January 24
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1899 - Humphrey O’Sullivan, an Irish-American printer, patented the rubber heel on this day and, of course, nothing has ever been quite the same since. Please don’t leave black heel marks on the floor today!1922 - Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, IA patented something quite sweet: It was an ice cream confection that we commonly know as an Eskimo Pie.
1930 - Ben Bernie (Benjamin Anzelwitz) began a weekly remote broadcast from the lovely Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.
1935 - Krueger Brewing Company placed the first canned beer on sale -- in Richmond, VA. I’ll have a cold Krueger Light, please.
1936 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded one of the all-time greats, Stompin’ at the Savoy, on Victor Records. The song became such a standard, that, literally, hundreds of artists have recorded it, including a vocal version by Barry Manilow; believe it or not. The ‘King of Swing’ recorded the song in a session at the Congress Hotel in Chicago.
1942 - Abie’s Irish Rose was first heard on NBC radio this day replacing Knickerbocker Playhouse. The program was a takeoff on the smash play from Broadway that ran for nearly 2,000 performances. Sydney Smith played the part of Abie. Rosemary Murphy was played by Betty Winkler.
1946 - The United Nations established the International Atomic Energy Commission in reaction to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
1950 - Jackie Robinson signed the highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history.
1955 - The rules committee of major-league baseball announced a plan to strictly enforce the rule that required a pitcher to release the ball within 20 seconds after taking his position on the mound.
1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African-American elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1964 - Willie Shoemaker topped Eddie Arcaro’s career earnings record by riding four winners at Santa Anita race track in California. Shoemaker’s total earnings reached $30,040,005.
1965 - Sir Winston Churchill, former prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955), died from a cerebral thrombosis in London at age 90. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
1970 - James (Shep) Sheppard, lead singer of The Heartbeats (A Thousand Miles Away) and Shep & the Limelights (Daddy’s Home), was found beaten to death in his car on the Long Island Expressway in New York.
1970 - Robert Moog introduced his MiniMoog synthesizer, suitable for concert stages, and costing $2,000. The American Federation of Musicians considered banning the MiniMoog, fearing that its ability to simulate acoustic instruments could put musicians out of work.
1972 - Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered on Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.
1973 - ‘Little’ Donny Osmond, of the famed Osmond Brothers/Family, received a gold record for his album, Too Young. When he played the gold-plated disc on his Mickey Mouse phonograph, all he heard was Ben by ‘little’ Michael Jackson, a competitor in the ‘Kids Who Sing Really High Awards’ battle.
1978 - Kosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, plunged through Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrated. It scattered radioactive debris over parts of northern Canada.
1982 - Super Bowl XVI (at Pontiac): San Francisco 49ers 26, Cincinnati Bengals 21. The first cold-weather Super Bowl, the game was played in the Pontiac, Michigan Silverdome. The 49ers led 20-0 at the half, but the Bengals chased and almost caught them in the second half. MVP: 49ers QB Joe Montana. Tickets: $40.00. The CBS telecast was viewed by 110.2 million fans and CBS radio counted 14 million listeners to its broadcast of the game.
1985 - Penny Harrington became the first woman police chief of a major city. She assumed the duties as head of the Portland, Oregon force of 940 officers and staff.
1986 - Singer and actor Gordon MacRae died of cancer in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 64. MacRae starred in many memorable movies, such as Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, Oklahoma! and Carousel. He also starred on television as host of the Colgate Comedy Hour and Lux Television Theatre. And he recorded many show tunes, primarily for Capitol Records. He fought a long battle against alcoholism, and once said that he had been so drunk during a concert in Greenville, South Carolina that he couldn’t remember any song lyrics. MacRae suffered a stroke in 1982 but struggled to keep performing until the cancer overtook him in 1985.
1989 - Confessed serial killer Theodore Bundy was put to death in Florida’s electric chair for the 1978 kidnap-murder of one of his victims.
1993 - Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall died in Bethesda, MD. He was 84 years old.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton promoted William J. Perry, the Pentagon’s second in command, to the post of Secretary of Defense.
1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler) that protesters who block access to abortion clinics or in other ways conspire to stop women from having abortions may be sued under federal anti-racketeering statutes.
1995 - Amid unprecedented media attention, the murder trial of Hall-of-Fame football star O.J. Simpson began in Los Angeles Superior Court. Simpson was accused of killing his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1996 - Specialist Michael New was discharged from the U.S. Army after a court-martial jury convicted him for refusing to wear a U.N. beret for a peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia.
