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1892 - J.F. Palmer of Chicago, IL patented the cord bicycle tire. Not quite a steel-belted radial for bikes, but a lot better than what had been called a tire, to be sure.1892 - The first pinch-hitter in baseball was used in a game. “Now pinch hitting: Dirty Jack Doyle.” John Joseph ‘Jack’ Doyle played in a game between the Cleveland Spiders and Ward’s Wonders of Brooklyn, NY.
1909 - Actress Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.
1937 - The cover of LIFE magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times which included saddle shoes.
1939 - Larry Clinton and his orchestra recorded In a Persian Market on Victor Records.
1942 - Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. U.S. forces retook the islands one year later.
1945 - The NBC radio program The Adventures of Topper was heard for the first time. Later, the popular program would move to TV and continue with rave reviews.
1948 - The Communists completed their takeover of Czechoslovakia with the resignation of President Eduard Beneš.
1955 - NBC radio presented The Lux Radio Theatre for the final time. The program had aired for 21 years.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower became the first president to appear on color TV as he delivered a commencement address at West Point.
1955 - The $64,000 Question, a summer replacement show, with host Hal March, premiered. The first show became the most watched and talked about program on TV. Contestants had to answer 10 questions correctly for prizes beginning at $64 and doubling with each correct answer. upward to the $4,000 category. Getting this far got you a return trip to the show the following week. At this level, you got a free trip to the Revlon isolation booth where you literally sweated your way from $8,000 to $16,000 to $32,000, and finally, the big one. An expert was permitted to accompany the contestant at the $64,000 mark.
1963 - LIFE magazine featured a tribute to Pope John XXIII.
1969 - The rock group Blind Faith made its British debut at a free concert at London Hyde Park. Over 100,000 fans attended what was called “the most remarkable gathering of young people ever seen in England.” The group was composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood and Rick Grech.
1972 - The musical Grease opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway after playing for four months in a smaller New York theatre. The musical ran for 3,388 performances.
1974 - The Entertainer, the original music from the motion picture The Sting, earned a gold record for pianist and conductor, Marvin Hamlisch.
1976 - NBC Nightly News, with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time. The partnership lasted until Brinkley left in October 1979. Chancellor then held the lone, anchor spot until retiring.
1977 - Singer Anita Bryant led a successful crusade against a Miami gay-rights law. The ordinance was repealed by a 2 to 1 margin on this day.
1981 - Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Osirak, Iraq. The the Israelis charged that the plutonium production facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1981 - The (35th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York. Winners included Amadeus (best Play); 42nd Street (best Musical); The Pirates of Penzance (best Reproduction [Play or Musical]); Ian McKellen in Amadeus (best Actor Play); Jane Lapotaire in Piaf (best Actress Play); Kevin Kline in The Pirates of Penzance (best Actor Musical); and Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year (best Actress Musical).
1985 - Sylvester Stallone was “The modern John Wayne,” according to the movie wizards at USA Today. They referred to Sly as “The macho male.” The comment came on the release of the Stallone flick, Rambo: First Blood, Part II.
1985 - Kevin Koch quit as the Pirate Parrot, the mascot of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He felt his feathers had been ruffled enough, since 1979.
1987 - The (41st annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York. Winners included Fences (best Play); Les Miserables (best Musical); All My Sons (best Reproduction [Play or Musical]); James Earl Jones in Fences (best Actor Play); Linda Lavin in Broadway Bound (best Actress Play); Robert Lindsay in Me and My Girl (best Actor Musical); and Maryann Plunkett in Me and My Girl (best 4).
1989 - A Surinam Airways DC-8 carrying 174 passengers and nine crew members crashed into the jungle near Paramaribo, Surinam while making a third attempt to land in a thick fog, killing 168 aboard. Twenty members of the Dutch soccer team ‘Colorful 11’ from Surinam were killed.
1990 - Actress Barbara Baxley (Norma Rae), died of an apparent heart attack. She was 63 years old.
1993 - Ground was broken for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Billy Joel, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Sam Phillips, Sam Moore and Dave Pirner were among those hanging around for the shoveling. Guests stood on a guitar shaped stage at the construction site on the shore of Lake Erie. (The hall opened September 2, 1995.)
