March 15
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44BC - In the ancient Roman calendar, each of the 12 months had an ‘ides’ of the month. In March, May, July and October, the ides fell on the 15th day. In all other months, the ides fell on the 13th. The word ‘ides’ was derived from the Latin “to divide.” The ides were originally meant to mark the full moon, but since the solar calendar months and lunar months were of different lengths, the ides eventually lost their original intent and purpose. We only remember March as the month that has Ides because it was on this day that Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated. William Shakespeare helped to promote the Ides of March. He sure knew how to run a PR campaign.1820 - Maine joined the 22 states of the United States of America. Travel way up to the far northeastern tip of the U.S., where many pine trees grow, and you’ll be in Maine, the Pine Tree State. Coincidentally, the white pine cone with its tassel is the state flower; and since the chickadee makes its nest in the pine tree, we figure that’s why it is the state bird. The landlocked salmon is the state fish, the tourmaline is the state mineral and the state song is ... we’re not kidding ... “State of Maine Song”. ‘I direct’ is the state motto which is ‘dirigo’ in Latin. How about all of us who know the origin of the name, Maine, getting together for a Maine lobster dinner! We learned that its first use was to distinguish the mainland from islands offshore. Maine was also thought to be named in honor of Henrietta Maria, Charles I of England’s queen. She owned a province in France titled, Mayne. And, last but not least, Augusta is the capital of Maine (not Georgia).
1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team in America, had quite a day in Yellow Springs, OH, where they trounced Antioch 41-7. They weren’t even the Big Red Machine back then! In fact, the team was so embarrassed about their name, they changed it to Cincinnati Red Legs and even after that, (but long before Pete Rose) they became the Cincinnati Reds.
1913 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference just 11 days after his inauguration.
1916 - General John ‘Black Jack’ Pershing marched into Mexico to capture revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, who had staged several cross-border raids. Pershing’s two-year expedition was unsuccessful.
1937 - The first blood bank was established by Dr. Bernard Fantus -- in Chicago, IL at the Cook County Hospital. Have some cookies and maybe an orange to celebrate...
1939 - The German army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
1940 - Mae West and W. C. Fields made their first joint appearance in the classic film comedy, My Little Chickadee.
1944 - Allied bombers again raided German-held Monte Cassino, an Italian town. The battle for Cassino ended with victory for the Allies but with the loss of over 200,000 men killed and wounded on both sides. The whole of the campaign for Cassino was somewhat overshadowed by the landings in Normandy which turned out to be a more clear-cut and conventional campaign.
1945 - Celebrities sauntered into Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles to celebrate the best of 1944. For the 17th time, the Academy Awards were presented by Hollywood -- to Hollywood. These Oscar awards were the first broadcast in entirety over the ABC radio network and Armed Forces Radio around the world. Co-hosts for the big show were actor/director John Cromwell (first half) and actor/comedian Bob Hope (second half). The Oscar for Best Picture went to the musical comedy, Going My Way. Best Director was Leo McCarey, who also wrote (Oscar: Best Writing/Original Story) and produced the Bing Crosby (Best Actor)/Barry Fitzgerald (nominated for Best Actor/winner of Best Supporting Actor) gem. Going My Way also scored an Academy Award for music (James Van Heusen), lyrics (Johnny Burke) for the song Swinging on a Star (a hit for Crosby, as was Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra, also from the film) and Best Writing/Screenplay (Frank Butler, Frank Cavett). Interesting trivia note: Some years later, while practicing a golf swing in his living room, Crosby knocked the head off the then plaster-cast Oscar statuette he earned from the movie. Best Actress Oscar was given to Ingrid Bergman for Gaslight and Best Supporting Actress was Ethel Barrymore for None But the Lonely Heart. We hope you’ve been paying attention. There may be a quiz later...
