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1743 - The City of Boston conducted the first town meeting in Faneuil Hall. It became an idea that caught on quickly throughout New England.1794 - Eli Whitney patented his cotton gin, making it possible to clean 50 pounds of cotton a day, compared to a pound a day before Whitney’s invention.
1812 - War Bonds were authorized by the United States government for the first time. We presume they were in support of the War of 1812.
1903 - President Teddy Roosevelt established the first nature refuge. It was a bird sanctuary at Pelican Island, Sebastian, Florida.
1923 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first Chief Executive to pay taxes and account for his income. Harding’s tax bill amounted to nearly $18,000.
1936 - The U.S. government went into the magazine business on this day. There were no advertisements in the publication and very little artwork ... heavy on the text boxes. The publication is known today as The Federal Register.
1937 - Fred Allen and Jack Benny met on radio in one of the biggest publicity gags ever. It was called the Battle of the Century. The two comedians locked horns in the ballroom of the Hotel Pierre, exchanging torrid insults that were heard by the second largest audience in the history of radio. The ‘feud’, incidentally, lasted for the next 12 years! This was probably the longest-running publicity stunt in history, too!
1941 - Years before Desi Arnaz would make the song Babalu popular on the I Love Lucy TV show, Xavier Cugat and his orchestra recorded it with Miguelito Valdes doing the vocal. The song was on Columbia Records, as was the Arnaz version years later.
1945 - The heaviest bomb of World War II, the 22,000-pound ‘Grand Slam’, was dropped by the Royal Air Force’s Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.
1950 - The F.B.I. released its first Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Over the next several years, the Bureau reported success in apprehending eighty-eight of ninety-eight listed fugitives. Thomas James Holden was first on the list.
1951 - United Nations forces recaptured Seoul in South Korea (now the Republic of Korea).
1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the first gold record. It was Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star on RCA Victor Records. The tune became the first to win million-seller certification, though other songs dating as far back as the 1920s may have sold a million records or more. Due to lack of a certification organization like the RIAA, they weren’t awarded the golden platter.
1959 - Elvis Presley made the album charts, but no one would have known by the title of the disk. For LP Fans Only was the first LP ever issued without the artist’s name to be found anywhere on the cover -- front or back. On selected copies of the album, however, some record buyers who held the record up to their ears could plainly hear Elvis screaming, "Help! Get me outta here! It’s me, Elvis!" Not everyone. Just some record buyers...
1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Millions of people saw Ruby shoot Oswald on live TV in 1963. (Ruby died of cancer awaiting a new trial.)
1967 - The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
1968 - After three seasons on television, ABC-TV showed the last episode of Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Robin. The first Batman episode was Hi Diddle Riddle, shown on January 12, 1966. The pilot program for Batman cost $300,000 -- quite expensive by 1966 standards. Through the three seasons, the ‘Dynamic Duo’ welcomed these stars to the cast: Art Carney (The Archer), Tallulah Bankhead (Black Widow), Eartha Kitt (Catwoman), Julie Newmar (Catwoman), Lee Meriwether (Catwoman), Liberace (Chandell), Vincent Price (Egghead), Cesar Romero (The Joker), Rudy Vallee (Lord Phogg), Milton Berle (Louie the Lilac), Shelley Winters (Ma Parker), David Wayne (The Mad Hatter), Zsa Zsa Gabor (Minerva), Van Johnson (The Minstrel), Otto Preminger (Mr. Freeze), Burgess Meredith (The Penguin), John Astin (The Riddler), Frank Gorshin (The Riddler), Cliff Robertson (Shame), Joan Collins (The Siren) and Anne Baxter (Zelda the Great). Finally, a partial list of official Bat-Noises: Aargh!, Clash!, Crunch!, Klonk!, Pow!, Splat!, Clunk! Eee-Yow! Ooof!, Powie! Swoosh!, Biff!, Conck! Ouch!, Qunkk!, Thunk! Boff! Crash!, Uggh!, Zam!, Zap! and others. Wow!
