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1790 - The first copyright for a book was given to The Philadelphia Spelling Book. We checked and found that spelling in the City of Brotherly Love is pretty much the same as it is in most other places -- only the accent is a bit different...1822 - Charles M. Graham of New York City received a patent for artificial teeth. So, in honor of the momentous occasion, let’s all try to keep a stiff upper ... plate today!
1860 - The book, Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime on this day. The 128 page book became the first ‘dime novel’.
1890 - Oh Promise Me was sung by Jessie Bartlett Davis in the premiere of the operetta, Robin Hood, which opened at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, IL.
1899 - James J. Jeffries punched Bob ‘Ruby Robert’ Fitzsimmons into the next county via an 11th-round knockout at Coney Island, NY. Jeffries became heavyweight boxing champ as a result.
1924 - Jelly-Roll Blues was recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton and his band for Gennett Records.
1928 - Australians Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm became the first to fly across the Pacific when they ended their nine-day flight in Brisbane, Australia. Leaving Oakland, California, May 31 in a Fokker Trimotor that they called the Southern Cross, the aviators spent 80 hours in actual flying time, making stops in Honolulu, Hawaii and Fiji.
1931 - Robert Hutchings Goddard patented a rocket-fueled aircraft design. Lack of military interest in rocketry confounded Goddard for years, since he understood that only the government had adequate resources to fund proper research. (In 1959 NASA named the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland after him.)
1934 - Walt Disney’s famous ducky made his first appearance (as a bit player) on film -- in The Wise Little Hen. Donald Duck went on to quack his way into mischief and stardom in 127 cartoons and features before his final appearance in 1961. The irascible duck is known the world over and is the best-recognized Disney creation after Mickey Mouse.
1943 - The U.S. Congress authorized legislation giving the green light to a withholding tax on payrolls -- the pay-it-as-you-make-it income tax.
1946 - Mel Ott of the NY Giants became the first manager to receive this dubious honor: Ott was ejected from both games of a doubleheader!
1949 - Ms. Georgia Neese Clark was confirmed as the first woman Treasurer of the United States of America.
1953 - A killer tornado roared into Worcester, MA. 94 people were killed by the storm, 1310 injured and 10,000 left homeless. Assumption College was destroyed.
1954 - In a dramatic confrontation during the Senate-Army hearings, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch assailed Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. McCarthy had unleashed a verbal attack on Frederick G. Fisher, a member of Welch’s law firm. Said Welch (to McCarthy), “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
1959 - The first Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire. The USS George Washington (SSBN 598) was christened this day and served proudly until January 24, 1985. In November 1960, the George Washington became the first FBM sub to deploy on an operational patrol (with Polaris missiles on board and ready to fire).
1962 - A decade after making his first hit song, Because of You, singer Tony Bennett debuted in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1965 - Frenchman Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds to break the 1964 record set by Peter Snell.
1969 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Warren E. Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding Earl Warren.
1970 - Bob Dylan received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Princeton University. Corretta Scott King (Doctor of Humanities) and Walter Lippman (Doctor of Laws) also received honorary degrees. Dylan wrote the song "Day of the Locust" about the event (it was the year the locusts invaded).
1972 - A Rapid City, SD flash flood caused 238 deaths and $165 million in damage. Fourteen inches of rain in six hours caused the Canyon Lake Dam to burst.
1973 - The first Triple Crown winner in 25 years of horse racing won the Belmont Stakes in New York. The thoroughbred that clinched horse racing’s most prestigious honor was Secretariat.
1975 - Tony Orlando and Dawn received a gold record for their hit song, He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You). The million-seller was number one for three weeks (May 3-17, 1975) and one of five million-sellers for the trio. (The song, titled He Will Break Your Heart, was a hit for Jerry Butler in 1960 and was written by Butler, Calvin Carter, and Curtis Mayfield.)
1978 - Larry Holmes beat up Ken Norton to claim the heavyweight boxing title in a 15-round decision in Las Vegas, Nevada.
1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor was rushed to the hospital after suffering third-degree burns over most of his upper body. Pryor was nearly killed in an explosion while he was freebasing cocaine. Pryor was seen, ablaze, running down the street from his house before he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. He was hospitalized for more than two months following the debacle.
