March 10
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1791 - John Stone patented the pile driver on this day. Let’s all go pound on some concrete to celebrate.1849 - Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders. Lincoln received the patent in May, 1849. You thought he was just the President of the United States, didn’t you? Honest. Abe was an inventor, too!
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell sent the first clear telephone message -- into a nearby room -- to his assistant, Mr. Watson. “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you,” were the first words spoken into the invention that Bell had created.
1880 - Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers of English ‘General’ William Booth’s army landed in New York on this day to officially put the Salvation Army to work in the United States.
1903 - Harry C. Gammeter of Cleveland, OH patented the multigraph duplicating machine. Why it wasn’t called the Gammeter is beyond our thought processes...
1922 - Variety magazine greeted readers with the front-page headline that read, “Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use.” Today, that very headline would have also said, “Be the Twelfth Caller and Win Free Movie Tickets!”
1935 - Nelson Eddy recorded Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life for Victor Records. The song came from the film, Naughty Marietta. Later, Eddy recorded the classic tune with Jeanette MacDonald.
1937 - An audience of 21,000 jitterbuggers jammed the Paramount Theatre in New York City to see a young clarinetist whom they would crown, ‘King of Swing’ on this night. The popular musician was Benny Goodman.
1938 - The day: the 10th of the month. The movies being celebrated were for the year 1937, whose numbers add up to 10 (1+9, 3+7); and it was the 10th Annual Academy Awards. We wonder if these winners were superstitious or had some reason to think that the number 10 was lucky. Two awards were won by The Life of Emile Zola, a Warner Bros. movie, produced by Henry Blanke, Best Picture honors and Best Actor in a Supporting Role to Joseph Schildkraut. Other lucky recipients of the coveted prize awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel were Leo McCarey as Best Director for The Awful Truth; Spencer Tracy for his Best Actor role (Manuel) in Captains Courageous; Luise Rainer for her Best Actress role (O-Lan) in The Good Earth; Alice Brady as the Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Molly O’Leary In Old Chicago) and Harry Owens for his Best Music/Song, Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding. We give them all a ‘10’.
1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would wear batting helmets during the 1941 baseball season. General Manager Larry MacPhail (he started the Dodger dynasty in the thirties) predicted that all baseball players would soon be wearing the new devices. Larry was right on with that prediction.
1948 - The first civilian to exceed the speed of sound was Herbert H. Hoover near Edwards AFB, CA.
1949 - Mildred E. Gillars, who had made wartime broadcasts for the Nazis under the name of Axis Sally, was convicted in Washington of treason. She served twelve years in prison.
1952 - Former Cuban president Fulgencio Batista overthrew the Cuban government. He ruled as dictator until 1959, when he was ousted in a revolution led by Fidel Castro.
1955 - The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard on radio. It was said to be the last of the adventure stories on the air.
1956 - Julie Andrews was 19 years old this night when she made her American TV debut. She appeared with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson in the musical adaptation of Maxwell Anderson’s play, High Tor.
1959 - Sweet Bird of Youth, a play by Tennessee Williams, opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. The play starred Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Rip Torn and Diana Hyland. Critics called Page “fabulous” and about Newman, they said, “the perfect companion piece.”
1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in The Odd Couple, one of Neil Simon’s greatest theatrical triumphs. It would also become a hit on television, with Tony Randall playing the tidy Felix Ungar and Jack Klugman as slovenly sportswriter, Oscar Madison. The play opened at the Plymouth Theatre in New York City.
1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He died in April 1998.
1971 - The U.S. Senate approved the Twenty Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- lowering the voting age to 18. The House of Representatives approved the amendment March 23, 1971. Ratification was completed on July 1, 1971.
1977 - The United Farm Workers joined the Teamsters.
1980 - Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death at his Purchase, New York home. Jean Harris was arrested and convicted of the crime. New York Governor Mario Cuomo granted Harris clemency and she was released from prison in 1993.