1969 - Less than one month after winning her first horse race, Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman jockey to win at Aqueduct Race Course in New York. She rode Brave Galaxy to victory and into the winner’s circle.
1972 - The Cincinnati Royals announced plans to move the National Basketball Association franchise to Kansas City, MO. You may think that the Royals not only moved, but changed their sport ... to baseball. However, the Kansas City Royals baseball team was already in place, so the basketball team became the Kings.
1972 - Cosmopolitan magazine released its controversial issue with actor Burt Reynolds in a nude pose. The issue was a sell-out.
1972 - Carole King won four Grammy Awards: Record of the Year for It’s Too Late, Album of the Year and best female pop vocal performance for Tapestry and Song of the Year for You’ve Got a Friend.
1980 - 87 people, including a 14-man United States boxing team, died in an air crash in Warsaw. The Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw.
1985 - Bill Cosby captured four People’s Choice Awards for The Cosby Show. The awards were earned from results of a nationwide Gallup Poll. Barbara Mandrell stunned the audience by announcing that she was pregnant while accepting her second award on the show. Bob Hope won the award as All-Time Entertainer beating Clint Eastwood and Frank Sinatra for the honor.
1990 - MCA bought independent label, Geffen Records. Geffen’s talent included Guns N’ Roses, Don Henley, Cher, Aerosmith and Whitesnake. Geffen’s sole owner, David Geffen, who had founded the company in 1980, received preferred shares in MCA worth around $600-million.
1991 - One of rock’s greatest songwriters, Jerome (Doc) Pomus, died in New York of cancer. He was 65 years old. Polio condemned him to a painful and lonely childhood. Pomus wrote the lyrics, while partner Mort Shuman wrote the music, for such classics as Dion and the Belmonts’ hit A Teenager in Love, and The Drifters’ Save the Last Dance For Me and This Magic Moment. Pomus and Shuman also collaborated with another great songwriting team, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, to compose such Elvis Presley hits as Surrender, Little Sister and (Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame.
1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor and writer (La Cage aux Folles), died. He was 65 years old.
1994 - Apple Computer introduced the Power Macintosh. The machine featured a 60 MHz PowerPC 601 (60 MHz) processor, 8/16 MB of RAM, and a 160/250 MB hard drive in a compact, desktop case.
1995 - U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket. Thagard and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
1996 - Steve Forbes dropped his quest for the Republican presidential nomination after spending 30 million dollars of his own money.
1997 - Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a painful torn tendon in President Clinton’s right knee. The injury was incurred in a freak middle-of-the-night stumble at the Florida home of golfer Greg Norman.
1997 - Love Jones opened in the U.S. The romantic drama stars Larenz Tate, Nia Long, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Nicole Carson, Bill Bellamy, Leonard Roberts, Bernadette L. Clarke, Khalil Kain, Cerall Duncan, David Nisbet, Simon James, Oona Hart, Jaqueline Fleming, Manao DeMuth and Marie-Françoise Theodore.
1998 - India’s Congress party picked Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, as its new president.
1999 - Former Miss Universe (1981) Irene Sáez was elected governor of Margarita Island, Venezuela.
2000 - Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush clinched their respective presidential nominations in a series of Southern contests, securing the delegates they needed for a November matchup. “It’s a choice between keeping prosperity going or going back to the Bush-Quayle days of gigantic budget deficits and paralyzed democracy,” Gore said. Bush said, “I’m honored. I'm humbled with the knowledge that I am a step closer to assuming the highest office in the land.”
2001 - Doug Swingley won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska for the third straight year.
2002 - Serbia and Montenegro signed an historic accord to radically restructure their federation, dropping the name Yugoslavia and granting greater autonomy to prevent the country’s final breakup.
2003 - Films opening in the U.S.: Agent Cody Banks, with Frankie Muniz (as Cody Banks), Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Daniel Roebuck, Cynthia Stevenson, Arnold Vosloo and Ian McShane; and Willard, starring Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Elena Harring and Jackie Burroughs.
