July 2
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Events on This Day
1850 - The gas mask was patented (U.S. patent #7476) on this day. It was an invention of Benjamin J. Lane of Cambridge, MA.1867 - New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business. The half-mile test section was built by Charles T. Harvey on single columns. It ran along the curb line of Greenwich Street, between Battery Place and Dey Street.
1921 - The first prize fight offering a million-dollar gate was broadcast on radio. Jack Dempsey knocked out George Carpentier in the fourth round of the bout in Jersey City, NJ.
1929 - Ruby Keeler starred in Flo Ziegfeld’s production of Show Girl which opened in New York City. Critics liked the show.
1933 - Baseball great Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants hurled 18 innings of shutout ball to lead the Giants to a 1-0 win over St. Louis in the first half of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants took the nightcap, as well, by an identical 1-0 score.
1939 - The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC radio. Mother Aldrich was heard to call, “Hen-ree! Henry Aldrich!” Mrs. Aldrich was named Alice; Mr. Aldrich was Sam; Henry’s sister was Mary; Henry’s mischief-making friend was Homer Brown; and Henry’s girlfriend was Kathleen. Henry, of course was, well, Henry.
1940 - The British merchant ship Arandora Star was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. Ironically, the ship had been transporting German and Italian prisoners to Canada. More than 800 of the 1,200 prisoners and crew on board died.
1940 - The Lake Washington floating bridge was opened. The bridge, designed by the engineer Homer Hadley, floated on hollow concrete pontoons. The bridge connected Mercer Island to Seattle, Washington.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio ran his hitting streak to 45 straight games, with a home run off Boston’s Heber Newsome. The ‘Yankee Clipper’ broke the record set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897.
1942 - Jo Stafford joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra for Manhattan Serenade, which was recorded for Victor Records. The recording session, you may have guessed, took place in Manhattan.
1946 - Arthur Godfrey began hosting what was to become one of radio’s top shows, Talent Scouts. The Old Redhead uncovered new, fresh talent on CBS radio each week through Oct 1, 1956.
1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. The U.S. Air Force later insisted it was only a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts gave rise to speculation it might have been an alien spacecraft.
1951 - NBC radio presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a network radio show. The comedians had previously been heard on WHDH Radio in Boston, MA.
1955 - “Ah one anna two...” ABC Television premiered The Lawrence Welk Show. In Welk’s 24-piece band was the ‘Champagne Lady’, Alice Lon.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded Hound Dog and Don’t Be Cruel for his new record label home, RCA Victor. In addition, Elvis recorded Any Way You Want Me for later release.
1963 - The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Mia Farrow, opened (off-Broadway). Farrow got good reviews from the critics and a new show biz career was underway.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The law included the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, not only where the registration of voters was involved, but also in public accommodations, in publicly owned or operated facilities, in employment and union membership.
1973 - Deaths on this day: George Macready (73), actor (Peyton Place) died of emphysema) in Los Angeles, CA; and Swede Savage died from injuries suffered in a crash at the Indianapolis 500 (May 30, 1973).
1976 - North and South Vietnam were reunited to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It had been divided since 1954. Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the former president of North Vietnam.
1978 - The discovery of Charon, a satellite of Pluto, was announced. The new satellite was named after the ferryman who rowed souls across the River Styx to Pluto’s realm in the underworld of Greek and Roman mythology.
1980 - Jimmy Carter issued a Presidential Proclamation that ordered registration procedures to begin once again. All males born in 1960 and 1961 were ordered to register for the U.S. military draft.
1982 - Larry Walters, a Los Angeles truck driver, floated 16,000 feet into the air with 45 weather balloons attached to a lawn chair.
1984 - Epic Records set a record as two million copies of the Jacksons’ album, Victory, were shipped to stores. It was the first time that such a large shipment had been initially sent to retailers. The LP arrived just days before Michael and his brothers started their hugely successful Victory Tour.
1985 - Joe Niekro earned win #200 in his career by leading the Houston Astros to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in the Astrodome. Joe, famous for the knuckle ball, has a brother, Phil, who also threw the wacky pitch.
1988 - Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from one album when Dirty Diana went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The other four chart-toppers from Bad were I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man in the Mirror.
