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1826 - The Rensselaer School in Troy, New York was incorporated. The school, known today as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, became the first private technical school in the United States.1868 - The first club for professional women was formed in New York City by writer, Jennie June Croly. The club was called Sorosis.
1890 - The United States Polo Association was formed in that hotbed of polo action: New York City.
1925 - The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard on radio. Thomas was heard talking about “Man’s first flight around the world,” on KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA.
1939 - A song, written by Irving Berlin in 1918 as a tribute by a successful immigrant to his adopted country, was recorded by Kate Smith for Victor Records on this day. Ms. Smith had introduced the song on her Thursday, November 10, 1938 radio show (aired live the day before Armistice Day). It was a fitting tribute to its composer, who gave all royalties from the very popular and emotional, God Bless America to the Boy Scouts. The song became Kate Smith’s second signature after When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain; and the second national anthem of the United States of America.
1941 - Singer Paula Kelly joined Glenn Miller’s band. Her husband, also a part of the Miller organization, was one of the four singing Modernaires.
1942 - The German assault on the island of Malta intensified on this day.
1946 - The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
1947 - POTUS Harry S Truman signed Executive Order 9835, instituting an employees loyalty program, requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States.
1951 - Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall reported that the U.S. military had doubled in size to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War.
1952 - The Moondog Coronation Ball was held at the Cleveland Arena. Promoted by Alan Freed and two partners, it was later cited as the first rock concert. Due to the overwhelming response, a second show was added, but the second batch of tickets were not marked as such. So, by the time openers Paul Williams and The Hucklebuckers got the show on the road, an estimated 25,000 kids had showed up -- at the venue that could only hold about 10,000 folks. Windows were smashed, doors were crashed and the fire marshall ordered a quick end to the ‘show’.
1956 - The 28th Academy Awards were celebrated at the RKO Pantages Theater, Los Angeles, California. Hosting the festivities were comedian/actor/singer/producer Jerry Lewis in Hollywood, plus actress Claudette Colbert and writer/producer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz in New York City. Marty, produced by Harold Hecht, was a big winner: Best Picture; Best Director (Delbert Mann); Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine); and Best Writing/Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Best Actress was Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo; Best Supporting Actor was Jack Lemmon for Mister Roberts; Best Supporting Actress was Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden; and Best Music/Song to Sammy Fain (music), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. 1955 was a great year for other great movies, too (some Oscar winners, some not): Picnic; Bad Day at Black Rock; The Man with the Golden Arm; Rebel Without a Cause; Pete Kelly’s Blues; The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell; The Seven Little Foys; Blackboard Jungle; To Catch a Thief; and Oklahoma!, The Bridges at Toko-Ri to name a few...
1957 - Shirley Booth made her TV acting debut in The Hostess with the Mostest on Playhouse 90 on CBS.
1957 - Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending premiered on Broadway. The drama ran a not-so-memorable 68 performances. The cast on this opening night was made up of R. G. Armstrong, Virgilia Chew, David Clarke, Crahan Denton, Elizabeth Eustis, Mary Farrell, Nell Harrison, Albert Henderson, Warren Kemmerling, John Marriott, Janice Mars, Cliff Robertson, Joanna Roos, Jane Rose, Lois Smith, Maureen Stapleton, Beau Tilden, Charles Tyner and Robert Webber.
1961 - The Beatles played their first evening gig on this Tuesday at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, which was just beginning to allow rock and roll at its evening shows -- and only on Tuesdays at first. The Beatles had played several times before this at lunch time where rock and roll was allowed.
1963 - A year after opening in the Broadway show, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand tied the matrimonial knot. They were unhitched July 6, 1971.
1968 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced he would not seek the Republican Presidential nomination. Former Vice President Richard Nixon held a commanding lead in the party race.
1970 - The Beatles established a new record. Let It Be entered the Billboard chart at number six. This was the highest debuting position ever for a record. Let It Be reached number two a week later and made it to the top spot on April 11, overshadowing Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge over Troubled Water.
1979 - The Egyptian Parliament unanimously approved a peace treaty with Israel.
1984 - The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk collided with a nuclear-powered Soviet attack submarine in the Sea of Japan. The submarine was carrying nuclear armed torpedoes and the carrier was armed with several dozen nuclear weapons.
