June 30
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1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train on this day.1859 - Frenchman Charles Blondin aka Jean Francois Gravelet crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope! It took him five minutes. 25,000 spectators stood and stared as he made his way across the falls in a most dangerous Odyssey ... one he had made several times before on stilts; carrying another man on his back; pushing a wheelbarrow; and even once, blindfolded. What some people do with nothing but spare time on their hands. Next, they’ll be going over the falls in wooden barrels!
1908 - Possibly the most powerful, natural explosion in recorded history occurred on this day in 1908 at 7:17 a.m. The site was the Tunguska section of Central Siberia. The spectacular explosion devastated a forested area, some 70 miles in diameter, caused seismic shock, a firestorm followed by black rain and an illumination that, it is said, could be seen for hundreds of miles. It is said that the impact threw down horses that had been standing in a field 400 miles away and moved the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway, as if in an earthquake. It flash-burned people 40 miles away, melted their silverware and destroyed herds of reindeer. Even now, no one knows what caused the explosion.
1921 - Documents were signed forming the Radio Corporation of America, better known as RCA. RCA soon rivaled its main competitor, General Electric (GE).
1936 - Margaret Mitchell’s book, Gone with the Wind, was published in New York City.
1942 - The U.S. Mint in New Orleans shut down for good on this day. It had not turned out any shiny coins since 1909; had been used as an assay office up until this day; and was renovated as a museum in 1979. The mint building is now a national historic landmark.
1948 - The transistor was invented by three Bell Laboratory scientists in Murray Hill, NJ.
1949 - The state legislature of Missouri adopted The Missouri Waltz as its official state song.
1952 - The radio soap opera, The Guiding Light, was seen for the first time on CBS television. The daytime drama was credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009.
1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. That early ’Vette sold for $3,513.
1956 - A United Airlines DC-7 and a TWA Lockheed 1049 Super Constellation collided over the Grand Canyon. 128 people were killed. Rules were changed as a result of this collision: All aircraft flying between 18,000 and 60,000 feet above sea level must adhere to an IFR (instrument flight rules) flight plan.
1962 - Los Angeles Dodger’s star Sandy Koufax pitched his first no-hitter in a game with the New York Mets. Koufax would toss three more no-hit games before retiring in 1966.
1963 - Pope Paul VI was crowned the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church in an outdoor ceremony at St. Peter’s Square.
1970 - The Cincinnati Reds moved to their new $45,000,000 home at Riverfront Stadium. The Reds had played 48 seasons at Crosley Field.
1971 - A Soviet space mission ended in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were found dead inside their spacecraft after it had returned to Earth. G.T. Dobrovolsky, V.J. Patsayev, and V.N. Volkov and died during re-entry after the 24-day mission in space.
1973 - Jesus Christ Superstar closed in New York City after 724 performances on Broadway. The cast album quickly became a million-seller.
1974 - The famous July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie, Jaws, was filmed. A crowd of 400 screaming, scared, panic-stricken extras in bathing suits ran from the water, over and over and over again, until the scene was perfect. No man-eating killer white sharks were harmed during the production of this paragraph...
1975 - Cher married rock star Gregg Allman. Cher announced her intention to untie the knot just days after she and Allman were hitched, but the stormy marriage did not actually come to an end until January 1979.
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter cancelled the B-1A bomber, as priorities shifted to the development of the cruise missile.
1981 - Grant Tinker, head of MTM Enterprises, was named to succeed Fred Silverman as president of NBC-TV. Silverman was known as a programming wonder-boy in previous successes with CBS and ABC but would find it rough-going at the Peacock Network.
1984 - The Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) played the longest game in professional history by beating the Michigan Panthers 27-21. The game went on for 93 minutes, 33 seconds. The old mark had been 82 minutes, 40 seconds, set by the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs. Commercial time was not counted.
1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in The King and I at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. The show had run -- on and off -- for over 34 years.
