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1807 - The crew of the British man-of-war Leopard fired upon and boarded the U.S. frigate Chesapeake. James Barron, the commander of the Chesapeake was convicted following a court-martial. The reason for the court-martial: Barron was not prepared for action. This incident, along with a few others, led to the War of 1812. A little side fact: Stephen Decatur, a judge in the court-martial, was killed in a duel some eight years after the war. The winner of the duel was James Barron.1832 - John Ireland Howe patented the pin-making machine, better known as a pinmaker. (Patent #2013.)
1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
1911 - Britain’s King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey. George Frederick Ernest Albert ruled until his death on Jan 20, 1936. In 1917, during World War I, George gave up all of his German titles and cut off the royal family’s connection to all things German. It was he who changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
1937 - Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, knocked out James J. Braddock in a boxing match in Chicago, Illinois. The bout lasted eight rounds and Louis was announced as the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
1939 - Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell joined in song to perform An Apple for the Teacher, on Decca Records.
1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time. V-Mail used a special paper for letter writing during WWII. It was designed to reduce cargo space taken up by mail sent to and from members of the armed services. The letters written on this special paper were opened at the post office, censored and reduced in size by photography. One roll of film contained 1,500 letters.
1944 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill of Rights. The law authorized a broad package of benefits for World War II veterans.
1952 - The U.S. Olympic Fund increased by $1,000,000, thanks to a nationwide, 14-1/2 hour telethon that starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
1955 - Harry Belafonte became a popular TV star following the program debut of Three for Tonight, on CBS. Belafonte had been touring with the show before bringing it to the tube.
1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes -- two back-to-back perfect games -- in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.
1959 - The Battle of New Orleans, by Johnny Horton, started week number four at the top of the nation’s music Tunedex. The song was number one for a total of six weeks. It was Horton’s only number-one record and million-seller. He had big hits, however, with movie music: Sink the Bismarck and North to Alaska (from the film by the same title, starring John Wayne) -- both in 1960. Horton, from Tyler, TX, married Billie Jean Jones, Hank Williams’ widow. Tragically, Johnny Horton was killed in a car crash on November 5, 1960.
1963 - Fingertips - Pt 2, by Little Stevie Wonder, was released. It became Wonder’s first number one single on August 10th. Wonder had 46 hits on the pop and R&B music charts between 1963 and 1987. Eight of those hits made it to number one.
1964 - The United States Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s controversial book, Tropic of Cancer, could not be banned.
1964 - Barbra Streisand signed a 10-year contract with CBS-TV worth about $200,000 a year. Both CBS and NBC had been bidding for Streisand’s talents.
1968 - Herb Alpert used his voice and his trumpet to run to the top of the pop music charts. This Guy’s in Love with You became the most popular song in the U.S. this day. It would rule the top of the pop music world for four weeks. It was the only vocal by Alpert to make the charts, though his solo instrumentals with The Tijuana Brass scored lots of hits. Alpert performed on 19 charted hits through 1987.
1969 - Singer and movie star Judy Garland died in London at age 47. Despite frequent reports of her ill health, drinking binges and drastic weight gains and losses, the public was shocked by news of her death. Garland’s movie hits included The Wizard of Oz (with the classic song Over the Rainbow), and A Star is Born (she sang The Man That Got Away).
1970 - Mike Dann resigned as senior vice-president of CBS to join the Children’s Television Workshop, the Sesame Street people. Dann became the first major commercial TV industry leader to join forces with a non-commercial operation such as the CTW. As part of his deal, Dann was able to remove the letters A, B, C, N and S from the alphabet, doing what he couldn’t do at CBS: eliminate ABC and NBC.
1970 - President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill changing the voting age in the U.S. from 21 to 18. The 26th Amendment, formally certified by Nixon July 1, 1971, prohibits both the federal government and the state governments from using an age greater than 18 as a qualification for voting.
1976 - The musical, Godspell, moved to Broadway (it had been playing for several years off Broadway). The show opened this day at the Broadhurst Theatre and went on to play for another 527 performances, closing Sep 4, 1977.
