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1284 - The Pied Piper exacted his revenge upon the German town of Hamelin this day. The townspeople had promised to pay the piper a large fee if he could rid their town the nasty rats running all over the place. He had played his trusty pipe and the rats had followed him out of town and into the River Weser. But once the rodents were eliminated, the local folks decided not to pay after all. The piper was not pleased and repaid the townspeople by playing his pipe for the children of Hamelin, just like he had done for the rats. And just like the rats, the children followed him out of town. The Pied Piper of Hamelin led the kiddies into a hole in a hillside. They were never seen again.1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City.
1897 - Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C. “Yeah, so?” you ask. Well, smarties, each of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League. So there.
1933 - The Kraft Music Hall debuted. It turned out to be one of radio’s longest-running hits. The first program presented Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Singer Al Jolson became the host of the show shortly thereafter. Several years later, crooner Bing Crosby was named the host. The Kraft Music Hall continued on NBC radio until 1949 and then on TV for many more years; the first year as Milton Berle Starring in the Kraft Music Hall, then Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Dave King Show followed by Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall for four seasons. From 1967 on, The Kraft Music Hall featured a different host. Bring on the Velveeta and the Philadelphia brand cream cheese!
1934 - The Federal Credit Union Act was signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal initiative was based on the Massachusetts Credit Union Act of 1909.
1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flew for the first time.
1944 - The Republican national convention opened in Chicago with a keynote speech by California Governor Earl Warren.
1945 - Fifty nations came together in San Francisco for the signing of the United Nations Charter.
1949 - Entertainer Fred Allen closed out his amazing radio career. Allen was making the transition to TV. His final radio guest was his old pal, Jack Benny. Allen’s caustic wit didn’t play well on TV and he found himself out of the medium in short order. Benny went on to become a television legend.
1957 - Hurricane Audrey struck Louisiana and part of eastern Texas claiming 534 lives and leaving 40,000 people homeless.
1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed his 500th -- and final -- guest on Person to Person: actress Lee Remick. Just hours before this final broadcast, Murrow had presented his last news broadcast on the CBS radio network. CBS-TV had reportedly made $20 million from Murrow’s Person to Person series.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined England’s Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. The waterway links the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.
1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he was greeted by more than a million of the divided city’s residents. He delivered a speech that electrified the adoring crowd gathered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. As he paid tribute to the spirit of Berliners and to their quest for freedom, the crowd roared with approval upon hearing the President’s dramatic pronouncement, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
1964 - A Hard Day’s Night was released by United Artists Records. The album featured all original material by The Beatles and became the top album in the country by July 25, 1964.
1965 - Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts. The song was considered by many to be the first folk-rock hit. The tune was written by Bob Dylan, as were two other hits for the group: All I Really Want to Do and My Back Pages. The group of James Roger McGinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke charted seven hits. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
1968 - The U.S. returned Iwo Jima, and other islands captured in World War II, to Japan.
1976 - The CN Tower opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At 1,815 feet, 5 inches high, the tower was the world’s tallest building and the tallest freestanding structure.
1985 - You’ve heard of players, managers and owners being ejected from baseball games, right? But have you ever heard of an organist being given the heave-ho? It happened at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida (the home of the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training; a Class A League team uses the stadium the rest of the season). Wilbur Snapp played Three Blind Mice following a call by umpire Keith O’Connor. The umpire was not amused and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was sent to the showers.
1985 - Big River later to be a Tony Award-winning cast album, became the first cast soundtrack LP to be recorded in Nashville, TN. The celebrated album was released on MCA Records and tapes.
1987 - “Just the facts, ma’am. Thank you.” Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd in the Jack Webb role of Sgt. Joe Friday; and Tom Hanks in the Harry Morgan role of detective Stribeck, opened around the U.S. The movie became the first Hollywood film to feature a "condom-conscious" bedroom scene ... just right for the social mores of the 1980s. Dragnet was a smash theatrical hit, as it had been on radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s. “This is the city...”
