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1806 - The sport of harness racing was first covered in a newspaper in the U.S. this day in New York’s Commercial Advertiser. A pacer named Yankee won the mile at Harlem Race Track in New York. Yankee had the pace down correctly: simultaneously thrusting out the fore and hind legs on one side.
1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD held its first formal graduation exercises on this day. (Previous classes graduated without ceremony.) Midshipmen still attend classes and graduate from the same locale, not far from Chesapeake Bay.
1902 - A kindly gent named Americus F. Callahan patented (U.S. No. 701,839) what he called the outlook or see-through envelope. The rest, of course, is accounts payable history...
1924 - The first political convention on radio was presented by NBC. Graham McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention from Cleveland, OH. McNamee was one of the great sports broadcasters of radio’s Golden Age.
1935 - After completing one full day without imbibing liquor, Dr. Robert Smith, better known as Doctor Bob, and his friend William G. Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous. This was the beginning of a lifetime without booze for the two ... and for thousands more throughout the years.
1938 - Hollywood Park race track opened for thoroughbreds and, later, harness racing. The Inglewood, CA track closed Dec 22, 2013. The track was demolished in stages from 2014 until 2016 and the area is now the site of a master-planned neighborhood in development named Hollywood Park after the former track. The most prominent parts of the development are SoFi Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL), YouTube Theater, a 6,000-seat performance arts venue, Hollywood Park Casino, and the NFL Los Angeles building (home to the NFL Network, NFL RedZone, NFL.com, and the NFL app).
1943 - The Ball Point Pen was patented -- again -- by László József Bíró of Budapest, Hungary. Bíro (painter, writer, sculptor, medical student, hypnotist, inventor), and his brother George, had patented the Biro pen in 1938. In 1940, as war engulfed Europe, the Bíro brothers emigrated to Argentina, where a fresh patent was applied for on this day. Englishman Henery Martin, in Buenos Aires on a mission for the British government, saw the invention and recognized its value for air crews making high altitude navigational calculations. Martin aquired the rights and began producing the ballpoint pens for the RAF.
1944 - Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major-league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
1947 - U.S. president Harry S Truman began a two-day, state visit to Ottawa, Canada. During the goodwill visit he received an enthusiastic welcome from friendly crowds. He addressed Parliament, placed a wreath at the War Memorial and had a private dinner with Prime Minister Mackenzie King at Laurier House, among other events.
1948 - The first Ford passenger car (1949 model) to use independent front suspension with coil springs (instead of the ‘buggy spring’ transverse springs) was shown in New York.
1954 - General Motors announced that the Turbocruiser, the first successful gas-turbine bus had been produced.
1957 - From the 440 election desk: John Diefenbaker, Progressive Conservative Party, was elected Prime Minister of Canada (he served until 1963).
1963 - The Equal Pay Act of 1963, requiring equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex, was signed by President Kennedy.
1966 - The first use of reversed tape (in a popular tune) was heard in the song Rain (or niaR) by The Beatles. The tune was the ‘B’ side of Paperback Writer. The technique, which had been used by John Cage, Edgar Varese and others, was refined by John Lennon.
1967 - The Six-Day War ended in the Middle East as Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1972 - Sammy Davis Jr. earned his place at the top of the popular music charts for the first time, after years in the entertainment business. His number one song, The Candy Man, stayed at the top for three consecutive weeks. The Candy Man was truly a song of fate for Sammy. He openly did not want to record the song, but did so as a favor to MGM Records head Mike Curb, since it was to be used in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Davis said he would give the tune one take, "and that’s it!" Sure enough, in that one-time recording, Sammy nailed it. The Candy Man stayed on the pop charts for 16 weeks. The best the legendary performer had done before was 12 weeks for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and 11 weeks for I’ve Gotta Be Me (from Golden Rainbow) in 1969. After The Candy Man became a hit, Davis included it in his stage shows and concerts -- and collected huge royalties from it.
1972 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied (with Gil Hodges of the Dodgers) the National League record for the most grand-slam home runs in a career, with 14. The Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3 to make the celebration even better. (Aaron ended his career with 16 grand slams.)
1976 - Paul McCartney and Wings set a record for an indoor concert crowd as 67,100 fans gathered at the Kingdome in Seattle, WA to hear the former Beatle and his new group.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with five others. He was recaptured June 13.