1977 - John Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison. He began serving his sentence in a minimum security facility at Maxwell AFB near Montgomery, AL. He had been sentenced to 2 1/2-8 years, but served just 19 months for his role in the Watergate coverup.
1985 - People magazine had an interesting story in the week’s issue. It took a death count in Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo flick, finding that there were 44 people killed directly. The wizards at People figured out that this was an average of one body biting the Rambo dust every 2.1 minutes. There were also 70 explosions that killed an undetermined number of people, according to the magazine.
1985 - Beverly Hills Cop, from the movie of the same name, was the #1 album in the U.S. The soundtrack album was at the top for two weeks, with these tracks: The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey), Do You Really Want (Junior), Neutron Dance (Pointer Sisters), Gratitude (Danny Elfman), New Attitude (Patti LaBelle), Stir It Up (Patti LaBelle), Don’t Get Stopped in Beverly Hills (Shalamar), Axel F, (Harold Faltermeyer), Emergency, (Rockie Robbins) and Rock and Roll Me Again (The System).
1987 - Dancer, actor Fred Astaire died in Los Angeles from complications of pneumonia. He was 88. Astaire was one of America’s greatest song and dance man whose debonair style dominated movie musicals in the 1930s. In ten of his films, his co- star was Ginger Rogers. Other partners included Cyd Charisse, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn. Astaire was also a top recording artist in the 1930s. His hits included Night and Day (from the movie The Gay Divorcee), Cheek to Cheek (from Top Hat) and The Way You Look Tonight (from Swing Time). Astaire’s duet with Jane Powell, The Liar’s Song (1951), was a million seller.
1988 - Singer, actor Dennis Day, Jack Benny’s sidekick, died (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Lou Gehrig’s disease) at age 71.
1990 - The last-place Atlanta Braves fired manager Russ Nixon and replaced him with GM Bobby Cox, who last managed Toronto in 1985. Good move. Cox led the Braves to a dramatic worst-to-first turnaround, the first of its kind in the National League. In the World Series his team lost to the (also) resurgent Minnesota Twins. Cox was name AP Manager of the Year (the first manager to be so named in both leagues). The Braves followed 1991 with NL East championships in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, and 1997, becoming the first team to win division titles in six straight completed seasons. Those division titles also let to NL pennants, except for 1993 and 1997.
1992 - CBS This Morning co-host Paula Zahn announced, “Making headlines this morning: Bill Clinton comes up with a plan for the economy. Tax the rich, cut the deficit, and help just about everyone else.” Ah, those were the days...
1993 - Former first lady Pat Nixon died in Park Ridge, NJ at 81 years of age.
1994 - The Houston Rockets defeated the New York Knicks 90-84 to win the NBA championship.
1995 - House and Senate Republicans announced agreement on a compromise seven-year budget-balancing plan. The measure would cut U.S. taxes by $245 billion and slow spending for Medicare, Medicaid and other programs.
1996 - Scientists from Britain and Russia reported that they had discovered a freshwater, underground lake beneath an Antarctic glacier about the size of lake Ontario. The lake has been there for a million years.
1997 - Dr. Nancy W. Dickey became the first female president of the American Medical Association.
1998 - CompUSA announced that it was buying Computer City from Tandy for $275 million. Tandy was selling the sickly chain as part of a turnaround it had started the previous year. Tandy president Leonard Roberts said, “Computer City was a losing operation for the company. The sale will allow us to completely focus on Radio Shack at a time when profits are at an all-time high.”
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Americans with Disabilities Act does not extend to people with poor eyesight or other correctable conditions.
2000 - Independent Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in the White House travel office, issuing no indictments. Ray said he had found “substantial evidence” that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played a role in the dismissals. But, White House spokesman Jake Siewert said, “The suggestion that Mrs. Clinton somehow testified falsely is belied by the text of the report itself. This report should close the matter once and for all.”
2001 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Fast and the Furious, with Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster; and Dr. Dolittle 2, starring Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones and Kevin Pollak.
