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1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier were brothers. They made their first balloon ascension on this day. This means that their balloon went up, successfully, we might add, to 1,500 feet for about ten minutes.1865 - Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly and with pride as his composition, Onward Christian Soldiers, was presented for the first time in Horbury, England.
1876 - For one thin dime, visitors to Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition were able to buy foil-wrapped bananas, a popular taste treat in the United States. We tried one as an experiment for lunch today -- and heartily agree! It is especially interesting how the aluminum foil creates a kind of buzzing feeling on your teeth as the banana gets chewed up!
1917 - In the first of three three registrations, about 10 million American men began registering for the draft in World War I. Over twenty-four million American men registered for the draft in 1917 and 1918.
1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.
1933 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a resolution he had introduced in Congress that took the U.S. off of the gold standard. The United States had been on a gold standard since 1879, except for an embargo on gold exports during World War I, but bank failures during the Great Depression of the 1930s frightened the public into hoarding gold, making the policy untenable.
1934 - Walt Disney Productions was granted a trademark for Mickey Mouse.
1941 - Roy Eldridge was featured on trumpet and vocal as drummer Gene Krupa and his band recorded After You’ve Gone for Columbia Records.
1942 - Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded the classic I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen with Don Cornell for Victor Records.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as The Marshall Plan.
1952 - ‘Jersey’ Joe Walcott defended his heavyweight-boxing title by out-pointing Ezzard Charles in Philadelphia, PA. Jersey Joe would lose the heavyweight crown four months later to Rocky Marciano.
1954 - Billboard magazine announced that starting in July 1954 major record labels would supply radio DJs with 45 rpm (revolutions per minute) records instead of 78s.
1956 - Elvis Presley made his second appearance on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theatre. Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel, his number one hit. The TV critics were not kind to Elvis’ appearance on the show. They panned him, saying his performance looked “like the mating dance of an aborigine.”
1959 - Bob Zimmerman graduated from high school in Hibbing, MN. Zimmerman was known as a greaser to classmates in the remote rural community, because of his long sideburns and leather jacket. Soon, Zimmerman would be performing at coffee houses at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and later, in Greenwich Village in New York City. He would also change his name to Bob Dylan (after poet Dylan Thomas, so the story goes).
1960 - Brenda Lee’s I’m Sorry entered the pop charts, eventually making it to number one. The flip side, That’s All You Gotta Do, also was a big hit.
1964 - David Jones and The King Bees had their first record, Liza Jane, released by Vocalion Records of Great Britain. Less than a decade later, we came to know Jones better as David Bowie.
1967 - Ongoing political problems (control and reunification of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, control of the West Bank of the Jordan River, etc.) came to a head, causing a major outbreak of hostilities (later referred to as the Six Day War) between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis, who had at first met strong Egyptian resistance, destroyed 50 of Egypt’s tanks and stormed through Gaza, and this was only Day One; the beginning of a quick and ferocious victory for the Israeli ground and air forces, led by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; and a humiliating defeat for Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both sides are still blaming the other for firing the first shot.
1967 - New franchises in the National Hockey League were awarded to the Minnesota North Stars, the California Golden Seals and the Los Angeles Kings. The North Stars moved to Dallas in the mid-1990s and the Golden Seals are now nonexistent.
1968 - While celebrating his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (brother of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy) was shot in the head. He died the following day. The gunman, Sirhan Sirhan, was later convicted of the murder.
1972 - Maureen McGovern quit her job as a full-time secretary for a new career as a full-time singer. Maureen was part of a trio before recording as a solo artist in July, 1973. Her first song, The Morning After, from the movie, The Poseidon Adventure, was a million-seller. She also sang the theme, Different Worlds, from ABC-TV’s Angie, and Can You Read My Mind from the movie, Superman. Ms. McGovern starred in Pirates of Penzance for 14 months on Broadway.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping. This, some eight years after the canal had been closed because of the six-day 1967 war with Israel.
1976 - Eleven people were killed when the earthen Teton Dam in Idaho burst, sending 80 billion gallons of water churning down the Upper Snake River Valley. Fourteen people were killed and 300 square miles were flooded. Estimated damage was $1 billion.
1977 - The Apple II, went on sale. $1,298 got you the machine with 4K of memory, two game paddles, and a demo cassette loaded with programs. The Apple II was first commercially successful personal computer.