1985 - For the 13th time since 1972, the world’s official timekeeper atomic clock ticked off one extra second at 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time (also called UCT, Universal Coordinated Time) or 7:59:59 p.m. in New York. Atomic clocks measure the passage of time much more precisely than those based on the rotation of our planet, so adding a leap second allows astronomical time to catch up to atomic time.
1985 - The creator of the Twinkie, James A. Dewar, died on this day. Mr. Dewar created the treat in 1930. Many say that Twinkies will stay fresh almost forever. In fact, many bomb shelters in the 1960s were furnished with stockpiles of Hostess Twinkies just for that reason. Hostess bakery in Emporia, Kansas whips up more than 1 million Twinkies a day -- and over 400 million a year.
1986 - In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults (upholding a Georgia sodomy law). However, in 2003 another Supreme Court ruling overruled a Texas anti-sodomy law, proving apparently, that the U.S. Supreme Court can go both ways...
1988 - Renegade Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops in defiance of papal authority; the Vatican announced the excommunication of all five.
1990 - German troops’ harassment of East German citizens stopped -- as did all border control activities between East and West Germany. A few weeks later (Sep 21, 1990), all of the border units were dissolved.
1990 - New Kids on the Block (Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jon Knight, Danny Wood, Joe McIntyre) stepped to number one in the U.S. with their Step by Step single, just as their Step by Step LP was stepping to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K.
1991 - Frank Zappa performed with Hungarian musicians as Hungary celebrated the withdrawal of Soviet troops after some 46 years of occupation. Zappa headlined the Taban Jazzfestival this day in Budapest.
1992 - Fidel Ramos was sworn in as the new president of the Philippines. Joseph Estrada was elected vice-president with twice as many votes in a separate race.
1993 - The Firm, the motion picture, debuted. Tom Cruise stars as a young man fresh out of law shool who joins a sinister law firm and proceeds to dig up/out the dirt. Tom gets ample help from Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter and other superstars combined to attract receipts totalling $25.40 million the first weekend.
1995 - “Houston...we’ve had a problem” were famous words from Apollo 13, the real-life mission. The movie, which changed those famous words to “Houston...we’ve got a problem,” opened on U.S. theatre screens this day. Apollo 13 brought in $25.35 million for the weekend, which was no problem at all for the film’s producers.
1995 - Garth Brooks buried the glass master of his LP The Hits beneath his star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was the first time something like this had been done and, as far as we know, the last.
1997 - As the clock struck midnight, Red China reclaimed Hong Kong from Great Britain and the British Crown’s 156-year colonial rule came to an end. Many had predicted the worst, but Hong Kong seamlessly made the transition to a Special Administrative Region of China. As British Prime Minister Tony Blair remarked, “The vision of one country, two systems has become a reality ... I have been impressed by the Chinese leadership’s hands-off approach.”
1998 - Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of U.S. Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.
1999 - Vodafone Group Plc of the U.K. and AirTouch Communications Inc. of the U.S. announced their plan to merge. Individually, the two companies were already leaders in mobile communications services in their respective home markets. The merger, valued at $69 billion, created a company with agreements in 102 countries across 217 networks giving over 150 million customers access to its network.
1999 - The Chicago Bulls, picking first in the NBA draft (for the first time ever), selected Duke’s power forward Elton Brand as their first overall selection. Brand had led Duke to the NCAA national title game (played March 29, 1999: UConn 77, Duke 74) and averaged 17.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game while shooting 62 percent from the field.
2000 - The Perfect Storm premiered in the U.S. to a nearly perfect $41.33 million opening-weekend box office. George Clooney plays Billy Tyne, captain of the Andrea Gail, in a true-life drama about -- you guessed it -- a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Tyne’s crew is Bobby Shatford (played by Mark Wahlberg), Murph, (John C. Reilly), Sully (William Fichtner), Bugsy (John Hawkes) and Alfred Pierre (Allen Payne). On Halloween 1991, they are confronted by three raging weather fronts which unexpectedly collide to produce the greatest, fiercest storm in modern history -- the perfect storm (get it?).