1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers edged the Boston Celtics, 111-100, to win their first National Basketball Association title in nine tries over the Celtics. The Lakers had been shut out of a championship series since 1959 when they were based in Minneapolis. The MVP of the winning Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
1986 - The Rogers Commission released its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The report criticized NASA and the rocket builder for management problems leading to the failure of a solid rocket booster joint. The explosion of the booster rocket killed the seven astronauts on board the shuttle.
1990 - Go and Go won the 122nd running of the Belmont Stakes.
1991 - Jim Courier collected his first Grand Slam of tennis title as he won the French Open.
1992 - Entertainer Ben Vereen was critically injured when he was struck by a van while walking along the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, California. The driver, producer/composer David Foster, was not charged. Some hours earlier, Vereen had run into a tree while driving his own car. He blames that mishap for the later accident. He said, "I had hit my head on the steering wheel but felt fine. Later that evening as I was walking in Malibu, I had [a] stroke as a result of that accident." Vereen says he then stumbled into the roadway and was hit by the van. Talk about having a lousy day...
1993 - Singer and songwriter Arthur Alexander died in Nashville, Tennessee, of respiratory and heart failure. He was 53. his pop and soul classics Anna (Go To Him), a U.S. R&B Top-10 hit, and You Better Move On were covered (that is, also recorded by), respectively, by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. You Better Move On (1962) was one of the first hits to come out of the famed Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama.
1993 - The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup (their 24th) in Game 5 against the Los Angeles Kings.
1993 - Actress Alexis Smith died in Los Angeles at the age of 72. Smith won Broadway’s 1972 Tony Award for Best Actress (Musical) for Follies. She was nominated in the same category in 1979 for Platinum.
1996 - Linux v2.0 was released. 2.0 was a significant improvement over the earlier versions of the operating system that some experts said would become a competitor for MS Windows. Several ‘flavors’ of Linux were developed as many in the computing world looked for ways to wriggle free from the clutches of “Micro$oft” and its wealthy creator, Bill Gates.
1997 - BankAmerica Corporation announced that it would acquire the San Francisco investment banking firm Robertson Stephens & Co. for $540 million in cash.
1999 - After 78 days of intense NATO airstrikes, Yugoslav and NATO officials finalized an agreement on the withdrawal of Serb troops from Kosovo and suspension of NATO airstrikes, clearing the way for a Kosovo peace plan.
2000 - The movie Gone in Sixty Seconds opened in the U.S. The action, crime flick stars Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Christopher Eccleston, Chi Mcbride, Robert Duvall and Scott Caan.
2000 - The U.S. Justice Department released a report after an 18-month investigation. No credible evidence was found that conspirators had aided or framed James Earl Ray in the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior.
2001 - The Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup by defeating the defending champion New Jersey Devils 3-1 in game seven.
2001 - Point Given, a dud in the Kentucky Derby, won the Belmont Stakes.
2003 - Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir Living History was released. She received an advance of about $8 million for the book.
2003 - The New Jersey Devils won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Anaheim Mighty Ducks 3-0 in Game 7.
2004 - Thousands viewed the flag-draped casket of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington DC.
2005 - Canada’s high court struck down a Quebec ban on private health insurance that paid for foster care.
2005 - The governor of Massachusetts requested federal aid to help fight an unusually large red tide of toxic algae that had crippled the state’s shellfish industry.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Cars, an animated family comedy featuring the voices of Paul Newman, Richard Petty, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Dan Whitney, John Ratzenberger, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin, George Carlin, R. Lee Emery, Tom Magliozzi and Ray Magliozzi; and A Prairie Home Companion, starring Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tommy Lee Jones, Lily Tomlin, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Madsen, Maya Rudolph and Lindsey Lohan.
2006 - Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrated his 60th anniversary on the throne. Born in 1927, Adulyadej was the world’s longest-reigning monarch. He was the 9th king of the Chakri dynasty, succeeding his older brother on June 9, 1946.
2007 - The Hawaiian canoe Hokulea sailed into the Japanese port of Yokohama, completing a five-month journey of more than 8,500 miles across the Pacific. The voyage commemorated the 1881 journey of King David Kalakaua to Yokohama to open the doors to Japanese immigration to Hawaii.
2007 - The filly Rags to Riches outdueled Preakness winner Curlin in a stretch run to win the Belmont Stakes by a head.
2008 - Engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer. The $100-million machine, named Roadrunner, performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.
