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1879 - James Shields, who had previously served Illinois and Minnesota, began a term as a U.S. Senator from Missouri. He was the first Senator to serve three states.1887 - The Columbia Phonograph Company became licensed by the American Graphophone Company to sell graphophones in the Washington DC area. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business.
1895 - The National Association of Manufacturers was organized in Cincinnati, OH. Let’s all make something today, in commemoration.
1907 - The Richard Strauss opera, Salome, was featured with the Dance of the Seven Veils at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The opera was banned at the Met after one performance, but it was soon copied by vaudeville and strip-tease performers.
1931 - Clyde McCoy and his orchestra recorded Sugar Blues on this day. The tune became McCoy’s theme song, thanks to its popularity on Columbia Records, and later on Decca, selling over a million copies. (McCoy was said to be related to the feudin’ and a-fightin’ McCoys of Hatfield and McCoy fame.)
1944 - The U.S. 5th Army landed at Anzio, a beachhead south of Rome, Italy. The Germans sent eight divisions south from Rome to contain the invasion. The fighting went on for four months. The town of Carrocetto changed hands no less than 8 times as the Allies fought to break out and the Germans fought to contain them.
1946 - The Central Intelligence Group, which later became the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was established by U.S. President Harry S Truman’s directive issued this day.
1947 - KTLA, Channel 5, in Hollywood, began operation as the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River.
1952 - 29 people were killed, including former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, when an airliner hit an apartment building in Elizabeth, NJ. Seven of the dead were on ground.
1956 - Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the Fort Laramie debut on CBS radio. The program was said to be in “the Gunsmoke tradition.”
1957 - Suspected ‘Mad Bomber’ George P. Metesky was arrested in Waterbury, CT. Metesky was accused of planting more than thirty explosive devices in the New York City area.
1959 - The Coors Brewing Company of Golden, Colorado, began offering its beer in aluminum cans. Coors was the first American beverage company to manufacture and market its product in the new container.
1960 - Paul Pender beat Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round decision and gained international recognition as middleweight boxing champion.
1961 - 1960’s Olympic gold medalist and track star Wilma Rudolph set a world indoor mark in the women’s 60-yard dash. She ran the race in a speedy 6.9 seconds in a meet held in Los Angeles on this day.
1962 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
1968 - Apollo 5 was launched. It was the was the first flight of the lunar module and as such was only a systems test. The lunar module separated successfully after two orbits. After four orbits the mission was over. Apollo 5 crashed into the Pacific several hundred kilometers southwest of Guam on Feb 12, 1968.
1968 - The NBC-TV show, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, debuted “from beautiful downtown Burbank” on this night. (It received the official go-ahead after a successful pilot special that had aired in 1967.) The weekly show, produced by George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, then Paul Keyes, used 260 pages of jokes in each hour-long episode. The first 14 shows earned Laugh-In (as it was commonly called) 4 Emmys. And “you bet your bippy”, Nielsen rated it #1 ... for two seasons. Thanks to an ever-changing cast of regulars including the likes of Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, JoAnne Worley, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Richard Dawson, Judy Carne, President Richard Nixon (“Go ahead, sock it to me!”), the show became the highest-rated comedy series in TV history.
1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had restricted abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The famous Roe vs. Wade case spawned the debate between a woman’s right to end her pregnancy and whether such an abortion is murder of an unborn child. The overheated debate continues and has caused radicals to bomb women’s reproductive health clinics, killing and injuring many.
1973 - George Foreman took the heavyweight boxing title away from Smokin’ Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica, mon. Actually, George didn’t just go up to Joe and say, “Gimme that!” He had to successfully punch his lights out in the boxing ring first.
1973- Former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson died. He was 64 years old.
1976 - A bank robbery in Beirut netted a then-record haul. Boxes of cash and other valuables taken from the British Bank of the Middle East in Bab Idriss were estimated to be worth some $50 million.
1979 - Abu Hassan (Ali Hassan Salameh), the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, was killed by a bomb in Beirut.
1983 - The Steven Spielberg film, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, became the top movie moneymaker this day. In less than a year, E.T., the modern day, fairy tale, brought in $194 million in video rentals; replacing the previously #1 rented film, Star Wars. Something for E.T. to phone home about.
