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1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker of Billerica, MA.1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, ME. Take your favorite policeman out for a donut today!
1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe of Washington, MO. You see, Henry was tired of sitting around, puffing on his string bean pipe and decided to go for something more convenient...
1910 - The first airplane to fly at an altitude greater than one mile was piloted by Walter R. Brookins. The legendary exhibition flyer reached 6,175 feet in a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, NJ.
1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first to swim the 100-meters freestyle in less than a minute. The future Tarzan set the pace at an event in Alameda, CA.
1942 - Nazi Germany began its fateful drive towards Stalingrad in the U.S.S.R.
1943 - The invasion of Sicily was started by U.S., Canadian and British forces.
1944 - American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell. This, after 24 days of fighting, costing 3,100 U.S. troops.
1947 - The engagement of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten was announced. The couple wed Nov 20, 1947.
1953 - The first commuter passenger service by helicopter began in America’s largest city. New York Airways provided the lift for busy people who wanted to avoid the traffic below.
1958 - A magnitude 7 earthquake on the Fairweather Fault (Southeast Alaska’s equivalent of the San Andreas Fault) triggered a landslide that dropped some 90-million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay. The resulting wave washed away the forest on the opposite side of the fiord to a height of 1720 feet, the highest known wave ever documented.
1960 - U.S. government officials were alarmed after Cuban dictator Fidel Castro declared himself to be a communist (Cuba is just 90 or so miles south of Florida). And Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to attack the United States with rockets if American forces attempted to oust Cuba’s communist government.
1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX. The game produced only eight hits over nine innings and no runs were batted in. Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants scored the only run on a single in the first inning. He moved to second on an errant pick-off play, went to third base on a wild pitch and scored on a double play. The National League beat the American League 1-0.
1969 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets retired the first 25 Chicago Cubs he faced this day. However, with just two outs to go to get a perfect game, Seaver gave up a single to Jimmy Qualls. The Mets blanked the Cubs 4-0 in that one-hitter.
1972 - Paul McCartney appeared on stage for the first time since 1966 as his group, Wings, opened at Chateauvallon in the south of France.
1974 - Former California governor (1943-1953) and U.S. Chief Justice (1953-1968) Earl Warren died in Washington DC. He was 83 years old.
1977 - Undercover Angel, by songwriter (turned pop singer) Alan O’Day, reached the top spot on the Billboard chart. It was not the first visit to the top of the pop music world for O’Day, though the million-seller would be his last as a singer. He wrote Angie Baby, a number one hit for Helen Reddy and the #3 hit, Rock And Roll Heaven, for The Righteous Brothers.
1982 - Pan Am Flight 759 crashed in Kenner, Louisiana. The Boeing 727-235, while attempting a take off in a rain storm, clipped trees, struck a powerline, destroying six houses, damaging a five others. All 145 people on board, and 8 more on the ground, were killed.
1984 - The Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, IN was packed to its concrete rafters. 67,596 spectators, the largest crowd (to that time) to watch a basketball game in the United States, saw the U.S. men’s Olympic team defeat a team of players from the NBA, 97-82.
1986 - A new Broadway showplace opened. It was the first new theatre on Broadway in 13 years. The Marquis Theatre, located at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway, seated 1,600 theatregoers.
1989 - U.S. President George Bush (I) arrived in Warsaw, Poland for a visit that included an address to the National Assembly and a meeting with Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.
1992 - Democrat Bill Clinton tapped Tennessee Senator Al Gore to be his running mate in the presidential election.
1992 - CBS news commentator Eric Sevareid died in Washington DC at 79 years of age.
1995 - The Grateful Dead played its last live show -- at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Leader Jerry Garcia died one month later of a heart attack in his room at California substance abuse treatment facility.
1995 - Pete Sampras won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Boris Becker, 6-7 (7-5), 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
1996 - Attorney Melvin M. Belli, known as the ‘King of Torts’, died at 88 years of age in San Francisco, CA.
