March 6
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1646 - We go waaaay back in time to when Joseph Jenkes of Massachusetts received the first machine patent -- to “... Build a Mill for making of Sithes; and alsoe a new Invented Saw Mill, and divers other Engines for making sorts of edge tooles; whereby the Country may have such necessaries in short time at farre cheaper Rates then now they can ...”1808 - The first college orchestra was founded -- at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. So, strike up the band today!
1836 - This was the last day of a thirteen-day siege by Mexico’s dictator, Santa Anna and his thousand-man army. They defeated a little band of Texas volunteers trying to defend the Alamo. The last of these 189 brave men (including Davy Crockett) died on March 6, holed up in the Alamo. Their sacrifice for Texas’ liberty did not go unnoticed. 46 days later, with the battle cry, “Remember the Alamo,” General Sam Houston and his Texans captured Santa Anna and finished the job started at the Alamo. Texas gained its independence.
1931 - Without a Song was recorded by Lawrence Tibbett for Victor Records. This wonderful melody came from the film, The Southerner and has been a hit for many, including Willie Nelson, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
1941 - Les Hite and
recorded The World is Waiting for the Sunrise on Bluebird Records. The instrumental became Hite’s most popular work. A decade later, Les Paul and Mary Ford added a vocal to the tune, making it one of their biggest-selling hit songs. 1944 - It was 90 days before D-Day when heavy bombers of the the U.S. Eighth Bomber Command staged the first American raid in daylight against Berlin. The planes took off from some 40 allied bases.
1947 - The USS Newport News, was launched from a shipbuilding yard at Newport News, VA. It was the first air-conditioned naval ship.
1948 - Ralph Edwards created a quiz on radio’s Truth or Consequences called The Walking Man. After ten weeks of guesses by contestants playing the game, it was finally revealed that Jack Benny was The Walking Man.
1957 - The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana.
1962 - Frank Sinatra recorded his final session for Capitol Records in Hollywood. Sinatra had been recording for his own record label, Reprise, for two years. His final side on Capitol was I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues, with Skip Martin’s orchestra.
1964 - Tom O’Hara ran the mile in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds, setting a world indoor record in Chicago, IL. And he still didn’t beat that speedy dromedary.
1967 - Singer Nelson Eddy died. He was 65 years old. Eddy’s operatic-style duets with Jeanette MacDonald were big favorites in movies and on records in the 1930s. Their first movie together was Naughty Marietta in 1935. From it came their most popular recording, Indian Love Call. Eddy and MacDonald starred in several other movie musicals, including Rose Marie and Girl of the Golden West.
1976 - The Waylon & Willie (Jennings and Nelson) song, Good Hearted Woman, started the last of three weeks at the top of the country music charts. Waylon and Willie wrote the song in 1969 during a poker game in Ft. Worth, TX. According to Jennings, “I’d been reading an ad for Ike and Tina Turner and it said, ‘Tina Turner singing songs about good-hearted women loving good-timing men.’ I thought, ‘What a great country song title that is!’” He was mighty correct, y’all.
1978 - Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt was shot (and partially paralyzed) while walking down a street in Lawrenceville, GA. he had been on trial for distributing obscene materials.
1981 - Walter Cronkite, the dean of American television newscasters, said “And that’s the way it is” for the final time, as he closed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. An audience estimated at 17,000,000 viewers saw ‘the most trusted man in America’ sign-off. Cronkite retired after more than 30 years in broadcasting. He was replaced by Dan Rather at the anchor desk.
1982 - The most points scored by two teams in the National Basketball Association made history. San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in three overtime periods to set the mark.
1983 - The United States Football League began its first season of pro football competition. Fans didn’t support the new spring league opposition to the National Football League and, as a result, team names such as the Bandits, Breakers, Blitz, Invaders and Wranglers were relatively short-lived. The league was forced to fold amid controversy, low fan acceptance and lower television ratings. It was not long before players began to scramble for spots in the NFL. The USFL lasted two seasons.
1985 - Yul Brynner played his famous role as the king in The King and I in his 4,500th performance in the musical. The actor, age 64, opened the successful production on Broadway in 1951.
1986 - Vega 1 came within 5,270 miles of Halley’s Comet. The Soviet spacecraft transmitted TV images of the comet to Earth.
1987 - 135 people died after the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Open bow doors were blamed for the disaster.
