March 8
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1849 - Thomas Ewing of Ohio became the first U.S. Secretary of the Interior Department. He was appointed to the position by President Zachary Taylor.1855 - A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY.
1887 - The telescopic fishing rod, made of steel tubes inside one another, was patented by Everett Horton.
1894 - A dog license law was enacted in the state of New York. This was the first such animal control law in the U.S. It cost dog owners a $2 annual fee per pooch in cities with a population over 1,200,000. (People population, incidentally, not dog population.)
1925 - Bernard McFadden was a physical culturist who had a radio show in New York City. But not for long. McFadden failed to show up for his daily morning program, causing a young, studio engineer, John Gambling, to ad-lib on the air for a solid hour. As a result, the radio station (WOR) decided to give Gambling the morning announcer’s job. John Gambling stayed at WOR for many years, then turned the mike over to his son, who, finally, turned the program over to his son ... all named John. Mr. Gambling’s Rambling with Gambling program attracted tri-state (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) audiences in record numbers for over 70 years on the 50,000 watt talk-radio powerhouse at 710 AM on your radio dial from New York each morning.
1930 - Babe Ruth signed a two-season contract with the New York Yankees for the sum of $160,000 (big bucks in 1930).
1941 - Horace Heidt and his orchestra recorded G’bye Now for the nice folks at Columbia Records. The vocal on the piece was done by Ronnie Kemper.
1942 - The Japanese overran and captured Rangoon, Burma.
1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the constitution.
1957 - The International Boxing Club of NY was found to be a monopoly, in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan found IBC guilty of conspiracy to monopolize championship boxing and of carrying out the conspiracy.
1962 - The Beatles performed for the first time on the BBC in Great Britain. John, Paul, George and ... Pete Best. He played the drums as Ringo hadn’t joined up yet. Paul McCartney sang Dream Baby on the show, Teenager’s Turn on ‘Auntie Beeb’ (as the BBC was known).
1964 - Malcolm X publicly announced that he was leaving the Nation of Islam and starting two new organizations: the Muslim Mosque, Inc., and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He remained a believer in the Islamic religion.
1968 - Rock show promoter and impresario, Bill Graham of San Francisco, moved to the other side of the U.S. to open Fillmore East in New York City.
1969 - Sly and the Family Stone were starting their fourth (and final) week at number one on the pop music charts (also #1 on the soul charts) with Everyday People. When presented with the coveted gold record for this achievement, Sly ripped it out of its case, threw it on the platter player and heard, People, by Barbra Streisand. He was heard to utter a few words that are not printable here (this being a family feature).
1971 - A new undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion was crowned. ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier, of Philadelphia, won a decision over Muhammad Ali, who had been previously undefeated. For the night’s work, both Frazier and Ali collected the tidy sum of $2,500,000.
1974 - The Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was inaugurated. CDG is the principal airport serving the French capital (and its metropolitan area), and the largest international airport in France.
1975 - Olivia Newton-John reached the top spot on the pop charts with Have You Never Been Mellow. In addition to Mellow, Olivia also reached the peak of pop stardom with I Honestly Love You, You’re the One That I Want (with John Travolta), Magic and Physical.
1977 - The U.S. Army revealed that it had conducted 239 open-air tests of germ warfare. The biological experiments had been conducted secretly in the U.S. from 1949 through 1969. The purpose was to learn how to wage biological warfare and how to defend against it. In all cases involving the public, presumably harmless bacteria were released either in the air, sea or soil to test how far the material would disperse and how long it would remain alive.
1983 - The House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed a nuclear weapons freeze with the Soviet Union. The proposal denounced by President Ronald Reagan as “a very dangerous fraud.” Reagan described the Soviet Union as “an evil empire.”
1985 - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxed themselves to discover that 407,700 Americans were millionaires -- more than double the total of just five years before. in 2022 there were 26,778 millionaires in North America.