1997 - Boxer Mike Tyson was banned from the ring and fined $3 million for biting opponent Evander Holyfield’s ear.
1998 - The U.S. Congress sent President Bill Clinton an election-year bill. The Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 overhauled the Internal Revenue Service.
1999 - These films opened in the United States: American Pie, starring Jason Biggs, Jennifer Coolidge, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Klein, Eugene Levy and Natasha Lyonne; and Arlington Road, with Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis and Robert Gossett.
1999 - Superstar Elton John, in ill health for several days, underwent surgery to insert a heart pacemaker. The hour-long procedure was a success. The 52-year-old singer and songwriter told reporters, “I feel very well. I’m a bit stiff, a bit sore, but everything went really well.”
2000 - Pete Sampras won his seventh Wimbledon title, defeating Patrick Rafter, 6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-2.
2001 - Goran Ivanisevic, a wildcard in the tournament, won the men’s title at Wimbledon. Ivanisevic beat Patrick Rafter 6-3 3-6 6-3 2-6 9-7.
2002 - The U.S. Senate voted to use Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert as federal repository for thousands of tons of radioactive waste. The Senate ignored the state of Nevada’s protests against the plan.
2002 - Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night [1967]) died. He was 77 years old. His many films include On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago, Death of a Salesman, The Godfather, The Amityville Horror and End of Days.
2003 - It was first-run day in the U.S. for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The high-seas (and dry-land) adventure stars Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Tom Wilkinson and Keira Knightly.
2004 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell, Fred Willard, Chris Parnell, Kevin Corrigan, Chuck D, Tara Subkoff, Maya Rudolph and Steven Root; and Sleepover, with Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kalli Flynn Childress, Sam Huntington, Steve Carell, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Eileen April Boylan, Sean Faris, Alice Greczyn, Brie Larson, Thad Luckinbill, Hunter Parrish, Sara Paxton, Evan Peters, Katija Pevec, Ryan Slattery, Douglas Smith and Johnny Sneed.
2005 - A panda cub, Tai Shan, was born at the National Zoo in Washington.
2006 - Italy beat France 5-3 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1-1 tie in the World Cup final. Playing his last game before retirement, Zinedine Zidane, captain of the French team, was ‘sent off’ for head-butting an Italian player -- and Zidane’s career ended in disgrace.
2007 - Actor Charles Lane died in Santa Monica, CA at 102 years of age and may have been the oldest living professional American actor at the time. Lane appeared in hundreds of roles on film and TV, including several Frank Capra films, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace and It’s a Wonderful Life. He also appeared regularly on many TV series, including Topper, The Real McCoys, Dobie Gillis, Mister Ed, Bewitched, Get Smart, Gomer Pyle, The Munsters, Green Acres, The Flying Nun and Maude.
2007 - Buenos Aires, Argentina experienced its first major snowfall since June, 1918. “Despite all my years, this is the first time I've ever seen in snow in Buenos Aires,” said Juana Benitez, an 82-year-old who joined children celebrating the event in the streets.
2008 - German investigators carried out raids on 600 homes and businessess in Austria, Switzerland and Germany looking for chemicals used to produce the illicit date-rape drug known as ‘liquid ecstasy’.
2008 - The California state Board of Education voted to make algebra mandatory in the eighth grade.
2009 - An Afghan government spokesman said President Hamid Karzai had pardoned five heroin smugglers, and at least one of them was a relative of a man who headed Karzai’s election campaign.
2009 - Hundreds of young men and women in Iran chanted “death to the dictator” as they fled baton-wielding police in Tehran.
2010 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Despicable Me, with Russell Brand, Jason Segel, Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove and Will Arnett; Predators, staring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Alice Braga, Derek Mears and Laurence Fishburne; The Girl Who Played with Fire, with Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Georgi Staykov, Peter Andersson, Micke Spreitz and Yasmine Garbi; and The Kids Are All Right, starring Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson.