1981 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies singled off of Houston pitcher Nolan Ryan to tie Stan Musial’s baseball career-hit total at 3,630. A looming baseball strike of 50 days thwarted ‘Charlie Hustle’s’ efforts to break the National League record.
1983 - Johnny Bench, all-star catcher of the Cincinnati Reds (elected in 1989 to Baseball Hall of Fame), announced his plans to retire from the game. Bench called his 16 years in the big leagues “a boy’s dream.” Bench went on to several endeavors, including restaurant ownership, commercial endorsements (“Rust-Oleum -- no runs, no drips, no errors...”) and as a baseball sportscaster for CBS radio.
1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals broke the 2,000-yard mark in rushing during the season as the Generals won over Jacksonville, 31-24. The effort set a United States Football League (USFL) record. This feat had only been reached twice in the National Football League (NFL) -- once by O.J. Simpson in 1973 for 2,003 yards and by Eric Dickerson in 1984 for 2,105 yards.
1986 - Irish rocker Bob Geldof was awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of the millions of dollars he had raised for his services to humanity -- namely, the starving people of Africa.
1989 - The Reverend Jerry Falwell announced the disbanding of the Moral Majority because, he said, he had accomplished everything he set out to do with it.
1990 - Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru over novelist Mario Vargos Llosa in the second round of voting (in the first round on April 8 Fujimori had just squeaked by Llosa).
1993 - Sinead O’Connor wrote to the Irish Times, “I am learning to love myself ... I deserve not to be treated like dirt. I deserve to be listened to. I am a member of the human race ... stop hurting me, please. Stop saying mean things about me.” O’Connor was still being bothered by the furore over her ripping up a picture of the pope during an appearance on Saturday Night Live the previous October.
1999 - Yugoslav troops began withdrawing from Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2000 - Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69; he was succeeded by his son, Bashar.
2000 - The New Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a 2-to-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game Six.
2000 - Commendable won the 132nd Belmont Stakes. Aptitude took second and Unshaded finished third.
2001 - Tropical storm Allison hung over Texas and Louisiana and killed some 16 people. U.S. President George Bush (II) declared 28 counties disaster areas due to flooding.
2002 - Organized crime figure John Gotti died from complications of head and neck cancer in a prison hospital in Missouri. He was 61 years old.
2003 - NASA launched Spirit, the first of two Mars Exploration Rovers. Opportunity was launched July 7.
2004 - Multi-Grammy-winning R&B star Ray Charles died of acute liver disease at his Beverly Hills, California home. He was 73 years old. Charles had been blinded by glaucoma at age 7 and orphaned at 15, but went on to become one of the world’s most respected singer/musicians. His hits include What’d I Say, Georgia on My Mind, and I Can’t Stop Loving You. Ray Charles won nine of his 17 Grammy Awards between 1960 and 1966, including the best R&B recording three consecutive years (Hit the Road Jack, I Can’t Stop Loving You and Busted). His health had deteriorated rapidly after he underwent hip replacement surgery in 2003 and was diagnosed with a failing liver.
2005 - These movies were new in U.S. theatres: The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D, with David Arquette, Cayden Boyd, Jacob Davich, Kristin Davis, Taylor Dooley, Taylor Lautner, Sasha Pieterse and George Lopez; High Tension, starring Cécile De France, Maïwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Finti, Oana Pellea, Marco Claudiu Pascu, Jean-Claude de Goros, Bogdan Uritescu and Gabriel Spahiu; The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, Eric Stoltz, John Leguizamo, Jon Polito, Anne Pitoniak and Bernard Deegan; and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Angela Bassett and Keith David.
2005 - Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. financial institution, agreed to pay $2 billion to investors. The giant payout was the result of a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of helping energy giant Enron doctor its financial statements and create off-the-books partnerships.
2005 - King Harald V of Norway and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden met in the middle of the new Svinesund bridge to open the span over a fjord south of Oslo -- illustrating peaceful and warm relations between Norway and Sweden. All of this, one hundred years after the two countries had disolved their union.
2006 - An outbreak of polio in Namibia was reported to have killed seven people and paralyzed 33.
2006 - A monument was unveiled in New York City for the 343 firefighters who died in the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
2007 - U.S. President George Bush (II) was a big hit in Albania. During the first visit to that country by a U.S. president, Bush urged the U.N. to grant independence to the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo. Albania was so impressed by the president, the government issued three postage stamps featuring his picture (and the Statue of Liberty), renamed a street in front of parliament in his honor, and awarded him their National Flag medal; and the Fushe Kruje town council declared George Bush to be an honored citizen.
