March 16
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1850 - The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time. Attention: Any sweater with a big letter “A” on it should not be worn today! So, please, put the letter sweaters away for a day, ok? Thank you. In case you forgot, other novels by Mr. Hawthorne included The House of Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, Twice-Told Tales, Tanglewood Tales and The Wonder Book.1882 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.
1926 - Robert H. Goddard tested his first liquid-fuel rocket. The rocket traveled for 2 1/2 seconds and covered 184 feet at a speed of 60 mph. It attained a maximum height of 41 feet. (The Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD is named for him.)
1934 - The 6th celebration of movieland’s achievements, The Academy Awards for the films of 1932 and 1933, was held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with humorist/actor/writer Will Rogers as host. Only one film from 1932 captured honors. Harold C. Lewis of the Paramount Studio Sound Department won the Best Sound/Recording award for A Farewell to Arms. The Best Picture and Best Director Frank Lloyd) prizes went to the 1933 flick, Cavalcade produced by Winfield R. Sheehan. The Best Actor was Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, and the Best Actress was Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (1933). This was her first Academy Award, and the last she would receive for 34 years. The second cartoon to take home (to their little brick house) an Oscar was Walt Disney’s The Three Little Pigs for Best Short Subjects/Cartoons.
1937 - Former world champion hurdler, Percy Beard, was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to teach the faltering baseball team how to run.
1942 - Fats Waller recorded The Jitterbug Waltz in New York for Bluebird Records.
1943 - The Battle of the Atlantic climaxed with 27 merchant ships sunk during the week by German U-boats.
1947 - A Convair liner was the first U.S. twin-engine pressurized airplane to be tested.
1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
1950 - The first annual National Book Awards: Fiction: The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren; Poetry: William Carlos for Paterson; Poems Biography: The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Dr. Ralph L. Rusk.
1955 - The Ballad of Davy Crockett, by Bill Hayes, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts and stayed for five weeks beginning this day. The smash hit song sold more than 7,000,000 records on more than 20 different labels. Everyone seemed to be singing the song that saluted the frontier hero who was “Born on a mountain top in Tennessee...” Coonskin caps were seen everywhere as the Crockett craze spread like a frontier fire.
1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary released the single, Puff The Magic Dragon. Through the years, controversy continually surrounded the song. It was banned by several radio stations whose management figured that the song was about the illicit joys of smoking marijuana. The group denied this startling assumption. “It’s about a magic dragon named Puff,” they said. So there. The trio recorded a dozen hits that charted between 1962 and 1969. Puff was their third song. It went to number two on the pop charts and puffed around for nearly three months. The group next did a Bob Dylan protest song, Blowin’ in the Wind and ended their sterling career with a John Denver song -- the group’s biggest -- Leaving on a Jet Plane.
1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras, the guy who punched out a horse in the movie, Blazing Saddles, were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.
1968 - The My Lai Massacre took place during the Vietnam War. An army report later said U.S. troops killed at least 175 men, women and children -- and that “the number may have exceeded 400.”
1969 - 1776 opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York’s roadway district. The historical, musical comedy was nominated for five Tony Awards and won three, including Best Musical of 1969. 1776 was popular, running for 1,217 performances, closing Feb 13, 1972.
1970 - Motown singing star Tammi Terrell died at the age of 24. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1967. Terrell enjoyed several song successes with Marvin Gaye, including Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.
1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his resignation on this day -- five days after his 60th birthday. The motives behind his resignation, which took place three years before the next scheduled election, were unclear. He was succeeded by James Callaghan on April 5.
1978 - The supertanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany, France. The crash spilled 68.7 million gallons of oil, causing widespread environmental damage over 100 miles of coast.
1984 - Lt. Colonel William F. Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. (He died in captivity.)
1991 - Seven members of country singer Reba McEntire’s band and her road manager were among 10 people who died when their Hawker-Siddeley private jet failed to clear a mountain top and crashed near San Diego, California. McEntire was not on the plane.
1991 - In a broadcast address, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein promised to allow multiparty democracy. That did not happen.
1993 - Pop singer/songwriter Johnny Cymbal died in Nashville (apparent heart attack) at the age of 46. His Mr. Bass Man reached the top-20 in 1963. In 1968, recording under the name Derek, his Cinnamon reached number 11 on the Billboard pop chart.
1995 - Some 130 years after the rest of the U.S., Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment -- to abolish slavery. Mississippi had rejected the amendment December 4, 1865.