2009 - Arcandor, the owner of Germany’s larges chain of department stores, filed for bankruptcy after the government rejected its request for a loan guarantee of €650 million. The bankruptcy filing by Arcandor, whose Karstadt department stores anchored downtown shopping areas across Germany, also set in motion the biggest test to date for a decade-old insolvency law that was modeled on the bankruptcy reorganization system in the United States.
2010 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in overtime to win the Stanley Cup. It was the Blackhawks’ first Stanley Cup win since 1961. They beat the Flyers 4 games to 2.
2010 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $10,000,000 to get mobile banking off the ground in Haiti. The funds were intended to inspire telecommunications and finance companies to set up mobile phone banking services for Haiti’s poor.
2011 - Goldman Sachs Group agreed to pay a $10-million fine and stop giving special treatment to wealthy clients. The giant investment banking and securities firm had been accused of operating with a two-tiered approach to its Massachusetts customers, giving preferential financial advice and tips to its wealthiest clients, while not giving its other customers equal access to the same information.
2012 - Timothy Bradley grabbed the World Boxing Organization welterweight crown from champ Manny Pacquiao. The spit-decision victory at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada ended a 15-fight winning streak for Pacquiao.
2013 - The Tony Awards were passed out for the 67th time. The ceremony returned to Radio City Music Hall in New York City, after two years at Beacon Theatre. Neil Patrick Harris hosted for the third consecutive year. The winners included the musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star Cyndi Lauper [6 Tonys]; Best Play was Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; the award for Best Revival of a Play went to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Best Revival of a Musical was won by Pippin.
2014 - POTUS Barack Obama expanded a 2010 program to alleviate the burden of student loan debt incurred after Oct 2007. Borrowers would pay no more than 10 percent of their monthly income to settle student loan debt incurred.
2014 - A married couple who espoused extreme anti-government views ambushed two police officers who were having lunch at a Las Vegas restaurant. Both cops were shot at point-blank range and killed. The couple then moved on to a nearby Walmart where they killed a bystander and then themselves.
2015 - A white suburban Dallas, Texas police officer resigned after he was recorded on video pushing a black teenage girl to the ground outside a pool party and brandishing his gun at other teens. Officer David Eric Casebolt’s actions were “indefensible,” though he was not pressured to quit, McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley said at a press conference after the officer submitted his resignation.
2016 - Three German motorcyclists were killed and three injured in a traffic collision outside of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Manuel Moreno Defuentes of Oregon was charged with homicide by vehicle after his pickup crashed into the group of motorcycles.
2017 - Movies new to U.S. theatres included: It Comes at Night, with Joel Edgerton, Kelvin Harrison Jr and Carmen Ejogo; Megan Leavey, starring Kate Mara, Bradley Whitford and Tom Felton; The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis; 11:55, with Victor Almanzar, Shirley Rumierk and Elizabeth Rodriguez; As Good as You, with Bryan Dechart, Raoul Bhaneja and Karis Campbell; Beatriz at Dinner, starring Salma Hayek, Chloë Sevigny and Connie Britton; Camera Obscura, with Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva and Catherine Curtin; The Hero, starring Krysten Ritter, Laura Prepon and Nick Offerman; I Love You Both, with Lucas Neff, Artemis Pebdani and Angela Trimbur; My Cousin Rachel, with Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz and Holliday Grainger; and Random Tropical Paradise, starring Bryan Greenberg, Brooks Wheelan and Spencer Grammer.
2017 - UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency warned that the fight for the Islamic State group’s stronghold of Raqqa, Syria had threatened thousands of children. “An estimated 40,000 children remain trapped in extremely dangerous conditions in Raqqa. Many are caught in the crossfire,” said UNICEF regional director Geert Cappelaere. He urged all parties to give safe passage to those who wanted to leave.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump quit the G7 summit in Quebec early after making no concessions to his allies’ anger at his imposition of tariffs designed, in his eyes, to rebalance world trade. The G7 leaders were left scrambling to find a face-saving formula to counter the impression that the summit had served to only deepen the rift between Trump’s Washington and its traditional allies.
