March 9
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Events on This Day
1799 - Congress contracted with Simeon North of Berlin, CT for 500 horse pistols, costing the government $6.50 each. Horse pistols, for those of you born after 1800, were large pistols that used to be carried by -- you guessed it -- horsemen.1832 - Abraham Lincoln of New Salem, IL announced that he would run for political office for the first time. He sought a seat in the Illinois state legislature. ‘Honest Abe’ was not successful. Less than thirty years later, however, he become President of the United States.
1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia, PA opened his letter box to find that he had been awarded a patent for -- his lamppost-mounted letter box. Way to go, Albert!
1859 - The National Association of Baseball Players adopted a rule that limited the size of bats to no more than 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
1929 - Eric Krenz of Palo Alto, CA became the first athlete to toss the discus over 160 feet. He bettered the the old mark by 8-3/4 inches.
1942 - Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded Well, Git It! for Victor Records. Ziggy Elman was featured on the session which was recorded in Hollywood. Sy Oliver arranged the Dorsey classic.
1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began. It was completed eight months, 1523 miles, 133 major bridges, five mountain ranges, and $115,000,000 later by 18,000 workers. (The road was not usable by general vehicles until 1943. Even then there were many steep grades, a poor surface, switchbacks to gain and descend hills, and few guardrails.)
1945 - Those Websters debuted on CBS radio. Willard Waterman starred as George Webster. Later, Waterman would have an even more memorable starring role as the lead in The Great Gildersleeve.
1945 - 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses, carrying all the incendiary bombs they could hold, bombed Tokyo with some 120,000 fire bombs. The attack and resulting fires leveled sixteen square miles of the Japanese capital, destroying more than a quarter-of-a-million buildings and killing 83,000 people.
1949 - The first all-electric dining car was placed in service -- on the Illinois Central Railroad. Passengers enjoyed all-electric cooking between Chicago and St. Louis.
1954 - This was the day that critics called “TV’s coming of age.” Edward R. Murrow presented his report on the controversial Wisconsin Senator, Joseph R. McCarthy.
1957 - An 9.1 earthquake shook the Andreanof Islands of Alaska. It made the list of Ten Largest U.S. Earthquakes.
1959 - Jack Paar was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine on this day. He was accused, the article said, of “keeping the U.S. up nights.” With show regulars, Dody Goodman, Alexander King, Cliff Arquette, announcer Hugh Downs and bandleader Jose Melis, there was little wonder why Paar caused such excitement in television’s late night on NBC.
1959 - Barbie, the fashion doll, debuted. Some one billion have been sold. According to Mattel, her full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wisconsin. The first Barbie dolls sold for $3.00.
1961 - The first animal to return from space was a dog named Chernushka (Blackie) aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9.
1964 - The first Ford Mustang was produced on this day.
1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court issued its New York Times vs. Sullivan decision. The court ruled public officials who felt they had been libeled could not recover damages for newspaper and broadcast reports related to their official duties unless the officials could prove actual malice on the part of the news organization.
1967 - The daughter of Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, announced her intention to defect to the West.
1974 - Many new musical faces were on the scene, including Terry Jacks, who was starting week two of a three-week stay at the top of the pop charts with his uplifting ditty, Seasons in the Sun. Other newcomers: Jefferson Starship, Billy Joel, Kiss, Olivia Newton-John, Kool & the Gang and The Steve Miller Band.
1974 - 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier operating in the Philippines, surrendered -- 29 years after the end of WW II.
1981 - Dan Rather made his debut as principal anchorman of the CBS Evening News.
1985 - Bandleader and record producer Robert ‘Bumps’ Blackwell died of pneumonia at the age of 66. Blackwell signed such artists as Sam Cooke and Little Richard to record contracts. His bands included such famous artists as Ray Charles and Quincy Jones.
1986 - NASA announced that searchers had found remains of space shuttle Challenger’s astronauts in the debris of the shuttle’s crew compartment on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. This, more than a month after the disaster that had claimed the lives of all seven crew members.
1987 - Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation on this day. The car maker offered up to $1 billion dollars for the financially troubled AMC. Remember the Gremlin? How about the Rambler American -- the car with seats that reclined to a completely horizontal position?