2002 - Syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers died in Chicago. She was 83 years old. Landers, whose real name was ‘Eppie’ Lederer, was the twin sister of another advice columnist, Abigail Van Buren (of Dear Abby).
2003 - In Sao Paulo, Brazil, some 800,000 danced their way through one of the world’s biggest gay pride parades.
2004 - The American Film Institute released its list of 100 best movie songs. Judy Garland’s Over the Rainbow from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz topped the list.
2004 - My Life, former U.S. President Clinton’s 957-page memoir, went on sale -- and sold more than 400,000 copies this first day, according to Knopf Publishing Group, which published the hardcover edition.
2004 - 13-year-old Mattie Stepanek, poet (Heartsongs, 2001), peace advocate, and National Goodwill Ambassador for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, died from mitochondrial myopathy, a rare neuromuscular disease.
2005 - Herbie: Fully Loaded debuted in U.S. movie houses. The comedy adventure stars Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton, Matt Dillon, Breckin Meyer, Justin Long, Cheryl Hines and Jill Ritchie.
2005 - A U.S. Senate committee charged Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and PR executive Michael Scanlon in a scheme that overcharged Indian tribes. The pair faked invoices and shuffled money between nonprofit groups and charities to conceal their involvement and to avoid paying taxes. Of $66 million collected between 2001 and 2005, $22 million went directly to Abramoff. (Abramoff pled guilty in federal court Jan 3, 2006 to three criminal felony counts.)
2006 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously recommended that newly-independent Montenegro become the 192nd member of the U.N. Montenegro offically joined the U.N. on June 28, 2006.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court expanded the definition of what constitutes “retaliatory discrimination” by employers against employees. The Court ruled that a woman working for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad had suffered retaliatory discrimination when she was reassigned to less desirable duties and suspended without pay -- after she had complained of sexual harassment by her supervisor.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: 1408, starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack and Tony Shalhoub; Evan Almighty, with Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill, Jimmy Bennett, Graham Phillips, Johnny Simmons and Meagen Fay; and A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi and Will Patton.
2007 - South African unions turned down a 7.5% pay rise (they wanted 12%), ensuring that the country’s biggest strike since the end of apartheid would continue into a fourth week. (The unions did settle for the 7.5% raise on June 28.)
2008 - Legendary comedian George Carlin died of heart failure at a hospital in Santa Monica, CA. He was 71 years old. The stand-up comedian won five Grammy Awards over the years for his comedy albums. George Carlin was probably best known for his Seven Dirty Words routine, in which he berates the U.S. Supreme Court for its insistence on government regulation of indecent material on the public airwaves.
2009 - A Metro Washington DC train smashed into the back of another at the height of the rush hour, killing nine people and injuring 80 others. The cars from the trailing train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the first. One of the fatalities was a female train operator. “It looks to be the worst Metro accident in D.C. history,” DC Mayor Adrian Fenty said.
2010 - Thirst opened in U.S. theatres. The horror drama stars Lacey Chabert, Tygh Runyan, Brandon Quinn and Mercedes McNab.
2010 - U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, the military commander in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House after he and his aides criticized top officials including President Barack Obama in a profile published in Rolling Stone magazine. In the profile, McChrystal aides mocked Vice President Joe Biden, called the President’s national security adviser “a clown,” and said the general was disappointed by his first meeting with Obama.
2010 - Archaeologists uncovered the heaviest and most valuable gold coin ever found in Israel. The 2,200-year-old coin weighed an ounce (28 grams) and was found at the Tel Kedesh site near the Lebanon border.
2011 - 81-year-old Boston mob boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger (81) was captured near Los Angeles after 16 years on the run. Bulger, along with his longtime girlfriend Catherine Greig, were nabbed after a tip to the FBI from a friend of Greig’s.