2004 - Russian voters overwhelmingly handed President Vladimir Putin a second four-year term (he received 71.31 percent of the vote). Note that there had been massive and one-sided campaigning for Putin by Russian television channels, most of which are state owned and controlled.
2005 - Experts said poachers were killing between 6,000 and 12,000 elephants a year to supply illegal ivory markets in Sudan -- to meet growing Chinese demand. Most of the elephants were killed in southern Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic, and some in Kenya and Chad.
2006 - A NATO spokesman in northern Afghanistan said troops had found the biggest weapons cache in recent years including 80 tons of TNT and 25,000 landmines. The weapons were stored underground in old Soviet bunkers.
2006 - A 1890s-era plantation dam in the rugged hills of northern Kauai, Hawaii, weakened by heavy rains, failed and sent water and mud surging through two homes. Searchers found one person dead and seven others were missing, some of them children who hadn’t been seen since the deluge. The flood also forced the closure of Kuhio Highway, the only highway in the area, stranding residents and tourists.
2007 - Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands International agreed to pay a $25 million fine. The banana marketer, producer and distributor admitted that it paid a Colombian terrorist group (AUC) for protection in a volatile farming region.
2007 - New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed legislation authorizing ‘civil confinement’ of certain sex offenders who served their prison terms, but were still considered a threat.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Doomsday, with Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Alexander Siddig, Adrian Lester, Sean Pertwee, Darren Morfitt, Emma Cleasby, Chris Robson, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone, Leslie Simpson, Craig Conway and Malcolm McDowell; Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who, starring Jim Carrey, Steve Carrell, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler, Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly and Jonah Hill; and Never Back Down, with Djimon Hounsou, Sean Faris, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, Evan Peters and Wyatt Smith.
2008 - Big problems at giant Bear Stearns. Its Federal Reserve bailout heightened fears that the global credit crunch was spreading. The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan Chase & Co. offered to extend loans for 28 days. The U.S. dollar hit a record low against the euro, closing at 1.567 per euro.
2009 - President Barack Obama said the decades-old food safety system in the U.S. was a hazard to public health and badly in need of an overhaul.
2009 - NFL football star Donte Stallworth, a wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, killed pedestrian Mario Reyes (59) while driving after a night out in Florida. Stallworth pled guilty to DUI manslaughter, and received a sentence of 30 days in jail. The NFL suspended him for the entire 2009 season without pay. Stallworth and the Reyes family reached a financial agreement, avoiding a civil lawsuit.
2010 - 22-year-old American rower Katie Spotz completed her solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim the record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat. Spotz, from Mentor, Ohio, had set out from Dakar, Senegal, on Jan 3 and endured rough seas during the 2,817-mile (4,533-km) crossing.
2011 - An Iranian state-owned newspaper reported that Iranian hackers working for the powerful Revolutionary Guard’s paramilitary Basij group had launched attacks on websites of the ‘enemies’. It was a rare acknowledgment from Iran that it was involved in cyber warfare.
2011 - A second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, devastating the structure housing one reactor and injuring 11 workers. Water levels dropped precipitously at another reactor, completely exposing the fuel rods and raising the threat of a meltdown.
2011 - The Swiss government suspended plans to replace and build new nuclear plants pending a review of two hydrogen explosions at Japanese plants. The change came about as a result of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11. In May 2011 the Swiss abandoned plans to build new nuclear reactors.
2012 - Encyclopedia Britannica announced that it was discontinuing its print edition -- after 244 years -- in favor of it Web-based version.
2012 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a defiant defense of his economic and political management before a largely hostile parliament. It was the first time since the founding of the Islamic republic (1979) that an Iranian president had been ordered to appear before parliament to answer questions about his rule..
2013 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that national security letter (NSL) provisions in federal law that permitted federal investigators to access customer information from some companies without court approval was unconstitutional.
