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1621 - The first duel in America reportedly took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. The duel, fought with swords and daggers, featured Edward Doty and Edward Leister. The duelers managed to wound each other, but neither died.1812 - The United States issued a declaration of war on Great Britain. And so began the War of 1812, prompted by Britain’s violations of America’s rights on the high seas and the involvement of the British in Indian uprisings on the frontiers.
1898 - Atlantic City, NJ opened its Steel Pier to a large summertime seashore crowd. The world-famous pier over the Atlantic Ocean offered 9-1/2 miles of amusements, concerts, food, beverages, concessions and more. The Steel Pier once featured a horse that would dive into a pool at the end of the pier, in fact. The summer resort gave many a youngster their start in show biz, like TV host/announcer Ed McMahon, who used to be a barker on the ocean pier.
1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp honored Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. It was the first postage stamp to feature the name of a living American.
1939 - The CBS radio network aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night’s mystery.
1940 - French General Charles de Gaulle, broadcasting from England on the B.B.C., told French citizens to defy their nazi occupiers.
1941 - The Colorado River Aqueduct began supplying water to Los Angeles and other Southern California cities.
1944 - Golfing legend Byron Nelson finished in the money in his 52nd consecutive tournament. He won the Red Cross Open golf competition held at New Rochelle, NY.
1945 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower received a tumultuous welcome in Washington DC. Ike addressed a joint session of Congress on this day as he began a series of victory celebrations in his honor.
1948 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1956 - Nanette Fabray bid audiences farewell in her final appearance on Caesars Hour after two years as a regular on the popular TV program.
1959 - Ross Beville and Austin Knox, who had built a crude endless-loop tape machine for background music applications, joined forces and formed Broadcast Electronics. The company’s first product was the Spotmaster cartridge machine for radio stations. Ben Strouse, who owned WWDC (Washington DC), provided most of the financial support for the company in the early days.
1961 - Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio. The show had been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star of Gunsmoke was William Conrad, who would become a major TV star (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman), as well. When Gunsmoke moved to TV, James Arness filled Conrad’s boots.
1965 - British composer and conductor George Melachrino, famous for his use of a string orchestra to create mood music, died at age 56. Melachrino made more than 50 albums in the 1950s, including Music for Dining, Music for Two People Alone and Music to Help You Sleep. Ironically, Melachrino fell asleep and drowned in his bathtub.
1965 - Guam-based B-52s bombed a Vietcong concentration thirty miles north of Saigon. It was the first mass bombing raid of the Vietnam War; and it was the first combat use of the bombers since they were placed in operation in 1952.
1968 - The bubblegum group Ohio Express was awarded a gold record for their single Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.
1972 - Newspapers around the country, including The Washington Post, reported a burglary. The story took up nothing more than a couple of inches of copy, buried inside the paper and out of sight of the day’s top news stories. The burglary, on the 6th floor of a plush Washington, D.C. apartment and office complex called the Watergate, would later drive President Richard M. Nixon from the White House. The growing story became a Pulitzer Prize-winner for journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
1975 - Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox had one of the greatest days in major-league baseball history. Lynn contributed 10 runs, 16 total bases on three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers. The Red Sox won the game 15-1.
1976 - The pop-music group ABBA performed Dancing Queen for Sweden’s King Carl Gustaf on the eve of his wedding to (Queen) Silvia Sommerlath.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac worked Dreams to the number one spot on the pop music charts this day. It would be the group’s only single to reach number one. Fleetwood Mac placed 18 hits on the charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Nine were top-ten tunes.
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) in Vienna.
1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, beginning her ride aboard the space shuttle Challenger for a six-day Odyssey.
1984 - Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk-show host, was shot to death outside his home. Berg, whose life and violent death inspired Eric Bogosian’s play (and Oliver Stone’s movie) Talk Radio, was verging on national prominence, having been profiled on 60 Minutes and selected by his employer, KOA-AM, to cover the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
1985 - The Wimbledon tennis seeding-committee, unable to decide on a favorite, made Chris Evert Lloyd and Martina Navratilova co-number one seeds. It was the first time in the 63-year history of the Wimbledon Open that a first co-seeding was utilized.