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Brave, starring Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Kevin McKidd, Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Craig Ferguson and John Ratzenberger; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Alan Tudyk, Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Jimmi Simpson, Joseph Mawle and Marton Csokas; Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, starring Keira Knightley, Steve Carell, Gillian Jacobs, Melanie Lynskey, Adam Brody, Patton Oswalt, Connie Britton, T.J. Miller, William Petersen and Rob Corddry; To Rome with Love, with Penélope Cruz, Ellen Page, Woody Allen, Jesse Eisenberg, Alec Baldwin, Alison Pill, Judy Davis and Greta Gerwig.
2012 - Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coach at Penn State University, was convicted on 45 of 48 possible counts of child sex abuse. After formal charges were brought in early-November 2011, the jury took just one day to decide the 68 year old’s fate.
2014 - Islamist militants kidnapped some 91 villagers -- including toddlers as young as 3 -- in Borno state, northern Nigeria. The kidnappings come less than three months after 200 schoolgirls were taken in a mass abduction that embarrassed Nigeria’s government and military because of its slow response.
2015 - Restaurateurs in Yulin, China, in the largely rural and poor Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, held an annual dog meat festival. This, despite international criticism that the event was cruel and unhygienic.
2016 - The European Union announced plans to set up a new border and coast guard agency to better manage migrant arrivals. This, after more than a million people had come to the E.U. in search of jobs or sanctuary in the previous year.
2016 - U.S. political experts were predicting a Donald Trump landslide loss, “the kind the GOP hasn’t had since Barry Goldwater in 1964.” Predictions were that Trump would hold onto a few Deep South states but little else, and Republicans would lose the Senate and maybe even the House.
2017 - U.S. Senate Republicans released their health care bill meant to replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill was designed to cut deeply into Medicaid and eliminate most taxes that funded the expansion of health care insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
2017 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and Ted Levine; Boundaries, with Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer and Lewis MacDougall; The Catcher Was a Spy, starring Paul Rudd, Hiroyuki Sanada and Connie Nielsen; Damsel, with Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska and David Zellner; Distorted, starring Christina Ricci, John Cusack and Brendan Fletcher; Incident in a Ghost Land, with Crystal Reed, Mylène Farmer and Anastasia Phillips; and Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town, starring Haley Joel Osment, Mackenzie Davis and Sarah Goldberg.
2018 - The European Union slapped revenge tariffs on iconic U.S. products including bourbon, jeans and motorcycles in its opening salvo in a trade war with POTUS Trump.
2018 - In eastern Greenland an iceberg four miles (six km) wide broke off from a glacier and scientists captured the dramatic event on video. David Holland of NYU commented, “Global sea-level rise is both undeniable and consequential. By capturing how it unfolds, we can see, first-hand, its breath-taking significance.”
2019 - A Navy destroyer was christened bearing the name of Hawaii’s late Senator Daniel Inouye. The guided missile destroyer USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118) was home ported at Pearl Harbor. (Honolulu International Airport was renamed in honor of Inouye on April 27, 2017.)
2019 - The official People’s Daily reported that China would need to spend 3 trillion yuan ($440 billion) over three years to improve village sanitation and clean up its heavily polluted rural environment.
2020 - Wannabe despot Donald Trump extended his ban on green cards issued outside the United States -- and added many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations. He also suspended the arrival of new au pairs, along with some other sorts foreigners.
2020 - Global cases of the COVID-19 surpassed 9 million, as Brazil and India grappled with a surge in infections, and the U.S., China, and other hard hit areas reported continuing outbreaks.
2021 - Procter & Gamble announced that it was sending a pair of Tide detergent and stain removal experiments to the space station to help figure out how best to clean astronauts’ clothes in space so they can be reused for months or even years, just like on Earth.
2022 - The United Kingdom posted the highest inflation rate in the G7 at 9.1%, a 40-year high. The rise was lead by prices of food and fuel and was higher than the U.S., France, Germany or Italy.
2022 - Florida Governor DeSantis pulled statistically even with former POTUS Trump as the favorite of likely 2024 Republican presidential primary voters in New Hampshire. DeSantis was preferred by 39 percent of the survey participants, followed by Trump with 37 percent, a statistical tie given the poll’s margin of error. In October, Trump led DeSantis 43-18%. Former Vice President Pence placed third, with 9 percent.