1945 - Billboard magazine debuted a new feature. It was the record chart of top albums. What album was the first to top this new chart? For those who thought it was a wax cylinder from Thomas Edison and the Record Rappers, jump back three spaces. If you said that the first album to reach #1 was The King Cole Trio, you were absolutely correct! Billboard and other trade magazines continue to list the week’s top albums. Billboard lists the Top 200 in order, from #1 on down. Some even have ‘bullets’ to reflect the week’s top movement in sales and radio airplay.
1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier was on the cover of LIFE magazine for his starring role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
1954 - CBS television inaugurated its Morning Show. The host? None other than the man who would become “The most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite. Uncle Walter was called “host, ring-master and coordinator” in the network’s attempt to compete against the already three-year-old Today show on NBC. Cronkite was a ‘nice’ host, but clearly out of his news element and the show was a ratings disappointment. Jack Paar took over as host some time later. The show still didn’t work. The program immediately following did work, however. That show was Captain Kangaroo.
1956 - The musical, My Fair Lady, opened on Broadway. The show ran for 6-1/2 years before 2,717 audiences. It became, thanks to Rex Harrison and an outstanding cast, the longest-running musical to that time.
1961 - South Africa withdrew from the British Commonwealth after other Commonwealth members condemned its policies of apartheid (racial separation) and white supremacy. South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth in 1994 after apartheid ended.
1962 - The musical, No Strings, opened on Broadway at the 54th Street Theatre. Richard Kiley and Diahann Carroll starred in the show. Also featured was the show’s composer in an acting role, singing his own lyrics. The composer was Richard Rodgers.
1964 - Wedding bells (the first time) for actor Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The couple wed in secret ceremonies in Montreal, Canada.
1970 - The musical, Purlie, opened a run of 688 continuous performances on Broadway in New York City.
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, died. He married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in 1968.
1977 - The first episode of Eight Is Enough was aired on ABC-TV. Mark Hamill starred in the opening show and, for a very few shows, as son, David. After talking to star, Dick Van Patten, Hamill said, “Enough!” He left to star in the motion picture, Star Wars as Luke Skywalker, gaining considerable notoriety from the George Lucas film epic.
1985 - Larry Holmes beat David Bey in Las Vegas, NV. This was probably good for Bey, since no one had heard of him in the first place. Holmes defended his International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title with the win. Holmes said after the fight that his career was probably over and that he would retire as no other heavyweight champ had done -- undefeated. Bey was notch number 47-in-a-row in Holmes’ belt buckle. Of course, Holmes would quit to come back another day. What happened to Bey? Hey, we didn’t hear from him again.
1987 - The place: Orlando, Florida. The golf course: the Arnold Palmer-designed Bay Hill layout. The tournament: the Bay Hill Classic. Don Pooley showed the golf world what a true million-dollar swing looked like, as he made a hole in one during the final round. The tournament sponsor had offered a million dollars to anyone making an ace. Pooley didn’t win the tourney, but won a lot more than anyone else...
1987 - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical Starlight Express opened at the Gershwin Theatre in New York City. In the show, the actors perform wearing roller skates. A child’s train set magically comes to life, and the various engines compete to become the ‘Fastest Engine in the World’. The underdog, Rusty the steam train, has little chance until he is inspired by the legend of the "Starlight Express", ultimately winning both the race and the heart of first-class coach Pearl. This Broadway production ran for 761 performances, closing Jan 08, 1989.
1989 - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, formerly the Veterans Administration, was officially established as a Cabinet position.
1991 - Tenor saxophonist Bud Freeman died in Chicago. He was 84 years old. Freeman was a member of the Austin High Gang, a group of young musicians who attended the West Side Austin High School and played a crucial role in Chicago jazz development. Along with Coleman Hawkins and cornet legend Bix Beiderbecke, Bud Freeman was the progenitor of the 1920s saxophone sound that the white pre-bop tenors would all play. Another member of the Austin High Gang, cornetist Jimmy McPartland, died two days before Freeman.
1995 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed an executive order blocking a one billion-dollar contract between Conoco and Iran to develop a huge offshore oil tract in the Persian Gulf. The orders prohibited U.S. companies and their foreign subsidiaries from conducting business with Iran.