1985 - Dick Motta of the Dallas Mavericks became the fourth coach in the National Basketball Association to win 700 games in a career as the Mavs defeated the New Jersey Nets 126-113. The three other winningest coaches in NBA history to that time were: Red Auerbach (938 games), Jack Ramsey (733 games) and Gene Shue (717).
1988 - Teen idol and Bee Gees member Andy Gibb died in England of a sudden inflammation of the heart muscle caused by a viral infection. He was 30 years old.
1989 - One day after the U.S. Senate rejected the nomination of John Tower to the post, President George Bush (I) announced that he would nominate Wyoming Representative Dick Cheney as Secretary of Defense. (Cheney was confirmed by the U.S. Senate one week later.)
1992 - Former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton became the front-runner for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination as he won a series of Southern landslides on Super Tuesday. President George Bush (I) swept all the Republican contests.
1995 - Record flooding swept the state of California, killing six people and causing mudslides which destroyed hundreds of homes along the state’s coastline and rivers.
1997 - LaVern Baker, one of the most influential R&B singers of the 1950s, died in New York. She was 67 years old. Baker had suffered from diabetes and had both legs amputated below the knees two years earlier. She had 20 r&b hits beginning in 1955, including Tweedle Dee, Jim Dandy and I Cried a Tear. Baker became the second female artist, after Aretha Franklin, to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1998 - Indonesia’s President Suharto was elected to his seventh five-year term.
2000 - Pope John Paul the Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. Drexel, who died in 1955, was canonized October 1, 2000.
2000 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Mission to Mars, starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O’Connell, Kim Delaney, Elise Neal, Peter Outerbridge, Jill Teed, Kavan Smith and Tim Robbins; and The Ninth Gate, with Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford, Tony Amoni, James Russo and Jose Lopez Rodero.
2002 - Israeli helicopters destroyed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office in Gaza City. The action came shortly after eleven Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing in a cafe near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s residence in Jerusalem.
2002 - Actress Irene Worth, three-time Tony winner (Tiny Alice [1964], Sweet Bird of Youth [1975], Lost in Yonkers [1991]), died of a stroke in New York City. She was 85 years old.
2004 - U.S. Internet service providers AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! filed a series of lawsuits in an attempt to shutdown a number of spammers.
2005 - Tens of thousands of French workers marched in Paris and strikes crippled public transport. The workers were demonstrating for a 35-hour work week and other labor improvements.
2006 - New films in the U.S.: Failure to Launch, starring Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Justin Bartha, Kathy Bates, Zooey Deschanel, Adam Alexi-Malle, Bradley Cooper, Katheryn Winnick and Kristi Evans; The Hills Have Eyes, with Aaron Stanford, Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy and Ezra Buzzington; and The Shaggy Dog, starring Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Craig Kilborn, Robert Downey Jr. and Shawn Pyfrom)
2006 - The U.S. Treasury Dept. reported that the February 2006 deficit of $119.2 billion had set a one-month record, citing early tax filing, hurricane aid and Medicare drug costs.
2007 - Thousands of supporters of legislation that would grant legal rights to unmarried couples, including gays, rallied in Rome, Italy. The crowd urged lawmakers to resist Vatican pressure against the measure.
2008 - New York Governor Eliot Spitzer admitted to making cash payments from several bank accounts to an account operated by a call-girl ring.
2009 - Syria opened the Damascus Stock Exchange, the country’s first stock exchange since the 1960s, as it shifted from socialist policies toward a more market-oriented system.
2009 - Tibetans and their supporters rallied across the Asia-Pacific region demanding an end to Chinese rule in their homeland on this, the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s being forced into exile. Paramilitary police and soldiers swarmed cities and villages in Tibet and restive western China, on the alert for possible unrest. The Dalai Lama said Tibet had become “hell on earth” under Beijing’s control.
2010 - The U.N. Security Council reported that half the food aid in Somalia was being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers. The report singled out the World Food Program, the largest aid agency in the crisis-racked country, as being particularly flawed.
2010 - The Moroccan government expelled 20 foreign Christian missionaries after religious authorities accused them of proselytism (attempting to convert people). The expelled missionaries included couples from Britain and the Netherlands who had adopted Moroccan children.