1985 - Patrick Ewing became one of 11 basketball centers to be chosen in the first-round draft of college players for the National Basketball Association. Ewing was picked by, and became a major star for, the New York Knicks.
1986 - Don Sutton of the California Angels pitched his 300th career win to lead Gene Autry’s ball club to a 3-1 win over the Texas Rangers. Sutton went on to win a total of 324 games in his illustrious career.
1989 - Greek Premier Andreas Papandreou’s Panhellenic Socialist Movement suffered a defeat as the center-right New Democracy Party finished first in the elections.
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that criminal defendants may not use race as a basis for excluding potential jurors from their trials.
1992 - Australian entertainer Peter Allen died in a hospital near San Diego, California of an AIDS-related illness. He was 48. The singer, dancer, songwriter, pianist was discovered by Judy Garland and was married to her daughter, Liza Minelli. Allen wrote a number of hits, including I Honestly Love You, Don't Cry Out Loud and the Academy Award-winning Arthur’s Theme.
1993 - A&M Records chairman Jerry Moss and vice-chairman Herb Alpert announced they were leaving the company they founded some 30 years earlier. They had sold A&M in 1990 to Polygram for about $500-million. Moss and Alpert founded the label in the garage of Alpert’s Los Angeles home in 1962. A&M’s first release was The Lonely Bull by the Tijuana Brass, a group led by the trumpet-playing Alpert.
1994 - The Beastie Boys’ Ill Communication hit number one on U.S. album charts. It was #1 for one week with these tracks: Sure Shot, Tough Guy, B-Boys Makin' with The Freak Freak, Bobo on the Corner, Root Down, Sabotage, Get It Together, Sabrosa, The Update, Futterman’s Rule, Alright Hear This, Eugene’s Lament, Flute Lopp, Do It, Ricky’s Theme, Heart Attack Man, The Scoop, Shambala, Bodhisattva Vow and Transitions.
1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in (following Knesset approval) as Israel’s 9th Prime Minister. Netanyahu, the first prime minister born after the establishment of Israel, was elected May 29. His Likud-Party government lasted just under three years. He was defeated by the Labor Party’s leader, Ehud Barak, May 17, 1999.
1999 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: An Ideal Husband, starring Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, and Jeremy Northam; The General’s Daughter, with John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III and James Woods; and Tarzan, featuring Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Chris Phillips and Rosie O’Donnell.
2000 - Emmy-winning actress (Lou Grant) Nancy Marchand died in Stratford, CT -- a day before her 72nd birthday. (Marchand was also nominated twice for an Emmy for her role as Livia Soprano in The Sopranos.)
2000 - Tiger Woods won the U.S. Open golf championship at Pebble Beach fifteen strokes ahead of runners-up Miguel Angel Jimenez and Ernie Els.
2001 - A judge in Golden, Colorado sentenced two therapists (Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder) to 16 years in prison for the death of Candace Newmaker. The 10-year-old had suffocated while wrapped in blankets during a simulated ‘rebirthing’ session performed by Watkins and Ponder.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) submitted to the Congress his detailed proposal for creation of a new Homeland Security Department.
2003 - Baseball Hall-of-Famer Larry Doby died at 79 years of age. Doby broke the American League’s ‘color barrier’ in 1947.
2004 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, with Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Julie Gonzalo, Stephen Root, Chris Williams, Gary Cole and Jason Bateman; and The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Barry ‘Shabaka’ Henley, Kumar Pallana, Zoe Saldana, Eddie Jones, Jude Ciccolella and Kevin Weisman.
2005 - Rising waters in China’s central Dongting Lake were forcing millions of rats into surrounding farmlands where the rodents ravaged crops.
2005 - European Union leaders blamed each other after their summit collapsed without any agreement on the future of the continent. They did all agree that Europe was in a crisis.
2006 - China’s Premier Wen Jiabao wrapped up a two-day visit to Cairo after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Jiabao and Mubarak signed ten oil, natural gas and telecommunications deals.
