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1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic book was published. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, subtitled Life Among the Lowly, became an instant success, selling 300,000 copies in its first year. It has been translated into twenty languages and performed as a play the world over. It was even spotlighted in the Broadway musical and film, "The King and I". Maybe you remember the haunting chant from the show, “Run Eliza, Run!” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel remains a must-read for school children -- and a reminder to all of us -- of an ugly time in the history of the United States.
1865 - A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct President Abraham Lincoln was foiled when Lincoln changed plans and failed to appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington, DC. Booth would later assassinate the President while Lincoln was attending a performance at Ford’s Theatre in the nation’s capital.
1891 - The first computing scale company was incorporated in Dayton, OH. Look around antique stores and you may find some of the old -- and possibly still working -- Dayton Scales. There were other famous scales, too, that were direct from Ohio, ‘the birthplace of weights and measures’. Remember Toledo Scales for weighing fruit and produce in grocery stores?
1897 - The first five-man basketball team intercollegiate basketball game to use five players per team was held. Yale beat Pennsylvania by a score of 32-10 in New Haven, CT.
1914 - The first international figure skating championship was held in New Haven, CT.
1917 - The ‘separable fastener’, later to be known as the zipper was patented by Swedish-born Gideon Sundback of Hoboken, New Jersey.
1922 - The first aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Langley, was commissioned in Norfolk, Virginia.
1934 - The first test of a practical radar apparatus was made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Harbour, Germany. Kuhnold was Chief of the German Navy Signals Research Department.
1936 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded Christopher Columbus on Victor Records in, where else, Chicago, IL.
1948 - Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra were featured in the first televised symphonic concert. CBS-TV, with help from its then Philadelphia television station, WCAU-TV 10, carried the program from the Philadelphia Academy of Music, the home of the world-famous orchestra. The concert was televised live, at 5 p.m. Ninety minutes later, NBC-TV carried TV’s second symphonic concert. This one was from Carnegie Hall in New York City. Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra was featured in a presentation of Wagner compositions.
1948 - The 20th Academy Awards saw Darryl F. Zanuck’s Gentleman’s Agreement take the Best Picture prize, the Best Director (Elia Kazan), and Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm). Other awards passed out at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles for the best of 1947 included Best Actor to Ronald Colman for A Double Life; Best Actress to Loretta Young for Farmer’s Daughter; Best Supporting Actor to Edmund Gwenn for Miracle on 34th Street; and Best Music/Song to Allie Wrubel (music), Ray Gilbert (lyrics) for Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Song of the South.
1952 - Actor/comedian Danny Kaye hosted the 24th Annual Academy Awards, held this day at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles and it was upset night. Humphrey Bogart surprised the ‘experts’ by winning an Academy Award for African Queen. Most thought that Marlon Brando would win Best Actor for A Streetcar Named Desire. The top film was Arthur Freed’s An American in Paris. Critics had already decided that A Place in The Sun or Streetcar would walk away with the coveted Oscar for Best Picture of 1951. How wrong they were! Of course both pictures did win golden statues. Bes Director was George Stevens for A Place in the Sun. A Streetcar Named Desire won awards for Karl Malden (Best Supporting Actor), Vivien Leigh (Best Actress) and Kim Hunter (Best Supporting Actress). The Best Music/Song Oscar was presented to Hoagy Carmichael (music), and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) for In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening from Here Comes the Groom.
1954 - The King and I closed at the St. James Theater in New York City -- after 1246 performances.
1956 - Tunisia was granted independence by France and became an independent nation under the leadership of Habib Bourguiba.
1964 - Irish writer and poet Brendan Behan died. He was 41 years old.
1967 - Fashion model, Twiggy, arrived in the United States for a one-week stay. She quickly became the most sought-after subject of photographers due to her terrifically skinny-yet-wholesome good looks and the shortest dresses ever seen (to that time).
1969 - Beatle John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the Rock of Gibraltar on this day. Lennon called the location, “quiet, friendly and British.” He was the second Beatle to marry in eight days. Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman were wed a week earlier.
1974 - NBC newcaster Chet Huntley (The Huntley-Brinkley Report) died at 62 years of age.
1976 - Publishing heiress Patty Hearst was found guilty of assisting in a bank robbery. Her defense lawyer, F. Lee Bailey argued that Hearst was coerced into participating in the heist by its organizers: members of so- called Symbionese Liberation Army. Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison. (Her sentence was commuted in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.)
