March 2
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Events on This Day
1866 - The Excelsior Needle Company of Wolcottville, Connecticut began making sewing machine needles.1903 - The Martha Washington Hotel opened for business in New York City. The hotel featured 416 rooms and was the first hotel exclusively for women.
1925 - State and federal highway officials developed a nationwide route-numbering system and adopted the familiar U.S. shield-shaped numbered marker. For instance, in the east, there is U.S. 1 that runs from New England to Florida and in the west, the corresponding highway, U.S. 101, from Tacoma, WA to San Diego, CA.
1927 - Babe Ruth signed a 3-year contract with the New York Yankees for a guarantee of $70,000 a year, thus becoming baseball’s highest paid player.
1940 - The first televised intercollegiate track meet was seen by TV viewers in New York City as W2XBS presented the action live from Madison Square Garden. New York University won the meet.
1944 - The 16th Academy Awards celebration moved from a banquet hall to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood; hosted by comedian/actor Jack Benny. The Outstanding Motion Picture was Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, who won an Oscar for his efforts. Best Actor of 1943 was Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine and Best Actor in a Supporting Role was Charles Coburn for The More the Merrier. The Best Actress award was presented to Twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Jones for The Song of Bernadette and Best Actress in a Supporting Role was Katina Paxinou in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Stephen Dunn of The RKO Radio Studio Sound Department and Sound Director for This Land is Mine, picked up the Oscar for ... what else? ... Sound Recording. Best Music, Song winners were Harry Warren (music), Mack Gordon (lyrics) for the song, You’ll Never Know, from the movie Hello, Frisco, Hello. And, did you know that the United States Navy received an Oscar? It was for the Documentary (Short Subject) they produced, December 7th. That was fun. Now, let’s go outside and look at all the hand prints in the cement along the boulevard.
1949 - The American USAF B-50 Superfortress, Lucky Lady II, landed at Fort Worth, Texas. The airplane had completed the first nonstop flight around the world covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours. Captain James Gallagher of the U.S. Air Force refueled several times in midflight.
1951 - The U.S. Navy launched the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy subs.
1955 - The William Inge play Bus Stop opened at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway in New York City.
1957 - Teenage heartthrob Tab Hunter’s song Young Love was number one in the U.S.
1958 - British geologist Dr. Vivian Fuchs reached McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea, thus completing the first crossing of Antarctica by land. As a part of the International Geophysical Year, the Commonwealth of Nations organized the expedition, which covered 2,158 miles (3,473 kilometers).
1962 - Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain scored 100 points and broke an NBA record as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147. Chamberlain broke NBA marks for the most field goal attempts (63), most field goals made (36), most free throws made (28), most points in a half (59), most field goal attempts in a half (37), most field goals made in a half (22), and most field goal attempts in one quarter (21). The 316 total points scored tied an NBA record. What’s not known is if Chamberlain set the record for most gallons of sweat pouring off a man’s body during a game.
1962 - Astronaut John Glenn was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine, just as he had been a month earlier. What made Glenn so popular in those days was his Feb 20, 1962 piloting of the first manned orbital mission of the United States.
1965 - Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Eleanor Parker starred in the film adaptation of the popular Broadway hit, The Sound of Music. The musical, about the Trapp Family, was a hit on the Great White Way for over three years and one of the most popular motion pictures of all time. The movie brought instant stardom for Miss Andrews, who went on to star in other singing roles in the theatre, on television, in movies and as a popular recording artist.
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson watched as the Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, the world’s largest airplane, rolled off the assembly line in Georgia.
1969 - The Concorde supersonic jet took off on its maiden flight this day.
1970 - Timothy Leary, former Harvard psychology professor and LSD advocate, was sentenced to ten years for in prison for smuggling marijuana. He escaped from a minimum security prison and fled with his wife to Algeria and then Switzerland. In 1973 Leary was arrested by DEA agents in Afghanistan and returned to prison in California. He served three years before being parolled 1976.
1974 - Stevie Wonder won five Grammy Awards for his album, Innervisions and his hit songs, You Are The Sunshine of My Life and Superstition.
1974 - U.S. Postage stamps jumped from eight to ten cents this day for first-class mail. This way, your first-class letter came with a first-class price as well! Just wait another 20 years and see what happened...