1988 - An Airbus A320 crashed after making a low pass over an air show in eastern France, killing three of the 136 passengers on board.
1990 - The temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122°F (50°C) in Phoenix, AZ, hot enough to cancel some flights at the airport.
1992 - U.S. Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III stepped down. In doing so, Garrett accepted responsibility for the so-called Tailhook party/incident involving the harassment of Navy servicewomen by their male counterparts.
1993 - Roy Campanella died in Woodland Hills, CA at the age of 71. The Baseball Hall-of-Famer played for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1995 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require drug tests for its athletes.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court (1) struck down a congressional attempt to keep pornography off the Internet, saying it violated the First Amendment; (2) the Court let stand the president’s line-item veto authority without addressing its constitutionality; and (3) the Court ruled that terminally ill Americans had no constitutional right to doctor-assisted suicide -- but did nothing to bar states from legalizing the process.
1998 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Dr. Dolittle, with Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Kristen Wilson, Kyla Pratt, Raven-Symone, Richard Schiff, Peter Boyle and Jeffrey Tambor (audiences loved this flick about the doctor who could converse with, and heal, animals: $29.01 million the opening weekend); and Out of Sight, starring George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina, Albert Brooks, Nancy Allen, Catherine Keener, Isaiah Washington, Steve Zahn, Luis Guzman and Keith Loneker.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark sexual harassment ruling. The Court’s decision, (Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth), put employers on notice that they can be held responsible for supervisors’ misconduct even if they knew nothing about it.
2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padmé Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court (1) gave new power to its landmark Miranda decision of 1966, ruling that police still must warn the people they arrest of their “right to remain silent”; and (2) the Court struck down California’s system of ‘blanket primaries’, ruling that political parties have the right to exclude nonparty members from choosing candidates.
2001 - Tampa, FL: George Trofimoff, a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer, was convicted of spying for Moscow. Trofimoff had been a spy for 22 years while serving as a civilian interrogator of refugees and defectors in Germany.
2002 - WorldCom Inc., the #2 U.S. long-distance company, slid toward bankruptcy after disclosing very questionable accounting practices -- it overstated its financial results by more than $3.8 billion.
2002 - Chinese basketball star Yao Ming was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the NBA draft.
2002 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court in San Francisco ruled that the “under God” phrase (inserted by Congress in 1954) in the Pledge of Allegiance is an endorsement of religion and violates the U.S. Constitution.
2003 - A jury in Fort Worth, TX convicted former nurse’s aide Chante Mallard of murder. She had struck a homeless man with her car, then driven home with his mangled body jammed in the windshield -- then left him to die in her garage.
2003 - Former South Carolina U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond died at 100 years of age.
2004 - Israeli composer Naomi Shemer died at 74 years of age. Her most famous work was "Jerusalem of Gold", an emotional ballad describing the Israel’s attachment to the city, written shortly before Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war.
2005 - Toronto celebrated its 25th annual Pride Parade, the big finale of the Pride Toronto festival. The Canadian celebration is one of the world’s largest gay and lesbian parties. New York City, San Francisco and other cities around the world also hosted large parades.
2006 - Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest person at the time, donated $37 billion to foundations run by his family and by Bill Gates. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation received $31 billion.
2006 - Tokyo and Washington announced the deployment of advanced Patriot interceptor missiles in Japan. This, amid concerns that North Korea might have been getting ready to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile of their own.
2007 - Squse, a Japanese robot and factory automation maker, unveiled what it called the world’s first prototype of an artificial hand with ‘air muscles’ that could do delicate work like picking up a raw egg.
2007 - Tropical cyclone Yemyin dissipated after killing some 400 people in a rampage along Pakistan’s coastline. 250,000 people were left homeless.
2007 - Fashion designer Liz Claiborne died in NYC at 78 years of age. Claiborne, who revolutionized the way working women put assembled their wardrobes, launched her label in 1976. When she retired in 1989, she left a company that had reached $5 billion in annual sales with 22,000 sites around the world.