1977 - Voters in Paris chose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the first mayor of Paris since 1871 -- and the first mayor to be elected. In May of 1995, Chirac was elected president of France.
1980 - After 303 weeks on the Billboard album chart, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon became the longest-charting rock album of all time. It stayed on the chart for over eight more years, finally dropping off after 741 weeks.
1985 - CBS-TV presented The Romance of Betty Boop. The special starred Desiree Goyette as the ‘Boop-Boop-Be-Doop’ cartoon cutie from the Max Fleisher one-reel films in the 1930s. Betty Boop had begun as a caricature of singer Helen Kane. There were 112 Betty Boop shorts produced. Only two other cartoon characters have surpassed Betty in animation fame. They are: Felix the Cat and of course, Mickey Mouse.
1985 - Libby Riddles won the $50,000 top prize in the 1,135-mile Anchorage-to-Nome dog race. The Iditarod was called Alaska’s ultimate endurance test and this was the first time a woman had won. Libby completed the course in 18 days, twenty minutes and seventeen seconds. Another woman, Susan Butcher, won the next three Iditarod trail-sled dog races. The first race was run in 1973. The annual race commemorates the emergency during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic when medical supplies had to be rushed to Nome by dog sled.
1986 - Fallon Carrington and Jeff Colby were wed on the TV drama, The Colbys. The Colbys was an offshoot of Dynasty.
1990 - Entertainer Gloria Estefan’s tour bus was was struck by a tractor-trailer. Estefan suffered a broken vertebrae which required extensive surgery and kept her off the road for over a year. Emilio Estefan and the couple’s son were injured in the crash as well, but all three recovered.
1991 - Conor, Eric Clapton’s four-year-old son, died after falling from his 53rd-story New York City apartment window. Clapton later wrote the song Tears in Heaven as a tribute.
1991 - A jury in Los Angeles awarded Peggy Lee more than 3.8-million dollars in videocassette profits for her singing and songwriting in Disney's animated classic Lady and the Tramp. A judge later reduced the award to $2.3-million. The singer had been paid only $3,500 for co-writing six songs and providing the voice for four characters in the 1955 film.
1995 - Twelve people were killed and some 5,000 others were sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leak on five Tokyo subway trains. Members of the religous cult Aum Schinrikyo were later arrested.
1996 - Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the 1989 shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. It was the brothers’ second trial.
1998 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Primary Colors, starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Adrian Lester and Kathy Bates; and Wild Things, with Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Denise Richards and Neve Campbell.
1999 - Psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and hot-air balloon instructor Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop.
2000 - Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured in Alabama. Al-Amin was wanted in the fatal shooting of a Fulton County, Georgia, sheriff’s deputy.
2001 - The captain of the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville took the stand in a Navy court. Commander Scott Waddle accepted sole responsibility for the Feb 9 collision of his vessel and a Japanese trawler off Hawaii. The crash killed nine Japanese.
2002 - The U.S. Senate passed the most far-reaching changes in the campaign finance system since the Watergate era. The bill (known as the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill) was signed into law by President George Bush (II) on March 27, 2002.
2003 - The so-called Operation Iraqi Freedom began with targeted air strikes in Baghdad, targeting Saddam Hussein personally with a barrage of cruise missiles and bombs. U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld warned that the attack in Iraq would be “of a force and scope and scale that is beyond what has been seen before.” A “shock and awe” strategy based on a 1996 “rapid dominance” strategy. The U.S. also seized $1.74 billion in frozen Iraqi assets and declared that it would be used for humanitarian purposes. Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television accusing the United States of a “shameful crime” and urging his people to “draw your sword” against the invaders.
2004 - The U.S. military charged six soldiers with abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
2005 - A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Japan, killing one person and injuring at least 381 others.
2006 - Protesters marking the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq made their voices heard around the world. The largest gatherings were in London, Portland, Oregon and Chicago.
2006 - Dell computer chairman Michael Dell, speaking in Bangalore, India, said Dell Inc. planned to double the number of its employees in India to 20,000 by 2009.
2006 - Japan’s baseball team beat Cuba 10-6 in inaugural World Baseball Classic in San Diego, CA. The U.S. team was knocked out in the second of the four rounds.
2007 - Fire swept through a nursing home in southern Russia killing 62 people. The nursing home was located in the Azov Sea coast village of Kamyshevatskaya and the closest fire station was nearly an hour’s drive away.