1977 - The (32nd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Shubert Theatre, New York. Winners included The Shadow Box (best Play); Annie (best Musical); Al Pacino in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (best Actor Dramatic); Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst (best Actress Dramatic); Barry Bostwick in The Robber Bridegroom (best Actor Musical); and Dorothy Loudon in Annie (best Actress Musical).
1980 - Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta, premiered in Houston, Texas. Much of the movie was shot in Gilley’s, the bar owned at the time by singer Mickey Gilley.
1981 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report about a strange outbreak of killer pneumonia striking homosexual men. The five Los Angeles men mentioned in the report were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
1985 - Steve Cauthen rode Slip Anchor to the winner’s circle. He was the first American jockey in 79 years to win the Epsom Derby, Great Britain’s premier flat racing event.
1987 - Princess Diana wore a ‘Sergeant Pepper-style’ jacket to a London charity concert. At the Prince’s Trust concert, Lady Diana met Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Prince Charles set up the Prince’s Trust in 1976 to help young people who are socially, economically or physically handicapped.
1988 - Solo yachtswoman Kay Cottee sailed into Sydney Harbor to become the first woman to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the earth.
1989 - In one of the most remembered TV images of China’s crushed pro-democracy movement, a lone man stood defiantly in front of a line of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square until friends pulled him out of the way.
1993 - Country (and pop) superstar Conway Twitty died in a Springfield, Missouri hospital at age 59. On his way home to Hendersonville, Tennessee, from a concert in Branson, Missouri, he collapsed on his tour bus. A blood vessel had ruptured in his stomach, and he died of complications after surgery. Twitty (real name: Harold Lloyd Jenkins) began his career in the late 1950s as a pop songwriter and performer, scoring a #1 hit in 1958 with It’s Only Make Believe. After many pop hits, including Danny Boy and Lonely Blue Boy, Twitty switched to country music. He had more than 30 number-one country hits, including Hello Darlin’, Tight-Fittin’ Jeans and Linda On My Mind.
1993 - Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison won the Texas U.S. Senate seat vacated by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.
1993 - Colonial Affair, ridden by Julie Krone, won the Belmont Stakes. Krone was the first woman to win a Triple-Crown race.
1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton headed across the English Channel aboard the carrier USS George Washington, en route to the 50th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy, France.
1996 - Fueled by gusty winds, a wildfire swept out of control in south-central Alaska, where it had engulfed 30,000 acres and destroyed as many as 150 homes. Nearly 1,000 people were ordered from their homes and a prison farm was evacuated as the fire tripled in size.
1997 - Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against his own country, was sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.
1997 - The New York Stock Exchange voted to report stock prices in decimals rather than fractions.
1998 - These movies opened in U.S. theatres: A Perfect Murder, with Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow; and The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha Mcelhone and Ed Harris.
1999 - Mel Torme, the jazz and pop singer whose warm vocals earned him the title of ‘Velvet Fog’, died at age 73. He succumbed to the lingering effects of a debilitating stroke which abruptly ended his 65-year singing career in August 1996. Torme’s first published song, Lament to Love, was recorded by Harry James when Torme was only 15. He went on to publish another 250 songs, mostly in collaboration with Bob Wells. Their best known effort is The Christmas Song, recorded by Nat King Cole (1945), and a holiday classic ever since. Torme became well known during the World War II years as the driving force behind The Mel-Tones, a vocal group specializing in jazzy arrangements, usually backed by the swing band of Artie Shaw. He went solo in 1947, recording a number of romantic hits, including the number one Careless Love. Torme received a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences at the Grammy Awards in February 1999.
1999 - Charismatic failed in his bid to win racing’s Triple Crown, finishing third behind Lemon Drop Kid and Vision and Verse in the Belmont Stakes.
1999 - Tennis pro Steffi Graf won her sixth French Open title, beating top-ranked Martina Hingis 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
2000 - Officials in the Ukraine announced that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, site of the worst radiation accident in history, would be shut down.
2001 - U.S. Senate Republicans prepared to turn control over to the Democrats, The change came about because Vermont Senator James Jeffords decided to leave the GOP after 27 years and become an independent.