1976 - Bubbling Brown Sugar opened at ANTA (American National Theatre and Academy) Theatre, New York City -- for 766 performances.
1977 - Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno made his debut on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
1978 - Soyuz 28 carried two cosmonauts to Salyut 6. Czech pilot Vladimir Remek became the first non-Russian, non-American in space.
1981 - Howard Stern started broadcasting on WWDC radio, Washington DC. It was at this station that Stern came into his own as a ‘shock-jock’.
1982 - Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, died at 53 years of age. His work included dozens of novels and over 100 short stories. His novel Valis (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) was an autobiographical work.
1983 - Sony and Philips introduced their jointly-developed compact disc system. The CD is a digital medium in which sound waves are replicated as a series of binary numbers on the 12 cm disc. A laser in the CD player reads the digital information, which is then translated into sound.
1984 - The first McDonald’s franchise was closed -- in Des Plaines, IL. After 30 years of selling burgers, Mickey D’s opened a new drive-in restaurant right across the McStreet.
1985 - Country singer Gary Morris hit #1 on the country charts for the first time with Baby Bye Bye, from his album, Faded Blue.
1988 - At the 30th Grammy Awards celebration: Paul Simon’s Graceland (record of the year), U2’s The Joshua Tree (album of the year), and Jody Watley (best new artist) were among the winners.
1989 - Madonna’s Like a Prayer premiered on worldwide Pepsi commercial. The 2-minute commercial aired only this one time -- because of protests from religious groups that the song was blasphemous.
1989 - The Exxon Houston ran aground in Hawaii, spilling 25,000 gallons of crude oil and 8,400 gallons of fuel oil.
1989 - Representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) by the end of the 20th century.
1991 - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love closed in New York after 377 performances. It was the shortest run of any Webber musical on Broadway. Aspects of Love was said to be the most expensive play in Broadway history, costing about two million dollars to open and running up expenses of eight million by the time it closed. Little of the investment was recouped during the show’s nearly 11-month run. The British production was much more successful, running for more than three years.
1992 - Actress Sandy Dennis died in Westport, CT. She was 54 years old.
1993 - It was the third day of the standoff between U.S. federal agents and Branch Davidians near Waco, TX. Local radio stations broadcast a taped statement in which the group’s leader, David Koresh, promised to surrender...
1994 - Miami opened the Calle Ocho Walk of Fame. Its first star honored Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine.
1995 - Smokey Joe’s Cafe opened at the Virginia Theatre in New York City. The musical revue was a smash, running for 2036 performances -- through Jan 16, 2000.
1996 - All five members of the hot Brazilian rock group Mamonas Assassinas were killed when their plane crashed into a mountain near Sao Paolo, Brazil.
1997 - Matadors across Spain went on strike as the bullfighting season opened. They favored a policy of shaving bull’s horns (sawing off a few inches) that was opposed by the government.
1999 - Singer Dusty Springfield (Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Look of Love, Son of a Preacher Man) lost her battle with breast cancer. She was 59 years old.
2000 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet left Britain for Chile, hours after he was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of human rights abuses.
2001 - These films opened in the U.S.: The Mexican, starring Brad Pitt. Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini and Bob Balaban; and See Spot Run, with David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb and Joe Viterelli.
2001 - The United Nations tried in vain to persuade Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to reverse its decision to destroy a pair of giant, ancient statues of Buddha and other Buddhist relicsBuddhist relics that the regime considered idolatrous.
2002 - Brazil reported that at least 23 people had died from dengue fever in Rio de Janeiro and some 52,000 had become ill.
2003 - Landlocked Switzerland became the first European country to win the America’s Cup as their sailing team, Alinghi, swept Team New Zealand in five races.
2004 - U.S. Senator John Kerry won the ten-state Super Tuesday series of elections and knocked the fight out of his spirited rival, Senator John Edwards. With the wins, Kerry had wrapped up the Democratic presidential nominationall.
2004 - California voters approved Proposition 57, Gov. Schwarzenegger’s $15-billion bond measure, to be repaid over the next 9 to 14 years. The voters also passed Proposition 58, prohibiting future deficit financing.
2004 - NASA scientists reported that the Mars rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that water was once present on the surface the planet.
