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1793 - The first patent for a stove was issued -- to Robert Heterick of Pennsylvania.1895 - The first U.S. patent (#540648) for a gasoline-driven automobile by a U.S. inventor was issued to Charles E. Duryea. Other firsts for the Duryea Motor Wagon Co. of Springfield MA: First U.S. motor car corp. (Sept. 21, 1895) and first winner of an auto race (in Chicago Nov. 28, 1895).
1912 - From the Hey! Let’s Have a Bit of Fun file: Silas Christoferson thought and thought of how to use his 15 minutes of fame and darn-near came close to using it all and then some with this stunt. Mr. Christoferson became the first airplane pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel! He did the deed from atop the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
1919 - Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. This was the first time that the Belmont Stakes had been run as part of thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -- the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Maryland.
1927 - Charles A. Lindbergh was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross. No, he never took off from the roof of a hotel.
1928 - Joe ‘King’ Oliver and his band recorded Tin Roof Blues for Vocalion Records.
1928 - Buddy, the first seeing eye dog, navigated a dangerous street crossing to lead his master, Morris S. Frank, safely to the other side -- before throngs of news reporters. Many seeing eye organizations and schools continue to offer specially trained dogs “...to enhance the independence, dignity, and self-confidence of blind people...” (visit https://www.seeingeye.org/).
1934 - The comic strip Mandrake The Magician debuted. Lee Falk created Mandrake at the age of 19, in 1924. Ten years later, he sold the Mandrake strip to King Features Syndicate and brought in commercial artist Phil Davis to handle the drawings. Falk’s tightly-plotted stories kept the strip lively for decades, but much of its early success was due to Davis’s smooth, clean rendering, reminiscent of the contemporary art deco movement.
1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.
1939 - The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; later known as the Queen Mother) of Great Britain were in America to visit with President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As is befitting of such a grand event, the King and Queen were fed some of the gourmet foods of the United States. In fact, it was the first time that both the King and Queen had tasted hot dogs. Must have been a pretty low-key state dinner... “Pass the mustard, old chum!” “Grey Poupon?”
1940 - The Ink Spots recorded Maybe on Decca Records. By September, 1940, the song had climbed to the number two position on U.S. pop music charts.
1944 - A powerful Pacific Fleet Task Force struck Japanese positions on Saipan, Tinian, and Guam, in the Mariana Islands.
1949 - Hank Williams sang a show-stopper on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He sang the classic Lovesick Blues, one of his most beloved songs.
1950 - Golfing legend Ben Hogan, returning to tournament play after a near-fatal auto mishap, won the U.S. Open golf tourney in a three-way playoff with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio.
1955 - The first magnesium jet airplane was delivered to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
1961 - Roy Orbison was wrapping up a week at number one on the Billboard record chart with Running Scared, his first number one hit. Orbison recorded 23 hits for the pop charts, but only one other song made it to number one: Oh Pretty Woman in 1964. He came close with a number two effort, Crying, number four with Dream Baby and number five with Mean Woman Blues. Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987; but suffered a fatal heart attack just one year later.
1969 - David Bowie released his Space Oddity, from the album of the same name, to coincide with the Apollo 11 moon landing. The song features Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who mysteriously becomes lost in outer space. "Space Oddity"turned out to be Bowie’s first hit single.
1969 - John L. Lewis, a colossus of American labor, died at 89 years of age. Lewis formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s.
1970 - Organist, pianist and singer Earl Grant died in an car crash in Lordsburg, New Mexico. He was 39. Grant had a top-10 hit with The End (1958). He made a dozen of albums for Decca, the biggest of which was the all-instrumental Ebb Tide, which made it to number seven on the Billboard chart (1961).
1972 - The controversial 62-minute XXX-rated film Deep Throat opened at the Mature World Theatre in New York City. Linda Lovelace starred. Deep Throat was the film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984).
1977 - Seattle Slew won the Belmont Stakes, capturing the Triple Crown in the process.
1979 - One of America’s greatest legends, both as a movie star and as a symbol of patriotism, died this day. Marion Michael Morrison, known as John Wayne, died following a courageous fight with cancer. ‘The Duke’ was 72. He had been a Hollywood hero for almost 50 years and with some 200 movies to his credit, including The Alamo, Island in the Sky, The Longest Day, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit (his only Oscar-winning performance). Wayne was born in 1907 and went to school at North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.