1984 - Super Bowl XVIII (at Tampa): Los Angeles Raiders 38, Washington Redskins 9. The Redskins were slight favorites going into the game. Raiders’ QB Jim Plunkett and LB Matt Millen called their own plays. Plus lots of big plays and that ’83 defense, did the Redskins in. MVP: Raiders’ RB Marcus Allen. Tickets: $60.00.
1987 - Phil Donahue became the first talk show host to tape a show from inside the Soviet Union. Donahue appeared in Leningrad, Kiev and Moscow. The shows were seen by Russian TV audiences later in the year.
1989 - Super Bowl XXIII (at Miami): San Francisco 49ers 20, Cincinnati Bengals 16. In the brand new Joe Robbie Stadium, it was coach Bill Walsh vs. coach Sam Wyche, QB Joe Montana vs. QB Boomer Esiason. The score at halftime: 3-3. In the end, the 49ers got past the Bengals, but just barely. MVP: 49ers’ WR Jerry Rice. 49ers won their third Super Bowl. Some said the Bengals lost “the best Super Bowl ever played.” Tickets: $100.00.
1990 - A jury in Syracuse, NY convicted graduate student Robert T. Morris of federal computer tampering charges for unleashing a ‘worm’ that crippled a computer network. Morris was the first person to be convicted under a U.S. law designed to protect computer systems from malicious break-ins and viruses.
1991 - In the Gulf War: Iraq fired ten Scud missiles into Saudi Arabia. All were either intercepted or fell into unpopulated areas. In Tel Aviv, however, a Scud eluded the Patriot missile defense system and struck the city, killing three people.
1992 - Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman in space. She was a member of the crew of the space shuttle Discovery which blasted off this day.
1993 - On the 20th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, U.S. President Bill Clinton lifted a series of abortion restrictions imposed by his Republican predecessors. On this day in 2001 President George Bush (II) reimposed those restrictions. On Jan 23, 2009 newly-elected Democratic President Barack Obama lifted the restrictions; and on Jan 23, 2017 newly-elected Republican President Donald Trump reimposed the restrictions -- as the tit-for-tat policy change continued.
1994 - Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg’s drama about the Holocaust, won Golden Globes for best dramatic picture and best director.
1994 - Actor Telly Savalas (Kojak) died in Universal City, CA, a day after turning 70.
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at the age of 104 at the family’s Cape Cod compound. She was the the daughter of Boston mayor John Francis Fitzgerald, known as ‘Honey Fitz’; the wife of U.S. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy; the mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; and mother of U.S. Senators Robert F. and Edward M. Kennedy.
1997 - Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Holden, best known for his hit single Love You So, died in Mexico at age 57. Love You So was Holden’s only hit, reaching number seven on Billboard June 13, 1960.
1998 - “The Unabomber’s career is over,” said prosecutor Robert Cleary. Theodore Kaczynski had pleaded guilty to being the notorious Unabomber. Kaczynski made the guilty plea in Sacramento, California in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. Kaczynski was charged with four bombings in 1985, 1993 and 1995 that killed two people and maimed two. But the plea bargain resolved all federal charges against him -- including those filed in New Jersey -- growing out of the 17-year string of 16 bombings that killed three people and injured 29.
1998 - Mary Bono, widow of singer/politician Sonny Bono, announced that she would run for the congressional seat held by her late husband -- to represent the 44th Congressional District in California, which includes Palm Springs. (She did win that seat and served in Congress from 1998 to 2013.)
1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton struggled to defuse an explosive sex scandal involving him with a former White House intern.
1999 - Gloria opened in the U.S. “Gloria. Big Mouth. Big Attitude. But Who Knew She Had a Big Heart.” The movie, starring Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Mike Starr, Bonnie Bedelia and George C. Scott, was directed by Sidney Lumet.
2000 - Food writer and restaurant critic Craig Claiborne died at a New York hospital. He was 79 years old. In 1957 he became the food editor of The New York Times and wrote The New York Times Cook Book in 1961, which became the standard text for home cookery.
2001 - Four of the seven convicts who had broken out of a Texas prison the previous month were captured southwest of Denver; a fifth inmate killed himself. (The last two escapees were caught two days later.)
2003 - World War-II cartoonist Bill Maudlin died in Newport Beach, CA. He was 81 years old. In 1945 Maudlin won a Pulitzer Prize for his war cartoons.
2004 - Actress, dancer Ann Miller died in Los Angeles at 80 years of age. She appeared in over forty motion pictures during her sixty-year career.