1993 - Prince celebrated his 35th birthday by announcing he was changing his name and leaving his band (New Power Generation). Prince said he wanted to be referred to with the symbol that combines the symbols for male and female. He later said, “I was angry when I changed my name. I was in warrior mode.” We figured it was something like that...
1994 - Twelve-year-old Vicki Van Meter of Meadville, PA completed a transatlantic flight. As she landed her Cessna 210 in Glasgow, Scotland, she became the youngest girl to pilot a plane from the U.S. (Augusta, Maine) to Europe.
1995 - The maiden flight of the Boeing 777 was made, as United Airlines as Flight 921 flew from London to Washington. Two additional United 777s make inaugural flights the same day.
1996 - The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, was released in the U.S. Harris plays Brigadier General Francis Xavier Hummel, whose commandos seize control of Alcatraz Island and hold a group of tourists hostage. Cage plays FBI nerve-gas weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed, who is called in to disarm Hummel's rockets before they can be fired at San Francisco. Connery is federal prisoner John Patrick Mason, who knows his way around Alcatraz, having been the only prisoner to have successfully escaped the joint. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced flick got favorable reviews (especially among action-movie buffs) and brought in a solid $25.07 million at the box office its opening weekend. Also opening this day was The Phantom, a family adventure starring Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
1997 - Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm failed to win horse racing’s Triple Crown, losing the Belmont Stakes to Touch Gold.
1997 - After some 112 years, the last U.S. Mail Special Delivery letter was sent. A Special Delivery stamp cost 10 cents in 1885 and was replaced by Express Mail on this day -- for $10.75.
1998 - The (52nd annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at Radio City Music Hall, New York. Winners included Art (best Play); The Lion King (best Musical); A View from the Bridge (best Revival Play); Cabaret (best Revival Musical); Anthony LaPaglia in A View from the Bridge (best Actor Dramatic); Marie Mullen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (best Actress Dramatic); Alan Cumming in Cabaret (best Actor Musical); and Natasha Richardson in Cabaret (best Actress Musical).
1999 - The FBI put terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden on its list of the Ten Most Wanted fugitives.
2000 - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation, declaring the software giant should be split into two because it had “proved untrustworthy in the past.” An appeals court later threw out the breakup order and the Justice Department, under the George Bush (II) administration, said it would no longer seek a breakup of Microsoft.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) signed a controversial $1.3-trillion tax-cut bill.
2002 - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy drama stars Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner, Ashley Judd, Shirley Knight, Angus Macfadyen and Maggie Smith.
2002 - A yearlong hostage crisis in the Philippines involving a U.S. missionary couple came to a bloody end as Filipino commandos managed to save only one of the three captives, American Gracia Burnham.
2002 - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in Norwalk, CT of beating Greenwich neighbor Martha Moxley to death when they were both 15 years old (in 1975). Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. But -- in 2013 he was granted a new trial by a Connecticut judge, citing mistakes by Skakel’s trial attorney, Michael Sherman, and released on $1.2 million bail. But -- a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling in late 2016 reinstated the conviction. Hang on -- we're not done yet: On May 3, 2018 the Connecticut Supreme Court reversed itself and ordered a new trial. The court ruled 4-3 that Sherman had failed to present evidence of an alibi. And finally: On Oct 30, 2020, the state of Connecticut announced it would not retry Skakel for Moxley’s murder.
2003 - Empire Maker caught Funny Cide on the far turn and beat him soundly in the Belmont Stakes. The defeat left thoroughbred racing still longing for its first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.
2003 - Justine Henin-Hardenne beat Kim Clijsters 6-0, 6-4 at the French Open, in the first all-Belgian Grand Slam final.
2004 - The multi-talented composer, songwriter Eugene Raskin died. He was the lyricist/composer of Those Were the Days, the Mary Hopkin hit of Nov 1968. Raskin, born in 1909, was 94 years old. Raskin was also a playwright. Among his works were the 1949 comedy One’s a Crowd, in which a nuclear physicist develops four personalities after an experiment goes awry; and 1951’s romantic fantasy Amata.
2004 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Calgary Flames in game 7 to win hockey’s Stanley Cup.
2004 - The Supreme Court rejected objections by labor and environmental groups and ordered U.S. highways opened to long-haul Mexican trucks.