1996 - Movies released to U.S. theatres: Executive Decision, with Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton and David Suchet; and Two Much, with Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Danny Aiello, Joan Cusack, Eli Wallach, Gabino Diego, Austin Pendleton, Allan Rich, Phil Leeds and Vincent Schiavelli.
1998 - Brazilian firefighters dug ditches in a bid to halt raging fires in the northern Amazon as officials appealed for more men and sorely needed water-dumping helicopters. “We lost control of this thing a long time ago,” said fire brigade captain Kleber Gomes Cerquinho as army soldiers driving a bulldozer carved a path through the jungle to create a firebreak and check the blaze. The fires had burned out of control for two months and destroyed 2.2 million acres of farmland.
2000 - Durward Kirby, TV announcer and funnyman (Candid Camera, The Garry Moore Show), died at 87 years of age in Fort Myers, FL.
2001 - Actress Ann Sothern (92), film and TV actress, died in Ketchum, Idaho. Her work included 64 movies and over 175 TV episodes.
2002 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Ice Age, with Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic and Jack Black; and Resident Evil, starring Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes and Colin Slamon.
2003 - Hu Jintao was elected (hand picked) to replace Jiang Zemin as president of China.
2003 - Thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched in SF, Washington DC and around the world.
2004 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Prince, Bob Seger, Jackson Browne, George Harrison, ZZ Top, Traffic and The Dells.
2004 - Missouri jurors agreed that vapors from butter flavoring at a microwave popcorn factory had permanently ruined the lungs of Eric Peoples. International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. and its subsidiary Bush Boake Allen Inc. were ordered to pay $18 million to Eric Peoples and $2 million to his wife.
2004 - Ohio police identified 28-year-old Charles A. McCoy Jr. as the gunman in two dozen highway shootings that terrorized motorists for months. (On March 17 McCoy was arrested at a Las Vegas motel.)
2005 - A New York federal jury found Bernard Ebbers, former head of WorldCom, guilty of securities fraud, conspiracy and lying to regulators, and other charges, as he helped mastermind an $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom.
2006 - A British serviceman facing the first day of his court martial contended that the war in Iraq was illegal. Flight Lt. Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a Royal Air Force medic, was the first British officer accused of refusing to serve in Iraq. Kendall-Smith said: “I am a leader. I am not a mere follower to whom no moral responsibility can be attached.”
2006 - Jeff King became a four-time winner -- of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The veteran musher crossed the finish line at the Bering Sea town of Nome, Alaska. The 1,100-mile race, the world’s premier dog-sled event, had begun on March 4 at Anchorage.
2007 - Deaths on this day: Former [1969-1984] baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn died at 80 years of age in Florida; and director (Cool Hand Luke, The Twilight Zone) Stuart Rosenberg died in Beverly Hills, CA -- he was 79 years old.
2007 - The Pascha brothel in Cologne, Germany, announced its hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering a 50% discount for sex in the afternoon.
2008 - A New York City apartment building on Manhattan’s East Side was crushed by a collapsing giant crane. The crash killed 7 people and injured 17.
2009 - Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel called for greater government supervision of gun owners after a school shooting that killed 15 people in the small town of Winnenden (near Stuttgart).
2009 - Actor Ron Silver died in New York City at 62 years of age. He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years. Silver won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow and had done a political about-face from loyal Democrat to Republican activist after the Sep 11, 2001 attacks in New York City.
2009 - The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of 7 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, bound for the International Space Station. It carried the last set of solar wings to boost the station to full power.
2011 - The Israeli navy intercepted an Egypt-bound ship carrying a delivery of weapons off the Mediterranean coast. The Israelis said the arms had been sent by Syria to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Netanyahu said the source of the weaponry was Iran.
2012 - Libya’s stock market opened for the first day of trading since the fall of Moamer Kadhafi (Oct 2011) with trading in ten companies valued at $3.1 billion (€2.4 billion). It was a modest but significant step for the North African nation that was seeking to re-launch its economy after decades of dictatorship that stifled private companies and subjected banks to the whims of Qaddafi and his henchmen.
