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1788 - The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state. The state, also known as Old Dominion, was named after the "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I of England. The Commonwealth of Virginia and its capital, Richmond, have played major roles in American history. Like West Virginia, it names the cardinal as the state bird. The official state flower of Virginia is the flowering dogwood.1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1876 - Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the two-hour Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.
1886 - Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini moved from the cello section to the conductor’s stand of the Rio de Janeiro Orchestra. The maestro conducted Aida this day.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps. The stamps were issued by the Post Office Department beginning in 1911, redeemable in the form of credits to postal savings sccounts.
1929 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation making the Colorado River Compact effective, thus authorizing construction of Hoover Dam. Concrete placement in the dam was completed May 29, 1935, and all features were completed by March 1, 1936. Hoover Dam is a national historic landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America’s Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders.
1942 - The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System. The satirical show featured “experts who are dumber than you are and can prove it.”
1948 - Joe Louis KO’d Jersey Joe Walcott to keep the world heavyweight boxing crown.
1948 - The Republican national convention in Philadelphia chose California Governor Earl Warren to be Thomas E. Dewey’s running mate.
1950 - War broke out on the Korean peninsula as forces from Communist North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea. The U.N. Security Council issued a cease-fire call that went unheeded.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was seen. It was a four-hour-long show presented on CBS and carried in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson and Ed Sullivan starred in the TV milestone. An interesting side note to this event is that the public didn’t own any color TVs at the time and CBS, itself, owned only about three dozen sets.
1957 - The final Hudson automobile was built as American Motors moved to concentrate its efforts on the successful compact Rambler line.
1961 - Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with Moody River. Boone, a teen heart-throb in the 1950s, had previously walked his way up the music charts, wearing white buck shoes, of course, with these other hits: Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me, Love Letters in the Sand and April Love.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4: Engel v. Vitale) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.
1968 - Bobby Bonds of the San Francisco Giants started on the road to superstardom. Bonds connected for a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He became the first baseball player in the majors to debut in such an exciting way.
1969 - The Guess Who from Canada received a gold record for their hit single, These Eyes.
1975 - The People’s Republic of Mozambique was created, ending nearly five centuries of Portuguese rule.
1980 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese announced his retirement from professional football after 14 years in South Florida. Griese had some impressive statistics: 193 touchdown passes, 25,200 yards passing and the winner of two (out of three) Super Bowls.
1985 - ABC-TV’s Monday Night Football announcer lineup: Frank Gifford and O.J. Simpson were joined by Joe Namath. The trio was out to regain some of the show’s sagging ratings after Howard Cosell and Don Meredith exited the broadcast.
1987 - Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican. It was a meeting fraught with controversy because of Waldheim’s hidden Nazi past.
1988 - The Roger Rabbit cartoon character debuted in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The 5-4 ruling upholding the right to die was made in the Cruzan vs. Missouri Dept. of Health case.
1991 - Civil war in Yugoslavia began. Following months of unsuccessful talks among Yugoslavia’s six republics about the future of the federation, the western republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence. Entities of Yugoslavia began to split off leaving Serbia and Montenegro.
1993 - Kim Campbell (Avril Phaedra Campbell) became Canada’s 19th prime minister -- and its first woman prime minister. Campbell was handed the job by outgoing PM Brian Mulroney, who resigned amid allegations of wrongdoing. Campbell governed until October 25, 1993 when the Progressive-Conservative party was royally defeated. (Her term actually expired November 4, 1993.)
1993 - Bruce Springsteen was a surprise guest on the final Late Night with David Letterman. Ater more than 11 years at NBC, Letterman began a similar show (Late Show with David Letterman) on CBS two months later. (Springsteen played Glory Days and Letterman seemed genuinely touched by the performance.)
1994 - The Stone Temple Pilots album, Purple, hit #1 in the U.S. The album was at the top for three weeks. Do you remember Meatplow, Vasoline, Lounge Fly, Interstate Love Song, Still Remains, Pretty Penny, Silvergun Superman, Big Empty, Unglued, Army Ants and Kitchenware & Candybars?
1995 - Warren E. (Earl) Burger, the 15th chief justice of the United States (1969-1986), died in Washington of congestive heart failure at age 87.