2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Americans have the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. It was the first major pronouncement on gun rights by the High Court in U.S. history.
2008 - Four international airlines (Air France-KLM, Cathay Pacific Airways, Martinair Holland and SAS Cargo Group) agreed to pay $504 million in fines to the U.S. Justice Dept. to settle charges that the airlines conspired to fleece consumers by driving up cargo shipping prices.
2009 - New movies showing in U.S. theatres: My Sister’s Keeper, starring Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin, Jason Patric, Thomas Dekker, Sofia Vassilieva and Joan Cusack; The Hurt Locker, with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Finnes and Guy Pearce; and The Stoning of Soraya M., starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno, James Caviezel, Navid Negahban and Ali Pourtash.
2009 - Michael Jackson’s death led to skyrocketing sales of his music and videos, with major retailers selling out of products that regained popularity overnight. Bill Carr, Amazon.com’s vice president for music and video, said that once the world learned that the pop icon had died, the Web site sold out within minutes of all CDs by Michael Jackson and by the Jackson 5.
2010 - G8 and G20 world leaders met for dinner at the Royal York, one of Toronto’s oldest hotels. This, while police made more than 400 arrests after black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful protesters and went on a rampage that lasted into the early morning hours. Estimate for security costs was put at $897 million.
2010 - Ghana became only the third African team ever to make it to the World Cup quarter-finals, as its team beat the U.S. 2-1. The Round of Sixteen match was played in Rustenburg, South Africa.
2011 - Angry parents of children in Fukushima, Japan marched along with hundreds of people to demand protection for their children from radiation. This, more than three months after a massive quake and tsunami triggered a nuclear disaster.
2011 - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, reportedly a big Shakespeare fan, made a pilgrimage to the Bard’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, England as part of a 3-day visit to reinforce economic links between China and the United Kingdom.
2012 - A German court ruled that the circumcision of young boys on religious grounds amounted to grievous bodily harm. It was a landmark decision that provoked outrage among Jewish and Muslim organizations in Germany, where every year thousands of boys are circumcised in their early years at the request of their parents.
2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law barring the recognition of same-sex marriage. In the split decision, the court ruled that the law violates the rights of gays and lesbians and intrudes into states’ rights to define and regulate marriage.
2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Massachusetts law requiring protesters to stay at least 35 feet away from abortion clinics and their patients violated freedom of speech.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. on this day included: Max, with Robbie Amell, Lauren Graham and Thomas Haden Church; Ted 2, starring Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Liam Neeson; 7 Minutes, with Leven Rambin, Luke Mitchell and Jason Ritter; the documentaries, Batkid Begins, Fresh Dressed, and A Murder in the Park; Big Game, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila and Ray Stevenson; Escobar: Paradise Lost, with Josh Hutcherson, Benicio Del Toro and Brady Corbet; Felt, starring Amy Everson, Kentucker Audley and Ryan Creighton; Into the Grizzly Maze, with Michaela McManus, James Marsden and Thomas Jane; A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Stanley Tucci; The Little Death, with Bojana Novakovic, Damon Herriman and Josh Lawson; and Runoff, starring Rashel Bestard, Tom Bower and Brennan James Callan.
2015 - U.S. Satellite radio provider SiriusXM announced that it would pay $210 million to the major record companies for its broadcasting of songs made before 1972.
2015 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 (Obergefell v Hodges) that the Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry. It was a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.
2016 - Panama formally inaugurated the newly expanded locks of the Panama Canal. The $5.25 billion project was initially scheduled for completion in October 2014, but was delayed by slow approvals for concrete to use in the locks, labor strikes and leaks detected in late 2015.
2017 - A gay man in central China successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy. Activists hailed the ruling as the first such victory in a country where the LGBT rights movement was gradually emerging from the fringes.
2017 - Japanese air bag maker Takata Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo and the U.S., saying it was the only way it could keep on supplying replacements for faulty air bag inflators linked to the deaths of at least 16 people.
2018 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld POTUS Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the U.S. from several mostly Muslim countries. The court rejected a challenge that the ban discriminated against Muslims or exceeded presidential authority.
