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1789 - Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served a new dessert treat for General George Washington. The highlight of the dinner party was ice cream! And you thought all this time that Dolley Madison was responsible. Not so.1893 - The first Ladies’ British Amateur Golf Championship was sponsored by the Ladies Golf Union. The match took place at St. Anne’s, a new course in Lancashire.
1935 - Jim Braddock defeated Max Baer in a 15-round decision. Braddock captured the world heavyweight boxing title for the win in New York City.
1939 - Lionel Hampton and his band recorded Memories of You for Victor Records.
1940 - The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were the first two major-league baseball teams to play at Doubleday Field at Cooperstown, NY in the Hall of Fame Game.
1944 - The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras. Wire recorders were the precursor of much easier to use magnetic tape recorders.
1944 - The first German V-1 buzz-bomb hit London. The buzz-bomb was a small aircraft powered by a pulse-jet engine that made a buzzing noise -- thus, its nickname.
1948 - Uniform #3, belonging to Babe Ruth, was retired at farewell ceremonies for the Babe. The touching ceremony at Yankee Stadium came just two months before the baseball legend passed away.
1956 - England gave up the Suez Canal after 72 years as Egypt took over, and became free of foreign troops in the process.
1964 - Nelson Mandela, later to become the president of South Africa, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. He and seven comrades were convicted of sabotage and treason. Mandela served a total of 25 years in prison, 18 of them on Robben Island.
1965 - The (19th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the Astor Hotel, New York. Winners included The Subject was Roses (best Play); Fiddler on the Roof (best Musical); Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple (best Actor Dramatic); Irene Worth in Tiny Alice (best Actress Dramatic); Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof (best Actor Musical); and Liza Minnelli in Flora, the Red Menance (best Actress Musical).
1966 - The Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision regarded the rights of individuals to remain silent because “...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.” It held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States “required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police.”
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 - The song Make It with You, by David Gates and Bread, was released. It turned out to be a number-one hit (8/22/70). Though Bread had a dozen hits, including one other million-seller (Baby I’m-A Want You, 1971); Make It with You was the soft-pop group’s only number-one tune.
1971 - Singer Francis Albert Sinatra made an attempt to retire from show business following a performance this night at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, CA. ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ got a bit restless in retirement, however, and was back in Sinatra - The Main Event at Madison Square Garden in November 1973.
1971 - The New York Times published Neil Sheehan’s first story on the Pentagon Papers, a secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
1972 - Clyde McPhatter died in New York City of complications from heart, liver and kidney disease. He was 38. McPhatter had been lead singer with The Drifters and Billy Ward and the Dominoes (featured on Sixty Minute Man and Have Mercy Baby). McPhatter formed The Drifters in 1953, but was with them for only six records, all of which made the R&B top-10. He had a successful solo career after being discharged the U.S. army, scoring with Treasure of Love (1956) and A Lover’s Question (1958). Clyde McPhatter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured following his escape three days earlier from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee.
1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to leave the solar system as it crossed the orbit of Neptune. It had taken Pioneer-10 eleven years just to get to the edge of the solar system.
1984 - Rick Sutcliffe was traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Chicago Cubs. Sutcliffe had been 4-5 for the Indians, but ended the season 16-1 with the Cubs. He led the Cubbies to the National League East Division title; and grabbed the Cy Young Award for himself.
1986 - Bandleader and clarinetist Benny Goodman, who was known as the ‘King of Swing’, died in New York at the age of 77. Of all the big bands, none was bigger than Goodman’s in the 1930s and 1940s. His orchestra was the first jazz band to play Carnegie Hall in New York (1937). Goodman hits included his theme, Let’s Dance, Stompin’ at the Savoy and Sing, Sing, Sing. Goodman’s life was the subject of the film The Benny Goodman Story (1955), with Steve Allen in the title role.
1987 - Garrison Keilor, host and storyteller on the award-winning public radio series, A Prairie Home Companion, left the program and its delightful shores of Lake Wobegon for Denmark where he intended to spend his time writing (he returned to the U.S. two years later). He had been with the program for 13 years.
1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title, sweeping the Los Angeles Lakers in four games.
1991 - Lightning struck at the first round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at the Hazeltine National Golf Club near Minneapolis, MN. The bolt struck and killed one spectator. Five others were hurt.
1993 - Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party chose Defense Minister Kim Campbell to succeed Brian Mulroney as prime minister (she served through Nov 4, 1993). She was the first woman to hold the post.
1993 - Astronaut Donald K. ‘Deke’ Slayton died in League City, Texas. He was 69 years old.