2002 - Elizabeth Smart, 14, disappeared from her Salt Lake City home. She was kidnapped at gunpoint, according to her 9-year-old sister, who was in the same bedroom with her and pretended for at least another two hours to be asleep before telling her parents (Ed Smart and Lois Smart). (Elizabeth was found alive in a Salt Lake suburb March 12, 2003 in the company of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, who had abducted her.)
2002 - Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Elected along with Johnson were the late Croatian star Drazen Petrovic, longtime college and professional coach Larry Brown, University of Arizona coach Lute Olson and legendary North Carolina State mentor Kay Yow. Also getting into the hall of fame this day was the first elected team since 1963, the Harlem Globetrotters.
2003 - The New York Times executive editor Howell Raines was forced to resign, along with managing editor Gerald M. Boyd. They quit because of their handling of plagiarized stories by Times reporter Jason Blair.
2004 - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan died at his home in Los Angeles, CA. He was 93 years old and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease since at least late 1994. Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980. Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office -- and the Democratic ticket out (Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter).
2004 - Smarty Jones lost to Birdstone (36-to-1 odds) at the 136th running at Belmont Park. It was the sixth time in eight years that a Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner failed to collect the third jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown.
2005 - The Tony Awards were passed out at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. The 59th annual prizefest was hosted by Hugh Jackman -- and the big winners were: Monty Python’s Spamalot, the musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Doubt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about sexual abuse in the Catholic church, took the top awards at the (59th) Tony Awards. Spamalot won the top prize and Doubt picked up four Tonys, including best play.
2006 - Iceland Prime Minister Halldór Ásgrímsson announced he was stepping down because of his party’s poor results in local elections.
2007 - A passenger train and truck collided at a rail crossing in southern Australia, killing 11 people and injuring 24 others.
2007 - U.S. Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and obstructing the CIA leak investigation — the probe that showed a White House obsessed with criticism of its decision to go to war in Iraq.
2008 - A 3-day United Nations Food Summit in Rome, Italy, aimed at fighting hunger worldwide, ended with pledges to boost food output, calls to cut trade barriers and more research on biofuels. Just before the meeting Saudi Arabia announced a donation of $500 million.
2008 - Alain Robert, known as the French Spiderman, climbed the New York Times Building to draw attention to global warming. The feat added to his earlier conquests, including the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge.
2009 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Anna Friel and Jorma Taccone; My Life in Ruins, with Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Harland Williams and Rachel Dratch; and The Hangover, with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha and Jeffrey Tambor.
2009 - Israeli officials said they would not heed U.S. President Barack Obama’s appeal to halt settlement activity on lands the Palestinians claim for a future state. Obama made the appeal during a speech to the Muslim world in Cairo the previous day.
2010 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for a global fund to fight ecological catastrophes like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2011 - The German government reported the deadly outbreak of E.coli that had killed as many as 22 people appeared to be linked to an organic farm near the city of Hamburg, where bean sprouts were grown. The farm was ordered to shut down immediately and its produce was recalled from markets.
2013 - British daily newspaper The Guardian reported the leak of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents, beginning with an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). That order required U.S. telephone giant Verizon to hand over metadata from millions of Americans’ phone calls to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the NSA. And the world was about to become aquainted with Edward Snowden.
2014 - China sentenced 81 people on terror-related charges, nine of them to death, and made 29 new arrests. This, in a huge crackdown following deadly attacks blamed on Muslim extremists.
2014 - Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed a bill creating a law to regulate companies like Uber and Lyft that use ride service apps. A number of taxi companies opposed the measure, but Hickenlooper celebrated companies like Uber and Lyft in an official signing statement by calling SB 125 “landmark legislation” that will “affirm that Colorado is open for business as a place where entrepreneurs and tech-savvy innovators can thrive.”
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included, Insidious Chapter 3, starring Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott and Angus Sampson; Spy, with Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, Morena Baccarin; Dawn Patrol, starring Scott Eastwood, Rita Wilson and Jeff Fahey; Police Story: Lockdown, with Jackie Chan, Ye Liu and Tian Jing; Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant, starring Rebecca Romijn, Stanley Tucci and Patrick Warburton; Love & Mercy, with Elizabeth Banks, John Cusack and Paul Dano; The Nightmare, starring Yatoya Toy, Siegfried Peters and Steven Yvette; An Open Secret, with Todd Bridges, Joey Coleman and Marc Collins-Rector; and Patch Town, starring Zoie Palmer, Julian Richings and Scott Thompson.