2022 - At least one member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack received threats following the start of public hearings. The panel was focusing on the effort by then-POTUS Trump and his allies to pressure other Republicans to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Biden. One of the two Republicans on the committee, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), said that he had stepped up his personal security efforts, saying “we’re taking efforts to protect ourselves.”
2023 - 3M said it had reached an agreement to settle lawsuits that claimed toxic “forever chemicals” had contaminated water supplies in the U.S. The company, which makes Post-It notes, Scotch Tape, N95 masks and many other industrial products, said it would pay up to $10.3 billion over 13 years to help water utilities with remidiation, as well as testing for PFAS in drinking water. (Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances [PFAS] have been found in hundreds of household items, including makeup and carpeting, and were used to make coatings that repel water, grease and oil.) 3M’s ettlement came just weeks after three other companies, Chemours, DuPont, and Corteva, announced they would pay more than $1 billion to settle similar lawsuits.
2023 - The debris field for the missing Titan submersible was found. All five on board were killed when Titan suffered a “catastrophic implosion” near the wreck of the Titanic.
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Birthdays on This Day June 22
1903 - ‘King’ Carl (Owen) Hubbell
‘The Meal Ticket’: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Giants [World Series: 1933, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1933/won 24 games in a row over two seasons: 1936-37]; died Nov 21, 19881903 - Ben Pollack
drummer, bandleader: sidemen in his band included Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bud Livingston, Victor Young, Jack Teagarden, Jimmy McPartland, Smith Ballew, Ray Bauduc, Charlie Spivak, Nappy Lamare, Matty Matlock; died June 7, 19711906 - Billy (Samuel) Wilder
Academy Award-winning director: The Apartment [1960], The Lost Weekend [1945]; Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot, Sabrina, Irma La Douce, The Front Page, Buddy, Buddy; died Mar 27, 20021907 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
aviator, author: Gift from the Sea; married to Charles; mother of kidnapped Charles Jr.; died Feb 7, 20011909 - Buddy Adler
film producer: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, South Pacific, Bus Stop, The Bottom of the Bottle, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, From Here to Eternity; died July 12, 19601909 - Michael Todd (Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen)
producer: Oklahoma!, Around the World in 80 Days; developed [w/American Optical Company] Todd-AO system using 65mm cine cameras at 30 fps and wide angle photgraphy [approx 150 degrees]; husband of Elizabeth Taylor; killed in plane crash Mar 22, 19581921 - Gower Champion
Tony Award-winning choreographer: 42nd Street [1981], The Happy Time [1968], Hello Dolly! [1964], Bye-Bye Birdie [1961], Lend an Ear [1949]; actor, dancer: Lovely to Look At, Show Boat, Mr. Music; died Aug 25, 19801921 - Joseph Papp (Papirofsky)
Pulitzer Prize-winning [3] producer; also winner of 28 Tony awards and 6 New York Critics Circle Awards; over 400 productions including: Hair, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, That Championship Season; died Oct 31, 19911922 - Bill Blass
fashion designer; died Jun 12, 20021928 - Ralph Waite
actor: The Waltons, Roots, Cliffhanger, The Bodyguard, Cool Hand Luke, Five Easy Pieces, NCIS; died Feb 13, 20141930 - Roy Drusky
DJ, songwriter: Alone with You, Country Girl, Anymore; singer: Three Hearts in a Tangle, Peel Me a Nanner, Another, Yes Mr. Peters [w/Priscilla Mitchell]; films: The Golden Guitar, Forty-Acre Feud; died Sep 23, 20041933 - Dianne Feinstein (Goldman)
politician: Mayor of San Francisco [1978-1988]; U.S. Senator from California [1992-2023]; died Sep 29, 20231934 - Russ (Russell Henry) Snyder