2004 - The Chinese New Year (Lunar Year 4702) ushered in the Year of the Monkey -- the Wood Monkey, to be exact. Each animal in the Chinese zodiac is represented by one of five ‘elements’ important to Chinese culture: wood, water, fire, earth and metal. 2016 was the year of the Fire Monkey and the next Year of the Monkey happens in 2028 -- the year of the Earth Monkey.
2005 - Businessman (and future POTUS) Donald Trump (58) married Slovenian model Melania Knauss (34) in a glamourous, glitzy ceremony. It was Trump’s third try at marital bliss.
2006 - Kobe Bryant scored 81 points against the Toronto Raptors in the Lakers’ 122-104 come-from-behind win in Los Angeles. Bryant’s total was the second highest in NBA history (after Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points on March 2, 1962).
2006 - British diplomats were accused of spying on Russia using a fake rock. The device, planted in a Moscow park, received information electronically and later transmitted it to a hand-held computer.
2007 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California criminal sentencing law because it allowed judges to add years to prison terms based on the judge’s own own fact finding. The court ruled that only juries could determine the justifcation for imposing longer prison terms on state prisoners.
2008 - The New York City Board of Health ruled that restaurant chains must list the number of calories in everything on their menus.
2008 - Australian-born actor Heath Ledger was found dead in a Manhattan apartment. He was 28 years old. The NYC medical examiner said Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs. Ledger received an Oscar nomination for his role as a troubled gay cowboy in the 2006 film, Brokeback Mountain.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay prison within one year, fulfilling his campaign promise to close a facility that critics around the world said violates the rights of detainees. Obama also banned the CIA from operating secret prisons.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell and Courtney B. Vance; Creation, with Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam, Toby Jones and Benedict Cumberbatch; Legion, starring Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Doug Jones, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Adrianne Palicki, Kevin Durand and Willa Holland; Tooth Fairy, with Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Julie Andrews, Chase Ellison, andBilly Crystal; Drool, starring Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Ashely Duggan Smith, Christopher Newhouse, Ruthie Austin and Oded Fehr; and To Save a Life, with Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg, Joshua Weigel, Steven Crowder and D. David Morin.
2010 - Beijing issued a stinging response to criticism from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that China was jamming the free flow of words and ideas on the Internet. The statement accused the U.S. of damaging relations between the two countries by hoisting its ‘information imperialism’ on China.
2010 - Police in Mexico City rescued 150 ferrets from armed robbers after a high speed chase. 14 boxes of ferrets imported from the U.S. had been taken from a truck by robbers after it left the Mexico City airport. Why were the ferrets stolen? We’re still checking into that...
2011- A Japanese rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station lifted off from the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima on a mission designed to help fill the delivery hole left by the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet.
2012 - Longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno died at 85 years of age. Paterno won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex-abuse scandal that scarred his reputation.
2013 - Suspended Catholic priest Kevin Wallin pleaded not guilty in Hartford CT to federal charges of selling crystal meth to an undercover police officer. On April 2, however, the 61-year-old Wallin pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge. He was accused of making over $300,000 in methamphetamine sales while running an adult video and sex toy shop.
2014 - The northeastern U.S. dug out from a storm that had dumped more than 15 inches of snow in some places. The frigid, windy weather closed schools and offices and delayed or canceled thousands of airline flights.
2014 - Israeli security services arrested three Palestinians in East Jerusalem. They were members of an al-Qaeda-run cell that had been planning to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office reported.
2015 - The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock ahead two minutes placing it three minutes from a catastrophic midnight due to global warming and nuclear weaponry.
2016 - Movies opening in the U.S. included The 5th Wave, with Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson and Maika Monroe; The Boy, starring Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans and Ben Robson; Dirty Grandpa, with Zoey Deutch, Robert De Niro and Zac Efron; Aferim!, starring Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu and Toma Cuzin; Rabid Dogs, with Lambert Wilson, Guillaume Gouix and Virginie Ledoyen; Exposed, starring Keanu Reeves, Ana de Armas and Mira Sorvino; Martyrs, with Troian Bellisario, Kate Burton, Caitlin Carmichael; Monkey Up, starring John Ratzenberger, Caleb Burgess and David Milchard; and Synchronicity, with Chad McKnight, Brianne Davis and A.J. Bowen.
2016 - The Obama administration said it was overhauling 30-year-old regulations for oil and gas operations on public and tribal lands. This, to limit the “wasteful release” of natural gas and curb methane emissions.
