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Events on This Day
1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was adopted by Congress. William Barton designed the seal which consists of an eagle, an olive branch and 13 arrows -- one for each of the original 13 colonies.1837 - Princess Victoria became Queen Victoria of England on this day, following the death of her uncle, King William IV. The Princess was only 18 when she was called to rule Britannia. Her first duty, "Hey, let’s call this the Victorian Age! Party on, subjects!" said she. And so it was for over 63 years until her death in 1901.
1863 - The First National Bank of Philadelphia, PA received a charter from the U.S. Congress. It was the first bank to receive one.
1863 - Virginia’s cessation from the Union gave reason for the birth of West Virginia. 40 western counties of Virginia did not secede, and instead, formed their own government, officially entering the United States of America this day as the 35th state. Charleston is the capital of the Mountain State which boasts of having the most rugged terrain of any state east of the Mississippi. Throughout the forested hills of West Virginia, you’ll also find many cardinals (the state bird) and multitudes of the state flower, the big rhododendron.
1898 - It’s difficult to have a war when you don’t know there’s one going on and you don’t have any ammunition. So goes the story as to why, during the Spanish-American War, the Spanish commander of Guam surrendered to Captain Glass, the captain of the USS Charleston.
1910 - Fanny Brice, born Fannie Borach, debuted in the New York production of the Ziegfeld Follies. It wasn't long before Brice became known as America’s funny girl.
1911 - The folks in Bradford and Leeds in Great Britain didn’t need wheelbarrows to get around ... they were the first in England to have trolleys. The trolleys started running on this day.
1921 - Alice M. Robertson congresswoman from Oklahoma presided over the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to accept the task.
1939 - W2XBS (later WCBS-TV) in New York City televised the first TV operetta. Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert and Sullivan, was presented to a very small viewing audience. Television was a new, experimental medium at the time.
1942 - The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was organized.
1947 - Gangster Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel was shot to death at his girlfriend’s mansion in Beverly Hills. The mob was reportedly angry over his high-rolling Las Vegas gambling sprees.
1948 - Toast of the Town premiered on CBS-TV. New York entertainment columnist and critic Ed Sullivan was the host. It started his TV career that would span 23 years on a weekly basis. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their television debut on the show. Also on the guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein and pianist Eugene List. The first show of Toast of the Town cost $1375 to produce, including just $375 for the talent.
1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants for a $6,000 bonus. The ‘Say Hey Kid’ would play most of his career for the Giants -- in both New York and San Francisco -- becoming a baseball legend. As his career came to a close, Mays was traded to the New York Mets. Mays, an all-star center fielder, is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1960 - Floyd Patterson took back the world heavyweight title by knocking out Ingemar Johansson of Sweden in round five of a title bout at the Polo Grounds in New York City. (Patterson was knocked out in one round by Sonny Liston in a title bout in Chicago, Sep 25, 1962.)
1963 - The United States and the Soviet Union made a hot-line agreement. It was a way to establish emergency communications between the two superpowers during the Cold War. The system was tested, but never used.
1969 - Jimi Hendrix earned an unheard of amount for a single concert appearance. The superstar guitarist was paid $50,000 to appear for a single set at the Newport 69 Pop Festival.
1970 - The Long and Winding Road, by The Beatles, started a second week in the number one spot on the pop music charts. The tune was the last one to be released by The Beatles.
1977 - The $7.7 billion Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), three years in the making, was completed with the final weld made by construction workers near Pump Station Three. The first oil arrived at Valdez 38 days later.
1982 - The first National Bald Eagle Day was declared on this, the bicentennial of the eagle’s selection as the national symbol of the United States.
1987 - Whitney Houston’s album, Whitney, debuted on Billboard magazine’s album chart at number one. Houston became the first female to have an LP debut at the top. The singer, daughter of Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick, began her singing career at age 11 with the New Hope Baptist Junior Choir in New Jersey. Houston first worked as a backup vocalist for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls; entered modeling in 1981, appearing in Glamour magazine and on the cover of Seventeen. Whitney married soul singer, Bobby Brown, in the late 1980s.
1991 - “I’m very pleased to welcome to the White House the newly-elected President of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin,” said (41st) U.S. President George Bush (I), greeting Yeltsin in the Rose Garden. “We will be interested in his views on the critical issues confronting the U.S.S.R. and its place in the world.”
1993 - The Chicago Bulls won their third consecutive title with a 99-98 victory over the Phoenix Suns in game 6 of the NBA finals. Michael Jordan was named MVP -- the first player to be named most valuable player of the National Basketball Association finals three years in a row.