2010 - Virginia became the first U.S. state to ban mandatory health insurance.
2011 - Actor Charlie Sheen filed a $100 million wrongful-termination lawsuit against Warner Bros. and producer Chuck Lorre for firing him from the TV show Two and a Half Men.
2011 - With only Republicans present, the Wisconsin General Assembly passed legislation taking away the collective bargaining rights of the state’s government workers.
2012 - 20,000 Russian protesters marched down a central Moscow avenue to denounce Vladimir Putin’s presidential election win. The crowd’s relatively small size (compared to previous protests) suggested the opposition movement was dwindling and/or being forced to dwindle.
2013 - China announced its plans to streamline government ministries, including doing away with the powerful Railways Ministry. That ministry had been so pervasive and powerful it had resisted government reform efforts for years and the Chinese had called it “Boss Railway.”
2014 - Russian troops opened fire with automatic rifles during a takeover of a Ukrainian naval post in Crimea.
2014 - Colorado reported marijuana sales had brought in $3.5 million in tax revenues and fees in the first month that retail pot outlets were allowed.
2015 - A Los Angeles jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s children $7.3 million. The award came after the jury determined that writer, singer Robin Thicke ripped off Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up, when he wrote the smash hit Blurred Lines with Pharrell Williams and T.I. Blurred Lines was the biggest hit song of 2013.
2015 - Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II christened P&O Cruises’ 141,000-ton liner Britannia, a 473 million pound ($714 million) mega ship that’s longer than four superjumbo jets.
2016 - Japan-based Honda rolled out a new fuel cell vehicle, the first five-seater of its kind. The zero-emissions Clarity had a price tag of 7.66 million yen ($67,000).
2017 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Kong: Skull Island, starring Tom Hiddleston, Corey Hawkins, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tian Jing, Toby Kebbell, John Goodman and John C. Reilly; The Dark Below, with Lauren Mae Shafer, David G.B. Brown and Veronica Cartwright; Kidnap, starring Halle Berry, Dana Gourrier and Lew Temple; The Ottoman Lieutenant, starring Michiel Huisman, Hera Hilmar and Josh Hartnett; Personal Shopper, with Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger and Sigrid Bouaziz; The Sense of an Ending, starring Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling and Emily Mortimer; and Suntan, with Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou and Dimi Hart.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump’s revamped travel ban ran into trouble with existing law. A federal judge -- in Wisconsin -- halted enforcement of the directive that would deny U.S. entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum.
2017 - A panel of U.S. federal judges in the Western District of Texas ruled 2-1 that three Congressional districts must be redrawn. The panel found that the way in which the districts were drawn amounted to an unconstitutional dilution of the Hispanic vote.
2018 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi. They pledged to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean. And the two leaders signed an agreement to expedite construction (by a French company) of a major nuclear power plant in India. Modi highlighted a solar alliance and cooperation between the two countries in defense, security, technology, space and counterterrorism.
2019 - Thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow and two other Russian cities to rally against tighter internet restrictions. The protests were some of the biggest seen in Moscow in years. New legislation routed Russian web traffic and data through points controlled by the state. Some Russian media likened the new restricitons to an online “iron curtain” and critics said it would be used to stifle dissent.