1989 - Country/gospel singer/songwriter Stuart Hamblen died in Santa Monica, California of cancer. He was 80 years old. Hamblen was best known for his spiritual tunes, including It Is No Secret What God Can Do and This Ole House, which Rosemary Clooney turned into a million-seller. Hamblen’s mid-life conversion to Christianity following a visit to a Billy Graham revival show led him to run for the anti-alcohol Prohibition Party in the 1952 U.S. presidential election. He lost to Dwight Eisenhower by about 24,000,000 votes.
1993 - Billy Eckstine, one of the first black balladeers to cross over into the white market, died in Pittsburgh after suffering a stroke. He was 78 years old. His distinctive baritone was heard on such hits as Prisoner of Love, My Foolish Heart and I Apologize in the 1940s and early 1950s. Eckstine, known to his fans as ‘Mr. B’, also formed a historic jazz band in 1944 that helped establish the new musical form known as bebop.
1994 - The U.S. Defense Department announced a smoking ban for workplaces ranging from the Pentagon to battle tanks.
1996 - Films opening in the U.S.: The Birdcage, with Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria , Christine Baranski, Dan Futterman and Calista Flockhart; the animated family comedy Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, featuring Robert Hays, Kim Greist, Veronica Lauren, Kevin Chevalia, Benj Thall, Max Perlich, Michael Rispoli, Michael J. Fox, Sally Field and Ralph Waite; and If Lucy Fell, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle Macpherson, Scarlett Johanssen and James Rebhorn.
1999 - The Clinton administration directed the firing of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee from his job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory because of alleged security violations.
2000 - Intel Corporation unveiled its 1 GHz computer chip. One gigahertz -- or 1,000 megahertz -- represented the world’s highest performance microprocessor for PCs.
2001 - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted for an across-the-board tax cut of nearly $1 trillion (over a decade). The vote handed President George W. Bush a major victory only 48 days into his term.
2002 - All About the Benjamins opened in the U.S. The crime thriller stars Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Eva Mendes, Tommy Flanagan, Carmen Chaplin, Roger Guenveur Smith, Anthony Michael Hall and Lil’ Bow Wow.
2003 - Thousands of U.S. women staged Code Pink marches against a possible war with Iraq. Some 4,000 marched near the White House.
2004 - Actor Robert Pastorelli was found dead in his Hollywood Hills, CA home. The 49-year-old former boxer died of a heroin overdose.
2005 - Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned after being indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for his alleged part in atrocities during the fight against Serb forces.
2006 - U.S. law enforcement officials arrested three college students (Matthew Lee Cloyd, Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee DeBusk Jr.) for setting fire to nine rural churches in Alabama in February 2006.
2007 - British actor John Inman died at 71 years of age. Inman was probably best known for his role as camp shop assistant Mr. Humphries in the long-running BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, but was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame.
2007 - A tour helicopter crashed at the Princeville Airport on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The crash killed the pilot and three passengers. Three other passengers were critically injured.
2008 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses, seizing momentum in the close, hard-fought race with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination.
2009 - Kim Jong Il was unanimously ‘re-elected’ to North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament. Outside observers watched for hints leader Kim Jong Il might be grooming a successor.
2009 - Country singer Hank Locklin died at his home in Brewston, Alabama. He was 91 years old. Locklin’s 70 charted singles include Send Me the Pillow You Dream On, Please Help Me, I’m Falling, Let Me Be the One, It’s a Little More Like Heaven, Geisha Girl and The Country Music Hall of Fame.
2010 - Portugal announced new austerity measures to avoid a debt crisis similar to the one engulfing Greece at the time. The new rules would cut welfare benefits and government hiring as well as promote the selling of assets and raising taxes on the well-off.
2010 - U.S. government-controlled insurance giant AIG agreed to sell its American Life Insurance Co (Alico) unit to New York-based MetLife for $15.5 billion.
2011 - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced its suspension of 21 priests from active ministry. This, in connection with a grand jury’s accusations that the priests had sexually abused, or otherwise acted inappropriately with, minors.
