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1776 - This is St. Joseph’s Day, the day that those little birds known as swallows traditionally return to the Mission San Juan Capistrano in California. The swallow population had dwindled since the turn of the 21st century, however. Development in the community, and the stabilization of the Ruins of the Great Stone Church, where the swallows nests were removed by preservationists, forced the birds to find alternative locations to build their nests -- apart from the Mission. This decrease in the swallow population has led to efforts to lure the birds back to the Mission to nest.
1831 - The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the heist.
1928 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll left WGN radio in Chicago to head across town to WMAQ radio. They weren’t able to take their previously popular radio show names with them due to contract limitations. So Sam and Henry were no more. However, Gosden and Correll came up with a new name for the show that became even more popular than the first. A year later it was the national hit: Amos and Andy.
1931 - Nevada legalized gambling. One month later, Las Vegas issued six gambling licenses in the Nevada desert.
1941 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded one of their biggest musical successes. It became one of Decca Records’ all-time greats. Green Eyes featured vocalists Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly.
1945 - Some 800 people were killed as Kamikaze planes attacked the carrier U.S.S. Franklin off the shores of Japan, detonating bombs and ammunition stored on board. Heavily damaged, ‘The Ship That Wouldn’t Die’ made the 12,000-mile trip home to Brooklyn, New York.
1948 - The quickest main event in the history of Madison Square Garden in New York City happened on this day. A crowd of spectators watched in amazement as Lee Savold knocked out Gino Buonvino in 54 seconds of the first round of their prize fight.
1949 - The American Museum of Atomic Energy opened in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
1951 - The Caine Mutiny, a novel by Herman Wouk, was published for the first time. Wouk won a Pulitzer for the novel. He followed it with several more successes: Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance.
1953 - The Academy Awards celebrated their silver anniversary -- and came to television. NBC paid $100,000 for the rights to broadcast the event on both radio and TV. Hollywood’s best turned out to hand out the Oscar statuettes for the movies of 1952. The party was held at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, with Bob Hope hosting. A dual celebration was staged in New York City, where Conrad Nagel was host. The Best Picture award went to Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. Best Director was the legendary John Ford for The Quiet Man. The rest of the best: Actor: Gary Cooper for High Noon; Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn for Viva Zapata!; Actress: Shirley Booth for Come Back, Little Sheba; Supporting Actress: Gloria Grahame for The Bad and the Beautiful; Art Direction-Set Decoration/Color: Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès for Moulin Rouge; Music/Song: Dimitri Tiomkin (music), Ned Washington (lyrics) for the song, High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’), from High Noon.
1954 - Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in living color as Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Troy in round seven of a scheduled 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1954 - Colonel John P. Stapp piloted the first rocket-driven sled in Alamogordo, NM. The sled reach a speed of 421 mph/677.5 km/hr.
1957 - Elvis Presley plunked down a $1,000 deposit on a 13.8 acre hunk of land with a 23-room manor on it (at 3764 South Bellevue Boulevard) in Memphis, Tennessee. He finalized the purchase March 25th, paying a total of $102,500 to the home’s original owner, Ruth Moore, who had christened the home Graceland after her great-aunt Grace. More than 600,000 people visit Graceland annually, touring the home, filing past Elvis’s grave in the estate’s Meditation Garden and purchasing souvenirs in the shopping complex across the street.
1960 - Redhead closed at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway in New York City. The production, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, enjoyed a run of 452 performances.
1964 - The Great St. Bernard Tunnel, through the Alps between Switzerland and Italy, was opened to traffic.
1964 - Actor Sean Connery spent his first day of shooting on the James Bond flick, Goldfinger. FYI: Although many of the locations in Goldfinger are ‘American’, Connery never set foot in the U.S. during filming. All scenes where he is apparently in the U.S. were shot at Pinewood Studios, London.
1965 - Dean Martin received a gold record for the album, Houston. Martin charted dozens of hits on the pop music charts in the 1950s and 1960s.
1970 - The heads of the West and East German governments, Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph, met at Erfurt. It was the first east-west meeting since Germany was divided.
1972 - A treaty of friendship and mutual defense was signed between India and Bangladesh. (When East Pakistan had declared independence from West Pakistan in March 1971 and named itself Bangladesh, India came to the support of the new nation’s vastly outnumbered military forces.)