1998 - Sweepstakes company American Family Publishers reached an agreement with 32 states to change the way it promotes its contests. It agreed to reserve use of the term ‘winner’ for contestants who have actually won. The company, which used celebrities Dick Clark and Ed McMahon as spokesmen, also agreed to pay $1.25 million to 26 states under the voluntary consent agreement.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 10,000-point mark for the first time ever -- 10,001.78. (It turned lower and closed the day at 9,930.47.)
2001 - New in U.S. theatres: Enemy at the Gates, starring Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins and Ed Harris.
2002 - 300,000 people marched through downtown Barcelona in a demonstration for several causes at a summit of European Union leaders.
2003 - U.S. President George Bush met with England’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spain’s PM Jose Maria Aznar in the Azores. Bush and Blair made it clear they were ready to go to war with Iraq -- with or without a United Nations endorsement. Bush said, “Tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world.”
2003 - Wen Jiabao was ‘elected’ China’s prime minister by the National People’s Congress. The 60-year old Jiabao replaced Zhu Rongji.
2003 - Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq were attacked, he would take the war anywhere in the world “wherever there is sky, land or water.”
2004 - In Denmark police raided Copenhagen’s hippie enclave of Christiania in a major crackdown on the open sale of hashish. The enclave had begun in 1971 when dozens of hippies moved into the derelict 18th-century fort on state-owned land.
2004 - Japan’s Toshiba Corporation announced that the Guinness Book of World Records had certified Toshiba’s stamp-sized hard disk drives as the smallest in the world. The 0.85-inch HDD featured a storage capacity of four gigabytes and was the first hard disk drive to deliver multi-gigabyte data storage in sub-one-inch form.
2006 - U.S. Federal drug agents raided several ‘marijuana candy factories’ in the Oakland, California area. The feds seized hundreds of sodas and candies with names such as Trippy, Stoney Rancher, Toka-Cola and Budtela.
2007 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Dead Silence, with Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg and Bob Gunton; I Think I Love My Wife, starring Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres and Steve Buscemi; and Premonition, with Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Jeff Galpin, Nia Long, Amber Valletta, Marcus Lyle Brown and Mark Famiglietti)
2007 - JetBlue canceled 215 flights because of a winter storm on the East Coast of the U.S. The big storm, blamed for a dozen deaths before it was over, forced more than 3,600 flight cancellations.
2008 - The Dalai Lama called for an international investigation into China’s crackdown on protesters in Tibet. Internet users in China were blocked from accessing YouTube.com after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular video Web site.
2008 - Senator John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for President, was in Baghdad for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials. McCain had linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq.
2009 - Hawaii’s Supreme Court rejected a state law that allowed the Hawaii Superferry to operate before an environmental study was conducted, forcing the inter-island ferry service out of business.
2009 - Former Pennsylvania state senator Vincent Fumo was convicted on 137 counts of corruption for schemes that defrauded the state senate of more than $3.5 million.
2009 - A United Nations human rights investigator accused North Korea of committing widespread torture in prisons that he called “death traps.” Life in the reclusive communist-ruled country is “dire and desperate,” said Vitit Muntarbhorn, adding that people are denied even enough food to survive.
2010 - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the freezing of funding for the SBInet project, the virtual border fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Napolitano said the freeze was due to cost overruns and missed deadlines by contractors. The project had cost $2.4 billion from 2005-2009.
2011 - Bill Cunningham New York opened in U.S.theatres. The biography/documentary features Bill Cunningham, Tom Wolfe, Anna Wintour, Carmen Dell’Orefice, Annette De la Renta, Mrs. Vincent Astor and John Kurdewan.
2011 - Japanese emergency workers prepared to return to the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The workers had been forced to retreat when radiation levels at the plant soared. Japan’s national news agency, Kyodo, reported that 33 percent of the fuel rods at the No. 2 reactor were damaged and that the cores of both reactors were believed to have partially melted.
2012 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Butter, starring Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Ashley Greene, Jennifer Garner, Alicia Silverstone, Ty Burrell, Kristen Schaal and Pruitt Taylor Vince; Casa de mi Padre, with Will Ferrell, Genesis Rodriguez, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, and Efren Ramirez; Detachment, starring Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston, Adrien Brody, Lucy Liu, James Caan and Blythe Danner; and Jeff Who Lives at Home, with Jason Segel, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon, Ed Helms, Rae Dawn Chong and Katie Aselton.