2018 - The Congressional Budget Office said the 2017 tax cut would increase the U.S. budget deficit by more than $2.3 trillion over the following decade. To keep federal debt at its current level would require increasing taxes by $1,300 per household, or by cutting spending by 10 percent.
2019 - The creepy Annabelle Comes Home opened in U.S. movie theatres. The horror, mystery, thriller stars Vera Farmiga, Mckenna Grace, Patrick Wilson, Madison Iseman, Emily Brobst, Samara Lee, Katie Sarife, Sade Katarina and Steve Coulter.
2019 - French President Emmanuel Macron met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan. Macron said the two leaders had agreed to bolster naval defense ties in the Indo-Pacific region and shared concerns about growing tensions in the Middle East.
2019 - German police cautioned a man riding naked (wearing only a helmet and sandals) on a moped while topless sunbathers sparked a row in Munich, as temperatures soared to record highs in several European countries. (We assume the police cautioned that man about the danger to his body from the hot moped...)
2019 - Run with the Hunted was scheduled to open in theatres (many were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) on this day. The crime, drama, thriller stars Michael Pitt, Ron Perlman, Mark Boone Junior, William Forsythe, Kylie Rogers, Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Dree Hemingway.
2020 - A federal judge ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails. The court denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 - A federal appeals court ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped Congress, which gets to decide how to use the funds. The panel ruled that the Trump administration not only lacked the authority to authorize the transfer of funds, “but also violated an express constitutional prohibition designed to protect individual liberties.”
2020 - The Federal Trade Commission approved Eldorado Resorts Inc acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Corp. The $17.3 billion buyout created the world’s biggest casino company. The deal vaulted Eldorado Resorts -- that began with a single family-owned casino-hotel in Reno (in 1973) -- to the top of the gambling ownership world. It will have 52 properties in 16 U.S. states, including Las Vegas Strip casino-resorts like Caesars Palace, Paris Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood, Flamingo and Linq. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn was the largest single shareholder, with more than 10% of the combined company.
2020 - Nevada ended a long legal battle with the U.S. Energy Department over the secret shipments of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas. Nevada’s lawyers said they were dropping their lawsuit after the U.S. agreed to remove the highly radioactive material already trucked there -- and abandon any future plans to send more.
2021 - A pilot and two couples died after a hot air balloon they were riding in struck a power line and crashed onto a busy street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. authorities later said the pilot had marijuana and cocaine in his system.
2021 - Outdoor farm work under the afternoon sun on particularly hot days was banned in a southern Italian region following the recent death of a migrant who fell ill and collapsed while toiling in a field.
2022 - Republican Rhode Island state Senate candidate Jeann Lugo dropped out of the race after punching his Democratic opponent in the face at an abortion protest. “Last night, after speaking at our Roe rally, my Republican opponent — a police officer — violently attacked me,” Democratic candidate Jennifer Rourke tweeted. “This is what it is to be a Black woman running for office. I won't give up.” Lugo, a Providence police officer who was off duty at the time of the incident, says he “stepped in to protect someone that a group of agitators was attacking.” The police department has placed Lugo on administrative leave and opened a criminal investigation into his actions. (The Providence Police Department later fired Lugo, but a panel [even later] reinstated him.)
2022 - Stanley Cup Hockey Finals (Tampa, FL): The Colorado Avalanche beat two-time defending champs Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-1 for a 4-2 series win. It was the Avs third championship.
2022 - Women’s PGA Championship (Bethesda, MD): Despite finishing rounds of 75, 75 Chun In-gee of South Korea held on to beat Minjee Lee and Lexi Thompson by 1 stroke -- for her third major title.
2023 - The earliest possible evidence of cannibalism was found in a 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone. The fossilized shinbone, or tibia, was discovered in 1970 in the Turkana region of Kenya. It has nine incisions that were likely made with stone tools. The cuts are regular, oriented in the same direction and situated where a calf muscle would have been attached to the bone, suggesting they were made with the intent of stripping the flesh for consumption.