2006 - Cartoonist Donald Reilly died in Norwalk, CT. His work included 1,107 cartoons and sixteen covers for The New Yorker magazine.
2007 - British police, with aid from U.S. investigators, shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide.
2007- A fire swept through a furniture warehouse in Charleston, SC, collapsing the building’s roof and killing nine firefighters. The cause of the fire was later blamed on a carelessly discarded cigarette.
2007 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (9-0) that automobile passengers had the same right as drivers to challenge the legality of police stops of vehicles the passengers were riding in.
2007 - Singer Hank Medress died at 68 years of age in Manhattan. His vocals with The Tokens propelled "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts in 1961.
2008 - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld Boeing’s protest of a refueling tanker aircraft contract and recommended a new competition.
2008 - Sweden’s Parliament narrowly approved a contentious law that gave authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crossed the nation’s borders. Outrage over the statute led to 2 million protests, filed by e-mail.
2009 - The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, announced that it would sue Bayer Healthcare if the company continued to claim that its One A Day vitamins for men reduce the risk of prostate cancer. The group said Bayer’s ubiquitous TV and radio ads misleadingly claimed that a key ingredient of One A Day Men’s Health Formula helps prevent cancer.
2009 - Film star husband and wife Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $1 million to the U.N. refugee agency providing aid to hundreds of thousands uprooted by violence in Pakistan. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said it is grateful for the donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
2010 - The U.N. said a measles outbreak in eastern and southern Africa had killed more than 700 people, threatening to reverse gains made against the viral disease.
2011 - Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co. halted operations to clean highly contaminated waste water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi facility due to higher-than-expected radiation levels. (Estimates put the time frame at 40 years for cleaning up and fully decommissioning the plant that went into meltdown after being struck by the Mar 11, 2011 tsunami.)
2012 - Iran and six world powers (U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany) sought elusive common ground in talks in Moscow meant to reduce tensions over Tehran’s nuclear activities that both sides saw as crucial to their interests but which were stalled by their reluctance to commit to each other’s demands.
2013 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that Afghanistan’s armed forces were taking over the lead for security nationwide from the U.S.-led NATO coalition.
2014 - Amazon introduced its Fire smart phone -- available in the U.S. exclusively through AT&T. Cost with no contract was $650-$750. The Fire phone was not a smashing success. As of October 2014, Amazon had $83 million worth of unsold Fire Phones still in its inventory and was forced to take a $170 million writedown charge on costs related to the device.
2014 - Japan’s parliament passed a law which banned possession of child pornography, but excluded sexually explicit depictions of children in comics, animation and computer graphics.
2015 - Cuba announced the expansion of Internet access by adding Wi-Fi capacity to dozens of state-run Internet centers and more than halving the cost that users paid for an hour online.
2015 - Hong Kong’s legislature vetoed a China-backed electoral reform package that had been criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as being undemocratic. The rejection had been expected and was expected to appease some activists who had demanded a veto of the “fake democratic model” for how the Chinese-controlled territory chooses its next leader (in 2017).
2016 - An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial. The court also sentenced six people to death for passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during Morsi’s rule.
2017 - French voters returned to the polls for the second round of a parliamentary election. Emmanuel Macron’s Republic on the Move (REM) and its centrist ally, MoDem, won 350 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly in this runoff vote. The result meant REM could, if necessary, govern without the support of MoDem, which won only 42 seats. Turnout was 35.3%, down from 46.42% in the 2012 election.
2018 - POTUS Trump announced that he was directing the Pentagon to create a new Space Force as an independent service branch. The goal was to ensure American supremacy in space. What Trump didn’t mention were any details about what exactly the Space Force would do and how it would be funded. In fact, the president can’t just unilaterally create a new branch of the military in an off-the-cuff announcement, experts said.
2018 - An audio recording that captured the heartbreaking voices of small Spanish-speaking children crying out for their parents at a U.S. immigration facility took center stage in the growing uproar over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.