1987 - U2’s The Joshua Tree was released. The album sold nearly six-million copies in the U.S. alone. The compact disc version of the album became the first CD to sell one-million copies in the U.S.
1988 - Former (1966-1969) West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger died. He was 83 years old.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as U.S. Surgeon General, becoming the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the job.
1992 - Former (1977-1980, 1981-1983) Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin died in Tel Aviv at 78 years of age. Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 (w/Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat).
1993 - Janet Reno sailed through her Senate confirmation hearing en route to becoming first woman U.S. attorney general.
1993 - Bob Crosby, brother of Bing Crosby, died of cancer. The swing-era bandleader (Bob Crosby and the Bobcats), was 79 years old.
1994 - Spanish actor Fernando Rey (The French Connection) died of cancer. He was 76 years old.
1995 - Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman took the stand at the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Fuhrman denied he had ever met a woman who had accused him of making racist remarks.
1996 - George Burns died at his Beverly Hills home. He was 100 years old. The comedian and actor had been in failing health since a bathtub fall in July 1994. With his cigars, martinis, and a fondness for pretty women, Burns rejuvenated his career at age 79 when he starred in The Sunshine Boys, after several decades away from films. He was devoted to his wife, Gracie Allen, even after her death in 1964. The couple partnered in films, radio, and TV. He was credited with discovering the young Ann-Margret.
1997 - Rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) was returning to his hotel in Los Angeles, California after an awards party. A car pulled up beside his and opened fire. Biggie was killed almost instantly. The case remains unsolved.
1998 - A storm caused deadly flooding in the Southern U.S. and heavy snows in the Midwest. In Elba, AL the Pea River broke its levee and put the town under five feet of water.
1999 - RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporation, the food-and-tobacco conglomerate, announced it was getting out of the cigarette business.
2001 - These films opened in the U.S.: Get Over It, starring Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Colin Hanks, Sisqo, Shane West, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Martin Short, Swoosie Kurtz, Ed Begley Jr., Kylie Bax, Carmen Electra and Vitamin C; and 15 Minutes, with Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, Karel Roden, Oleg Taktarov and Vera Farmiga.
2002 - The Director’s Guild of America voted top honors to director Ron Howard for the film A Beautiful Mind starring Russel Crowe.
2002 - High winds tore scaffolding from the John Hancock Center in Chicago, fatally crushing three people.
2003 - Bill Clinton and Bob Dole made their debut as 2-minute TV commentators on TV’s 60 Minutes. Their first topic was Tax cuts in times of war.
2004 - 43-year-old John Allen Muhammad was sentenced to death in Manassas, VA for his 2002 murderous sniper rampage in the Washington DC area.
2005 - Dan Rather (73) delivered his final edition of the CBS Evening News. He had been the CBS senior anchor for 24 years.
2005 - Rodeo star and country singer Chris LeDoux died in Wyoming from complications of liver cancer. He was 56 years old.
2006 - Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico reported that they produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
2006 - California authorities ordered Michael Jackson to shut down his Neverland Ranch and fined the pop star $169,000 for failing to pay his employees and/or maintain proper insurance.
2007 - 300 opened at Imax theatres (and others) across the U.S. on this day. The action war adventure stars Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan and Rodrigo Santoro.
2007 - Brad Delp, lead singer of the rock band Boston, died at his home in New Hampshire. He was 55 years old. Delp died from the smoke generated by two charcoal grills he had lighted inside his sealed bathroom. He was found by police lying on a pillow on his bathroom floor with a suicide note pinned to his shirt.
2007 - Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The musical story was set over the course of three days, involving characters in the largely Hispanic-American neighborhood of Washington Heights, New York City. The production was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, winning four: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography (Andy Blankenbuehler), and Best Orchestrations (Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman). It won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and was also nominated for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show closed on January 9, 2011, after 1,184 performances. The cast included Miranda, Arielle Jacobs, Marcy Harriell, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Olga Merediz, Andréa Burns, Christopher Jackson, Tony Chriroldes and Priscilla Lopez. (A film version of In the Heights debuted in 2021.)
2008 - 80% of voters in a Hungarian referendum rejected small charges for doctor visits and hospital stays, as well as tuition fees for higher education.
2009 - President Barack Obama signed an executive order reversing the George Bush (II) ban on funding stem-cell research. Obama pledged to “use sound, scientific practice and evidence, instead of dogma” to guide federal policy.