1977 - The staff of WJM-TV had a going-away party, as the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was broadcast. Everyone was fired except the inept Ted Baxter. The show had been a popular hit for seven years. Syndication continues to keep Mary, Lou, Murray, Ted, Rhoda and the rest of the crew going with what was called “the best television of the 1970s.”
1982 - Three of rocker Ozzy Osbourne’s band were killed in a freak accident near Orlando, Florida. Guitarist Randy Rhoads and two others were in a light plane which buzzed Osbourne’s tour bus, clipped a wing and crashed into a house.
1983 - Michael Jackson’s Beat It, featuring lead guitar work by Eddie Van Halen, entered Billboard magazine’s Hot 100. The song, from the Thriller album, eventually hit #1 and was on the charts for 18 weeks.
1984 - John J. O’Connor was installed as the eighth Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, succeeding the late Cardinal Terence Cooke.
1985 - IBM announced that it was planning to stop making the PCjr consumer-oriented computer. The machine had been expected to dominate the home computer market but didn’t quite live up to those expectations. In the 16 months that the PCjr was on the market, only 240,000 units were sold.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as chairman of his PTL (Praise the Lord) ministry amid a sex and money scandal involving Jessica Hahn, a former church secretary from Oklahoma.
1992 - British Prince Andrew and Princess Sarah Ferguson announced their separation.
1993 - Justice Byron White, the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by a Democrat, announced his retirement, opening the way for President Clinton to make his first high judicial nomination (Ruth Bader Ginsburg). White said it had been, “an interesting and exciting experience” and that “someone else should be permitted to have a like experience.” (Byron White died April 15, 2002.)
1995 - After giving up his attempt to become a major-league baseball player, Michael Jordan returned to pro basketball with his former team, the Chicago Bulls.
1996 - Sarajevo again became a united city after four years when Moslem-Croat authorities took control of the last district held by Serbs.
1997 - With the withdrawal of Anthony Lake, President Clinton nominated acting CIA Director George Tenet to head the U.S. spy agency.
1998 - Major-league owners approved the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for $311 million. News Corp sold the team in 2004.
1999 - With assurances of a fair trial from Saudi King Fahd and South African President Nelson Mandela, Libya agreed to hand over the two Lockerbie Pan Am bombing suspects.
1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Forces of Nature, with Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck; the animated The King And I, starring the voices of Miranda Richardson, Christiane Noll and Martin Vidnovic; Ravenous, with Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle and David Arquette; and True Crime, starring Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Denis Leary, Lisa Gay Hamilton and James Woods.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton opened a six-day trip through South Asia as he arrived in New Delhi, India. It was the first presidential visit to India in 22 years.
2003 - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commisssion (SEC) filed a civil suit claiming that HealthSouth Corp. and its chairman Richard M. Scrushy had committed massive accounting fraud to overstate earnings by some $1.4 billion since 1999. Weston Smith, the former finance chief, later pleaded guilty to 4 charges.
2004 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Dawn of the Dead, with Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, Ty Burrell, Jayne Eastwood, Michael Kelly, Jake Weber and Kevin Zegers; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Victor Rasuk, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson and Elijah Wood; and Taking Lives, starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tcheky Karyo, Jean Hugues Anglade and Gena Rowlands.
2004 - Scientists reported that Earth may be in the middle its sixth big ‘extinction event’, (which began some 50,000 years ago). In an effort that sent more than 20,000 volunteers into every corner of England, Scotland and Wales to survey wildlife and plants, researchers found that many native populations are in big trouble and some are gone altogether.
2005 - The 42-room Redstone Castle in the mountains near Aspen, CO was auctioned for $4 million, two years after the IRS seized the century-old mansion in a fraud investigation. It was completed in 1902 by coal baron John Cleveland Osgood, who died in the castle he named Cleveholm Manor.
2006 - Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s Liberal Party was defeated in two state elections where Labor governments held on to power.
2007 - The Airbus A380 made its first flights to North America. The landings at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles international Airport occurred within minutes of each other. The plane had been scheduled to land in New York only, but L.A. mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa fought to get the double-decker to make an appearance in the City of Angels.
2008 - VISA (electronic payments) opened for trading on the NYSE after setting an IPO price of $44 per share, the largest public offering in U.S. history. Visa shares closed at $56.60.
2008 - Antiwar protests were held in cities across the U.S. on the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq. In San Francisco, some 150 people were arrested.
