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1674 - Horse racing became a nag to the good people of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the sport was prohibited in the colony -- punishable “by the stocks, or by a fine...”1784 - Although the first flight of any significant length, in any object, was achieved by a man on November 21, 1783; a woman did it higher, and longer on this day. Élisabeth Thible of Lyon, France was the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon. Her flight lasted 45 minutes, that’s 20 minutes longer than the flying trip her male counterparts (Dr. Pilâtre de Rozier and his faithful courtier, the Marquis d’Arlandes) took some 6 months earlier. Mme. Thible’s balloon, named Le Gustave (after Sweden’s King Gustav III, who viewed the ascent), rose 8,500 feet (2,591 meters). The guys only made it to 2,953 feet (900 meters).
1831 - The independent constitutional monarchy of Belgium named Prince Leopold as its first king. 109 years later, less one week, King Leopold’s descendant, Leopold III, surrendered to Germany.
1896 - Henry Ford took a trial run in his Quadricycle, the first ever Ford automobile around the streets of Detroit, MI.
1917 - Laura E. Richards and Maude H. Elliott, along with their assistant, Florence Hall, received the first Pulitzer Prize for a biography. The title of their work was Julia Ward Howe. With Americans of Past and Present Days, by Jean Jules Jusserand, received the first prize for history; while Herbert B. Swope picked up the first reporter’s Pulitzer. He wrote for the New York World. Altogether, these were the very first Pulitzer Prizes ever awarded.
1931 - The first rocket-glider flight was made by William G. Swan in Atlantic City, NJ.
1934 - The Dorsey Brothers, Tommy and Jimmy, recorded Annie’s Cousin Fanny on the Brunswick label. The track featured trombonist Glenn Miller, who also vocalized on the tune.
1937 - The Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma City introduced the first shopping carts. Store manager Sylvan Goldman decided to boost trade by putting an extra-large shopping basket on wheels. It doubled the store’s business.
1939 - In what became known as the ‘Voyage of the Damned,’ the S.S. St. Louis was turned away from the Florida coast. The ship, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany, was also denied permission to dock in Cuba. The St. Louis eventually returned to Europe where many of the refugees died in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons, “...we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...”
1940 - The Allied military evacuation of Dunkirk (in France) ended. 340,000 troops were rescued.
1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, ninth king of Prussia and third German emperor (1888-1918), died in exile in the Netherlands.
1942 - The Battle of Midway Island began. The battle changed the entire course of World War II in the Pacific, and it was won by a smaller force of U.S. ships and airplanes against the combined might of the Japanese Navy. It was also the first major battle won by air power and Japan’s first major defeat in WW II.
1944 - Leonidas Witherall was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like William Shakespeare.
1944 - The U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, beginning the liberation of the Italian capital from Mussolini’s Fascist forces.
1949 - Jack Kramer defeated Bobby Riggs and won the men’s pro-tennis title.
1962 - The legendary sportscaster Clem McCarthy died. McCarthy was the first to announce the running of the Kentucky Derby back in 1928.
1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Bob Feller’s 1951 record by pitching a third career no-hit baseball game. Koufax blanked the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0. He struck out a dozen Phillies’ batters.
1967 - The Monkees won an Emmy award for Outstanding Comedy Series. The top show of the night was Mission: Impossible, which won three major awards. And Don Knotts won his fifth Emmy for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy. (as Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show)
1970 - Tonga became independent and joined the British Commonwealth this day.
1974 - Cleveland Indians public relations experts thought that ‘Ten Cent Beer Night’ would bring out the fans and otherwise help the slumping Indians -- a team no one cared to watch. The promotion was a disaster. Oh, sure, there was plenty of dime brew sold at Municipal Stadium that night. But there were soon plenty of drunken, surly, unruly fans, too, which made it possible for the Indians to forfeit the ball game to the Texas Rangers. Municipal Stadium could seat some 60,000 fans and only 22,000 showed up for the frolic and merriment.
1978 - The (32nd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Shubert Theatre, New York. Winners included Da (best Play); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (best Musical); Barnard Hughes in Da (best Actor Dramatic); Jessica Tandy in The Gin Game (best Actress Dramatic); John Cullum in On the Twentieth Century (best Actor Musical); and Liza Minnelli in The Act (best Actress Musical).
1984 - For the first time in 32 years, golfing-great Arnold Palmer failed to make the cut for the U.S. Open golf tournament. Palmer missed making the tourney by two strokes.