2009 - French lawmakers passed an amendment to ban the sale of alcohol to people under 18 years of age. It the continuation of efforts to tackle the rise of binge drinking in a country known for a relaxed attitude booze.
2009 - And, speaking of alcohol: In an effort to boost tourism, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and state congressional leaders agreed to open Utah’s bars to the public, eliminating the state’s 40-year-old private club system.
2010 - Japan confirmed for the first time the existence of once-secret Cold War-era pacts with the U.S. that allowed nuclear-armed warships to enter Japanese ports.
2010 - University of Florida researcher Nam Dang and colleagues in Japan said that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors.
2011 - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing its 39th -- and final -- voyage. Next -- and final -- stop for Discovery was the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
2011 - Forbes magazine reported Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim (71), with assets of $74 billion, was the richest person in the world for the second year in a row.
2012 - New movies in U.S. theatres: John Carter, starring Bryan Cranston, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Taylor Kitsch, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West and Polly Walker; Silent House, with Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Julia Taylor Ross, Haley Murphy and Adam Barnett; the documentary Bully; The Decoy Bride, with Kelly Macdonald, Alice Eve, David Tennant, Dylan Moran, Michael Urie, Sally Phillips and Federico Castelluccio; Friends with Kids, starring Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Megan Fox and Edward Burns; Footnote, with Lior Ashkenazi, Yuval Scharf, Shlomo Bar-Aba and Aliza Rosen; the documenatary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, featuring Jiro Ono and Sukiyabashi Ono; Playback, starring Johnny Pacar, Ambyr Childers, Christian Slater, Jonathan Keltz, Alessandra Torresani, Toby Hemingway and Jennifer Missoni; and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, with Emily Blunt, ... Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rachael Stirling, Amr Waked, Tom Mison and Catherine Steadman.
2012 - Greece’s creditors agreed to the biggest debt write down in history. The government announced that 83.5 percent of private investors holding its government debt had agreed to a bond swap that would involve them taking a cut in more than half the face value of their investments with softer repayment terms for Greece.
2012 - Ohio state regulators reported that a dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth and announced tougher regulations on fracking (hydraulic fracturing).
2013 - Thousands of people rallied in a Tokyo park, demanding an end to atomic power in Japan and vowing never to give up the fight. This, because little change had come during the two years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
2014 - International airlines cancelled flights to and from Sierra Leone after a U.N. aviation regulator discovered that the only functioning fire engine at the main airport had broken down.
2015 - Egypt temporarily opened a crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing students, patients seeking medical care and dual nationals to leave the territory. The exits were the first to be allowed in some two months.
2015 - A letter signed by 47 Republican U.S. senators warned Iran that any nuclear deal made with Democratic POTUS Barack Obama would last only as long as he remained in office.
2016 - French students and trade unions staged protest marches across the country against far-reaching labor reforms. Reforms that put almost all aspects of France’s rules on labor relations up for negotiation: Everything from maximum working hours to holidays and pay on rest breaks. The main focus of the protests, though, was on plans to limit the cost of laying off workers.
2017 - Moldova’s parliament accused Russia’s intelligence service of intimidating politicians, following an investigation into alleged money laundering by Russian officials. Russia has meddled in the affairs of at least 27 European and North American countries since 2004 with interference ranging from cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns. This, according to an analysis by the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund, a nonprofit organization that fosters closer bonds between the U.S. and Europe.
2017 - Reference News, a newspaper published by Chinese state news agency Xinhua, published a story about Donald Trump wandering around in his bathrobe, ordering adviser Kellyanne Conway and press secretary Sean Spicer to wrap all the White House telephones in tin foil. It cited the March 4 edition of The New Yorker online. The article in question was a The Borowitz Report -- satire on the Trump. Following the proliferation of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, The New Yorker took steps to ensure some people did not misunderstand The Borowitz Report. It changed the column’s tag line from “the news, reshuffled” to the more direct “not the news”.
2018 - New motion pictures showing in the U.S. included: Gringo, starring David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton; The Hurricane Heist, with Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace and Ryan Kwanten; The Strangers: Prey at Night, starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison and Martin Henderson; A Wrinkle in Time, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine; The Forgiven, with Forest Whitaker, Eric Bana and Jeff Gum; The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland and Janel Moloney; and Thoroughbreds, with Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke and Paul Sparks.