2018 - Justify won the Belmont Stakes -- and the Triple crown. The undefeated thoroughbred became the 13th horse to win the American Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes). After racing through the mud at the Kentucky Derby, shooting out of the gate at the Preakness Stakes and setting himself up for a chance at giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his second Triple Crown in four years, Justify dominated Belmont Park’s 1.5-mile track (Gronkowski was the runner up and Hofburg finished third). Justify had been the overwhelming favorite at 3/5 odds, and improved to 6-0 with the win, the fewest races ever for a Triple Crown winner.
2019 - Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz (43) was shot in the Dominican Republic. Dominican doctors removed Ortiz’s gallbladder and part of his intestine before he was flown to Boston to recover. Dominican officials say Víctor Hugo Gómez, whom they described as an associate of a Mexican drug cartel, orchestrated the hit in an attempt to murder his cousin, whom he mistook Ortiz for.
2019 - Hong Kong witnessed the largest protest since its 1997 handover to China as huge crowds demomstrated against plans to allow extraditions to the mainland. The unpopular proposal that had plunged the city’s pro-Beijing leaders into a crisis.
2020 - The California Public Utilities Commission ruled that ride-hail drivers were employees under AB5, the state’s new gig-work law. The ruling was a defeat for Uber and Lyft, which had argued publicly and in lawsuits that their drivers were properly classified as independent contractors.
2020 - New York state lawmakers repealed a decades-old law that had kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret. The change was spurred by the national uproar over the death of George Floyd.
2020 - 21 U.S. states reported weekly increases in new cases of COVID-19, with Arizona, Utah and New Mexico all posting rises of 40% or more.
2021 - The Census Bureau announced guidelines for how a controversial statistical method would be applied to the numbers used for drawing U.S. congressional and legislative districts. The new method was intended to protect the privacy of people who participated in the 2020 census, though critics said it favors confidentiality at the expense of accurate numbers. The privacy method adds controlled “noise,” or intentional errors, to the data to obscure the identity of any given participant in the census while still providing statistically valid information.
2021 - Volkswagen announced former CEO Martin Winterkorn had agreed to pay €11.2 million ($13.6 million) in compensation after his failure to quickly get to the bottom of the scandal over VW diesel engines rigged to cheat on emissions tests.
2022 - The Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series -- the first 25 million (USD) Invitational Series -- got underway at the Centurion Club, Hertfordshire, England. The PGA suspended 17 participating players. “In accordance with the PGA Tour’s Tournament Regulations, the players competing this week without releases are suspended or otherwise no longer eligible to participate in PGA Tour tournament play, including the Presidents Cup,” a statement from PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan read. “Their participation in the Saudi Golf League/LIV Golf event is in violation of our Tournament Regulations. The same fate holds true for any other players who participate in future Saudi Golf League events in violation of our Regulations.”
2022 - And from our Most Unusual News Dept: Two people were rescued after falling into a tank of chocolate at Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania. It was unclear how the people fell into the tank.
2023 - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts was scheduled to open in the U.S. on this day. The science fiction action film, based on Hasbro’s Transformers toy line, stars Anthony Ramos, Colman Domingo and Dominique Fishback and characters voiced by, among others, Pete Davidson, Michelle Yeoh, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Cristo Fernández, John DiMaggio, Peter Cullen and Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez.
2023 - Four Colombian children were found safe after surviving 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their plane crashed (the three adults on board died in the crash).
2023 - Former Prime Minster Boris Johnson announced that he was stepping down as an MP (Member of Parliament). The resignation came after he received a report from the MP-led Privileges Committee into whether he misled Parliament over lockdown parties (during the covid pandemic) at Downing Street. The 108-page report found that Boris Johnson committed “repeated contempts of parliament.”