1987 - Edwin Moses, who had won a total of 122 consecutive victories in the 400-meter hurdles, was defeated by Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain. It had been ten years since Moses had lost the event.
1987 - The U.S. congressional Iran-Contra committees voted to grant limited immunity to former National Security Council aide Oliver L. North, following an appeal by independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh to reject immunity.
1988 - The (42nd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Minskoff Theatre, New York. Winners included M. Butterfly (best Play); The Phantom of the Opera (best Musical); Anything Goes (best Revival); Ron Silver in Speed-the-Plow (best Actor Play); Joan Allen in Burn This (best Actress Play); Michael Crawford in The Phantom of the Opera (best Actor Musical); and Joanna Gleason in Into the Woods (best Actress Musical).
1989 - Democracy took a hard blow this day in Peking as the People’s Army of China opened fire on crowds of demonstrators. What began as a student demonstration on behalf of democracy a month and a half earlier, had become a demonstration of hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life defying the government ban on the students’ action. Armored tanks of the People’s Army literally rolled over demonstrators as the world watched in horror as the tragedy unfolded on live TV. The government issued statements claiming that only a few had died. Other estimates of the deaths in Tiananmen Square ranged from hundreds to several thousand. There is no contradiction of the fact that thousands of demonstrators were later jailed.
1989 - A powerful gas pipeline explosion demolished part of the Trans-Siberian Railroad engulfing two passenger trains in flames. Rescue workers at the Ural Mountain site worked frantically to rescue passengers. 575 people were killed and more than 600 injured. Apparently gas from a leak in the pipeline was ignited by the two passing trains. The gas settled into the valley that the trains were passing through at the time.
1989 - The (43rd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Gershwin Theatre, New York. Winners included The Heidi Chronicles (best Play); Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (best Musical); Our Town (best Revival); Phillip Bosco in Lend Me a Tenor (best Actor Play); Pauline Collins in Shirley Valentine (best Actress Play); Jason Alexander in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (best Actor Musical); and Ruth Brown in Black and Blue (best Actress Musical).
1990 - Greyhound Corportation filed bankruptcy. In 1991, the U.S. bus company was sold to a group of investors.
1992 - The results of the Elvis stamp contest were announced. More than 1.2 people voted in the contest conducted by the U.S. Postal Service. The stamp showing Elvis in the 1950s as a sizzling young rocker beat out the stamp with an image of him as a still-svelte concert superstar in his 1973 Aloha from Hawaii special. The stamp was released on Jan 8, 1993 and is the top-selling commemorative postage stamp (500 million were printed, three times the usual print run for a commemorative stamp).
1995 - The (49th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City. Winners included Love! Valour! Compassion! (best Play); Sunset Boulevard (best Musical); The Heiress (best Play Revival); Show Boat (best Musical Revival); Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet (best Actor Dramatic); Cherry Jones in The Heiress (best Actress Dramatic); Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (best Actor Musical); and Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard (best Actress Musical).
1997 - Ronnie Lane, bassist, songwriter, occasional vocalist and co-founder of top-40 group Small Faces, died of multiple sclerosis at his home in Trinidad, Colorado. He was 51 years old and had suffered with the disease for twenty years. Lane co-wrote many of the group’s songs with lead singer and guitarist Steve Marriott, including Itchycoo Park (1968), the band’s only U.S. hit.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge sentenced Terry Nichols to life in a federal prison for his role as a conspirator in the Oklahoma City bombing. The 1995 bombing of the the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people and injured more than 500 others. (In 2004, Nichols was convicted on 161 counts of murder in an Oklahoma state trial.)
1999 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Instinct, with Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, John Ashton and John Aylward; Limbo, featuring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson and Casey Siemaszko.
2000 - An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 100 people.
2000 - The (54th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Winners included Copenhagen (best Play); Contact (best Musical); The Real Thing (best Play Revival); Kiss Me, Kate (best Musical Revival); Stephen Dillane in The Real Thing (best Actor PLay); Jennifer Ehle in The Real Thing (best Actress Play); Brian Stokes Mitchell in Kiss Me, Kate (best Actor Musical); and Heather Headley in Aida (best Actress Musical).
2001 - Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay $400 million to Pitney Bowes to settle a six-year-old patent dispute over printer technology.
