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1804 - Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton to death in their famous duel. Samuel Broadhurst, a relative of Burr’s, had tried to negotiate a settlement between the two, but Burr offered the challenge and the duel ensued. Burr won by drawing first blood with his swift sword, a gun, in this case. (Kids: please don’t try this at home. Thank you...)1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. Ruth made $2,900 his rookie season. Just six years later, his paycheck was worth $125,000 when he became a member of the New York Yankees.
1916 - One of America’s great race horses died. Dan Patch was the celebrated horse that had never lost a race. Dan Patch first became known for promoting his owner’s feed company in Savage, Minnesota. Interestingly, Mr. Savage died several days after his beloved trotter died.
1918 - Enrico Caruso bypassed opera for a short time to contribute to the war (WWI) effort. Caruso recorded Over There, the patriotic song written by George M. Cohan.
1923 - The first railroad signal system of continuous cab signals was installed at Sunbury, PA. It was the first installation where cab signals were used instead of wayside signals.
1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.
1936 - The Triborough Bridge, linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens, opened. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the keynote address which was broadcast by radio across the nation.
1937 - George Gershwin, one of the world’s greatest composers of popular music, died in Beverly Hills, California of a brain tumor. He was just 38 years old. Gershwin wrote his first hit, Swanee, in 1918 for the Broadway show, Sinbad, starring Al Jolson. George Gershwin wrote the scores for such Broadway shows as Funny Face, Porgy and Bess and Of Thee I Sing (he first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize [1932]). Gershwin played the piano at the premiere of his widely acclaimed Rhapsody in Blue in 1924, accompanied by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Gershwin’s song hits included The Man I Love, ’S Wonderful, Summertime and Love Is Here to Stay. The lyrics for many of his songs were written by his brother Ira.
1940 - Henri-Philippe Pétain was declared head of the Vichy government, in the wake of its defeat by Nazi Germany. Petain established a Fascist-oriented government that became notorious for its collaboration with the Third Reich.
1950 - Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams suffered a broken elbow during the All-Star baseball game in Chicago.
1955 - The first class of 306 cadets was sworn in at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, the temporary home of the U.S. Air Force Academy. A bill establishing the Academy had been signed by President Eisenhower on April 1, 1954. The Cadet Wing moved to the academy’s permanent home north of Colorado Springs, CO in 1958.
1964 - 18-year-old Millie Small was riding high on the pop music charts with My Boy Lollipop (#2, 7/04/64). Listen carefully to the tune and you’ll hear Rod Stewart playing harmonica. Millie Small was known as the ’Blue Beat Girl’ in Jamaica, her homeland.
1967 - Kenny Rogers formed The First Edition just one day after he and members Thelma Camacho, Mike Settle and Terry Williams left The New Christy Minstrels. The First Edition hosted a syndicated TV variety show in 1972. Hits made popular by the group include: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), But You Know I Love You, Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Ruben James, and Something’s Burning.
1973 - Tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs announced their forthcoming (September, 1973) Battle of the Sexes. The winner would take home $100,000. The event would be staged at the Houston Astrodome in Texas (before 30,472 spectators, as it turned out; the largest crowd ever for a tennis match) and broadcast on national TV. Who would win? Hint: The female sex.
1977 - The Medal of Freedom was awarded posthumously to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a White House ceremony.
1979 - Skylab, in orbit since 1973, made a spectacular return to Earth. The abandoned U.S. space station burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.
1981 - Hubert Johnson, a member of The Contours, committed suicide in Detroit. The Contours took their feverish dance tune Do You Love Me to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 (1962).
1985 - Zippers for stitches were announced by Dr. H. Harlan Stone. The surgeon had used zippers on 28 patients whom he thought might require additional operations because of internal bleeding following initial operations. The zippers, which lasted between five and 14 days, were then replaced with permanent stitches.
1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major-league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career as he led the Astros to a 4-3 win over the New York Mets. Danny Heep, formerly of the Astros, gave Ryan his milestone by fanning on three straight pitches.
1987 - Bo Jackson signed a $7.4 million contract to play football for the LA Raiders for five years. Jackson became a two-sport player as he continued to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals.
1987 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke won a third consecutive term. He bewas the first Labor Party leader in the country’s history to be elected to three straight terms in office.
1989 - Academy Award-winning actor (Hamlet [1948]) Sir Laurence Olivier died at age 82. His film career spaned six decades.
1991 - A Nigerian Airlines DC-8 Super 61 jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia international airport. The jet caught fire (caused by blown tires) after take-off killing all 261 people on board.