2000 - Also debuting in U.S. theatres: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, starring June Foray, Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Randy Quaid, Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Piper Perabo, Robert De Niro, James Rebhorn and the voice of Keith Scott as Bullwinkle J. Moose.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton nominated former Congressman Norman Mineta to lead the Commerce Department and become the first Asian-American Cabinet Secretary.
2001 - NASA launched its 16-foot, 1,800-pound Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The spaceship was designed to orbit the Sun and to scan the universe by measuring variations in radiation temperature of up to 20 millionths of a degree. (In 2003 WMAP helped scientists calculate the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years.)
2001 - Deaths on this day: Guitarist Chet Atkins (77), who helped create the Nashville sound, died in Nashville, TN; and Joe Henderson (64), tenor saxophonist, died in San Francisco, CA.
2002 - The U.S. Postal Service put higher postage rates into effect. The new domestic rates, fees, and classifications, included a three-cent boost for first-class letters -- to 37 cents.
2004 - The much-anticipated Spider-Man 2 opened in the U.S. The sci-fi adventure thriller stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Bruce Campbell, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Elizabeth Banks, Daniel Gillies, Donna Murphy, Vanessa Ferlito and Ted Raimi.
2004 - A federal appeals court approved an antitrust settlement that Microsoft Corporation had negotiated with the U.S. Justice Department.
2005 - Bank of America Corp. announced its acquisition of MBNA Corp. The $35-billion cash-and-stock deal (the merger closed on Jan 1, 2006) would transform the third-largest bank in the U.S. into one of the world’s largest credit card issuers.
2005 - The income of Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, rose by 11% in 2004. According to an annual financial report released by his household, Charles’ yearly take was £13,274,000. The report also said Charles raised £109m for charities during the year, and donated £2.5m from his own money to charity.
2005 - Spain’s Parliament voted to legalize gay marriages, defying conservatives. Spain became the third country to allow same-sex unions.
2006 - The Devil Wears Prada debuted in U.S. theatres. The comedy drama stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Tracie Thoms, Simon Baker, Emily Blunt, Alexie Gilmore, Rebecca Mader and Stanley Tucci.
2006 - Ralph’s Grocery chain agreed to pay $70 million in restitution and fines as part of a plea agreement involving charges of hiring hundreds of workers under fake names during a 2003 strike and lockout in Southern California.
2008 - A French court ordered online auctioneer eBay to pay 40 million euros in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods. The ruling was cheered as a victory for copyright protection.
2009 - China decided to not require personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software, retreating in the face of protests by Washington and Web surfers hours before an edict was due to take effect.
2009 - India’s first ‘sea bridge’ was opened in Mumbai, built to ease the city’s notoriously choked roads. The 5.6-kilometer (3.5-mile) state-of-the-art Bandra-Worli Sea Link, an eight-lane freeway, helped cut the 40-minute journey between the suburbs of Bandra and Worli to just eight minutes.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, a documentary by Vikram Jayanti; and the romantic fantasy thriller The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, starring Xavier Samuel, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Justin Chon, Anna Kendrick, Michael Welch, Christian Serratos and Jackson Rathbone.
2010 - The British Supreme Court ruled that troops are not protected by the Human Rights Act on the battlefield, after the government argued that such protection could hamper military decision-making. The case related to Private Jason Smith, a member of the Territorial Army who died from heatstroke in Iraq in 2003.
2011 - The Italian government approved a €47 billion ($68 billion) austerity program. The 3-year plan was designed to bring the government’s 3.9% budget deficit to near balance by 2014.
2012 - A group of 150 Mormons quit the church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City. This, in a rare display of defiance that capped decades of disagreement over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage. Participants, who met in a public park and signed a declaration of independence from Mormonism, came from Utah, Arizona and Idaho, among other states.