2005 - A Chilean appeals court stripped General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution in a tax evasion case stemming from multimillion-dollar bank accounts the former dictator held in the U.S. But, the court also ruled that Pinochet was too ill to face charges of human rights violations.
2006 - U.S. communications giant Motorola announced it was setting up a $100-million manufacturing facility in India to make mobile phone handsets and telecom network equipment.
2006 - Swiss senator Dick Marty, head of an investigation into alleged CIA clandestine prisons, said fourteen European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a “spider’s web” of secret flights and detention centers that violated international human rights laws. Marty also asserted that at least seven European governments were complicit in the transportation of prisoners.
2007 - All 19 managers and consultants accused in the collapse of former national airline Swissair were acquitted and won compensation totaling more than $2 million.
2007 - An international conservation group said Russia has established the Zov Tigra National Park to protect Siberian tigers. According to the WWF, the 200,000-acre park would protect the tiger’s habitat and allow for nature tourism.
2008 - Sportscaster Jim McKay died in Monkton, MD at 86 years of age. The ABC sports broadcaster covered ten Olympic games and was the voice of ABC’s Wide World of Sports for a quarter century.
2008 - U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton pledged her support for Barack Obama and asked her supporters to do the same.
2009 - Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered a shipment of Russian wheat returned. The decision to ship back the 52,000 tons of wheat, worth $9.6 million dollars (€6.8 million), came after an investigation found the grain to be contaminated with insects and unspecified heavy metals.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a thinner, slicker new iPhone 4 at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA.
2010 - Iran’s first women-only bank branch opened, allowing women to manage their finances without dealing with unrelated men. The new business system was designed to appeal to religious families who opposed any mingling between the sexes.
2011 - NBC won the fierce bidding war over exclusive TV coverage of the Olympics, outbidding Fox and ESPN. The deal NBC signed was worth $4.38 billion and gave the network U.S. broadcasting rights to the four Olympic Games from 2014 through 2020.
2011 - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft took off from Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station. The 3-man crew was made up of Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, American astronaut Michael Fossum and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of Japan’s JAXA space agency. The trio planned to spend six months on the space station.
2012 - The Library of Congress named Natasha Trethewey, Mississippi’s top poet, to be the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She was the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate, the first Southerner in that office since Robert Penn Warren was named in 1986, and the first African-American since Rita Dove in 1993.
2013 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S.: The Internship, starring Rose Byrne, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Dylan O’Brien, John Goodman, Chuti Tiu, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, B.J. Novak and Jessica Szohr; The Purge, with Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Adelaide Kane, Max Burkholder, Edwin Hodge, Tony Oller, Rhys Wakefield and John Weselcouch; the documentary, Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, featuring Gloria Allred, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Richard Bey, Pat Buchanan and Herman Cain; Much Ado About Nothing, starring Amy Acker, Emma Bates, Sara Blindauer, Brett Ryan Bonowicz, Spencer Treat Clark, Alexis Denisof, Reed Diamond and Nathan Fillion; Rapture-Polooza, with Anna Kendrick, Ken Jeong, John Francis Daley, Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Thomas Lennon and Ana Gasteyer; Tiger Eyes, starring Willa Holland, Amy Jo Johnson, Tatanka Means, Elise Eberle, Cynthia Stevenson, Lucien Dale, Forrest Fyre and Russell Means; and Wish You Were Here, with Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Antony Starr, Nicholas Cassim, Otto Page, Isabelle Austin-Boyd, Tina Bursill and Wayne Blair.
2013 - Southern California Edison announced that its San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station would be permanently shut down. The plant’s first unit operated from 1968 to 1992. Unit 2 was started in 1983 and Unit 3 started in 1984. Upgrades designed to last 20 years were made to the reactor units in 2009 and 2010; however, both reactors were shut down in January 2012 due to premature wear found on over 3,000 tubes in replacement steam generators that had been installed in 2010 and 2011.
2014 - In New Jersey a tractor-trailer plowed into a limousine carrying comedian Tracy Morgan and several others. Comedian James McNair (aka Jimmy Mack) was killed in the crash. A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board said Walmart driver Kevin Roper was driving the tractor-trailer at 65 mph. The speed limit on that stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike was 55 mph but had been lowered to 45 mph that night because of construction.