2007 - The first high-speed rail link between France and Germany began scheduled services, slashing travel times -- and moving Europe towards a pan-European rapid transit network.
2007 - The final episode of The Sopranos ran on HBO. The series, created by David Chase, began January 10, 1999, spanned six seasons and included 86 shows. The story revolved around Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss whose troubles were wrapped up in his two families (home and criminal). The final scene on this day left everyone in the TV audience gasping for more: Tony looked up from his onion rings in a small ice cream shop as someone opened the door and entered. Whether the mystery person intended to do Tony harm was never disclosed, as the screen went quickly to black...
2007 - For the 61st time, Tony Awards were passed out. The celebration was held at Radio City Music Hall, New York City. Spring Awakening (eight awards) won as the top musical and Coast of Utopia (seven awards) as best play.
2008 - A Moroccan court convicted 29 people of planning terrorism attacks and supporting combatants in Iraq.
2009 - Italy’s Fiat became the new owner of the bulk of Chrysler’s assets, closing a deal that saved the troubled U.S. automaker from liquidation.
2010 - BP (British Petroleum) shares fell in London as U.S. politicians pressed the oil giant to halt its dividend payments and fork over greater compensation to American workers and companies devastated by BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer, with Jordana Beatty, Parris Mosteller, Janet Varney, Kristoffer Ryan Winters and Garrett Ryan; Super 8, starring Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills and Riley Griffiths; Bride Flight, with Karina Smulders, Waldemar Torenstra, Anna Drijver, Pleuni Touw, Petra Laseur and Elise Schaap; The Chameleon, starring Marc-André Grondin, Famke Janssen, Ellen Barkin, Emilie de Ravin and Tory Kittles; Just Like Us, with Ahmed Ahmed, Ted Alexandro, Sherif Azab, Whitney Cummings and Tommy Davidson; The Trip, starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Margo Stilley and Rebecca Johnson; Trolljegeren, with Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Mørck, Tomas Alf Larsen, Urmila Berg-Domaas and Hans Morten Hansen; and Viva Riva!, with Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna and Marlene Longange.
2011 - Laboratory tests confirmed that the E. coli epidemic in Germany and other parts of Europe was caused by contaminated bean sprouts from a local organic farm. The sprouts were the culprit in the outbreak that had killed 31 people and sickened nearly 3,000 Germans.
2012 - Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, senior commander of Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, mocked a $33-million bounty on its top leaders’ heads by offering its own bounty for President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: 10 camels for Obama and 20 chickens for Clinton. The U.S. had offered the $33 million through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program for information leading to the capture of seven different Shabaab leaders, including Khalaf.
2013 - A rare copy of the comic book featuring Superman’s first 1938 appearance sold for $175,000. It had gone undiscovered for over 70 years in the insulation of a Minnesota house.
2013 - Oil giant BP PLC announced that the Coast Guard had concluded cleanup operations in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida from its April 2010 oil well blowout. Work continued along 84 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline.
2014 - Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, ordered security agencies to organize transport and relocation services to help civilians who wanted to leave areas affected by fighting between rebels and Ukraine’s military.
2015 - The Vatican said Pope Francis approved the creation of an internal Church tribunal empowered to punish bishops who cover up sex abuse by priests.
2016 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: Be Somebody, starring Sarah Jeffery, Allison Paige and Caitlin Keats; The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist, with Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson and Franka Potente; Now You See Me 2, starring Lizzy Caplan, Mark Ruffalo and Daniel Radcliffe; Warcraft, with Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton and Ben Foster; Genius, starring Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Jude Law; and Puerto Ricans in Paris, with Rosario Dawson, Luis Guzmán and Rosie Perez.
2016 - Alabama politician (Republican Speaker of the House) Mike Hubbard was convicted by a jury on 12 charges of violating state ethics law. (On July 8 Hubbard was sentenced to four years in prison and another eight on probation.) Hubbard had spent over $1 million of campaign funds on a printing company he owned, and he laundered $1.5 million of gambling money from the Poarch Band of Creek Indians into the state GOP. And Hubbard reportedly had received some $420,000 a year from other deals.
