March 5
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1750 - The first Shakespearean play in America was presented at the Nassau Street Theatre in New York City. The play enjoyed by the audience was the famous King Richard III.1821 - James Monroe became the first President of the United States to be inaugurated on March 5th. The reason? The usual inauguration date of March 4th fell on a Sunday that year and a President cannot be inaugurated on the Sabbath. It’s still the law, even though the Inauguration Day was officially set back to January 20th.
1864 - For the first time, Oxford met Cambridge in track and field competition in England.
1872 - George Westinghouse of “You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse” fame patented the air brake on this day. They were, and remain, especially important to trains, big trucks, buses and amusement park rides.
1922 - Annie Oakley broke all existing records for women’s trap shooting. She smashed 98 out of 100 clay targets thrown at 16 yards while at a match at the Pinehurst Gun Club in North Carolina. She hit the first fifty, missed the 51st, then the 67th.
1923 - Old-age pension laws were enacted in the states of Montana and Nevada.
1924 - Lace up those bowling shoes, keglers, grab that 16-pounds of rubber or hi-tech plastic and let it rip down the lane, as we bring you bowling news. Frank Caruana of Buffalo, New York, became the first bowler to roll two perfect games in a row and an amazing 29 strikes in succession! He rolled five strikes in a row in a third game in sanctioned play, as well.
1936 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Mutiny On The Bounty (produced by Irving Thalberg and Albert Lewin) was voted Outstanding Production, as they used to say. The 8th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Director/producer/writer/actor Frank Capra hosted the big giveaway honoring the films of 1935, which saw Victor McLaglen take the Best Actor prize for The Informer (John Ford won for directing this one). Best Actress was Bette Davis in Dangerous. In case you are wondering, they didn’t start handing out those Supporting Actor/Actress awards until 1937. The Best Music/Song award winners were Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) for the song Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935. An Oscar for Short Subject/Cartoon was awarded to some guy named Walt Disney for his ’toon, Three Orphan Kittens.
1945 - The U.S. Army entered Cologne, a major rail junction and river port in northwestern Germany.
1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain Speech at Fulton, MO, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
1953 - The Soviet Union announced that dictator Josef Stalin had died at age 73.
1953 - A grand jury in Elizabeth, New Jersey, rejected efforts to ban the The Moon is Blue for obscenity. The film was condemned by the Catholic Church (it objected to the inclusion of the words ‘virgin’, ‘seduce’, ‘mistress’ and ‘pregnant’). The movie, with its dialogue intact, was a big hit at the box office.
1960 - Elvis Presley returned to civilian life after a two-year hitch in the U.S. Army. Not since General Douglas MacArthur returned from battle has a soldier received such publicity. Elvis said he probably would not be growing his famous and long sideburns back, though he did relent in later years.
1963 - Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash near Camden, TN (80 mi sw of Nashville). The famous country music stars were returning from a benefit performance. Cline, the ‘Queen of Country Music’ was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973. Jessica Lange played Patsy in the 1985 biographical film, Sweet Dreams, named after one of Cline’s hugely popular songs. Willie Nelson wrote her biggest hit, Crazy, which become a number one country hit and a top 10 pop song in November, 1961.
1969 - The rock magazine, Creem, was published for the first time this day.
1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty “entered into force.” 45 countries, including the three main nuclear powers, signed the agreement.
1973 - Roberta Flack, riding at #1 on the pop music charts with, Killing Me Softly with His Song, could hardly wait to rip into the fancy frame containing her brand new gold record. She flew to the stereo machine and set the needle down on the shiny surface, only to hear Come Softly to Me. She was so impressed by this unexpected turn of the table that she wound up humming the old Fleetwoods song for three days.
1979 - Voyager 1 had its closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) and sent photos back to Earth.
1984 - The Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League signed quarterback, Steve Young, from Brigham Young University, to a “substantial” contract on this day. The football all-American inked a pact that would earn him $40 million dollars over a 43-year period, in one of the most complicated contracts ever -- lasting until 2027. The USFL folded not long after he signed the lucrative deal. Young became the back-up quarterback for football legend, Joe Montana, in San Francisco. In 1994, when Montana moved to the Kansas City Chiefs, Steve Young took over the reins to lead the 49ers.