1981 - The first baseball player’s strike in major-league history began during mid-season after Seattle defeated Baltimore 8-2 at the Kingdome in Seattle. For two months, the nation’s favorite pastime was watching negotiations between the players’ union and team owners.
1982 - The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial opened. Steven Spielberg directed this classic. It dazzled audiences with state-of-the-art special effects and a touching, humorous, story line, grossing over $100 million in its first 31 days of theatrical release.
1985 - Von Hayes of the Philadelphia Phillies became the 21st player in major-league baseball history to hit a pair of home runs in one inning as he led the Phillies to a 26-7 cakewalk over the New York Mets.
1987 - Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a third successive term. The last person to do so was Lord Liverpool in 1826.
1990 - Trumpeter and bandleader Clyde McCoy died in Memphis, Tennessee at age 86. Famed for his “wah wah” trumpet sound, McCoy was best known for his 1931 hit Sugar Blues.
1991 - Microsoft released its upgraded version of the disk operating system for PCs, MS-DOS v5.0.
1993 - U.S. audiences rumbled to theatres for a first look at Jurassic Park. The Steven Spielberg-directed dinosaur blockbuster billed a gigantic $47.06 million -- just for openers.
1996 - Republican Senator Bob Dole ended his Senate career (to make a run for the U.S. Presidency) with an emotional farewell speech before a packed Senate chamber. He had spent some 27 years as a U.S. Senator.
1998 - Mitsubishi Motors agreed to pay $34 million to settle allegations that women on the assembly line at its Illinois factory were groped and insulted and that managers did nothing to stop it.
1999 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me premiered at theatres across the U.S. Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) travels back to 1969 to steal Austin Powers’ (also played by Mike Myers) mojo. Powers (now “shagless”) must travel to ’69 to get his mojo back (can you dig it?). Big stars in the movie include the not-so-big Mini-Me (Verne Troyer), CIA agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), Basil Exposition (Michael York), Number Two (Robert Wagner), Young Number Two (Rob Lowe) and Fat Bastard (that Myers guy again). All this silliness was taken very seriously by fans at the box office. Austin Powers II, as the flick is also known, opened to the tune of $54.92 mil the first weekend. As of May 2001 it had grossed $205.4 million. Yeah, baby! (One other film opened in the U.S. this day: The Red Violin, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli and Don Mckellar.)
2000 - An all-male mob of men doused women with water, stripped them of their clothing, and groped or robbed them in New York’s Central Park. Some of the assaults were captured on home video; and some of the victims, who included tourists from Britain and France, accused police of being slow to react when they told officers what had happened to them.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh had been convicted for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others.
2002 - Roman Catholic Bishop J. Kendrick Williams resigned in Kentucky amid accusations of sexual abuse, becoming the third U.S. bishop to step down in the scandal rocking the church.
2002 - Sir Paul McCartney and former model Heather Mills, were married in a lavish Irish wedding in Glaslough.
2003 - A record six Houston Astros pitchers combined on the first no-hitter against the New York Yankees in 45 years. After starter Roy Oswalt was injured, relievers Pete Munro, Kirk Saarloos, Brad Lidge, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wagner finished to lead the Astros to their 8-0 victory at Yankee Stadium. It was the most pitchers ever to combine on a no-hitter (it had been accomplished twice by four pitchers). The Yankees had gone 6,980 games — the longest streak in major-league history — without being no-hit; since Hoyt Wilhelm’s 1-0 victory for Baltimore on Sep 20, 1958. And the last time New York was held hitless at Yankee Stadium was on Aug 25, 1952, by Detroit’s Virgil Trucks.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Chronicles of Riddick, starring Vin Diesel, Ja Rule, Judy Dench and Colm Feore; Garfield: The Movie, with the voices of Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debra Messing, Brad Garrett, Alan Cumming, Nick Cannon, Jimmy Kimmel, David Eigenberg and Mo’nique; and The Stepford Wives, starring Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Roger Bart, Faith Hill, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and Roger Bart.
2004 - The Cassini spacecraft flew within 1,285 miles of Phoebe, one of the outer moons of Saturn. Phoebe, it turns out, looks a lot like an asteroid. It's just 137 miles (220 kilometers) wide and riddled with craters.