2004 - Deaths on this day included Academy Award-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge, at 87 years of age, in San Diego, CA; and Marge Schott, controversial former owner of the Cincinnati Reds. She was 75 years old.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Black Snake Moan, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, John Cothran Jr., Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brandon Raines, Michael Raymond-James and Leonard L. Thomas; Full of It, with Ryan Pinkston and Teri Polo; Wild Hogs, starring Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Marisa Tomei, Jill Hennessy and Ray Liotta; and Zodiac, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch and Dermot Mulroney.
2007 - A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Ohio’s Bluffton University plunged off a highway ramp near Atlanta, GA and slammed into the pavement below, killing seven people and injuring 29 others.
2007 - U.S. Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned (under heavy pressure from Defense Secretary Robert Gates) as the Bush (II) administration tried to handle the outcry over poor treatment for veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
2008 - Russians voted in new President Dmitry Medvedev, outgoing President (and new Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin’s chosen successor. The fairness of the election was disputed, with the election monitoring group OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) refusing to monitor the voting because of what it called “severe restrictions on its observers by the Russian government.”
2009 - The U.S. government announce a revamped rescue package for insurance company AIG (American International Group) to provide the troubled company with another $30 billion in taxpayer money. This, as the DJIA fell below 7,000 for the first time in 12 years.
2009 - The Obama administration exposed years of Bush-era secrets, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers. The documents also divulged that the CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of interrogations of terror suspects.
2010 - Spanish investigators, working with private computer-security firms, arrested the ringleaders of the so-called Mariposa botnet. The dastardly computer robot group had first appeared in December 2008 and had grown into one of the biggest purveyors of cybercrime in the world, infecting 13 million computers across 190 countries.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed a bill to keep the U.S. government running for two weeks. The bill included $4 billion in spending cuts. Lawmakers then had to scramble to work out a new agreement before March 18th, when the short-term resolution ran out, to avoid a shutdown.
2011 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided (8-1) that anti-gay protesters who picket funerals of U.S. soldiers cannot be sued.
2012 - It was debut day in the U.S. for: The animated Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, featuring the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Betty White, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito and Rob Riggle; Project X, with Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Oliver Cooper, Dax Flame, Nichole Bloom, Martin Klebba, Miles Teller and Sam Lant; and Being Flynn, starring Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby, Paul Dano, Lili Taylor, Dale Dickey, Victor Rasuk, Billy Wirth, Chris Chalk and Katherine Waterston.
2013 - A Libyan security official said 50 Egyptians had been arrested in Benghazi for spreading Christianity. The were being charged with illegally entering and working in the country and would be deported.
2014 - Comedian/talk show host Ellen DeGeneres had a ball hosting the 86th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the actors and films of 2013. The big show was telecast worldwide from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. And now, the envelopes puleez: Gravity won seven awards, including Director for Alfonso Cuarón. 12 Years a Slave won three awards, including Picture and Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o. Dallas Buyers Club also won three Oscars, including Actor and Supporting Actor, for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto respectively. Other winners included Frozen and The Great Gatsby, with two awards each. Cate Blanchett won the Actress prize for Blue Jasmine. Other movies to win one Academy Award each were The Great Beauty, Helium, Her, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Mr Hublot, and 20 Feet from Stardom. Cuarón and Catherine Martin won two trophies each. And with 43.74 million TV viewers, this was the most watched Oscar ceremony since 2000.
2015 - Monaco and Italy agreed to end banking secrecy. The agreement came days after Switzerland and Liechtenstein made similar pledges to exchange financial information with Rome. The accords were key instruments in the Italian government’s attempt to fight tax evasion, a chronic problem plaguing the state’s coffers.
2016 - 50-year-old Jason Lawrance, a British man, was found guilty of raping five women and sexually assaulting two others he met through the U.S. Internet dating service match.com. Prosecutors said he was allowed to continue as a match.com member despite complaints to the website from his victims. Lawrance was given a life sentence by court and Judge Gregory Dickinson QC ordered him to serve at least 12 years and six months before the Parole Board could even consider his release.
2016 - U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko landed in Kazakhstan after almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars.