2016 - Canadian hockey icon Gordie Howe died at 88 years of age in Ohio at the home of his son Murray. Howe was a fierce competitor who finessed his way into the record books on the ice but was a gentle giant off. The Hall of Famer affectionately known as ‘Mr. Hockey’ won four Stanley Cup titles with the Detroit Red Wings in a professional career that spanned an astonishing six decades.
2017 - At the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas the winner was 28-year-old South Korean Yekwon Sunwoo. He beat thirty competitors to claim the $50,000 award and a gold medal.
2018 - Donald Trump escalated his trade tirade and leveled more withering and unprecedented criticism against Canada’s prime minister, branding Justin Trudeau a back-stabber unworthy of Trump’s time.
2018 - A day after arguing with western allies at the G-7 summit over trade, POTUS Trump landed in Singapore for a June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump will hype this relentlessly, no matter what comes of it,” tweeted Robert E. Kelly, a political science professor at Pusan National University in South Korea -- in town to comment on the summit for the BBC. Even if Kim offers only “a fine-sounding rhetorical commitment, and maybe a few missiles surrendered or some site closures,” he said, Trump will “market this thing as something extraordinary for his voters back home.”
2019 - The Intercept website reported that Rashid al-Malik, a United Arab Emirates businessman linked to a probe of illegal donations to Donald Trump’s political campaign, was paid by UAE’s intelligence agency in 2017 to spy on the POTUS’s administration.
2020 - Steve Linick, the U.S. State Department inspector general fired last month by POTUS Trump, told lawmakers the department had discouraged him from investigating arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
2021 - Former United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison and forced to repay thousands of dollars. He pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy in 2020 for plotting to steal $1.5 million in union dues.
2021 - Germany started rolling out a digital vaccination pass to be used across Europe as the summer travel season neared.
2022 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: Jurassic World: Dominion, starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum; and WYRM, with Cece Abbey, Natalia Abelleyra and Ryan Alessi.
2022 - Ringo Starr suspended his half-completed summer All-Starr Band tour when two musicians tested positive for COVID-19. The legendary Beatles drummer announced that the 12 concerts left on his North American trek would be pushed to September 2022 after it was discovered that keyboardist Edgar Winter and guitarist Steve Lukather were diagnosed with the virus. “We are so sorry to let the fans down,” Starr said in a statement. “It’s been wonderful to be back out on the road and we have been having such a great time playing for you all. But as we all know, Covid is still here and despite being careful these things happen...”
2022 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said, “China is using political intimidation and economic coercion to undermine security, and stability, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.” Austin accused China of sending large numbers of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, conducting illegal fishing operations, and dangerously intercepting patrol planes belonging to U.S. allies.
2023 - The U.S. said China has operated a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 as part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence-gathering capabilities. A U.S. official said the U.S. intelligence community had been aware of China’s spying from Cuba and a larger effort to set up intelligence-gathering operations around the globe for some time. The Biden administration was said to have stepped up efforts to thwart the Chinese push and has made some progress through diplomacy -- and other unspecified actions.
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Birthdays on This Day June 10
1895 - Hattie McDaniel
Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939]: 1st African-American to win Oscar; Judge Priest, The Little Colonel, Showboat, Saratoga, Since You Went Away; died Oct 26, 19521903 - Clyde Beatty
circus performer, lion tamer, circus owner, actor: The Big Cage, Darkest Africa, Perils of the Jungle, Ring of Fear, Bat Men of Africa; died July 19, 19651904 - Frederick Loewe
Oscar-winning composer: Gigi [1958], My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon [w/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner]; died Feb 14, 19881908 - Russell Waters