baseball: KC Athletics, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966], Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers1936 - Kris Kristofferson
songwriter: Me & Bobby McGee, For the Good Times, Help Me Make It Through the Night; singer: Loving Her was Easier, Why Me; actor: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, A Star is Born, Semi-Tough, Fire Down Below, Dance with Me, Limbo, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town1941 - Ed Bradley
news correspondent: 60 Minutes; host: Street Stories; died Nov 9, 20061941 - Michael Lerner
actor: Radioland Murders, Omen 4: The Awakening, Barton Fink, Eight Men Out, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Candidate1941 - Barry Serafin
news reporter: ABC News: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings1943 - Klaus Maria Brandauer
actor: The Russia House, Quo Vadis, Out of Africa, Kindergarten, Never Say Never Again, The Salzburg Connection1943 - Brit Hume
FOX TV senior political analyst; reporter, host: Special Report with Brit Hume; panelist: Fox News Sunday1944 - Peter Asher
singer: group: Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love, I Go To Pieces, True Love Ways, Lady Godiva, Sunday for Tea; record producer1947 - Bobby Douglass
football: Chicago Bears QB: record: most yards rushing by a quarterback in a season [968 yards in 1972]1947 - Howard Kaylan (Kaplan)
singer: group: The Turtles: Happy Together, She’d Rather Be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me; duo: Flo & Eddie: back-up for: Bruce Springsteen, The Knack, etc.1948 - ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich
Basketball Hall of Famer: New Orleans Jazz; NCAA Div. I Individual Record: total points scored [1,381], field goal points [522] in a season [1970]: Louisiana State; died Jan 5, 1988 [heart attack]1948 - Todd Rundgren
singer: We Gotta Get You a Woman, I Saw the Light, Hello It’s Me, Can We Still Be Friends; groups: Nazz, Utopia; producer: Meat Loaf, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad1949 - Alan Osmond
singer: group: The Osmonds/The Osmond Brothers: One Bad Apple, Any Time, Merrill and Jessica, You’re Here to Remember, I’m Here to Forget1949 - Meryl (Mary Louise) Streep
Academy Award-winning actress: Sophie’s Choice [1982], [supporting actress] Kramer vs. Kramer [1979]; Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, Death Becomes Her, Bridges of Madison County, The River Wild, Music of the Heart, Only Murders in the Building1949 - Lindsay Wagner
actress: The Bionic Woman, The Paper Chase, Fire in the Dark, Nurses on the Line, The Second Wind1949 - Elizabeth Warren
politician: Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [2010–2011]; member of the FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion [2006-2010]; member of the National Bankruptcy Conference; former VP of the American Law Institute; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences1951 - Mike Anderson
baseball [outfield]: Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles1952 - Graham Greene
actor: Dances with Wolves, Running Brave, Revolution, Powwow Highway, Thunderheart, Clearcut, Benefit of the Doubt, Maverick1953 - Cyndi Lauper (Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper)
Grammy Award-winning singer [1984]: Girls Just Want to Have Fun; Time After Time, True Colors; actress: Mad About You, Life with Mikey1954 - Freddie Prinze (Preutzel)
comedian, actor: Chico and the Man; died Jan 29, 19771955 - Green Gartside
singer: group: Scritti Politti: LPs: Anomie & Bonhomie, Cupid & Psyche 85, Provision, Songs To Remember1956 - Derek Forbes
musician: guitar: group: Simple Minds: Don’t You [Forget About Me], Promised You a Miracle, Waterfront, Alive and Kicking, Glittering Prize, All the Things She Said1956 - Tim Russ
actor: Star Trek: Voyager, Samantha Who?, iCarly, Divas of Novella, Sym-Bionic Titan, The Soul Man, Guys with Kids1957 - Gary Beers
musician: bass, singer: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Melting in the Sun, This Time1958 - Bruce Campbell
actor: Burn Notice, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Tornado!, The Hudsucker Proxy, Army of Darkness, Sundown, Maniac Cop series, Evil Dead series1960 - Tracy (Jo) Pollan