2002 - The Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse called for a zero-tolerance policy toward U.S. Roman Catholic priests who molest children in the future and a “two-strikes-you’re-out” policy for those guilty of past abuse.
2003 - Martha Stewart stepped down as head of her media empire, hours after she was charged with a 9-count federal indictment in a stock trading scandal. Stewart was convicted in March 2004 of lying about selling her shares of ImClone Systems stock in 2001.
2003 - Delmar E. Brown, renowned fly fisherman, died in Watsonville, CA at 84 years of age. Brown invented the Del Brown Permit Crab Fly.
2004 - New in U.S. theatres: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third in the Harry Potter series of action, adventure, fantasy flicks, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Peter Best, David Bradley, Julie Christie, Robbie Coltrane, Alfie Enoch, Tom Felton, Pam Ferris, Dawn French, Michael Gambon, Jimmy Gardner, Richard Griffiths, Joshua Herdman, Matt Lewis, Hugh Mitchell, Devon Murray, Katharine Nicholson, Chris Rankin, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Jim Tavare, Julie Walters, Jamie Waylett, Paul Whitehouse and Emma Thompson.
2004 - Marvin Heemeyer, a muffler shop owner, tore through downtown Granby, CO in an armored Caterpillar DR-9 bulldozer. Heeymeyer and machine pulverized several buildings before turning a gun on himself. Heemeyer was angry at the city council after the construction of a concrete plant near his muffler shop cut off his business from the rest of town.
2005 - The death rate on China’s roads, according to the World Health Organization, was 680 per day plus 45,000 injuries. In contrast, U.S. traffic deaths were counted at 115 per day.
2006 - Former Peruvian president Alan García beat political newcomer Ollanta Humala in a runoff presidential election. With the win, García regained control of Peru 16 years after his first presidential term ended in economic ruin and rebel violence.
2008 - Google announced the leasing of 42 acres at Moffet Field, a former U.S. naval air station near Mountain View, CA. The Internet search giant said it planned to build a high-tech campus on the land. The deal called for an annual rent of $3.7 million to NASA.
2009 - Australia’s Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon resigned. He had been under pressure since March 2009 when he admitted not declaring to parliamentary authorities two trips to China paid for by wealthy businesswoman Helen Liu.
2009 - Some 375 million eligible voters across the 27-nation European Union began four days of voting, to appoint candidates to 736 seats on the assembly. Voting began in Britain and the Netherlands.
2009 - 72-year-old David Carradine, star of TV’s Kung Fu series, was found dead in Thailand. A forensics expert later said circumstances suggested that he may have died from autoerotic asphyxiation.
2009 - South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered Governor Mark Sanford to request $700 million in federal stimulus money. The Republican governor had refused to take the money designated for the state, even after legislators passed a budget requiring him to do so.
2009 - The FBI arrested Americans Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, for spying for Cuba -- for 30 years. Myers and wife had shuffled secrets to their Cuban contacts while he was a top intelligence analyst at the U.S. State Department.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Get Him to the Greek, starring Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs and Élisabeth Moss; Killers, with Katherine Heigl, Ashton Kutcher, Catherine O’Hara, and Alex Borstein; the animated Marmaduke, featuring the voices of Emma Stone, Judy Greer, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kiefer Sutherland, Owen Wilson, Sam Elliott, Ryan Devlin, Stacy Ferguson, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Steve Coogan and George Lopez; and Splice, starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Abigail Chu and David Hewlett.
2010 - Workers for Bank of America, one of the largest employers in the U.S., sued the company for allegedly failing to pay overtime and other wages.
2010 - A senior Nigerian official said lead poisoning caused by illegal gold mining had killed 163 Nigerians, including 111 children, since March in several northern remote villages.
2011 - Scholars at the University of Chicago finished compiling a twenty-one volume encyclopedia and dictionary of the ancient Akkadian and Assyrian languages. The massive reference work, which was begun in 1921, was intended to shed more light on the culture and customs of Mesopotamia and Babylonia.
2011 - Italy-based Fiat offered $125 million to buy the Canadian government’s stake in Chrysler Group LLC as it moved swiftly to strengthen its control of the U.S. automaker.
2012 - Wildfires had the western U.S. ablaze and on this day lightning sparked a fire in the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico. By mid-June it had destroyed 224 homes and burned 59 square miles.
