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1860 - The last stone was laid at Minot’s Ledge (Massachusetts) Lighthouse. The stone tower replaced an iron-pile lighthouse that had been destroyed by a storm in April 1851. The new lighthouse was built of 1,079 blocks (3,514 tons) of Quincy granite dovetailed together and reinforced with iron shafts. Minot’s Light has lasted through countless storms and hurricanes, a testament to its designer and builders. The first 40 feet is solid granite, topped by a storeroom, living quarters and work space.1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a ball game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.
1901 - The first edition of Editor & Publisher was issued. It was a newspaper for the newspaper industry.
1925 - A patent for the frosted electric light bulb was filed by Marvin Pipkin. What a bright idea. The frosting inside the light bulb created less glare because it diffused the light emitted, spreading it over a wider area, providing a much softer glow. Thank you Marvin.
1932 - The second daytime serial to be heard on network radio was Vic and Sade which debuted on the NBC Blue radio network this day. Radio’s first daytime drama was Clara Lu and Em, which premiered on NBC in 1931.
1940 - Brenda Starr, the first cartoon strip by a woman (Dale Messick), appeared in The Chicago Tribune.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 41st consecutive game. DiMaggio passed George Sisler’s record for consecutive games with base hits (set in 1922).
1944 - The U.S. Seventh Army Corp conquered Cherbourg, France.
1947 - Radio’s show with a heart made its debut. Strike It Rich became a favorite on CBS radio. Todd Russell was the original host. Warren Hull took over a couple of years later.
1951 - Bill Stern did his last 15-minute program of sports features for NBC radio. Stern had been with NBC for 14 years. He later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System to finish out an illustrious sportscasting career.
1955 - Billy Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with Rock Around the Clock. The smash hit stayed there for eight straight weeks. The song was featured in the film Blackboard Jungle. Most consider the hit song the first rock ’n’ roll single.
1956 - Charles Dumas cleared the high jump, which was set at 7’ 1/2", at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Dumas became the first athlete to break the seven-foot barrier.
1956 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The act authorized construction of the Interstate Highway System, “The single greatest public works program in the nation’s history.”
1956 - Sex siren, actress Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller were married.
1957 - Betsy Rawls won the U.S. Golf Association women’s tourney after Jacqueline Pung was disqualified for turning in an incorrect scorecard. Oooops!
1961 - Three satellites, Transit 4A (the first satellite to use nuclear power), Solrad 3, and Injun 1, were launched simultaneously for the first time.
1962 - The first flight of the Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner occurred on this day.
1966 - The U.S. bombed fuel storage facilities near the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. It was the first time those cities were bombed in the Vietnam War.
1968 - Jim Northrup of the Detroit Tigers wound up a most exciting week. Northrup connected for his third grand-slam home run in seven days, setting a major-league baseball record.
1970 - NBC presented an evening of exciting and entertaining TV with the award-winning Liza Minnelli Special.
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling prompted states to revise their capital punishment laws. Four years later, the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty for murder cases.
1978 - Actor Bob Crane, who played Colonel Robert Hogan in the TV show Hogan’s Heroes, was found bludgeoned to death in Scottsdale, AZ. He was 49 years old. Prime suspect John Henry Carpenter was tried -- and acquitted -- in 1990.
1979 - The eleventh James Bond flick, Moonraker, premiered in the U.S.
1980 - Sweeney Todd closed at Uris Theater in New York City after 557 performances.
1983 - Pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers retired from baseball, after several unsuccessful attempts to return to the major leagues. Fidrych had his greatest year as a rookie in 1976, when he had a record of 19-9, with a 2.34 earned-run average. Fidrych, a crowd pleaser throughout the American League, was the All-Star Game starter in Philadelphia in 1976. He also earned Rookie of the Year honors that year.
1984 - Singer Bruce Springsteen kicked off his first U.S. tour in three years, before 17,700 fans at the Civic Center in St. Paul, MN. Music critics called the Boss “...the most exciting performer in rock.”