actress: Family Ties, A Stranger Among Us; married to actor Michael J. Fox1961 - Jimmy Somerville
musician: keyboards, singer: groups: The Committee, Communards: You are My World, Don’t Leave Me This Way; Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy, Why, It Ain’t Necessarily So, I Feel Love1962 - Clyde Drexler
‘The Glide’: Basketball Hall of Famer: Univ of Houston [1980s Phi Slamma Jamma team], Portland Trailblazers, Houston Rockets1962 - Nicholas Lea
actor: The X-Files, Kyle XY, The Commish, Once a Thief, Vertical Limit, Whistler, Men in Trees, V, Continuum1964 - Amy Brenneman
actress: Private Practice, Judging Amy, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Middle Ages, Fear, Heat, Casper, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her1964 - Dan Brown
author: The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, The Lost Symbol, Inferno1964 - Tommy Cunningham
musician: drums: group: Wet Wet Wet: Angel Eyes [Home And Away], Somewhere Somehow, Wishing I Was Lucky1965 - Mark Royals
football [punter]: Appalachian State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, TB Buccaneers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, NO Saints, Miami Dolphins1968 - Darrell Armstrong
basketball [guard]: Fayetteville State Univ; NBA: Orlando Magic [1995–2003], New Orleans Hornets [2003–2004], Dallas Mavericks [2004–2006], Indiana Pacers [2006–2007], New Jersey Nets [2007–2008]1970 - Steven Page
musician: guitar, singer group: Barenaked Ladies: Too Little Too Late, Wonderful Wizard of Magicland, Never Do Anything, It’s All Been Done, Testing 1,2,3, Maybe Katie1971 - Mary Lynn Rajskub
actress: 24, How to Be a Gentleman, Helter Skelter, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, American Fork, Sunshine Cleaning, Julie & Julia, Safety Not Guaranteed, The Kings of Summer1971 - Kurt Warner
football [quarterback]: St. Louis Rams [1998–2003]: 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV champs; New York Giants [2004]; Arizona Cardinals [2005–2009]1973 - Cory Alexander
basketball [guard]: Univ of Virginia; NBA: SA Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Bobcats1973 - Carson Daly
TV host: MTV: Total Request Live, NBC: Last Call with Carson Daly1974 - Bryan Robinson
football: Fresno State Univ; NFL: SL Rams, Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals, Arizona Cardinals1975 - Esteban Yan
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles, TB Devil Rays, Texas Rangers, SLardinals, Detroit Tigers, LA Angels1978 - Champ Bailey
football [cornerback]: Univ of Georgia; NBA: Washington Redskins, Denver Broncos1978 - Matt Doherty
actor: Truth and Dare, Ghost World, The Mighty Ducks, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Home Alone1978 - Lewis Sanders
football [cornerback]: Univ of Maryland; NFL: Cleveland Browns, Houston Texans1982 - Ian Kinsler
baseball [second base]: Texas Rangers [2006–2013]: 2010, 2011 World Series; Detroit Tigers [2014–2017]; Los Angeles Angels [2018]; Boston Red Sox [2018]; San Diego Padres [2019]1984 - Dustin Johnson
golf champ: 2016 U.S. Open; five World Golf Championships victories; Johnson became only the third player in PGA Tour history to win a Tour title in each of his first 11 seasons, joining Jack Nicklaus [17] and Tiger Woods [14]; more1987 - Joe Dempsie
actor: Game of Thrones, Skins, Peak Practice, One for the Road, Heartlands, This is England ’86, This is England ’90, Born and Bred, The Fades1987 - Danny Green
basketball [guard/forward]: NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers [2009–2010]; San Antonio Spurs [2011-2018]: 2014 NBA champs; Toronto Raptors [2018-2019]: 2019 NBA champs; Los Angeles Lakers [2019-2020]; Philadelphia 76ers [2020-2022]; Memphis Grizzlies [2022–2023]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2023]; Philadelphia 76ers [2023]
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Hit Music on This Day June 22
1945Sentimental Journey (facts) - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream (facts) - The Pied Pipers
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