2011 - Libyan warplanes launched airstrikes near rebel positions in the oil port of Ras Lanouf, keeping up a counteroffensive to prevent the opposition from advancing toward leader Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold in the capital city of Tripoli.
2012 - And for those of you with sticky fingers who may be considering a big heist, be advised of the following: Retired El Dorado County, California sheriff’s deputy Donald Philip Atkinson (50) was arrested for embezzling over $300,000 from his union from 2005-2011. He had served as president of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Association. (On July 30 Atkinson was sentenced to five years in prison. He was also ordered to pay $1,000 per month from his retirement payments to his victims.)
2013 - New movies in the U.S.: Dead Man Down, starring Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard, Isabelle Huppert, Armand Assante, Jennifer Butler and Kelly Southerland; Oz the Great and Powerful, with Mila Kunis, James Franco, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Abigail Spencer, Bruce Campbell and Zach Braff; and Emperor, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox, Eriko Hatsune and Toshiyuki Nishida.
2013 - South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill that allowed teachers to carry guns in classrooms. The new law did not force school districts to arm teachers or force teachers to carry guns. And local law enforcement agencies have to sign off on a school’s ‘sentinel program’ to arm teachers.
2014 - China announced that it would not permit chaos nor war on the Korean peninsula, and that peace could only come through denuclearization.
2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. Flight 370 last made voice contact with air traffic control at 01:19 MYT (17:19 UTC, 7 March) when it was over the South China Sea, less than an hour after takeoff, and the aircraft vanished from air traffic controllers’ radar screens at 01:21. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations. More than 10 months later, officials declared the disappearance of Flight 370 an accident, and all 239 people aboard were presumed dead. Despite a widespread search effort, nothing was found of the aircraft until Jul 29, 2015, when a flaperon from Flight 370 was found on Réunion Island (in the Indian Ocean, to the east of Madagascar, some 100 miles from Mauritius, the nearest island).
2015 - The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane’s data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8, 2014.
2016 - Washington began restricting access to American components by ZTE Corp., one of China’s biggest telecom equipment makers. This, after state-owned ZTE improperly exported U.S. technology to Iran.
2016 - South Korea said it was imposing new sanctions against 40 individuals and 30 entities because of suspected links to North Korea’s weapons program. South Korea also banned vessels that had stopped at North Korean ports in the previous 180 days.
2017 - The U.S. military began deploying an anti-ballistic missile defense system, ‘Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense’ (THAAD), to South Korea. The THAAD is a missile interceptor can hunt and blast incoming missiles with a 100% success rate. It is one of the most advanced missile-defense systems on Earth.
2017 - Women stayed home from work, zipped up their wallets, wore red and attended rallies across the U.S. to show their economic strength and impact on society as part of International Women’s Day celebrations across the globe.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump ordered new tariffs to be placed on foreign-made steel and aluminum imported to the U.S. Trump argued the levies were necessary to stop the “decimation of entire communities.” “Steel is steel,” said Trump. “Without steel you don’t have a country.” Trump campaigned on restoring U.S. steel and aluminium jobs, which had been lost to cheap Chinese imports. “President Trump has identified the right opponent – China – much better than both the Obama and Bush administrations did,” Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said before Trump’s announcement. “Democrats and Republicans have been blind to this and President Trump isn’t.” But Schumer urged Trump to tailor his plan so that it targets China and does not affect U.S. allies. “Don’t swing blindly and wildly at our foe, China,” Schumer said. “Establish a well-placed jab at China. Set them back. Let them know we mean business.”
2019 - Movies starting runs in U.S. theatres included: Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, Gemma Chan and Samuel L. Jackson; Gloria Bell, starring Julianne Moore, Sean Astin and Jeanne Tripplehorn; I’m Not Here, with J.K. Simmons, Sebastian Stan and Maika Monroe; The Kid, starring Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio and Ethan Hawke; and The Sex Trip, starring Jade Ramsey, Louis Mandylor, Marc Crumpton.