1995 - A judge in Los Angeles took ownership of The Kingsmen’s recordings away from Scepter-Wand Records and awarded it to the group. The judge said the company breached its contract by not giving The Kingsmen royalties. The band's big hit was the party classic Louie, Louie, recorded in 1963. (In 2002 a federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the 1995 court ruling.)
1996 - Westinghouse Electric/CBS agreed to buy Infinity Broadcasting for $3.9 billion, a move that would combine the two biggest players in radio. That was just the beginning, as they say, of the gobbling up of American radio by corporate America. Congress had passed the Telecommunications Act in February 1996 permitting expansion of TV and radio station holdings, and removing restrictions on how many stations could be owned by one entity (huge corporation) in one market (your town/city).
1997 - Lawrence Payton of The Four Tops died of liver cancer at his home in Southfield, Michigan. He was 59. The group began as the Four Aims in 1954 and recorded for several other labels before signing with Motown in 1963. Among their hits were Baby I Need Your Loving, Reach Out (I’ll Be There) and I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch). There were no changes in personnel throughout the Four Tops’ career. Payton, Levi Stubbs, Abdul (Duke) Fakir and Renaldo (Obie) Benson remained together for 43 years.
1997 - Films opening in the U.S.: Batman and Robin, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Elle Macpherson, John Glover and Vivica Fox; and My Best Friend’s Wedding, with Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco, E. Emmet Walsh, Rachel Griffiths, Carrie Preston, Susan Sullivan and Chris Masterson.
1999 - Payne Stewart made a 15-foot par putt on the 18th hole at famous Pinehurst Resort & Country Club's No. 2 course in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The putt was just enough to win the U.S. Open by one stroke over Phil Mickelson. Stewart, one stroke behind with three holes to play -- and apparently heading for a play-off round the next day -- made a 25-foot putt for par to catch Mickelson, a 3-foot birdie putt on No. 17 to take the lead, and then his 24th putt of the day to win the championship.
1999 - (42nd) U.S. President Bill Clinton was pleased that Yugoslav troops were withdrawing from Kosovo. As NATO declared a formal end to its 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, Clinton said, “It’s a very happy day.”
2000 - Vivendi, Canal Plus and the Seagram Company agreed to combine to create Vivendi Universal, a global media and communications company for the wired and wireless world.
2001 - Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub in Houston, Texas. She was later sentenced to life in prison -- and even later was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
2001 - Billy Collins was named the 11th U.S. poet laureate. The poet laureate is appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress, after consultations with present and past laureates and poetry critics.
2002 - The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. constitution bans the death penalty for mentally retarded convicted killers.
2003 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: From Justin to Kelly, starring Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess, Anika Noni Rose, Greg Siff and Brian Dietzen; and Hulk, with Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas and Nick Nolte.
2004 - Bermuda-based Bacardi Limited agreed to purchase Grey Goose vodka, distilled and bottled in France, from Sidney Frank Importing Company for roughly $2 billion.
2005 - John Rigas, the 80-year-old founder of Adelphia Corp., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for looting the firm and lying about finances. His son (the company's former CFO), Timothy Rigas, received a 20-year sentence.
2005 - Ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co. said it had agreed to buy the HP Foods and Lea & Perrins sauce divisions from France’s Groupe Danone for $852,000,000. The deal made the new company the top sauce-maker in the United Kingdom.
2006 - CBS announced that Dan Rather, the anchorman who dominated CBS News for more than two decades, was leaving the network after 44 years. Rather’s contract with the network was not to expire until November 2006, but he and the network were unable to reach agreement on a new pact.
2006 -British media reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II were getting two new dedicated aircraft, dubbed Blair Force One and Blair Force Two.
2007 - Starbucks signed a deal agreeing to credit Ethiopia’s unique coffee bean varieties on its coffee labels. The move ended a trademark dispute that had been brewing since 2005.
2008 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Get Smart, starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway, with Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, Terry Crews, David Koechner, James Caan, Masi Oka, Nate Torrence and Kenneth Davitian; and The Love Guru, starring Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Omid Djalili and Ben Kingsley.
2008 - NASA reported that the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft had uncovered chunks of ice.
2009 - First Dog, Bo, was featured on a baseball card this day. The White House invited Internet users to download and print out the baseball card featuring the first family’s dog, Bo Obama.
2010 - China’s government said major rivers have burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods in 10 provinces and forcing 860,000 out of their homes. Several hundred people died.