1997 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The comedy Fierce Creatures, starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin; the drama In Love and War, with Sandra Bullock, Chris O'donnell, Mackenzie Astin and Emilio Bonucci; the drama Kolya, starring Zdenek Sverak, Andrej Chalimon, Libuse Safrankova and Ondrez Vetchy; the true-life story Prefontaine, with Jared Leto, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'neill and Breckin Meyer; and the family-oriented flick Zeus and Roxanne, about a dog and a dolphin, with Steve Guttenberg, Kathleen Quinlan, Arnold Vosloo and Dawn Mcmillan.
1998 - The soundtrack album from Titanic hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and kept that position for 15 weeks.
1999 - The International Olympic Committee voted to expel six IOC members after charges that they had accepted money and other compensation from officials from cities bidding to host the Olympics. The cities included Sydney, Australia (2000 summer games) and Salt Lake City, Utah (2002 winter games).
1999 - In the 56th Golden Globe Awards Saving Private Ryan was named best dramatic film of 1998, Spielberg won for directing it. Shakespeare in Love won for best musical or comedy.
2000 - A vicious Sunday storm toppled trees onto cars and houses, dropped snow and freezing rain on the southern Appalachians, and spread locally heavy rain across coastal areas of Georgia and the Carolinas. 150,000 utility customers, mostly in the Atlanta area, without heat or electricity following the icy storm.
2001 - The last two of seven escaped convicts from Texas were captured in Colorado after 42 days on the run. Four others had been captured earlier, and one committed suicide.
2002 - The Florida state pension fund reported a $325 million loss from the demise of Enron. The University of California said it had lost $145 million on its Enron investments.
2003 - Movies making debuts in the U.S.: Chicago, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, Mya and Queen Latifah; and Darkness Falls with Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield, Joshua Anderson, Andrew Bayly, Emily Browning, Lee Cormie, Peter Curtin, Daniel Daperis, Rebecca McCauley, Kestie Morassi, Steve Mouzakis, Alannah Oliver, Grant Piro, Angus Sampson, Christian Schaeffer, Peter Stanton and Sullivan Stapleton.
2003 - The Department of Homeland Security (under Tom Ridge) became the 15th Cabinet department in the U.S.
2004 - Howard Dean sharply questioned John Kerry’s judgment on Iraq as Democratic presidential rivals raced through a final weekend of campaigning before the New Hampshire primary. This, as New Hampshire polling experts at American Research Group reported Kerry’s lead widening over Dean.
2004 - NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars, arriving at the Red Planet exactly three weeks after Spirit, its identical twin, landed.
2005 - The Mémorial de la Shoah opened in Paris, featuring the Wall of Names holocaust memorial.
2005 - JP Morgan Chase bank apologized for its predecessors (Canal Bank and Citizens’ Bank), which accepted slaves as collateral.
2005 - Alan Roy Williams, a U.K. doctor was charged with serious professional misconduct. The doctor had given evidence against Sally Clark who, it turned out, was wrongfully convicted of the murder of her two sons.
2006 - Merger mania raged on: Disney and Pixar animation studios merged in a US$7.4 billion deal; and CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. announce they would merge UPN and The WB TV networks into a new network called The CW.
2007 - Some 2,400 registered participants gathered at Davos, Switzerland, for the 4-day World Economic Forum, whose theme for 2007 was: The Shifting Power Equation.
2008 - U.S. congressional leaders put together a program of tax rebates ($300 to $1,200 for households), and business tax cuts, to jolt a jittery economy.
2008 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) announced that he was “transitioning out” of the U.S. presidential campaign.
2009 - A European windstorm named Klaus killed 11 people in Spain, including four children who were killed when a sports center collapsed near Barcelona. The storm also killed four people in France and was responsible for some 27 deaths in all.
2010 - Actor Pernell Roberts died at his home in Malibu, CA. He was 81 years old. Roberts played Adam, the eldest Cartwright son, in the Bonanza TV series from 1959 to 1965. He later played the lead in the series, Trapper John M.D.
2010 - The New Orleans Saints edged the Minnesota Viking 31-28 in the NFC Championship game; and the Indianapolis Colts beat the New York Jets 30-17 to win the AFC football championship.
2011 - The California Supreme Court ruled that cities and counties do not have to consult with unions before deciding to lay off workers to save money.