1990 - A stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Mecca (in Saudi Arabia) caused 1,426 pilgrims to be trampled to death. It was the worst (of several) Hajj pilgrimage-related tragedy.
1991 - Actress Lee Remick died in Los Angeles of cancer at 55 years of age. Remick was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the alcoholic wife (Kirsten Arnesen Clay) of Joe Clay (played by Jack Lemmon) in Days of Wine and Roses (1962).
1994 - A USAir DC-9 jetliner crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. 37 of the 57 people on board were killed.
1994 - Conchita Martinez won the women’s Wimbledon title, defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
1996 - Electricity and phone service was knocked out for more than two million consumers in the western half of the U.S. Three key power lines failed. Officials said sabotage was an unlikely cause for the outage. Even some UFO theories have been put forth...
1997 - Men in Black opened in the U.S. It’s a fun-filled sci-fi tale about a secret organization that’s been keeping track of extra-terrestrial aliens on Earth for over 40 years. This organization so secret that when you retire, your memory of it is erased! Agents Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith) expose a plot by intergalactic terrorist Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) who has beamed (or whatever) to Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. Complex, but hilarious, but action packed. Audiences beamed (or whatever) to theatres the first weekend, spending $51.07 million on the movie. Also opening this day: Out to Sea, with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon, Gloria Dehaven, Brent Spiner, Elaine Stritch, Hal Linden, Donald O’Connor, Rue Mcclanahan, Edward Mulhare, Alexandra Powers and Sean O’Bryan; and Wild America, starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Scott Bairstow, Frances Fisher and Jamey Sheridan.
1999 - Author Mario Puzo died of heart failure. He was 78. Puzo’s bestseller The Godfather sold more than 21 million copies worldwide. He wrote two sequels. With the help of director Francis Ford Coppola, Puzo adapted the series to the big screen. Two of the movies earned Puzo and Coppola Oscars.
1999 - The Spike Lee-directed Summer of Sam debuted in the U.S. The crime drama stars John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino and Jennifer Esposito.
2000 - Opposition candidate Vicente Fox won Mexico’s presidential election, ending the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) 71-year reign (the longest ruling political dynasty in the world). Fox said, “I will undertake to form a plural, honest and capable government. A government that incorporates our country's very best citizens. I, Vicente Fox, give my word as a free and honest Mexican, I give my word to the nation and to history that I will do everything in my power to achieve a better future, without limits or reluctance, and with true love and passion.”
2000 - World Pride 2000 a weeklong festival celebrating gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender life began in Rome, Italy with a gala opening concert and anti-gay demonstrations.
2001 - The first self-contained artificial heart, AbioCor, was implanted at Jewish Hospital, Louisville, KY. Robert L. Tools (59) lived 151 days with the device.
2002 - Jazz bassist Ray Brown died in Indianapolis, IN. He was 75 years old.
2003 - Films opening in the U.S.: Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, with Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Bob Newhart, Luke Wilson, Jennifer Coolidge, Regina King, Jessica Cauffiel and Alanna Ubach; Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, starring Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert and Adriano Giannini; Swimming Pool, with Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier and Charles Dance; and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews, Mark Famiglietti, Earl Boen, Moira Harris, Chopper Bernet and Christopher Lawford.
2004 - Scientists from the U.S., Great Britain and Kenya reported finding a 900,000-year-old skull fragment of a small adult. The piece, showing some characteristics of Homo erectus, had been found in 2003 in Olorgesalie, 100 miles southeast of Nairobi, Kenya.
2005 - Screenwriter Ernest Lehman died at 89 years of age. His work included the screenplays for The King and I, West Side Story, The Prize, The Sound of Music, Hello, Dolly! and North by Northwest.
2006 - Jan Murray died. Murray was a stand-up comedian, TV game-show host and actor who appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. He hosted the TV quiz show Treasure Hunt from 1956 to 1959. His TV and movie acting roles included The Busy Body, Who Killed Teddy Bear, History of the World Part I, Love, American Style, The Name of the Game and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
2006 - This was presidential election day in Mexico. Felipe Calderon was eventually declared the winner and assumed office on Dec 1, 2006. The 43-year-old Calderon described himself as “the candidate of jobs.” He defeated (by less than 0.3% of the vote) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose motto was, “For everyone’s good, the poor first.”