1996 - 19 U.S. military personnel were killed when a truck bomb exploded at a base used by American forces in Saudi Arabia. Several hundred more U.S. soldiers were injured.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Court ruled that Congress had intruded on the authority of local officials. The legislation had instructed government officials to bend the rules for persons whose actions are based on their religion.
1997 - Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau died in Paris at age 87.
1998 - Windows 98 was released. Microsoft used the slogan, “Works better. Plays better.” The company said the new operating system would bring an “increased computer experience by providing a rich feature set for a wider variety of users than ever before.” Interest in the new release was also increased by the publicity generated by the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft.
1998 - Whitewater figure Susan McDougal was freed from prison after spending 18 months behind bars for refusing to testify. A federal judge ordered the release for medical reasons and reduced her prison sentence to time served. McDougal, the former partner in the failed 1980s Whitewater land deal in Arkansas, had been serving a two-year sentence for a 1996 fraud conviction related to loans obtained illegally from the Small Business Administration. McDougal had also served 18 months in federal prison for civil contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury empaneled by Independent Counsel Ken Starr to investigate Whitewater, a failed 1980s Arkansas land deal involving McDougal, her late husband, Jim McDougal, and Bill Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a 1997 line-item veto law as unconstitutional. The Court also ruled this day that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
1999 - Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy debuted at theatres across the U.S. Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, who tries to get custody of his best friend’s son. Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Leslie Mann and Allen Covert co-star. The flick did $41.54 million the first weekend.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs earned their first NBA (National Basketball Association) title in their 26-year history by beating the New York Knicks 78-to-77. That gave the Spurs the series 4 games to 1.
2000 - Philip Morris announced it was eating up Nabisco for $14.9 billion. (The FTC approved the merger, with a few conditions, in Dec 2000.)
2000 - Juli Inkster became the first player in sixteen years to successfully defend her LPGA Championship.
2001 - As Typhoon Chebi dissipated and drifted away from Fujian province in China, estimates of its wrath were placed at 73 people killed, 83 missing and damage of $425 million.
2002 - A federal judge in Alexandria, VA refused to accept a no contest (nolo contendere) plea from Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiracy in the Sep 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. The judge instead entered an innocent plea on behalf of Moussaoui.
2003 - The U.S. Federal Reserve Board cut short-term interest rates by one-quarter percent. The 1% rate was the lowest since 1958.
2004 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: The Notebook, with James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Joan Allen, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams; and Two Brothers, starring Guy Pearce, Christian Clavier, Philippine and Leroy-Beaulieu.
2004 - Jack Ryan, U.S. Republican Senate candidate from Illinois, pulled out of the race following the disclosure of some sordid details of his 1999 divorce from TV actress Jeri Ryan.
2005 - The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) selected retired Verizon executive Bruce S. Gordon to be its new president.
2006 - Police in Morocco reported that four men had been arrested in Rabat in connection with the Feb 22 theft of more than 53 million pounds from a Kent, England cash depot. Among those arrested was kickboxer and cage fighter ‘Lightning’ Lee Murray. Eleven people were eventually charged with the heist.
2007 - U.S. First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Senegal to start a four-nation Africa tour. She focused on ways the U.S. could help fight AIDS on a continent where many countries struggle to even provide basic health care.
2007 - Pro wrestling superstar Chris Benoit was found dead alongside the bodies of his wife and 7-year-old son Fayetteville, GA. Doctors later reported that Chris Benoit had injected anabolic steroids not long before he died. The 40-year-old wrestler won the world heavyweight championship in 2004.
2008 - Queen Elizabeth II conferred a knighthood on The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
2008 - California’s attorney general sued Countrywide Financial for unfair business practices relating to home loan mortgages. The Illinois attorney general also filed suit against Countrywide. And the Washington State Dept. of Financial Institutions filed an administrative action against Countrywide for discriminatory lending practices.
2009 - Air France said the bodies of the chief pilot and a flight attendant on Flight 447 had been retrieved from the Atlantic. The airline reported that the two were among those identified in the international search operation for remains of the 228 victims and wreckage of the May 31 crash. The pilots’ union named the captain as Marc Dubois.