1993 - Severe flooding shut down a water system serving 250,000 residents in Des Moines, IA.
1994 - Pioneer software writer Gary Kildall died in Monterey, CA. The founder of Digital Research, Inc. was 52 years old.
1995 - Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, a U.N. declared ‘safe area’, sending tens of thousands of Moslems fleeing for their lives.
1997 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Contact, with Jodie Foster, Matthew Mcconaughey, James Woods, John Hurt and Tom Skerritt; and A Simple Wish, starring Martin Short, Kathleen Turner, Mara Wilson, Robert Pastorelli, Francis Capra, Amanda Plummer and Teri Garr.
1997 - 91 tourists were killed when fire broke out at the Royal Jomtien Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand. It was Thailand's worst hotel fire.
1999 - A U.S. Air Force cargo jet, braving Antarctic winter, swept down over the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Center to drop off emergency medical supplies for Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a physician at the center who had discovered a lump in one of her breasts.
2000 - A Middle East summit hosted by U.S. President Bill Clinton opened at Camp David. The talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat “began in a good atmosphere; the discussions have been serious ... both sides fully understand the difficulty, but understand what is ahead of them,” according to White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.
2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, opened in the U.S. The movie stars Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames and Peri Gilpin.
2002 - U.S. scientists financed by the Pentagon announced that they had synthesized a virus from scratch for the first time. They built a polio virus relying only on genetic sequence information publicly available.
2003- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen opened in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi action adventure stars Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Max Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Hemmings, Terry O’Neill, Rudolf Pellar, Winter Ave Zoli and Robert Willox.
2003 - CIA Director George Tenet the took blame for President George Bush’s discredited State of the Union claim that uranium from Africa had been shipped to Iraq.
2004 - Deaths on this day: Joe Gold, founder of the Gold’s Gym fitness chain, died in LA at 82 years of age; and Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist, philanthropist and venture capitalist died in New York.
2005 - Tens of thousands of people gathered in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre and rebury 610 victims.
2005 - A psychiatrist at the Mayo Clinic said some drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease may cause addiction to gambling -- and to sex.
2006 - A twelve-ton concrete slab fell from the ceiling inside one of Boston’s ‘Big Dig’ tunnels, crushing a car and killing a woman in a car that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2006 - A series of seven explosions killed 209 people on crowded commuter trains and stations in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. Over 700 people were injured in the attacks. Indian police said the bombings were carried out by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Students Islamic Movement of India.
2007 - Canadian businessman Edwin ‘Honest Ed’ Mirvish died at 92 years of age. Mirvish was a colorful Toronto character who restored theaters, produced musicals, and ran a huge discount store.
2007 - Lady Bird Johnson, widow of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, died in Austin, Texas. She was an advocate for beautifying public landscapes and highways and conservation of natural resources. In her later years, Lady Bird Johnson was an entrepreneur, creating the $150-million LBJ Holdings Company.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: August, starring Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, David Bowie, Naomie Harris, Rip Torn and Robin Taylor; Hellboy II: The Golden Army, starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Luke Goss, Thomas Kretschmann, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, Brian Steele, Roy Dotrice and John Hurt; Journey to the Center of the Earth, with Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem; Meet Dave, starring Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Elizabeth Banks, Judah Friedlander and Pat Kilbane; and The Stone Angel, with Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Kevin Zegers, Ellen Page, Dylan Baker and Wings Hauser.
2008 - A North Korean soldier fatally shot a South Korean woman tourist at a mountain resort in the communist North. Park Wang-ja had strayed a half-mile into a fenced off military area and was shot twice from behind.
2008 - U.S. bank regulators seized IndyMac Bancorp Inc., a Pasadena-based mortgage lender, after withdrawals by panicked depositors led to the second-largest banking failure in U.S. history.
2009 - Death Defying Acts debuted in U.S. movie theatres. The romantic thriller stars Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan.
2010 - Spain beat Netherlands, 1-0, for soccer’s World Cup. The game was played in Johannesburg, South Africa. Both the Netherlands and Spain were attempting to win their first FIFA World Cup. The Netherlands had been beaten in the final in 1974 and 1978, while Spain’s best performance had been fourth place in 1950. It was the second consecutive all-European final, and marked the first time a European team had won the trophy outside Europe.
2011 - A surgical team in Valencia, Spain, led by Dr. Pedro Cavadas, carried out the world’s first double leg transplant. The 14-hour operation gave a young accident victim two new limbs.
2012 - The U.S. Dept of Agriculture declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties across 26 drought-stricken states. It was the largest natural disaster (by area) in U.S. history.