1985 - Mike Bossy of the New York Islanders became the first National Hockey League player to score 50 goals in eight consecutive seasons. Bossy went on to enjoy nine 50-goal seasons
1989 - Pepsi Cola in the U.S. said it would withdraw its Madonna TV ads from any station that showed the singer’s video, Like a Prayer. The video, which already had been banned in Italy, showed a scantily-clad Madonna kissing the naked feet of a statue in a church sanctuary and caressing a priest. Viewers were mistaking the Madonna Like a Prayer video with a Pepsi commercial that features her singing the song.
1993 - Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was banned for life from racing by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) after he failed a dope test. Johnson also had been forced out of the 1988 Seoul Olympics after failing a drug test.
1995 - An Australian yacht oneAustralia, cracked in two and sank in 950 feet of water about five miles off San Diego during a challenger series race. All 16 sailors were rescued in this, the first sinking in the history of America’s Cup racing. The yacht was never recovered, but there was a oneAustralia backup boat.
1997 - Tommy Lasorda, Phil Niekro, Nellie Fox and Willie Wells Sr. were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1999 - Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema met at the White House with President Clinton, a day after a military jury in North Carolina acquitted a Marine pilot in the Italian cable car accident that killed 20 people. D’Alema demanded justice, while Clinton expressed profound regret.
1999 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Analyze This, starring Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joseph Viterelli and Chazz Palminteri: and Cruel Intentions, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Joshua Jackson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Christine Baranski, Swoosie Kurtz, Louise Fletcher and Eric Mabius.
2001 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney underwent an angioplasty procedure for a partially blocked artery after going to a hospital with chest pains.
2002 - Joyce and Peter Cottrell of New Hampshire began to walk the trans-continental American Discovery Trail. They left the Atlantic coast at Cape Henlopen, DE, arriving at the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes, CA on Aug 19, 2003.
2002 - A Virginia subsidiary of PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, Scotland produced the first cloned pig. It was the same company that cloned Dolly the sheep. Actually, five healthy piglets were born this day in Blacksburg, VA. They were cloned from an adult sow using a slightly different technique than the one that produced Dolly.
2003 - Thousands of high school and college students walked out of classes across the U.S. protesting the looming war in Iraq.
2004 - Martha Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she unloaded her ImClone stock just before the price plummeted.
2004 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Hidalgo, with Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson, Louise Lombard, Said Taghmaoui, Adam Alexi-Malle, Peter Mensah and Malcolm McDowell; and Starsky & Hutch, starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Carmen Electra, Molly Sims, Amy Smart, Juilette Lewis, Chris Penn, Fred Williamson, Brande Roderick and Jason Bateman.
2006 - The 78th annual Academy Awards were celebrated at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Host of the always-gala affair was The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. And the Oscars went to: (Picture) Crash (Lions Gate); (Actor) Philip Seymour Hoffman in/as Capote; (Actor/Supporting) George Clooney for Syriana; (Actress) Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line; (Actress/Supporting) Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener; (Animated Feature) Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks Animation SKG); (Art Direction) Memoirs of a Geisha John Myhre (Set Decoration) Gretchen Rau; (Cinematography) Memoirs of a Geisha Dion Beebe; (Costume Design) Memoirs of a Geisha Colleen Atwood; (Director) Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee; (Documentary) March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau; (Documentary Short Subject) A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson; (Film Editing) Crash Hughes Winborne; (Foreign Language Film) Tsotsi A Moviworld Production South Africa; (Makeup) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Howard Berger and Tami Lane; (Music [Original Score]) Brokeback Mountain Gustavo Santaolalla; (Music [Original Song]) It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp from Hustle & Flow (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment).
2007 - A helicopter and a small plane collided in the air and crashed near a ski slope in Austria. Eight people aboard the two aircraft were killed in the collision.
2008 - Australia cancelled a 930-million contract for U.S.-made Seasprite helicopters following a review of problems with the choppers.