2009 - The United States defeated Spain in the semifinal round of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, claiming the first berth in the tournament’s final for the U.S. The United States, ranked #14 in FIFA World Rankings, snapped Spain’s 35-match unbeaten streak heading into the game.
2009 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson died of a drug overdose at his Bel-Air [Los Angeles] mansion. He was 50 years old. Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a 911 call from the home. When they arrived, Jackson was not breathing. They performed CPR on Jackson and took him to UCLA Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Jackson was recognized as one of the most successful entertainers of all time, as well as one of the most influential. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
2010 - U.S. Congressional negotiators reached an early-morning agreement on sweeping changes to rules regulating Wall Street. The congressional compromise overhauled the U.S. banking system and called for an international effort to prevent future economic meltdowns.
2010 - ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) agreed to start using Chinese characters for suffixes handed out by Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan-based Internet registries. ICANN had begun allowing Arabic earlier in 2010.
2011 - The Lulz Security (LulzSec) group of rogue computer hackers announced that it was disbanding after one last data dump, which included internal AOL and AT&T documents.
2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court declared Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act to be unconstitutional. The 5-4 ruling meant that nine states were no longer subject to federal scrutiny before changing voting laws. The court’s opinion said it did not strike down the section “lightly,” and said it “took care to avoid ruling on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act” in a separate case back in 2009. “Congress could have updated the coverage formula at that time, but did not do so. Its failure to act leaves us today with no choice but to declare (Section 4) unconstitutional. The formula in that section can no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to preclearance.”
2013 - Texas state Senator Wendy Davis staged an 1-hour filibuster to prevent passage of a law that would limit women’s access to abortion. A raucous crowd of shouting demonstrators effectively took over the state Capitol and blocked the bill that abortion rights groups warned would close most abortion clinics in the state.
2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled [Riley v California] that police must have a search warrant before examining the contents of cell phones seized from people who have been arrested.
2015 - British-born (1922) actor Patrick Macnee died in Rancho Mirage, CA. He was known as secret agent John Steed in the TV series The Avengers. The spy drama began in Britain in 1961 and debuted in the U.S. in 1966.
2015 - Univision said it was dropping the Miss USA pageant and cutting all business ties with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump following insulting remarks made by Trump about Mexican immigrants.
2016 - U.S. President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in West Virginia, where the worst flooding in more than a century had killed some two dozen people.
2017 - Israel’s government formally suspended plans for a mixed-gender prayer space at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, bowing to opposition from Orthodox Jewish politicians. The wall is revered as a vestige of Judaism’s two ancient temples and access to it is segregated by gender. Most religious rites take place in the men’s section in accordance with centuries-old Orthodox standards that are in control in Israel.
2018 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the government and 11 states failed to prove that American Express had harmed credit card holders by prohibiting merchants from steering customers to cars with lower merchant fees.
2018 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drug made from marijuana. The medication, called Epidiolex, treated two rare forms of epilepsy: Lennox-Gastaut sybdrome and Dravet syndrome.
2019 - The U.S. envoy to NATO said the United States would stop Turkish forces from flying and developing U.S. F-35 stealth jets if Ankara went ahead with the purchase of a Russian air defense system. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed anew to press on with the S-400 purchase despite allies’ concerns. (Turkey did buy the Russian jets -- and the U.S. did remove Turkey from the F-35 joint strike fighter program.)
2019 - John Sanders, acting head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, announced his resignation amid a public outcry over alarming detention conditions of migrant children in Texas.
2019 - SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. It carried a payload of 24 military and scientific research satellites. Happening at 2:30 a.m., it was the first night launch for the Falcon Heavy.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Health Officials estimated that 20 million Americans had been infected with the coronavirus since it first arrived in the U.S., meaning that the vast majority of the population was still susceptible. 2)Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a stop to reopening as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increased in the state. Abbott, admitting he had been a little too eager to get things restarted, again halted elective surgeries in the state’s biggest counties in a bid to free up hospital beds. Texas had reported more than 11,000 new cases in the previous two days. 3)CEC Entertainment, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, brought on by dismal sales after lockdowns U.S. 4)Moderna Inc said it was partnering with contract drugmaker Catalent Inc to prepare an initial 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine for the U.S., starting in the third quarter of 2020. 5)Symantec Corp reported that Russian hackers had exploited the sudden change in American work habits (because of the virus) to inject code into corporate networks with a speed and breadth not previously witnessed.