2010 - The U.S. and Russia orchestrated the largest spy swap since the Cold War, exchanging ten spies arrested in the U.S. for four convicted in Russia. The exchange came in a tightly choreographed diplomatic dance at Vienna’s airport.
2010 - U.S. regulators shut down two banks in Maryland, bringing to 88 the number of failed U.S. banks in 2010.
2011 - British author Alan Shadrake, who spent five weeks in Singapore’s Changi Prison was deported to London, hours after being released. Shandrake had been found in contempt after publishing a book questioning executions in Singapore.
2012 - A British judge ruled that Samsung’s Galaxy tablet was not ‘cool’ enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad, giving South Korea’s Samsung a patent battle win against U.S. rival Apple.
2013 - Illinois became the last state in the U.S. to allow public possession of concealed guns. The state’s long-standing ban on concealed weapons had been overturned in a federal appeals court, on Constitutional grounds. The other 49 states had all passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from local government and/or law enforcement.
2014 - A California jury ruled that the Los Angeles Dodgers were partly responsible for the March 31, 2011, beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow. The $18 million award cost the Dodgers $13.9 million, with his two attackers paying the balance. But after subrogation, which allows insurance companies to recoup the money they paid to cover losses from any subsequent settlements, Stow would receive just under $6 million.
2015 - A New Zealand judge sentenced 61-year-old AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months of home detention after the musician pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a man who used to work for him. Rudd also pled guilty to drug possession.
2015 - Honda Motor Company added 4.5 million vehicles to recalls involving Takata Corp. airbags, expanding preventative measures amid a growing toll of motorists injured or killed by the safety devices. The total number of vehicles recalled by Honda is about 24.5 million vehicles.
2016 - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in major U.S. cities to protest the killings of two black men at the hands of police (in St. Paul, Minnesota, Baton Rouge, Louisiana). This, even as the country continued to mourn a brutal attack in Dallas that left five officers dead and nine others wounded.
2017 - The Wall Fire in Butte County, California burned 5,000 acres. In Santa Barbara County the Whittier Fire burned 7,800 acres. At least 14 large fires were keeping some 5,000 firefighters busy statewide under record breaking heat conditions.
2017 - Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe of Japan and Stefan Lofven of Sweden met in Helsinki. The leaders demanded that North Korea halt its missile tests, and pledged increased cooperation in the U.N.
2018 - POTUS Trump nominated conservative federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to succeed retiring Supreme Court Judge Anthony Kennedy.
2018 - British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government imploded as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson followed Brexit minister David Davis in resigning over her masterplan for Britain’s future outside the European Union.
2018 - Iranians on social media mocked clerical rulers after the hardline judiciary arrested a teenage girl for posting on Instagram videos of herself dancing in her room.
2019 - Deaths on this day included: 1) H. Ross Perot, Texas technology billionaire who rattled U.S. politics with two independent presidential campaigns in the 1990s, died of leukemia at his home in Dallas, TX. He was 89 years old. Perot’s presidential bids struck a chord with disgruntled voters in 1992 and 1996. Both campaigns were among the strongest presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in US history. And 2) U.S. actor Rip Torn died (age 88, complications from Alzheimer’s) at his home in Los Angeles. During a film career that spanned some 60 years, Torn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Marsh Turner in "Cross Creek" (1983). And he is fondly remembered for his role as Artie the producer on "The Larry Sanders Show", for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards -- winning in 1996.
2019 - Russian officials raised an alarm about massive bee deaths in at least seven regions across the country. Experts attributed the deaths to a careless and excessive use of pesticides.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma prosecutors lack the authority to pursue criminal cases in a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma, because that chunk is still an American Indian reservation. The case revolved around an appeal by a Native American man who claimed state courts had no authority to try him for a crime committed on reservation land that belongs to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
2020 - 60,500 new COVID-19 infections were reported across the United States, setting another one-day record. Infections rose in 41 of the 50 states over the previous two weeks.