2019 - A new Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737-8 MAX crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board were killed. 35 nationalities were represented. 19 people from at least five U.N. and affiliated agencies, including the IOM, were among 157 victims. The jet had experienced an Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) malfunction and crashed -- even as the pilots attempted a Boeing-issues recovery procedure. Ethiopian Airlines grounded its MAX fleet that day. On March 11, the Civil Aviation Administration of China grounded the MAX, and most regulators followed in quick succession. The FAA publicly reaffirmed the airworthiness of the aircraft on March 11 -- but grounded it on March 13 after receiving new evidence of accident similarities. By March 18, all 387 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes were grounded, disrupting 8,600 weekly flights by 59 airlines.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)761 cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in the U.S. as well as 27 deaths. 2)Australia’s coronavirus cases rose overnight to 100 from 80. 3)The Czech Republic, with 40 cases of coronavirus, said it would suspend schools other than universities and ban events hosting more than 100 people. 4)The outbreak in Israel had been largely contained, but began to gain pace, with a total of 61 cases diagnosed. 26 confirmed cases have been reported in the Palestinian Territories. 5)Italy entered its first day under a nationwide lockdown after a government decree extended restrictions on movement from the hard-hit north to the rest of the country. Italy counted 9,172 cases and 463 deaths. The number of dead from riots in Italy’s overcrowded prisons over measures imposed to contain the coronavirus rose to 12. 6)Dutch health authorities took action to contain an outbreak of the coronavirus in a southern province, where a large group of employees at hospitals tested positive for the illness. The number of confirmed cases had risen by 61 to 382, with four deaths. 7)Singapore began charging visitors for coronavirus treatment after it reported new imported cases from neighboring Indonesia. 8)The number of people infected topped 113,000, with 4,000 dead across the world as the outbreak spread to more countries.
2020 - Five states (Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho) held Democratic primaries, while North Dakota held a caucus. 352 delegates were up for grabs.
2021 - House lawmakers gave final approval to Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, sending the legislation to his desk for his signature. Republicans in both chambers had opposed the legislation unanimously.
2022 - U.S. President Biden told Colombian President Ivan Duque he was designating Colombia as a major non-NATO ally. Both presidents condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Duque said Colombia was offering assistance to countries that were handling the mass of people evacuating “the bloodbath” in Ukraine.
2022 - The U.S. accused Russia of using a U.N. Security Council meeting for “spreading disinformation” as part of a false-flag operation by Moscow for its use of chemical or biological agents in Ukraine. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Russia was playing out a scenario put forth in the council previously by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken -- that President Vladimir Putin would “fabricate allegations about chemical or biological weapons to justify its own violent attacks against the Ukrainian people.”
2022 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that black people, Latinos and Native Americans were undercounted during the 2020 national census, potentially affecting political representation and federal funding for communities with significant minority populations. Latinos -- with a net undercount rate of 4.99% -- were left out of the 2020 census at more than three times the rate of a decade earlier. And among Native Americans living on reservations (5.64%) and Black people (3.30%), the net undercount rates were numerically higher but not statistically different from 2010. (Then-POTUS Donald Trump had pushed to add a citizenship question to the mandatory 2020 survey, scaring many people and causing the Census Bureau to spend millions in advertising to combat it. And the Trump administration slashed a month from the data-collecting window, exacerbating the frenzied process of integrating a first-time online survey with the regular in-person count.)
2023 - Xi Jinping was appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms). The appointment by China’s rubber-stamp parliament came after Xi was handed in October another five years as head of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and the military -- the two more significant leadership positions in Chinese politics. This appointment as the head of state was a ceremonial addition to Xi’s iron grip on power.
2023 - California’s Silicon Valley Bank, the main bank for tech-startups, collapsed after a sudden bank run and credit crisis. It was the largest U.S. bank failure since 2008.