1996 - The longest siege in U.S. federal history (81 days) came to an end at a remote Montana ranch. All sixteen anti-government ‘Freemen’ surrendered to the FBI under an agreement to bring a peaceful end to the standoff.
1997 - Speed 2: Cruise Control opened in the U.S. (“Annie's vacation on a boat is interrupted when a computer genius hijacks the boat.”) The action thriller stars Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Plummer, Temuera Morrison, Brian Mccardie, Joe Morton and Tim Conway.
1997 - The jury voted unanimously to give Timothy McVeigh the death penalty for carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998 - Reg Smythe, creator of the Andy Capp comic strip, died in London at the age of 81.
2000 - Italy pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who had tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. Chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said John Paul was satisfied with Ciampi’s action. “As you know, John Paul II immediately pardoned his attacker and for some time now the pope had told Italian authorities that he was in favor of an act of clemency if Italian law permitted it,” Navarro-Valls said. “He has been insisting on this for some time. We are not surprised. We are very happy.”
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) met with NATO leaders in Brussels, Belgium, to pitch his missile shield plan.
2002 - The Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup 4 games to 1 over the Carolina Hurricanes.
2003 - New movies in the U.S.: Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, starring Eric Christian Olsen, Derek Richardson, Josh Braaten, Kyle Gass, Luis Guzman, Elden Hensen, Michelle Krusiec, Shia LaBeouf, Eugene Levy, Rachel Nichols, Cheri Oteri, Brian Posehn, Teal Redmann, Mimi Rogers and William Lee Scott; Hollywood Homicide, with Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich, Keith David, Percy ‘Master P’ Miller, Dwight Yoakam, Martin Landau, Gladys Knight, Lou Diamond Phillips, Kurupt AKA Ricardo Brown and Andre (Dre) Benjamin; and Rugrats Go Wild!, featuring the voices of Jodi Carlisle, Christine Cavanaugh, Lacey Chabert, Melanie Chartoff, Cheryl Chase, Tim Curry, Elizabeth Daily, Flea, Danielle Harris, Tom Kane, Jack Riley, Kath Soucie, Bruce Willis and LL Cool J.
2004 - Author and academic Stuart Hampshire died in Oxford, England. Hampshire was a former chairman of the department of philosophy at Princeton University. His books include The Freedom of the Individual.
2005 - Michael Jackson was found innocent of all ten felony child-molestation charges, bringing a dramatic end to a trial that put a harsh spotlight on the troubled life of one of the world’s best-known entertainers.
2007 - Elder (83) statesman Shimon Peres was elected Israel’s ninth president, capping a campaign to extend his six-decade political career in a race marred by rape allegations against Moshe Katsav, the sitting president. Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who lost his reelection bid in 2001, was elected to lead the Labor Party.
2008 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres: The Happening, starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Spencer Breslin, Ashlyn Sanchez and Betty Buckley; and Quid Pro Quo, with Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Ashlie Atkinson, Rachel Black, Dylan Bruno, Kate Burton and Anna Chlumsky.
2008 - The Cedar River crested at a record-breaking 32 feet in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Water submerged more than 400 blocks of the city, threatened its drinking supply and forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital.
2008 - Veteran newsman Tim Russert, NBC News Washington bureau chief, collapsed and died of a heart attack in his Washington newsroom. Russert, moderator of the weekly public affairs program Meet the Press, was 58 years old.
2008 - 2,800 firefighters battled the Humboldt Fire in Butte County, California. 9,000 residents were evacuated as the fire covered 23,00 acres in that northern California area. By June 15, most of the fire was under control, but only after destroying 74 homes and damaging 20 more in Paradise, CA.
2009 - Iran’s state-run news agency said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won Iran’s presidential election in a landslide just two hours after the polls closed. But his main rival, Mir Hussein Moussavi, announced defiantly that he had won and charged that there had been voting irregularities.
2009 - Six Flags theme park operator said it had filed for bankruptcy. The New York-based operator of 20 theme parks in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, said the filing in a federal bankruptcy court in Delaware is part of its plan to reorganize and shed $1.8 billion worth of debt. (Six Flags emerged from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy on May 3, 2010 -- after wiping out all that debt by turning the company’s ownership over to bondholders.)
2010 - Country singer and sausage entrepreneur Jimmy Dean died at his home in Virginia. Dean’s 1961 song Big Bad John won him a Grammy. In 1969 he started the Jimmy Dean Meat Co., which he sold to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.
2010 - The Tony Awards were handed out at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Host for the 64th annual gala evening was actor and comedian Sean Hayes. Best Play was Red, by John Logan. A revival of August Wilson’s Fences and the musical Memphis also won top honors.