2016 - Six New Jersey newspapers called for the resignation of Governor Chris Christie over his endorsement of Donald Trump for president. The Gannett-owned newspapers, which include the Asbury Park Press and Cherry Hill Courier-Post, said they were “disgusted” with the governor’s endorsement of Donald Trump after he spent months on the campaign trail “trashing” the Republican real estate mogul. “How could he endorse someone for president who disagrees with him on virtually every important issue?” the newspapers wrote.
2017 - After it emerged that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met more than once in 2016 with Russia’s ambassador, but did not disclose the contacts in Senate testimony, Sessions recused himself from any probe that examines communications between Donald Trump aides and Moscow.
2017 - The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state’s spending on public education was unconstitutionally low. The justices pointed to the history of litigation against the state, saying courts had found funding for Kansas public schools insufficient for 12 of the past 15 years.
2018 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Death Wish, starring Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue and Vincent D’Onofrio; the animated, Gnome Alone, featuring the voice of Becky G, Josh Peck, Tara Strong, Olivia Holt and David Koechner; Red Sparrow, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Mary-Louise Parker; and Pickings, with Michelle Holland, Lily Brooks O’Briant, Reese Grande.
2018 - China warned that POTUS Trump’s imposition of high tariffs on steel and aluminum would have a “huge impact” on the global trading order and said Beijing would work with other nations to protect its own interests.
2019 - The SpaceX Crew Dragon astronaut capsule was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The flight to the International Space Station would take about a day and involve thorough testing of the spacecraft’s myriad systems -- before trusting it to later carry astronauts. In a post-launch tweet, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the flight marked “a new chapter in American excellence, getting us closer to once again flying American astronauts on American rockets from American soil. Congratulations to the @SpaceX and @NASA teams for this major milestone in our nation’s history.”
2020 - Britain’s Foreign Office said Germany, France and the U.K. had offered a €5 million ($5.6 million) package to Iran to help fight coronavirus there.
2020 - Sweden’s Transport Agency said it had temporarily suspended IranAir from conducting flights to and from Sweden due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court’s ruling that had let the family of a slain 16-year-old Mexican boy pursue a civil rights lawsuit against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who shot the teenager from across the border. José Antonio Elena Rodríguez had been walking down a street in Nogales, Mexico when agent Lonnie Swartz, standing on an embankment in Arizona, fired through a border fence, striking the teenager about 10 times. Swartz said he acted in self-defense in response to a group of rock throwers, while Rodriguez’s family said the teenager was walking peacefully.
2021 - The U.S. and E.U. announced sanctions on several Russian government officials and 13 Russian and European companies in response to the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which a U.S. intelligence assessment confirmed to be the work of the FSB. Navalny was President Vladimir Putin’s most high-profile political foe.
2021 - President Biden said the U.S. would have enough vaccine doses by the end of May to cover every American adult -- two months earlier than previously estimated.
2022 - Russian forces seized the southern port of Kherson, Ukraine, with casualties and destruction mounting. More than a million people had fled the war since it began the previous week ago.
2022 - The Justice Department launched a task force known as KleptoCapture aimed at straining the finances of Russia’s oligarchs. This, as the U.S. stepped up pressure Russia to cease its invasion of Ukraine.
2022 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the actions of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin towards Ukraine qualified as a war crime. Johnson also said law firms working to stop Russian oligarchs from being hit by government sanctions could face penalties themselves.
2022 - Honda suspended exports of cars and motorcycles to Russia, joining the global swell of companies halting business with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.
2023 - Alex Murdaugh, the 54-year-old disgraced South Carolina attorney, was found guilty of murdering his wife and son. Murdaugh kept a stony face when the verdicts were read while his remaining son could be seen wiping tears from his eyes. The verdict came after a six-week trial revealed shocking details involving brutal gore, extensive financial wrongdoing and the defendant’s own lies.
2023 - Prince Harry and Meghan were asked to vacate the residence gifted to them by the late Queen Elizabeth II. “We can confirm The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage,” their spokesperson said. The couple was asked to leave the property days after the release of Harry’s memoir Spare. The book features a litany of rebukes, criticisms and grievances from his time as a senior member of the royal family.