2023 - CNN broadcast an audeo clip of former President Donald Trump discussing a classified Pentagon plan of attack against Iran. He was talking with two staff members and two people working on a biography of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. A federal indictment charging Trump with 37 felonies tied to his handling of national security secrets included a transcript of the recording, but this was the first time it was aired publicly. The "New York Times" said Trump could be heard describing what he called a “highly confidential” Iran document.
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Birthdays on This Day June 26
1819 - Abner Doubleday
Civil War Union Major General: known for the myth that he invented modern baseball; died Jan 26, 18931891 - Sidney (Coe) Howard
playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind; died Aug 23, 19391892 - Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Prize-winning author: The Good Earth [1938]; died Mar 6, 19731900 - Hack (Lewis Robert) Wilson
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Giants [World Series: 1924], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1929/record: rbi in a season: 190 in 1930], Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies; died Nov 23, 19481903 - Joe Downing
actor: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, The Big Shot, Johnny Eager, Strange Alibi, Smashing the Money Ring, Racket Busters; died Oct 16, 19751904 - Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein)
actor: The Maltese Falcon, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Casablanca, The Raven; died Mar 23, 19641909 - Colonel Tom Parker (Andreas van Kuijk)
carnival barker, show business promoter: manager of Elvis Presley; died Jan 21, 19971910 - Roy Plunkett
scientist: discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon [Apr 6, 1938]; died May 12, 19941911 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias
golf: “The outstanding female athlete of the first half-century.” [AP 1950]; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer, World Golf Hall of Famer, LPGA Hall of Famer, National Track and Field Hall of Famer; died Sep 27, 19561914 - John Bailey
actor: Personal Services, Alice, So Little Time, High Treason, Meet Simon Cherry, Romeo and Juliet [1947]; died Feb 18, 19891914 - Richard Maltby
bandleader: Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, St. Louis Mambo; died Aug 19, 19911915 - Charlotte Zolotow
author: Peter and the Pigeons, The Moon was the Best; died Nov 19, 20131916 - Alex Dreier
‘Man on the Go’: radio reporter, newscaster: United Press, BBC, NBC, ABC; actor: The Boston Strangler, What’s It All About, World?, Murdock’s Gang, Invisible Strangler, It Takes a Thief, Mannix; died Mar 11, 20001922 - Eleanor Parker
actress: The Sound of Music, Of Human Bondage, Caged, The Man with the Golden Arm, Dead on the Money; died Dec 9, 20131934 - Dave Grusin
composer: film scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie1936 - Hal Greer
Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia 76ers; died Apr 14, 20181938 - Billy Davis Jr.
singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Up Up and Away; w/Marilyn McCoo: You Don’t Have to be a Star, Your Love1943 - Bill (William Henry) Robinson
baseball: Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979]; died Jul 29, 20071943 - Georgie Fame (Clive Powell)
singer: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde1950 - Dave (Rodriguez) Rosello
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians1951 - Pamela Bellwood
actress: Airport ’77, Dynasty, Double Standard, Cellar Dweller, Deadman’s Curve, Choices of the Heart1951 - Robert Davi
actor: The Goonies, Showgirls, Licence to Kill, Profiler, Die Hard, The Dukes, The Butcher, Spring Break ’83, Magic, One in the Gun, Ballistica, Game of Death, Doonby, Kill the Irishman, Swamp Shark, A Long Way Off, Charlie’s Angels [1978]1952 - Steve (Stephen Shaddon) Bowling
baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays1952 - Danny Gruen
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Rockies1955 - Mick Jones
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash: 1977, Capitol Radio, Career Opportunities, I’m So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, Remote Control, [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, Rock the Casbah1956 - Chris Isaak