1987 - Actor Robert Preston died in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 68 years old. Preston was best-known for his portrayal of the lovable conman Professor Harold Hill in the musical The Music Man.
1991 - 27 people were lost at sea in a nighttime midair collision of two U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes off the coast of Southern CA.
1992 - The Vanessa Williams song, Save the Best for Last (from her album The Comfort Zone) hit #1 for the first of five weeks in the U.S.
1994 - Actress/Comedienne Whoopi Goldberg hosted the 66th Annual Academy Awards show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The film that was created so the world would never forget the Holocaust -- the inhumanity of mankind to other humans -- received the highest honors this evening. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) awarded Schindler’s List, nominated in no less than 12 categories, with seven Oscars: beginning with Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Stephen Zaillian); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Allan Starski, Ewa Braun); Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski); Best Film Editing (Michael Kahn); Best Music/Original Score (John Williams); Best Director (Steven Spielberg); and culminating with Best Picture (Producers Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig). Schindler’s List was not the only film to receive multiple golden statuettes. Philadelphia (nominated five times) scored two awards, Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Music/Song, Streets of Philadelphia to Bruce Springsteen. The Piano (nominated in eight categories) won both Best Actress (Holly Hunter)and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin), and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Jane Campion); Jurassic Park received the Best Sound award (Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, Ron Judkins), the Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing award (Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns), and the Best Effects, Visual Effects award (Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, Michael Lantieri). Tommy Lee Jones picked up the Best Supporting Actor award for The Fugitive, a film nominated in seven categories.
1997 - First-run time for these flicks in the U.S.: The comedy, Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper and Jennifer Tilly; and the musical drama, Selena, with Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda and Constance Marie.
1999 - Everything was beautiful at the 71st Annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. There were beautiful people, gowns, and the beautiful words, “The Oscar goes to...” Hosting the festivities which had moved from the traditional Monday night to Sunday evening, was comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, who modeled the beautiful, and sometimes bizarre, costumes from the movies nominated in the Best Costume Design category. (And the Oscar went to Sandy Powell for Shakespeare in Love.) A beautiful lady, Gwyneth Paltrow, emotionally accepted the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Shakespeare in Love. It was a beautiful night for the film with 13 nominations and seven wins including the upset win of Best Picture of the 1998 year; Best Supporting Actress (Dame Judi Dench); Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Martin Childs, Jill Quertier); and Best Music/Original Musical or Comedy Score (Stephen Warbeck). This was the first time in nine years that the film that won Best Picture did not win for Best Director. Steven Spielberg was the winning director for Saving Private Ryan (which also won four more of the golden statuettes). It was a beautiful moment when the Best Supporting Actor Oscar was awarded to James Coburn (Affliction), his first Academy Award nomination in over 70 films. But the most beautiful moment/s of the long (Oscar's longest to date) evening was when Sophia Loren said, “and the Oscar goes to Roberto!” (Best Actor: La Vita è bella - Roberto Benigni). In plain English, Life is Beautiful. Roberto Benigni was the first actor in a foreign language film to receive an Oscar. Coincidentally, Ms. Loren had been the first actress to be so honored. Benigni had received an Oscar earlier in the evening for Best Foreign Film (Life is Beautiful) when he pirouetted on top of seat backs, hopping and dancing to the stage. Roberto Benigni truly made the evening bella, bella!
2000 - Pope John Paul II began the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that hospitals could not test pregnant women for drug use without their consent.
2002 - Marjorie Knoller, whose dog had mauled neighbor Diane Whipple to death in their San Francisco apartment building, was convicted in Los Angeles of murder and involuntary manslaughter. Her husband, Robert Noel, found guilty of manslaughter. It was the first murder conviction in a dog-mauling case in California and was believed to be only the third of its kind in recent U.S. history.
2003 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Boat Trip, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Roselyn Sanchez, Vivica A. Fox, Roger Moore, Maurice Godin, Lin Shaye and Victoria Silvstedt; Dreamcatcher, with Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore and Donnie Wahlberg; the animated Piglet’s Big Movie, featuring John Fiedler, Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, Peter Cullen, Kath Soucie, Andre Stojka and Tom Wheatley; and View from the Top, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Preston, Candice Bergen and Mike Myers.