2005 - Afleet Alex won the 137th running of the Belmont Stakes. Ridden by jockey Jeremy Rose, Afleet Alex won by seven lengths.
2006 - It was a big night for the boys on Broadway. The History Boys won best play and Jersey Boys won the award for best musical at the 60th annual Tony Awards celebration held on this day at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
2007 - Israel’s military launched a spy satellite -- to “help keep track of developments in Iran.”
2007 - Idaho U.S. Senator Larry Craig was arrested by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men’s restroom at the Minneapolis MN airport. The 62-year-old Republican pleaded guilty on Aug 8, paid $575 in fines and was put on unsupervised probation for a year.
2008 - Four boy scouts were killed when a tornado hit their wilderness camp in western Iowa. 48 others were injured by the storm. The scouts were attending a week-long leadership development seminar put on by the Mid-America Council of the Boys Socouts of America.
2009 - The U.S. Senate approved the most sweeping tobacco control measure passed by Congress. The bill for the first time gave the Food and Drug Adminstration [FDA] the authority to regulate tobacco products.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Jerusalema, with Daniel Buckland, Robert Hobbs, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Motlatsi Mahloko, Jafta Mamabolo, Shelley Meskin, Kenneth Nkosi, Ronnie Nyakale, Louise Saint-Claire, Rapulana Seiphemo and Jeffrey Zekele; The A-Team, starring Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Gerald McRaney and Brian Bloom; and The Karate Kid, with Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Rongguang Yu, Tess Liu, Xu Ming, Harry Van Gorkum, Ji Wang, Bo Zhang and Yi Zhao.
2010 - India’s Reliance Industries said it was paying 48 billion rupees ($1 billion) for a 5 percent stake in Infotel Broadband. Infotel was the only company to win pan-India broadband wireless spectrum in a government auction.
2010 - Russia announced that it was cancelling the sale of S-300 missiles to Iran. The move was a major shift that the Kremlin said was needed after fresh U.N. sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear program.
2011 - New York’s Belmont Stakes was won by Ruler on Ice, a 24-1 long shot. Favorite Animal Kingdom stumbled at the beginning of the race and never caught up, finishing fifth.
2011 - Protesters in Japan held mass demonstrations across the country against nuclear power. This, in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that killed some 23,000 people.
2013 - Russia’s State Duma voted 434-0 with one abstention to approve Kremlin-backed legislation that imposed hefty fines for holding gay pride rallies -- or for providing information about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to minors.
2014 - Taxi drivers staged protests in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris. Cabbies -- and train workers -- walked off the job, leaving traffic snarled. This, in protest of changes to the travel industry that they said could endanger passengers and give untested upstarts like Uber an unfair advantage.
2015 - British Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tim Hunt resigned from his post at the University College London over controversial comments he had made about female scientists. He had suggested that women scientists could not take criticism without crying, and that relationships between men and women in the laboratory disrupted work.
2016 - A quarter of Air France pilots went on strike to demand better working conditions, forcing the cacellation of many flights. Among those affected were flights carrying spectators to cities holding matches for the European Championship soccer tournament. This, while train drivers and garbage collectors continued their strikes.
2017 - The 71st Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Actor Kevin Spacey hosted. The musical Dear Evan Hansen won six Tonys, including Best Musical. A revival of Hello Dolly, with Bette Midler, who won as best actress, came away with four Tonys. The Great Comet won two. Winning plays included The Little Foxes, Indecent and Oslo -- each winning two Tonys.
2018 - Pope Francis began purging Chile’s Catholic hierarchy over an avalanche of sex abuse and cover-up cases. The pontiff started by accepting the resignations of Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Bishop Gonzalo Duarte of Valparaiso and Bishop Cristian Caro of Puerto Montt and named a temporary leader for each diocese.
2018 - The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three Russian individuals and five firms, because they had worked with Moscow’s main intelligence service to develop ways to conduct cyber attacks against the United States and its allies. Treasury officials said Russia’s “malign and destabilizing cyber activities” included the NotPetya attack last year, which spread across Europe, Asia and the Americas, causing billions of dollars in damage. It was also part of the Kremlin’s effort to destabilize Ukraine. And the attacks included assaults on the U.S. energy grid and on internet routers and switches.