2011 - A conference of international philanthropists, in association with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, was held in London. Participants, including former Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, pledged $4.3 billion to purchase vaccines for children in poor countries. The vaccines would help to eradicate such diseases as diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles.
2012 - Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present opened in U.S. theatres. The documentary follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During the run of the exhibition (736 hours, 30 minutes), Marina Abramovic sat immobile in the museum’s atrium, while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her.
2012 - The Justice Department dropped all remaining charges against former North Carolina U.S. Senator John Edwards. This, less than two weeks after his corruption trial ended in an acquittal and mistrial. Federal prosecutors had accused Edwards of using nearly $1 million in illegal campaign contributions to keep his pregnant mistress under wraps as he mounted a second U.S. presidential bid in 2008. But after more than 50 hours of deliberation, a North Carolina jury acquitted him on one of the six counts against him and deadlocked on the other five.
2012 - San Franciso Giants’ Matt Cain pitched a perfect game in a 10-0 victory over the Houston Astros. It was the first perfect game for the Giants and only the 22nd in major-league history. Cain struck out a career-high 14 batters and got big help from two spectacular catches by his corner outfielders.
2012 - ICANN revealed nearly 2,000 applications for new generic top-level Internet domain names. The new names were expected to go ‘live’ after thorough examination. The new assignments were made possible by a June 20, 2011 ICANN board vote that ended most restrictions that had limited top-level domain names (gTLD)to just 22 previously.
2013 - The U.S. announced increased military aid to rebels in Syria. The White House reported that it had conclusive evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime had used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, against opposition forces, with multiple chemical attacks in 2012 killing several hundred people.
2014 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: 22 Jump Street, starring Dave Franco, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Peter Stormare, Nick Offerman, Ice Cube, Amber Stevens and Rob Riggle; the animated How to Train Your Dragon 2, featuring the voices of Kit Harington, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jay Baruchel, T.J. Miller, America Ferrera, America Ferrera, Djimon Hounsou, Craig Ferguson, Gideon Emery and Andrew Ableson; Hellion, with Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis and Josh Wiggins; The Human Race, starring Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee and Trista Robinson; I Am I, with Simon Helberg, Jason Ritter and Kevin Tighe; Lullaby, starring Amy Adams, Garrett Hedlund and Jessica Brown Findlay; The Rover, with Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson and Scoot McNairy; and The Signal, starring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke and Robert Longstreet.
2015 - Hillary Clinton formally launched her bid to become the first woman POTUS, holding her first big campaign rally in New York City.
2016 - NATO’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance would send four multinational battalions to the Baltic states and Poland to boost their defenses against Russia.
2016 - Microsoft bought social network company LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.
2017 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended himself before his former Senate colleagues and denied having an undisclosed meeting with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Sessions also contradicted a contention made by former FBI Director James Comey that, after an encounter with POTUS Trump in which Comey said Trump pressured him to back off an investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Comey implored Sessions to make sure he was never left alone with the president again.
2018 - The journal Nature reported the rate at which Antarctica was losing ice had more than doubled since 2012. The frozen continent had shed ice nearly three times faster on average than it did over the previous 20 years. A 6-inch sea-level rise is expected by 2100.
2018 - Iran arrested prominent women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. The mother of two worked as a attorney for women detained for refusing to cover their hair in public and had represented Iranian opposition activists. In March 2019 Sotoudeh was sentenced to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes. Amnesty International called the sentence an outrageous injustice.
2019 - The Toronto Raptors dethroned defending champions Golden State, defeating the Warriors 114-110 to win the NBA Finals in Oakland, CA. The Raptors were the first team club from outside the United States to win an NBA championship.
2019 - Margaret Hunter, the wife of U.S. Representative, Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty in southern California to a single corruption count. She agreed to testify against her husband on charges that the couple had spent more than $200,000 in campaign funds on personal trips and expenses. (In Dec 2019 Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to a felony count of misuse of campaign funds. On March 17, 2020, Hunter was sentenced to 11 months in prison.)
2020 - Brazil had recorded nearly 40,000 deaths from the coronavirus the world’s third highest number. The U.S. reached over 2,068,591 with the death toll at 115,251.
2020 - Several thousand people demonstrated in Paris to denounce police brutality and lasting racism, as France’s minorities pushed back against a national doctrine of colorblindness that had failed to eradicate discrimination.
2021 - Actor Ned Beatty died at his home in Los Angeles. Beatty’s prolific career spanned more than four decades, earned him an Oscar nomination for his role in Network, and included a cringe-inducing performance as a weekend outdoorsman assaulted by backwoods brutes in Deliverance.