2015 - A U.S. government watchdog said Social Security overpaid disability beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion over the previous decade.
2016 - Swiss voters rejected (by a wide margin) a proposal that would have required state-controlled companies, such as Swisscom, Swiss Post or Swiss railway company SBB, not to seek to make a profit.
2016 - Torrential rain and high winds battered the east coast of Australia, leaving up to 26,000 homes without power while flooding forced hundreds of people into evacuation centers. Three poeple died in the deluge.
2017 - 29-year-old Zachary Bear Heels, a mentally ill Native American who was visiting Omaha, NE from Oklahoma, died. He had been shocked 12 times with a Taser, punched and dragged by his hair by Omaha police officers. Four police officers were initially fired over the confrontation, but three were later reinstated. The fourth, Scotty Payne, was later found not guilty of felony assault but his firing was upheld.
2017 - India successfully launched its most powerful home-produced rocket, marking another milestone for its space program. The GSLV Mk III rocket carried a satellite weighing more than three tons into a high orbit above Earth.
2018 - The 416 Fire spread across some 2,400 acres (971 hectares) near Durango, Colorado. The fire, which began June 1, was just 10 percent contained, and people from about 825 homes remained under evacuation orders.
2018 - Britain’s government gave the go-ahead to building a third runway at London Heathrow, Europe’s biggest airport (by passenger numbers). The long-awaited decision had stoked decades of division and debate because of concerns over pollution, traffic and noise to be created by the additional runway. (As of 2023 falling passenger numbers and concerns about investment costs had stalled the project.)
2018 - French President Emmanuel Macron met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the second leg of his European trip amid deep differences over how to contain Iran’s ambitions in the Middle East.
2019 - Israel cut the fishing zone it allowed off Gaza -- in response to the continued launching of incendiary balloons from Palestine. The fishing limit for Gaza fishermen was reduced from a maximum of 15 nautical miles to 10.
2019 - POTUS Trump and Queen Elizabeth II joined 300 veterans paying tribute to their fallen comrades at a poignant ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
2020 - Washington DC capped a week of demonstrations against police brutality by painting the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House. It was a highly visible display of the local government’s embrace of protests that had put it further at odds with POTUS Trump.
2020 - Mobile Alabama, under orders from mayor Sandy Stimpson, removed a statue of Confederate naval officer Admiral Raphael Semmes, which had stood on the waterfront for 120 years.
2020 - Dearborn, Michigan removed the statue of former mayor Orville Hubbard from the grounds of the Dearborn Historical Museum. Hubbard had advocated segregationist policies and made racist comments over his 35-year tenure that ended in 1977.
2020 - Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination (because all of his opponents had dropped out, Biden was already considered his party’s presumptive nominee), setting up what was to be a bruising challenge to Donald Trump that would play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.
2021 - The Department of Justice said that it would no longer seek source information from reporters in leak investigations. This, after revelations that former POTUS Donald Trump had secretly obtained phone and email records from a number of journalists.
2021 - Essential Quality won the Belmont Stakes, edging out Hot Rod Charlie. Essential Quality paid $4.60 on a $2 bet to win. Rombauer, the Preakness winner, finished third.
2021 - Turkey’s president promised to rescue the Marmara Sea from an outbreak of “sea snot” was alarming marine biologists and environmentalists. President Erdogan said untreated waste dumped into the Marmara Sea -- and climate change -- had caused the sea snot bloom.
2022 - 40 people were killed when a group of gunmen attacked a church in southwestern Nigeria. The attackers approached St. Francis Catholic Church on motorcycles, stormed in, and started shooting sporadically. Nigerian security forces arrested some of the suspects on June 23 and seized evidentiary weapons and vehicles. In August, the Nigerian military announced the arrests of another six suspects and added that one of them was an ISWAP (Islamic State – West Africa Province) leader who was planning more attacks. Akeredolu meanwhile announced the arrest of a person accused of having provided housing to the suspects before the attack was carried out.
2022 - Spanish tennis pro Rafael Nadal beat Casper Ruud of Norway, 6–3, 6–3, 6–0 -- to win his 14th French Open championship. Nadal, along with Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are, collectively, considered by many to be the Big Three greatest male tennis players of all time.