2018 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the 1,079 foot 3 World Trade Center in New York City. The $2.7 billion, 80-story office building was designed by architect Richard Rogers and, as of 2018, was the sixth-tallest building in New York City. This was the second building at the site to bear the 3 World Trade Center name. The original building was the Marriott World Trade Center, a hotel located in the southwest corner of the WTC complex. The 22-story hotel was destroyed -- along with the entire World Trade Center complex -- during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2019 - More despicable info about North Korea: The South Korea-based human rights Transitional Justice Working Group said it had located hundreds of spots where North Korea carried out public executions and extrajudicial state killings. The deaths were part of an arbitrary and aggressive use of the death penalty that was meant to intimidate North Korean citizens.
2020 - POTUS Trump signed an executive order criminalizing anyone connected with the International Criminal Court, claiming the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan posed a U.S. security threat.
2020 - U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued a rule barring colleges from granting virus relief funds to foreign and undocumented students, including tens of thousands protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program [DACA].
2020 - U.S. COVID-19 cases reached 2,011,341 with the death toll at 113,341. New coronavirus infections were rising in at least 20 states, even as restrictions on daily life continue to ease across the country. More than 112,000 people had died at this point — the most fatalities reported by any nation, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University. And most experts believed those numbers underestimated the true toll.
2020 - John Catanzara, leader of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, labelled officers who kneeled alongside protesters as “ridiculous” and warned that officers kneeling in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters could be kicked out of the union.
2020 - The Louisville, Kentucky Metro Council unanimously passed Breonna’s Law -- named for police-shooting victim Breonna Taylor. The law made ‘no-knock’ warrants illegal and required body cameras to be turned on before and after every search.
2020 - Twitter claimed that China had stepped up its effort to spread misinformation by creating tens of thousands of fake accounts that discussed the Communist Party’s response to the virus and the Hong Kong protests. Twitter removed a vast network of accounts pushing false information favorable to China’s communist rulers.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: In the Heights, starring Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins and Leslie Grace; the animated Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, featuring characters voiced by James Corden, Elizabeth Debicki, Lennie James and many others; 12 Mighty Orphans, starring Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen and Vinessa Shaw; Censor, with Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley and Nicholas Burns; Domino: Battle of the Bones, starring David Arquette, Tom Lister Jr and Snoop Dogg; Holler, starring Jessica Barden, Pamela Adlon and Austin Amelio; The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2, with Mike Epps, Katt Williams and Bresha Webb; The Misfits, starring Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Chung and Tim Roth; Queen Bees, starring Ellen Burstyn, James Caan and Ann-Margret; and Sublet, with John Benjamin Hickey, Niv Nissim and Lihi Kornowski.
2021 - Continuing China’s stranglehold on Hong Kong, the government said it would begin blocking the distribution of films that were seen to undermine national security. Hong Kong’s new national security law was imposed following months of pro-democracy protests and unrest. New amendments to the Film Censorship Ordinance instruct the Film Censorship Authority to be “vigilant” against the depiction of “any act or activity which may amount to an offence endangering national security” in vetting whether films are appropriate for public screening. In other words, a tightening of its stranglehold on Hong Kong by China.
2021 - Two gunmen fired 10 to 15 shots at vendors on Cancún, Mexico beach before escaping on jet skis across the water. Two people died and an American tourist was wounded. The victims were selling craft items to tourists. Many such vendors also work as drug dealers, selling marijuana and cocaine to visitors.
2022 - Charl Schwartzel beat fellow South African Hennie Du Plessis -- by a stroke -- to win the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event at the Centurion GC, Hertfordshire, England. He pocketed US$4.75m for the victory.
2022 - 70 million Americans were under heat warnings as a record-breaking sizzler wave swept the U.S. Death Valley in eastern California hit 123 degrees, shattering the 1994 record of 120. Phoenix reached 113 degrees, breaking the previous record of 111 set on July 10, 1978. Forecasters in Phoenix predicted that the overnight low could remain above 90 degrees for the first time on record.
2023 - The Tony Awards were passed out for the 76th time. The big show was held (without scripts due to a writers’ strike) at the United Palace (the old Loew’s 175th Street Theatre) in New York City. Kimberley Akimbo won Best Musical, Leopoldstadt was voted Best Play, Jodie Comer was awarded the Best Actress Tony (for her performance as Tessa Ensler in Prima Facie), Sean Hayes won the Best Actor Tony (he played Oscar Levant in Good Night).