2007 - The Hualapai Indian tribe invited a select few to the unveiling of their horseshoe-shaped deck over the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon Skywalk, which juts 70 feet beyond the canyon’s edge, allows up to 120 visitors at a time to see through the glass floor and into the 4,000-foot chasm below.
2007 - U.S. President George Bush (II) refused to allow his top aides to testify under oath before congressional committees investigating the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
2008 - An attraction called Corpus opened in Oegstgeest, Netherlands. The $31 million project led by businessman Henri Remmers featured a 115-foot seated human shape on the outside and large-scale exhibits of the human anatomy inside.
2008 - Israeli defense officials announced they had worked out a deal for Egypt to become the main electricity supplier to the Gaza Strip.
2009 - Films opening in U.S. theatres: Duplicity, starring Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Billy Bob Thornton, Tom Wilkinson and Paul Giamatti; and Knowing, starring Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine, Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Richard Kelly.
2009 - The U.S. Postal Service announced a management reduction of 15%. The USPS also offered early retirement to 150,000 workers and closed 6 of 80 district offices. This, in response to a slowing economy and losses during the previous year of $2.8 billion.
2010 - Surgeons in Spain completed the world’s first extensive full-face transplant. The 24-hour operation provided a 30-year-old farmer with a new nose, jaw and teeth. Partial face transplants had been done before, but had never been performed to this extent.
2011 - Some 85,000 registered Tibetans around the world began voting for a new leader to take up the resistance against Chinese rule over their Himalayan homeland, as the Tibetan parliament-in-exile debated how to handle the Dalai Lama’s resignation from politics. Results of the election were made publice in April 2011: Harvard law scholar Lobsang Sangay was voted the new political leader.
2012 - Kenya wildlife officials said fires raging across Mount Kenya were probably set by poachers to create a diversion from their illegal attacks on animals. Poachers target the elephants that roam the forested slopes of Mount Kenya for their ivory tusks.
2013 - The U.S. Congress stopped the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail, as it passed legislation requiring six-day delivery.
2013 - Jordan’s King Abdullah II warned that a jihadist state could emerge on Jordan’s northern border in Syria, and Islamic extremists were trying to establish a foothold there.
2014 - Barack Obama said the U.S. was levying economic sanctions on individuals in Russia -- inside and outside the government. The sanctions came in response to the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. The President said he had also signed a new executive order that would allow the U.S. to sanction key sectors of Russia’s economy.
2014 - Aladdin opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City. The Broadway musical is based on the 1992 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin. Beguelin also wrote the book. The show includes three songs written for the film by Ashman but not used there and four new songs written by Menken and Beguelin.
2015 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Gunman, starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba and Javier Bardem; Insurgent, with Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Theo James; Do You Believe?, starring Ted McGinley, Mira Sorvino and Andrea Logan White; Ghoul, with Jennifer Armour, Jeremy Isabella and Paul S. Tracey; Tracers, starring Marie Avgeropoulos, Taylor Lautner and Rafi Gavron; Zombeavers, with Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm and Lexi Atkins; and Insurgent, starring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort and Theo James.
2015 - A United Nations report warned that the world would suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in 15 years unless countries dramatically changed their usage of H2O.
2016 - Cleveland-based paint company Sherwin Williams said it was buying rival Minneapolis-based Valspar -- for $9.3 billion.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama arrived in Cuba for a three-day trip, the first by a U.S. president in 88 years.
2017 - FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the bureau was investigating possible links and coordination between Russia and associates of POTUS Donald Trump. This, as part of a broader probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
2017 - Trump asked Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Admiral Michael Rogers, director of the national Security Agency, to help him push back against the FBI investigation. Coats and Rogers refused to comply. (The requests by Trump only became known later when Coats and Rogers testified about them before Congress.)
2018 - Ringo Starr was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The honor was bestowed upon the famous musician by Prince William in an event called an “investiture.” Starr used his real name, Richard Starkey, for the big event at London’s Buckingham Palace.
2018 - A package exploded at a FedEx distribution facility in Schertz, Texas, in the San Antonio area -- following a series of other blasts in Austin in recent weeks. Police attributed the explosion to a serial bomber. Five package bombs had exploded in the area since March 2. (The following day, Mar 21, 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt of Pflugerville, Texas, blew himself up inside his vehicle after he was pulled over by police.)
2018 - Former Playboy model Karen McDougal sued American Media (owner of the National Enquirer) to be released from a 2016 legal agreement requiring her silence over a 2006 affair with Donald Trump. AMI had paid McDougal $150,000 for exclusive rights to her story of the affair -- but never published it.