2022 - Australian Minjee Lee beat American Mina Harigae by 4 strokes to win the U.S. Open women’s golf tourney -- her second major title.
2023 - Australian Kathleen Folbigg was ‘unconditionally’ pardoned after 20 years in prison for the murder of her four children. Scientific and medical research published in 2020 suggested the deaths of the children could have been caused by the effects of very rare genetic factors.
2023 - Some 13,000 people had been displaced in Haiti following heavy rains that left at least 42 people dead. The intense storm caused several rivers to overflow, which in turn sparked flash floods, rockslides and landslides, according to a U.N. report. The floods were the latest calamity to strike the country which had been repeatedly wracked with criminal violence, political turmoil and natural disasters in recent years.
2023 - California Governor Gavin Newsom called Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a “small, pathetic man” after migrants from Florida were unceremoniously ferried to and dumped in California. Newsom floated the idea of pressing kidnapping charges against DeSantis by invoking a section of the criminal code that penalizes people who forcibly bring people into “the limits of the state.”
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Birthdays on This Day June 5
1723 - Adam Smith
philosopher and author: An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; died July 17, 17901819 - John Couch Adams
mathematician, astronomer: determined the existence of the planet Neptune [Sep 23, 1846]; died Jan 21, 18921895 - William Boyd
actor: in 66 films through 1948 [Boyd bought the rights to the Hopalong Cassidy character in 1945, then starred as Hopalong in the successful TV series in the 1950s]; died Sep 12, 1972
1905 - John Abbott
actor: Quest, Used Cars, Gigi, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Mrs. Miniver, The Rifleman, Get Smart; died May 24, 19961916 - Eddie (Edwin David) Joost
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1940], Boston Braves, Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1949, 1952], Boston Red Sox; died Apr 12, 20111919 - Richard Scarry
author & illustrator: children’s books: Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever, Richard Scarry’s Please & Thank You; died Apr 30, 19941922 - Gordon ‘Specs’ Powell
musician: bongos: LP: Movin’ In; CBS staff musician; died Sep 15, 20071925 - Art Donovan
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts [defensive tackle], New York Yanks, Dallas Texans; died Aug 4, 20131925 - Bill Hayes
singer, entertainer: The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle, Wrangle; actor: Days of Our Lives; died Jan 12, 20241928 - Tony Richardson
Academy Award-winning director: Tom Jones [1963]; A Taste of Honey, The Phantom of the Opera, Charge of the Light Brigade, The Entertainer, The Hotel New Hampshire; died Nov 14, 19911929 - Robert Lansing (Brown)
actor Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Equalizer, 87th Precinct, Twelve O’Clock High, Under the Yum Yum Tree, The Man Who Never Was, The Grissom Gang, Namu the Killer Whale; died Oct 23, 19941931 - Jacques Demy
playwright, director: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; died Oct 27, 19901932 - Pete Jolly (Cragioli)
musician: pianist: in films: I Want to Live!, The Wild Party, This World, Then the Fireworks; group: Pete Jolly Trio; died Nov 6, 20041934 - Bill Moyers
Emmy Award-winning journalist: CBS News, PBS: Bill Moyers Journal; author: Healing and the Mind1937 - Floyd Butler
singer: groups: The Hi-Fis, Fifth Dimension, Friends of Distinction: Grazing in the Grass; died Apr 29, 19901939 - Charles ‘Joe’ Clark
16th Prime Minister of Canada [1979-1980]: the youngest to hold that post1941 - Spalding Gray
actor: Diabolique, Beyond Rangoon, Bad Company, King of the Hill, Our Town, Beaches, Swimming to Cambodia, True Stories, The Killing Fields, Hard Choices; screenwriter, actor: Monster in a Box; died Jan 10, 20041941 - Robert Kraft
chairman, CEO: The Kraft Group [holding company]; owner: NFL New England Patriots, soccer’s New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium1941 - Duke (Duane B) Sims
baseball: catcher: Cleveland Indians, LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, NY Yankees, Texas Rangers1945 - Don Reid
singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Statler Brothers: Flowers on the Wall, Bed of Roses, Class of ’57; CMA Vocal Group of the Year [1972-1980]1946 - Freddie Stone