2003 - A 25-year-old software engineer from Los Angeles, visiting Las Vegas, hit pay dirt: a world record $39 million jackpot on a slot machine.
2004 - Baghdad-born designer Zaha Hadid (53) became the third Briton to win the Pritzker Prize in Architecture. She was also the first woman to win the prize in its 25-year history.
2005 - Cabaret singer Bobby Short died at 80 years of age. Short had been a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel (New York City) for more than 35 years.
2005 - Iceland’s Parliament awarded citizenship to international chess champion Bobby Fischer.
2006 - The government of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in four provinces in an effort to curb nine days of Indian protests against a proposed free-trade deal with the U.S.
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Drillbit Taylor, starring Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, David Dorfman, Danny McBride and Josh Peck; Shutter, starring Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor, David Denman, James Kyson Lee, John Hensley; and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, with Tyler Perry, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Lance Gross, Chloe Bailey, Mariana Talbert, Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Sofia Vergara and Irma P. Hall.
2008 - Two companies that provided workers for the U.S. State Department said they had fired or otherwise punished those who improperly accessed the passport records of the three major presidential candidates. The security breaches touched off demands for a congressional investigation.
2009 - Some 100,000 people marched in Naples to commemorate the victims of the mafia and to demand an end to the stranglehold of organized crime on southern Italy.
2010 - Tropical Cyclone Ului blew across the coast of northeastern Australia leaving some 60,000 homes without power; and a volcano under Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted in southern Iceland caused airline flights to be diverted and forced some 600 hundred people to evacuate the area.
2011 - Guatemala’s first lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, began divorce proceedings to end her eight-year marriage to President Alvaro Colom. This, so that she could seek to succeed him as president. Eventually, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala ruled that Sandra Torres was trying to bend the intent of the constitutional article banning relatives of the president from running for the presidency, thus ending her presidential campaign.
2012 - The Safeway and Albertsons grocery chains announced that they would stop selling fresh or frozen ground beef containing the filler known as ‘pink slime’. Several other chains also announced their dropping of products that contained the filler.
2013 - Paroled Colorado inmate Evan Spencer Ebel, who was linked to the slaying of the state’s prison chief, led deputies on a 100 mph car chase in Texas. Ebel crashed into a semi-trailer truck and then opened fire before being shot down by the Texas officers.
2013 - India passed anti-rape legislation that included a provision setting the age of sexual consent to 18. The law also made stalking, voyeurism, acid attacks and forcibly disrobing a woman explicit crimes for the first time. The law also imposed capital punishment for rapes leading to death and raised to 20 years (from 10) the minimum sentence for gang rape and rapes committed by a police officer.
2014 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Divergent, starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet; Muppets Most Wanted, with the Muppets, Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell; 50 to 1, starring Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane and William Devane; the biographical Anita, featuring Uma Thurman as Anita Bryant; Blood Ties, with Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana and Marion Cotillard; Cheap Thrills, with Pat Healy, Ethan Embry and Sara Paxton; God’s Not Dead, starring Willie Robertson, David A.R. White and Shane Harper; John Doe: Vigilante, with Jamie Bamber, Daniel Lissing and Lachy Hulme; McCanick, starring Rachel Nichols, Mike Vogel and Cory Monteith; and Stay, with Taylor Schilling, Aidan Quinn and Michael Ironside.
2014 - French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the Baltic states in an attempt to reassure the population as tensions mounted over Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region. France also announced that it was suspending military cooperation with Russia.
2015 - The mayor of Paris, France, said the number of cars on the road would be cut in half by the enforcement of an odd-even system of traffic rules. And public transit would be made free to combat a spike in pollution that had obscured even the Eiffel Tower under the smoggy haze.
2016 - Egypt’s top judicial disciplinary council forced 14 judges into early retirement. The judges were banished for supporting the party of Mohamed Morsi, replaced in a coup in 2013, and for supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
2016 - Israel rescued 19 Jews from war-ravaged Yemen. Immigration officials said it was the last covert operation to move members of a dwindling Jewish community dating back two millennia.