2019 - Finland was #1 on the U.N. index of the happiest nations -- for the second consecutive year. Researchers said the small (population 5.5 million) Nordic country had succeeded in generating a happiness recipe for a balanced life, not simply dependent on economic and material wealth. Denmark, Norway and Iceland took the next spots. The remaining top ten nations were The Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Austria. The U.S. dropped from the 18th to 19th place for the year.
2019 - A Pakistani court sentenced 22-year-old Czech model Tereza Hluskova to nine years in prison on charges of drug trafficking. Hluskova, who was arrested in possession of 8.5 kg (19 pounds) of heroin at the Lahore airport, insisted that someone had put the narcotics into her luggage.
2020 - New movies showing in U.S. theatres included: A Quiet Place: Part II, starring Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy; Blue Story, with Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward and Khali Best; Bull, starring Rob Morgan, Amber Havard and Yolonda Ross; The Climb, with Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin and Gayle Rankin; Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel and Albert Delpy; Hooking Up, with Brittany Snow, Jordana Brewster and Vivica A. Fox; Human Capital, starring Marisa Tomei, Maya Hawke and Peter Sarsgaard; The Infiltrators, with Mohammad Abdollahi, Maynor Alvarado and Roman Arabia; Phoenix, Oregon, starring James Le Gros, Jesse Borrego and Lisa Edelstein; and The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. was moving its tax filing day from April 15 to July 15, amid the coronavirus crisis afflicting the country. 2)Respiratory illness caused by the virus had killed at least 200 people in the U.S. and infected nearly 14,000. Globally, the death toll from the pandemic surpassed 10,000 with some 250,000 people infected. 3)Britain ordered the closure of pubs and restaurants. This came weeks after similar measures by the rest of Europe. 4)France sent security forces into train stations to prevent people from traveling to their vacation homes, potentially carrying the coronavirus to the countryside or beaches where medical facilities are less robust. 5)Spain turned a Madrid conference center into a giant makeshift military hospital for thousands of coronavirus patients, as Europe’s second-worst outbreak claimed another 235 lives. With nearly 20,000 cases, Spain overtook Iran to become the world’s third hardest-hit country by the pandemic (after China and Italy).
2020 - Country singer Kenny Rogers died in Sandy Springs, Georgia at 81 years of age. His fame and career spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. Rogers was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time, releasing 65 albums and selling more than 165 million records.
2020 - Four men sentenced to death in India for the gruesome gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in 2012 were hanged. The case prompted outrage in India, where protesters demanded justice for Nirbhaya, a pseudonym given to the victim that means “fearless.” Under Indian law, victims of certain crimes cannot be named.
2021 - After back-and-forth sniping at meetings with the U.S., China said it had agreed to take up climate change -- and a handful of other issues.
2021 - France and Poland became the latest European countries to enter some form of pandemic lockdown amid rising coronavirus infections that had officials worrying. Some 21 million people in 16 areas of France, including the capital Paris, were affected and, in Poland non-essential shops, hotels, cultural and sporting facilities were closed for three weeks.
2022 - Australia banned exports of alumina and aluminum ores to Russia. This, as part of the ongoing sanctions against Moscow for bloody invasion of Ukraine.
2022 - German and South Korea held talks in gas-rich Qatar, underlining efforts by major energy importers to find alternatives to Russian supplies amid disruptions caused by the Ukraine invasion. Germany said it had reached a long-term energy partnership with Qatar.
2023 - President Biden issued the first veto of his presidency, nixing a bill that would have repealed a Department of Labor rule allowing retirement fund managers to consider environment, social and governance (ESG) principles in their investment decisions. Biden said the veto was necessary because the proposed law “jeopardizes the hard-earned life savings of cops, firefighters, teachers, and other workers -- all in service of an extreme, MAGA Republican ideology,” he added.
2023 - The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported the world had less than a decade to stop catastrophic warming. We must reduce greenhouse gases by half by 2030, and cease adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the early 2050s.