2014 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: Need for Speed, with Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Scott Mescudi; The Single Moms Club, starring Amy Smart, Terry Crews, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Tyler Perry and Nia Long; Better Living Through Chemistry, with Olivia Wild, Michelle Monaghan, Ray Liotta, Jane Fonda and Ben Schwartz; the documentary Big Men; The Den, starring Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen and Matt Riedy; Patrick, with Charles Dance, Rachel Griffiths and, Sharni Vinson; Shirin in Love, starring Nazanin Boniadi, Riley Smith and Amy Madigan; and Veronica Mars, starring Kristen Bell, James Franco, Krysten Ritter, Gaby Hoffmann, Jerry O’Connell, Julie Gonzalo and Martin Starr.
2014 - Howard Buffett, son of investor Warren Buffett, pledged nearly $24 million for protecting rhinos in South Africa. Buffett earmarked the money for ranger teams, sniffer dogs and other security measures in what he hoped can be a robust model for fighting the ‘overwhelming’ problem of poaching in parts of Africa.
2014 - U.S. sandwich shop chain Quiznos announced that it was filing for bankruptcy. Quiznos completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than four months later. The chain had run into trouble with franchisees who sued it in 2009 and complained that the company charged prices so high for their ingredients that they could not make a profit.
2015 - Sweden-based Ikea, the world’s largest furniture retailer, announced that it was discontinuing its online magazine, Ikea Family Live, in Russia. This, out of fears that the website violated Russia’s law that banned “non-traditional sexual relations” to people under the age of 18.
2016 - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled a revised labor reform bill that made concessions to trade unions. The revisions came after mass protests against the proposed law. In the revised version, the government would no longer impose a cap on severance pay for dismissed workers. Instead, the new limits will be introduced as non-binding guidelines for labour courts.
2017 - U.S. Navy Admiral Bruce Loveless was among nine high-ranking military officers arrested across the U.S. in a burgeoning bribery scandal. Loveless was accused of taking bribes from Leonard Glenn ‘Fat Leonard’ Francis, a Singapore-based defense contractor who had pleaded guilty to defrauding the Navy of tens of millions of dollars.
2017 - Russian-led ‘peace talks’ on Syria were derailed as rebels backed by Turkey boycotted a third round of meetings in Kazakhstan. The Kremlin reported there were international divisions over the ‘peace’ process.
2018 - British theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking died at his home in Cambridge. He was 76 years old. Even though his body was attacked by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, when he was 21, Hawking stunned doctors by living with the usually fatal illness for more than 50 years.
2018 - The Toys R Us retail chain announced the closing or selling of all 885 stores in its U.S. chain, affecting some 33,000 jobs. This, after the chain failed to reach a deal to restructure billions of dollars in debt.
2018 - Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats after Moscow failed to meet a deadline to explain the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a Soviet-made nerve agent -- on British soil. Russia denied involvement in the attack. Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain was looking to find other countries to supply gas as part of steps being taken by London against Russia following the poisoning.
2019 - U.S. Congressman from Texas Beto O’Rourke, a skateboarding former punk rocker announced in Keokuk, Iowa that he was running for president. O’Rourke joined a growing field of candidates who were vying to challenge POTUS Trump in 2020.