1990 - The Soviet parliament overwhelmingly approved legislation
allowing people to own factories and hire workers for the first time in nearly seven decades.1991 - Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, U.S. President George Bush (I) told a cheering joint session of Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over.”
1993 - As the standoff at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, TX ended its first week, authorities appealed to David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers to surrender.
1994 - Frank Sinatra collapsed during a concert in Richmond, Virginia. The 78-year-old performer fell face down on stage midway through My Way. Sinatra was conscious as he was taken away in a wheelchair, but was released from hospital after a few hours. Heat exhaustion was blamed for Sinatra’s blackout.
1997 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal website: www.royal.uk/.
1998 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Big Lebowski, starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro, Peter Stormare, Sam Elliott, David Thewlis and Ben Gazzara; Hush, with Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech, Hal Holbrook, Nina Foch, Debi Mazar and Richard Lineback; Twilight, starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Stockard Channing, Reese Witherspoon, Giancarlo Esposito, James Garner, Liev Schreiber, M. Emmet Walsh, Margo Martindale and John Spencer; and U.S. Marshals, with Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Kate Nelligan, Irene Jacob, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood, Latanya Richardson and Michael Paul Chan.
1999 - The emir of Bahrain, Sheikh Issa bin Salman Al Khalifa, a key Western ally who had ruled for nearly four decades, died. He was 65 years old. The Sheik was succeeded by his eldest son, 49-year-old Crown Prince Hamed ibn Issa Khalifa.
2000 - AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) unveiled the world’s first one gigahertz computer chip.
2000 - Eric Clapton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and became the first musician to be inducted three times. Clapton was first honored as a member of The Yardbirds in 1992 and with Cream in 1993. Among other honorees this day were James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Earth, Wind & Fire.
2001 - Bill Mazeroski was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, along with former Negro League player Hilton Smith.
2002 - Federal regulators approved the proposed $22 billion merger of Hewlett-Packard Company and Compaq Corporation Computer.
2003 - U.S. President George Bush (II) warned that he was prepared to go to war with Iraq, with or without U.N. backing.
2004 - Thousands of women marched through Paris pressing for equal rights for women and showing support for a law banning Islamic head scarves in public schools.
2005 - Nobel Prize winning physicist Hans Bethe died in Ithaca, NY. He was 98 years old.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays.
2006 - Dana Reeve, singer, actress and non-smoker, died of lung cancer at 44 years of age. Reeve won world-wide admiration for her devotion to her Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, who died in 2004 after a decade of near-total paralysis following a horseback riding accident.
2006 - President Vladimir Putin signed a measure into law that allows the Russian military to shoot down hijacked planes. It was one of a series of laws passed following terrorist attacks.
2007 - At his court martial in Germany, U.S. Army medic Spc. Agustin Aguayo was convicted of desertion. Aguayo had refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war there. He was sentenced to eight months in prison, but could have received as much as seven years.
2007 - Former U.S. White House aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity. (Libby was granted a pardon in 2018 by POTUS Donald Trump.)
2007 - Winemaker Ernest Gallo died at his home in Modesto, CA at 97 years of age. Gallo parlayed a few thousand dollars and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire.
2009 - Watchmen opened in U.S. theatres. The action drama stars Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie and Matt Frewer.
2009 - Some 100 women disrobed in a square in downtown Asuncion, Paraguay to protest nuclear weapons. Demonstrator Carola Gonzalez said the Humanist Party activists decided to strip for their cause since “the public and the news media pay so much attention to breasts and bottoms.”
2009 - Former New York City police detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sentenced to life in prison after their conviction for 8 gangland murders. Incredibly, they had moonlighted as hit men for the Luchese crime family while workinging on the police force during the 1980s.
2010 - Actress Sandra Bullock won the Razzy award for worst-actress for her romantic comedy flop All About Steve, a spoof of the Oscars. Bullock became the first person to win a Razzie and an Oscar over the same weekend when she won the Best Actress Academy Award for The Blind Side the next day.
2011 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, that Petraeus’ apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children on March 1, 2011 was “not enough.”
2012 - Ten U.S. states held Republican primaries. The so-called Super Tuesday voting saw Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney edge out conservative rival Rick Santorum in the vital battleground of Ohio and win five of the night’s other contests (Alaska, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia and his home-state of Massachusetts), while Santorum won North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Newt Gingrich carried his home state of Georgia.