2010 - Billings, Montana officials declared an emergency after a tornado peeled the roof off of the 10,000-seat Rimrock Auto (sports) Arena, and damaged several other businesses and homes.
2011 - British-based Rolls-Royce announced a $2.2 billion order to supply its Trent XWB jet engines to power Airbus A350 long-haul planes bought by Brazil’s TAM airlines.
2011 - The U.S. Supreme Court denied a sex discrimination suit on behalf of over 1 million Wal-Mart employees saying they failed to pinpoint any company policy that denied them equal pay or promotions.
2012 - A company owned by billionaire David Murdock filed a transfer application with the Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission to sell its 98% share of Lanai Island to Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp.
2013 - The Afghan Taliban said they were ready to free U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held captive since 2009, in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
2014 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included Jersey Boys, starring Christopher Walken, Francesca Eastwood, Freya Tingley, James Madio, Billy Gardell, Kathrine Narducci, Mike Doyle and John Lloyd Young; Think Like a Man Too, with Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union and Wendi McLendon-Covey; Third Person, starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde, Liam Neeson, Kim Basinger, Adrien Brody, Maria Bello, Caroline Goodall and Moran Atias; and Venus in Fur, with Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric.
2014 - Hong Kongers voted in an unofficial referendum on democratic reform that worried Beijing officials and set the stage for a possible showdown with the government. Mass protests were aimed at shutting down Hong Kong’s financial district.
2015 - Thousands of protesters marched through central London. The marchers demonstrated against the newly re-elected Conservative government’s plans for public spending cuts.
2016 - China reported severe floods in the south had killed at least 22 people and left 20 missing, with the rains expected to continue for several days.
2016 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Connecticut and New York state bans on military-style assault weapons, declining to hear a challenge to bans on guns like the semiautomatic used to kill 49 people in Orlando, Florida earlier in the month.
2017 - British regulators charged Barclays bank and four former executives, including then-CEO John Varley, with conspiracy to commit fraud. The executives had asked Qatar for 6.1 billion ($7.7 billion) to avoid a government bailout. This, at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. The case involved side deals, which were part of the cash infusions and not fully disclosed. Two fundraisings allowed the bank to remain independent of the government at a time when two of its biggest British rivals, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group, had to accept taxpayer money.
2017 - The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of three Russian gay activists who challenged Russia’s so-called ‘gay propaganda law’. The court ruled that Russia’s law banning dissemination of so-called gay propaganda to minors violated the right to freedom of expression.
2018 - North Korea’s despot Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached an “understanding” on issues discussed at a summit of the two leaders in Beijing. Their talks included denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
2018 - The European Union said it would tax a range of imports from the U.S. The imports included American goods like Harley-Davidson bikes and cranberries. This, in response to POTUS Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on European steel and aluminum.
2019 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to uphold the display of a 40-foot cross at a busy Maryland intersection. The court ruled that the symbol could be seen as a war memorial honoring local soldiers and not necessarily as an unconstitutional promotion of a favored religion.
2019 - A U.K. court ruled that Britain had broken the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been used in Yemen’s war. This, after activists said there was a clear risk the weapons could be operated in violation of human rights legislation. Britain temporarily suspended approving new Saudi arms export licenses that might contribute to the Gulf kingdom’s four-year bombing campaign in neighboring Yemen.
2019 - Iran shot down a U.S. spy drone near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, with the two sides at odds whether it was in Iranian or international airspace, in the latest incident stoking tensions between the arch-foes.
2020 - Alabama had more than 29,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with more than a quarter of the cases reported in the previous two weeks. Alabama had the second highest number of new cases per capita in the U.S.
2020 - 800 workers at one of the Germany’s largest slaughterhouses were confirmed positive for the coronavirus. 601 new cases were reported over the previous 24 hours, following 770 the previous day.
2020 - In Raleigh, North Carolina, crews worked to removed two Confederate statues outside the state Capitol the morning after protesters toppled two nearby statues.
2021 - In a dramatic finish, Jon Rahm won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines (near San Diego, California) by a single stroke. It was his first major golf title.
2021 - A tornado swept through Chicago’s western suburbs, damaging some 100 homes and injuring several people. The twister packed 140 mph (225 kph) winds when it hit the heavily populated area.
2022 - June 20 is World Refugee Day, an international day designed to celebrate and honor refugees from around the world. The United Nations first established the commemoration in 2001 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. “The event aims to recognize the strength of the refugees who have fled the conflict and persecution of their country in hope of finding sanctuary and living a better life.”
2022 - FINA, the global governing body of swimming, adopted a ‘gender inclusion policy’ that effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s swimming competitions.