2009 - The U.S. Interior Department reported that one-third of the endangered birds in the U.S. were in Hawaii. The native birds were threatened by the destruction of their habitats by invasive plant species and feral animals like pigs, goats and sheep, and insect born diseases. The report also said energy production of all types — wind, ethanol and mountaintop coal mining — was contributing to steep drops in bird populations around the world.
2009 - President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and captured some 11.2% of TV households in 56 U.S. markets.
2010 - New movies in the U.S.: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, with Zachary Gordon, Chloe Moretz, Steve Zahn, Rachael Harris, Robert Capron, Devon Bostick and Grayson Russell; Repo Men, starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, RZA, Alice Braga and Carice van Houten; and The Bounty Hunter, starring Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Jason Sudeikis, Dorian Missick, Joel Marsh Garland and Christine Baranski; and The Killing Jar, with Michael Madsen, Harold Perrineau, Amber Benson, Danny Trejo, Kevin Gage, Lew Temple, Lindsay Axelsson, Johnathan Sachar, Patrick Durham, Talan Torriero and Jake Busey.
2010 - A fire at the private Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary in Las Vegas killed over 250 exotic birds and a dog. The sanctuary, a landmark for animal lovers, has been around since the 1970s. Firefighters said they could not do anything to save the two buildings housing the birds because the fire spread too rapidly.
2011 - Traces of radiation were discovered in food and water from near the stricken atomic power plant. Japan halted sales of food products near Fukushima because of the contamination.
2011 - Operation Odyssey Dawn became the U.S. code name for the international military operation in Libya, enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973. The Pentagon said 112 cruise missiles were launched from U.S. and U.K. ships and subs, hitting 20 targets in Libya.
2012 - Reacting to the spread of eating disorders in Israel, the Knesset passed a law that banned the showing of severely underweight models in local advertising. The ‘Photoshop Law’ also required putting a notice on any advertisement in which models’ images were enhanced, altered or reduced to make them appear even thinner than they really are.
2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that publishers and manufacturers could not block imports of copyrighted items made and sold abroad. The ruling bolstered the multibillion-dollar ‘gray market’, the annual trade in genuine products outside of their official distribution channels to exploit lower overseas prices.
2014 - The U.S. government announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. and filed a criminal charge alleging the company had cheated consumers when it issued misleading statements about safety problems in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
2014 - The European Union fined two E.U. and four Japanese companies a total of €953 million ($1.32 billion) for fixing prices of car and truck ball bearings. The cartel involved two European companies: Sweden’s SKF AB and Germany’s Schaeffler Group. And four Japanese companies: JTEKT Corp, NSK Ltd, NFC and NTN Corp.
2015 - A senior Saudi Arabia official said that the kingdom would stop issuing business visas to Swedes and would not renew the current visas of Swedish nationals living in the country. This, in response to Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom’s criticism of human rights and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.
2016 - U.S.-based Starwood Hotels and Resorts announced that it had signed three hotel deals in Cuba. It was the first time a U.S. hotel company had done so in some 60 years.
2016 - Cities on Australia’s east coast were among the first in the world to turn lights out. This, for the 10th annual Earth Hour, the global movement dedicated to protecting the planet and warn of the effects of climate change.
2017 - CNN aired and published a story by Brian Stelter called, Donald Trump: A Fox News president. Stelter said “Trump tweets about stories he sees on Fox. He uses Fox graphics to advance his agenda. And he gives his TV interviews to Fox... Detractors say that Trump and his aides, by relying too heavily on the conservative media echo chamber, are closing themselves off to the kind of debate and flow of information that governing requires.” Google “Trump and Fox news” and look at the results.
2018 - The U.S. Supreme Court gave the green light to two class-action lawsuits filed by residents of Flint, Michigan. The people were pursing civil rights claims against local and state officials over lead contamination in the Flint’s water supply.
2018 - An Australian court ruled that food giant Heinz misled consumers about the health value of Little Kids Shredz products for toddlers, adding that the US firm should have been aware the claims were deceptive. Wow! The Shredz products contained over 60 percent sugar, significantly higher than fruit and vegetables.
2019 - A federal jury in San Francisco found that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer was a likely cause of a Sonoma man’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Edwin Hardeman was diagnosed with the cancer in 2015 after spraying Roundup on his property for decades. On March 27 a jury awarded Hardeman more than $80 million. This included $75 million in punitive damages against Monsanto. (On July 15 a judge lowered the award to $25.2 million.)