2016 - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported North Korea had restarted its nuclear facility at Yongbyon. That site processed spent fuel from power stations and was the source of plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
2016 - The last major primaries of the 2016 White House race kicked off in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota hours after U.S. delegate counts showed Hillary Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination and Donald Trump closing in on the Republican side.
2017 - Dozens of inmates who couldn’t afford bail were released from a Houston, Texas jail after a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that the Harris county bail system unfairly discriminated against the poor.
2018 - Facebook announced the end of its data partnership with Huawei following a backlash over the Chinese phone maker’s access to Facebook user data. Chinese telecommunications companies had come under scrutiny from U.S. intelligence officials who argued that Chinese telecoms provide an opportunity for foreign espionage and threaten critical U.S. infrastructure.
2018 - Stanley Cup Finals: The Eastern Conference champion Washington Capitals defeated the Western Conference champs Vegas Golden Knights four games to one to win their first championship -- in their 44th season as a team. The Vegas Golden Knights had made it to the finals in this, their first season.
2019 - Movies opening in the U.S. on this day included: Dark Phoenix, with Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain; Late Night, starring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling and John Lithgow; the animated The Secret Life of Pets 2, featuring characters voiced by Patton Oswalt, Kevin Hart, Harrison Ford, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell and Dana Carvey; Changeland, with Seth Green, Rachel Bloom and Macaulay Culkin; Framing John DeLorean, featuring Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin and Josh Charles; Hallowed Ground, with Miles Doleac, Ritchie Montgomery and Sherri Eakin; Katie Says Goodbye, starring Olivia Cooke, Mireille Enos and Christopher Abbott; The Last Black Man in San Francisco, with Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors and Danny Glover; Papi Chulo, featuring Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño and Elena Campbell-Martinez; and Project Ithaca, starring James Gallanders, Deragh Campbell and Daniel Fathers.
2019 - Wells Fargo confirmed that it had agreed to pay some $385 million to settle a California lawsuit alleging it had signed up thousands of auto loan customers without their consent, resulting in many seeing their vehicles repossessed.
2019 - NASA announced its opening of the International Space Station to commercial business and private astronauts. The move came as NASA forged ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, and allowing American companies to play an essential role in establishing a sustainable presence.
2020 - British protesters in Bristol toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the harbor. The bronze memorial had been in place since 1895.
2020 - Thousands of people took to the streets of European cities in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
2021 - The Justice Department announced its recovery of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to cybercriminals. Their attack had prompted the shutdown of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline and created gas shortages across the southeastern U.S. The DOJ traced 63.7 of the 75 Bitcoins — some $2.3 million of the $4.3 million — that Colonial Pipeline had paid to the hackers.
2021 - Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson said that addressing a clemency petition to release a man imprisoned for over 40 years who prosecutors were saying is innocent simply wasn’t “a priority.” Kevin Strickland, 62 in 2021, was convicted by an all-white jury of a Kansas City triple murder in April 1978. The only two eyewitnesses in the case had recanted and advocated for his release. On Nov. 23, 2021, a judge ruled that Strickland be released.
2021 - Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed legislation that required all registered voters in the state to receive mail-in ballots. The move countered Republican efforts in many other states to restrict voting rights.
2022 - The first ever U.S. government report into Indian boarding school deaths was released and documented more than 500 deaths across 400 schools and 50 gravesites over 150 years.
2022 - San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted in a recall election. The recall was seen as a blow to a national movement toward more lenient prosecution. Boudin was elected in 2019, after promising to eliminate cash bail and divert low-level offenders into mental health and drug treatment programs. During his first two years in office, violent and property crimes dropped, but burglaries and motor vehicle thefts rose. The recall campaign, which was heavily funded by business groups, accused Boudin of not doing enough to keep San Francisco safe.
2022 - Actor Matthew McConaughey visited the White House and met with President Biden to deliver an impassioned speech in support of gun reform. The Oscar-winning actor is from Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting. At a White House press briefing, McConaughey delivered emotional remarks recounting stories about the shooting victims after meeting with their families. He urged lawmakers to “make the loss of these lives matter” by implementing gun control reforms, including raising the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 to 21. McConaughey said, “responsible gun owners are fed up with the Second Amendment being abused and hijacked by some deranged individuals.”