2017 - Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed legislation ending the state’s practice of commemorating Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the same holiday as slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
2017 - The U.S. imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices bigger than cellphones on planes coming from 10 airports -- eight in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Britain soon followed with similar measures. U.S. officials said the move was a response to fears that terrorist groups may target passenger planes by smuggling explosive devices in electronic devices. One official said there was no specific plot authorities were aware of, but the U.S. had been considering such a ban for some time.
2018 - The European Union approved German chemical maker Bayer’s $57 billion buyout of U.S. seed and weed-killer company Monsanto. But the E.U. ordered Bayer to spin off some $7.4 billion in assets and make other adjustments to ensure fair competition in the market. At this point, Bayer had received approvals for the big deal from more than half of the roughly 30 regulatory authorities required fort final approval, including those in Brazil and China.
2019 - A Wisconsin circuit court judge blocked Republicans’ lame-duck laws that had attempted to limit the powers of new Democratic Governor Tom Evers.
2019 - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a New Zealand ban on ‘military-style’ semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines. The action came a week after such weapons were used in attacks on two mosques in the city of Christchurch -- that killed 50 people.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in history, broadcast live on TV in front of an empty venue. Normally the show had been performed live in front of an audience of about 4,400 people at the Opry House. But, because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, country artists Brad Paisley, Vince Gill and Marty Stuart performed acoustically to an empty theater as the show aired live on TV. 2)Chile’s Ministry of Health reported its country’s first COVID-19 death. An 83-year woman from Renca, Santiago. The country had more than 500 confirmed cases, the second-largest number in South America -- after Brazil. 3)Italy reported an additional 793 coronavirus deaths, bringing their toll to 4,825. 4)Worldwide numbers: 300,000+ people had contracted the virus and at least 12,944 had died with 302 deaths in the United States.
2020 - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan from Pyongan province. South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff described the actions as “extremely inappropriate” at a time when the world was dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The projectiles flew for 410km (255 miles) with a maximum altitude of around 50km.
2021 - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for $25 billion in a cash-and-shares deal to create the first rail network connecting the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
2021 - The Philippines said it was expanding tighter COVID-19 rules to include four provinces surrounding the capital Manila, and restrict travel to and from these areas for two weeks beginning March 22, as the country battled a renewed surge in infections. This, while Romania recorded its highest number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units since the pandemic began. More than 6,000 new cases had been recorded in the previous week.
2022 - China’s Shanghai Disneyland was closed as the city worked at containing its biggest coronavirus outbreak in two years. The amusement park reopened on June 30, but was closed again several times that year because of ongoing virlus fears.
2022 - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurated a new Mexico City airport, some three years after he scrapped a separate $13 billion hub under construction by the previous government.
2022 - Russian troops used stun grenades and gunfire to disperse a rally of pro-Ukrainian protesters in the occupied southern city of Kherson, Ukraine. And eight people were killed after a Russian missile hit the mall called Retroville, in the northern part of Kyiv, around midnight. The toll was expected to rise.
2023 - The Ugandan government passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 that included punishment of ten years in prison for identifying as LGBTQ+. The bill was highly popular within Uganda, according to polls. The U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, European Union condemned the law.
2023 - Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a second day of talks. Putin welcomed Beijing’s peace plan to resolve Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (the invasion had taken China by surprise and forced it to take a position so carefully as to be ambiguous) and signaled to Western leaders the extent of what Russia and China called their ‘limitless’ friendship.