1990 - Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dave Stewart of the Oakland A’s became the first pitchers to hurl no-hitters in both the National and American Leagues on the same day. Oakland shut out the Blue Jays, 5-to-0, while Los Angeles blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-to-0.
1992 - Doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world’s first transplant of a baboon liver into a human patient. The recipient, a 35-year-old man, survived three months.
1994 - Japan’s parliament chose Tomiichi Murayama to be the new prime minister, succeeding Tsutoma Hata.
1995 - For the first time, a U.S. space shuttle (Atlantis) linked up with a Russian space station (Mir). They remained docked until July 4. The joined craft were visible from earth as a fast-moving, shiny, star and carried a record 10 people (6 Americans and 4 Russians).
1995 - The Sampoong department store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed, killing some 500 people and injuring 900 more.
1995 - Actress Lana Turner, MGM’s ‘Sweater Girl’, died in Century City, California, at the age of 74.
1996 - A really big show this day at London's Hyde Park. Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Alanis Morrissette, Ron Woods and The Who performed at the charity event for Prince Charles’ Prince’s Trust charity. 150,000 people showed up and brought about a million bucks with them for the good cause.
1997 - Actor, teacher William Hickey died of emphysema. He was 68 years old. Best known as the ancient Mafia don in Prizzi’s Honor (1985), Hickey’s most important contribution to the arts was his teaching career at the HB Studio, Greenwich Village, NY. Among his students were George Segal, Sandy Dennis and Barbra Streisand.
2000 - In Indonesia the ferry Cahaya Bahari sank with 492 passengers killing all but ten. The ship had left Tobelo on Halmahera in North Maluku and was bound for Manado in North Sulawesi with many fleeing sectarian violence.
2001 - These films debuted in the U.S.: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, starring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Brendan Gleeson and William Hurt; Baby Boy, with Tyrese Gibson, Omar Gooding, A.J. Johnson, Tariji P. Henson and Snoop Dogg; and Crazy/Beautiful, with Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Lucinda Jenney and Taryn Manning.
2001 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, experiencing heart problems for the third time since the November 2000 election, announced he was going back to the hospital, where he expected doctors to implant a pacemaker to even out a rapid heartbeat.
2001 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan was elected to a second term -- by acclamation.
2002 - Singer Rosemary Clooney died in her Beverly Hills mansion due to complications from lung cancer. She was 74 years old. Clooney became one of Hollywood’s biggest pop icons of the 1950s. Her hits include Come On-A My House, Botch-A-Me, Hey There and Mambo Italiano.
2003 - In Chicago, a wooden third-floor porch packed with dozens of friends in their early 20s collapsed. The freakish accident killed 12 people as the porch pancaked onto other decks below.
2003 - Academy Award-winning actress Katharine Hepburn died. She was 96 years old. Hepburn won Oscars for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).
2004 - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a law meant to shield Web-surfing children from online pornography. The Court ruled that the law was probably an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech.
2005 - The Steven Spielberg-directed War of the Worlds opened in the U.S. The sci-fi action drama stars Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto, Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin.
2005 - A new design, by architect David M. Childs, was unveiled for the Freedom Tower in Manhattan.
2005 - Mexico released a series of five stamps depicting a character known as Memin Pinguin, a character from a comic book started in the 1940s. The U.S. complained that the exaggerated black cartoon character -- is a racial stereotype.
2006 - Women in Kuwait voted in parliamentary elections for the first time. The Kuwaiti women became the first in any Gulf Arab state to be allowed to vote in national elections.
2006 - Search giant Google introduced its Google Checkout, an online payment service designed to compete with PayPal. The service was folded into Google Wallet in 2011.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Evening, starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy, Natasha Richardson, Dame Eileen Atkins, Mamie Gummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep; and the animated adventure comedy Ratatouille, featuring the voices of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Will Arnett, Julius Callahan, James Remar, John Ratzenberger, Teddy Newton, Tony Fucile, Jake Steinfeld, Brad Bird, and narrator Laurent Spelvogel.