2013 - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service was cited by J. Russell George, Treasury inspector general for tax administration. The government watchdog criticized a $4.1 million IRS training conference in Anaheim, CA that featured luxury rooms and free drinks. Many managers had stayed in two-bedroom presidential suites at the Anaheim Hilton.
2014 - Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni and several dozen others were arrested in a corruption scandal. The politicians were accused of financing election campaigns with some millions of euros in bribes from the construction consortium that was building underwater barriers to protect the Italian city from flooding.
2014 - An 18-year-old woman in Pakistan survived being shot and thrown into a canal by her father. The punishment was for marrying against the family’s wishes. The woman told police her two uncles looked on as her father shot her in the face, put her in a burlap sack and threw her into a canal.
2015 - U.S. accused China-based hackers of breaking into computer networks and stealing identifying information on at least 4 million federal workers. The attack was uncovered in April and had been going on for several months.
2015 - NATO accused Russia of supplying sophisticated weaponry to rebels in eastern Ukraine. This, amid the worst upsurge in fighting in months between the Kiev government’s forces and pro-Russian rebels.
2016 - Tens of thousands of people gathered in Victoria Park in Hong Kong to remember the victims of the Chinese military’s bloody June 4, 1989, crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
2017 - A stranded Austrian mountain hiker and her would-be rescuer fell to their deaths when a winch and line hoisting them into a police helicopter malfunctioned, sending them and the woman’s husband plummeting into a gorge below. The husband was critically injured but survived the fall.
2018 - 28-year-old Shivam Patel of Williamsburg, Virginia was sentenced to five years in prison for passport fraud and making false statements in his application to join the U.S. military. He had confided to an FBI undercover agent that he wanted to commit jihad.
2018 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a Colorado Civil Rights Commission had violated a baker’s rights to a fair and neutral assessment. This, after his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. However, the court did not rule on the big issue in the case – whether a business could refuse to serve gay and lesbian people...
2019 - U.S. citizen Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore, was found guilty by a U.S. court of illegally transferring personal data and trying to extort the Singaporean government.
2019 - A U.S. scientist reported Mount Everest and its surrounding peaks were becoming increasingly polluted and warmer. Professor John All of Western Washington University, said the polution, and nearby glaciers that were melting at an alarming rate, was likely to make it more dangerous for future climbers.
2019 - Thousands took to the streets of central London to protest the visit of Donald Trump, with the infamous blimp of the POTUS once again flying outside the Houses of Parliament.
2020 - Donald Trump, in his ongoing effort to help big business at the expense of the environment, moved to permanently weaken federal authority to issue stringent clean air and climate change rules. (In May 2021 Joe Biden rolled back this Trump roll-back.)
2020 - Google reported that Chinese hackers were targeting the personal email accounts of campaign staff members working for presidential candidate Joe Biden, and confirmed previous reports that Iran was targeting POTUS Donald Trump’s campaign.
2020 - Arizona reported nearly a 1,000 new coronavirus cases amid a recent surge in hospitalizations. The state had tallied more than 22,000 cases and 981 deaths at that point.
2020 - California to date had 122,238 cases of coronavirus and 4,444 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 1,870,156 with the death toll at 108,051.
2020 - The United Nations human rights office called on the Philippine government to end all violence targeting suspected drug offenders -- and to disband private and state-backed paramilitary groups. The U.N. rights office chronicled long-standing concerns about state-backed and vigilante violence that it said had worsened in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte, who had drawn domestic and international condemnation for his deadly crackdown on drug offenders and users.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, and Ruairi O’Connor; Samaritan, with Sylvester Stallone, Martin Starr and Pilou Asbæk; the animated Spirit Untamed, featuring characters voiced by Isabela Merced, Jake Gyllenhaal and Marsai Martin; Chasing Wonders, starring Edward James Olmos, Paz Vega and Jessica Marais; Dream Horse, with Toni Collette, Damian Lewis and Siân Phillips; Gully, starring Amber Heard, John Corbett and Kelvin Harrison Jr.; Monuments, with Marguerite Moreau, Rivkah Reyes and Joel Murray; Super Frenchie, starring Matthias Giraud, Julian Carr and Todd Davis; Tove, with Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen and Shanti Roney; Undine, starring Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski and Maryam Zaree; Witnesses, with Michael Zuccola, Caleb J. Spivak and Lincoln Hoppe; and Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne.
2021 - A federal judge overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego stayed it for 30 days to give state Attorney General Rob Bonta time to appeal. California first restricted assault weapons in 1989, with multiple updates to the law since then.