2020 - Moderna signed an agreement with Spain’s Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi SA to scale up the manufacturing and production of its vaccine to supply markets outside the United States.
2020 - Australia suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and extended visas for Hong Kong residents in response to China’s imposition of a tough national security law. Additionally, the Australian government issued a travel warning citing the new law as a reason for concern, advising, “You could break the law without intending to.” Further, “You may be at increased risk of detention on vaguely defined national security grounds.”
2021 - California’s Death Valley National Park recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius). It was be the hottest high recorded there since July 1913, when the same Furnace Creek desert area hit 134 degrees (56.6 degrees Celsius) -- considered the highest reliably measured temperature on Earth).
2021 - President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he must “take action” against cybercriminals acting in Russia and that the U.S. reserved the right to “defend its people and its critical infrastructure” from future attacks.
2022 - A Russian air strike on an apartment building in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine killed at least 48 people. A self-propelled Uragan 220 mm multiple rocket launcher, designed in the Soviet Union, was used for the attack.
2022 - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to “stand up” to Russia during a meeting in Indonesia. After the five-hour+ meeting, Blinken told reporters that Wang had repeated Chinese claims of neutrality in the war between Russia and Ukraine. “I would start with the proposition that it’s pretty hard to be neutral when it comes to this aggression. There’s a clear aggressor. There's a clear victim,” Blinken said. Blinken also said that he had “tried to convey” to Wang “that this really is a moment where we all have to stand up” and condemn Russia’s aggression.
2022 - In the Wimbledon Women’s Tennis final: Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan claimed her first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur. Rybakina was the first Kazakhstani player to win a major title.
2023 - Barbie premiered in Los Angeles. The fantasy, comedy film stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and was directed by Greta Gerwig. Based on the fashion dolls by Mattel, it was the first live-action Barbie film -- after numerous animated films and specials. The movie follows Barbie and Ken on a journey of self-discovery through Barbieland -- and the real world. The supporting cast includes America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell. The film grossed $1.446 billion and achieved several milestones, including the highest-grossing film of 2023, the highest-grossing film ever released by Warner Bros. -- and the 14th highest-grossing film of all time.
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Birthdays on This Day July 9
1764 - Ann Radcliffe
author: The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest; died Feb 7, 18231819 - Elias Howe
inventor: patented the lock stitch sewing machine; died Oct 3, 1867
1879 - Ottorino Respighi
viola-player, pianist, composer: Fontane di Roma [Fountains of Rome], Pini di Roma [Pines of Rome], and Feste romane [Roman Festivals]; died Apr 18, 19361901 - Dame Barbara Cartland
romance novelist featuring virginal heroines: Jigsaw, Etiquette Handbook, The Herb for Happiness, Lights, Laughter and a Lady, The Passionate Pilgrim, Search for a Wife, Woman - The Enigma; authored 723 books, sold over 1 billion copies worldwide [in 36 languages]; advocate of feminine virtues and commanding men; died May 21, 20001907 - Eddie Dean
singer: [I Dreamed of a] Hillbilly Heaven, One Has My Name [The Other Has My Heart], Cool Water, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, I Fall to Pieces; actor: Santa Fe Marshal, The Lone Rider and the Bandit, Song of Old Wyoming, Colorado Serenade, Stars Over Texas, The Tioga Kid, The Marshal of Gunsight Pass; died Mar 4, 19991916 - Edward Heath