2018 - India’s Supreme Court said individuals have a right to die with dignity. The ruling was a landmark verdict that permits the removal of life-support systems for the terminally ill or those in incurable comas.
2019 - Prison guards at Corcoran State Prison in Kings County, (south of Fresno) California found inmate Luis Romero (44) beheaded in his cell. Cellmate Jaime Osuna (31) had removed several body parts, including an eye and a finger, from Romero.
2019 - Pope Francis met with the leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first-such meeting of its kind came on the eve of the dedication of the Mormon church’s huge new temple in Rome.
2020 - A Seattle-area nursing home at the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak said it had no kits to test 65 employees showing symptoms of the respiratory illness that had killed at least 13 patients.
2020 - POTUS Trump dismissed coronavirus fears after trading on the New York Stock Exchange was temporarily halted as stocks plunged more than 2,000 points. In Trump’s world, the “fake news media” and Democrats had conspired “to inflame the coronavirus situation.” And he insisted the COVID-19 death toll would be the same as the annual death toll of seasonal flu, saying, “nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on.”
2020 - U.S. and California officials prepared to receive thousands of people from a cruise ship that had been idling off the coast of San Francisco with at least 21 people aboard infected with the coronavirus. Fences were installed at an 11-acre site at the Port of Oakland as authorities readied flights and buses to whisk the passengers from the ship to military bases or their home countries for a 14-day quarantine. Worldwide more than 110,000 people had tested positive for the disease and more than 3,800 people with the virus had died, most of them -- at this point -- in China.
2021 - Roger Mudd, U.S. broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News died at his home in McLean, VA. He was 93 years old. Mudd joined CBS News in 1961 and served as a congressional and national affairs correspondent and as a regular substitute for Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News. When Cronkite retired and Dan Rather was selected to replace him, an angry Mudd exited for NBC, where he was chief Washington correspondent, then co-host of the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. “Roger Mudd was one of the most gifted journalists of my lifetime,” Brokaw said, “an astute political reporter and guardian of the highest standards. Roger’s dedication to fundamental journalistic practices remains a marker for future generations.”
2021 - A London-based independent tribunal ruled that China committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in its Xinjiang province, accusing China’s senior leadership -- including President Xi Jinping -- of responsibility for acts perpetrated against the estimated 12 million Uighurs.
2021 - Switzerland reported a total of 1,378 new infections, well below the 10,000-plus record the previous November. Switzerland expected to vaccinate all of its 8.6 million residents who want a COVID-19 shot by summer.
2021 - Alaska became the first state to make COVID-19 vaccines available to anyone age 16 or older, eliminating eligibility requirements for people who work or live in the state.
2022 - Australia declared a national emergency in response to devastating floods along its east coast. Catastrophe zones were designated for towns destroyed by swollen rivers. At least 21 people had been killed.
2022 - The European Union stepped up sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The E.U. blacklisted the CEO of Russian airline Aeroflot, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s son-in-law and more oligarchs.
2022 - Russia bombed a children’s hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine -- during a ‘ceasefire.’ Ukraine said some 1,200 civilians had been killed in Mariupol since the start of the Russian invasion. Mariupol deputy mayor Serhiy Orlov said 47 were buried in a mass grave on this day.
2023 - The United Nations purchased a crude carrier to remove barrels of oil from a stricken ship off the coast of Yemen, to prevent an environmental and humanitarian disaster. The stranded ship -- the FSO Safer -- was left abandoned off the port of Hodeida after Yemen’s civil war broke out in 2015. It had not been serviced since.
2023 - The Recording Industry Association of America’s 2022 year-end report said vinyl record sales (41 million) exceeded CD sales (33 million) for the first time since 1987. While streaming still reigned supreme, physical music sales were making a “remarkable resurgence,” RIAA said.