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Birthdays on This Day June 9
1672 - Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich)
Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) (Peter I: Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725]; died Feb 8, 1725; note: these dates are based on the Gregorian calendar -- see May 30 for Julian calendar dates1781 - George Stephenson
inventor: developer of steam locomotive; died Aug 12, 18481791 - John Howard Payne
composer, lyricist: The Maid of Milan, Home Sweet Home; died Apr 9, 18521865 - Carl Nielsen
composer: Maskarade; conductor: Danish Royal Opera [1908-1914]; director: Royal Conservatory [Copenhagen, 1915]; died Oct 3, 19311891 - Cole (Albert) Porter
composer & lyricist: Broadway shows: Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Can Can, Silk Stockings; songwriter: I’m in Love Again, Let’s Do It, You Do Something to Me, It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day, Don’t Fence Me In, What is This Thing Called Love, Love for Sale, I Get a Kick Out of You, Just One of Those Things, Begin the Beguine, I Love Paris, In the Still of the Night, True Love; died Oct 15, 19641900 - Fred Waring
choirmaster & bandleader: group: The Pennsylvanians: The Whiffenpoof Song; invented Waring blender; died July 29, 19841905 - Martha Boswell
singer: group: The Boswell Sisters: Wha’d Ja Do to Me?, When I Take My Sugar to Tea, Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On, Shout, Sister, Shout, Sing a Little Jingle, I Found a Million Dollar Baby [In a Five and Ten Cent Store]; died July 2, 19581908 - Luis Kutner
attorney: responsible for release of unjustly-held prisoners; wrote the living will concept; died Mar 12, 19931910 - Robert Cummings
Emmy Award-winning actor: Twelve Angry Men [1954]; Love That Bob, The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, Dial "M" for Murder, The Carpetbaggers; died Dec 2, 19901915 - Les Paul (Polfus)
Grammy Award-winning guitarist: Chester & Lester [w/Chet Atkins - 1976], Trustees Award [1982]; w/Mary Ford: Vaya Con Dios, How High the Moon, Hummingbird, Sittin’ on Top of the World; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1988]; died Aug 12, 20091916 - Robert McNamara
U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy & Johnson administrations; president of World Bank; died Jul 6, 20091922 - George Axelrod
playwright: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, The Manchurian Candidate; died June 21, 20031926 - Mona Freeman
actress: National Velvet, Black Beauty, Dear Ruth, Battle Cry; died May 23, 20141926 - Roy Smalley
baseball: shortstop: Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies; died Oct 22, 20111928 - Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza)
comedian: Chicken Soup, The World According to Me, The Jerk, Caddyshack 2, History of the World: Part 1; ordained rabbi; died Jul 24, 20211930 - Marvin Kalb
journalist: NBC News, Meet the Press; Executive Director: Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy1931 - Joe Santos (Minieri)
actor: The Rockford Files, The Panic in Needle Park, Shamus, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Blue Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, Sinatra, Trial by Jury, MacGyvers; died Mar 18, 20161931 - Bill (William Charles) Virdon
baseball: SL Cardinals [Rookie of the Year: 1955], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1960]; died Nov 23, 20211934 - Jackie Wilson
singer: Lonely Teardrops, Night, Alone at Last, [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher, Baby Workout, For Your Precious Love, Chain Gang; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; died Jan 21, 19841935 - Diana Van der Vlis
actress: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Incident, The Girl in Black Stockings, Ryan’s Hope; died Oct 22, 20011939 - David Hobbs
auto racer, broadcaster, actor: Stroker Ace, Emerald City, Emmerdale Farm1939 - Dick Vitale
sportscaster: basketball analyst: ABC, ESPN; author: Time Out, Baby!, Campus Chaos - Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart; columnist: USA TODAY1941 - Billy Hatton
musician: bass: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, I’m in Love, A Little Loving1941 - Jon Lord
musician: keyboards: groups: Artwoods, Flowerpot Men, Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water; died Jul 16, 20121947 - Mick Box
musician: lead guitar: group: Uriah Heep: Salisbury, Demons & Wizards, Sweet Freedom, Return to Fantasy, Innocent Victim, Abominog, Raging Silence, Different World, Wake the Sleeper, Celebration, Into the Wild; the only member from the band’s founding in 1969 who is still active with the group1950 - Trevor Bolder
musician: bass: groups: Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep: LP: Equator; died May 21, 20131951 - Dave (David Gene) Parker
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [Baseball Writer’s Award: 1978/all-star: 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981/World Series: 1979], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1985, 1986/World Series: 1988, 1989], Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1990], California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays1954 - George Pérez