2013 - 19 firefighters of an elite crew fighting a forest fire northwest of Phoenix, Arizona were overtaken and killed by a fast-moving blaze stoked by hot winds. The Yarnell Hill Fire also destroyed some 200 homes.
2014 - 84-year-old Rolf Harris, Australian-born singer (Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport), was convicted at Southwark Crown Court, England of indecently assaulting girls and young women from 1968-1986. Because of the conviction, Harris was stripped of many of the honours that had been awarded to him during his career, including the AO and CBE.
2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court (Burwell v Hobby Lobby) ruled 5-4 that some employers with religious objections do not have to pay for contraceptives for their staff.
2015 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law ending most vaccination exemptions for the state’s schoolchildren. Only exemptions signed by a doctor would be allowed.
2016 - Bosnia published the results of its 2013 census. It showed the population had shrunk by nearly a quarter to 3.5 million over the previous 25 years. That period had marked by the devastating 1992-1995 war that took 100,000 lives and turned almost half of the population into refugees either within the country or abroad. The release of the results caused tensions to soar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, as the results showed that Bosnian Muslims were the new majority.
2017 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Amityville: The Awakening, starring Bella Thorne, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Cameron Monaghan; the animated Despicable Me 3, featuring the voices of Jenny Slate, Kristen Wiig, Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Julie Andrews, Steve Coogan, Trey Parker and Russell Brand; The House, starring Will Ferrell, Allison Tolman and Amy Poehler; 13 Minutes, with Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler and Burghart Klaußner; 2:22, with Teresa Palmer, Michiel Huisman and Sam Reid; Inconceivable, starring Nicolas Cage, Gina Gershon and Nicky Whelan; and The Little Hours, with Alison Brie, Dave Franco and Kate Micucci.
2017 - The United Nations closed its peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast, some 13 years after forces intervened to implement a peace agreement that left the war-racked economic giant split into two pieces. The U.N. had guided the West African nation through a political crisis to elections and played a decisive role in the 2011 civil war.
2018 - The so-called County Fire erupted in Yolo County, northern California. By the following day it had scorched 32,500 acres and was only 2% contained.
2018 - A U.S. district judge ordered federal emergency officials to extend vouchers for temporary hotel housing for nearly 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees in Florida and Massachusetts.
2019 - Two people were killed at Royal Dutch Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform in the deep-water U.S. Gulf of Mexico, 214 miles south of New Orleans, LA. During a routine -- and mandatory -- test of a lifeboat launch and retrieval system, apparently the two workers workers fell through a deck on the platform.
2019 - POTUS Trump met with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea and became the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea. Trump announced that he and Kim had agreed to resume stalled talks on denuclearization in the coming weeks (nothing ever came of those ‘talks’).
2020 - Nine women who sued convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein reached a $19 million settlement in the lawsuit that alleged that the disgraced movie mogul was a serial sexual harasser and abuser.
2020 - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual report. Among the eye-opening facts were that more than 140 million females were considered missing -- because of a preference for sons over daughters and extreme neglect of young girls. The report also said child marriages occur 33,000 times a day, despite being universally banned.
2021 - 83-year-old Bill Cosby was released from prison after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 conviction for sexual assault. The comedian, actor had served three years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a maximum-security prison outside Philadelphia when the court ruled that a “non-prosecution agreement” with a previous prosecutor meant that Mr. Cosby should not have been charged in the case.
2021 - The World Health Organization declared China to be free of malaria. The announcement came after a seven-decade campaign against the disease.
2022 - The Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Capping carbon dioxide emissions to transition away from coal power “may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day,’” but it’s up to Congress, not the EPA, to make “a decision of such magnitude,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court’s 6-3 conservative majority. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the ruling “strips the Environmental Protection Agency of the power Congress gave it.”