2019 - Thousands of Algerians defied heavily deployed riot police and resumed mass protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The demonstrations posed a big threat to his 20-year-old rule. A private TV station said several lawmakers of the ruling FLN party had resigned to join mass anti-government protests. This, while criminals took advantage the demonstrations to break into -- and vandalize -- the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts in Algiers, founded in 1897.
2019 - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill that drastically expanded mandatory background checks on firearms sales in New Mexico.
2020 - Kamala Harris endorsed Joe Biden and said, “I really believe in him and I have known him for a long time.” Harris joined the list of dropouts from the Democratic race for president to line up behind the former vice president in his battle with Bernie Sanders for the nomination. Sanders countered with his own major endorsement, announcing that civil rights icon Jesse Jackson was formally backing him.
2020 - Women marched in many of the world’s largest cities to protest gender violence and inequality on this International Women’s Day. Mothers of murdered girls led a march in Mexico City and participants in Paris protesting the “virus of the patriarchy.”
2020 - Swedish-French actor Max von Sydow died at his home in Provence, France. He was 90 years old. Von Sydow had a 70-year career in European and U.S. cinema, television, and theatre, appearing in more than 150 films and several TV series in multiple languages. His films included The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963) Shame (1968) and The Exorcist (1973).
2021 - The Supreme Court rejected the last of three cases brought to the Court by former President Donald Trump challenging his election loss. It was the last of three petitions filed near the end of Trump’s presidency that the Court declined to take up.
2021 - Thousands of women marched through the center of Kyiv, Ukraine on International Women’s Day. The marchers were protesting domestic violence, which had risen sharply amid restrictions imposed to block the spread of COVID-19.
2022 - Oil prices surged as the United States and Britain moved to ban Russian oil imports. President Biden predicted prices would rise further as a result of Putin’s war, but pledged to do all he could to minimize the impact on the U.S.
2022 - President Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing his government to quickly raise pensions -- part of a set of anti-crisis measures in effect after Russia was hit by a wave of economic sanctions over its war in Ukraine.
2022 - Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon formally apologized to the 4,000 Scots, mostly women, accused of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736. The Witches of Scotland campaign had urged the government to offer a public apology, saying it would send a powerful signal. Witch hunts took place in many countries during that period, but academics say Scotland’s execution rate was five times the European average.
2023 - The cost of food ingredients was down in the U.S., but grocery bills were still up. Critics and industry experts said the cost increases during the pandemic gave food makers cover to hike prices above what those increases called for, boosting profits and correcting what they saw as too-low prices in previous years. “Companies view these as occasional opportunities, and they don’t want to miss out,” said Jean-Pierre Dubé, a marketing professor at the University of Chicago.
2024 - New movies in the U.S.: Cabrini, starring David Morse, John Lithgow and Cristiana Dell’Anna; Imaginary, with DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne and Veronica Falcón; and the animated Kung Fu Panda 4, featuring characters voiced by Jack Black, Viola Davis, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Ian McShane and Ke Huy Quan.
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Birthdays on This Day March 8
1783 - Hannah Van Buren
wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the U.S. [she died Feb 5, 1819 -- before he was elected president]1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
jurist: associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1902-1932]; writer: The Common Law; died Mar 6, 19351888 - Stuart Chase
writer: Men and Machines, Power of Words, A New Deal [inspired Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal]; died Nov 16, 19851902 - Louise Beavers
actress: Beulah, Imitation of Life, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Jackie Robinson Story, Dixie Jamboree, Reap the Wild Wind, General Spanky, Coquette; died Oct 26, 1962
1910 - Claire Trevor (Wemlinger)
Academy Award-winning [supporting] actress: Key Largo [1948]; Stagecoach, The High and the Mighty, The Mountain, Marjorie Morningstar, The Stripper, How to Murder Your Wife; died Apr 8, 20001921 - Cyd Charisse (Tula Ellice Finklea)
dancer: Grand Hotel, Singin’ in the Rain; actress: Silk Stockings, Party Girl, Deep in My Heart; died Jun 17, 20081921 - Alan Hale Jr.