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Birthdays March 21
1599 - Sir Anthony Van Dyck
artist: Portrait of a Young Man, P.O.W.S., Two Fishermen by a River, Two Figures in a Lake; died Dec 9, 1641
1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach
composer: Gottes Zeit, Toccata and Fugue in d minor, Little Organ Book, Mass in B Minor, Magnificat; died July 28, 17501813 - James Jesse Strang
crowned king of the Mormons [1850-1856]; died July 8, 18561867 - Florenz Ziegfeld
producer Ziegfeld Follies: annual variety shows famous for the Ziegfeld Girls [1907-1930s]; died Jul 22, 19321882 - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Appalachian folk song writer: Good Old Mountain Dew; started first folk music festival in 1928: annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival at Asheville, N.C.; responsible for formation of the National Clogging and Hoedown Council; died Sep 4, 19731905 - Phyllis McGinley
Pulitzer prize-winning poet: Times Three: Selected Verses from Three Decades [1961]; The Horse Who Lived Upstairs, Sugar and Spice, Saint-Watching, Sixpence in her Shoe; died Feb 22, 19781910 - Julio Gallo
vintner: Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery, Modesto, CA; died May 2, 19931918 - Sir Charles Thompson
musician: pianist, organist: w/Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing; composer: Robbins Nest [tribute to DJ Fred Robbins]; died Jun 16, 20161921 - Fonty Flock (Truman Fontello)
auto racer: brother of NASCAR pioneers Tim Flock, Bob Flock and the second female NASCAR driver Ethel Mobley; died July 15, 19721922 - Russ Meyer
film producer, director known for creating ‘sexploitation’ films featuring campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women; died Sep 18, 20041923 - Mort Lindsey
bandleader: The Merv Griffin Show; film score composer: 40 Pounds of Trouble; died May 4, 20121925 - Peter Brook
director: Lord of the Flies, King Lear; died Jul 2, 20221930 - James Coco
actor: The Chair, Ensign Pulver, Man of La Mancha; died Feb 25, 19871934 - Al Freeman Jr.
actor: A Patch of Blue, Roots: The Next Generation, Hot L Baltimore, Malcolm X, Finian’s Rainbow, Ensign Pulver; died Aug 9, 20121939 - Tommy (Herman Thomas) Davis
baseball: right-handed, hitting outfielder: LA Dodgers [all-star: 1962, 1963/batting titles: 1962, 1963/World Series: 1963, 1966], NY Mets, Chicago White Sox, Houston Astros, Seattle Pilots, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, KC Royals1939 - Kathleen Widdoes
actress: As the World Turns, Oz, Hi-Life, Courage Under Fire, Mafia Princess, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, The Return of Charlie Chan, Punch and Jody1942 - Junior (Lee) Coffey
football: Atlanta Falcons; died Aug 30, 20211944 - Timothy Dalton
actor: The Tourist, Centennial, Licence to Kill, The Lion in Winter, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Flash Gordon, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill1944 - Charles Greene
sprinter: Univ. of Nebraska, 1968 Olympics; sprint coach: West Point; director: Special Olympics International; secretary: USA Track & Field’s International Competition Committee1944 - Manny (Manuel De Jesus Magan) Sanguillén
baseball: catcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971, 1979/all-star: 1971, 1972, 1975], Oakland Athletics1945 - Rosie Stone
musician: piano: group: Sly & the Family Stone; Sly’s sister: Everyday People, Dance to the Music1947 - Peter Banks
musician: guitar: group: Yes: Roundabout, I’ve Seen All Good People, Long Distance Runaround, Yours Is No Disgrace, Time and a Word, Starship Trooper, South Side of the Sky; died Mar 7, 20131947 - Bill (William Francis) Plummer
baseball: catcher: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners1948 - Nancy Addison
actress: Ryan’s Hope, Baby M, Somewhere Tomorrow, The Dain Curse, The City, Loving; died Jun 18, 20021949 - Eddie Money
musician: guitar, saxophone; songwriter, singer: Two Tickets to Paradise, Take Me Home Tonight, Walk on Water, Running Back, Think I’m In Love, Rock and Roll the Place, Baby Hold On; died Sep 13, 2019; more1950 - Roger Hodgson
musician: guitar: singer: co-founder of Supertramp: Dreamer, Bloody Well Right, Give a Little Bit, Take the Long Way Home1951 - John Hicks
football[lineman]: Ohio State U.: Outland Trophy and Lombardi Trophy Winner; NFL: offensive rookie of the year: NY Giants [1974-1977]1951 - Russell Thompkins Jr.