2019 - The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced in Oslo that Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin was the year’s winner of the Abel Prize, considered by many to be the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Uhlenbeck won the prize for her foundational work in geometric analysis, which combines the technical power of analysis -- a branch of math that extends and generalizes calculus -- with the more conceptual areas of geometry and topology. She was the first woman to receive the prize since the award of 6 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $700,000) was first awarded in 2003.
2020 - 2,700 passengers disembarked in Sidney, Australia from the cruise ship Ruby Princess. About 200 crew members later showed symptoms of the coronavirus with some 600 cases and 15 deaths being linked to the ship.
2020 - The Federal Reserve opened the taps for central banks in nine new countries to access U.S. dollars. This, in hopes of preventing the coronavirus epidemic from causing a global economic rout. There were 9,415 diagnosed cases in the U.S. with 153 people deaths.
2020 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the coronavirus by phone and agreed to increase cooperation on developing pharmaceuticals. Russia announced its first COVID-19 death among confirmed cases, but many Russians believed the real total was far higher.
2020 - Greek police arrested 11 people and seized grenade launchers and other weapons in raids against suspected members of the Revolutionary people’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), an armed, far-left Turkish group.
2020 - Former Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from Google. Levandowski left Google to form Otto a self-driving truck startup and then sold Otto to Uber for $600 million. He agreed to plead guilty to one of the 33 charges against him in exchange for prosecutors dropping the other 32.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Courier, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze and Rachel Brosnahan; Enforcement, with Jacob Lohmann, Simon Sears and Tarek Zayat; Happily, starring Natalie Morales, Kerry Bishé and Natalie Zea; Last Call, with Jeremy Piven, Taryn Manning and Bruce Dern; Phobias, with Leonardo Nam, Alexis Knapp and Charlotte McKinney; and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal and Neil Patrick Harris.
2021 - The Idaho Legislature voted to shut down for several weeks due to an outbreak of COVID-19. Six of the 70 House members tested positive for the illness, and there were fears a highly contagious variant of COVID-19 was in the Statehouse.
2021 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said U.S. students could safely sit just three feet apart in the classroom as long as they were wearing masks but should be kept six feet away from one another at sporting events, assemblies, lunch or chorus practice.
2021 - Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks Museum in San Antonio removed a waxwork of Donald Trump because people kept punching -- and scratching -- it.
2022 - The U.S. agreed to provide a Stryker mechanized infantry company for Bulgaria’s battlegroup. The agreement was part of NATO’s drive to bolster its eastern flank after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2022 - Worshippers at a mosque in Mississauga (Ontario), Canada took down an assailant who attacked them with bear spray and an axe. The suspect, identified as Mohammad Moiz Omar (24), faced six charges, including assault with a weapon and administering a noxious substance with intent to endanger life or cause bodily harm. One of the worshippers said the experience was “terrifying” and described hearing a scream before turning around to see a man holding an axe and using bear spray - similar to pepper spray - against three people.
2023 - UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank agreed to buy its rival, Credit Suisse (established 1856), for some $3.2 billion to help ease global financial panic. This, in a deal brokered by the Swiss government.