actor: Gilligan’s Island, Johnny Dangerously; died Jan 2, 19901922 - Carl (Anthony) Furillo
‘Skoonj’, ‘The Reading Rifle’: baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956/all-star: 1952, 1953], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959]; died Jan 21, 19891924 - Sean McClory
actor: Charade, Fools of Fortune; died Dec 10, 20031927 - Dick Hyman
pianist: Moritat; music director for Arthur Godfrey; more1928 - Mendy Rudolph
NBA basketball referee [1953-1978], 1st NBA official to work 2,000 games; sportscaster; died Jul 4, 19791936 - Sue Ane Langdon (Lookoff)
actress: Frankie and Johnny, A Guide for the Married Man, Roustabout, Zapped!, Arnie1937 - Raynoma Liles
co-founder of Motown [with husband Berry Gordy]; died Nov 11, 20161939 - Jim (James Alan) Bouton
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1963, 1964/all-star: 1963], Houston Astros, Seattle Pilots, Atlanta Braves; broadcaster: WABC-TV, WCBS-TV; author: Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues, Strike Zone, Home Games; died Jul 10, 20191940 - Susan Clark
actress: Coogan’s Bluff, Airport 1975, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Night Moves, Babe, The Choice, Webster1942 - Dick (Richard Anthony) Allen
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1965-1967], SL Cardinals [all-star: 1970], LA Dodgers, Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1972-1974/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1972], Oakland Athletics; “Don’t Call Me Richie”1942 - Ralph Ellis
musician: banjo, singer: group: The Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake1943 - Lynn Redgrave
actress: Georgy Girl, House Calls, Chicken Soup, Centennial, Rehearsal for Murder; died May 2, 20101945 - Mickey Dolenz
singer, drummer: group: The Monkees: I’m a Believer, Last Train to Clarksville; actor: Circus Boy1946 - Randy Meisner
singer: base: group: The Eagles: Take it Easy, Best of My Love, Take it to the Limit; died Jul 26, 20231947 - Mike Allsup
musician: guitar: group: Three Dog Night: Try a Little Tenderness, Easy to be Hard, Eli’s Coming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala1947 - Carole Bayer Sager
singer, songwriter: That’s What Friends are For; w/Tony Wein: Groovy Kind of Love; w/Albert Hammond: When I Need You; w/Bruce Roberts: You’re the Only One; w/Marvin Hamlisch: Break It to Me Gently, Looking Through the Eyes of Love, Nobody Does It Better1948 - Little Peggy March (Margret Annemarie Batavio)
singer: I Will Follow Him1949 - Teófilo Cubillas
Peruvian footballer [attacking midfielder]: part of the Peru national team that won the 1975 Copa América; helped Peru reach the quarter finals at the 1970 FIFA World Cup and again at the 1978 World Cup; elected the 1972 South American Footballer of the Year; one of only three players to score five or more goals in two different World Cups [the others are Miroslav Klose and Thomas Müller]1949 - Frank Sanders
hockey: Univ of Minnesota, US Olympic Ice Hockey Team [1972]; WHA: Minnesota Fighting Saints1953 - Jim (James Edward) Rice
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1977-1980, 1983-1986/AL MVP: 1978]1954 - Cheryl Baker (Rita Crudgington)
singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Can’t Stand the Heat; TV host1957 - Clive Burr
musician: drums: group: Iron Maiden [1979-1983]: Eddie the Head1957 - Cynthia Rothrock
martial artist, actress: Sci-Fighter, Never Say Die, The Hostage, Eye for an Eye, Cui hua kuang mo, Angel of Fury, Tiger Claws1958 - Gary Numan (Webb)
singer: Cars, Are Friends Electric, I Die You Die, We Take Mystery to Bed, Music for Chameleons, White Boys and Heroes, Warriors, Sister Surprise, Berserker; songwriter: I Dream of Wires1959 - Barbara Eve Harris
actress: 10.5: Apocalypse, Picture Claire, Nightmare Man, Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance, Dead Men Can’t Dance, Against Their Will: Women in Prison1959 - Lester Holt