Prime Minister of Great Britain [1970-1974]; died Jul 17, 20051922 - Jim Pollard
Basketball Hall of Famer: Minneapolis Lakers; coach: La Salle College; died Jan 22, 19931924 - Leonard Pennario
concert pianist; composer: Midnight on the Cliffs theme from film Julie; died Jun 27, 20081927 - Ed Ames
singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You You You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melody d’Amour; solo: My Cup Runneth Over, Who Will Answer; actor: Daniel Boone1927 - Susan Cabot (Harriet Shapiro)
actress: The Wasp Woman, Machine Gun Kelly, Carnival Rock, Son of Ali Baba, Sorority Girl; murdered by her son Dec 10, 19861927 - Leonard ‘Red’ Kelly
Hockey Hall of Famer: Detroit Red Wings: Norris Trophy [1954], Lady Byng Trophy [1951, 1953, 1954, 1961], 4 Stanley Cup wins; Toronto Maple Leafs: 4 Stanley Cup wins; coach: LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins: Adams Trophy [1969-1970]; died May 2, 20191928 - Vince Edwards (Vincent Edward Zoino)
actor: Ben Casey, The Devil’s Brigade, The Dirty Dozen, The Three Faces of Eve, Motorama; died Mar 11, 19961929 - Lee Hazlewood
songwriter: The Fool, These Boots are Made for Walkin’, Sugar Town; singer: Jackson [w/Nancy Sinatra]; died Aug 4, 20071929 - Jesse McReynolds
folk singer [w/brother]: group: Jim & Jesse: Cotton Mill Man, Ballad of Thunder Road, Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail1929 - Wally (Walter Charles) Post
baseball: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians; died Jan 06, 19821930 - Buddy Bregman
producer, director, writer, composer, conductor, arranger, bandleader: backed Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Fred Astaire; died Jan 8, 20171932 - Donald (Henry) Rumsfeld
U.S. Secretary of Defense [1975-1977, 2001-2006]; member of the U.S. House of Representatives [IL 1962-1970]; U.S. Ambassador to NATO [1973-1974]; died Jun 29, 20211936 - James Hampton
actor: F Troop, Love American Style, Evening Shade, Doris Day Show, The China Syndrome, Force Five; died Apr 7, 20211938 - Brian Dennehy
actor: Cocoon, 10, Presumed Innocent, First Blood, Semi-Tough, Silverado, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye; died Apr 15, 20201942 - Richard Roundtree
actor: Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Q, Body of Influence, Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score, Shaft (2000); died Oct 24, 20231945 - Dean Koontz
author: suspense thriller novels: Watchers, Deeply Odd [Odd Thomas], Intensity, From the Corner of His Eye, False Memory; more than a dozen of his hardcovers and paperbacks reached #1 on The New York Times bestseller list1946 - Bon (Ronald) Scott
singer: group: AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, Powerage, Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, For Those About to Rock, Fly on the Wall, Who Made Who, Blow Up Your Video; died Feb 19, 19801947 - Johnny ‘Mitch’ Mitchell
musician: drums: group: Jimi Hendrix Experience: Purple Haze, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Like a Rolling Stone, Fire, Little Wing, In From the Storm; died Nov 12, 20081947 - O.J. (Orenthal James) Simpson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: running back: Heisman Trophy: USC [1968], Buffalo Bills; actor: Naked Gun series, The Towering Inferno, Roots, Capricorn One; defendant in the ’trial of the century’: acquitted of 1994 murder of ex-wife, Nicole, Ron Goldman [1995]; found responsible for their deaths in a civil suit [1997]; served prison sentence in Nevada [2008-2017] for robbery in Las Vegas; died April 10, 20241948 - Ray Baker
actor: Path of Destruction, Coach Carter, The Trip, Anywhere But Here, Echo, Speechless, Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter1951 - Chris Cooper
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Adaptation [2003]; The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, Capote, The Town, The Kingdom, Syriana, October Sky, Seabiscuit, The Muppets; Broadway: Of the Fields Lately [1980]; off-Broadway: The Ballad of Soapy Smith [1983], A Different Moon [1983]1952 - John Tesh