actor: Black Jack, The Peppermint Pig, The Wicker Man, Twisted Nerve, The Heroes of Telemark, I Could Go on Singing; died Jan 1, 19821910 - Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett)
blues musician: rhythm guitar, singer: How Many More Years, Smoke Stack Lightning, Evil; died Jan 10, 19761911 - Terence Rattigan
playwright: The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy, The Day Will Dawn; died Nov 30, 19771915 - Saul Bellow
Nobel Prize-winning writer: The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Dangling Man, The Victim, Henderson the Rain King; died Apr 5, 20051918 - Barry Morse
actor: The Fugitive, A Tale of Two Cities, Asylum, Glory! Glory!, Master of the Game, Space: 1999; died Feb 2, 20081919 - Hal Simms
TV announcer: The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, To Tell the Truth, What’s My Line?, Wheel of Fortune, Beat the Clock; died July 2, 20021921 - Prince Philip (Mountbatten)
Duke of Edinburgh; married to Queen Elizabeth II; died Apr 9, 20211922 - Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
singer: Over the Rainbow, The Trolley Song, You Made Me Love You, The Man that Got Away; actress: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star is Born, Easter Parade, The Harvey Girls, Judgment at Nuremberg; mother of Liza Minnelli and Lorna & Joey Luft; died June 22, 19691925 - Nat Hentoff
journalist/columnist: Village Voice, Wall Street Journal; music critic/Jazz authority: associate editor: Down Beat magazine; died Jan 7, 20171926 - June Haver (Stovenour)
actress The Dolly Sisters, Look for the Silver Lining, Love Nest; died July 4, 20051926 - Lionel Jeffries
director: Water Babies, Wombling Free, Amazing Mr. Blunden, The Railway Children; actor: Jekyll and Hyde, Prisoner of Zenda, Lola, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Fantastic Flying Fools, Oh Dad Poor Dad [Momma’s Hung You in the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad], Camelot, Fanny, The Revenge of Frankestein, Bhowani Junction; died Feb 19, 20101928 - Maurice Sendak
author, illustrator: Chicken Soup with Rice, Where the Wild Things Are; died May 8, 20121929 - James A. McDivitt
NASA astronaut: commander: Gemini 4 [first space-walk mission], Apollo 9 [Lunar Module tested for first time in earth orbit]; first American Astronaut to reach rank of general; died Oct 13, 20221929 - Grace Mirabella
fashion publishing executive: Vogue magazine, Mirabella magazine; writer: Tiffany & Co. [Universe of Design]; In and Out of Vogue : A Memoir [w/Judith Warner]; died Dec 23, 20211933 - F. (Francis) Lee Bailey
defense attorney: O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst, The Boston Strangler, Dr. Sam Sheppard; writer: Criminal Trial Techniques [w/Kenneth J. Fishman], Cleared for the Approach : F. Lee Bailey in Defense of Flying, The Defense Never Rests [w/Harvey Aronson]; died Jun 3, 20211937 - Luciana Paluzzi
actress: No Time to Die, Return to Peyton Place, Muscle Beach Party, Thunderball, The Green Slime, The Klansman1941 - Shirley Owens Alston
singer: group: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy, Tonight’s the Night, Dedicated to the One I Love, Baby It’s You, Foolish Little Girl1943 - Jeff Greenfield
TV commentator: ABC, CNN, CBS, PBS, NBC1944 - Rick Price
musician: bass: groups: The Move, Wizzard: LPs: Wizzard Brew, Introducing Eddy and the Falcons, See my Baby Jive1947 - Ken (Kenneth Wayne) Singleton
baseball: NY Mets, Montreal Expos, Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1977, 1979, 1981/World Series: 1979, 1983]1949 - Kevin Corcoran
actor: A Tiger Walks, Johnny Shiloh, Old Yeller, Savage Sam, The Shaggy Dog; died Oct 6, 20151951 - Dan Fouts
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Diego Chargers quarter back: AFC Player of the Year [1979]; NFL Player of the Year [1982]; NBC sportscaster1953 - Rick (Lamar) Camp
baseball pitcher: Atlanta Braves; died Apr 25, 20131953 - John R. Edwards
U.S. Senator from North Carolina; born Seneca SC; 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate with presidential candidate Senator John Kerry1955 - Andrew Stevens
actor: Code Red, Dallas, Emerald Point N.A.S., Illicit Dreams, Scorned, The Terror Within, The Bastard, The Rebel; producer: Crash Dive, The Boy Who Saved Christmas, A Murder of Crows, Submerged; son of actress, Stella Stevens1959 - Timothy Van Patten
director: Homicide: Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Ed, The Wire, Deadwood, Into the West; actor: The Wrong Guys, True Blue, The Master1962 - Gina Gershon
actress: Out of Season, Borderline, Slackers, Driven, The Insider, One Tough Cop, Palmetto, Face/Off1962 - Carolyn Hennesy