2007 - A four-wheel-drive Jeep rammed into the main terminal and exploded in flames at Glasgow airport in Scotland. Police arrested two men for the attack. One of them was badly burned in the attack.
2007 - The Apple iPhone went on sale across the U.S. It rapidly revolutionized worldwide communications.
2008 - A helicopter ferrying a patient from the Grand Canyon collided with another chopper carrying a patient near a northern Arizona hospital. Six people were killed and a nurse was critically injured.
2008 - The 38th annual San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration culminated in a huge parade.
2009 - 71-year-old Bernard Madoff was sentenced in New York City to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.
2009 - Iran conducted a partial recount of votes cast in its disputed presidential election. The Guardian Council, an electoral authority the opposition had accused of favoring Ahmadinejad, said it found only slight irregularities after randomly selecting and recounting 10 percent of nearly 40 million ballots.
2010 - Search giant Google said it would stop automatically rerouting users in China to an uncensored search page. The move aimed to preserve Google’s operating license and signalled an effort to save its Chinese business.
2011 - Transformers: Dark of the Moon opened in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi action adventure stars Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Ken Jeong, Josh Duhamel, Hugo Weaving, Patrick Dempse, John Malkovich and Leonard Nimoy.
2011 - Peruvian President Alan Garcia inaugurated a giant statue of Jesus Christ. Christ of the Pacific, similar to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ the Redeemer, is 72 feet (22 m) high and stands atop a 49-foot (15-m) concrete base. It overlooks the Pacific Ocean from Lima. The statue was donated by the Brazilian company Odebrecht.
2011 - The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the fees which banks charged for debit card transactions. Under the new rules, the fee charged for debit card transactions was 21 cents. Previously, the fee for an average debit card transaction had been 44 cents.
2012 - New in U.S. movie houses: G.I. Joe: Retaliation, with Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Ray Stevenson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park and Joseph Mazzello; Madea’s Witness Protection, starring Denise Richards, Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Danielle Campbell, Doris Roberts, John Amos and Tom Arnold; People Like Us, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau, Mark Duplass and Philip Baker Hall; and Magic Mike, starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello and Olivia Munn.
2012 - The U.S. Congress passed its first major transportation bill since 2005, a $105-billion measure that also averted a big spike in student loan interest rates for a year. The legislation kept highway and transit spending at previous levels and included an expansion of a federal loan program sought by several mayors to fast-track bus and rail projects in traffic-choked regions.
2012 - The younger brother of Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York City to charges that he doctored documents for years. Peter Madoff also agreed not to contest a 10-year prison sentence.
2013 - A monument to atheism was unveiled near a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments outside a courthouse in Starke, Bradford County, Florida. American Atheists, a national advocacy group based in New Jersey, established the monument and said it was the first public marker dedicated to atheism in the United States.
2014 - Iraqi troops and helicopter gunships fought to retake the northern city of Tikrit from Sunni militants led by the al-Qaida breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). But the government forces were pushed back as insurgents retained control of most of Tikrit.
2015 - A young Swedish woman who sued her former Wall Street executive boss over lurid allegations of sexual conquest, betrayal and stalking was awarded $18 million by a federal jury. 25-year-old Hanna Bouveng had accused 43-year-old Benjamin Wey, New York Global Group owner, of coercing her into four sexual encounters before firing her after discovering she had a boyfriend.
2015 - NBC-TV announced that it was cutting ties with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump because of comments he made about Mexican immigrants during the announcement of his campaign. Macy’s soon announced the ending of its ties with Trump.
2016 - The Shallows opened in U.S. theatres. The horror, thriller about an attacking great white shark stars Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada and Brett Cullen.
2016 - The U.S. Senate passed a financial rescue package for Puerto Rico, two days before an expected Puerto Rico default on a $2 billion debt payment. POTUS Obama signed the measure the next day.