2021 - The head of an American Legion post in Ohio stepped down amid criticism following the decision of Memorial Day ceremony organizers to turn off a retired U.S. Army officer’s microphone while he was speaking about how freed Black slaves honored fallen soldiers just after the Civil War. “The American Legion Department of Ohio does not hold space for members, veterans, or families of veterans who believe that censoring black history is acceptable behavior,” said Roger Friend, department commander for the Ohio American Legion. Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter said he included the story in his speech because he wanted to share the history of how Memorial Day originated.
2021 - Mexican officials said they would use a million U.S. doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to inoculate people along the border.
2022 - In women’s tennis at the French Open, Polish world #1 Iga Świątek beat U.S. teenager Coco Gauff, 6–1, 6–3 for her second French singles title.
2022 - An Abbott Nutrition baby formula manufacturing plant in Sturgis, MI restarted production after having been shut down since February due to contamination issues. The absence of output from that plant was a major contributor to the U.S. baby formula shortage.
2023 - A Cessna 560 Citation V crashed in southwestern Virginia after fighter jets were called in to intercept the aircraft, which had four people on board. The U.S. Capitol Complex was placed on “an elevated alert” when the small aircraft flew near the area. The owner of the aircraft later speculated that the crash may have been caused by hypoxia resulting from the loss of cabin pressure, rendering the passengers and the pilot unconscious. U.S. officials said that the intercept pilots had seen the Cessna’s pilot slumped over at the controls.
2023 - A Ukrainian counteroffensive began. In total, Ukraine recaptured 14 villages in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, with a total pre-war population of around 5,000. The counteroffensive was widely regarded as a crucial moment in the war.
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Birthdays on This Day June 4
1738 - King George III
King of Great Britain and Ireland [1760-1811] during time of the American Revolutionary War against the British; died Jan 29, 18201895 - Russell Hicks
actor: The Woman in Red, The Blue Bird, Pacific Blackout, Captain America, Janie, Hat Check Honey, Flame of Barbary Coast, The Flying Saucer, Bowery Battalion, Once Upon a Honeymoon; he appeared in nearly 300 films; died Jun 1, 19571899 - Robert Agnew
actor: Business Is a Pleasure, Hold the Baby, The Midnight Taxi, Heart of Salome, Tessie, Troubles of a Bride, The Marriage Maker; died Nov 8, 19831907 - Rosalind Russell
actress: My Sister Eileen, Sister Kenny, Auntie Mame, Mourning Becomes Electra, China Seas, Picnic, Gypsy; died Nov 28, 19761910 - Sir Christopher Cockerell
inventor: the Hovercraft; died June 1, 19991917 - Charles Collingwood
journalist: CBS news correspondent from WWII thru Viet Nam; died Oct 3, 19851917 - Robert Merrill (Moishe Miller)
Metropolitan Opera singing star: “One of the great natural baritones of the century.”; died Oct 23, 20041920 - Russell Train
environmentalist: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, head of World Wildlife Fund; died Sep 17, 20121921 - Bobby Wanzer
Basketball Hall of Famer: player/coach: Rochester Royals, Cincinnati Royals; died Jan 23, 20161924 - (Billy) Dennis Weaver
actor: Gunsmoke, McCloud, Gentle Ben, Disaster at Silo 7, Lonesome Dove: The Series; died Feb 24, 20061928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel)
sex therapist; author; TV celebrity1930 - Morgana King
jazz singer, actress: The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, A Time to Remember; died Mar 22, 20181936 - Bruce Dern
actor: Black Sunday, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Coming Home, The ’Burbs, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Middle Age Crazy, Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood1937 - Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta)
singer: Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, Before the Next Teardrop Falls; died Oct 14, 20061937 - Robert Fulghum
author: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten1938 - Pat Studstill
football: Detroit Lions; died Oct 16, 20211943 - Sandra Haynie
golf champion: U.S. Open [1974, 1975], Du Maurier Classic [1982], LPGA [1974]1944 - Roger Ball
musician: saxophone, keyboards: group: Average White Band: Pick Up the Pieces, Work to Do, Let’s Go Around Again1944 - Michelle Phillips (Holly Michelle Gilliam)