comic book writer, illustrator: Avengers, Teen Titans, Wonder Woman; died May 6, 20221957 - T.D. Jakes
bishop/chief pastor: The Potter’s House: sermons broadcast on The Potter’s Touch TV show1961 - Michael J. Fox
actor: Back to the Future film series, The Good Wife, The Secret of My Success, Bright Lights Big City, Doc Hollywood, Greedy, For Love or Money, Family Ties, Boston Legal, Scrubs; voice of bulldog puppy in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey; founded The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research [2000]); more1961 - Aaron Sorkin
film writer, producer, playwright: The Newsroom, The West Wing, A Few Good Men, The American President, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Social Network, Moneyball1963 - Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III)
actor: Pirates of the Caribbean series, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arizona Dreams, Nick of Time, Dead Man, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Platoon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 21 Jump Street, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1964 - Gloria Reuben
actress: ER, Timecop, Shaft [2000]1964 - Wayman Tisdale
basketball: Olympic Gold medalist [1984], Univ of Oklahoma [all-American], Phoenix Suns; jazz musician: bass guitar: group: LPs: Power Forward, In the Zone, Decisions; died May 15, 20091966 - Tamela Mann
gospel singer, actress: Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, Sparkle, Madea’s Big Happy Family, Madea Goes to Jail, Meet the Browns, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Kingdom Come1967 - Dean Felber
musician: bass; singer: group: Hootie and the Blowfish: Hold My Hand, Only Wanna Be with You, Time, Let Her Cry, Not Even the Trees, Hey Hey What Can I Do?, Tucker’s Town, Sad Caper, Be the One1967 - Samantha Strong
actress [1986-2002]: X-rated films : Misadventures of the Bang Gang, Deep Throat II, Debbie Does ’em All 2, Back Door to the Future 2, Never Say Good Bi, Married with Hormones 2, All Hands on Dick, Take My Wife, Please!1968 - Tom Rouen
football [punter]: Univ of Colorado; NFL: Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers1969 - Josh Hamilton
actor: The Bourne Identity, Urbania, The ’60s, The House of Yes, Abby, My Love, With Honors, Alive1973 - Tedy Bruschi
football [linebacker]: Univ of Arizona; NFL: NE Patriots [1996–2008]: 3× Super Bowl champion [XXXVI (2002), XXXVIII (2004), XXXIX (2005]; ESPN TV sports analyst1973 - Grant Marshall
hockey [right wing]: Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, NJ Devils1973 - Chris Villarrial
football [guard]: Univ of Indiana; Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills1977 - Olin Kreutz
football [center]: Univ of Washington; NFL: Chicago Bears1978 - Michaela Conlin
actress: Bones, JAG, The D.A., Open Window, Enchanted, The Lincoln Lawyer1978 - Miroslav Klose
footballer [striker]: Germany [2001-2014]: 2014 FIFA World Cup champs1978 - Alvin McKinley
football [tackle]: Mississippi State Univ; NFL: Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos
1978 - Heather Mitts
soccer: WPS: Philadelphia Charge, Boston Breakers, Philadelphia Independence, Atlanta Beat; 3× Olympic gold medalist: 2004, 2008, 2012 summer games1978 - Thomas Ziegler
hockey [center]: Tampa Bay Lighting1980 - James DeBello
actor: Cabin Fever, The Hillz, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, Swimfan, Scary Movie 2, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, After Sex1980 - Udonis Haslem
basketball [forward]: NBA: Miami Heat [2003-2023]: NBA champs 2006, 2012, 20131981 - Natalie Portman
actress: Jackie, Thor: The Dark World, Mars Attacks!, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace1985 - Sebastian Telfair
basketball: NBA: Portland Trail Blazers [2004–2006]; Boston Celtics [2006–2007]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2007–2009]; Los Angeles Clippers [2009–2010]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2010]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2010–2011]; Phoenix Suns [2011–2013]; Toronto Raptors [2013]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2014]1988 - Mae Whitman
actress: Arrested Development, Parenthood, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tinker Bell film series, Independence Day, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Jesse Stone: No Remorse, Young Justice: Invasion, Weeds, Dragons: Riders of Berk, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, The Duff1989 - Logan Browning
actress: Dear White People, Bratz: The Movie, Pair of Kings, Meet the Browns, Hit the Floor,1993 - Danielle Chuchran
actress: Little House on the Prairie, The Wild Stallion, 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue, Christmas for a Dollar, Storm Rider, Survivor, A Christmas Wish, Nowhere Safe, Love Finds You in Charm2000 - Laurie Hernandez
gymnast: 2016 Olympic team gold, individual silver2001 - Xolo Maridueña
actor: Parenthood [2012–2015], Cobra Kai [2018– ], Blue Beetle
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Hit Music on This Day June 9
1950My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched (facts) - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
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