2016 - The Univ of Connecticut revoked the honorary doctorate of fine arts degree it had awarded to Bill Cosby in 1996, saying he had engaged in conduct incongruent with the university’s values.
2017 - Tighter restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim nations took effect after the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead for a limited version of POTUS Trump’s travel ban. Visa applicants from the six countries — and all refugees — were required to show close family or business ties for entry to the U.S.
2017 - Britain pledged to fund abortions for Northern Irish women who travel to England. This, after a Belfast court overturned a ruling that Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws breach human rights in certain cases.
2018 - New movies showing in U.S. theatres included: Sicario: Day of the Soldado, with Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro and Isabela Moner; Uncle Drew, with Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll and Nate Robinson; Dark River, starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean; Escape Plan 2: Hades, starring Dave Bautista, Baylee Curran and Sylvester Stallone; Hover, with Cleopatra Coleman, Shane Coffey and Craig muMs Grant; Leave No Trace, starring Ben Foster, Dale Dickey and Jeff Kober; and Woman Walks Ahead, starring Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell and Ciarán Hinds.
2018 - Iowa’s Supreme Court blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion. State legislators had created the law in 2017.
2018 - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced $12.6 billion in tariffs on U.S.-made goods, including Florida orange juice, ketchup and Kentucky bourbon. “We will not escalate and we will not back down,” Freeland told reporters while announcing the tariffs. “I cannot emphasize enough the regret with which we take these countermeasures,” she said, framing them as a regrettable but necessary act to counter the tariffs leveled by POTUS Donald Trump.
2019 - Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an order for a prisoner amnesty, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Nine categories of prisoner were pardoned, including convicts who fought against the Japanese in World War Two, those aged 75+ and with serious physical disabilities, or convicts who had previously been named model workers. Convicts who had committed serious crimes (embezzlement, endangering national security, etc. were not be included.
2019 - Hundreds of firefighters battled to contain wildfires in southern France as a stifling heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures to parts of Europe. More than 700 firefighters and 10 aircraft were fighting the fires in the Gard region, some of which caused sections of motorways to be temporarily closed.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics. The ruling reasserted a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices.
2020 - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey implored people to wear face masks after the state saw its cases go from 13,000 to 74,500 in six weeks, and deaths from the virus nearly doublling. The governor’s position on face masks was a big change from the lukewarm stance he had taken since the outbreak of the virus.
2020 - Carl Reiner, a driving force in American comedy, died at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 98 years old. Reiner was a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar, partner of Mel Brooks and creator and co-star of the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s.
2021 - Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. defense secretary, died at his home in Taos, NM. He was 88 years old. Rumsfeld served as defense secretary for two Republican presidents, Gerald Ford (1975-1977) and George W. Bush (2001-2006) and was an architect of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2021 - Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit delivered satellites owned by three countries into orbit over the Pacific near the Channel Islands. It was Virgin Orbit’s second rocket launch from a plane in 2021.
2022 - A judge sentenced R&B singer R. Kelly to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering. “The public has to be protected from behaviors like this,” the judge told Kelly, convicted after facing years (as far back as the 1990s) of allegations of sexually abusing underage girls. Prosecutors said Kelly ran a criminal enterprise preying “upon women and girls who attended his concerts.”
2022 - In the biggest trial in modern French history (for the November 2015 Paris Attacks), Salah Abdeslam, and 19 others, were convicted of terrorism and murder charges. He was sentenced to a rare full-life prison sentence. The attacks at bars and restaurants, the national football stadium and Bataclan music venue saw hundreds injured in addition to the 130 killed.
2022 - Finland and Sweden were formally invited to join NATO, the Western military alliance, launching a months-long ratification process. Turkey had agreed to drop its opposition to the expansion after resolving its differences with the two Nordic nations over their support for Kurdish rebels Turkey considered terrorists. Adding Sweden and Finland to NATO was part of a united response across Europe to counter the threat posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2023 - The Supreme court ruled (6-3) that college race-based admission programs used to increase diversity are illegal under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
2023 - A jury acquitted former Florida deputy Scot Peterson, 60, of failing to protect students in the Parkland school shootings. State prosecutors accused Peterson of ignoring his training and doing nothing as 17 people, including 14 students, were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. His attorney argued the then-deputy didn’t enter the school’s 1200 building, the site of the attack, because he couldn’t tell where the shots were coming from.