singer: group: The Mamas and The Papas: California Dreamin’, Monday, Monday, I Saw Her Again, Words of Love, Dedicated to the One I Love, Creeque Alley; actress: The Last Movie, Dillinger, Knot’s Landing1945 - Gordon Waller
singer: duo: Peter and Gordon: World Without Love, Nobody I Know, I Don’t Want to See You Again, I Go to Pieces, Lady Godiva; actor: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; died Jul 17, 20091946 - Bettina Gregory
international broadcast journalist: ranging from White House and Pentagon coverage to environmental orientations such as Love Canal and Three Mile Island1951 - Ed Newman
football: Miami Dolphins guard: Super Bowls VIII, XIX1952 - Parker Stevenson
actor: The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Baywatch, Melrose Place, Falcon Crest1953 - Larry1 (Lawrence Calvin) Demery
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates1956 - Keith David
actor: Dead Presidents, The Quick and the Dead, The Last Outlaw, Final Analysis, Men at Work, Always, Bird, Platoon, The Thing, Crash, Agent Cody Banks, Hollywood Homicide, Barbershop, Novocaine, Semper Fi, The Replacements1958 - Eddie Velez
actor: Extremities, Bitter Vengeance, Rooftops, Romero, Split Decisions, Women’s Club, Doin’ Time, True Blue, Trial and Error, Charlie & Co., Berrenger’s, The A-Team, Traffic1961 - El (Eldra) DeBarge
singer: group: DeBarge: I Like It, All This Love, Time Will Reveal, Rhythm of the Night1961 - Julie White
actress: Grace Under Fire, Transformers film series, Breaking Upwards, Monsters vs. Aliens, Taking Chance, Funny in Farsi, Language of a Broken Heart, Morning, Go On, Lincoln1962 - Lindsay Frost
actress: The Elizabeth Smart Story, The Ring, Collateral Damage, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke, My Father’s Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story1965 - Andrea Jaeger
tennis: U.S. Open semifinals [1980 at age 15]; U.S. Olympic women’s team [1984]1965 - Vincent Young
actor: Beverly Hills, 90210, Knuckle Sandwich, A Modern Affair1966 - Cecilia Bartoli
mezzo-soprano: Rossina [Il barbiere di Siviglia], title role of La Cenerentola, Zerlina [Don Giovanni], Despina and Dorabella [Cosi fan tutte], Susanna and Cherubino [Le nozze fi Figaro], Euridice and Genio in Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice; in films: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart: Requiem, La Cenerentola, Così fan tutte1968 - Scott Wolf
actor: Party of Five, The Evening Star, The Naked Dead1969 - Len Barrie
hockey: Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins, LA Kings1970 - John Gruden
hockey: Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Washington Capitals1970 - Izabella Scorupco
model, actress: GoldenEye, With Fire and Sword, Dykaren, Vertical Limit, Reign of Fire, Exorcist: The Beginning, Among Us1971 - Noah Wyle
actor: ER, Can’t Stop Dancing, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Scenes of the Crime, Falling Skies1975 - Russell Brand
comedian, actor: St Trinian’s, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Arthur [2011]; voice actor: Despicable Me, Hop; TV host: Big Brother’s Big Mouth1975 - Angelina Jolie (Voight)
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Girl, Interrupted; Lara Croft: Tomb Raider film series, Gia, George Wallace, Cyborg 2, Foxfire, Playing by Heart, Tomb Raider, Original Sin, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; daughter of actor Jon Voight1976 - J.C. Romero
baseball [pitcher]: Mobile College, Minnesota Twins1978 - Robin Lord Taylor
actor: Gotham, Another Earth, Would You Rather, Accepted, Cold Comes the Night1979 - Nate Jackson
football [tight end]: NFL: Denver Broncos1981 - T.J. Miller
actor: Silicon Valley, Cloverfield, Yogi Bear, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Big Hero 6, Deadpool1982 - Amelia Warner
actress: Middle of Nowhere, Aeon Flux, Alpha Male, Nine Lives, Quills, Mansfield Park, Aristocrats1985 - Lukas Podolski
German footballer [forward]: Germany national team: 2014 World Cup champs1986 - Oona Chaplin
actress: Quantum of Solace, The Devil’s Double, Salar, The Sorrows, The Hour, Game of Thrones; granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin; great-granddaughter of American playwright Eugene O’Neill1992 - EJ Johnson (Earvin Johnson III)
socialite; son of NBA forward Magic Johnson
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1945Laura (facts) - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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