2014 - The Safeway grocery chain, headquartered in Pleasanton, CA, agreed to be bought out by Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, owner of Albertson’s market chain. The deal was valued at $9.2 billion.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Chappie, starring Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver and Sharlto Copley; The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Maggie Smith, Richard Gere, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Judi Dench, David Strathairn, Penelope Wilton, Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie; Unfinished Business, with Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson; Bad Ass 3, starring Danny Trejo, Danny Glover and John Amos; the documentaries Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank; The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest; Hayride 2, with Sherri Eakin, Jeremy Sande and Jeremy Ivy; and Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, starring Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington and Anthony Hopkins.
2015 - The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that Apple was replacing AT&T in the Dow Jones industrial average. Apple had become the biggest U.S. company by market value (around $736 billion). AT&T was valued at $176.5 billion and its exit from the DJIA left Verizon as the only telecom company on the index.
2016 - Nancy Reagan, former U.S. first lady [wife of President Ronald Reagan] and former film actress, died in Los Angeles at 94 years of age. Born Anne Frances Robbins, she performed in such flicks as The Next Voice You Hear..., Night into Morning and Donovan’s Brain. She became First Lady in January 1981, following her husband’s victory in the 1980 presidential election.
2017 - The U.S. Navy announced that it was investigating a Facebook page allegedly used by hundreds of Marines to share thousands of nude photos of their female colleagues. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) launched an investigation into the Marines United page and its members. Facebook took down the page several hours after Thomas Brennan reported the images on his non-profit military news site, The War Horse.
2018 - Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, aka Stephanie Clifford, filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election. The NDA prevented her from discussing her sexual encounters with Donald Trump.
2018 - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry (54) resigned after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars as she carried on an affair with her bodyguard, Police Sgt. Robert Forrest.
2019 - London’s Central Criminal Court sentenced Muslim convert Lewis Ludlow to at least 15 years in prison for plotting a van attack on crowds in London’s busy Oxford Street shopping district. Ludlow claimed that he had been coerced by a militant in the Philippines to mount an attack.
2019 - Microsoft reported it had detected cyberattacks linked to Iranian hackers that targeted thousands of people at more than 200 companies over the previous two years. Microsoft attributed the attacks to a group it called Holmium. The hacking campaign stole corporate secrets and wiped data from computers. The cyberattacks affected oil-and-gas companies and makers of heavy machinery in several countries, including Saudi Arabia, Germany, the United Kingdom, India and the U.S., and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
2020 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Onward, starring Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Julia Louis-Dreyfus; The Way Back, with Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar and Michaela Watkins; The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Anthony Mackie; Beneath Us, with Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez and Josue Aguirre; The Burnt Orange Heresy, with Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang and Donald Sutherland; Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart and Daniel Webber; Extra Ordinary, with Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward and Will Forte; Final Kill, starring Billy Zane, Danny Trejo and James Russo; Hope Gap, starring Josh O’Connor, Bill Nighy and Annette Bening; Sorry We Missed You, with Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood and Rhys Stone; and Swallow, starring Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell and Denis O’Hare.
2020 - POTUS Trump signed an $8.3 billion measure to combat the coronavirus outbreak that had killed 14 people in the U.S. and infected more than 200. The legislation provided federal public health agencies with money for vaccines, tests and potential treatments and helped state and local governments prepare and respond to the threat. The rapid spread of the virus had rocked financial markets, interrupted travel and was beginning to affecting everyday life in the United States. (More Covid-19 news from 3/06/2020.)
2021 - Dance music lovers in Amsterdam were treated to their first live show in over a year while serving as guinea pigs in a research project. All guests needed to test negative for COVID-19 48 hours in advance and woould take another test five days after the event. 1,300 people were allowed into the carefully orchestrated event in Amsterdam’s ZiggoDome, which normally has a capacity of 17,000.
2021 - President Biden said that Senate passage of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill meant that $1,400 payments to most Americans would go out and the bill’s provisions would speed up manufacturing and distribution of vaccines.
2022 - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was documenting deliberate attacks on civilians in Ukraine -- to support appropriate organizations in their war crimes investigation of Russia’s actions.
2022 - Netflix and TikTok suspended most of their services in Russia as the government cracked down on what people and media outlets could say about Russia’s war on Ukraine. U.S. credit card companies Visa, Mastercard and American Express cut service in Russia. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, a leading supplier of both smartphones and computer chips, halted product shipments to the country, joining other big tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Dell. And KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ended their relationships with their Russia-based member firms, each of which employed thousands of people.