2007 - Australia’s second largest retailer, Coles, announced that it had agreed to a 22 billion dollar (18.7 billion US) buyout offer from conglomerate Wesfarmers. It was the largest corporate deal in Australian history.
2007 - U.S. President George Bush (II) commuted the 30-month jail term imposed on former White House aide Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby.
2007 - Opera star Beverly Sills died in Manhattan. She was 78 years old. Sills began performing in the days of radio and appeared later in life in movie-theater broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera, where she performed as a singer, then became chairwoman of the board.
2008 - Colombian military intelligence agents tricked leftist rebels into handing over presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt (kidnapped in 2002), three U.S. military contractors (captured in 2003) and 10 other hostages. The captives were rescued in a helicopter operation so successful that not a single shot was fired. In 2009 Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves authored Out of Captivity, a memoir of their 5½ year captivity by Colombia's leftist rebels.
2009 - U.S. Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s $7 million Manhattan penthouse. The action forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind.
2009 - Manabu Kurita caught a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth bass on Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest lake. The Florida-based International Game Fish Association credited him with tying the 77-year-old world record for catching the biggest largemouth bass.
2010 - The Chicago City Council approved a strict handgun ordinance. City officials said is was the strictest handgun law in the U.S. The ordinance banned gun shops in Chicago and prohibited gun owners from stepping outside their homes, even onto their porches or in their garages, with their handguns.
2011 - The Vatican reported that it was financially back in the black in 2010, after three straight years in the red. The Catholic Church made a profit of $14.3 million in 2010. Donations from the faithful fell 18%, or nearly $15 million.
2012 - Dell Inc. announced that it had agreed to buy Quest Software Inc. for $2.4 billion, “to expand its business-facing capabilities.”
2012 - Barclays chairman Marcus Agius resigned, paying the price for the ‘devastating damage’ to the bank caused by the rigging of key global interest rates which sullied London’s image as a financial center. Agius, who had chaired the bank for six years, will remain in his post until a successor was found. The bank was fined for attempting to fix interest rates, known as the London interbank offered rate (Libor) and the European equivalent, Euribor. These are two benchmarks that are the basis for pricing an array of financial products, potentially affecting the price at which households and businesses borrow money.
2012 - European aerospace company Airbus announced the opening of its first jet assembly line in the U.S. -- in Mobile, Alabama.
2013 - A German court convicted a married couple of passing European Union and NATO secrets to Moscow over a span of two decades. Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag were known only by the fake names on the Austrian passports they used to enter Germany.
2014 - Films opening in U.S. theatres included Deliver Us from Evil, starring Eric Bana, Édgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Dorian Missick and Antoinette LaVecchia; Earth to Echo, with Teo Halm, Astro and Reese Hartwig; School Dance, starring Bobb'e J. Thompson, Luenell and Mike Epps; and Tammy, with Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Toni Collette, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Falcone, Sandra Oh, Mia Rose Frampton, Kathy Bates, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Nat Faxon and Sarah Baker.
2014 - Sao Paulo police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse thousands of soccer fans who had been raucously celebrating Argentina’s 1-0 World Cup victory over Switzerland the previous day. (Argentina went on to beat Belgium 1-0, Netherlands 4-2 and Brazil 3-0, before losing a nail biting, 1-0 final game to Germany on July 13, 2014.)
2015 - U.S. Department of Justice reported that BP Plc had reached a settlement to pay about $18.7 billion in damages for water pollution caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The agreement settled claims against BP by the U.S. and the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and Florida.
2016 - A record-breaking number of Americans were traveling over the July 4 weekend, sparking safety concerns. This, after a particularly deadly year on the roads and security concerns in the wake of recent national and international terror attacks.
2016 - Accusing political rival Hillary Clinton of corruption, Donald Trump sent a nasty tweet using a six-pointed Star of David -- a well-known Jewish symbol -- overlaid on piles of money. The graphic appeared to be photoshopped from several different elements, including a FOX poll that found 58 percent of voters believed Clinton to be “corrupt.” It was juxtaposed against a photo of Clinton and a riff off her own campaign statement about making history as the first presumptive female nominee of a major party.