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Birthdays on This Day March 2
1793 - Sam Houston
fought for Texas’ independence from Mexico; President of Republic of Texas; U.S. Senator; Texas governor; died July 26, 18631810 - Pope Leo XIII
Giocchino Vincenzo Pecci) (256th pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1878-1903]; died July 20, 19031904 - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author [1984]: The Cat in the Hat, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham; died Sep 24, 19911909 - Mel (Melvin Thomas) Ott
‘Master Melvin’: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Giants [World Series: 1933, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1934-1945/consecutive batting record: walks in a row (7) June 16-18, 1943]; died Nov 21, 19581914 - Martin Ritt
director: Norma Rae, The Front, Sounder, Hud; died Dec 8, 19901917 - Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnez y De Acha III)
bandleader, singer: Babalu; actor: I Love Lucy; married to Lucille Ball; co-owner of Desilu Productions; introduced 3-camera sitcom technique; died Dec 2, 19861919 - Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley)
Academy Award-winning actress: The Song of Bernadette [1943], Carrie, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Towering Inferno; died Dec 17, 20091930 - John Cullum
Tony Award-winning actor: Shenandoah [1975], On the Twentieth Century [1978]; Marie, Sweet Country, Northern Exposure, Secret Life of Algernon1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev
politician: President of the Soviet Union [1990-1991]; died Aug 30, 20221931 - Tom Wolfe
author: The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff; died May 14, 20181932 - Chico (Humberto Perez) Fernandez
baseball: shortstop: Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets; died Jun 11, 20161934 - Howard Cassady
football: Heisman Trophy winner: Ohio State [1955]; died Sep 20, 20191934 - Doug Watkins
jazz musician: bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers; killed in car crash Feb 5, 19621935 - Ziva Rodann
actress: Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall, Alexander the Great, 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt, Samar, The Private Lives of Adam and Eve1935 - Al Waxman (Albert Samuel Waxman)
actor: Cagney & Lacey, The Victors, Wild Horse Hank, Meatballs III, Iron Eagle IV, The Hurricane; died Jan 18, 20011938 - Lawrence Payton
singer: group: The Four Tops: I Can’t Help Myself, Reach Out, I’ll Be There, Baby I Need Your Loving, Bernadette, Ain’t No Woman [Like the One I Got]; died June 20, 19971942 - Jon Finch
actor: New Tricks, Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord, Merlin of the Crystal Cave, Unexplained Laughter, Pop Pirates, Much Ado About Nothing; died Dec 28, 20121942 - John Irving
author: Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp1942 - Lou Reed (Lewis Alan Reed)
singer, songwriter, guitarist: group: Velvet Underground; solo: Walk on the Wild Side, Charley’s Girl; I Love You Suzanne; appeared in Paul Simon film: One Trick Pony; died Oct 27, 20131949 - Gates McFadden
actress: Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: Insurrection, Crowned and Dangerous, Taking Care of Business, The Hunt for Red October1950 - Karen Carpenter
drummer, singer: Grammy Award-winning group: The Carpenters: Best New Artist, Group w/Vocal: Close to You [1970]; We’ve Only Just Begun, Top of the World, Please Mr. Postman; died Feb 4, 19831950 - Molly Cheek
actress: Spider-Man 2, American Pie series, Smoke Signals, Stepmonster, Purple People Eater, A Summer to Remember, American Wedding1950 - Mitchell Laurance
actor: Urban Mythology, Mama Flora’s Family, From the Earth to the Moon, To Love, Honor, and Deceive, Deadly Pursuits, In the Heat of the Night1952 - Laraine Newman
comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live1953 - Russ Feingold
U.S. Senator from Wisconsin [1993-2011]1955 - Jay Osmond
musician: drums: group: The Osmonds1956 - John Cowsill
singer: group: The Cowsills: The Rain, The Park and Other Things, We Can Fly, Hair, Indian Lake1956 - Mark Evans
musician: bass: group: AC/DC: LP: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, For Those About to Rock1959 - Larry Stewart
singer: group: Restless Heart: A Tender Lie, The Bluest Eyes in Texas, Why Does It Have To Be [Wrong or Right], Wheels, That Rock Won’t Roll, I’ll Still Be Loving You; solo LP: Why Can’t You1962 - Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi)
singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer, Blaze of Glory, LPs: Bon Jovi, 7800 Fahrenheit1962 - Al Del Greco