2013 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: The Call, with Michael Eklund, Abigail Breslin, Halle Berry, Morris Chestnut, Ella Rae Peck, Michael Imperioli, Evie Thompson and Roma Maffia; The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, starring Olivia Wilde, Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Alan Arkin, Gillian Jacobs, James Gandolfini, Tyler Langdon, Zachary Gordon, Brad Garrett and Melissa Ordway; K-11, with Goran Visnjic, Kate del Castillo, D.B. Sweeney, Portia Doubleday, Jason Mewes, Sonya Eddy and Luis Moncada; the animated drama, From Up on Poppy Hill, featuring the voices of Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita, Yuriko Ishida, Rumi Hiiragi and Jun Fubuki; and Upside Down, starring Timothy Spall, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Agnieshka Wnorowska, Jayne Heitmeyer, Neil Napier and Heidi Hawkins.
2013 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. was about to deploy 14 new ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska. The roll-out was designed to counter renewed nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.
2014 - Tens of thousands gathered in downtown Moscow, Russia. The crowds were protesting an upcoming Kremlin-backed referendum in Crimea on the question of breaking away from Ukraine and merging with Russia.
2015 - More than a million people took to the streets across Brazil protesting corruption, with many calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
2016 - A second Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, Michael Eakin, quit the court after being caught up in a scandal over raunchy and otherwise offensive emails. The board that investigates accusations of judicial misconduct said Eakin sent or responded to emails that included a satirical video about a busload of “sluts“ crashing, a joke about a woman told to keep “her mouth shut” after telling her doctor her drunken husband had beaten her, a “sexually suggestive thread/conversation” about one of Eakin’s female employees and a joke about Tiger Woods that referred to his African-American and Asian background.
2016 - The U.S. loosened rules in its trade embargo on Cuba just days ahead of President Barack Obama’s historic visit to the former Cold War enemy.
2017 - The U.S. charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding the 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts. It was the first time the U.S. government had criminally charged Russian spies for cyber offences. The charges came amid a swirl of stories relating to 1) alleged Kremlin-backed hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and 2) possible links between Russian figures and associates of U.S. President Donald Trump, and 3) uncertainty about whether Trump was willing to respond forcefully to aggression from Moscow in cyberspace and elsewhere.
2017 - U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii issued a ruling granting a temporary restraining order on POTUS Trump’s revised executive order banning entry of nationals of six majority-Muslim countries into the U.S. from going into effect. Watson held that the order would violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause in that “a reasonable, objective observer ... would conclude that the Executive Order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion.”
2018 - The U.S. Treasury Department said sanctions had been placed on 19 Russian individuals and five groups, including Moscow’s intelligence services, for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and malicious cyber attacks.
2019 - New movies in U.S. theatres on this day included: Five Feet Apart, with Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse and Claire Forlani; the animated Wonder Park, featuring the voices of Brianna Denski, Jennifer Garner, Ken Hudson Campbell, Kenan Thompson, Mila Kunis, John Oliver, Ken Jeong, Norbert Leo Butz and Matthew Broderick; The Aftermath, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Keira Knightley and Jason Clarke; Captive State, with Machine Gun Kelly, Vera Farmiga and John Goodman; Faith, Hope & Love, starring Peta Murgatroyd, Robert Krantz and Michael Richards; Finding Steve McQueen, with Travis Fimmel, William Fichtner and Rachael Taylor; The Hummingbird Project, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek; The Mustang, with Connie Britton, Josh Stewart and Matthias Schoenaerts; Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, starring Sophia Lillis, Laura Wiggins and Andrea Anders; and Never Grow Old, with John Cusack, Emile Hirsch and Antonia Campbell-Hughes.
2019 - POTUS Donald Trump signed his first veto, overriding congressional opposition to secure emergency funds to build more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border.