singer: group: The Stylistics: I’m Stone in Love with You1953 - Christine O’Connell
singer: group: Asleep at the Wheel, Route 66 [Get Your Kicks On], The Letter That Johnny Walker Read, One O’Clock Jump, Choo Choo Ch’boogie1958 - Gary Oldman
Academy Award-winning Best Actor: Darkest Hour [2017]; The Scarlet Letter, True Romance, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Sid and Nancy, JFK, Slow Horses1960 - Ayrton Senna
race car driver: Formula One Championship [1988, 1990, 1991; killed in a racing crash May 1, 19941961 - Lothar Matthäus
German footballer [midfielder]: West German national team: 1990 FIFA World Cup1962 - Matthew Broderick
Tony Award-winning actor: Brighton Beach Memoirs [1983], How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! [1995]; The Producers, The Foreigner, The Odd Couple, Nice Work If You Can Get It; films: War Games, The Freshman, Family Business, Glory, Ladyhawke, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Diminished Capacity, Wonderful World, Tower Heist1962 - Rosie O’Donnell
comedienne, TV host: The Rosie O’Donnell Show, 42nd Annual Grammy Awards; actress: Sleepless in Seattle, The Flintstones, Exit to Eden, A Very Brady Sequel, Will & Grace, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas1963 - Shawon Dunston
baseball: Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets1965 - Cynthia Geary
actress: Northern Exposure, 8 Seconds1967 - Jonas Berggren
songwriter, musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Ace of Base: All That She Wants, The Sign, Don’t Turn Around, Cruel Summer, Beautiful Life, Lucky Love1968 - Scott Williams
basketball [forward, center]: North Carolina Univ; NBA: Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers1974 - Laura Allen
actress: Sweet William, Mona Lisa Smile, Sucker Free City, The 4400, All My Children1974 - Kristine Holzer
U.S. Olympic speed skater: U.S. Long Track 5000-meter champ [2002]1976 - Rachael MacFarlane
voice actress: American Dad, Codename: Kids Next Door, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Lego Atlantis: The Movie, Family Guy1978 - Kevin Federline
dancer, singer: The World Is Mine, Snap, Lose Control, A League of My Own, Keep on Walkin’; Britney Spears’ ex1980 - Anna Mickelson
U.S. Olympic rower: World Champion in women’s eight [2002]1980 - Ronaldinho (Ronaldo de Assis Moreira)
Brazilian footballer: 2004, 2005 FIFA World Player of the Year1981 - Rini Bell
actress: Ghost World, The Terminal, Bring It On, Road Trip, Baja Beach Bums, Jarhead, Burning Annie, Arresting Gena, Gilmore Girls1982 - Santino Fontana
actor: Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Billy Elliot, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Cinderella; films: Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Nancy, Please; he was the voice of Prince Hans in the Academy Award-winning animated film Frozen; TV: Submissions Only, Mozart in the Jungle, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend1983 - Kyle Gibson
actor: Soccer Dog: The Movie, True Friends, Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher1985 - Sonequa Martin-green
actress: Once Upon a Time, The Good Wife, The Walking Dead, Yelling to the Sky, Shockwave Darkside; Star Trek: Discovery1985 - Adrian Peterson
football [running back]: Univ of Oklahoma; NFL: Minnesota Vikings [2007–2016: all-time rushing yards leader]; New Orleans Saints 2[017]; Arizona Cardinals [2017]; Washington Redskins [2018–2019]; Detroit Lions [2020]; Seattle Seahawks [2021]1986 - Scott Eastwood
actor: Invictus, The Human Factor, Gran Torino, Pride, Flags of Our Fathers, The Longest Ride, Suicide Squad; son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and Jacelyn Reeves1987 - Jonathan Stewart
football [running back]: NFL: Carolina Panthers [2008–2017]: 2016 Super Bowl 50; New York Giants [2018]1989 - Jordi Alba
footballer [left back]: Barcelona [1998–2005]; Cornellà [2005–2007]; Valencia [2008-2012]; Barcelona [2012-2023]: La Liga 2012 title; Spanish national team [2011-2023]1991 - Antoine Griezmann
footballer [forward]: Real Sociedad [2009-2014]; Atlético Madrid [2014-2019]; Barcelona [2019-2022]; France [2014- ]: 2018 World Cup champs1993 - Suraj Sharma
actor: Life of Pi, Homeland2000 - Jace Norman
actor: Henry Danger, Splitting Adam, Rufus, Rufus 2, Spark, Bixler High Private Eye; producer: Danger Force
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Hit Music on This Day March 21
1947The Anniversary Song (facts) - Dinah Shore
Managua, Nicaragua (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Don Rodney)
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