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Birthdays on This Day March 9
1454 - Amerigo Vespucci
merchant, explorer; America was named for him; died Feb 22, 1512
1856 - Eddie (Edwin Fitzgerald) Foy Sr.
actor, comic, dancer: entertained on the musical stage and in vaudeville for four decades; father of The Seven Little Foys; died Feb 16, 19281902 - Will Geer (William Auge Ghere)
actor: Union Pacific, It’s a Small World, Broken Arrow, In Cold Blood, The Waltons; died Apr 22, 19781918 - Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison Spillane)
writer: Mike Hammer mysteries: I the Jury, My Gun is Quick, Kiss Me Deadly, Vengeance is Mine, The Killing Man; died July 17, 20061921 - Carl Betz
actor: Deadly Encounter, The Meal, Spinout; died Jan 18, 19781923 - André Courrèges
French fashion designer: created go-go boots, brought mini-skirt look into fashion; died Jan 7, 20161925 - Billy Ford
singer: group: Billy & Lillie: La Dee Dah, Lucky Ladybug; died in Mar, 19831926 - Joe Franklin
radio, TV host: WJZ-TV, WABC-TV, WOR-TV, WWOR-TV; died Jan 25, 20151927 - Jackie (Jack Eugene) Jensen
baseball: NY Yankees [World Series: 1950], Washington Nationals [all-star: 1952], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1955, 1958/Writer’s Award: 1958]; died Jul 14, 19821928 - Keely Smith (Dorothy Jacqueline Keely)
singer: That Old Black Magic, How Are Ya’ Fixed for Love?; died Dec 16, 20171933 - Lloyd Price
songwriter: Lawdy Miss Clawdy; pianist; singer: Stagger Lee, Personality, I’m Gonna Get Married; record label owner; producer; booking agent; died May 3, 20211934 - Yuri Gagarin
Russian cosmonaut: the first man to travel in space; killed plane crash Mar 27, 19681934 - Joyce Van Patten
actress: Monkey Shines, The Goodbye Guys, Bad News Bears, Breathing Lessons; sister of actor Dick Van Patten1936 - Mickey Gilley
singer: Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist [1974], 1976 awards: Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year: Gilley’s Smoking, Song of the Year: Don’t the Girls Get Prettier at Closing Time, Single of the Year: Bring It on Home; owned Gilley’s Club [honky-tonk that inspired movie Urban Cowboy]; owner: Mickey Gilley’s Theatre, Branson MO; Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin; died May 7, 20221936 - Marty Ingels (Ingerman)
actor: If It’s Tuesday This Must be Belgium, A Guide for the Married Man; died Oct 21, 20151940 - Raul Julia (Raul Rafael Carlos Julia y Arcelay)
actor: The Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman; received four Tony award nominations: Proteus, Mack the Knife; died Oct 24, 19941941 - Jim Colbert
golf: eight-time PGA Tour winner; Senior PGA Tour leading money winner [1995, 1996] player of year [1996]; ESPN color commentator1942 - John Cale
musician: viola, bass, keyboards; singer: group: The Velvet Underground: Sweet Jane, Rock and Roll, Sunday Morning, I’m Waiting for the Man, Femme Fatale, All Tomorrow’s Parties; The Gift, Sister Ray; solo: Half Past France, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Streets of Laredo1942 - Bert (Dagoberto Blanco) Campaneris
‘Campy’: baseball: shorstop: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics, [all-star: 1968, 1972-1975/World Series: 1972-1974], Texas Rangers [all-star: 1977], California Angels, NY Yankees1942 - Mark Lindsay
musician: saxophonist, songwriter, singer: group: Paul Revere & The Raiders: The Great Airplane Strike, Good Thing, Him or Me - What’s It Gonna Be, Indian Reservation; solo: Arizona, Silver Bird1943 - Bobby Fischer
World Chess Champion [1972], U.S. Champion [1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966]; died Jan 17, 20081943 - Charles Gibson
TV news host: Good Morning America, 20/20; anchor: ABC Evening News1943 - Trish Van Devere (Patricia Dressel)
actress: Hollywood Vice Squad, All God’s Children, The Day of the Dolphin, Deadly Currents, Where’s Poppa?, One is a Lonely Number1944 - Trevor Burton
musician: guitar: group: The Move: Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman, Blackberry Way; Uglys1945 - Robin Trower
musician: guitar: group: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale1945 - Ron Wilson
musician: drums: group: The Surfaris: Wipe Out, Surfer Joe, Point Panic; died May 7, 19891946 - Jim Cregan
musician: guitar: group: Family: It’s Only a Movie; Stud; Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel1947 - Chris Thompson
musician: guitar, singer: group: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Blinded By the Light, Spirit in the Night, Quit Your Low Down Ways, Questions, Circles, Davy’s on the Road Again1948 - Jimmie Fadden