2019 - The University of Tennessee announced its granting of free tuition to state residents -- with household incomes of less than $50,000 a year.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. recorded nearly 3,000 cases of coronavirus with 63 deaths. Globally more than 164,000 were infected and over 6,400 had died. The U.S. Navy said a sailor aboard a warship ship had tested positive. The only state not reporting cases was West Virginia. Several countries cautioned that fewer tests were being performed as more people fell ill. 2)The Peace Corps told its volunteers around the world that it is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers in light of the spread of the new coronavirus. 3)California Governor Gavin Newsom urged bars to close and restaurants to reduce capacity. Newsom also asked all state residents 65 and older to isolate themselves at home. 4)Airlines called on the British government to help ensure their survival after the U.S. extended restrictions on European travelers to include Britain. 5)Turkey said thousands of Muslims returning to home from a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were being taken into quarantine.
2020 - The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark rate by a full percentage point to a record low of between zero and 0.25%. Global markets slumped. The Fed also said it would buy $700 billion in Treasury and mortgage bonds.
2021 - The U.S. Senate confirmed New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland as interior secretary. She became the first Native American to lead a Cabinet department and the first to lead the federal agency that had wielded influence over U.S. tribes for some two centuries.
2021 - U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (Utah) urged American spectators, companies and diplomats to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to punish China for its human rights abuses. Romney said he favored that approach over an athlete boycott.
2021 - CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was adding informational labels to posts about vaccines. This as Facebook expanded its efforts to counter COVID-19-related misinformation that was flourishing on its platforms.
2022 - U.S. sanctions targeted more Putin cronies, including senior Russian military officials and the leader of Kremlin-allied Belarus. And the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. The resolution condemned the “violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity” being carried out by Russian military forces under Putin’s direction.
2022 - New Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements went into effect. The new rules ordered broadcasters to disclose when foreign governments or their representatives lease time on their airwaves.
2022 - Germany’s cyber security agency warned users of an anti-virus software developed by Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, saying it poses a serious risk of a successful hacking attack. The BSI agency said that the Kaspersky software could be coerced by Russian government agents to hack IT systems -- or agents could clandestinely use its technology to launch cyberattacks without Kaspersky’s knowledge.
2023 - An ‘atmospheric river’ created a storm in California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages. Monterey County issued a 25-mile evacuation order.
2024 - New movies in the U.S. included: Arthur the King, starring Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel and Simu Liu; One Life, with Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin and Johnny Flynn; and Love Lies Bleeding, starring Anna Baryshnikov, Kristen Stewart and Dave Franco.
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Birthdays on This Day March 15
1767 - Andrew Jackson
7th U.S. President [1829-1837]; married to Rachel Robards; nickname: Old Hickory ; died June 8, 18451899 - George Brent
actor: Born Again, Mexican Manhunt, FBI Girl, Angel on the Amazon, The Corpse Came C.O.D., The Spiral Staircase, You Can’t Escape Forever; he was a favorite leading man in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing with Bette Davis in thirteen films, including Front Page Woman, Jezebel and Dark Victory; he also starred with Ruby Keeler, Greta Garbo, Madeleine Carroll, Jean Arthur, Myrna Loy, Merle Oberon, Ann Sheridan, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Stanwyck, The Gay Sisters, Claudette Colbert, Dorothy McGuire, Lucille Ball and Yvonne De Carlo; died May 26, 19791907 - Jimmy McPartland
jazz musician: cornetist; played for the Wolverine Orchestra, Embassy Four; bandleader; actor: The Magic Horn; played at Newport Jazz Festival with wife, Marian; died Mar 13, 19911913 - MacDonald Carey
actor: Comanche Territory, The Rebels, Who is the Black Dahlia, Access Code; intro voice: “Like sands through the hourglass these are the Days of Our Lives”; died Mar 21, 19941914 - Joe E. Ross
actor: The Phil Silvers Show, Car 54, Where Are You?, It’s About Time, Help!... It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!, Hong Kong Phooey; died Aug 13, 19821916 - Frank Coghlan Jr.