2011 - The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in its "World Report 2011" that Saudi Arabia’s government was harassing and jailing activists, often without trial, for speaking out in favor of expanding religious tolerance and that new restrictions on electronic communication in the kingdom were severe.
2012 - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney bowed to political pressure and released some of his U.S. tax returns. The numbers showed he and his wife Ann paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent in 2010 and expected to pay a 15.4 percent effective tax rate in 2011. These were lower effective tax rates than those of many top U.S. wage-earners.
2012 - A U.S. federal jury awarded $22 million to Stephen Slevin, who had been kept in solitary confinement for two years. He was forced to pull his own tooth during his confinement in Dona Ana County. He had been arrested (for intoxication) while driving through the southern New Mexico county in August 2005. He wound up in solitary confinement because he was suffering from depression and someone checked a box on a form indicating that he was suicidal. Slevin was never convicted and was released in June 2007.
2013 - California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to reinstate a U.S. ban on assault weapons. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 centered on banning military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. (Incredibly, the legislation went down to defeat in the Senate in April 2013.)
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included I, Frankenstein, with Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy, Jai Courtney and Aaron Eckhart; 24 Exposures, starring Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett and Helen Rogers; Enemies Closer, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Everett Scott and Orlando Jones; Gimme Shelter, with Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser and Rosario Dawson; Knights of Badassdom, starring Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau and Margarita Levieva; and Run & Jump, with Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam and Will Forte.
2014 - Talks stopped in Geneva between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and the Western-backed opposition that wanted to overthrow him. The collapse of the talks was a major setback for the peace conference that had been intended to halt the Syrian civil war that had killed 130,000 people.
2015 - Spanish police arrested four suspected Islamist extremists who were preparing to launch attacks in Spain. Officers said the suspects had “a very similar profile” to the killers in the Islamist attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but made no material link between the two cases.
2016 - 55-year-old Henry Worsley died in an attempt to make history by crossing the Antarctic alone in a trip backed by members of the royal family. On Jan 22, the British adventurer had been airlifted to a hospital in Chile after suffering from exhaustion and severe dehydration. He was just 30 miles short of his goal.
2017 - Pope Francis demanded the obedience of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta -- and his resignation. The Vatican said that it was taking over the embattled organization after its leader, 67-year-old Mathew Festing, defied Pope Francis in a dispute over condoms.
2017 - FBI Director James Comey said POTUS Trump had asked him to stay on as head of the law enforcement agency.
2017 - Israel’s government approved the construction of 2,500 new homes in West Bank settlements. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the approval “in response to housing needs.” The election of President Trump had emboldened pro-settlement lawmakers, including Lieberman and Netanyahu because Trump had indicated that he would be more sympathetic to Israeli settlement construction. The Palestinians were quick to condemn the plans for the new settlement homes. A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli plans had dealt a blow to attempts to bring peace to the region and would promote extremism and terrorism.
2018 - The European Union fined U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm $1.23 billion for abusing its market dominance in smartphone and tablet components for half a decade. E.U. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that San Diego-based Qualcomm “illegally shut out rivals from the market” for more than five years by paying key customer Apple to not use chips made by Qualcomm’s rivals.
2018 - The Mount Mayon volcano in the Philippines belched red-hot lava and clouds of ash and debris at least four times on this day, and the number of displaced villagers rose to some 74,000. The eruptions caused officials to brace for a humanitarian emergency they fear could last for months.
2019 - Adelaide sweltered through a bistering 46.6 degrees Celsius (115.9 degrees F). It was the the hottest day recorded by a major Australian city.
2019 - Europe’s top rights court ordered Italy to pay thousands of euros in damages to Amanda Knox, the American student acquitted in 2015 of the gruesome killing of her British housemate after spending years behind bars. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, said in its ruling that Italy hadn’t succeeded in proving that “the restriction of Ms. Knox’s access to a lawyer ... had not irreparably undermined the fairness of the proceedings as a whole." It ruled that Italy pay Knox 18,400 euros ($20,000) in damages, costs and expenses.