2017 - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police said they had arrested Alesandel Rodriguez of New Jersey for avoiding tolls nearly 900 times. Rodriguez owed unpaid fees of more than $56,000.
2018 - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the boundaries of the state’s 18 congressional districts, saying they violated the state constitution. Democrats had argued that the districts were gerrymandered to benefit Republicans.
2018 - Trade officials gathered in Japan for two days of talks aimed at forging a trade pact that POTUS Donald Trump had pulled the U.S. out of in 2017. The member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP), also known as TPP 11 (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam), signed the agreement March 8, 2018.
2018 - Singing superstar Neil Diamond announced that he was retiring from touring after he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Just two days before his 77th birthday, Diamond cancelled his tour dates in Australia and New Zealand for March. He was on his 50th anniversary tour. He offered his “sincerest apologies” to those who planned to go to his shows and said he planned to still write, record and work on other projects “for a long time to come.”
2019 - The European Commission fined MasterCard $650 million for breaching antitrust rules by raising payment-processing fees artificially. E.U. competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager noted that Mastercard’s actions limited merchants’ access to better options elsewhere within the bloc. Vestager said: “By preventing merchants from shopping around for better conditions offered by banks in other member states, Mastercard’s rules artificially raised the costs of card payments, harming consumers and retailers in the EU.”
2019 - Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron signed a new treaty in Aachen to update their 1963 post-war reconciliation accord (the Elysee Treaty). The agreement was intended to reinvigorate/revive the European Union’s main axis as growing ‘eurosceptic nationalism’ tested the union’s cohesion/relevance.
2019 - An Iowa state judge struck down the state’s fetal heartbeat abortion law finding it unconstitutional. In his decision striking down the abortion law, Polk County District Judge Michael Huppert cited the Iowa Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in a challenge to a different abortion-restriction law. The high court held that “a woman's right to decide whether to terminate a pregnancy is a fundamental right under the Iowa Constitution” in that ruling.
2020 - U.S. House prosecutors faced fidgeting senators as they rolled out their case against POTUS Donald Trump. In wrangling over rules for the trial, Republicans shot down, one by one, Democratic efforts to get Trump aides to testify.
2020 - Utah became the 19th U.S. state to ban the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ children. Conversion therapy has been widely discredited as unethical and damaging to recipients’ mental health. A U.K. study found that people who received conversion therapy were more likely to have suicidal thoughts, anxiety and depression.
2021 - Films scheduled to open in the U.S. included: Born a Champion, starring Dennis Quaid, Katrina Bowden and Sean Patrick Flanery; No Man’s Land, starring Jake Allyn, Frank Grillo and Jorge A. Jimenez; Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, with Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó and Benett Vilmányi; and Psycho Goreman, starring Matthew Ninaber, Kristen MacCulloch and Rick Amsbury.
2021 - Hank Aaron died at 86 years of age in Atlanta, GA. Aaron faced down racism to become one of baseball’s greatest players and its home run king.
2021 - The U.S. Senate confirmed (90-2) President Joe Biden’s nominee, retired Army General Lloyd Austin, to serve as Secretary of Defense - the first Black American in the role. And the Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved Janet Yellen’s nomination as the first woman Treasury secretary.
2021 - Legal sales of recreational marijuana started in Arizona, a once-unthinkable move for the former conservative stronghold that joined 14 other states that had broadly legalized pot.
2021 - France reported 23,292 new COVID-19 cases and 649 more deaths from the virus in the previous 24 hours as President Emmanuel Macron’s government fought against the possibility of a third national lockdown. And Germany passed the 50,000 fatality mark as 859 coronavirus deaths were reported over the previous 24 hours, taking the total to 50,642.
2022 - The Crystal Symphony cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami, sailed to the Bahamas to excape an order issued by a federal judge to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over $4 million in unpaid fuel. In June 2022 the $250 million ship was sold at auction -- for $25 million -- because of debts.
2022 - The boat of French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin was found on this day. He was missing. His boat, named Audacious, was found overturned off the Azores Islands, a mid-Atlantic Portuguese archipelago. The 75-year-old Savin had been on a solo attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
2022 - The British government said that the Kremlin was developing plans to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine, and had already chosen a potential candidate -- Ukrainian politician Yevhen Murayev. This, as Russian President Putin was on the verge of ordering Russian forces amassed on Ukraine’s border to attack.