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Birthdays on This Day March 20
1811 - George Caleb Bingham
artist: County Election, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, Jolly Flatboat Men, Boatmen on the Missouri; died July 7, 18791828 - Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright: Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, The Pillars of Society, An Enemy of the People; died May 23, 19061890 - Lauritz Melchior (Lebrecht Hommel)
opera: ‘The Heroic Tenor’, ‘The Premier Heldentenor of the 20th Century’; died Mar 18, 19731903 - Edgar Buchanan
actor: Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Benji, Yuma, The Over-the-Hill Gang, Welcome to Hard Times, The Rounders, Donovan’s Reef; died Apr 4, 19791904 - B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner
psychologist: behaviorism: developed the Skinner Box, an experimental, enclosed environment for laboratory animals; died Aug 18, 19901906 - Abraham Beame
mayor of New York City [1974-1977]; died Feb 10, 20011906 - Ozzie (Oswald George) Nelson
bandleader, actor: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; married to actress, Harriet Nelson; parents of David and Ricky; died June 3, 19751908 - Dr. Frank Stanton
president: CBS [1946-1971]; died Dec 24, 20061908 - Sir Michael (Scudamore) Redgrave
actor: Goodbye Mr. Chips, Heidi, Importance of Being Earnest, Nicholas and Alexandra; died Mar 21, 19851913 - Judith Evelyn
actress: The Tingler, Twilight for the Gods, The Brothers Karamazov, Giant, Hilda Crane, Female on the Beach, The Egyptian; died May 7, 19671914 - Wendell Corey
actor: The Rainmaker, Sorry Wrong Number, Rear Window, Buckskin, The Astro-Zombies, The Light in the Forest; died Nov 8, 19681917 - Vera Lynn
singer [WWII-era nickname: ‘The Forces' Sweetheart’]: When They Sound the Last ‘All Clear’, Don’t You Remember When, Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart, My Son, My Son; actress: One Exciting Night, We’ll Meet Again, Rhythm Serenade; died Jun 18, 20201918 - Jack Barry
TV game show host: Twenty-One, Tic-Tac-Dough, Concentration, The Joker’s Wild; died May 4, 19841918 - Marian McPartland (Margaret Marian Turner)
musician: After Hours, Ambiance, Personal Choice, In My Life; founded Halcyon Records; songwriter: There’ll Be other Times, Twilight World; National Public Radio show: Marian McPartand’s Piano Jazz; died Aug 20, 20131920 - Pamela Harriman
politician, U.S. ambassador to France; wife of Averell Harriman; died Feb 5, 19971922 - Larry Elgart
musician: lead alto sax, bandleader with brother Les: Hooked On Swing, The Bandstand Boogie; died Aug 29, 20171922 - Ray Goulding
comedian: Bob and Ray; died Mar 24, 19901922 - Carl Reiner
writer: The Man with Two Brains; actor: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; director: Fatal Instinct, The Jerk, Oh! God; comedian: Your Show of Shows; Rob Reiner’s dad; died Jun 29, 20201928 - Fred Rogers
TV host: Mr. Rogers Neighborhood; died Feb 27, 20031929 - Sonny (Santo) Russo
jazz musician: trombonist: group: Sonny Russo Jazz Ensemble; died Feb 23, 20131931 - Hal Linden (Harold Lipshitz)
actor: Barney Miller, How to Break up a Happy Divorce, Starflight One, A New Life1933 - George (Lee) Altman
baseball: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1961, 1962], SL Cardinals, NY Mets1937 - Jerry Reed (Hubbard)
singer: Amos Moses, When You’re Hot, You’re Hot, She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft; songwriter: U.S. Male, Guitar Man; actor: Gator, Smokey & the Bandit; died Sep 1, 20081939 - Brian Mulroney
22nd Prime Minister of Canada [Sep 1984-Jun 1993]; died Feb 29, 20241942 - Robin Luke
singer: Susie Darlin’1943 - Paul Junger Witt
Emmy Award-winning producer: Brian’s Song [1972], The Golden Girls [1985-1986, 1986-1987]1945 - Pat Riley
basketball coach: Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks: coach with the highest winning percentage in basketball history [.719]1948 - Bobby Orr
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Boston Bruins [Hart Memorial Trophy winner: 1970, 1971, 1972], Chicago Blackhawks1948 - Steve Zabel
football: Univ. of Oklahoma [All-American: 1969], Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Colts, New England Patriots1950 - William Hurt
Academy Award-winning actor: Kiss of the Spider Woman [1986]; Broadcast News, The Accidental Tourist, Altered States, The Big Chill, Trial by Jury, Children of a Lesser God; died Mar 13, 20221950 - Carl Palmer
musician: drums: groups: Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man, From the Beginning; Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell1951 - Derrek Dickey