singer: group: Sly and the Family Stone: Everyday People, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]1947 - Laurie (Laura) Anderson
singer: O Superman, Language is a Virus from Outer Space, LPs: Big Science, Mr. Heartbreak, United States, Home of the Brave1947 - Don Herrmann
football: New York Giants1951 - Suze Orman
TV host: The Suze Orman Show; more1951 - Wayne Wood
hockey: WHL: Vancouver Blazers, Calgary Cowboys, Toronto Toros, Birmingham Bulls1952 - Nicko McBrain
musician: drums: group: Iron Maiden [since 1983]: LPs: Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, No Prayer for the Dying, Fear of the Dark, The X Factor, Virtual XI, Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, The Final Frontier, The Book of Souls1953 - Kathleen Kennedy
film producer: Jurassic Park, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Emma’s War, War of the Worlds, Munich, Seabiscuit, Signs, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Sixth Sense1956 - Richard ‘Butler Rep’ Butler
singer, songwriter: group: Psychedelic Furs: We Love You, Love My Way, Heaven, Pretty in Pink1956 - Kenny G (Kenneth Gorelick)
jazz musician: flute, saxophone: Songbird, Silhouette, Forever in Love, Everytime I Close My Eyes, Sentimental, The Moment, Everlasting, Jasmine Flower1962 - Jeff Garlin
comedian, actor: The Goldbergs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, Strange Wilderness, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, ParaNorman, Safety Not Guaranteed, Dealing with Idiots1965 - Bob Probert
hockey [left wing]: Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks1966 - Bill Spiers
baseball: Clemson Univ; Milwaukee Brewers, NY Mets, Houston Astros1967 - Matt Bullard
basketball [forward]: Univ of Colorado, Univ of Iowa; NBA: Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets
1967 - Ray Lankford
baseball: Modesto Jr. College; SL Cardinals, SD Padres
1969 - Brian McKnight
musician, songwriter, singer: Anytime, One Last Cry, What We Do Here, All the Way, Stay or Let It Go1971 - Vaughn Parker
football [tackle]: UCLA; NFL: SD Chargers, Washington Redskins1971 - Mark Wahlberg
musician: guitar, singer: group: Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Good Vibrations; actor: Renaissance Man, Shooter, Entourage, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Ted 2, Boogie Nights, The Fighter, Max Payne, Ted, Planet of the Apes, Daddy’s Home, Lone Survivor, The Italian Job1973 - Sean Moran
football: Colorado State Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, SL Rams, SF 49ers1973 - Brady Smith
football [defensive end]: Colorado State Univ; NFL: NO Saints, Atlanta Falcons1974 - Chad Allen
actor: St. Elsewhere, Webster, Dr. Quinn, Medicin Woman1974 - Russ Ortiz
baseball [pitcher]; NFL: University of Oklahoma, SF Giants, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks1975 - Zydrunas Ilgauskas
basketball [center]: Cleveland Cavaliers1976 - Kevin Faulk
football [running back]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: NE Patriots1976 - Torry Holt
football [wide receiver]: North Carolina State Univ; NFL: St. Louis Rams [1999–2008]: 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV champs; Jacksonville Jaguars [2009]; New England Patriots [2010])1977 - Liza Weil
actress: Gilmore Girls, Scandal, Anyone But Me, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, ER, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, How to Get Away with Murder1978 - Nick Kroll
writer, producer, comedian, actor: Big Mouth, Kroll Show, The Oh, Hello Show, The League, I Love You, Man, Date Night, Get Him to the Greek1979 - Pete Wentz
lyricist, musician: guitar: groups: Fall Out Boy, Black Cards; owner of Decaydance Records1982 - Roxy Jezel
actress [2003-2009]: X-rated films: Good Girls Doing Bad Things 2, Here Cum the Brides, Weapons of Ass Destruction 3, Swallow the Leader, 2 Scoops Double Dipped, Naked and Famou$, Jenna Haze: Nymphomaniac1988 - Austin Daye
basketball: NBA: Detroit Pistons [2009–2013]; Toronto Raptors [2013–2014]; San Antonio Spurs [2014–2015]: 2014 NBA champs; Atlanta Hawks [2015–2016]1992 - Emily Seebohm
Australian swim champion: has 3 Olympic gold medals
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1946The Gypsy (facts) - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day (facts) - Perry Como
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