2020 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Fast Saga, starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster; The Evil Next Door, with Jakob Fahlstedt, Janna Granström, and Dilan Gwyn; Lansky, starring Minka Kelly, AnnaSophia Robb and Sam Worthington; and Too Late, with Mary Lynn Rajskub, Fred Armisen and Jack De Sena.
2021 - Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
2021 - The Justice Department filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia election law that imposes new limits on voting, saying that it infringes on the rights of Black voters.
2022 - 30,000-year-old intact remains of a baby wooly mammoth were found frozen in the permafrost in Klondike gold fields in the Yukon, Canada. It was “the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America,” and only the second such find in the world. The baby, thought to be female, was been named Nun cho ga, meaning ‘big baby animal’ in the Han language (spoken by Native Americans in the area).
2022 - Talk about global warming: Japan recorded its highest-ever temperature in June of 104.36 degrees (40.2 C) in Isezaki, north west of Tokyo. “A strong anticyclone from the Pacific, coupled with a cloudless weather, brought the heat,” a JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) official said.
2022 - Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro praised the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right to an abortion, but he was the exception among world leaders. “Women’s rights are threatened. We must consistently defend them,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tweeted. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all condemned the ruling. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield joined U.S. allies in disparaging the ruling of their country’s highest court, with Thomas-Greenfield calling the decision “cruel, dark, and dangerous.”
2022 - President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, creating greater background checks for gun purchasers, funding for mental health programs and the closure of some existing seller loopholes.
2023 - A heatwave across Texas, the southern U.S. and northern Mexico entered a third week, with San Angelo hitting a record high of 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius).
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Birthdays on This Day June 25
1874 - Rose O’Neill
illustrator, author, doll designer: Kewpie Doll; died Apr 6, 1944
1886 - Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold
U.S. General and commander of the Army Air Force: WWII; 1st five-star general of the U.S. Army Air Force; died Jan 15,19501887 - George Abbott
director: Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, Too Many Girls; died Jan 31, 19951903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
author: Animal Farm, 1984; died Jan 21, 19501903 - Anne Revere
Tony Award-winning actress: Toys in the Attic [1960]; Academy Award winner [1944]: National Velvet; A Place in the Sun, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Forever Amber, The Song of Bernadette, The Howards of Virginia; died Dec 18, 19901906 - Roger Livesey
actor: Of Human Bondage, The Entertainer; died Feb 4, 19761912 - Milton Shapp
governor of Pennsylvania [1971–1979]; died Nov 24, 19941915 - Peter Lind Hayes (Joseph Conrad Lind)
actor: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Zis Boom Bah!, Peter Loves Mary [w/wife, Mary Healy]; died Apr 21, 19981922 - Johnny Smith
jazz musician: guitar: Moonlight in Vermont; died Jun 11, 20131923 - Dorothy Gilman
author: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Incident at Madamya; died Feb 2, 20121924 - Sidney Lumet
director: Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, Deathtrap, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Pawnbroker, Family Business, Playhouse 90, Gloria; died Apr 9, 20111925 - June Lockhart
actress: Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, Deadly Games, The Big Picture, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis1930 - George Murdock
actor: Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, What a Country, The X Files, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial; died Apr 30, 20121935 - Eddie Floyd
singer: group: Falcons: You’re So Fine; solo: Bring It on Home to Me, Knock on Wood, I’ve Never Found a Girl [To Love Me like You Do]1939 - Harold Melvin
singer: group: Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes: If You Don’t Know Me By Now, The Love I Lost; died Mar 24,19971940 - Clint Warwick (Eccles)
musician: bass: The Moody Blues: Go Now, LP: The Magnificent Moodies; died May 15, 20041942 - Willis Reed