2017 - 29-year-old Australian Jeff Horn stunned 38-year-old world champion Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines to win the World Boxing Organization welterweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision. Some 50,000 people attended the match at Lang Park in Brisbane, Australia.
2018 - The SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered some 6,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station. The supplies included the round AI robot, Cimon, from the German Space Agency. Cimon was developed to assist German astronaut Alexander Gerst with science experiments.
2018 - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the landslide winner of Mexico’s presidential election, said that he would try to keep Mexico in the NAFTA trade pact and seek a frank dialogue and friendly ties with the U.S. Obrador also said he intended to put his presidency to a referendum in three years (half-way through his six-year term), giving the public a chance to have its say on whether he should continue his presidency.
2018 - Thai navy SEALS and two British volunteer divers helped find the ‘wild Boar’ soccer team after struggling for hours through narrow passages and murky waters. 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach were trapped by floodwater on June 23, after they set out to explore the caves in a forest park following a training session.
2019 - Spider-Man: Far From Home opened on U.S. theatre screens. The action, adventure, comedy stars Tom Holland, Angourie Rice, Zendaya, Jake Gyllenhaal, Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders.
2019 - Bill Courtright, the former (resigned from office a day earlier) Democratic mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to charges that he shook down businesses for bribes and campaign contributions. Prosecutors read aloud the contents of several recorded conversations between Courtright, his employees, and city vendors. All described situations where Courtright expected payment for city contracts and permits.
2019 - A lightning strike set a Kentucky Jim Beam warehouse on fire and destroyed about 45,000 barrels of bourbon. The site burned for days and runoff of alcohol and firefighting chemicals bled into nearby rivers and creeks. The nearly 23-mile alcohol plume moved through the Kentucky River and into the Ohio River where it dissipated. Dead fish were found along 62 miles of Glenns Creek and the Kentucky River. In December Kentucky fined Jim Beam $600,000 for the river pollution.
2019 - The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said it would triple the number of people it was providing food and cash assistance to in northeastern Congo’s Ituri province. The area was facing inter-ethnic violence -- and an Ebola epidemic.
2020 - The U.S. reported more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases, the largest daily increase of any country during the pandemic.
2020 - A U.N. report said the world’s mountain of discarded flat-screen TVs, cellphones and other electronic goods grew to a record high in the previous year. The study estimated the amount of e-waste that piled up globally in 2019 to be some 53.6 million metric tonnes (59.1 million tons) - almost 2 million metric tons more than the previous year. (Less than 20% of e-waste is recycled.)
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: the animated The Boss Baby: Family Business, with characters voiced by Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblat, Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow and Jeff Goldblum; The Forever Purge, starring Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta and Josh Lucas; First Date, with Tyson Brown, Shelby Duclos and Jesse Janzen; and The God Committee, starring Julia Stiles, Janeane Garofalo and Kelsey Grammer.
2021 - The U.S. military pulled out of Bagram Airfield and handed it over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Force. In addition, the U.S. was committed to paying nearly $4 billion annually (until 2024) to finance the Afghani security forces.
2022 - Dozens of masked members of a group known as Patriot Front marched through the streets of Boston carrying flags and police shields. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Patriot Front is a “white nationalist hate group.” Many of the marchers wore khaki pants and dark-colored polo shirts, with cloth coverings over their lower faces, along with sunglasses and caps. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took to Twitter to condemn the march. “To the white s upremacists who ran through downtown today: When we march, we don’t hide our faces,” she wrote. “Your hate is as cowardly as it is disgusting, and it goes against all that Boston stands for.”
2022 - A gunman in Haltom City (Fort Worth), Texas, killed two people and wounded three police officers and at least one civilian before taking his own life. The shooter was armed with a handgun and a military-style rifle, authorities said.