2012 - India boosted military spending by 17% to $40 billion for the year as it sought to counter China’s rapid military build-up and its traditional rival Pakistan. India fought three wars with archrival Pakistan since independence in 1947. But China was seen as the main focus of its ambitious military modernization and procurement policy.
2012 - Hot-air balloon pilot Edward Ristaino ordered five skydivers to jump (to safety) from his balloon at 4,000 feet as a sudden storm approached it in Georgia. The storm sucked up Ristaino’s balloon to some 17,000 feet. His body was found in the twisted wreckage of the balloon three days later about eight miles from where the skydivers landed.
2013 - Anxious depositors drained cash from ATMs in Cyprus after European officials ruled that part of a new 10-billion-euro bailout had to be paid for directly from the bank accounts of ordinary savers.
2013 - An Air Force Staff Sergeant at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas was sentenced to four years in prison and a dishonorable discharge for raping a female trainee. 33 instructors had fallen under investigation, and 63 airmen in basic and technical training were listed as victims in the scandal that had become the worst in U.S. Air Force history.
2014 - The body of a cyclist hit by a high-speed train in France was embedded into the front of the driver’s carriage. The train travelled 40 km (25 miles) and pulled in to a station before the cyclist’s body was discovered. “It was an upsetting sight,” said a spokesman for France’s national railway. “The body was stuck on to the front of the train, but out of the vision of those in the driver’s car.” Passengers and rail staff received counselling for emotional trauma.
2015 - The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported that China had overtaken Germany as the world’s third largest arms exporter. China had a 5% share, behind the U.S. at 31% and Russia at 27%.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a centrist judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of justice Antonin Scalia. Garland was never confirmed. The Republican-controlled Senate tied up the process until after the 2016 presidential election and confirmed Republican POTUS Trump’s pick of Neil Gorsuch to the court.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump’s preliminary budget was released. It included a $6.2 billion cut to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 18% cuts to federal funding for the National Institutes of Health and the elimination of the Community Development Block Grant Program, which helps fund the Meals on Wheels program. It also cut funding to the State Department and spending on foreign aid by 28%.
2017 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson, Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner; Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander, Hannah John-Kamen and Walton Goggins; 7 Days in Entebbe, with Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl and Eddie Marsan; Dear Dictator, starring Michael Caine, Odeya Rush and Katie Holmes; Flower, with Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn and Adam Scott; I Can Only Imagine, with J. Michael Finley, Brody Rose and Dennis Quaid; Josie, starring Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott and Daeg Faerch; and Keep the Change, starring Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato and Jennifer Brito.
2018 - A Vatican tribunal sacked Guam archbishop Anthony Apuron after finding him “guilty of certain accusations.” He had been accused of sexually abusing minors in the 1970s.
2018 - At the direction of POTUS Trump, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe. This, just two days before McCabe’s scheduled retirement date. McCabe said, “I am being singled out ... because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of (former FBI Director) James Comey. The release of this report (by the Office of the Inspector General) was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the president.”
2019 - U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White, from California, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran. White was convicted of insulting Iran’s supreme leader and posting private information online. Just what constitues “private information” in Iran is anyone’s guess.
2020 - The U.S. stock market took its sharpest dive since the Black Monday crash of 1987 as POTUS Trump warned the coronavirus pandemic could drag the economy into a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 12.9 percent. The S&P 500 lost 12 percent and is was nearly 30 percent below its record high, set less the previous month.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Seven million people in six San Francisco area counties were ordered to shelter in place. Restaurants, bars, and other public gathering spots were forced to close. 2)The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. jumped past 4,600, with at least 85 deaths. 3)Amazon began hiring 100,000 people across the U.S. to help meet the surge by customers shopping more online to avoid going out. 4)Globally more than 174,000 coronavirus cases were reported with more than 6,700 deaths.
2020 - U.K.-based Fred Olsen Cruise Lines reported that its cruise ship Braemar, that had been turned away from several ports in the Caribbean after five passengers were confirmed to have the coronavirus, had set sail to Cuba which would allow it to dock.
2021 - President Biden called for changes to the filibuster rule that required lawmakers to speak on the floor of the Senate to hold up a bill. “I don’t think that you have to eliminate the filibuster, you have to do it what it used to be when I first got to the Senate back in the old days,” Biden said. “You had to stand up and command the floor, you had to keep talking.” The talking filibuster. “That’s what it was supposed to be.”