2022 - Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) had said two weeks earlier that she did not think strengthening background checks on gun purchases would “be acceptable in the state of Wyoming.” But on this day, she said that she was surprised by “how receptive Wyoming callers seem to be to address guns in some manner.” Lummis said that since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, her office had received an influx of calls from Wyoming residents who want something to be done to prevent future massacres.
2023 - New York’s air quality sank to the lowest in the world (air quality index 342: "Hazardous") as smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the American north east. The FAA halted many flights bound for New York. Governor Kathy Hochul said the poor air quality was “an emergency crisis” and warned it could last for several days. “If you can stay indoors, stay indoors. This is detrimental to people’s health,” cautioned the governor.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Bad Boys: Ride or Die, starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Vanessa Hudgens; and The Watchers, with Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell and Olwen Fouéré.
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Birthdays on This Day June 7
1778 - Beau (George Bryan) Brummel
English men’s fashion leader; died Mar 29, 18401848 - (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin
artist: The Yellow Christ, Where Do We Come From? Where Are We? Where Are We Going?; died May 8, 19031896 - Hope Summers
actress: The Andy Griffith Show, Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws, Lust of a Eunuch, Charley Varrick, Rosemary’s Baby, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Dennis the Menace, Petticoat Junction, The Flim-Flam Man; died June 22, 19791905 - James J. Braddock
professional boxer: World Heavyweight champ [June 13, 1935-June 22, 1937; died Nov 29, 1974; more1908 - Marion Martin
actress: Oklahoma Annie, Journey Into Light, Oh, You Beautiful Doll, That’s My Gal, Black Angel, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood; died Aug 13, 19851909 - Virginia Apgar
physician: the Apgar Score System: method of evaluation of newborns’ need for medical care; died Aug 7, 19741909 - Jessica Tandy
Academy Award-winning actress: Driving Miss Daisy [1989]; Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Birds, Forever Amber, Used People, Camilla; performed on Broadway with husband, Hume Cronyn; died Sep 11, 19941917 - Gwendolyn Brooks
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Annie Allen [1950]; We Real Cool, The Bean Eaters, Winnie, Coming Home; died Dec 3, 20001917 - Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
straight man of comedy-team: Martin and Lewis; singer: Memories are Made of This, Return to Me, Everybody Loves Somebody, The Door is Still Open to My Heart, Houston; actor: My Friend Irma, Hollywood or Bust, Airport, Bells are Ringing, The Caddy, Cannonball Run, Ocean’s 11, Rio Bravo; died Dec 25, 19951919 - Ray Scherer
newsman: NBC: White House correspondent; author w/Robert Donovan]: Unsilent Revolution: Television News and AmericanPublic Life; died July 7, 20001924 - Dolores Gray
actress: The Buick Circus Hour, The Opposite Sex, Kismet, Designing Woman; died June 26, 20021928 - James Ivory
director: Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End, A Room with a View, The Bostonians, Roseland, Wild Party, The Householder1928 - Randolph Turpin
boxer: Middleweight Champ [1951]; died May 17, 19661928 - Charles Strouse
musician, composer: Golden Boy; TV/films: The Mating Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Bonnie and Clyde, All in the Family, Annie, A Child’s Garden of Verses1929 - John Turner
17th Prime Minister of Canada [1984]; died Sep 19, 20201931 - Virginia McKenna
actress: Duel of Hearts, Born Free, The Chosen, Simba1933 - Herb Score
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians [1955-1962]; broadcaster: Indians TV [1964-1968], radio play-by-play [1968-1997]; died Nov 11, 20081934 - Wynn Stewart
singer: It’s Such a Pretty World Today, Wishful Thinking, After the Storm; died July 17, 19851938 - Ann Beach
actress: Double Act, Notting Hill, King Ralph, The History of Mr. Polly, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Make Me an Offer; died Mar 9, 20171940 - Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward)
Grammy Award-winning singer [Best New Artist - 1965]: It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Without Love, Delilah, Love Me Tonight, Green Green Grass of Home, Sex Bomb1943 - Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.)