2019 - The U.S. Coast Guard members from the Cutter Munro jumped onto a moving submarine that was smuggling 17,000 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $232 million. The bust was part of a larger mission that included 14 other drug-smuggling interceptions along the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, that netted an estimated 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana, worth a combined estimate of $569 million. 55 alleged smugglers were captured during the mission.
2019 - California-based PG&E said it had agreed to pay $1 billion to more than a dozen local government agencies to help cover taxpayer losses caused by recent devastating wildfires, including 2018’s Camp Fire.
2020 - Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix, and his wife, Patty Quillin, donated $120 million to the United Negro College Fund, Spelman College and Morehouse College to support scholarships at those historically black institutions.
2020 - The presidency was in turmoil (I know, whatelse is new?) after ex-aide John Bolton declared Trump unfit for office. Portions of Bolton’s book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, revealed a withering portrayal of his ex-boss. Trump appeared to have undue influence over U.S. Justice Department investigations, tried to get foreign leaders to support his reelection, and practiced “obstruction of justice as a way of life.”
2020 - California health officials issued a mandate that all citizens wear masks when in an indoor public place or in line waiting to enter as well as riding public transport and in public outdoor spaces where people were crowded. The edict came a day after the state reported the largest number of new coronavirus cases in a single day.
2021 - The U.S. Southwest baked under an unrelenting heatwave for a fifth day, putting power systems to the test. The National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings for five states: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado.
2021 - Many Iranians boycotted the presidential election this day after top officials disqualified most viable candidates, except hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, who went on to gain a landslide victory. (Raisi was under U.S. sanctions for his involvement in executions of political prisoners decades ago.)
2021 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appointed for a second-five year-term by the 193-member U.N. General Assembly.
2022 - The war in Ukraine could last for years, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. “We must prepare for the fact that it could take years. We must not let up in supporting Ukraine. Even if the costs are high, not only for military support, but also because of rising energy and food prices,” said Stoltenberg, who previously served as prime minister of Norway. United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a similar statement, urging his countrymen to continue supporting the fight against Russia and warning against “Ukraine fatigue.”
2022 - Police responding to the mass shooting that took place last month at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas never attempted to open the door to the classroom where students were trapped with the gunman. Surveillance footage shows police, who later claimed they were waiting to obtain a key, standing outside the classroom door for 77 minutes without ever checking the door. They also had access to a forced entry tool that could have opened the door even if it was locked.
2023 - A submersible vessel exploring the wreckage of the RMS Titanic imploded in the North Atlantic Ocean -- killing all five occupants. The 'Titan' submarine was constructed of carbon fibre and was only certified to 1,300m, far short of the 3,800m depth of the ocean floor where the Titanic wreck lay. But that limit was apparently ignored...
2023 - Wyndham Clark won the U.S. Open (men’s golf) at the Los Angeles Country Club. It was his first major and $3.6m. Irishman Rory McIlroy was second -- by a stroke. Clark finished with a 10-under-par scoure of 270.
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Birthdays on This Day June 18
1886 - George Mallory
explorer, mountain climber: last seen alive in 1924 climbing Mt. Everest “Because it is there.”; died in June 1924; Mallory’s body found on Everest at 27,000' May 1, 19991897 - Kay (James King Kern) Kyser
bandleader: Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge: Three Little Fishes, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; died July 23, 19851903 - Jeanette (Anna) MacDonald
singer [w/Nelson Eddy], actress: Love Me Tonight, The Firefly, Cairo, The Cat and the Fiddle, One Hour with You, The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie; died Jan 14, 19651904 - Keye Luke
actor: Alice, Kung Fu; Charlie Chan’s #1 son; died Jan 12, 19911908 - Bud Collyer (Clayton Johnson Heermance Jr.)