2022 - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Vladimir Putin to declare a ceasefire in Ukraine, open humanitarian corridors and sign a peace agreement. Russia called its assault a “special military operation,” and had uprooted more than 1.5 million people, in what the United Nations said was the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two.
2023 - Norfolk Southern Railway said it was increasing the use of sensors along railroad tracks to detect overheated bearings and other potentially dangerous problems. This, following the Feb 3 derailment that released toxic chemicals in Ohio near the Pennsylvania border. The rail operator said it “anticipates adding approximately 200 hot-bearing detectors to its network, with the first installed on the western approach to East Palestine,” the Ohio town where the fiery accident occurred. Investigators said the crew on the train got a warning from a hot-bearing detector shortly before the derailment, but didn’t have time to react.
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Birthdays on This Day March 6
1475 - Michelangelo (de Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni)
Renaissance artist: Sistine Chapel ceiling; sculptor: David; architect: St. Peter’s [Rome]; died Feb 18, 15641619 - Cyrano De Bergerac
French soldier, author: The States and Empires of the Sun; subject of famous play whose title bears his name; died July 28, 16551806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Moulton)
poet: Sonnets from the Portuguese - “How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.”; Robert Browning’s wife; died June 29, 18611885 - Ring Lardner
sports reporter, humorist, writer: Alibi Ike, You Know Me Al, Elmer the Great, June Moon; died Sep 25, 19331900 - Robert ‘Lefty’ Grove
Baseball Hall of Famer [pitcher]: Philadelphia Athletics. Although he did not reach the Majors until the age of 25, he still won 300 games, with eight 20-win seasons; died May 22, 19751905 - Bob Wills
fiddler, composer, bandleader: Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys: San Antonio Rose; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [Early Influence category: Mar 15, 1999]; died May 13, 19751906 - Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo)
comedian, actor [Abbott & Costello]: Who’s on First?; died Mar 3, 19591923 - Ed McMahon
radio/TV announcer, pitchman: The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, Star Search, The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Budweiser spots, TV’s Most Hilarious Bloopers; died Jun 23, 20091923 - Wes (John Leslie) Montgomery
jazz composer, musician: guitar: Windy, Goin’ Out of My Head, Wes’ Tune, Sunny; albums: The Wes Montgomery Trio, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, The Montgomery Brothers [w/his brothers Buddy and Monk]; died June 15, 19681926 - Alan Greenspan
economist: chairperson: U.S. Federal Reserve Board [1987-2006]1927 - (Leroy) Gordon Cooper Jr.
U.S. astronaut: one of original seven Mercury astronauts [orbited earth 22 times aboard Faith 7 (Mercury 9): May 15, 1963]; flew on Gemini 5 [1965], set flight record of 190 hours, 55 minutes, orbiting the earth 120 times; died Oct 4, 20041928 - Gabriel García Márquez
author: A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera; died Apr 17, 20141929 - Tom Foley (Thomas Stephen Foley)
U.S. politician: 57th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives [1989-1995]; represented Washington State’s 5th congressional district as a Democratic member [1965-1995]; U.S. Ambassador to Japan [1997-2001] under President Bill Clinton; died Oct 18, 20131931 - Hal Needham
stuntman, director, writer, actor: Stroker Ace, Megaforce, Stunts Unlimited, Jackson County Jail, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings; died Oct 25, 20131931 - John Smith
actor: Cimarron City, Laramie, Wichita, Frontier, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Island of Lost Women, The High and the Mighty; died Jan 25, 19951937 - Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva
Russian cosmonaut1939 - Cookie (Octavio Victor Rivas) Rojas
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1965], KC Royals [all-star: 1971-1974], SL Cardinals1941 - Willie (Wilver Dornel) Stargell
Baseball Hall-of-Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1964-1966, 1971-1973, 1978/World Series: 1971, 1979: MVP/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1979/AP Male Athlete of the Year: 1979]; 475 career homers: lead N.L. twice [48: 1971, 44: 1973]; drove in 1,540 runs, scored 1,195, 2,232 hits, lifetime batting average of .282; died Apr 9, 20011942 - Ben Murphy
actor: The Winds of War, The Chisholms, Time Walker, Alias Smith and Jones, Yours, Mine and Ours1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa
opera singer [soprano]: sings a wide array of works in multiple languages from the 17th to the 20th centuries; she is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini; she frequently performs in concert and recital, while giving masterclasses and supporting young opera singers in launching their careers1944 - Mary Wilson
singer: group: The Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop! In the Name of Love, Back in My Arms Again, I Hear a Symphony, Nothing But Heartaches, You Can’t Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hanging On, My World is Empty Without You; died Feb 8, 20211945 - Hugh Grundy
musician: drums: group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, She’s Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Seasons1945 - Bob Trumpy
football: Cincinnati; broadcaster1946 - Martin Kove
actor: Cagney & Lacey, The Karate Kid film series, Chinaman’s Chance, Seven Mummies, Big Chuck, Little Chuck, Hard Ground, Sting of the Black Scorpion, Crocodile 2: Death Swamp1946 - David Gilmour
musician: lead guitar: group: Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall1947 - Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews)
singer: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Amoureuse, [You Don’t Know] How Glad I Am, Star1947 - Dick Fosbury
Olympic Gold Medalist and record holder: high jump [7’, 4 1/4", 1968]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st to break 7’ indoors; invented the Fosbury Flop high jump technique1947 - Rob Reiner
Emmy Award-winning Best Supporting Actor/Comedy Series: All In the Family [1973-74, 1977-78], Postcards from the Edge, Sleepless in Seattle; director: The Bucket List, Rumor Has It..., When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men; Carl’s son1947 - John Stossel
TV news reporter: ABC, Fox Business, Fox News1948 - Anna Maria Horsford
actress: Amen, Friday, Friday After Next, The Wayans Bros., Angel From Montgomery, My Big Phat Hip Hop Family, Justice, Minority Report, Along Came a Spider, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps1959 - Tom Arnold
actor: Roseanne, The Jackie Thomas Show, Tom, True Lies1962 - Alison Nicholas
golf champ: LPGA Corning Classic, PING-AT&T Wireless Services LPGA Golf Championship [1995]; U.S. Women's Open [1997]; Hawaiian Ladies Open [1999]1963 - D.L. Hughley
comedian, actor: The Hughleys, The Original Kings of Comedy, D.L. Hughley Breaks the News, The Jay Leno Show, D.L. Hughley: Reset Host, D.L. Hughley: Contrarian1964 - Skip Ewing
musician: guitar, banjo; songwriter, singer: Your Memory Wins Again, I Don’t Have Far to Fall, Burnin’ a Hole in My Heart, The Gospel According to Luke, The Coast of Colorado; as of 2006, he had some 25 top-ten singles and nearly a dozen #1 hits1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy (Stephen Bier Jr.)
musician: keyboards: group: Marilyn Manson: The Love Song, Mobscene, The Fight Song, Tainted Love, The Dope Show, Disposable Teens, Sweet Dreams [Are Made of This]1967 - Connie Britton
actress: Friday Night Lights, Looking for Kitty, The Next Big Thing, One Eyed King, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, No Looking Back, The West Wing1972 - Shaquille O’Neal
basketball: Orlando Magic: NBA Rookie of the Year [1993]; LA Lakers1973 - Terry Adams
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates1973 - Michael Finley
basketball [forward, guard]: Univ of Wisconsin; NBA: Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs
1978 - Lara Cox
actress: Stepfather of the Bride, DeMarco Affairs, BlackJack series, Kangaroo Jack, Balmain Boys, Angst, Heartbreak High1979 - Tim Howard
footballer [goalkeeper]: Manchester United [2003-2007]; Everton FC [2006-2016]; Colorado Rapids [2016-2019]; won the CONCACAF Gold Cup with the U.S. national team [2007]; in round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup, he set a World Cup record by saving 16 shots [in 2-1 loss to Belgium]1985 - Yael Stone
actress: Orange Is the New Black, All Saints, Spirited, Childhood’s End1986 - Jake Arrieta
baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles [2010–2013]; Chicago Cubs [2013–2017]: 2016 World Series1986 - Joel Palmer
actor: Valentine, Seduction in a Small Town, Liar, Liar, Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many, Lonesome Dove2003 - Millicent Simmonds
actress: A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Wonderstruck, Ballerina Overdrive; she is also known for her advocacy in improving accessibility for the deaf, including designing a lip-reading face mask, and she promotes better deaf representation in entertainment
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