actor: The Love God?, Follow the Band, Henry Aldrich for President, Uncle Joe, Murder Over New York, Star Dust, Free, Blonde and 21; died Sep 7, 20091916 - Harry (Haag) James
trumpeter, bandleader: Sweet Georgia Brown, Chiribiribin, And the Angels Sing, Two O’clock Jump, You Made Me Love You, Music Makers, Strictly Instrumental, I’ll Get By; married to Betty Grable (second of four wives); died July 5, 19831926 - Norm Van Brocklin
Pro Football Hall of Famer: quarterback: LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles; died May 2, 19831927 - Carl Smith
Country Music Hall of Fame singer: Let’s Live a Little, Loose Talk, Trademark, Satisfaction Guaranteed; actor: The Badge of Marshall Brennan, Buffalo Guns; member: Grand Ole Opry; died Jan 16, 20101931 - D.J. Fontana
musician: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer: worked with Elvis Presley on Blue Suede Shoes, Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock; session drummer for Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Charlie Pride; died Jun 13, 20181932 - Alan (LaVern) Bean
astronaut: lunar module pilot: Apollo 12 [man’s second lunar landing], fourth man to set foot on the moon [Nov 19, 1969]; commander of Skylab 3 mission [U.S.’ first space station: 1973]; died May 26, 20181933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice [1993-2020]; judge for District of Columbia Court of Appeals [1980-1993]; died Sep 18, 20201935 - Judd Hirsch
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1980-81,1982-83]; Forever, Ordinary People, The Good-bye People, Running on Empty, Numb3rs1935 - Jimmy (Lee) Swaggert
TV evangelist: Jimmy Swaggart Ministries; cousin of singer Jerry Lee Lewis1940 - Phil Lesh (Chapman)
musician: bass: group: Grateful Dead: St. Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, Uncle John’s Band, New Speedway Boogie, Truckin’, Box of Rain, Alabama Gateway; composer: electronic music1941 - Mike Love
singer, songwriter: group: The Beach Boys: I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations, California Girls, Surfin’ USA, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Be True to Your School1943 - Sly Stone (Sylvester Stewart)
musician, singer: group: Sly & The Family Stone: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You, Family Affair; Former San Francisco DJ1944 - David Costell
musician: bass: group: Gary Lewis & The Playboys: This Diamond Ring1946 - Bobby Bonds
baseball: SF Giants [individual record for season strikeouts [189 in 1970/all-star: 1971, 1973], NY Yankees, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs; father of baseball’s Barry Bonds; died Aug 23, 20031946 - Howard Scott
musician: guitar, singer: group: War: LPs: All Day Music, The World is a Ghetto, Why Can’t We be Friends?1947 - Ry (Ryland) Cooder
musician: guitar: Sister Morphine, Ditty Wah Ditty [w/Earl Hines]; composer: Mama Don’t Treat Your Daughter Mean, UFO Has Landed in the Ghetto, I’m Drinking Again, Hard Workin’ Man1954 - Craig Wasson
actor: Body Double, Malcolm X, Phyllis, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors1955 - Dee Snider
composer, singer: group: Twisted Sister: We’re Not Gonna Take It, Ride Through the Storm, Hard Core [Lemmy’s Song], The Wanderer, Desperato1959 - Harold Baines
baseball [outfield, designated hitter]: Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox1959 - Fabio (Lanzoni)
model: covers of romance novels; writer: Pirate1961 - Terry Cummings
basketball [power forward, center}: San Diego Clippers [1982–1984], Milwaukee Bucks [1984–1989], San Antonio Spurs [1989–1995], Milwaukee Bucks [1995–1996], Seattle SuperSonics [1997], Philadelphia 76ers [1997–1998], New York Knicks [1998], Golden State Warriors [1999–2000]1962 - Terence Trent D’Arby
singer, songwriter: Wishing Well, LP: Introducing the Hard Line1963 - Bret Michaels