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Birthdays on This Day June 11
1572 - Ben Jonson
actor: The Poetaster, Satiromastix; poet: Song: To Celia; playwright: Every Man in His Humour, Every Man Out of His Humour, Cynthia’s Revels, War of the Theatres, Sejanus, His Fall, The Masque of Owles, The Alchemist, The Devil is an Ass; died Aug 6, 16371776 - John Constable
landscape artist: The White Horse, The Hay-Wain, The Cornfield, Stoke-by-Nayland, Arundel Mill and Castle; died Mar 31, 18371864 - Richard Strauss
composer: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel; died Sep 8, 19491880 - Jeannette Rankin
U.S. Congresswoman: first woman to be elected to this position; only dissenting vote as Congress passed a Declaration of War against Japan [1941]; died May 18, 19731900 - Lawrence (Edmund) Spivak
producer: Washington Exclusive, TV host: Meet the Press, The Big Issue; magazine publisher: F&SF (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction); died Mar 9, 19941910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
marine explorer: PBS-TV producer; co-inventor of Aqua-Lung; died June 25, 19971913 - Vince Lombardi
Pro Football Hall of Famer: coach: Green Bay Packers: Super Bowl I, II; “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”; died Sep 3, 19701913 - Risë Stevens (Risë Steenberg)
mezzo-soprano: New York Metropolitan Opera: Orpheus; Mozart’s Cherubino and Dorabella; Delilah of Biblical fame; La Giocanda’s Laura; Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus; Carmen [her role described as “voluptuous, earthy, and white-hot in her alternating moods of passion and anger.”]; resident: of Mannes College of Music, New York; radio: frequent guest appearances; actress: The Chocolate Soldier, We Must Have Music, Going My Way, Journey Back to Oz; died March 20, 20131914 - Gerald Mohr
actor: Funny Girl, The Woodpile, The Bravo Duke, Wild West Story, This Rebel Breed, The Angry Red Planet, Guns, Girls, and Gangsters; died Nov 9, 19681919 - Richard Todd (Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd)
actor: The Hasty Heart, The Longest Day, The Big Sleep, House of the Long Shadows, Never Let Go; died Dec 3, 20091920 - Shelly Manne
composer, musician: drummer: Peter Gunn score; actor: Man with the Golden Arm; died Sep 26, 19841925 - William Styron
author: Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner; died Nov 1, 20061933 - Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
actor: Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, The Woman in Red, Silver Streak, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Murder in a Small Town, The Lady in Question; died Aug 29, 20161937 - Chad Everett (Raymon Cramton)
actor: Medical Center, The Dakotas, The Singing Nun, Jigsaw Murders, Airplane 2: The Sequel, McKenna; died Jul 24, 20121939 - Wilma Burgess
country singer: Baby, Misty Blue, Don’t Touch Me, Tear Time; died Aug 26, 20031939 - Jackie Stewart
British former Formula One racing driver [1965-1973]: won three World Drivers’ Championships1940 - Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola)
singer: group: Joey Dee and The Starliters: Peppermint Twist, Shout, Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes; films: Hey, Let’s Twist, Two Tickets to Paris1941 - Bernard Purdie
musician: drums: played with Stevie Wonder, Louis Armstrong, Michael Bolton, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Eddie Palmieri, Nina Simone, Cat Stevens, Grover Washington Jr.1944 - James van Hoften
U.S. Navy pilot; U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; NASA astronaut: mission specialist on Space Shuttle missions STS-41-C and STS-51-I1945 - Adrienne Barbeau
actress: Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run, Silk Degrees, Double-Crossed, Two Evil Eyes; more1946 - John Lawton
singer: solo: LP: Take No Prisoners; groups: Rough Diamond, Uriah Heep, Lucifer’s Friend1948 - Dave (David) Cash
baseball: second baseman: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1974, 1975, 1976], Montreal Expos, SD Padres1948 - Stephen Schnetzer
actor: Days of our Lives, One Life to Live, Another World, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Brooklyn Lobster, Shattered Innocence, Rage of Angels, The Taming of the Shrew; advertising voiceover talent1948 - Michael Swan