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Birthdays on This Day March 19
1590 - William Bradford
governor: Plymouth Colony; sailed on the Mayflower; died Apr 9 [or May 9 or May 19], 16571813 - David Livingstone
missionary, explorer: the Livingstone of “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” spoken by Henry M. Stanley who found Livingstone in Africa after a two year search; died May 1, 18731847 - Albert Pinkham Ryder
artist: The Race Track, Toilers of the Sea, Siefried and the Rhine Maidens; known for his layered paintings of the sea; died Mar 28, 19171848 - Wyatt Earp
frontiersman, lawman, gunfighter: gunfight at O.K. Corral; died Jan 13, 19291860 - William Jennings Bryan
politician: member of U.S. Congress, Democratic U.S. presidential nominee [1896]; the ‘silver-tongued orator’: Scopes trial; died July 26, 19251864 - Charles Marion Russell
artist: known for his paintings of the American cowboy; died Oct 24, 19261871 - John Henry Taylor
English professional golfer, modern golf pioneer: captured five British Opens and was the first Englishman to win the Open; died Feb 10, 19631881 - Edith Nourse Rogers
created Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps [1942]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [reelected 17 times: served from June 25, 1925 until her death on Sep 10, 1960]1891 - Earl Warren
30th Governor of state of California [1943–1953: one of only two people to be elected Governor of California three times, the other was Jerry Brown]; 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1953-1969]; died July 9, 19741892 - James (Alward) Van Fleet
4-star U.S. Army General [WWI, WWII, Korean War]; consulted Defense Dept.; received Distinguished Service Cross; died Sep 23, 1992 [6 months after his 100th birthday]1899 - (Jackie) ‘Moms’ Mabley (Loretta Mary Aiken)
comedienne: Abraham, Martin & John; films: Boarding House Blues, Emperor Jones, Amazing Grace, Killer Diller; died May 23, 19751904 - John Sirica
U.S. federal judge: presided over Watergate trials and hearings; died Aug 14, 19921911 - Simone Renant
actress: Liberte-liberte, L’Homme de Rio, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Bedevilled, Tapage nocturne, a Tentation de Barbizon; died Mar 29, 20041914 - Fred Clark
actor: Sunset Boulevard, Bells are Ringing, The Caddy; died Dec 5, 19681916 - Irving Wallace
novelist and biographer: The Fan Club, The Word, The Man; co-author with David Wallechinsky: The People’s Almanac; died June 29, 19901917 - Payton Jordan
track & field star: led Occidental College to ten league titles and two NAIA track & field championships; coach: 1968 U.S. Olympic team that won a record 24 medals; died Feb 5, 20091920 - Tige Andrews (Tiger Androwaous)
actor: The Detectives, The Mod Squad; died Jan 27, 20071926 - Bill Henderson
jazz singer: LPs: And His Special Friends, Live at the Times, Bill Henderson with The Oscar Peterson Trio, Something’s Gotta Give; died Apr 3, 20161927 - Richie (Don Richard) ‘Whitey’ Ashburn
Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star; 1948, 1951, 1953, 1958/World Series: 1950/batting championship: 1955, 1958], Chicago Cubs, NY Mets [all-star: 1962]; batted .308 lifetime with nine .300 seasons and 2,574 hits in 2,189 games; broadcaster for three decades for the Phillies; died Sep 9, 19971928 - Patrick McGoohan
actor: Secret Agent, Braveheart, Escape from Alcatraz, The Silver Streak, Ice Station Zebra, I Am a Camera; actor, director: The Prisoner; died Jan 13, 20091930 - Ornette Coleman
musician: saxophone, trumpet, violin, composer: LPs: Something Else!!!, Tomorrow is the Question!, The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change the Century, Free Jazz, Ornette on Tenor, Town Hall, Chappaqua Suite, Ornette Coleman in Europe Vols. 1 & 2, At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Who’s Crazy, The Empty Foxhole, Forms and Sounds: The Music of Ornette Coleman, New York is Now!, Ornette at 12, Crisis, Friends and Neighbors, Science Fiction, Broken Shadows, Skies of America, The Caravan of Dreams; died Jun 11, 20151932 - Gay Brewer Jr.
golf: champion: Masters [1967]; member of Senior Tour [1982-2000]; died Aug 31, 20071933 - Phyllis Newman
actress: Coming of Age, That was the Week That Was, Picnic, A Secret Space; died Sep 15, 20191933 - Philip Roth
writer: Goodbye, Columbus, A.P.E.X., Ghostwriter, The Great American Novel, Portnoy’s Complaint; died May 22, 20181933 - Renée Taylor
Emmy Award-winning writer: Acts of Love - and Other Comedies [1973]; entertainer: The Jack Paar Show; actress: The Nanny, Daddy Dearest, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, The Producers, A New Leaf1935 - Nancy Malone
actress: The Long Hot Summer, Naked City; died May 8, 20141936 - Ursula Andress
actress: Dr. No, Casino Royale, Fun in Acapulco, What’s New Pussycat, Clash of the Titans1937 - Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry
singer: Ain’t Got No Home, But I Do [I Don’t Know Why]1938 - Joe Kapp