singer, musician: harmonica, guitar: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, An American Dream, Make a Little Magic, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road [The Sharecropper’s Dream]1948 - Jeffrey Osborne
musician: drums, singer, songwriter: group: L.T.D.1950 - Andy North
golf champion: U.S. Open [1978 and 1985]1957 - Faith Daniels
journalist, TV news reporter: Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise, Today1958 - Martin Fry
singer: group: ABC: Tears are Not Enough, Poison Arrow, Be Near Me, When Smokey Sings, King Without a Crown; founded magazine: Modern Drugs1959 - Tom Amandes
actor: Everwood, The Untouchables, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Saving Lincoln, This Might Hurt, Parenthood; more1960 - Linda Fiorentino (Clorinda Fiorentino)
actress: Unforgettable, Bodily Harm, The Last Seduction, Vision Quest, Men in Black1963 - Terry Mulholland
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Browns, L.A. Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks1964 - Juliette Binoche
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: The English Patient [1997]; The Children of the Century, Jet Lag, A Few Days in September, Flight of the Red Balloon, The Son of No One, Cosmopolis, Camille Claudel, 19151965 - Brian Bosworth
football [linebacker]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks; actor: The Longest Yard, Phase IV, Three Kings, Black Out, Stone Cold1965 - Benito Santiago
baseball: SD Padres, Florida Marlins, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, SF Giants, KC Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates1969 - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
basketball [guard]: Louisiana State Univ; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings, Vancouver Grizzlies1971 - Emmanuel Lewis
actor: Webster, The New Adventures of Mother Goose, Lost in London1972 - Jean Louisa Kelly
actress: Little Red Light, The Fantasticks, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Stranger in the Kingdom, Tad, One More Mountain1973 - Aaron Boone
baseball [shortstop, second, third base]: USC; Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians; his father is former baseball player Bob Boone; brother is fellow baseball player Bret Boone; grandfather was former baseball player Ray Boone; more1976 - Joe Zelenka
football [tight end]: Wake Forest Univ; NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars1979 - Oscar Isaac
actor: Star Wars sequel trilogy; X-Men: Apocalypse; Annihilation, Dune, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; Moon Knight1980 - Matt Barnes
basketball [forward]: NBA: Los Angeles Clippers [2004]; Sacramento Kings [2004–2005]; New York Knicks [2005]; Philadelphia 76ers [2005–2006]; Golden State Warriors [2006–2008]; Phoenix Suns [2008–2009]; Orlando Magic [2009–2010]; Los Angeles Lakers [2010–2012]; Los Angeles Clippers [2012–2015]; Memphis Grizzlies [2015–2016]; Sacramento Kings [2016–2017] Golden State Warriors [2017]: 2017 NBA champs1980 - Matthew Gray Gubler
actor: Criminal Minds, [500] Days of Summer, The Beauty Inside, All-Star Superman, Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, Magic Valley, Excision1983 - Bobby Campo
actor: The Final Destination, Grey’s Anatomy, Mental, Justified, Masters of Sex1983 - Clint Dempsey
footballer [midfielder]: New England Revolution [2004-2006]: MLS Cup champs [2005, 2006]; U.S. national team [2004-2017]1984 - Julia Mancuso
U.S. Olympic alpine skiier: giant slalom gold medalist [2006 Winter Olympics]; silver medalist in both downhill and combined at 2010 Winter Olympics1986 - Brittany Snow
actress: Hairspray, John Tucker Must Die, On the Doll, The Pacifier, Murphy’s Doze, From the Earth to the Moon1987 - Bow Wow (Shad Gregory Moss)
rapper: Roll Bounce, Let’s Get Down, The Wickedest, All I Know, Take Ya Home, Bounce With Me1995 - Cierra Ramirez
actress: The Fosters, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Girl in Progress, Petting Scorpions, Drink Slay Love, Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors, The Secret Life of the American Teenager2003 - Sunisa ‘Suni’ Lee
gymnast: 2020 Olympic all-around champion; member of the teams that won gold at the 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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Besame Mucho (facts) - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
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