Basketball Hall of Famer: New York Knicks center and captain; NBA MVP: [1970]1944 - Al Beauchamp
football: Cincinnati Bengals1945 - Carly Simon
Grammy Award-winning [Best New Artist, 1971] singer: Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird [w/husband James Taylor], Nobody Does It Better, You Belong to Me, Coming Around Again; Academy Award-winning song: Let the River Run [1988]; author of children’s books1946 - Allen Lanier
musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper, LPs: Revolution by Night, Fire of Unknown Origin, Cultosaurus Erectus, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, ETI, Some Enchanted Evening, On Your Feet or on Your Knees; died Aug 14, 20131946 - Ian McDonald
musician: instrumentalist: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day1947 - Jimmie Walker
actor, comedian: Good Times, B.A.D. Cats, Airplane!, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York1948 - Clay (Clayton Laws) Kirby
baseball: pitcher: SD Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos; died Oct 11, 19911949 - Phyllis George (Brown)
Miss America [1971]; TV host: The NFL Today, The CBS Morning News; died May 14, 20201949 - Kene Holliday
actor: Matlock, G.I. Joe: The Movie - Roadblock, Jake and The Fatman, Diagnosis Murder1952 - Tim Finn (Te Awamutu)
musician: guitar, singer: group: Split Enz1954 - David Paich
musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, Make Believe, Roseanna, Africa1954 - Sonia Maria Sotomayer
judge: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [Aug 2009 - ]; more1956 - Anthony Bourdain
chef, TV host: Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown; author: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly; died Jun 8, 20181961 - Ricky Gervais
comedian, writer: Flanimals; director, producer, actor: After Life, The Office, Extras, Ghost Town, The Invention of Lying1963 - Doug Gilmour
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, NJ Devils, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres1963 - George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou)
singer: duo: Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year Award [1985]; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex; died Dec 25, 20161963 - Mike Stanley
baseball: Univ of Florida; Texas Rangers, NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics1964 - Tony Granato
hockey: NY Rangers, LA Kings, SJ Sharks1965 - Dell Curry
basketball: NBA: Utah Jazz [1986-1987]; Cleveland Cavaliers [1987–1988]; Charlotte Hornets [1988–1998]; Milwaukee Bucks [1999]; Toronto Raptors [1999–2002]; TV color commentator on Hornets broadcasts1966 - Dikembe Mutombo
basketball [center]: Georgetown Univ; Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets, NY Knicks, Houston Rockets; Dikembe Mutombo Foundation [helping people in the Congo]1970 - Lucy Benjamin
actress: EastEnders, Beau Geste, Jupiter Moon, Press Gang, Close to Home1970 - Aaron Sele
baseball [pitcher]: Washington State Univ; Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Anaheim Angels1971 - Angela Kinsey
actress: The Office, Your Family or Mine, Bad Judge, All Stars, Haters Back Off1971 - Jason Lewis
actor: Sex and the City, Mr. Brooks, Charmed, Brothers & Sisters, House, Textuality, Brothers & Sisters, The Pardon, Mogli a pezzi1971 - Todd Reirden
hockey: Edmonton Oilers, SL Blues, Atlanta Thrashers, Phoenix Coyotes1971 - Michael Tucker
baseball: KC Royals, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, SF Giants1972 - Carlos Delgado
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins1972 - Mike Kroeger
musician: bass: group: Nickelback: Photograph, How You Remind Me, Someday, Savin’ Me, If Everyone Cared, Gotta Be Somebody, If Today Was Your Last Day, When We Stand Together1973 - Rene Corbet
hockey [left wing]: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins
1975 - Linda Cardellini
actress: Good Burger, Scooby-Doo, La La Wood, Legally Blonde, Dying to Live, Dead Man on Campus1977 - William Bartee
football [cornerback]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: KC Chiefs1977 - Adrian Dingle
football: Clemson Univ; NFL: SD Chargers1978 - Aramis Ramirez
baseball [third base]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs1979 - Busy Philipps
actress: Dawson Creek, Cougar Town, Made of Honor, White Chicks, Home Room, Anatomy of a Hate Crime, The Smokers, Mummy an’ the Armadillo, How I Met Your Mother1986 - Nadia Fanchini
alpine skier [Italy]; sister of alpine skier Elena Fanchini
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Hit Music on This Day June 25
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Toolie Oolie Doolie (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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