2020 - Films opening on U.S. theatre screens this day included: The Gentlemen, starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Michelle Dockery; Run, with Sarah Paulson, Pat Healy and Bradley Sawatzky; The Turning, starring Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard and Brooklynn Prince; Assassin 33 A.D., with Donny Boaz, Heidi Montag and Susan Gallagher; Color Out of Space, starring Nicolas Cage, Q’orianka Kilcher, Joely Richardson and Tommy Chong; Elsewhere, with Ray Abruzzo, Marc Bendavid and Beau Bridges; Panga, starring Kangana Ranaut, Jassie Gill and Richa Chadha; and Zombi Child, with Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat and Katiana Milfort.
2020 - Donald Trump threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds because of the state requirement that insurance plans cover abortions. In a letter to Health and Human Services Department California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said, “The Trump Administration’s threats not only put women’s health on the line, but illegally threaten crucial public health funding that Californians rely on."
2020 - Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, the husband-and-wife owners of DC Solar pleaded guilty to involvement in an estimated $912 million Ponzi scheme. Their California solar company caused Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc to take a $377 million charge in 2019. The company offered investors huge federal tax incentives to lease mobile solar generators, typically used at racetracks and concert venues, or to power remote cell phone towers during power outages. But prosecutors said the company vastly overstated the number of generators it produced and leased, and that the Carpoffs used money from investors “to present the appearance they operated a successful and legitimate business to continue to attract and lull investors.”
2020 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a second case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). And as many as 63 potential cases in the U.S. were being investigated as the sometimes fatal illness continued to spread.
2021 - The Chicago Teachers Union announced that its members had voted to defy an order to return to classrooms before they were vaccinated.
2021 - The New York Times reported that Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania had arranged for Donald Trump to meet Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a Justice Department official earlier in the month. While thinking of continuing his fight against the election results, Trump had been considering naming Clark to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.
2021 - Egypt launched a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, with the first shots of Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm’s vaccine given to healthcare workers in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia.
2022 - The James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its new home, the second Lagrange point (Lagrange points are positions in space where objects sent there tend to stay put), as it orbits the sun alongside Earth, a million miles away.
2022 - A federal court rejected the Alabama legislature’s redrawn U.S. congressional district map for November elections. The court said it likely violated the Voting Rights Act and stood to deny Black voters an additional representative.
2023 - The Doomsday Clock was reset to 90 seconds until midnight, the closest it had been since its start in 1947. The reset by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was due mainly to the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine.
2023 - A federal jury in New York found former Manhattan gynecologist Robert Hadden guilty of sexually abusing women during what were supposed to be routine examinations. The former Columbia University gynecologist was convicted on all four charges he faced of enticing former patients to cross state lines for illegal sexual activity. The charges stemmed from allegations relating to the abuse of four women who traveled from New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania for appointments with Hadden. The women were among dozens Hadden has been accused of abusing. “Robert Hadden was a predator in a white coat,” said Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. (In July 2023 Hadden was sentenced to 20 years in prison.)
2023 - U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin claimed her 83rd World Cup win on the Kronplatz mountain in northern Italy, breaking the record she briefly shared with fellow American Lindsey Vonn since tying it earlier in the month. Shiffren burst out of the gate and never trailed any of her rivals in the record-setting race, seizing the lead in her first run. Swiss rival Lara Gut-Behrami came back from a slower start to challenge Shiffrin on the bottom of the course, but finished 0.13 seconds behind her, followed closely by Italian Federica Brignone. In the decisive second run, Gut-Behrami finished third but was fast enough to take second-place overall. Shiffrin celebrated with U.S. Alpine teammates already wearing T-shirts touting the record win.