singer: group: Poison: Every Rose Has It’s Thorn, Something to Believe In, Fallen Angel, Ride the Wind, Talk Dirty to Me, Nothing But a Good Time, Stand1964 - Rockwell (Kennedy William Gordy)
singer: Somebody’s Watching Me; son of Motown founder, Berry Gordy1966 - Karen Weiss
golf: four Minnesota State Amateur titles [1988-1990]1966 - Chris Bruno
actor: The Dead Zone, All My Children, Dead to Rights, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Numb3rs1969 - Kim Raver
actress: 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Third Watch, Lipstick Jungle, Revolution1972 - Mike Tomlin
football: head coach: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers: Super Bowl XLIII champs [2008], Lost to Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV [2010]1975 - will.i.am (William Adams)
musician: guitar, keyboards; songwriter, singer: founding member of the hip hop/pop band, The Black Eyed Peas; solo LPs: Lost Change, Must B 21, Songs About Girls, #willpower1975 - Eva Longoria
actress: Desperate Housewives, Harsh Times, Carlita’s Secret, The Dead Will Tell, Snitch’d1975 - Darcy Tucker
hockey [left wing]: Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs1976 - Cara Pifko
actress: Human Cargo, This Is Wonderland, General Hospital, The Unfolding, The In-Laws, Name of the Rose, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, I Me Wed1977 - Joseph Hahn aka Mr. Hahn
turntablist: group: Linkin Park: Numb, Encore, One Step Closer, Crawling, Faint, Lying From You, Breaking the Habit, Somewhere I Belong1977 - Brian Tee
actor: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Furious 7, Chicago Med, Zoey 101, Grimm, Wolverine, Jurassic World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows1979 - Kevin Youkilis
baseball [third base]: Univ of Cincinnati; Boston Red Sox [2004–2012]: 2004, 2007 World Series champs; Chicago White Sox [2012]; New York Yankees [2013])1983 - Sean Biggerstaff
actor: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Cashback, Charles II: The Power and the Passion, The Winter Guest, The Crow Road1985 - Jon Jay
baseball [outfielder]: Univ of Miami; MLB: St. Louis Cardinals [2010-2015] World Series Champs [2011]; San Diego Padres [2016]; Chicago Cubs [2017]; Kansas City Royals [2018]; Arizona Diamondbacks [2018]; Chicago White Sox 92019]; Arizona Diamondbacks [2020]; Los Angeles Angels [2021]1985 - Kellan Lutz
actor: Twilight Saga film series, The Forgotten Ones, A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010], Love, Wedding, Marriage, Guardians of Luna1986 - Jai Courtney
actor: Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Jack Reacher, A Good Day to Die Hard, Divergent, Unbroken, I, Frankenstein, The Water Diviner, Suicide Squad1987 - Eric Decker
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Denver Broncos [2010–2014]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII; New York Jets [2014–2016]; Tennessee Titans [2017]1989 - Caitlin Wachs
actress: Profiler, To Have & to Hold, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Family Affair, Cracking Up, Commander in Chief, National Lampoon Presents: Surf Party, My Dog Skip, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch1991 - Tavon Austin
football [wide receiver]: NFL: St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams [2013–2017]; Dallas Cowboys [2018–2019]; Green Bay Packers [2020]; Jacksonville Jaguars [2021])1992 - Devonta Freeman
football [running back]: NFL:Atlanta Falcons [2014-2019]: 2017 Super Bowl LI; New York Giants [2020]; Buffalo Bills [2020]; New Orleans Saints [2021]; Baltimore Ravens [2021]1993 - Paul Pogba
footballer [midfielder]: Manchester United [2009–2012]; Juventus [2012–2016]; French national [2008-2022]: 2018 World Cup champs; Manchester United [2016–2022]
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Hit Music on This Day March 15
1950I Said My Pajamas (facts) - Tony Martin & Fran Warren
Music, Music, Music (facts) - Teresa Brewer
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