2023 - The Chinese Year of the Rabbit began -- and started the Spring Festival. The season ended fifteen days later on the evening of the Lantern Festival. 2023 was the Year of the Water Rabbit.
2023 - Australian surfer Laura Enever set a world record riding the largest-ever wave by a woman: 43.6ft (13.3m) the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Birthdays on This Day January 22
1561 - Sir Francis Bacon
philosopher, writer: The Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum; died Apr 9, 16261788 - Lord (George) Byron
poet: Manfred, Cain, Don Juan; died Apr 19, 18241875 - D.W. (David Wark) Griffith
film producer, director: The Birth of a Nation; founded United Artists (w/Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks); died July 23, 19481890 - Frederick Vinson
13th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Congressman, WWII Director of War Mobilization; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury [1945]; died Sep 8, 19531904 - George Balanchine (Georgi Balanchivadze)
choreographer: Apollo, Orpheus, Firebird, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker; founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet; died Apr 30, 19831909 - Ann Sothern (Harriette Lake)
actress: Lady Be Good, Panama Hattie, The Whales of August, The Ann Sothern Show, voice of My Mother, the Car; died Mar 15, 20011909 - U Thant
statesman from Burma: United Nations Secretary-General [1961-1971]; died Nov 25, 19741915 - William Durnan
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, career: six Vezina Trophies, 34 shutouts, 2.36 goals-against average; died Oct 31, 19721918 - Elmer Lach
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, career: three Stanley Cups, 234 goals, 453 assists, Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy; died 4 April 2015: trombone, composer, bandleader; one of first to use the trombone in modern jazz; died Feb 4, 20011927 - Lou Creekmur
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Detroit Lions: played in eight consecutive Pro Bowls; died July 5, 20091927 - Joe Perry
Pro Football Hall of Famer: SF 49ers, Baltimore Colts: career: 12,505 combined net yards, 9,723 yards rushing, 260 receptions, 513 points, three Pro Bowls; died Apr 25, 20111931 - Sam Cooke
singer: You Send Me, Chain Gang, Wonderful World, A Change is Gonna Come; shot to death Dec 11, 19641931 - Galina Zybina
Russian Olympic Gold Medalist: women’s shot-put [1952]1932 - Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs)
actress: The Road to Galveston, Twin Peaks, Rising Son, Children of a Lesser God, The Thorn Birds, Days of Wine and Roses, Carrie, The Hustler, Francis Goes to the Races; died Oct 14, 20231934 - Bill (Wilfred Bailey) Bixby
actor: My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The Incredible Hulk, Fantasy Island, Rich Man Poor Man; died Nov 21, 19931935 - Seymour Cassel
actor: Rushmore, Bad Love, Indecent Proposal, Honeymoon in Vegas, Dick Tracy, Sweet Bird of Youth, Eye of the Tiger, Double Exposure, Valentino, Faces; died Apr 7, 20191937 - Joseph Wambaugh
LAPD officer, novelist: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Glitter Dome, Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert1939 - Jeffrey L. Smith
celebrity chef; TV personality: The Frugal Gourmet; died Jul 7, 20041939 - J.C. (Jean Claude) Tremblay
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens; WHA: Quebec Nordiques1940 - Addie Micki Harris
singer: group: The Shirelles: Dedicated to the One I Love, Tonight’s the Night, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy; died Jun 10, 19821940 - John Hurt
actor: Wild Bill, Rob Roy, Spaceballs, 1984, The Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express, A Man for All Seasons; died Jan 25, 20171940 - George Seifert
football head coach: San Francisco 49ers: Super Bowl XXIV [1989], [Super Bowl XXIX [1994]; Carolina Panthers1945 - Michael Cristofer
playwright: The Witches of Eastwick, The Bonfire of the Vanities1946 - Serge Savard
Hockey Hall of Famer: Montreal Canadiens, Winnipeg Jets: career: eight Stanley Cups, Conn Smythe Trophy, Bill Masterson Trophy1948 - Bob Stein
football: Kansas City Chiefs, linebacker: Super Bowl IV1949 - Mike (Ralph Michael) Caldwell
baseball: pitcher: SD Padres, SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers [World Series: 1982]1949 - Steve Perry