TV journalist, anchor: NBC Nightly News1959 - Aidan Quinn
actor: Elementary, Legends of the Fall, Avalon, All My Sons, Desperately Seeking Susan, A Streetcar Named Desire1961 - Camryn Manheim
Emmy Award-winning supporting actress: The Practice [1998]; Ghost Whisperer, Elvis, An Unfinished Life, The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers, Slipstream, Hannah Montana, Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, Just Peck, The Pregnancy Pact, Harry’s Law, The Makeover, Person of Interest; more1961 - Larry Murphy
hockey [defense]: Los Angeles Kings, Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings1962 - Leon Robinson
actor: Buffalo Soldiers, Waiting to Exhale, Cool Runnings, Cliffhanger, Midnight Caller, The Women of Brewster Place; Broadway: Friends and Lovers, 3 Ways to Get a Husband, Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys1963 - Kathy Ireland
model Sports Illustrated 25th Anniversary Swimsuit Issue cover model [1989]; has her own line of clothing at K-Mart; actress: Alien from L.A., Mom and Dad Save the World, Loaded Weapon 1, Backfire!
1964 - Peter Gill
musician: drums: group: Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Relax, Two Tribes, The Power of Love, Ferry Cross the Mersey1965 - Kenny Smith
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Sacramento Kings [1987–1990], Atlanta Hawks [1990], Houston Rockets [1990–1996: NBA titles 1994, 1995], Detroit Pistons [1996], Orlando Magic [1996–1997], Denver Nuggets [1997]; TV basketball analyst: NBA on TNT1968 - Gordon Kennedy
actor: Speak of the Devil, Rembrandt, Kokken1968 - Rob Zettler
hockey: Minnesota North Stars, San Jose Sharks, Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Nashville Predators and Washington Capitals; assistant coach: San Jose Sharks1970 - Jason Elam
football: Univ of Hawaii; NFL: Denver Broncos1970 - Andrea Parker
actress: ER, The Pretender, First Monday, Delicate Instruments, Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Ice, XXX’s and OOO’s, Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story, Body Shot, JAG, Murder, She Wrote1971 - Bob Boughner
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche1972 - Craig Johnson
hockey [left wing]: NHL: St. Louis Blues, Los Angeles Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Washington Capitals1973 - Boris Kodjoe
actor: Resident Evil film series, Madea’s Family Reunion, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Love & Basketball, Soul Food, Franklin & Bash, Real Husbands of Hollywood, Members Only, Code Black1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr.
actor: Family Matters, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Detention: The Siege at Johnson High, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Wing Commander, Summer Catch, Scooby-Doo, Scooby 2, The Swedish Job1976 - Hines Ward
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl XL [MVP], Super Bowl XLIII, Super Bowl XLV; CNN studio analyst1977 - James Van Der Beek
actor: Dawson’s Creek, Standing Still, Texas Rangers, The Rules of Attraction, Varsity Blues, I Love You, I Love You Not, Angus1978 - Nick Zano
actor: What I Like About You, Melrose Place, Cougar Town, Happy Endings, 90210, 2 Broke Girls1987 - Milana Vayntrub
actress: best known for playing Lily Adams in AT&T TV spots1990 - Petra Kvitová
Czech tennis pro: 2016 Rio Olympic bronze medalist; 2011, 2014 Wimbledon champ; 2011 WTA Tour singles title champ; first Grand Slam winner born in the 1990s2003 - Montana Jordan
actor: Young Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory, The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
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Hit Music on This Day March 8
1952Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
Tell Me Why (facts) - The Four Aces
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