football [quarterback]: Univ of California; NFL: Minnesota Vikings: Super Bowl IV, shares NFL Individual Record for touchdowns thrown in a game [7]: Vikings vs. Baltimore Colts [9/28/69]; Boston Patriots; coach: Univ of California, Berkeley; died May 8, 20231944 - Lynda Bird Johnson
daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson1946 - Paul Atkinson
musician: guitar: group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, You Make Me Feel Good, Tell Her No, She’s Coming Home, I Want You Back Again, Time of the Season; CBS A&R; died Apr 2, 20041946 - Ruth Pointer
singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fire, He’s So Shy, Jump [for My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me1947 - Glenn Close
Tony Award-winning actress: The Real Thing [1984], Death and the Maiden [1992], Sunset Boulevard [1995]; Emmy Award: Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story [1995]; Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, 101 Dalmations1952 - Chris Brubeck
composer, musician: trombone; Dave Brubeck’s son1952 - Harvey Weinstein
film producer: co-founder of Miramax Films; he [and brother Bob] were co-chairmen of the Weinstein Company: Academy Awards for Shakespeare in Love, Tony Awards for a variety of winning plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, August: Osage County; In Oct 2017, he was fired from his company and expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after some 80 women made allegations of sexual abuse against him (Feb 2020: New York jury found Weinstein guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and acquitted him on three other charges)1953 - Billy Sheehan
musician: bass guitar: worked with Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Niacin1953 - Ricky Wilson
musician: guitar: group The B-52’s [1977-1985]: Love Shack, Tell It Like It T-I-Is, Roam, Summer of Love, Planet Claire, Party Out of Bounds, Devil in My Car; died Oct 12, 19851955 - Derek Longmuir
musician: drums: group: The Bay City Rollers: Keep On Dancing, Remember [Sha-La-La], Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night1955 - (Walter) Bruce Willis
Emmy Award-winning actor: Moonlighting [1987]; Die Hard series, Pulp Fiction, Hudson Hawk, The Last Boy Scout, Billy Bathgate, In Country, Last Man Standing, The Fifth Element, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, Death Wish [2018]1958 - Andy Reid
football head coach: NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [1999–2012]: 2005 Super Bowl XXXIX; Kansas City Chiefs [2013– ]: 2020 Super Bowl LIV champs; 2021 Super Bowl LV; 2023 Super Bowl LVII champs1959 - Terry Hall
singer: group: The Specials: Gangsters, A Message to You Rudy, Too Much Too Young, Ghost Town; Fun Boy Three: It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It, Really Saying Something, Tunnel of Love, Our Lips are Sealed1963 - Mary Scheer
actress: MADtv, It Can Always Get Worse, Elvira’s Haunted Hills, Dropping Out, Ding Dong, L.A. on $5 a Day
1964 - Jake Weber
actor: Medium, Dawn of the Dead, Meet Joe Black, The Mind of the Married Man, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NYPD Blue, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, White House Down1965 - Lisa Stahl
actress: Torture TV, The Thirteenth Year, Ivory Tower, Safety Patrol, Jerry Maguire, Tough and Deadly, Heart Condition1968 - Tyrone Hill
basketball [center]: Xavier Univ; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat1969 - Connor Trinneer
actor: Star Trek: Enterprise, Numb3rs, The Closer, The Mentalist, Stargate Atlantis, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Duncan’s Shadow, Sundogs1974 - Jason LaRue
baseball [catcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals1976 - Rachel Blanchard
actress: Fargo [TV 2014], War of the Worlds, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Clueless [TV 1996], Peep Show, Flight of the Conchords, My Uncle Rafael, Dark Hearts, Mad Ship, Scrapper, Where the Truth Lies, Without a Paddle, Chasing Holden, Sugar and Spice, The Rage: Carrie 2, Road Trip, Iron Eagle IV1976 - Andre Miller
basketball [guard]: Univ of Utah; NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia 76ers1977 - David Ross
baseball [catcher]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2002–2004]; Pittsburgh Pirates [2005]; San Diego Padres [2005]; Cincinnati Reds [2006–2008]; Boston Red Sox [2008]; Atlanta Braves [2009–2012]; Boston Red Sox [2013–2014]: 2013 World Series champs; Chicago Cubs [2015–2016]: 2016 World Series champs1987 - Josie Loren
actress: The Mentalist, Make It or Break It, Hannah Montana, Drake & Josh1988 - Clayton Kershaw
baseball [pitcher]: Los Angeles Dodgers [2008–2021]: 2011, 2013, 2014 National League Cy Young Award winner; 2014 NL MVP Award; 2017, 2018 World Series; 2020 World Series champs
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Hit Music on This Day March 19
1945A Little on the Lonely Side (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Jimmy Brown)
Accentuate the Positive (facts) - Johnny Mercer
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