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Birthdays on This Day June 29
1858 - George Washington Goethals
U.S. army officer; chief engineer of construction of Panama Canal; died Jan 21, 1928
1861 - Dr. William James Mayo
physician, surgeon; founder [w/sons William and Charles] of the Mayo Clinic [Rochester MN]; died Jul 28, 19391901 - Nelson Eddy
actor, singer [w/Jeannette MacDonald]: Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta, Girl of the Golden West; died Mar 6, 19671903 - Ellen Pollock
actress: Saint Oscar, The Old Men at the Zoo, Horror Hospital, Who Killed the Cat?, So Evil, So Young, The Hypnotist; died Mar 29, 19971907 - Joan Davis
actress: I Married Joan, Harem Girl, Traveling Saleswoman, George White’s Scandals, Beautiful But Broke, Two Latins From Manhattan; died May 22, 19611908 - Leroy Anderson
orchestra leader, composer [“One of the great American masters of light orchestral music.”]: Sleigh Ride, Blue Tango, The Syncopated Clock; died May 18, 19751910 - Frank Loesser
songwriter: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Baby It’s Cold Outside, On a Slow Boat to China, Once in Love with Amy, Luck Be a Lady, Thumbelina; died July 28, 19691911 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter of Lippe-Biesterfeld)
consort to Queen Juliana, father of Queen Beatrix; died Dec 1, 20041912 - John Toland
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Rising Sun [1970]; died Jan 4, 20041916 - Ruth Warrick
actress: Citizen Kane, All My Children; died Jan 15, 20051919 - Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley Jr.)
actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harm’s Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer; died Dec 8, 19831922 - Ralph Burns
musician: piano; composer, arranger: Apple Honey; died Nov 21, 20011925 - Cara Williams (Bernice Kamiat)
actress: The Defiant Ones, The Girl Next Door, Pete and Gladys; died Dec 9, 20211928 - Ian Bannen
actor: The Flight of the Phoenix, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The Politician’s Wife, Braveheart, The Sound and the Silence, Murder in Eden, Waking Ned; died Nov 3, 19991928 - William ‘Bill’ Finnegan
TV producer: Hawaii Five-O [51 episodes], The Dollmaker, Amos, Hoover, The Atlanta Child Murders, World War III, The $5.20 an Hour Dream, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Fabulous Baker Boys; died Nov 28, 20081930 - Robert Evans (Robert J. Shapera)
actor: The Man of a Thousand Faces, The Best of Everything; producer: Chinatown, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kid Notorious; died Oct 26, 20191936 - Harmon (Clayton) ‘Killer’ Killebrew
Baseball Hall of Famer Washington Nationals, Washington Senators [all-star: 1959], Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971/World Series: 1965/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1969], Kansas City Royals; died May 17, 20111940 - L. Russell Brown
songwriter: Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree, Something Short of Paradise, Sock It To Me Baby1941 - Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
U.S. civil rights activist: SNCC [Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee], Black Panthers, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party [founder/chairman]; credited w/creating phrase ‘Black Power’; emigrated to Africa; married to South African singer Miriam Makeba; even as he was dying of prostate cancer [died Nov 15, 1998], he continued working to bring the African-American community into coalition ... answering the telephone, “ready for the revolution.”1943 - ‘Little’ Eva Boyd
singer: The Loco-motion; died Apr 10, 20031943 - Bob Brunning
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Don’t Stop, Rhiannon, Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Black Magic Woman; author: The Fleetwood Mac Story: Rumours and Lies, Behind the Masks, Blues: The British Connection; died Oct 18, 20111943 - Roger Ruskin Spear
musician: saxophone, kazoo: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman, LPs: Gorilla, The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse, Tadpoles, Keynsham1944 - Gary Busey