2008 - The U.S. Interior Department released a flood of water from the Glen Canyon Dam to help restore the Colorado River ecosystem. This was the third deliberate flooding of the canyon. The other managed floods were in 1996 and 2004.
2009 - The Bank of England cut interest rates by 50 basis points to a record low of 0.5%, and said it would pump 75 billion pounds of new money into buying assets. And the European Central Bank cut its main interest rate by a half percentage point to 1.5 percent, dropping the cost of borrowing in the 16 countries that use the euro to a record low amid grim economic news.
2009 - Germany’s restored Neues Museum was opened after six years of painstaking work to repair World War II bomb damage that ruined much of the renowned Berlin building.
2010 - New in U.S. movie houses: Alice in Wonderland, starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Crispin Glover, Christopher Lee, Matt Lucas, Timothy Spall, Marton Csokas, Jemma Powell, Tim Piggot-Smith, Lindsay Duncan, Geraldine James, Leo Bill, Paul Whitehouse and Barbara Windsor; and Brooklyn’s Finest, with Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Jesse Williams, Ellen Barkin, Wesley Snipes, Lili Taylor, Brian F. O'Byrne, Shannon Kane, Will Patton and Vincent D’Onofrio.
2010 - The advocacy group Big Brother Watch reported that many local British governments (councils) were installing microchips in trash cans distributed to households. Information collected by the microchips, which electronically measure the weight of rubbish in bins, was meant to be used to educate households about cutting waste. The debate over whether the state has the right to weigh or otherwise analyze residents’ refuse had surfaced periodically for several years.
2012 - Disney songwriter Robert Sherman died in London at 86 years of age. Sherman was part of a team, along with his brother Richard, responsible for numerous film scores and pop/family songs. He composed the tune featured in Disney theme parks, It’s a Small World (After All), as well as the score to Mary Poppins, featuring songs such as A Spoonful of Sugar, Chim Chim Cher-ee, and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
2013 - The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge lit up with 25,000 LED lights in the debut of Leo Villareal’s $8 million Bay Lights installation. The 1.8 mile light sculpture and art installation on the western span of the bridge was designed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of its opening.
2013 - A Cairo, Egypt court convicted a police sniper for his attacks on anti-government protesters and sentenced him to three years in prison. Police officer Mahmoud el-Shenawi became known as the ‘eye sniper’ after he was shown in footage on social networking sites firing at protesters in the Egyptian capital -- and aiming for their eyes.
2014 - California Governor Jerry Brown announced an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to boost joint projects in high technology, the environment and cybersecurity.
2015 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, owned by Florida-based Feld Entertainment, announced that it was removing its traveling cadre of elephants from the Big Top over the following three years. The treatment of the pachyderms in the circus had come under scrutiny in recent years. It had been repeatedly criticized, picketed and even sued by several animal rights groups, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society of the United States. In 2011, the circus was fined $270,000 by the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare Act. (‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ closed on May 21, 2017 -- after 146 years.)
2016 - Pioneering computer programmer Ray Tomlinson died at 74 years of age. In 1971 Tomlinson devised the @ symbol to designate a digital e-mail address. And the scheme has been used in e-mail addresses ever since.
2016 - Iran and Turkey agreed to triple their annual trade to $30 billion as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Iran’s first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri in Tehran. However, the two countries remained at odds over the fighting in Syria.
2017 - Former U.S. Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta said the White House was “paying a price” for its lack of discipline. “When the president goes off and does what he did in the last few days of just going ahead and tweeting without checking on things, there’s something wrong,” he told CBS’ Face the Nation.
2018 - A South Korean delegation met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after arriving in the North on a visit aimed at encouraging North Korea and the U.S. to talk. The 10-member South Korean delegation was led by National Security Office head Chung Eui-yong.
2018 - French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced a €90 ($110) fine for street harassment and sexist comments. This, as President Emmanuel Macron’s government prepared a sweeping new law targeting sexual violence and harassment.
2019 - Rioters in the city of Grenoble, France set fire to 65 cars and targeted police with fireworks and Molotov cocktails. The action came during a third night of violence sparked by the death of two teenagers on a stolen scooter during a police chase.
