida State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns1974 - Jerald Sowell
football: Tulane Univ; NFL: NY Jets1974 - Jerry Wunsch
football: Univ of Wisconsin; NFL: TB Buccaneers, Seattle Seahawks1976 - Emma Bunton
singer: group: Spice Girls: LPs: Forever, Spice, Goodbye, Spiceworld1977 - Michael Ruffin
basketball: Univ of Tulsa; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia 76ers, Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards1977 - Freya Stafford
actress: Head Start, White Collar Blue, The Clinic, Them, Small Claims, Hell Has Harbour Views1977 - Jerry Trainor
actor: Drake & Josh, iCarly, Best Player, Sam & Cat1978 - Andrei Zyuzin
hockey: SJ Sharks, TB Lightning, NJ Devils, Minnesota Wild1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim
baseball [pitcher]: Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox1980 - Troy Dumais
Olympic diver; brother brother of diver Justin Dumais1981 - Amanda Aday
actress: Carnivàle, Pledge This!, Mummy an’ the Armadillo, Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back, Crazy in Alabama, To Catch a Yeti; daughter of actor, musician Meat Loaf and Leslie Aday1981 - Izabella Miko
actress: Coyote Ugly, Steppin’ Up: Save the Last Dance 2, Flakes, The House of Usher, Bye Bye Blackbird, The Foresaken1984 - Luke Grimes
actor: Yellowstone, True Blood, Brothers & Sisters, American Sniper, Fifty Shades of Grey/Darker/Freed1984 - Sativa Rose
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Invasion of the Porno Shooters, Double Decker Sandwich 7, Naked Damsels in Distress!, Playgirls Hottest: Sex in Strange Places1985 - Nick Gehlfuss
actor: Chicago Med, Chicago P.D., Chicago Fire, Shameless, The Newsroom, Longmire1986 - Jonathan Quick
hockey [goaltender]: NHL: Los Angeles Kings [2007 -]: 2012 [MVP], 2014 Stanley Cup champs1987 - Brandon Crawford
baseball [shortstop]: San Francisco Giants [2011– ]: 2012, 2014 World Series champs1990 - Jacob Smith
actor: Small Soldiers, Nowhere to Go, Party of Five1991 - Paige Kettner
actress: A Case for Life, How to Make an American Quilt, Days of Our Lives; twin sister of actress Ryanne Kettner1991 - Ryanne Kettner
actress: A Case for Life, How to Make an American Quilt, Days of Our Lives; twin sister of actress Paige Kettner1994 - Booboo Stewart (Nils Allen Stewart Jr.)
actor: Twilight Saga film series, Guardians of Luna, White Frog, How I Survived the Zombie Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
eldest child of Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit, and grandchild of King Harald V; she is second in line of succession to the Norwegian throne after her father
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Hit Music on This Day January 21
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The Thing (facts) - Phil Harris
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