2013 - U.S. immigration authorities began flying Mexican deportees deep into Mexico. This, in an effort to discourage them from trying to return. Some 7,000 people were expected to be deported in this manner.
2014 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, with Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and Andy Serkis; Affluenza, starring Ben Rosenfield, Gregg Sulkin and Nicola Peltz; Land Ho!, with Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson and Karrie Crouse; and Rage, starring Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols and Max Ryan.
2014 - The U.S. charged Chinese businessman Su Bin with hacking into computer systems of U.S. companies with large defense contracts, including Boeing, to steal data on military projects, including some of the latest fighter jets. Su Bin had worked in cahoots with two unnamed Chinese hackers to get the data between 2009 and 2013.
2015 - Serena Williams won her sixth Wimbledon title and became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam crown with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Garbine Muguruza.
2015 - Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman escaped through a lengthy tunnel under his prison cell’s shower. It was El Chapo’s second jail break and an embarrassment for the Mexican government.
2016 - Research showed that millions of Americans were, for the first time in more than a century, seeing their life expectancy slip. And, while the reasons for that decline were not yet fully understood, the contours of an explanation are starting to take shape: Despair is shortening their lives. “One thing we’re seeing is that people who are poor live a lot less -- a striking amount less -- than the rich,” said Diane Whitemore Schanzenbach, an economist with Northwestern University and director of The Hamilton Project, a think tank focused on boosting the country’s economic prosperity. “There are real disparities across the income distribution.”
2017 - China dispatched members of its People’s Liberation Army to Djibouti (Horn of Africa nation). This, to man China’s first overseas military base. Djibouti was already home to Camp Lemonnier, the center of U.S. operations in Africa, while France, Britain, Japan and other nations also maintained a military presence in the small but strategically located nation.
2017 - India’s Supreme Court suspended a government ban on the trade of cattle for slaughter. The ruling gave a bitg boost to the multi-billion dollar beef and leather industries that were mostly run by members of the Muslim minority.
2018 - Adult film star Stormy Daniels, locked in a court battle with Donald Trump over their alleged affair, was arrested for “fondling” patrons at a strip club in Columbus, OH. Her lawyer called the arrest a politically motivated setup. Daniels was released on bond early the next day and charges were dropped the same afternoon.
2018 - NATO members committed to spending at least two percent of their national income on defense by 2024, though the terms allowed for stretching that time frame in some cases to 2030.
2019 - The DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) DJIA topped 27,000 for the first time this day, closing at a record high of 27,088.08.
2019 - Former astronaut Terry Virts landed back at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after helping to shatter a pair of records for a round-the-world airplane flight over the North and South poles. Virts’ former space station crewmate, Russian Gennady Padalka, was on the first two legs of the flight. Virts and team’s 46-hour, 39-minute, 38-second polar circumnavigation flight set the duration and speed records in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER aircraft. Their average speed was 535 mph (861 kph).
2020 - Former special counsel Robert Mueller sharply defended his investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Mueller said the probe was of “paramount importance” asserting that Trump ally Roger Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so” despite the Trump’s commuting his prison sentence.
2020 - Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv, protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to address economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 - South Africa had more than 250,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with more than 3,800 deaths.
2021 - Novak Djokovic won the Wimbledon men’s final, giving him a record-tying 20 Grand Slam titles.
2021 - Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples could have children through surrogate mothers -- a victory for LGBTQ rights.
2022 - President Biden called Congress’ passing of the first major piece of gun-safety legislation in 30 years “an important start” but said the U.S. must “galvanize this movement because that’s our duty to the people of the nation” -- referring to the mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, and an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and others.
2022 - The first full-color photo from the James Webb Space Telescope were released. “These images are going to remind the world that America can do big things,” President Biden said. NASA added that the image showed a “slice of the vast universe” roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by a person on the ground. “You’re seeing galaxies that are shining around other galaxies whose light has been bent, and you’re seeing just a small, little portion of universe,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. According to the space agency, the photo was the sharpest infrared image ever produced of the early universe. The telescope can focus sharply enough to capture never-before-seen galaxies and star clusters.
2023 - NATO leaders said Ukraine should be able to join the military alliance in the future -- but stopped short of offering Kyiv an immediate invitation, angering President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The leaders of the 31 member states began a two-day summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, as Ukrainian troops struggled to make gains in a counteroffensive against Russian forces occupying parts of the country.