2019 - A proposal to use 15 million euros in Saudi Arabian government funds for Milan, Italy’s La Scala opera house came under fire because of anger over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. La Scala director Alexander Pereira had confirmed the historic theatre had negotiated a financing deal with the Saudi culture ministry. “The idea that the Saudis will come into La Scala is a slap in the face for Milan over human rights,” said Antonio Panzeri, a European lawmaker from the main opposition Democratic Party. “I understand the need to find funds, but we absolutely cannot allow one of the most prestigious symbols of Milan to collaborate with those who trample on rights and freedom every day in their own country.” Following the backlash, La Scala announced the return of €3m ($3.3m) to Saudi Arabia that had already been deposited.
2020 - California Governor Gavin Newsom said a ship with suspected links to two coronavirus cases, one fatal, was being held off the coast of San Francisco until everyone on board could be tested. At least 21 people on the ship had symptoms. The Grand Princess “will not come on shore until we appropriately assess the passengers,” said Newsom.
2020 - An agreement on a ceasefire in Syria was announced after a six-hour meeting in Moscow between the Turkish and Russian presidents. The deal froze the conflict lines and did not force Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces to roll back military gains made in the previous three months.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Boogie, written and directed by Eddie Huang, starring Taylor Takahashi, Taylour Paige, Bashar Jackson and Jorge Lendeborg Jr.; Chaos Walking, with Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen and Daisy Ridley; the animated Raya and the Last Dragon, featuring characters voiced by Alan Tudyk, Gemma Chan, Awkwafina, Kelly Marie Tran, Ross Butler, Daniel Dae Kim and Sandra Oh; My Salinger Year, starring Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver and Douglas Booth; and Keep an Eye Out, with Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig and Marc Fraize.
2021 - John McAfee, eccentric founder of the cybersecurity company McAfee, was indicted on charges of securities fraud and money laundering. McAfee and his adviser Jimmy Watson had been accused by federal prosecutors in New York of using McAfee’s Twitter account to promote cryptocurrencies to his 1 million+ followers in order to artificially inflate their market price.
2021 - The Czech Republic asked Germany, Switzerland and Poland to take in dozens of COVID-19 patients because the situation in its own hospitals had reached the critical point.
2021 -Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda started inoculating frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens against COVID-19 as Africa, the world’s poorest continent and home to 1.3 billion people, stepped up its vaccination campaigns.
2022 - China cut its annual economic growth target -- to its lowest level in decades -- as Beijing struggled to reverse a slump. This, as Russia’s war on Ukraine was pushing up oil prices and roiling the global economy.
2022 - Six people were killed by a tornado that struck Winterset, Iowa (some 50 miles southwest of Des Moines). The storm crashed into the city in the late afternoon, causing heavy damage.
2023 - President Biden renewed his call for new voting protections as he visited Selma, Alabama to mark the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when state troopers beat peaceful civil rights marchers as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Biden joined in the yearly walk across the bridge, and said voting rights remained under assault. “The right to vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty,” Biden said. He urged Congress to pass laws to make Election Day a holiday, register new voters, and bolster Justice Department oversight of elections in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination.