football [kicker]: Univ of Auburn; NFL: Green Bay Packers, St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals, Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans1965 - Ron Gant
baseball [left field, second, third base]: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Anaheim Angels, Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres,Oakland Athletics1968 - Daniel Craig
actor: 7th “Bond. James Bond”: Spectre, Skyfall, Casino Royale [2006], Quantum of Solace, No Time to Die; The Jacket, Sylvia, Copenhagen, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Munich, The Adventures of Tintin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Knives Out film series1968 - Darren Turcotte
hockey [center]: NY Rangers, Hartford Whalers, Winnipeg Jets, SJ Sharks, SL Blues, Nashville Predators1971 - Roman Cechmanek
hockey [goalie]: Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings1971 - Elizabeth Lackey
actress: Cooking Lessons, The Extreme Team, New Alcatraz, Planet of the Apes, Mulholland Dr., Murder, She Wrote, Love Happens1972 - Amber Smith
fashion model: Playboy covergirl, Esquire magazine’ first Vargas Girl of the 1990s; actress: Faithful, Just Shoot Me, Pacific Blue, Silk Stalkings, American Beauty, Reasonable Doubt1973 - Kyle Richardson
football [punter]: Arkansas State Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks, Baltimore Ravens, Minnesota Vikings, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns1977 - Curtis Andersen
actor: The Work and the Glory: A House Divided, Envy, The Rules of Attraction, Pearl Harbor, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye1977 - Chris Martin
musician: piano, guitar; singer: group: Coldplay: Sparks, Fix You, Don’t Panic, Warning Sign, Clocks, Help Is Around the Corner, Everything’s Not Lost; married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow1977 - Heather McComb
actress: The Somnambulist, 2012: Super Nova, Ocean of Pearls, Steel City, Dependency, All the Real Girls, Devious Beings1978 - Whit Hertford
actor: It Runs in the Family, Jurassic Park, Mikey, The Addams Family, Taking Care of Business, A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Child1980 - Rebel Wilson
comedian, writer, actress: Bridesmaids, A Few Best Men, Bogan Pride, Pitch Perfect film series1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard
actress: As You Like It, Jurassic World, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Terminator Salvation; daughter of actor, director Ron Howard and writer Cheryl Howard Crew1982 - Henrik Lundqvist
ice hockey [goaltender]: NHL: New York Rangers [Vezina Trophy 2012]: only goaltender in NHL history to record 30 wins in each of his first seven seasons; led Swedish men’s team to their second Olympic gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy1982 - Ben Roethlisberger
football [quarterback]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers: 2006 Super Bowl XL champs, 2009 Super Bowl XLIII champs, 2011 Super Bowl XLV1985 - Reggie Bush
football [running back]: Univ of Southern California; NFL: New Orleans Saints [2006–2010: Super Bowl XLIV champs (2010)]; Miami Dolphins [2011–2012]; Detroit Lions [2013-2014]]; San Francisco 49ers [2015] Buffalo Bills [2016]1989 - Nathalie Emmanuel
actress: Furious 7, Fast X, Fast & Furious 10 Part 2, Megalopolis, Game of Thrones, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Die Hart1989 - Shane Vereen
football [running back]: Univ of California, Berkeley; NFL: New England Patriots [2011–2017]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs; New Orleans Saints [2018]1990 - Malcolm Butler
football [cornerback]: NFL: New England Patriots [2014–2017]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs, 2017 Super Bowl LI champs, 2018 Super Bowl LII; Tennessee Titans [2018- ]1990 - Luke Combs
singer: Hurricane, When It Rains It Pours, One Number Away, She Got the Best of Me, Beautiful Crazy, Beer Never Broke My Heart; as of 2024 sixteen of his singles have gone to number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart1995 - Veronica Dunne
actress: K.C. Undercover, Locker Love, The Couch, Our Wild Hearts, Kickin’ It, Austin and Ally, The Suite Life on Deck1998 - Tua Tagovailoa
foootball [QB]: Univ of Alabama: 2018 National champs; 2018 Orange Bowl MVP; NFL: Miami Dolphins [2020- ]
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Hit Music on This Day March 2
1946Let It Snow (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Symphony (facts) - The Freddy Martin Orchestra (vocal: Clyde Rogers)
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