Emmy Award-winning composer: musical score for Tourde France [1987], Pan-American Games [1983]; Concetta, Romantic Christmas [w/wife Connie Selleca]; TV host: Entertainment Tonight, CBS Sports1954 - Kevin O’Leary
aka Mr. Wonderful: business mogul: founded SoftKey software company; TV investor: Shark Tank1954 - Debbie Sledge
singer; group: Sister Sledge: We are Family1955 - Jimmy Smits
Emmy Award-winning actor: L.A. Law [1989-90]; N.Y.P.D. Blue, Birdland, Glitz, Mi Familia, Gross Misconduct, The Cisco Kid, Price of Glory, In the Heights1956 - Tom (Thomas Jeffrey) Hanks
Academy Award-winning actor: Forrest Gump [1994], Philadelphia [1993]; Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Joe Versus the Volcano, Splash, The Money Pit, You’ve Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away, A Man Called Otto1957 - Kelly McGillis
actress: Witness, The Accused, Top Gun1959 - Marc (Peter) Almond
singer: duo: Soft Cell: Tainted Love; group: Marc & the Mambas: LP: Torment and Toreros; solo: Stories of Johnny, LP: Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters1959 - Jim Kerr
singer: group: Simple Minds: Changeling, Premonition, The American, Love Song, Don’t You [Forget About Me], LP: Sparkle in the Raintories1964 - Courtney Love
musician, guitar, singer: groups: Babes In Toyland, Faith No More1964 - Scott Verplank
golf champ: Western Open [1985: as an amateur], Buick Open [1988], Reno-Tahoe Open [2000], Bell Canadian Open [2001], EDS Byron Nelson Championship [2007]1965 - Frank Bello
musician: bass: group: Anthrax1965 - David O’Hara
actor: The District, The Tudors, Den of Lions, Jesus, The MatchMaker, The Devil’s Own, Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment, Braveheart, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I1970 - Steve Dubinsky
hockey [center]: Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators, SL Blues1970 - Trent Green
football [quarterback]: Univ of Indiana; NFL: SD Chargers, Washington Redskins, SL Rams, KC Chiefs1971 - Marc Andreessen
entrepreneur, venture capitalist, software engineer, co-author of Mosaic (the first widely-used Web browser), co-founder of Netscape Communications1971 - Scott Grimes
actor: The Orville, Band of Brothers, Couples, Mystery, Alaska, Crimson Tide, Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gilllis, Critters, A Doctor’s Story; more1973 - Kelly Holcomb
football [quarterback]: Middle Tennessee State Univ; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills1973 - Damon Huard
football [quarterback]: Univ of Washington; NFL: Miami Dolphins, NE Patriots, KC Chiefs1973 - Pete Kendall
football [guard]: Boston College; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals, NY Jets1973 - Enrique Murciano
actor: Without a Trace, Traffic, Spyder Games, Black Hawk Down, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, The Lost City, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, 666 Park Avenue, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes1975 - Jack White
singer, songwriter, record producer, musician: multi-instrumentalist: groups: The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather; solo LP: Blunderbuss1975 - Tony Williams
football: Univ of Memphis; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals and Jacksonville Jaguars1976 - Fred Savage
actor: The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Little Monsters, The Boy Who Could Fly1981 - Jamie Thomas King
actor: Mad Men, The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy, Vampire Diary, The River King, The Tudors1991 - Josh Devine
musician: drums: group: One Direction: LP: Up All Night; solo EP: Through the Fire1991 - Mitchel Musso
actor: Hannah Montana, Phineas and Ferb, Pair of Kings; TV host: PrankStars; singer-songwriter, musician: LP: Mitchel Musso1995 - Georgie Henley
actress: The Chronicles of Narnia film series, Perfect Sisters, The Sisterhood of Night1997 - Tatjana Schoenmaker
South African swimmer [won 2020 Olympic gold in 200m breaststroke]
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Long Ago and Far Away (facts) - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
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