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Birthdays on This Day July 11
1754 - Thomas Bowdler
medical doctor, bowdlerizer [literary censor]: created Family Shakespeare: censored version of Shakespeare’s works; died Feb 24, 1825
1767 - John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President [1825-1829]; married to Louisa Johnson [three sons, one daughter]; son of 2nd President John Adams; nickname: Old Man Eloquent; died Feb 23, 18481899 - E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
author: Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style; died Oct 1, 19851906 - Harry von Zell
radio/TV actor, announcer: Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen programs; famous blooper: “Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States, Hoobert Heever -- I mean, Herbert Hoover.”; died Nov 21, 19811910 - Sally Blane
actress: Sirens of the Sea, Once a Sinner, Arabian Nights, City Limits, This is the Life, Fighting Mad, La Fuga, A Bullet for Joey, The Phantom Express; died Aug 27, 19971920 - Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan)
Academy & Tony Award-winning actor: The King and I [1956, 1951 resp.]; The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Futureworld, Westworld; died Oct 10, 19851922 - Gene Evans
actor: My Friend Flicka, Walking Tall, Support Your Local Sheriff, Operation Petticoat, The Concrete Cowboys; died Apr 1, 19981924 - Brett Somers
actress: The Odd Couple, Perry Mason; TV panelist: Match Game P.M.; died Sep 15, 20071928 - Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson
World/Internet Boxing Hall of Famer: middleweight champ: career record: 93-16-2 [44 KOs]; Edward J. Neil Trophy for Fighter of the Year: 1954; died Jan 16, 20021929 - Paul Harney
golf: PGA tour pro; owned Paul Harney Golf Club, North Falmouth MA; died Aug 24, 20111930 - Harold Bloom
literary critic; author: The Western Canon, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, & Resurrection; died Oct 14, 20191931 - Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien)
singer: Young Love, Ninety-Nine Ways, Apple Blossom Time; actor: Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Island of Desire, Judge Roy Bean, Ride the Wild Surf; died July 8, 20181932 - Billy Davis
singer, songwriter, record producer: wrote songs for The Four Tops, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Dells, Billy Stewart, Jackie Ross, Fontella Bass; died Sep 2, 20041934 - Bob Allison
baseball: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins; died Apr 9, 19951934 - Giorgio Armani
fashion designer: Outstanding International Designer Award [1981]1939 - Larry Laoretti
golf champ: U.S. Senior Open [1992]1944 - George ‘Commander Cody’ Frayne musician: piano; singer: group Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: Truck Stop Rock, Rip It Up, Back to Tennessee, Seeds and Stems [Again], Lost in the Ozone, Hot Rod Lincoln
1944 - Lou Hudson
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota, Atlanta Hawks; died Apr 11, 20141946 - Beverly Todd
actress: Class of ’61, Clara’s Heart, Baby Boom, Brother John, Roots, The Redd Foxx Show, Having Babies1947 - Jeff Hanna
musician: guitar, singer: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road1948 - Ernie Holmes
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl IX, X; killed in car crash Jan 17, 20081950 - Bruce McgGill
actor: Rizzoli & Isles, MacGyver, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Collateral, Club Paradise, Silkwood, Law Abiding Citizen, Wildcats, The Last Boy Scout, My Cousin Vinny, Cliffhanger, Timecop, Black Sheep, Rosewood, The Insider, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Ali, The Sum of All Fears, Quantum Leap, A Dog of Flanders, Exit Wounds Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Matchstick Men, Runaway Jury, Cinderella Man, Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy, Vantage Point1950 - Bonnie Pointer
Grammy Award-winning singer [w/sister Anita]: Fairy Tale; solo: Fire, Steam Heat; LPs: Bonnie Pointer, If the Price is Right; group: Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can, Wang Wang Doodle, How Long [Betcha Got a Chick on the Side], I’m So Excited, Jump [For My Love]; LPs: That’s a Plenty, Live at the Opera House, Steppin, Having a Party1952 - William Barber
Hockey Hall of Famer Philadelphia Flyers: won two Stanley Cups, scored 473 goals, 518 assists; coach: Hershey Bears, Philadelphia Flyers1952 - Stephen Lang
actor: Tombstone, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Death of a Salesman, Crime Story1953 - Leon Spinks