2021 - A U.S. intelligence report found that Russia tried to influence the 2020 election in Trump’s favor. The assessment found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race but ultimately no evidence that any foreign actor changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process.
2021 - Public health experts in several states warned that coronavirus cases were rising in several new hot spots after weeks of declining infections, deaths, and hospitalizations. Numbers had risen in Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland, and New Jersey. New coronavirus cases had stopped falling in New York City and neighboring counties despite ramped up vaccination efforts.
2022 - The U.S. and allies launched a multilateral task force to tackle Russian oligarchs, increasing the freezing of assets as the West stepped up pressure on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
2022 - Canada banned TV service providers in the country from distributing Russian state-owned TV channels RT and RT France, saying the programming was not consistent with Canadian standards.
2022 - A magnitude 7.4 undersea earthquake hit off Fukushima, Japan, where a tsunami ten years earlier set off one of the worst nuclear-plant disasters in history. The new temblor shook buildings for several minutes. Three people were confirmed dead after the quake, with some 247 injured.
2023 - Banking jitters continued as Wall Street banks agreed to deposit $30 billion in First Republic Bank to arrest its stock plummet. This, in the wake of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase contributed about $5 billion apiece, while Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley agreed tp around $2.5 billion. Truist, PNC, U.S. Bancorp, State Street and Bank of New York Mellon were depositing about $1 billion each.
2023 - Emmanuel Macron’s government used ‘special powers’ to force through pension reform, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, amid widespread protests.
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Birthdays on This Day March 16
1751 - James Madison
4th U.S. President [1809-1817]; married to Dorothea ‘Dolly’ Todd; nickname: Father of the Constitution; died Jun 28, 18361822 - Rosa Bonheur
artist: famous for her animal paintings: The Horse Fair; 1st woman to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d’Honneur; died May 25, 18991897 - Conrad Nagel
actor: The Mysterious Lady, The Kiss, The Divorcee; died Feb 24, 19701906 - Henny (Henry) Youngman
comedian: “Take my wife ... please.”, Joe & Dad, The Henny and Rocky Show; actor: Amazon Women on the Moon, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, The Unkissed Bride, Goodfellas [cameo]; died Feb 24, 19981912 - Pat Nixon (Ryan)
former U.S. First Lady: Married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon; died Jun 22, 19931916 - Mercedes McCambridge (Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge)
Academy Award-winning actress: All the King’s Men [1949], The Exorcist; died Mar 2, 20041920 - Leo McKern
actor: A Foreign Field, The Mouse that Roared, A Man for All Seasons, Help, Rumpole of the Bailey, Ladyhawke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Blue Lagoon, Ryan’s Daughter; died Jul 23, 20021926 - Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
‘King of Crazy’: comedian, entertainer: Martin & Lewis; actor: That’s My Boy, The Caddy, The Nutty Professor; singer: Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody; fund raiser: Muscular Dystrophy Association; died Aug 20, 2017
1927 - Dick Beals
voice actor: Speedy Alka-Seltzer commercials, Gumby, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Challenge of the Yukon, Garfield and Friends, Pinocchio’s Revenge; died May 29, 20121927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
U.S. Senator from New York; died Mar 26, 20031927 - Ruby (Reuben) Braff
modern jazz musician: trumpet, cornet; actor: Pipe Dream; died Feb 9, 20031929 - Betty Johnson
singer: I Dreamed, Little White Lies, The Little Blue Man, Dream; died Nov 6, 20221930 - Hobie (Hobert Neal) Landrith
baseball: catcher: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, NY Mets, Washington Senators; died Apr 6, 20231932 - Don (Lee) Blasingame
baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1958], SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Washington Senators, KC Athletics; died Apr 13, 20051932 - R. Walter Cunningham
astronaut: Apollo 7 mission [circled Earth 173 times: Oct, 1968]; chief of Skylab applications program [supervised development and design]; died Jan 3, 20231934 - Ray Walker
singer: group: The Jordanaires: Amazing Grace, Crying in the Chapel, How Great Thou Art, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Peace in the Valley, God Bless the USA; backed Elvis Presley on many of his hits1941 - Bernardo Bertolucci