musician: drums: group: Radio Stars; Journey: Who’s Crying Now, Open Arms; solo: Oh Sherrie, Don’t Fight It [w/Kenny Loggins]1950 - Bryant Salter
football: San Diego Chargers1952 - Teddy Gentry
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: group: Alabama: When It All Goes South, Will You Marry Me, God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You, Twentieth Century, Close Enough to Perfect1954 - Chris Lemmon
actor: Thunder in Paradise series, Corporate Affairs, Weekend Warriors, Swing Shift, The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood; son of actor Jack Lemmon1955 - John Wesley Shipp
actor: Second to Die, Road Rage, Deadly Web, Green Dolphin Beat, Baby of the Bride, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter1957 - Mike Bossy
Hockey Hall of Famer: NY Islanders: career: four Stanley Cups, 573 goals, 553 assists, Calder, Lady Byng, Conn Smythe Trophies1959 - Linda Blair
actress: The Exorcist, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Airport ’75, A Woman Obsessed, Bail Out1960 - Michael Hutchence
singer: group: INXS: Suicide Blonde, Mistify, Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, Devil Inside, New Sensation, What You Need; died Nov 22, 19971964 - Maria Ellingsen
actress: The Mighty Ducks 2, No Such Thing, Agnes, The New Age, D2: The Mighty Ducks, Curacao, Foxtrot1965 - Bionca (Bradley)
actress [1984-2010]: X-rated films: The Poonies, The Rocky Porno Video Show, Beyond Thunderbone, Leather and Lace, Married with Hormones, Taboo XI, Sarah-Jane’s Love Bunnies 7, The Price Was Right1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff (Jeffrey Allen Townes)
hip-hop DJ, producer: won 1989 Grammy Award [w/Will Smith as DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince] for 1989 for Parents Just Don’t Understand1965 - Diane Lane
actress: Unfaithful, The Outsiders, The Perfect Storm, Under the Tuscan Sun, Cinema Verite, Man of Steel, Jack, Wild Bill, Oldest Confederate Widow Tells All, Judge Dredd, Chaplin, Lonesome Dove, The Cotton Club, Rumble Fish, A Little Romance1965 - Brian McCardie
actor: Rob Roy, Murphy’s Law, Lilies, Solid Air, Beyond the City Limits, 200 Cigarettes, Speed 2: Cruise Control, The Ghost and the Darkness1968 - Guy Fieri
celebrity chef, Food Network TV host: Guy’s Big Bite, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Ultimate Recipe Showdown, Guy Off the Hook1972 - Gabriel Macht
actor: Suits, The Spirit, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Because I Said So, The Recruit, Archangel, Behind Enemy Lines, Middle Men, Love and Other Drugs, S.W.A.T.: Firefight, A Bag of Hammers1974 - Annette Frier (Wünsche)
comedienne, actress: Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast, Schillerstraße, Switch, Sesamstraße [Sesame Street], Alles außer Sex, Familie Heinz Becker1975 - (Paul) Balthazar Getty
actor: White Squall, Where the Day Takes You, Young Guns 2, Lord of the Flies, Brothers & Sisters, Feast; grandson of oil magnate, J. Paul Getty1977 - Jennifer Spence
actress: Stargate Universe, Huff, Exes and Ohs, The 4400, Reunion, Write & Wrong, Killer Instinct, DaVinci’s Inquest, Catch and Release, The Truth About Miranda, The Core, Mr. St. Nick, The Heart Department, Blind Spot1979 - Carlos Ruiz
baseball [catcher]: Philadelphia Phillies [2006–2016]: 2008 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2016]; Seattle Mariners [2017])1980 - Christopher Masterson
actor: Malcolm in the Middle, Intellectual Property, Scary Movie 2, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, American History X, My Best Friend’s Wedding1981 - Beverley Mitchell
actress: 7th Heaven, The Crow: City of Angels, Killing Obsession, Sinatra, Children of the Bride1981 - Ben Moody
singer, songwriter, musician: guitar: groups: Evanescence, The Halo Method, We Are the Fallen1987 - Ray Rice
football [running back]: Rutgers Univ; NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2008–2013]: Super Bowl XLVII champs [2013]1996 - Sami Gayle
actress: Blue Bloods, Detachment, Stolen, The Congress, Hateship, Loveship, Vampire Academy, Noah; Broadway revival: Gypsy
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Hit Music on This Day January 22
1952Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
(It’s No) Sin (facts) - Eddy Howard
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