actress: General Hospital, Cougar Town, Dawson’s Creek, Recipe for Disaster, Everyone Counts, True Blood, Necessary Evil, Revenge; more1962 - Tzi Ma
actor: The Quiet American, The Ladykillers, Dante’s Peak, Martial Law, MacGyver, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, ER, Boomtown, Commander in Chief, Chicago Hope, The Unit, Star Trek: The Next Generation, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, Millennium, Fringe, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, Lie to Me, The Cosby Show, The Sensei, Red Doors, Catfish in Black Bean Sauce, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 3, 24, American Dad!1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn
actress: Basic Instinct, The Firm, Waterworld, Big Love, Grey Gardens, Electric City, Criminal Minds, Crazy on the Outside, Morning, A Perfect Man1964 - Jimmy Chamberlain
musician: drummer: group: The Smashing Pumpkins: Siva, Rhinoceros, Drown, Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm, Landslide, Bullet with Butterfly Wings1964 - Kate Flannery
actress: The Office, Jesus People, Wild Girls Gone, Coco Lipshitz: Behind the Laughter, Finger Babies, Wizards of Waverly Place1965 - Linda Evangelista
model1965 - Elizabeth Hurley
actress: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Christabel, Orchid House, Passenger 571966 - Doug McKeon
actor: On Golden Pond, Turnaround, Breaking Home Ties, Mischief, Desperate Lives, Night Crossing, From the Earth to the Moon, Critical Mass1967 - Darren Robinson
Human Beatbox: rap artist: group: Fat Boys: LPs: Fat Boys, Fat Boys are Back, Big and Beautiful, Krush on You, All Meat No Filler; died Dec 10, 19951968 - Kevin Donnalley
football [guard]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Houston/Tennessee Oilers, Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers1971 - JoJo Hailey
songwriter, singer: Leave (Get Out), Not That Kinda Girl, Breezy, Never Say Goodbye, Fairy Tales; group: K-Ci & JoJo1973 - Faith Evans
singer: I’ll Be Missing You, Keep the Faith, Soon as I Get Home, All Night Long, You Used to Love Me, Love Like This, Stressed Out, Life Will Pass You By, Heartbreak Hotel1973 - Pokey Reese
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners; father is former baseball player Calvin Reese1975 - Kendyl Jacox
football [center]: Kansas State Univ; NFL: SD Chargers, NO Saints1977 - Mike Rosenthal
football: Notre Dame Univ; NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings1978 - D.J. (Donald Joseph) Qualls
actor: The Man in the High Castle, Road Trip, The New Guy, Hustle and Flow, Supernatural, Lost, Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, Z Nation1978 - Shane West
actor: What We Do Is Secret, The Optimist, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, A Walk to Remember, Get Over It, Dracula 20001979 - Lee Brice
singer: I Don’t Dance, Love Like Crazy, A Woman Like You, Hard to Love, I Drive Your Truck, Parking Lot Party, Drinking Class, That Don’t Sound Like You1979 - Jake Tsakalidis
basketball [center]: Phoenix Suns, Memphis Grizzlies1981 - Jonathan Bennett
actor: Mean Girls, All My Children, Veronica Mars, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Van Wilder: Freshman Year; TV host: Cake Wars, Halloween Wars1981 - Hoku (Hoku Christian Ho)
singer: Perfect Day, Another Dumb Blonde, What You Need, Oxygen, In the First Place, I’m Scared, You First Believed; daughter of entertainer Don Ho1982 - Tara (Kristen) Lipinski
figure skater: Olympic gold medalist [Nagano, Japan: 1998], U.S. and World champ [1997], youngest [14] to win Ladies’ U.S. National Figure Skating Championship [4' 8", 75 pounds]; actress: From This Moment, Ice Angel1983 - Leelee Sobieski
actress: Deep Impact, Joan of Arc [TV: 1999], Uprising, Acts of Violence, Public Enemies, Night Train, Finding Bliss, Walk All Over Me, 88 Minutes, NYC 22, Charlie Grace, Eyes Wide Shut, Squelch1986 - Joey Zimmerman
actor: Very Bad Things, Killing Mr. Griffin, Murder Between Friends, Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V., Earth 21990 - Tristin Mays
actress: MacGyver [2016], Alias, Gullah Gullah Island, FAIL, The Vampire Diaries1992 - Kate Upton
model, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue 2012, 2013 cover girl; actress: Tower Heist, The Three Stooges, The Other Woman2001 - Sasha Obama
youngest daughter of 44th U.S. President Barack Obama2004 - Gayle (Taylor Gayle Rutherfurd)
singer: ABCDEFU: 2021 Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year
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Hit Music on This Day June 10
1951Too Young (facts) - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey (facts) - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
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