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Birthdays on This Day January 24
1862 - Edith Wharton (Jones)
Pulitzer Prize winning author: The Age of Innocence [1921]; died Aug 11, 19371905 - Marvin ‘Cyclone’ Wentworth
hockey: Chicago Cardinals, Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Maroons, Montreal Canadiens; died Oct 10, 19821909 - Ann Todd
actress: The Human Factor, Scream of Fear, Madeleine, The Seventh Veil; died May 6, 19931916 - Jack (John Beasley) Brickhouse
Radio Hall of Famer: WGN, Mutual Broadcasting System, DuMont Television Network; died Aug 6, 19981916 - C. Gene Mako
tennis: U.S. Open runner-up [1938]; died Jun 14, 20131917 - Ernest Borgnine
Academy Award-winning actor: Marty [1955], The Poseidon Adventure, The Dirty Dozen, McHale’s Navy; died Jul 8, 20121918 - Oral Roberts
evangelist: founder: Oral Roberts University; died Dec 15, 20091920 - Jerry Maren
actor: The Wizard of Oz [Munchkin who hands Dorothy a welcoming lollipop]; The Beverly Hillbillies, The Wild Wild West [TV], Lidsville, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, No Soap, Radio, Wizards and Warriors, Seinfeld; died May 24, 20181925 - Gus Mortson
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs [all-star: 1949], Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings; died Aug 8, 20151925 - Maria (Betty Marie) Tallchief
prima ballerina: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, New York City Ballet; formed ballet troupe and school (1974) which became Chicago City Ballet [1980]; wife of choreographer George Balanchine; died Apr 11, 20131933 - Zeke Carey
singer: group: The Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes for You, That’s My Desire, Golden Teardrops, Jump Children, Dream of a Lifetime, Ko Ko Mo [I Love You So]; died Dec 24, 19991936 - Doug Kershaw
musician: Cajun fiddle, songwriter, singer: Louisiana Man, Diggy Liggy Lo1937 - Julie Gregg
actress: The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Hell of Borneo, The Seekers; died Nov 7, 20161939 - Ray Stevens (Harold Ray Ragsdale)
singer, entertainer: Everything Is Beautiful, Mr. Businessman; #1 novelty recording artist: Ahab, the Arab, Gitarzan, The Streak1941 - Neil Diamond
singer/songwriter: Cherry, Cherry, Cracklin’ Rosie, Song Sung Blue, Beautiful Noise, Longfellow Serenade, Forever in Blue Jeans, I Am, I Said, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers [w/Barbra Streisand]; actor/singer: The Jazz Singer, America, Love on the Rocks, Hello, Again1941 - Aaron Neville
Grammy Award-winning singer: Healing Chant [w/Neville Brothers: 1989], Don’t Know Much [w/Linda Ronstadt: 1989], All My Life [w/Linda Ronstadt: 1990], I Fall to Pieces [w/Trisha Yearwood: 1994]; singer: Tell It Like It Is; solo: LPs: Warm Your Heart, The Grand Tour, Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas1941 - Neil Diamond
singer/songwriter: Sunday & Me [Jay & The Americans], I’m a Believer, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You [The Monkees], soundtrack: Jonathan Livingston Seagull; singer: Cherry, Cherry, Cracklin’ Rosie, Song Sung Blue, Beautiful Noise, If You Know What I Mean, Yesterday’s Songs, Longfellow Serenade, Forever in Blue Jeans, I Am, I Said, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers [w/Barbra Streisand]; actor: The Jazz Singer, America, Love on the Rocks, Hello, Again1943 - Sharon Tate
actress: Valley of the Dolls, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Wrecking Crew; murdered by members of the Manson family Aug 9, 19691944 - Bobby Lee Bryant
football: Minnesota Vikings corner back, Super Bowls VIII, XI1945 - Elaine Giftos
actress: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Student Nurses, Gas-s-s-s, The Wrestler, Paternity, Angel, Mars and Beyond1946 - Michael Ontkean
actor: Legacy of Lies, Twin Peaks, Postcards from the Edge, Slap Shot, Peacekillers1947 - Michio Kaku
theoretical physicist, futurist: professor of theoretical physics at City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center; author: Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, The Future of the Mind; TV host: BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel1947 - Warren Zevon
singer, songwriter: Werewolves of London, She Quit Me Man, Hasten Down the Wind, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner, The Envoy; died Sep 7, 2003; more1949 - John (Adam) Belushi
comedian: Second City improvisational troupe, original cast: Saturday Night Live; actor: 1941, The Blues Brothers; older brother of actor Jim Belushi; died Mar 5, 19821949 - Guy Charron
hockey: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, KC Scouts, Washington Capitals; assistant coach: Calgary Flames, NY Islanders1951 - Yakov Smirnoff
comedian: What a Country; actor: Night Court, Up Your Alley, Heartburn, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension1956 - Pat Skelton
actor: Soulkeeper, Braxton, One on One, All My Children1958 - Jools (Julian) Holland