2019 - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan opened one of the world’s largest hospitals in Ankara -- the latest in a series of mega projects that had marked his 16 years in power. The Ankara City Hospital, built at a cost of around 1 billion euros (1.1 billion dollars), contained some 3,810 beds and covered some 0.18 km2; 0.069 sq mi.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)U.S. V.P. Mike Pence said new travel bans were implemented on the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2)San Francisco area: 27 new coronavirus cases were reported; most all hospital visitors were banned. 3)New York state reported 100 new cases, pushing the total to 524; Governo Andrew Cuomo said accelerated testing was leading to a rapid rise in total infections counted. 4)France banned all non-essential gatherings, but hundreds of protesters, some wearing protective masks, began convening outside the Montparnasse train station, chanting anti-Macron slogans. 5)Greece suspended all flights that were still operating to and from Italy, after reporting two more fatalities from a coronavirus infection, raising the total number of deaths in the country to three. Greece had 190 confirmed cases of coronavirus. 6)Nine players in Italy’s top soccer league, Serie A, tested positive; games were suspended until at least April 3; Italian supercar maker Ferrari said it had suspended production at the Maranello and Modena plants; Volkswagen AG’s Lamborghini has also suspended production in Italy. 7)Spain recorded 5,753 coronavirus cases, up by a third from just a day earlier; Spain said it will impose a nationwide lockdown; car production at a Renault-Nissan plant in Barcelona was stopped because of supply-chain disruptions; due to the virus. 8)More than 2,000 people had been infected in the U.S. and 58 had died. Some 145,594 people had been infected across the world and 5,419 had died.
2020 - Russian strongman Vladimir Putin signed a law on constitutional changes that would keep him in power for another 16 years. Police detained some 50 people in Moscow protesting the constitutional changes.
2021 - The United Nations said more than 80% of Syrians were living in poverty, and 60% were at risk of hunger. The currency had crashed, to 4,000 Syrian pounds to the dollar on the black market, compared to 700 the previous year -- and 47 in 2011. A decade of war had wreaked unfathomable destruction in Syria. Nearly half a million people had been killed and more than half the pre-war population of 23 million displaced, whether inside or outside the country’s borders, the world’s worst displacement crisis since World War II. Infrastructure was in ruins.
2022 - The Biden administration awarded $409 million in grants to 70 projects in 39 states -- to modernize and electrify U.S. buses, make bus systems and routes more reliable, and improve their safety. The grants support modernizing and improving the most widespread form of transit in America and will help dozens of communities buy new-technology and electric buses, that reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and promote cleaner air.
2022 - Stephen E. Wilhite died at 74 years of age. White was the computer programmer who was best known for inventing the GIF, with looping animations that became a universal language for conveying humor, sarcasm and angst on social media and in instant messages.
2022 - At the PGA Players Championship (TPC at Sawgrass), Australian Cameron Smith won $3.6m, the biggest individual event purse in golf history (to that time). He beat Anirban Lahiri of India by 1 stroke.
2022 - Australia and the Netherlands began joint legal action against Russia at the United Nations’ aviation agency. This, over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014. Australia and the Netherlands had been seeking compensation and an apology from the Russian Federation for the MH17 disaster that saw 298 people, including 38 Australians, killed when it was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. Russia had denied involvement despite the findings of an international investigation.
2022 - Britain gave some 500 mobile generators to help Ukraine -- and weaken Russia’s attempts to cripple its power supply. The generators will provide much needed energy to essential facilities across Ukraine, including hospitals, shelters and water treatment plants which had lost power during the ongoing Russian invasion.
2023 - The U.S., U.K. and Australia unveiled plans to create a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to be based in the Indo Pacific region. The AUKUS deal would counter the recent Chinese military build-up in the Pacific.
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Birthdays on This Day March 14
1833 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, D.D.S.