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. inlcuded: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, starring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Karen Allen, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook, John Rhys-Davies and Antonio Banderas; and the animated Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, with characters voiced by Annie Murphy, Jane Fonda, Toni Collette, Sam Richardson, Lana Condor and Will Forte.
2023 - The Supreme Court ruled (6-3) against the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness plan for 40 million students, saying the president overstepped his authority. The program had been aimed at delivering up to $20,000 of relief to millions of borrowers struggling with outstanding student loan debt.
2023 - And the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings. The decision was made in what the dissenting liberal justices called a “license to discriminate.”
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Birthdays on This Day June 30
1768 - Elizabeth Monroe (Kortright)
First Lady: wife of 5th U.S. President James Monroe; died Sep 23, 18301902 - Michael Whalen
actor: Elmer Gantry, Missile to the Moon, The Silver Star, According to Mrs. Hoyle, Fingerprints Don’t Lie, She Shoulda Said No The Man I Marry, The Country Doctor, Ellery Queen, Master Detective; died Apr 14, 19741904 - Glenda Farrell
actress: Torchy Blane film series, Little Caesar, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Havana Widows, Gambling Ship, Bureau of Missing Persons, Mystery of the Wax Museum, The Big Shakedown, Girl Reporter, Smart Blonde, Gold Diggers of 1937; died May 1, 19711905 - John Harmon
actor: Naked Monster, The Green Hornet, Microwave Massacre, Unholy Rollers, Funny Girl, The Las Vegas Hillbillys, The Monster of Piedras Blancas; died Aug 6, 19851912 - Dan Reeves
Pro Football Hall of Famer: owner: Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams; his experiments in football TV broadcasts paved way for modern NFL policies; died April 15, 19711917 - Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrender)
Academy Award-winning actress: I Want to Live [1958], I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Valley of the Dolls; died Mar 14, 19751917 - Lena Horne
singer: Love Me or Leave Me, Stormy Weather; actress: The Wiz; died May 9, 20101927 - Shirley Fry
tennis champion: Australian Open [1957], French Open [1951], Wimbledon [1956], U.S. Open [1956]; died Jul 13, 20211928 - June Valli
singer: Bidin’ My Time, Crying in the Chapel, Your Hit Parade, Stop the Music, Unchained Melody, Apple Green; died Mar 12, 19931934 - Harry Blackstone Jr.
magician, actor: Mandrake, Santa Barbara; his father was magician Harry Blackstone; died May 14, 19971936 - Nancy Dussault
actress: Too Close for Comfort, The Ted Knight Show; co-host: Good Morning America1936 - Tony Musante
actor: Judgment, Toma, Fatal Choice, The Grissom Gang, Breaking Up is Hard To Do; died Nov 26, 20131943 - Florence Ballard
singer: group: The Supremes: Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, Come See About Me, You Can’t Hurry Love, My World is Empty Without You, The Happening; died Feb 22, 19761944 - Glenn Shorrock
singer: group: Little River Band: It’s a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me1944 - Nicolas Survoy
actor: The Big Time, All Over the Guy, The Man Who Captured Eichmann, Breaking Free, Forever Young, Wolf1944 - Ron (Alan) ‘Rocky’ Swoboda
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Montreal Expos, NY Yankees1946 - William (Billy) Brown
singer: groups: The Moments: Love on a Two-Way Street, Look at Me [I’m in Love]; Ray, Goodman and Brown: Special Lady1946 - Bill Lenkaitis
football: Penn State Unive., San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots1949 - (Andrew) Andy Scott
musician: guitar: group: The Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run1951 - Roger Maltbie
golf champ: World Series of Golf [1985]1952 - Brian Ogilvie
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, SL Blues1953 - Hal Lindes