2023 - China and Cuba were caught discussing the setting up of a joint military training facility on Cuba’s northern coast. In the deal, China would end up stationing troops and intelligence operations 100 miles from Florida. The Biden administration urged Cuba not to go through with the project.
2023 - Hunter Biden reached a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a five-year federal investigation into his failure to pay about $1 million in federal taxes and his purchase of a handgun (while being a user of illegal drugs in 2018). The deal fell apart when a judge overseeing the case questioned some aspects of the agreement and lawyers could not come to an agreement. He was indicted by a special counsel in the following weeks.
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Birthdays on This Day June 20
1858 - Charles Chesnutt
novelist: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The Colonel’s Dream; died Nov 15, 19321906 - Robert Trent Jones
golf course architect: designed or redesigned some 500 golf courses in 40+ U.S. states and 35 other countries around the world; Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail named for him; died June 14, 20001907 - Jimmie (Jimmy) Driftwood
musician: guitar; songwriter: The Battle of New Orleans, Tennessee Stud; singer: Fair Rosamond’s Bower, I’m Too Young to Marry, The Land Where the Blue Grass Grows, Sweet Betsy From Pike, I’m Leavin’ on the Wagon Train; died July 12, 19981909 - Errol (Leslie Thomson) Flynn
actor: Captain Blood, In the Wake of the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Too Much Too Soon; autobiography: My Wicked, Wicked Ways; died Oct 14, 19591921 - (Francisco Olegario) Pancho Segura
International Tennis Hall of Famer: Univ of Miami: U.S. Intercollegiate [1943, 1944 and 1945]; Grand Slam record: U.S. Doubles finalist [1944], mixed finalist [1943, 1947; writer: Pancho Segura’s Championship Strategy: How To Play Winning Tennis; died Nov 19, 20171924 - Chet (Chester Burton) Atkins
Grammy Award-winning guitarist: made over 100 albums; elected to Country Music Hall of Fame [1973]; died June 30, 20011924 - Audie Murphy
American hero: most decorated GI of WWII [27 US decorations including Medal of Honor plus 5 decorations from France and Belgium]; actor: The Red Badge of Courage, The Unforgiven, Arizona Raiders, To Hell and Back; killed in plane crash May 28, 19711928 - Martin Landau
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Ed Wood [1994]; Mission Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, By Dawn’s Early Light, Mistress, North by Northwest, Pork Chop Hill; died Jul 16, 20171931 - Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award-winning actress: Moonstruck [1987]; Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, The Cemetery Club, Death Wish, Look Who’s Talking; cousin of U.S. presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis; died May 1, 20211931 - James Tolkan
actor: Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Serpico, Mary, The Hat Squad, Cobra1933 - Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.)
actor: Lady Blue, Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing, Ruby, Mistress, Me and the Kid, The Cemetery Club, The Pickle, The Godfather Part 2, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Harlem Nights, Dellaventura; died Dec 12, 20191933 - Brett Halsey
actor: Black Cat, Dangerous Obsession, Twice-Told Tales, Return to Peyton Place, The Crash of Flight 4011934 - Rossana Podestà
actress: Helen of Troy, The Sensual Man, Sodom and Gomorrah; died Dec 10, 20131935 - Len Dawson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback; sportscaster; died Aug 24, 20221936 - Billy Guy
singer: group: The Coasters: Down in Mexico, Searchin’, Young Blood, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy, Little Egypt; died Nov 5, 20021937 - Jerry Keller
singer: Here Comes Summer1940 - John Mahoney
actor: Frasier, Cheers, The Human Factor, Primal Fear, In the Line of Fire, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ten Million Dollar Getaway, Love Hurts, The Russia House, Tin Men, Moonstruck, The Manhattan Project; died Feb 4, 20181942 - Brian Wilson
bass player, singer: group: The Beach Boys: 35 hits: I Get Around, Good Vibrations, Help Me, Rhonda, Surfin’ USA; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1988]; more1943 - Andy (Andrew Auguste) Etchebarren
baseball: catcher: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971/all-star: 1966, 1967], California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers1944 - Dave (David Earl) Nelson
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Texas Rangers [all-star: 1973], KC Royals; died Apr 22, 20181945 - (Morna) Anne Murray
Grammy Award-winning singer: Love Song [1974], You Needed Me [1978], Could I Have This Dance [1980], A Little Good News [1983]; Danny’s Song, Snowbird, You Won’t See Me, He Thinks I Still Care, Shadows In the Moonlight; TV: Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour1945 - Dave Rowe