musician: keyboard: groups: Squeeze: Goodbye Girl, Up the Junction, Cool for Cats; The The: Uncertain Smile, This Is the Day, Kingdom of Rain, Jealous of Youth; solo: LP: Jools Holland & The Millionaires1961 - Nastassja Kinski
actress: Terminal Velocity, The Hotel New Hampshire, Paris Texas, Exposed, Tess, For Your Love Only1963 - Keech Rainwater
musician: drums: group: Lonestar: Don’t Know Why, Amazed, I’m Already There, Saturday Night, Come Cryin’ to Me, What Would It Take1964 - Rob (Robert Keith) Dibble
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1990/all-star: 1990, 1991], Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers1966 - Kim Saiki
golf: champ: U.S. Girls Junior Amateur Golf Championship [1983]; 67th on the all-time LPGA money list1967 - Phil LaMarr
actor: Fronterz, Back by Midnight, Manna from Heaven, The Assistant, A Man is Mostly Water, Kill the Man, The Thin Pink Line1968 - Chris Warren
football: Ferrum Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles1968 - Mary Lou Retton
International Gymnastics Hall of Famer; Olympic medalist [1 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze: Los Angeles: 1984]; first American woman to win an individual medal in gymnastics1969 - Stephanie Romanov
actress: It is What It Is, Tricks, Thirteen Days, Sunset Strip, Dark Spiral, Cadillac, Menno’s Mind, Spy Hard1970 - Matthew Lillard
TV host: SK8 TV; actor: In the Name of the King, The Groomsmen, Without a Paddle, The Perfect Score, Spanish Judges1971 - Cory Bailey
baseball: Boston Red Sox, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, KC Royals1972 - Muriel Baumeister
actress: Das Bernstein-Amulett, Ich schenk dir einen Seitensprung, Dracula, Vogelforscher, Mein Freund, der Bulle, Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!1972 - Allison DuBois
author, medium: used her psychic abilities to assist U.S. law enforcement officials in solving crimes; the TV drama Medium [2005-2011] was based on Allison DuBois’s book, Don’t Kiss Them Good-Bye; more1973 - Chris Ferraro
hockey: NY Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, NY Islanders, Washington Capitals, Phoenix Coyotes; twin brother of hockey player Peter Ferraro; more1973 - Peter Ferraro
hockey: NY Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Phoenix Coyotes; twin brother of hockey player Chris Ferraro; more1974 - Ed Helms
comedian, actor: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Office, The Hangover film series, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Jeff, Who Lives at Home1976 - Victoria Sanchez
actress: Noel, Choice: The Henry Morgentaler Story, Wolf Girl, Satan’s School for Girls, P.T. Barnum, This is My Father1977 - Johann Urb
actor: Zoolander, Fear of Feathers, CSI: Miami, The Hottie and the Nottie, Eastwick, Resident Evil: Retribution, NCIS1978 - Kristen Schaal
actress, comedian: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Flight of the Conchords, Bob’s Burgers, 30 Rock, Gravity Falls1979 - Jennifer Alden
actress: Wedding Crashers, Surrogates, Blind Dating, Alpha Males Experiment, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, Surrogates, Convincing Clooney1979 - Tatyana Ali
singer: Everytime, Boy You Knock Me Out, Daydreamin’, Kiss the Sky; actress: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Brother, Back in the Day, Nora’s Hair Salon, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, Jawbreaker1980 - Nicole Marie Lenz
actress: Seeing Other People, Confidence, Rent Control, First Strike1984 - Justin Baldoni
actor: Jane the Virgin, Madam Secretary, A Fine Step; director: Five Feet Apart, Clouds1986 - Mischa Barton
actress: Octane, Julie Johnson, Skipped Parts, The Sixth Sense, Notting Hill, Polio Water1986 - Ricky Ullman
actor: Pixel Perfect, The Boys of Sunset Ridge, Growing Up Brady, Crossfire, Phil of the Future1987 - Brian Cushing
football [linebacker]: Univ of Southern California; NFL: Houston Texans: Pro Bowl [2009]1988 - Jade Ewen
actress, songwriter, singer: group: The Sugababes: About a Girl, Wear My Kiss; actress: Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle, The Bill; TV talent judge: Eurovision: Your Country Needs You!1995 - Callan McAuliffe
actor: Flipped, I Am Number Four, Underground: The Julian Assange Story, The Great Gatsby [2013], The Stanford Prison Experiment2003 - Johnny Orlando
songwriter, singer: gained fame for covers of pop songs by artists such as Austin Mahone, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Shawn Mendes on his YouTube channel; won MTV Europe Music Award for Best Canadian Act four times in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022; LP: All the Things That Could Go Wrong
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Hit Music on This Day January 24
1945Don’t Fence Me In (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
There Goes That Song Again (facts) - Russ Morgan
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