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Birthdays on This Day March 5
1595 - William Blackstone
New World settler: first settler in what is now Boston, Massachusetts, and also, Rhode Island; Blackstone River in Rhode Island bears his name; died May 26, 16751859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinowitz)
author, humorist: The Old Country, Tevye’s Daughters, Inside Kasrilevke, The Great Fair : Scenes from My Childhood; died May 13, 19161893 - Emmett J. Culligan
inventor: water-softening device; founder of Culligan Water, world’s largest water-treatment company; died Jun 3, 19701908 - Rex (Reginald Carey) Harrison
Academy Award-winning actor: My Fair Lady [1964]; Cleopatra, Dr. Dolittle, The Agony and the Ecstasy; died Jun 2, 19901918 - Milt Schmidt
Hockey Hall of Famer [center]: NHL: Boston Bruins: won two Stanley Cups, scored 229 goals and won the Hart Trophy; coach and GM: Boston Bruins; died Jan 4, 20171921 - Elmer (William) Valo
baseball: Philadelphia Athletics, KC Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers, LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins; died Jul 19, 19981922 - James Noble
actor: Bang, Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again, Chances Are, The Absent-Minded Professor, Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam; died Mar 28, 20161927 - Jack (John Joseph Edward) Cassidy
actor: The Eiger Sanction, The Andersonville Trial; Broadway’s She Loves Me; David and Shaun’s father; Shirley Jones’ husband; killed in a fire Dec 12, 19761928 - Lou Levy
pianist: band: Supersax; recorded with Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Anita O’Day; died Jan 23, 20011930 - Del (Delmar Wesley) Crandall
baseball: catcher: Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves [all-star: 1953-1956, 1958-1960, 1962/World Series: 1957, 1958], SF Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians; died May 5, 20211932 - Paul Sand (Sanchez)
Tony Award-winning actor: Story Theatre; Getting Up and Going Home, Frozen Assets, The Last Fling, Great Bank Hoax, Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Gimme a Break, St. Elsewhere1933 - Earl Leggett
football: LSU, Chicago Bears, LA Rams, New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins, NY Giants; coach: SF 49ers, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins, NY Giants; died May 15, 20081934 - James B. Sikking
actor: Hill Street Blues, Turnabout, Doogie Howser, M.D., Tyson, The Pelican Brief, Star Trek 3, Outland, Ordinary People, Scorpio, Von Ryan’s Express, The Strangler1936 - Dale Douglass
golf: Univ of Colorado, PGA, SPGA; died Jul 6, 20221936 - Dean Stockwell
actor: Gentlemen’s Agreement, Dune, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Legend of Billie Jean, Quantum Leap; died Nov 7, 2021 [natural causes, age 85]1938 - James Wainwright
actor: The President’s Plane is Missing, Joe Kidd; died Dec 20, 19991938 - Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson
football: Kansas City Chiefs corner back: Super Bowl I; sportscaster: ABC’s Monday Night Football; actor: Julia, Half Nelson1939 - Samantha Eggar
actress: Exterminator, Doctor Dolittle, The Collector, Samantha and the King1945 - Randy Matson
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: Olympic Silver Medalist: shot put [1964]; first to break the 70’ barrier1945 - Norm Thompson
football: St. Louis Cardinals1946 - Rocky Bleier
football: Pittsburgh Steelers running back [1968, 1970-1980]: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV champs1946 - Murray Head
singer: Superstar, One Night in Bangkok, Never Even a Thought, Corporation Corridors, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; actor: Sunday Bloody Sunday1946 - Michael Warren
actor: Paris, Hill Street Blues, Sweet Justice, Sierra, City of Angels, Soul Food1947 - Eddie Hodges
singer, actor: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Hole in the Head, Live a Little Love a Little1948 - Eddy Grant
singer, songwriter: Living on the Front Line, Do You Feel My Love, I Don’t Wanna Dance, Electric Avenue, Romancing the Stone; group: Equals: Baby Come Back, Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys; owned studio: Coach House Studios, another in Barbados; more1950 - Eugene Fodor
musician: violinist: made solo debut at age 10 [w/Denver Symphony]; won first national competition at age 12; won first prize in International Paganini Competition [Italy: 1972]; won highest prize in International Tchaikovsky Competition [Moscow: 1974]; attended Juilliard, Vienna Academy, Indiana Univ., USC; died Feb 26, 20111950 - Tom Sullivan
football: Philadelphia Eagles; died Oct 10, 20021951 - Bob Richer