radio: Superman; TV host: To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, Masquerade Party, Winner Take All; died Sep 8, 19691910 - Ray McKinley
musician: drummer: Big Boy, Hard-Hearted Hannah, Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume, You Came Along Way [from St. Louis]; led Glenn Miller Band for estate [1956-66]; died May 7, 19951913 - Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen)
composer, lyricist: Rhythm is Our Business, Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, All the Way, My Kind of Town, September of My Years, Love and Marriage, The Second Time Around, High Hopes, The Tender Trap, Three Coins in the Fountain, Call Me Irresponsible; autobiography: I Should Care; died Jan 15, 1993
1913 - (S.F.) Sylvia (Feldman) Porter
financial columnist: New York Post, New York Daily News; author: Sylvia Porter’s A Home of Your Own, Money Book; died Jun 5,19911914 - E.G. (Edda/Everett Gunnar) Marshall
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders [1961-62, 1962-63}; Chicago Hope, The New Doctors, Twelve Angry Men, The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre; died Aug 24, 19981917 - Richard (Allen) Boone
actor: Have Gun Will Travel, Winter Kills, The Robe, Rio Conchos, Ten Wanted Men, The War Lord, Big Jake; died Jan 10, 19811917 - Ross Elliott
actor: Scorpion, Aliens from Another Planet, Doctors’ Private Lives, Ellery Queen, The Towering Inferno, The Longest Night; died Aug 12, 19991920 - Ian Carmichael
actor: Dark Obsession, Heavens Above; died Feb 5, 20101924 - George Mikan
Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA Silver Anniversary Team; Minneapolis Lakers MVP [1947], World Basketball Tournament MVP: Chicago American Gears [1946]; ABA Commissioner; ABA’s red/white/blue ball is his concept; died June 2, 20051925 - Robert Arthur (Arthaud)
actor: Naked Youth, Hellcats of the Navy, The Ring, September Affair; died Oct 1, 20081926 - Tom Wicker
journalist, author: One of Us, Richard Nixon & the American Dream; died Nov Nov, 20111928 - Maggie McNamara
actress: The Cardinal, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Moon is Blue; died Feb 18, 19781939 - Lou (Louis Clark) Brock
Baseball Hall of Famer: outfielder: Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/all-star: 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979]; career record: 938 stolen bases; 3,000 career hits; 149 career home runs [500-footer hit into Polo Grounds’ center field bleachers: June 17, 1962]; died Sep 6, 20201942 - Roger Ebert
film critic: of Siskel and Ebert fame; died Apr 4, 20131942 - (James) Paul McCartney
Grammy Award-winning [1990] musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Beatles: 49 hits: She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band; group: Wings: 35 hits: Another Day, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, My Love, Live and Let Die, Band on the Run, Listen to What the Man Said, Silly Love Songs, Let ’Em In, Ebony & Ivory [w/Stevie Wonder], The Girl is Mine [w/Michael Jackson]; actor: Yellow Submarine, A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Let It Be, Magical Mystery Tour, Give My Regards to Broad Street; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-1999]; more1948 - John Evans
musician: guitar: group: The Boxtops: The Letter, Cry Like a Baby1952 - Carol Kane
Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi [1981-82, 1982-83}; The Princess Bride, Hester Street, Addams Family Values, Carnal Knowledge, Dog Day Afternoon, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ted & Venus, My Blue Heaven, When a Stranger Calls1952 - Isabella Rossellini
model: over 500 covers; actress: Twin Peaks, Fearless, Blue Velvet, Crime of the Century, The Impostors1953 - Jerome Smith
musician: guitar: group: KC & The Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight, That’s the Way [I like It], [Shake , Shake, Shake] Your Booty, I’m Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin’ Love, I like to Do It, Boogie Shoes, It’s the Same Old Song, Please Don’t Go; killed in bulldozer accident July 28, 20001956 - Brian Benben
actor: The Brian Benben Show, Family Business, Radioland Murders, Private Practice, Dream On1960 - Barbara Broccoli
film producer: GoldenEye, Crime of the Century, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough; daughter of James Bond film creator Albert R. Broccoli1961 - Andres Galarraga