poet: The Women and the Men, My House1943 - Ken Osmond
actor: Leave It to Beaver, High School U.S.A.; died May 18, 20201944 - Cazzie Russell
basketball [forward & guard]: Univ of Michigan; NBA: NY Knicks, Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, Chicago Bulls1944 - Clarence White
musician: guitar: group: The Byrds: Eight Miles High; killed by drunk driver in Lancaster CA July 15, 19731946 - Jenny Jones
TV talk-show host: Jenny Jones [1991-2003]; Star Search talent-show winner [1986]1947 - Don (Donald Wayne ‘Brooks’) Money
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978/World Series: 1982]1947 - Thurman (Lee) Munson
baseball: catcher: NY Yankees [Rookie of the Year: 1970/all-star: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978/World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978], Baseball Writer’s Award [1976]; killed in plane crash at Akron-Canton [Ohio] Airport Aug 2, 19791948 - Willie Nile
songwriter, singer: LPs: Willie Nile, Golden Down, Places I Have Never Been, Beautiful Wreck of the World, Streets of New York, House of a Thousand Guitars, The Innocent Ones, American Ride1952 - Liam Neeson
actor: Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Ethan Frome, Schindler’s List, Rob Roy, Les Misérables, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace1955 - William Forsythe
actor: Freedomland, The Devil’s Rejects, Live to Ride, The Technical Writer, Run for the Money, Camouflage, Luck of the Draw1955 - Joey Scarbury
singer: Theme from Greatest American Hero [Believe It or Not]1958 - Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)
The Artist Previously Known as Prince: musician, singer: I Wanna be Your Lover, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Kiss; actor: Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge; died Apr 21, 20161959 - Jim Burt
football [defensive line]: New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers
1959 - Mike Pence
politician: 48th Vice President of the United States [2017-2021]; 50th Governor of Indiana [2013–2017]; Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana’s 6th district [2003–2013]1964 - Gia Carides
actress: Primary Colors, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, A Secret Affair1965 - Mick (Michael Francis) Foley
pro wresler, actor: WCW Saturday Night, WWF Monday Night RAW, Wrestlemania series, WWF Armageddon1967 - Dave Navarro
musician: guitar: Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers: LP: One Hot Minute1970 - Mike Modano
hockey: Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars: 1999 Stanley Cup champs1971 - Terrell Buckley
football [cornerback]: Florida State Univ; NFL: GB Packers, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, NE Patriots, NY Jets1972 - Jeff Burris
football [cornerback]: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts, Cincinnati Bengals, NE Patriots1972 - Chris Martin
actor: Madison, Amazon, The Girls’ Room1972 - Karl Urban
actor: The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek [2009], Xena: Warrior Princess, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Bourne Supremacy, Pathfinder, The Price of Milk, Out of the Blue, Almost Human1975 - Allen Iverson
basketball: Georgetown Univ, Philadelphia 76ers [rookie of the year: 1996-1997]1976 - Jermaine Jackson
basketball [guard]: Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Atlanta Hawks, NY Knicks1976 - Cassidy Rae
actress: Melrose Place, Just Shoot Me, Days of Our Lives, Favorite Deadly Sins, Journey of the Heart1978 - Bill Hader
writer, comedian, actor: Barry, Saturday Night Live, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Superbad, Hot Rod, Tropic Thunder, Adventureland, Paul, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian1978 - Odalis Perez
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers1979 - Anna Torv
actress: Fringe, Young Lions, The Secret Life of Us1981 - Anna Kournikova
tennis: champ: U.S. Open [doubles: 1999]1981 - Larisa Oleynik
actress: 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Ten Things I Hate About You1988 - Michael Cera
actor: Arrested Development, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Stolen Miracle, I Was a Rat, My Louisiana Sky, Frequency, Custody of the Heart, Super Bad1988 - Milan Lucic
hockey [left winger]: NHL: Boston Bruins [2011-2015]: 2013 Stanley Cup; Los Angeles Kings [2015-2016]; Edmonton Oilers [2016- ]1990 - Iggy Azalea (Amethyst Amelia Kelly)
songwriter, rapper: Pu$$y, Two Times, Fancy, Black Widow, Beg for It, Pretty Girls
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Hit Music on This Day June 7
1948Nature Boy (facts) - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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