boxer: former world heavyweight champ: total fights: 46; wins: 26; wins by KO: 14; losses: 17; made history on February 15, 1978, by beating Muhammad Ali on a 15-round split decision in Las Vegas, Nevada; died Feb 5, 20211953 - Mindy Sterling
actress: Austin Powers film series, Mars Needs Moms!, Monster Mutt, Spring Breakdown, Happy Wednesday, Shredderman Rules, The Enigma With a Stigma1956 - Guy DiSilva
actor [1993-2011]: X-rated films: I Can’t Believe I Did the Whole Team!, Gangbang at the O.K. Corral, Big Boob Boat Butt Ride, Gang Bang Bitches 14: Hospital Gang Bang, Screw My Wife Please 11: And Make Her Twist and Shout!, Obama Is Nailin’ Palin1956 - Sela Ward
actress: CSI: NY, House, Sisters, The Fugitive, Child of Darkness, Child of Light, Westworld1957 - Peter Murphy
singer: group: Bauhaus1958 - Mark Lester
actor: Oliver, The Prince and the Pauper, Fahrenheit 4511959 - Richie Sambora
songwriter, singer, musician: guitar: group: Bon Jovi: Everyday, Bounce, Misunderstood, Undivided, The Distance, Right Side of Wrong, You Had Me From Hello, It’s My Life1959 - Suzanne Vega
singer: Luka, Marlene on the Wall, Caramel, 99.9 F, Tired of Sleeping, Small Blue Thing; her song Tom’s Diner was used as a quality benchmark test track during development of the MP3 computer audio codec1963 - Al MacInnis
hockey: Calgary Flames, SL Blues1963 - Lisa Rinna
model, actress: Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.1964 - Cassi Davis
actress: Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Madea film series, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, The PJs1966 - Debbe Dunning
actress: Home Improvement1966 - Rod Strickland
basketball [guard]: DePaul Univ; NBA: NY Knicks, SA Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Washington Wizards, Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves, Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, Houston Rockets1967 - Andy Ashby
baseball [pitcher]: Crowder Jr. College; NFL: Philadelphia Phillies, Colorado Rockies, SD Padres, Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers1967 - Jeff Corwin
TV host: Jeff Corwin Unleashed, King of the Jungle, The Jeff Corwin Experience, Going Wild With Jeff Corwin1970 - Justin Chambers
actor: Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Liberty Heights, The Wedding Planner, The Musketeer, The Zodiac, Hysterical Blindness, The Happiest Man Alive, Broken City, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox1974 - Lil’ Kim (Kimberly Denise Jones)
rapper: No Time, Not Tonight, The Jump Off, Lady Marmalade, Crush on You, Drugs, In the Air Tonite1974 - Gary Stills
football [linebacker]: Univ of West Virginia; NFL: KC Chiefs1975 - Willie Anderson
football [tackle]: Univ of Auburn; NFL: Cincinnati Bengals1975 - Rick McMurray
musician: drums: group: Ash: Envy, Meltdown, Starcrossed, Lose Control, Gone the Dream, Walking Barefoot, Cherry Bomb, Wild Surf1976 - Eduardo Najera
basketball: Univ of Oklahoma; Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets1977 - Javier Lopez
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Virginia; Colorado Rockies Arizona Diamondbacks1977 - Brandon Short
football [linebacker]: Penn State Univ; NFL: NY Giants, Carolina Panthers
1981 - Andre Johnson
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Houston Texans [2003– ]: 6× Pro Bowler [2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012]1982 - Lil’ Zane
rapper: Callin’ Me, None Tonight, Partners Come Along Too, You Must Really Love Me, All About the Fun1984 - Jacoby Jones
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Houston Texans [2007–2011]; Baltimore Ravens [2012–2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII champs; San Diego Chargers [2015]; Pittsburgh Steelers [2015]1984 - Rachael Taylor
actress: Transformers, Headland, See No Evil, Bottle Shock, Cedar Boys, Red Dog, Any Questions for Ben?, Grey’s Anatomy, Charlie’s Angels [2011], 666 Park Avenue1986 - B.J. Raji
football [defensive tackle]: NFL: Green Bay Packers [2009- ]: 2011 Super Bowl XLV champs1988 - Joan Smalls
model: ranked 2012’s number #1 model in the world by Models.com; Elle magazine, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, i-D, GQ, Dazed & Confused, Industrie, Interview; Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show [2011-2016]; actress: John Wick: Chapter 2, Set It Up1989 - David Henrie
actor: How I Met Your Mother, Wizards of Waverly Place, That’s So Raven, Method & Red, The Pitts1990 - Caroline Wozniacki
tennis champ: 2010 world number 1; 2009, 2014 U.S. Open finals; 2011 Australian Open semifinals1996 - Alessia Cara
singer: Here, Scars to Your Beautiful, Stay [w/Zedd], Querer Mejor [w/Juanes], Growing Pains, Trust My Lonely
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