baseball: Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, SL Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, SF Giants, Anaheim Angels; missed all of the 1999 season due to cancer, made remarkable comeback in 20001961 - (Genevieve) Alison ‘Alf’ Moyet
singer: solo: Love Resurrection, All Cried Out, Invisible, That Old Devil Called Love, Is This Love?, Weak in the Presence of Beauty; duo: Yazoo: Only You, Don’t Go, Nobody’s Diary1961 - Randy Spears
actor [1988-2013]: X-rated films: The Case of the Sensuous Sinners, Straight to Bed, Biker Boys Out of Control, The Masseuse, Sex Trek series, The Young and the Wrestling, Sex Sluts in the Slammer, Backseat Confidential, Operation: Desert Stormy1963 - Darren ‘Dizzy’ Reed
musician: keyboards: group: Guns N’ Roses: Welcome to the Jungle, November Rain, Sweet Child O’ Mine, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, Nightrain, Estranged, Don’t Cry, Patience1963 - Bruce Smith
Pro Football Hall of Famer [defensive end]: Virginia Tech Univ; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins1964 - Bob Rouse
hockey: Minnesota North Stars, Washington Capitals, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, SJ Sharks1966 - Sandy (Santos, Jr.) Alomar
baseball: catcher: SD Padres, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996/World Series: 1995]1966 - Doug Bodger
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, SJ Sharks, NJ Devils, LA Kings, Vancouver Canucks
1968 - Craig Bowden
golf: champ: NIKE Miami Valley Open [1998], Miccosukee Championship [2003]1969 - Vito Lograsso
pro wrestler/actor: ECW Hardcore TV, Extreme Championship Wrestling, WCW Thunder1971 - Kerry Butler
Broadway actress: Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Xanadu; films, TV: Second Honeymoon, Borough of Kings, Campfire Stories, Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, Lipstick Jungle, 30 Rock, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life; more1971 - Nathan Morris
singer: founding member of Boyz II Men: End of the Road, I’ll Make Love to You, A Song for Mama, In the Still of the Night [I’ll Remember], On Bended Knee, One Sweet Day, Pass You By1971 - Dominique Simone
actress [1990-2000]: X-rated films: The X-Producers, Sex Trek 3: The Wrath of Bob, The Price was Right, Blackbroad Jungle, Analyze These1973 - Eddie Cibrian
actor: Sunset Beach, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Beverly Hills: 90210, Saved By the Bell: the College Years, Third Watch, Rosewood1975 - Félix Heredia
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, NY Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, NY Mets1975 - Martin St. Louis
hockey [right winger]: NHL: Calgary Flames [1998-2000]; Tampa Bay Lightning [2000-2014]: 2004 Stanley Cup champs; New York Rangers [2014-2015]1976 - Alana De La Garza
actress: Law & Order, The Mountain, The Book of Daniel, CSI: Miami1976 - Blake Shelton
singer: Austin, The Baby, Some Beach, Nobody but Me, The More I Drink, Home, She Wouldn’t Be Gone, Hillbilly Bone; more1980 - Antonio Gates
football [tight end]: Kent State Univ; NFL: San Diego Chargers [2003–2018]: All-Pro: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 20101980 - David Giuntoli
actor: A Million Little Things, Grimm, Privileged, Weather Girl, U.S. Attorney, The Quinn-tuplets, 6 Month Rule, Caroline and Jackie1986 - Richard Madden
actor: Game of Thrones, Barmy Aunt Boomerang, Hope Springs, Sirens, Cinderella1988 - Josh Dun
musician: drums: Duo: Twenty One Pilots: Stressed Out, Heathens, Ride, Tear in My Heart, House of Gold1989 - Renee Olstead
singer, voiceover artist, actress: 13 Going on 30, Space Cowboys, End of Days, The Insider, Cadillac Ranch, Deadly Family Secrets, Streets of Laredo, The Secret Life of the American Teenager1990 - Monica Barbaro
actress: UnREAL, Bullish, The Good Cop, Splitting Up Together, Stumptown, Chicago P.D., Top Gun: Maverick1990 - Derek Stepan
hockey [center]: NHL: New York Rangers [2010- ]: 2014 Stanley Cup finals1991 - Willa Holland
actress: The O.C., Gossip Girl, Kingdom Hearts, Arrow
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Hit Music on This Day June 18
1950My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
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