basketball: Golden State Warriors; TV color analyst: Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings; died June 25, 20021957 - Vanessa Bell Calloway
actress: Biker Boyz, Love Don’t Cost a Thing, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Coming to America, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Private Affair, The Temptations, The Cherokee Kid, Crimson Tide; more1957 - Spike Lee
director: BlacKkKlansman, She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Clockers1958 - Rickey Jackson
Pro Football Hall of Famer [linebacker]: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: New Orleans Saints [1981-1993], San Francisco 49ers [1994-1995]: 1995 Super Bowl XXIX champs; 6× Pro Bowl selection1957 - Theresa Russell
actress: The Spy Within, Straight Time, Black Widow, The Last Tycoon1958 - Holly Hunter
Academy Award-winning actress: The Piano [1993]; Broadcast News, The Firm, Raising Arizona1961 - John Clark Gable
actor: Bad Jim, A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story, Clark Gable: Tall, Dark and Handsome; son of actor Clark Gable1961 - Slim Jim Phantom (Jim McDonell)
musician: drums: group: The Stray Cats: Runaway Boys, Stray Cat Strut, Rock This Town1963 - Kathy Ireland
model, actress: Melrose Place, Boy Meets World, The Larry Sanders Show, Muppets Tonight, Side Out, Mr. Destiny, Necessary Roughness, Mom and Dad Save the World, National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, Once/Twice Upon A Christmas; CEO of Kathy Ireland Worldwide; more1963 - David Thewlis
actor: Harry Potter film series, Timeline, Kingdom of Heaven, The Omen, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, London Boulevard, War Horse, Naked, Dragonheart, James and the Giant Peach, The Miracle Maker1967 - Mookie Blaylock
basketball: NBA: New Jersey Nets [1989-1992], Atlanta Hawks [1992-1999], Golden State Warriors [1999-2002]1967 - Marc Warren
actor: Hustle, The Vice, State of Play, Mad Dogs, The Good Wife, The Principles of Lust, Colour Me Kubrick, Do Elephants Pray?1968 - Michael Lowry
actor: Coronado, Broke Even, Remembrance, Ironheart, Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge1968 - Liza Snyder
actress: Yes, Dear, Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah, Innocent Victims, Pay It Forward1970 - Cathy DeBuono
actress: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Pretender, Chicago Hope, We Have to Stop Now, A Perfect Ending1970 - Michael Rapaport
actor: Boston Public, Prison Break, Friends, The War at Home, China Beach, Small Time Crooks, Scrambled Eggs, The Saints of Mt. Christopher, My Man1971 - Manny Alexander
baseball: Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres
1973 - Cedric Yarbrough
comedian, actor: Reno 911!, Drillbit Taylor, Get Smart [2008], Black Dynamite, Chuck, Bones, The Penguins of Madagascar, Key & Peele1974 - Paula Garcés
actress: Harold and Kumar film series, Clockstoppers, CSI: Miami, The Shield, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos, Oz, Warehouse 13, National Lampoon’s Pledge This!, Deception; more1976 - Chester Bennington
musician: guitar, keyboard; singer: group: Linkin Park: Numb, Encore, One Step Closer, Crawling, Faint, Lying From You, Breaking the Habit, Somewhere I Belong; died Jul 20, 20171979 - Bianca Lawson
actress: Dead and Breakfast, Breakin’ All the Rules, Feast of All Saints, Save the Last Dance, The Temptations, Primary Colors, Pledge This!; daughter of actor Richard Lawson1980 - Jamal Crawford
basketball [guard]: Univ of Michigan; NBA: Chicago Bulls [2000–2004]; New York Knicks [2004–2008]; Golden State Warriors [2008–2009]; Atlanta Hawks [2009–2011]; Portland Trail Blazers [2011–2012]; Los Angeles Clippers [2012–2017]; Minnesota Timberwolves [2017–2018]; Phoenix Suns [2018–2019]1982 - Nick Blood
actor: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Trollied, Babylon1984 - Christy Carlson Romano
actress: Even Stevens, Kim Possible, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Suicide Dolls, Loosies1993 - Sloane Stephens
tennis pro: career singles: 163-118; grand slam singles: Australian Open SF [2013], French Open 4R [2012, 2013, 2014] Wimbledon QF [2013] US Open 4R [2013]; doubles: 29–38; grand slam doubles: Australian Open 1R [2012, 2013, 2014], French Open 1R [2012, 2013], Wimbledon 1R [2012], US Open 1R [2009, 2010, 2011, 2012]2000 - Hyunjin [Hwang Hyun-jin]
South Korean dancer and K-pop rapper: group: Stray Kids: Grow Up)
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