2021 - Israeli lawmakers voted to remove Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister -- after 12 years -- replacing him with Naftali Bennett, the head of a small right-wing party.
2022 - 2021 U.S. President Biden had tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle near London.
2022 - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a bill into law that made it easier for teachers and staff to carry guns on school premises. The new law allows school staff, including teachers, to carry guns on campus after just 24 hours of training. A state Supreme Court ruling had required 700 hours of training, so the new law made it far easier for school districts to arm more teachers.
2023 - At court in Miami: Former POTUS Donald Trump and his aide, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of lying and scheming to hold on to sensitive national security material that he was supposed to have surrendered when he left the White House.
2023 - In the Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, the Vegas Golden Knights routed the Florida Panthers 9-3 to clinch a 4-1 series win. It was the franchise’s first title in only its 6th year in the NHL. MVP was Jonathan Marchessault (VGK forward).
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Birthdays on This Day June 13
1865 - William Butler Yeats
Nobel Prize-winning poet & dramatist [1923]; died Jan 28, 19391892 - (Philip St. John) Basil Rathbone
actor: The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Last Hurrah, The Hound of the Baskervilles, House of Fear, David Copperfield, Last Days of Pompeii, Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Terrors; died July 21, 1967; more1903 - Red (Harold) Grange
Pro and College Football Hall of Famer: ‘The Galloping Ghost’: Chicago Bears, University of Illinois: running back; died Jan 28, 19911908 - (Maria Helena) Vieira da Silva
artist: style: Parisian School and abstract expressionism; died Mar 6, 19921910 - Mary (Isabelle) Wickes (Wickenhauser)
actress: Little Women, Sister Act, Postcards from the Edge, How to Murder Your Wife; died Oct 22, 19951912 - Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor
playwright: Sabrina [1954], Vertigo, Three on a Couch, Topaz, Sabrina [1995]; died May 26, 20001913 - Ralph Edwards
actor, host: Radio Stars on Parade, Beat the Band, The Devil’s Bedroom; TV and radio host: Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life; died Nov 16, 20051915 - Don Budge
tennis champion: Australian Open [1938], French Open [1938], Wimbledon [1937, 1938, 1939], U.S. Open [1937, 1938]; died Jan 26, 20001917 - Si (Simon) Zentner
bandleader, trombonist: Boyd Raeburn Orchestra; died Jan 31, 20001918 - Ben Johnson
actor: Angels in the Outfield, The Getaway, The Last Picture Show, One-Eyed Jacks, Red Dawn, Shane; died Apr 8, 19961922 - Mel (Melvin Lloyd) ‘Dusty’ Parnell
baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1949, 1951]; died Mar 20, 20121926 - Paul Lynde
comedian, actor: The Paul Lynde Show, Hollywood Squares, Love American Style, Temperatures Rising, Bewitched, The Red Buttons Show; cartoon voice: Claude Pertwee; died Jan 10, 19821934 - Uriel Jones
musician: drums: Motown Records studio backup band [The Funk Brothers] played on virtually every Motown hit during the 1960s: songs by Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, The Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas; died Mar 24, 20091935 - Christo (Javacheff)
artist: Valley Curtain, Running Fence, The Umbrellas; died May 31, 20201936 - Michel Jazy
track: world-record holder in the mile [1965-3 minutes, 53.6 seconds]; died Feb 1, 20241939 - Siegfried Fischbacher
magician, animal trainer: half of Siegfried & Roy white lion/tiger act; died Jan 13, 20211940 - Bobby Freeman
singer: Do You Wanna Dance, C’mon and Swim; died Jan 23, 20171940 - Dallas Long
Olympic Gold Medal-winning shot-putter: [Tokyo: 1964], world record [67' 10": 1964]1943 - Malcolm McDowell
actor: A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man, Blue Thunder, Caligula, Gulag, Look Back in Anger, Fantasy Island [1998], The Mentalist1949 - Simon Callow
actor: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Howard’s End, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, A Room with a View, Amadeus; author: Orson Welles1949 - Dennis Locorriere
musician: guitar; singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia’s Mother, The Cover of "Rolling Stone", Only Sixteen, A Little Bit More, When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman1950 - J.P. Bordeleau
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks1951 - Howard Leese
musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On1951 - Stellan Skarsgård
actor: Thor, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Mamma Mia!1951 - Richard Thomas
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Waltons [1973]; Roots: The Next Generation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda1952 - Ernie (Leo Ernest) Whitt