musician: guitar: group: Dire Straits: Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Man’s Too Strong1956 - David Alan Grier
actor: Tales from the Hood, Jumanji, Loose Cannons, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, A Soldier’s Story, In Living Color, All is Forgiven1956 - Philip Adrian Wright
musician: synthesizer: group: Human League: Don’t You Want Me, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise1959 - Vincent D’Onofrio
actor: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Mystic Pizza, Ed Wood, The Newton Boys, The Thirteenth Floor, The Cell1960 - Murray Cook
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer, founding member of the Australian children’s band The Wiggles1963 - Rupert Graves
actor: The Madness of King George, Damage, Maurice, A Room with a View, Doomsday Gun, Mrs. Dalloway1965 - Steve Duchesne
hockey: LA Kings, Quebec Nordiques, SL Blues, Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings1965 - Mitch Richmond
basketball [shooting guard]: Kansas State Univ; NBA: Golden State Warriors [1988–1991]; Sacramento Kings [1991–1998]; Washington Wizards [1998–2001]; Los Angeles Lakers [2001–2002]1966 - Marton Csokas
actor: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Kingdom of Heaven, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Bourne Supremacy, xXx, Æon Flux1966 - Mike Tyson
boxer: youngest heavyweight champion [20 years + 144 days]1969 - Jim Montgomery
hockey [center]: SJ Sharks, SL Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars1970 - Brian Bloom
actor: Once Upon a Time in America, As the World Turns, At Home with the Webbers, Bandit1970 - Mark Grudzielanek
baseball: Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals1971 - Jamie McLennan
hockey [goalie]: NY Islanders, SL Blues, Minnesota Wild, Calgary Flames, NY Rangers1971 - Monica Potter
actress: Boston Legal, The Young and the Restless, Without Limits, Patch Adams, Along Came a Spider1972 - Garret Anderson
baseball: California/Anaheim/LA Angels1973 - Chan Ho Park
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers, Texas Rangers1974 - Bert Robertsson
hockey: Vancouver Canucks, Edmonton Oilers, NY Rangers1979 - Rick Gonzalez
actor: Pulse, War of the Worlds [2005], Coach Carter, Old School, The Rookie, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles1981 - Tom Burke
actor: Bella and the Boys, The Young Visiters, State of Play, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, All the King’s Men1982 - Lizzy Caplan
actress: Mean Girls, Cloverfield, Hot Tub Time Machine, Bachelorette, Related, The Class, True Blood, Party Down, Masters of Sex1983 - Cole Swindell
singer: Chillin’ It, Ain’t Worth the Whiskey, Hope You Get Lonely Tonight1983 - Cheryl Tweedy
singer: group: Girls Aloud: I’ll Stand By You, Wake Me Up, Life Got Cold, Love Machine, Jump, No Good Advice, Sound of the Underground1984 - Fantasia Barrino
singer: Summertime, I Believe, Chain of Fools, Truth Is, Ain’t Gonna Beg, Free Yourself, Baby Mama, Don’t Act Right1985 - Trevor Ariza
basketball [guard, forward]: NBA: New York Knicks [2004-2006; Orlando Magic [2006–2007] Los Angeles Lakers [2007–2009]: 2009 NBA champs; Houston Rockets [2009–2010] New Orleans Hornets [2010–2012] Washington Wizards [2012–2014] Houston Rockets [2014–2018]; Phoenix Suns [2018]; Washington Wizards [2018-2019]; Sacramento Kings [2019–2020]; Portland Trail Blazers [2020]; Miami Heat [2021]; Los Angeles Lakers [2021–2022]1985 - Michael Phelps
Olympic, world champion swimmer: world records: 200m butterfly [1:53.93]; 200m individual medley [1:55.94] and 400m individual medley [4:08.41]; 2004 Athens Summer Olympics: six gold, two bronze medals; 2012 London Summer Olympics: four gold, two silver1991 - Nicole Row
musician: bassist [upright/electric/synth]: group: Panic! at the Disco1993 - Trea Turner
baseball [shortstop]: San Diego Padres [2014]; Washington Nationals [2015-2021]: 2019 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2021-2022]; Philadelphia Phillies [2023– ]
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1944I’ll Be Seing You (facts) - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
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