first woman to receive a degree in dentistry [1866]; died Oct 3, 19101854 - Paul Ehrlich
1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine; founded chemotherapy, discovered Salvarsan - a remedy for syphilis, developed antitoxin for diphtheria; died Aug 20, 19151864 - (John Luther) Casey Jones
railroad engineer: subject of The Ballad of Casey Jones; killed in train crash Apr 30, 19001879 - Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1921]: developed the Theory of Relativity; died Apr 18, 19551912 - Les Brown
bandleader: Les Brown and His Band of Renown: Sentimental Journey My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time; Leap Frog, I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; died Jan 4, 20011916 - Albert Horton Foote Jr.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Young Man From Atlanta [1995]; Academy Award-winning screenwriter: To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Tender Mercies [1983]; Emmy Award-winning TV writer: Old Man [1997]; died Mar 4, 20091918 - Dennis Patrick
actor: The Time Travelers, Choices, The Air Up There; killed in house fire Oct 13, 20021919 - Max Shulman
novelist, playwright: Strictly for Laughs, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, I Was A Teenage Dwarf, The Tender Trap, Rally Round the Flag Boys; died Aug 28, 19881920 - Hank Ketcham
cartoonist: Dennis the Menace; died June 1, 20011926 - Phil Phillips (Baptiste)
singer: Sea of Love; died Mar 14, 20201927 - Bill Rexford
auto racer: NASCAR Winston Cup Champion [1950 at age 23]; died Apr 18, 19941928 - Frank (Frederick) Borman II
Apollo astronaut, president of Eastern Airlines; died Nov 7, 20231929 - Bob Goalby
golf: PGA champ: Greater Greensboro Open [1958], Coral Gables Open Invitational [1960], LA Open, St. Petersburg Open Invitational [1961], Insurance City Open Invitational, Denver Open Invitational [1962], San Diego Open Invitational [1967], Masters [1968], Robinson Open Golf Classic [1969], Heritage Golf Classic [1970], Bahamas National Open Championship [1971]; Senior PGA champ: Marlboro Classic [1981], Peter Jackson Champions [1982]; died Jan 19, 20221933 - Michael Caine (Maurice Micklewhite)
Academy Award-winning actor: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986], The Cider House Rules [1999]; Sleuth, The Ipcress File, Alfie, Educating Rita, California Suite, Jack the Ripper, On Deadly Ground1933 - Quincy Jones
composer: film scores, TV show themes; bandleader; record producer; arranger; 25 Grammys, Grammy’s Trustees Award [1989], Grammy’s Legends Award [1990]; Musical Director for Mercury Records, then VP; established Qwest Records1934 - Eugene (Andrew) Cernan
astronaut: pilot: Gemini 9 [June, 1966]; crew member: Apollo 17 [Dec, 1972] moon landing, spent three days exploring lunar surface [w/astronaut Harrison Schmitt], Cernan quote before departing for Earth, “As we leave the moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. God speed the crew of Apollo 17.”; died Jan 16, 20171934 - Shirley Scott
swinging, blues-oriented organist: recorded mostly with former husband Stanley Turrentine [they were married from 1961 to 1971]; died Mar 10, 20021936 - Bob Charles
golf champ: British Open Champion from New Zealand [1963]1939 - Raymond J. Barry
actor: Born on the Fourth of July, Interview With the Assassin, Hamill, Charlie Valentine, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Little Children; more1942 - Rita Tushingham
actress: Dr. Zhivago, A Taste of Honey, Trap1944 - Clyde Lee
basketball: Vanderbilt Univ [rebounds: 1,223: 1964-1966]; NBA: SF Warriors [rebounds: 7626: 1966-1967, 1975-1976]1945 - Michael Martin Murphey
songwriter, singer: Wildfire, Carolina in the Pines, What’s Forever For, Geronimo’s Cadillac, Renegade, A Long Line of Love1945 - Walter Parazaider
musician: reeds: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, 25 or 6 To 4, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, You’re the Inspiration, Hard to Say I’m Sorry1946 - Steve Kanaly
actor: Dallas, Leaving the Land, The Marksmen, Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings, The Last Chance Detectives: Mystery Lights of Navajo Mesa, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Dillinger, The Wind and the Lion, Big Wednesday, All My Children1946 - Wes Unseld
Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA: Baltimore Bullets [1969]1948 - Billy Crystal
Emmy Award for Best Individual Performance and Writer in a Variety or Music Program: 63rd Annual Oscars [1991]; Emmy Award-winning Writer for a Variety or Music Program: Midnight Train to Moscow [1990], 64th Annual Oscars [1992]; actor: City Slickers, Throw Mama from the Train, Soap, When Harry Met Sally1950 - Rick Dees
radio DJ [WHBQ, KHJ, KIIS]; singer: Disco Duck; actor: La Bamba, The Gladiator, Stanley, the Ugly Duckling, Record City, Days of Our Lives; married to actress Julie McWhirter1955 - Boon Gould
musician: guitar: group: Level 42: The Chinese Way, The Sun Goes Down [Living It Up], Hot Water1959 - Tamara Tunie
actress: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, As the World Turns, The Money Shot, Snake Eyes, Flight; more1960 - Kirby Puckett
Baseball Hall of Famer [center field]: Bradley Univ; Minnesota Twins: World Series Championships: 1987, 1991; died March 6, 2006; died March 6, 20061961 - Penny Johnson
actress: Castle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Larry Sanders Show, 241965 - Kevin Brown
baseball [pitcher]: Georgia Tech Univ; MLB: Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees1966 - Elise Neal
actress: Rosewood, Money Talks, Scream 2, Restaurant, Mission to Mars, Paid in Full, Hustle & Flow, Logan All of Us1966 - Gary Anthony Williams
comedian, actor: Raising Hope, Boston Legal, Malcolm in the Middle, Blue Collar TV, The Factory, Girls in Pantyhose, Yoga Matt, I Own You, Cook-Off!, Jepardee!1968 - Megan Follows
actress: The Chase, Anne of Green Gables, Hockey Night, Second Chances, Domestic Life, The Baxters1968 - James Frain
actor: The Tudors, True Blood, The Count of Monte Cristo, The White Queen, Into the Blue, The Front Line, Everybody’s Fine, Water for Elephants, Transit, The Lone Ranger1974 - Grace Park
actress: Hawaii Five-0, Battlestar Galactica, Edgemont, The Plan, Run Rabbit Run, Human Cargo, Jinnah: On Crime - White Knight, Black Widow, Romeo Must Die, A Million Little Things1974 - Patrick Traverse
hockey: Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars1976 - Daniel Gillies
actor: Bride and Prejudice, Spider-Man 2, The Snow Queen, No One Can Hear You, Street Legal, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals1979 - James Jordan
actor: Veronica Mars, Without a Trace, Seraphim Falls, Just Legal, Cold Case, Close to Home, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, True Blood1979 - Chris Klein
actor: Election, American Pie, American Pie 2, Say It Isn’t So, We Were Soldiers1980 - Mercedes McNab
actress: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hatchet, Hatchet 2, Supernatural, Reaper, Psych, Glass Heels, Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf1981 - Ryan Cartwright
actor: Alphas, Mad Men, Dear Prudence, The Hole in the Heart, Bones, The Big Bang Theory1982 - Kate Maberly
actress: The Secret Garden, Friendship’s Field, The Langoliers, Mothertime, Gulliver’s Travels, Popcorn, Like Minds, Finding Neverland, Simon: An English Legionnaire, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells1983 - Taylor Hanson
musician: keyboards, percussion; singer: groups: Hanson, Tinted Windows1985 - Eva Angelina
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: I Know You’re Watching 4, Crazy in the Head, Crazy in the Bed, Ghouls Gone Wild, Operation: Desert Stormy, Busty Babysitters1986 - Jamie Bell
actor: The Adventures of Tintin, Billy Elliot, King Kong [2005], Jumper, Nicholas Nickleby1988 - Stephen Curry
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Golden State Warriors [2009– ]: 2015, 2017, 2018 NBA champs1994 - Ansel Elgort
actor: Tokyo Vice, Carrie, The Divergent film series, Men, Women & Children, The Fault in Our Stars1997 - Simone Biles
gymnast: 4x gold medalist at 2016 Rio Olympics: all-around, team, floor exercise, vault; she has won a combined total of nineteen Olympic and World Championship medals and is the most decorated American gymnast
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Hit Music on This Day March 14
1949Far Away Places (facts) - Margaret Whiting
Powder Your Face with Sunshine (facts) - Evelyn Knight
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