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Birthdays on This Day March 10
1628 - Marcello Malpighi
physician: pioneer in working with the microscope; died Nov 30, 16941888 - Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields)
Academy Award-winning [supporting] actor: Going My Way [1944]; Bringing Up Baby, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man; died Jan 14, 19611892 - Arthur Honegger
composer: film scores: Crime and Punishment; died Nov 27, 19551903 - (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke
‘young man with a horn’: jazz cornetist: groups: Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet, Jazz Me Blues; Bix Beiderbecke and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues; Charlie Straight Orchestra; Breeze Blowers; Jean Goldkette Orchestra; Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra: Singin’ the Blues, Clarinet Marmalade, Clementine; Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang: At the Jazz Band Ball, Royal Garden Blues; Adrian Rollini and the New Yorkers; Paul Whiteman Orchestra: From Monday On, China Boy, Oh, Miss Hannah; jazz pianist: In A Mist, Candlelights, Flashes, In the Dark; died Aug 6, 19311914 - Chandler Harper
golf champion: PGA [1950], 20 PGA Tour victories in 1940s and 1950s; PGA Seniors Championship [1968]; died Nov 8, 20041916 - Pamela Mason (Ostrer)
writer; actress: Charade, Navy vs. the Night Monsters; died June 29, 19961918 - Heywood Hale Broun
sportscaster: ABC Sports; son of U.S. journalist Heywoood Broun [1888-1939]; died Sep 5, 20011920 - Jethro (Kenneth C. Burns)
entertainer, musician: mandolin, banjo: Homer & Jethro: The Battle of Kookamonga, Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs; died Feb 4, 19891923 - Don Abney
jazz pianist, studio musician; died Jan 20, 20001937 - Joe Viterelli
actor: Analyze This/That, Serving Sara, Shallow Hal, See Spot Run, A Walk in the Park, Mickey Blue Eyes, Jane Austen’s Mafia!; died Jan 28, 20041938 - Norman Blake
musician: guitar, singer: I’m Going to Leave Old Dixie, Hangin’ Dog, I’d Rather be an Old Time Christian, Poor Little Sailor Boy, Rescue from Moose River Goldmine1940 - Leroy Ellis
basketball: St. John’s, Baltimore Bullets, Portland Trail Blazers, LA Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers; died Jun 2, 20121940 - David Rabe
playwright: Streamers, Casualties of War, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can1940 - Dean Torrence
singer: duo: Jan & Dean: The Little Old Lady [From Pasadena], Dead Man’s Curve, Surf City, Honolulu Lulu1940 - Chuck Norris (Carlos Ray Norris )
karate champion, actor: Code of Silence, Delta Force, Forced Vengeance, Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action, Walker, Texas Ranger; more1941 - Sandra Palmer
golf champ: U.S. Open [1975]1942 - Bob Berry
football: Minnesota Vikings quarter back: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI1944 - Johnny (John Edward) Briggs
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins1945 - Katharine Houghton (Grant)
actress: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Billy Bathgate, The Night We Never Met; niece of actress Katharine Hepburn1947 - A. Kim Campbell
23rd Prime Minister of Canada [June, 1993-Nov, 1993]: Canada’s first female Prime Minister1947 - Tom Scholz
musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: group: Boston: More than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Don’t Look Back, Man I’ll Never Be, Amanda1948 - Austin Carr
basketball: Notre Dame All-American Guard and Player of the Year [1971]; Cleveland Cavaliers1948 - Wayne (Lee) Twitchell
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1973], Montreal Expos, NY Mets, Seattle Mariners; died Sep 16, 20101949 - Barbara Corcoran
Founder of The Corcoran Group, Barbara Corcoran Inc., Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners; TV shark: Shark Tank; more1955 - Bunny DeBarge
singer: group: DeBarge: Time Will Reveal, I Like It; solo: Save the Best for Me [Best of Your Lovin’], So Good for You, A Woman In Love, Let’s Spend the Night, I Still Believe1957 - Osama bin Laden
terrorist founder/head of al Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center; killed May 2, 2011 by U.S. special forces military unit1957 - Shannon Tweed
model: Playboy magazine: Miss November [1981], Playmate of the Year [1982]; actress: Falcon Crest, Days of Our Lives, Meatballs III, Lethal Woman, Indecent Behavior series, The Rowdy Girls1958 - Steve Howe
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Michigan; Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees; died Apr 28, 20061958 - Sharon Stone