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Birthdays on This Day July 2
1903 - King Olav V
King of Norway [Sep 21, 1957-Jan 17, 1991]; died Jan 17, 19911904 - Jean René Lacoste
tennis; founder of Lacoste tennis clothing [the company with the alligator logo]; died Oct 12, 19961906 - Alan Webb
actor: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, We, the Accused, The First Great Train Robbery, I Racconti di Canterbury, The Horsemen, Women in Love; died June 22, 19821908 - Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: first black to hold this office [1967-1991]; died Jan 24, 19931910 - Jeff Alexander
composer, arranger: Soothe My Lonely Heart, The Wings of Eagles, Ballad for Beatnicks, Troubled Man, Blues About Manhattan, Yellow and Brown, Divertimento for Viola, Piano, Suite for Flute, Strings; Dec 23, 19891916 - Ken Curtis
actor: Mister Roberts, The Alamo, Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won [TV]; singer: w/Tommy Dorsey Band, w/Roy Rogers and Sons of the Pioneers; died Apr 28, 19911918 - Robert W. Sarnoff
president of NBC; wife was actress Anna Moffo; father was telegraph operator/RCA President/NBC founder David Sarnoff; died Feb 22, 19971922 - Pierre Cardin
fashion designer; died Dec 29, 20201925 - Medgar Evers
U.S. activist during the Civil Rights Movement who advocated against segregation; assassinated Jun 12, 19631925 - Marvin (Karlton) Rainwater
singer: Gonna Find Me a Bluebird; died Sep 17, 20131927 - Brock Peters (Fisher)
actor: The Secret, The Pawnbroker, Soylent Green, To Kill a Mockingbird; died Aug 23, 20051929 - Imelda Marcos
widow of exiled Philippines leader, Ferdinand Marcos; famous for her collection of hundreds of pairs of shoes1930 - Ahmad Jamal
jazz musician: But Not for Me1930 - Carlos Menem
President of Argentina [1989-1999]; died Feb 14, 20211931 - Larry Costello
basketball: Philadelphia 76ers; coach: Milwaukee Bucks, Utica College; died Dec 13, 20011932 - Dave Thomas
fast-food restaurant founder: Wendy’s [appears in Wendy’s TV commercials]; founder: Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption; died Jan 8, 20021934 - Tom Springfield
folk singer: group: Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Island of Dreams; died Jul 27, 20221937 - Polly Holliday
actress: Alice, Flo, Private Benjamin, Gremlins1937 - David ‘Dee’ Palmer
musician: keyboards: group: Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Steel Monkey, Living in the Past, Sweet Dream1937 - Richard Petty
auto racer: 7-time winner of Daytona 500 [1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1981]; 1st to win a million $$ stock car race1939 - Paul Williams
singer: groups: The Primes, The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do, My Girl, It’s Growing, Get Ready, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, [I Know] I’m Losing You, You’re My Everything, All I Need, I Wish It Would Rain, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, I Can’t Get Next to You, Just My Imagination; died Aug 17, 19731941 - William Guest
singer: group: Gladys Knight & The Pips: Every Beat of My Heart, Letter Full of Tears, Everybody Needs Love, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, If I Were Your Woman, Neither One of Us [Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye], Where Peaceful Waters Flow, Midnight Train to Georgia, Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me, I’ve Got to Use My Imagination, On and On, The Way We Were, Try to Remember; died Dec 24, 20151942 - Michael Abene
composer: score: Goodbye, New York1942 - Vincente Fox
President of Mexico [2000-2006]1946 - Ron Silver
actor: Wiseguy, The Stockard Channing Show, Rhoda, The Mac Davis Show, Kissinger and Nixon, Timecop, Romancing the Stone, Oh, God! You Devil, Silkwood, The Goodbye People, Semi-Tough, Enemies, a Love Story; Speed-the-Plow; director: Lifepod; died Mar 15, 20091947 - Larry David
Emmy Award-winning writer: Seinfeld [1993]; producer, director, actor: Sour Grapes, New York Stories, Radio Days, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Second Thoughts, Curb Your Enthusiasm1947 - Luci Baines Johnson
daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson1948 - Saul Rubinek
actor: The Last Tycoon, Warehouse 13, Jesse Stone film series, Leverage, King of Kensington, The Equalizer, Men, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Frasier, Blind Justices1949 - Curtis Rowe