baseball: catcher: Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1985], Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles1953 - Tim Allen (Timothy Allen Dick)
comedian, actor: Home Improvement, Showtime Comedy Club All-Stars II, The Santa Clause, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Galaxy Quest1962 - Ally Sheedy
actress: The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire, WarGames, Oxford Blues, Short Circuit pair, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Ultimate Betrayal
1962 - Hannah Storm
TV sports co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Sunday morning [w/Bob Ley], host: NBA Countdown pregame show on ABC1963 - Paul De Lisle
musician: bass guitar: group: Smash Mouth: All Star, Walkin’ on the Sun, Flo, Beer Goggles, Why Can’t We Be Friends, Diggin’ Your Scene, Waste, Then the Morning Comes1965 - Lesli Kay
actress: The Other Sister, Cyberella: Forbidden Passions, Forbidden Games, General Hospital1968 - Deniece Pearson
singer: group: 5 Star: System Addict, Can’t Wait Another Minute, Find the Time, Rain or Shine, Stay Out of My Life, The Slighest Touch1969 - Jamie Walters
actor: Shout, The Heights, Beverly Hills, 90210; singer: Hold On, Reckless, Winona, The Other Side, Dog on a Chain, The Distance, Neutral Ground, Release Me1970 - Coko
(Cheryl Elizabeth Clemons)
lead singer of R&B group SWV, Sisters With Voices: LPs: Hot Coko, Grateful, A Coko Christmas, The Winner in Me, Men in Black: The Album1970 - Viacheslav Butsayev
hockey Philadelphia Flyers, SJ Sharks, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Florida Panthers, Ottawa Senators, TB Lightning1971 - David Mendenhall
actor: Space Raiders, Over the Top, The Transformers: The Movie, Streets, The Star Stealer, Our House, Galtar and the Golden Lance, General Hospital1973 - Sam Adams
football: Texas A&M Univ; Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills1974 - Valeri Bure
Hockey Hall of Famer: Montreal Canadiens, Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, SL Blues, Dallas Stars1975 - Dave Roche
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, NY Islanders, NJ Devils1977 - Shane Willis
hockey [right wing]: Carolina Hurricanes, Tampa Bay Lightning1978 - Matt Bradley
hockey: San Jose Sharks, Pittsburgh Penguins1978 - Ethan Embry
actor: Dutch, Empire Records, National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation, FreakyLinks, Work With Me, Dragnet [2003]1981 - Chris Evans
actor: Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Opposite Sex, Not Another Teen Movie, Fierce People, Sunshine, Push, The Losers, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, What’s Your Number?1983 - Rebeca Linares
actress [2005-2012]: X-rated films: Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy, Homo Erectus, The Whole Enchilada, Smothered n’ Covered 4, Long Dong Black Kong 2, Innocent Until Proven Filthy 2, Daddy’s Worst Nightmare 6, Se7en Deadly Sins, Rebeca Linares Raw1983 - Steve Novak
basketball [small/power forward: Marquette Univ; NBA: Houston Rockets [2006–2008], Los Angeles Clippers [2008–2010], Dallas Mavericks [2010–2011], San Antonio Spurs [2011], New York Knicks [2011–2013]: NBA 3-point field goal percentage leader [2012]; Toronto Raptors [2013–2014]; Utah Jazz [2014–2015]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2015–2016]; Milwaukee Bucks [2016–2017]1984 - Luke James
singer: I Want You, Oh God, Whispers in the Dark, Options; background vocalist and songwriter for artists such as Britney Spears and Justin Bieber1985 - Lela Star
actress [2006-2012]: X-rated films: Teenage Spermaholics 5, Tease Me Then Please Me 6, Giggling, Wriggling Tickle Victims, Not Monday Night Football XXX, Girls Can’t Think Straight #3, Lex the Impaler 71986 - Kat Dennings
actress: 2 Broke Girls, Sex and the City, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Big Momma’s House 2, Charlie Bartlett, Raise Your Voice, The House Bunny, Defendor, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Thor; more1986 - Ashley Olsen
actress: To Grandmother’s House We Go, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, How the West Was Fun, Two of a Kind, So Little Time1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen
actress: Full House, It Takes Two, Two of a Kind, So Little Time1989 - Ryan McDonagh
hockey [defenseman]: NFL: New York Rangers [2011-2018]: 2014 Stanley Cup finals; Tampa Bay Lightning [2018-2022]: 2020 Stanley Cup champs; Nashville Predators [2022– ]1990 - Aaron Taylor-Johnson
actor: Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, Godzilla [2014], The Illusionist, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Savages, Avengers: Age of Ultron1996 - Kodi Smit-McPhee
actor: The Power of the Dog, The Road, Let Me In, ParaNorman, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men: Apocalypse, Alpha, Dark Phoenix
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Hit Music on This Day June 13
1945Sentimental Journey (facts) - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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