actress: Last Dance, Casino, The Specialist, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, War & Remembrance series, Above the Law, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, King Solomon’s Mines, Calendar Girl Murders, Deadly Blessing, The Bay City Blues1960 - Lance Burton
magician, illusionist: Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas1962 - Jasmine Guy
actress: A Different World [1987-1993], Tru Loved, Dead Like Me: Life After Death, Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming, Blossoms for Clara, October Baby, What About Us?, Scary Movie 51963 - Jeff Ament
musician: bass guitar, songwriter: founding member of group Pearl Jam: Merkinball, Not for You, Save You, Other Side, Dissident, Release, Off He Goes, Crazy Mary, Even Flow1963 - Rick Rubin
record producer, co-president of Columbia Records: produced Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Run–D.M.C., Tom Petty, Black Sabbath, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dixie Chicks, Metallica, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Linkin Park, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger1964 - Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson)
songwriter, rap singer: groups: Rip Rig + Panic, The Slits; solo: Buffalo Stance, LPs: Homebrew, Nearly God, Raw Like Sushi, Man, Woman; British Music Awards: Best Single, Best Female Vocalist [1990], Best Video [Woman: 1996]; World Music Awards: Best African Single [7 Seconds: 1995]1964 - Prince Edward (Edward Antony Richard Louis)
royalty: Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn: son and youngest child of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh1965 - Rod Woodson
football: Purdue Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [1987–1996]; San Francisco 49ers [1997]; Baltimore Ravens [1998–2001]: 2001 Super Bowl XXXV champs; Oakland Raiders [2002–2003]1966 - Mike Timlin
baseball [pitcher]: Southwestern Univ; Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox1969 - Paget Brewster
actress: Criminal Minds, Sublime, Unaccompanied Minors, Lost Behind Bars, Eulogy, Hollywood Palms, Max Q1971 - Jon Hamm
actor: Mad Men, Sucker Punch, Howl, The Ten, We Were Soldiers, Space Cowboys1972 - Matt Kenseth
pro stock car driver: Coca-Cola 600 [2000], Winston Cup Series [2003], IROC [2004], Daytona 500 [2009, 2012]1972 - Timbaland (Timothy Zachery Mosley)
record producer R&B and hip-hop artists; songwriter, rapper: Give It to Me, The Way I Are, Apologize, Carry Out1973 - Martin Brochu
hockey [goalie]: Washington Capitals, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins1977 - Ben Davis
baseball [catcher]: San Diego Padre, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox1977 - Shannon Miller
gymnast: winner of seven medals at 1996 Summer Olympics; nine World Championship medals1977 - Robin Thicke
musician: piano, guitar, saxophone; songwriter, singer: Sex Therapy, Lost Without U, Love After War, The Sweetest Love, It’s in the Mornin’; TV judge: The Masked Singer1977 - Bree Turner
actress: Grimm, She’s All That, The Wedding Planner, Joe Dirt, Sorority Boys, Bring It on Again, Just My Luck, Firehouse Dog, The Ugly Truth1979 - Edi Gathegi
actor: House, Gone Baby Gone, Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, X-Men: First Class1980 - Ben Crowley
actor: Glory Days, P.O.V.: The Camera’s Eye, The Haunted Heart, 10 Attitudes1981 - Samuel Eto’o
footballer [striker]: FC Barcelona [2004-2009]; 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010 African Player of the Year; Cameroon [1997-2014]: 2000 Olympics gold medal1983 - Lashinda Demus
hurdler: specializes in 400 meter hurdles: Olympic silver-medalist [2012]; Gold 4x400 meter relay [2009 Berlin]; Gold 400 m hurdles [2011 Daegu]; Silver 400 m hurdles [2005 Helsinki] Silver 400 m hurdles [2009 Berlin]1983 - Carrie Underwood
singer: Inside Your Heaven, Jesus, Take the Wheel, Some Hearts, Wasted, Don’t Forget to Remember Me, The Night Before [Life Goes On]; more1984 - Olivia Wilde
actress: Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas, Conversations with Other Women, Alpha Dog, The Girl Next Door, The O.C., TRON: Legacy, House M.D.1987 - Tuukka Rask
hockey [goaltender]: NHL: Boston Bruins [2006-2022]: 2013 Stanley Cup finals; 2014 Vezina Trophy [top NHL goaltender]1992 - Emily Osment
actress: Young Sheldon, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Hannah Montana, The Haunting Hour Volume One: Don’t Think About It Dadnapped, Cyberbully; singer: Let’s Be Friends, Lovesick1998 - Justin Herbert
football: Univ of Oregon: 2019 Pac-12 Championship, MVP of 2020 Rose Bowl; NFL: Los Angeles Chargers [2020- ]
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