Academy Award-winning director: The Last Emperor [1987]; Stealing Beauty, Little Buddha, Once Upon a Time in the West, Last Tango in Paris, The Grim Reaper; died Nov 26, 20181941 - Chuck Woolery
TV game-show host: Lingo, Kiss the Bride, Greed, The Dating Game, Scrabble, Love Connection, Wheel of Fortune, Your Hit Parade, Hollywood Squares1942 - Roger Crozier
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1966], Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals; died Jan 11, 19961942 - MacArthur Lane
football: Green Bay Packers1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker (Paul Crosby)
singer, guitarist: Mr. Bojangles, Good Loving Grace, My Old Man, Hill Country Rain, Charlie Dunn1947 - Tom (Thomas William) Bradley
baseball: pitcher: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants1948 - Michael Bruce
musician: guitarist, keyboards, singer: group: Alice Cooper: I’m Eighteen, Is It My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover, School’s Out, Elected, Hello Hooray1949 - Erik Estrada
actor: C.H.I.P.S., Twisted Justice, Night of the Wilding, Caged Fury, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission1949 - Victor Garber
actor: Godspell, Assassins, Alias, Lend Me a Tenor, Legally Blonde, Titanic, I’ll Follow You Down, Phenom, Argo1950 - Kate Nelligan
actress: Up Close and Personal, Fatal Instinct, Eye of the Needle, Frankie and Johnny, The Prince of Tides, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo1950 - Tim Stokes
football: Univ of Oregon, Los Angeles Rams1951 - Brian McKenzie
hockey: Pittsburgh Penguins, Omaha Knights, Hershey Bears, Edmonton Oilers, Mohawk Valley Comets, Indianapolis Racers, Toledo Goaldiggers, Milwaukee Admirals1953 - Isabelle Huppert
actress: Le Ceremonie, The Separation, Violette, Story of Women, Entre Nous1954 - Hollis Stacy
golf champion: U.S. Open [1977, 1978, 1984]; Du Maurier Classic [1983]1954 - Nancy Wilson (Nancy Lamoureux Wilson)
musician: guitar, singer: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On; actress: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Wild Life1956 - Ozzie Newsome
Pro Football Hall of Famer [tight end]: Univ of Alabama; NFL: Cleveland Browns: 662 receptions, 7,980 yards, scored 47 touchdowns, caught passes in 150 consecutive games played in three Pro Bowls1964 - Patty Griffin
Grammy award-winning musician [guitar, piano], singer-songwriter: Downtown Church [2011]; Living with Ghosts, Flaming Red, 1000 Kisses, Impossible Dream, Children Running Through1966 - Rodney Peete
football [quarterback]: USC; NFL: Detroit Lions, Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Oakland Raiders, Carolina Panthers; his wife is actress Holly Robinson-Peete
1967 - Lauren Graham
actress: Caroline in the City, Good Company, Townies, Gilmore Girls, Chasing Destiny1971 - Greg Johnson
hockey [center]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators1971 - Alan Tudyk
actor: Suburgatory, Firefly, Serenity, Death at a Funeral, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, I, Robot, 3:10 to Yuma, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Wreck-It Ralph, Dollhouse1973 - Tim Kang
actor: Magnum P.I. [2018] The Mentalist, Third Watch, Rambo [2008], Mister Green1975 - Sienna Guillory
actress: Helen of Troy, Resident Evil film series, Eragon, The Big Bang, Virtuality, Marple: A Beauty Is Announced, Late Night Shopping, Kiss Kiss [Bang Bang], Love, Actually, Fortitude1976 - Blu Cantrell
singer: Hit ’Em Up Style (Oops!), Breathe1976 - Kim Johnsson
hockey: NHL: New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota Wild1976 - Paul Schneider
actor: Parks and Recreation, Bright Star, Water for Elephants, Flowers of War, The Babymakers1978 - Brooke Burns
actress: Baywatch, Out of the Blue, To Tell the Truth1980 - Todd Heap
football [tight end]: NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2001–2010]; Arizona Cardinals [2011–2012]1981 - Curtis Granderson
baseball [outfield]: Detroit Tigers [2004–2009]: 2006 World Series; New York Yankees [2010–2013]: 2015 World Series1986 - Alexandra Daddario
actress: Percy Jackson film series, True Detective, San Andreas, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Hall Pass, White Collar, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia1994 - Sierra McClain
actress: Empire, Mindhunter, Daddy’s Little Girls, Honey: Rise Up and Dance, Shrink, 9-1-1: Lone Star1997 - Tyrel Jackson Williams
actor: Brockmire, Lab Rats, Modern Family, Community, Pants on Fire; co-host: Just Kidding
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Be My Love (facts) - Mario Lanza
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