football: Oakland Raiders defensive tackle: Super Bowl XI; TV color analyst1946 - Bob Vila
TV host, fixer-upper: This Old House, Home Again with Bob Vila; Sears super salesman1946 - Andre Watts
musician: classical pianist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra1947 - Candy Clark
actress: American Graffiti, Handle with Care, The Big Sleep, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, Johnny Belinda, Blue Thunder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Radioland Murders, Niagara, Niagara1949 - Dave Elmendorf
football: LA Rams safety: Super Bowl XIV1949 - Lionel Richie
musician: tenor sax, songwriter, singer: group: Commodores: ASCAP Nashville Country Songwriter Award: Three Times a Lady [1978]; solo: Truly, All Night Long [All Night], Hello, Say You Say Me1949 - Dave Thomas
comedian, actor: Coneheads, Cold Sweat, Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird, Stripes, Second City TV, The New Show, Grace Under Fire; TV host: The Dave Thomas Comedy Show1952 - John Goodman
actor: Alpha House, Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe, King Ralph, Born Yesterday, Matinee, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Blues Brothers 2000, What Planet Are You From?, O Brother, Where Art Thou?1953 - Alan Longmuir
musician: bass: group: Bay City Rollers: Keep on Dancing, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night; died Jul 2, 20181953 - Raúl Ramírez
tennis: champ: Italian Open [1975]1954 - Michael Anthony
musician: bass: group: Van Halen: Dance the Night Away, [Oh] Pretty Woman, Runnin’ with the Devil, Jump, I’ll Wait, Panama1958 - Dickie (Richard William) Thon
baseball: California Angels, Houston Astros [all-star: 1983], SD Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers1960 - Doug (Douglas Wayne) Gwosdz
‘Eye Chart’: baseball: catcher: SD Padres1960 - John Taylor
musician: guitar, bass: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys1961 - Gary Varsho
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates [NL champs [1991, 1992], Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies1964 - Michael Landon Jr.
actor: Bonanza: The Return, Bonanza: The Ghosts; son of actor Michael Landon1964 - Jodi West
actress [2010-2016]: X-rated films: Cougars in Heat, Mother-Daughter Exchange Club, Memoirs of Bad Mommies, Mothers Behaving Very Badly, Virgin Manipulations, Real American Swinger Stories, Family Secrets1967 - Nicole (Mary) Kidman
Academy Award-winning actress [The Hours (2003)];: Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Malice, Batman Forever, Billy Bathgate, The Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Practical Magic, Moulin Rouge
1968 - Fred McAfee
football [running back]: Mississippi College; NFL: NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers1969 - Gerald Dixon
football [linebacker]: Univ of South Carolina; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers1969 - MaliVai Washington
tennis: champ: Federal Express international [1992]; grand slam final: Wimbledon [1996]; created Mal Washington Kids Foundation1971 - Josh Lucas
actor: An Unfinished Life, Wonderland, Hulk, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, The Deep End, American Psycho1971 - Rodney Rogers
basketball [forward]: Wake Forest Univ; NBA: Denver Nuggets, LA Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Boston Celtics, NJ Nets, NO Hornets, Philadelphia 76ers1972 - Paul Bako
baseball: Louisiana-Layfayette; Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers1972 - Juan Castro
baseball: LA Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins1972 - Jozef Stumpel
hockey: NHL: center: Boston Bruins, LA Kings1973 - Tom Wlaschiha
actor: Game of Thrones, Crossing Lines, Jack Ryan [TV], Dobermann, Saturday Fiction, Rose Island, Stranger Things1976 - Carlos Lee
baseball: Chicago White Sox [1999–2004], Milwaukee Brewers [2005–2006], Texas Rangers [2006], Houston Astros [2007–2012], Miami Marlins [2012]1976 - Anthony Simmons
football: Clemson Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks1978 - Bobby Seay
baseball [pitcher]: Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers1979 - Alejandra Gutierrez
model: Playboy Playmate of the Month Oct 2001, Latin Playmate of the Year 2001; actress: Carlita’s Secret, Cachimba, Smokin’ Stogies1983 - Darren Sproles
football [running back]: NFL: San Diego Chargers [2005–2010]; New Orleans Saints [2011–2013]; Philadelphia Eagles [2014–2019]1989 - Christopher Mintz-Plasse
actor: Superbad, How to Train Your Dragon, Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, Pitch Perfect, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2
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Hit Music on This Day June 20
1952Kiss of Fire (facts) - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything (facts) - Eddy Howard
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