basketball: UCLA; Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics1951 - Joe Puerta
musician: bass, singer: group: Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Ambrosia: Hold on to Yesterday, How Much I Feel, You’re the Only Woman, Biggest Part of Me1952 - Johnny Colla
musician: saxophone, guitar: groups: Soundhole, Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You; Johnny Colla & The Lucky Devils1954 - Pete Briquette
musician: bass, singer: group: The Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, She’s So Modern, Rat Trap, I Don’t Like Mondays, Banana Republic1954 - Wendy Schaal
voice actress: American Dad!, Loving Annabelle, Holiday in the Sun, Small Soldiers, Out There, My Girl 2, *batteries not included, Going Under, Good Grief1956 - Jerry Hall
actress: Tooth, RPM, Vampire in Brooklyn, Freejack, Batman, Topo Galileo, Urban Cowboy1957 - Bret Hart
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, King of the Ring, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder1957 - Purvis Short
basketball: NBA: Golden State Warriors [1978–1987], Houston Rockets [1987–1989], New Jersey Nets [1989–1990]; averaged 17.3 points per game over his 12-season NBA career1961 - Jimmy McNichol
actor: The Fitzpatricks, California Fever, Escape from El Diablo; actress Kristy McNichol’s brother1964 - Jose (Capas) Canseco
baseball: Oakland Athletics [Rookie of the Year: 1986/all-star: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992/World Series: 1988, 1989, 1990/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1988/1st player to hit 40 or more home runs and steal 40 or more bases in same season], Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox1965 - Steve Sparks
baseball [pitcher]: Milwaukee Brewers, Anaheim Angels, Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks1966 - Kathryn Erbe
actress: Oz, Chicken Soup, Dragonfly, Law & Order: Criminal Intent1969 - Jenni Rivera
singer: LPs: Jenni, La Gran Señora, Joyas Prestadas; TV: Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis & Raq-C; I Love Jenni, Chiquis ’n Control; actress: Filly Brown; killed in plane crash near Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico, Dec 9, 20121970 - Yancy Butler
actress: Hard Target, Law & Order, South Beach, Brooklyn South, The Witness Files1971 - Troy Brown
football [wide receiver]: New England Patriots1973 - Scott Taylor
pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Smackdown!, WWF No Mercy, Royal Rumble1974 - Sean Casey
baseball [first base]: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds1975 - Matt Cushing
football [tight end]: Univ of Illinois; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers1976 - Erin Burnett
CNN TV journalist, news anchor: Erin Burnett OutFront1978 - Julie Night
actress [2001-2012]: X-rated films: Deep Throat This 6, ATM Machine 2, Baker’s Dozen 2, Gag Factor 15, I’ve Never Done That Before 9, Belladonna: No Warning 1, Young And Stuffed, Anal Acrobats1978 - Owain Yeoman
actor: The Mentalist, The Nine, Kitchen Confidential, Generation Kill1981 - Angel Pagan
baseball [outfield]: Chicago Cubs [2006-2007], New York Mets [2008-2011], San Francisco Giants [2012-2016]: 2012 World Series champs1981 - Carlos Rogers
football [defensive back]: NFL: Washington Redskins [2005–2010], San Francisco 49ers [2011–2013]: Super Bowl XLVII; Oakland Raiders [2014]1983 - Michelle Branch
songwriter, singer: LPs: The Spirit Room, Hotel Paper1984 - Vanessa Lee Chester
actress: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Stepsister From the Planet Weird, She‘s All That, Harriet the Spy, A Little Princess, CB4, Once and Again1984 - Johnny Weir
figure skating champ: U.S. National [2004-2006], U.S. National silver medalist [2008], World bronze medalist [2008]1985 - Ashley Tisdale
actress: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, High School Musical film series; singer: LPs: Headstrong, Guilty Pleasure1986 - Lindsay Lohan
singer: Rumors, First, Confessions of a Broken Heart, Over; actress: Speechless, A Woman of No Importance, A Prairie Home Companion, That ’70s Show1989 - Alex Morgan
footballer [forward]: 2012 Summer Olympics star; gold medalist with U.S. women’s team win at the 2015, 2019 World Cup1990 - Margot Robbie
actress: Neighbours [2008–2011], Pan Am [2011–2012], About Time, The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus, Suite française
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