actor: The Guiding Light, The Bold and the Beautiful, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Desperate Voyage, The Girl Who Saved the World1949 - Frank Beard
musician: drums: group: ZZ Top: La Grange, Tush, Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp Dressed Man, Sleeping Bag
1949 - George Willig
stunt man: climbed World Trade Center1950 - Serge Lajeunesse
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers1951 - Doug Kotar
football: Univ. of Kentucky, NY Giants1952 - Donnie Van Zandt
musician: guitar, singer: group: .38 Special: Hold on Loosely, Fantasy Girl, Caught Up in You, You Keep Runnin’ Away, LPs: Tour De Force, Strength in Numbers1954 - Gary Fencik
football: Chicago Bears safety: Super Bowl XX1954 - Greta Van Susteren
TV talk host: Fox News, MSNBC1956 - Joe Montana
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Francisco 49ers quarterback: Super Bowl XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV: Super Bowl career records for yards gained, passes completed, touchdowns thrown and highest completion percentage; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback1959 - Hugh Laurie
actor: Avenue 5, Veep, The Night Manager, House, The Big Empty, Flight of the Phoenix, Dragans of New York, Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadow, Maybe Baby, Catch-22; Laurie of Fry and Laurie comedy team; musician: piano, guitar, drums, harmonica, saxophone: LP: Let Them Talk; more1960 - Mehmet Oz
TV health expert: The Dr. Oz Show1960 - Caroline Quentin
actress: Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek, Shadow of the Noose, Kiss Me Kate [TV series], Blue Murder1961 - Maria Barranco
actress: Cruel Summer, Un difunto, seis mujeres y un taller, Franky Banderas, El Viaje de Carol, Anita no perd el tren, 99.9, El baile del pato1965 - Pamela Gidley
actress: C.S.I., The Pretender, Angel Street, Freefall, Jane Austen’s Mafia!; died Apr 16, 20181966 - Scott Mellanby
hockey: Philadelphia Flyers, Edmonton Oilers, Florida Panthers, SL Blues1969 - Peter Dinklage
Emmy/Golden Globe-winning supporting actor: Game of Thrones [2011, 2015/2012]; The Station Agent, Elf, Find Me Guilty, Underdog, Death at a Funeral, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Ice Age: Continental Drift, The Knights of Badassdom, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian1969 - Kip Miller
hockey: Quebec Nordiques, Minnesota North Stars, SJ Sharks, NY Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Washington Capitals1970 - Brock Marion
football [safety]: Nevada-Reno; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions1973 - Lance Johnstone
football [defensive end]: Temple Univ; NFL: Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings1974 - Emilee Klein
golf: LPGA; head golf coach: Univ of Central Florida [2005–2009], San Diego State Univ [2009-2011]1976 - Jared DeVries
football [defensive end]: Univ of Iowa; NFL: Detroit Lions [1999–2010]1978 - Joshua Jackson
actor: Dawson’s Creek, The Mighty Ducks series, On the Edge of Innocence, The Affair1982 - Diana Taurasi
basketball [forward]: Univ of Connecticut: 2002, 2003 2004 NCAA champs; 2004, 2008, 2012 Olympic gold medalist w/U.S. team; WNBA: Phoenix Mercury [2004-2014]: 2007, 2009 WNBA champs; more1983 - José Reyes
baseball [shortstop]: New York Mets [2003–2011]: NL Batting Champion [2011]1986 - Shia LaBeouf
actor: I, Robot, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, Holes, The Christmas Path, Breakfast with Einstein1988 - Claire Holt
actress: Vampire Diaries, the Originals, Pretty Little Liars, H2O: Just Add Water, Mean Girls 2, Blue Like Jazz, Aquarius1989 - Maya Moore
basketball [forward]: Univ of Connecticut: 2009, 2010 NCAA champs; 2012 Olympic gold medalist w/U.S. team; WNBA: Minnesota Lynx [2011-2018]: 2011, 2013 WNBA champs1994 - Jessica Fox
world and Olympic champion slalom canoeist: won gold at the 2020 Olympics in the C1 event -- she was the first Olympic champion in that event
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Hit Music on This Day June 11
1952Kiss of Fire (facts) - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango (facts) - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
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