actor: Little Buddha, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Twin Peaks; singer, songwriter: Wicked Game, Blue Hotel, LP: Silvertone1957 - Patty Smyth
singer: Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough, Look What Love Has Done, No Mistakes, River of Love, One Moment to Another, Wish I Were You; married to former tennis pro John McEnroe1960 - Barbara Edwards
model: Playboy Playmate of the Month September 1983, Playboy Playmate of the Year 1984; actress: Trucks, For the Love of My Child: The Anissa Ayala Story, Another Chance, Terminal Entry, Malibu Express1961 - Greg LeMond
cyclist: first American to win Tour de France [1986, 1989, 1990]1961 - Terri Nunn
singer: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away1963 - Harriet Wheeler
singer: group: The Sundays: Can’t Be Sure, Here’s Where the Story Ends, Love, Goodbye
1968 - Shannon Sharpe
football [tight end]: Savannah State Univ; NFL: Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens; CBS-TV sports analyst1969 - Mike Myers
baseball [pitcher]: Iowa State Univ; Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners1970 - Chris O’Donnell
actor: NCIS: Los Angeles, The Three Musketeers, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Fried Green Tomatoes, Circle of Friends, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, The Bachelor, Vertical Limit1970 - Sean Hayes
Emmy Award-winning actor: Will & Grace [2000]; Martin and Lewis, Pieces of April, The Cat in the Hat, The Bucket List; Broadway: Damn Yankees [2008]; TV M.C./host of 2010 Tony Awards1970 - Nick Offerman
actor: Parks and Recreation, George Lopez, American Body Shop, Childrens Hospital, Believe Me, Axe Cop, A Walk in the Woods, 22 Jump Street; more1970 - Matthew Letscher
actor: The Mask of Zorro, Her, Identity, One & Done1972 - Eva Herzig
actress: Nachtasyl, Doppelter Einsatz - Mord auf dem Stundenplan, Polizeiruf 110 - Braut in Schwarz, Holgi, Zwei Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby, Der Unfisch, Todliche Liebe1973 - Gretchen Wilson
singer: Here for the Party, When I Think About Cheatin’, Holdin’ You, What Happened, The Bed, Pocahontas Proud1974 - Jason Kendall
baseball [catcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics1974 - Derek Jeter
baseball [shortstop]: New York Yankees [1995–2014]: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009 World Series champs1976 - Chad Clifton
football [tackle]: Univ Tennessee; NFL: GB Packers1976 - Ed Jovanovski
hockey: Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes1976 - Chad Pennington
football [quarterback]: NFL: New York Jets [2000–2007]; Miami Dolphins [2008–2010]1979 - Julia Benson
actress: Stargate Universe, Shattered, Hiccups, Mr. Young, Earth’s Final Hours, Chupacabra vs. the Alamo1979 - Luis González
baseball [second base]: Colorado Rockies1980 - Jason Schwartzman
actor: Rushmore, Slackers; musician: group: Phantom Planet1980 - Michael Vick
football: Virginia Tech Univ; NFL quarterback: Atlanta Falcons; Philadelphia Eagles1984 - J.J. (José Juan) Barea
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Dallas Mavericks [2006–2011]: 2011 NBA champs; Minnesota Timberwolves [2011–2014]; Dallas Mavericks [2014–2020]1984 - Aubrey Plaza
actress: The White Lotus, Parks and Recreation, A Many Splintered Thing, Ned Rifle, The Legend of Korra, Welcome to Sweden, The To Do List1990 - Iman Shumpert
basketball [shooting guard]: NBA: New York Knicks [2011–2015]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2015–2018]: 2015 NBA finals, 2016 NBA champs, 2017 NBA Finals; Sacramento Kings [2018-2019], Houston Rockets [2019], Brooklyn Nets [2019]1992 - Jennette McCurdy
singer, songwriter, actress: iCarly; True Jackson, VP; Malcolm in the Middle; Lincoln Heights; more1993 - Ariana Grande
actress: Victorious, iCarly, Winx Club; ; singer: The Way, Problem, Break Free, Bang Bang, Love Me Harder, One Last Time, Focus, Dangerous Woman; more
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Hit Music on This Day June 26
1949Again (facts) - Gordon Jenkins
Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
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