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres1952 - Alan Clark
musician: keyboards: group: Dire Straits: Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Man’s Too Strong, Goin’ Home, Smooching1954 - Marsha Warfield
actress, comedienne: Night Court, The Richard Pryor Show, Empty Nest, D.C. Cab1955 - Penn Jillette
half of comedy/magic team Penn & Teller; actor: Fear of Fiction, Hayley Wagner, Star, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Home Invasion; host: Penn Radio, Penn & Teller: Fool Us1958 - Andy (Andrew Roy) Gibb
singer: group: The Bee Gees; solo: Love is Thicker than Water, I Just Want to be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing, [Our Love] Don’t Throw It all Away; host of TV’s Solid Gold; died Mar 10, 19881959 - Talia Balsam
actress: Homeland, Taxi, Murder, She Wrote, Touched by an Angel, Ally McBeal, Without a Trace, Nurse Jackie, Treme; daughter of actors Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten1963 - Joel Osteen
televangelist pastor of Lakewood megachurch, Houston Texas: sermons seen by millions in over 100 countries1964 - Scott Skiles
basketball [guard]: Michigan State Univ; NBA: Milwaukee Bucks, Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic, Washington Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers; coach: Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls1966 - Michael Irvin
Pro Football Hall of Famer [wide receiver]: Univ of Miami; NFL: Dallas Cowboys [1988–1999]: Super Bowl XXVII, XXVIII, XXX champs1966 - Aasif Mandvi
comedian, actor: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Understudy, Ghost Town, The Last Airbender, Premium Rush, The Dictator1968 - Roman Phifer
football [linebacker]: UCLA; NFL: LA/SL Rams, NY Jets, NE Patriots1969 - Paul Blackthorne
actor: Arrow, Lipstick Jungle, The River, The Gates, Dumb and Dumber To, Dark Ascension1970 - John Frusciante
musician: guitar: group: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By the Way1970 - Lisa Robin Kelly
actress: That ’70s Show, Amityville Dollhouse, Murphy Brown, Charmed, Silk Stalkings, Late Last Night, Jawbreaker; died Aug 14, 20131972 - Brian Grant
basketball [power forward, center]: NBA: Sacramento Kings [1994–1997], Portland Trail Blazers [1997–2000], Miami Heat [2000–2004], Los Angeles Lakers [2004–2005], Phoenix Suns [2005–2006]1973 - Ryan Franklin
baseball [pitcher]: Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals1974 - Kevin Connolly
actor: Angus, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Unhappily Ever After, Great Scott!, Wings, Entourage1974 - Matt Lucas
British comedian, actor: Alice in Wonderland, Little Britain, Plunkett & Macleane, King Arthur’s Disasters, The One Ronnie1974 - Eva Mendes
actress: We Own the Night, 3 and 3, Hitch, Stuck on You, Out of Time, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, 2 Fast 2 Furious1976 - Neil Jackson
actor: Blade: The Series, Make It or Break It, How I Met Your Mother, Quantum of Solace, Push, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, The Scarlet Pimpernel1976 - Paul Konerko
baseball [first base]: Los Angeles Dodgers [1997–1998], Cincinnati Reds [1998] Chicago White Sox [1999–2014]: 2005 World Series champs; 439 career home runs1977 - T.C. Warner
actress: Diary of a Sex Addict, Snide and Prejudice, Forgotten Sins, Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg, Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story, The Art of Dying, All My Children1978 - Kimberly McCullough
actress: Greener Mountains, Dying to Dance, Consenting Adults, Legally Blonde, Bugsy, Purple People Eater, General Hospital, Joan of Arcadia1986 - Corey Brewer
basketball: Univ of Florida [2004–2007: NCAA champs 2006, 2007]; NBA: Minnesota Timberwolves [2007–2011]; Dallas Mavericks [2011: NBA champs 2011]; Denver Nuggets [2011–2013]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2013–2014]; Houston Rockets [2014–2017]; Los Angeles Lakers [2017–2018]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2018]; Philadelphia 76ers [2019]; Sacramento Kings [2020]; more1989 - Sterling Knight
actor: Sonny with a Chance, Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale, 17 Again, Calm1994 - Aislinn Paul
actress: Degrassi: The Next Generation, Murder in the Hamptons, Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, Heroes Reborn1993 - Kyle Schwarber
baseball [catcher]: Chicago Cubs [2015-2020]: 2016 World Series champs
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Hit Music on This Day March 5
1949Far Away Places (facts) - Margaret Whiting
Powder Your Face with Sunshine (facts) - Evelyn Knight
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