actor: The Buddy Holly Story, Breaking Point, The Texas Wheelers, Warriors, Lethal Weapon, The Firm, Predator 21947 - Larry Pleau
hockey coach: Hartford Whalers; general mgr.: NY Rangers1947 - Richard Lewis
comedian, actor: Anything But Love, Daddy Dearest, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Wagon’s East, Curb Your Enthusiasm; died Feb 27, 20241948 - Fred Grandy
actor: The Love Boat; politician: U.S. congressman1948 - Ian Paice
musician: drums: groups: Paice Ashton Lord, Whitesnake, Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Hey Joe, We Can Work It Out, Help, Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water1948 - Rick Smith
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Washington Capitals1949 - Dan Dierdorf
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Univ. of Michigan All-American; St. Louis Cardinals; sportscaster: ABC Monday Night Football, CBS NFL Analyst1953 - Colin Hay
singer: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under; solo: LP: Looking for Jack; more1956 - Pedro Guerrero
baseball: LA Dodgers, SL Cardinals1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso
actress: Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson, One of the Boys1960 - Evelyn King
singer: Shame, I Don’t Know If It’s Right, Music Box, I’m in Love, Don’t Hide Our Love, Love Come Down, Betcha She Don’t Love You1961 - Sharon Lawrence
actress: NYPD Blue, The Prince of Motor City, Augusta, Gone, Lies & Alibis, I?, Nearing Grace, Little Black Book, Atomic Twister1962 - Amanda Donohoe
actress: The Substitute, Double Cross, L.A. Law1964 - Stedman Pearson
singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Can't Wait Another Minute, Rain or Shine, The Slightest Touch1967 - Jeff Burton
NASCAR race car driver; brother of driver Ward Burton1967 - Melora Hardin
actress: The North Avenue Irregulars, Iron Eagle, Big Man on Campus, Absolute Power, The Office, Monk1968 - Judith Hoag
actress: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Halloweentown, Big Love, A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010], Flying By, Final Approach, Bad City Blues, Armageddon1970 - Emily Skinner
singer, actress Broadway: Side Show, The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, Billy Elliot, Dreamgirls, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; more1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley
actress [1993-1999]: X-rated films: The Basket Trick, Natural Born Thrillers, Let’s Play Doctor, A Rear and Pleasant Danger, Four Weddings and a Honeymoon, A Clockwork Orgy, NYDP Blue1971 - Mike Sillinger
hockey: Detroit Red Wings, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers, TB Lightning, Florida Panthers, Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets, SL Blues and Phoenix Coyotes1977 - Shannon Boxx
footballer [midfielder]: 3-time [2004, 2008, 2012] Olympic gold medalist with U.S. women’s soccer team; 2015 FIFA World Cup champs1977 - Bradley Stryker
actor: 110%: When Blood, Sweat and Tears Are Not Enough, The Tillamook Treasure, Reel Guerrillas, Bruce Almighty, Wolves of Wall Street1978 - Nicole Scherzinger
singer: group: Pussycat Dolls; solo LPs: Killer Love [Don’t Hold Your Breath, Right There], Boomerang; has sold 60 million records worldwide; Dancing with the Stars winner 2010 [season 10]1981 - Joe Johnson
basketball [guard]: Univ of Arkansas; NBA: Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns1982 - Colin Jost
comedian: Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor; more1982 - Lily Rabe
actress: American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Asylum, All Good Things, Beyond Redemption, The Good Wife; stage: Steel Magnolias, The Merchant of Venice1991 - Kawhi Leonard
basketball [forward]: NBA: San Antonio Spurs [2011–2018]: 2014 NBA champs; Toronto Raptors [2018–2019]; Los Angeles Clippers [2019- ]1992 - Adam G. Sevani
actor: Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up Revolution, Step Up: All In, LOL
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Hit Music on This Day June 29
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I’m Yours (facts) - Don Cornell
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