March 22
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1630 - The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted -- in Boston, Massachusetts. All cards, dice or gaming tables, public or private, outlawed “under pain of punishment.” Ouch!1767 - Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water as he created the first drinkable man-made glass of soda water on this day in Leeds, England.
1894 - Play-off competition for the coveted hockey award known as Lord Stanley’s Cup began. Montreal and Ottawa played for the first championship honors on this day. Montreal took home the trophy. The original trophy cost $48.67 and was purchased the previous year by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston. He then donated it to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The inaugural champion was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.
1914 - The world’s first airline began operations in St. Petersburg, Florida: The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line.
1941 - The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River began producing electric power for the Pacific Northwest -- some two years ahead of schedule.
1945 - The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.
1948 - The Voice of Firestone was the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both AM and FM radio stations.
1956 - Sammy Davis, Jr. starred in the musical, Mr. Wonderful, in New York City. The critics were unkind, saying that they didn’t care for the production. Audiences, however, gave it ‘thumbs up’ and the show went on to be one of Broadway’s more popular musicals -- catapulting Davis into the limelight. His father had already launched him into the vaudeville spotlight when Sammy was just three years old. By the time he was Mr. Wonderful, Sammy Davis, Jr. had played vaudeville and the nightclub circuit singing and dancing his way to the top over a twenty-eight-year period. He entertained us for sixty-two years!
1956 - On the way to New York and the Perry Como Show the following day, singer Carl Perkins was seriously injured in a car accident near Dover, DE. Perkins said, “I was asleep in the back of the limousine, my brother Jay and I. My brother Clayton, and W.S. Holland were sitting in the front seat with the driver (Memphis DJ Stewart Pinkham). I was knocked unconsious and I was probably saved from drowning by my drummer W.S. because he found me faced down in the water. We went over an embankment and rolled down into the water, but three days later I woke up in the hospital. It was a very serious accident, it killed the man we hit and it was the cause of my brother’s Jay’s death, which occured later but it was a result of the car-wreck that killed him.”
1957 - An 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook up San Francisco, California. It was the strongest quake since the big one in 1906.
1960 - The first patent (No. 2,929,922) for lasers was granted to Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes.
1962 - The play, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, opened on Broadway. It featured a 19-year-old named Barbra Streisand. She stopped the show at the famed Shubert Theatre in New York City. Streisand starred as Miss Marmelstein. Audiences kept coming back for more of Barbra for 300 performances.
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson recalled General William Westmoreland as commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam. Westmoreland was made Army Chief of Staff as General Creighton Abrams took over in Saigon.
1969 - UCLA defeated Purdue 92-72 to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball championship. The Bruins were the first team to win three consecutive championships -- all under legendary head coach John Wooden. UCLA went on to dominate the college basketball title through the 1973 season.
1972 - The U.S. Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (a.k.a. the Shafer Commission) urged an end to criminal penalties for the private possession and use of marijuana.
1977 - Comedienne Lily Tomlin made her debut on Broadway as Appearing Nitely opened in New York.
1978 - Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of The Flying Wallendas high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1980 - Pink Floyd started a 4-week run in the #1 slot on the pop charts with their smash, Another Brick in the Wall. When the boys popped open their gold record and threw it on the stereo, they heard Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers. Legend has it that they ordered a pizza and played it over and over for hours (the record, not the pizza).
1981 - U.S. Postage rates rose from 15-cents to 18-cents an ounce.
1981 - RCA put its Selectravision laser disc players on the market. Soon, the product was called “the Edsel of the entertainment field.” The units cost $500 and the videodisks about $15 each. The combination failed to catch the consumer’s fancy.
1985 - Clara Peller, the lady who said, “Where’s the Beef?” in those Wendy’s hamburger ads, said, “Where’s my final paycheck?” She ended her relationship with Dave Thomas and company when she found the beef for a spaghetti sauce company. The hamburger chain said it made her “lose credibility.”
1986 - Singer Mark Dinning died at his home in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was 52 years old. Teen Angel, a ballad written by Dinning’s sister, Jean, was million-seller for him in 1960.
1990 - Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released. This version offered dramatic performance increases for Windows applications, plus advanced ease of use and aesthetic appeal.
1991 - Dave Guard, a founding member of The Kingston Trio, died in Concord, New Hampshire of cancer. He was 56 year old. The Kingston Trio, with such hits as Tom Dooley and MTA in the late 1950s, won a Grammy Award for best country and western recording (there was no folk category). The Kingston Trio had 17 chart singles and nine gold albums between 1958 and 1963. Dave Guard left the group in 1961 to form the Whiskey Hill Singers.
1992 - 27 people were killed when a USAir Fokker 28 crashed on takeoff from La Guardia Airport in New York. 24 people survived. Ice build-up on the wings was blamed for the crash.
1993 - The Intel Corporation formally introduced the Pentium processor (80586): 64 bits, 60 MHz, 100 MIPS.
1994 - Cartoonist Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker creator, died in Burbank, CA. He was 93 years old.
1995 - Brian ‘Kato’ Kaelin, a houseguest at O.J. Simpson’s estate, testified at the former athlete’s murder trial in Los Angeles.
1996 - These new movies opened in the U.S.: Diabolique, starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Kathy Bates, Chazz Palminteri, Spalding Gray, Allen Garfield and Adam Hann-Byrd; and Race the Sun, with Halle Berry and James Belushi.
1997 - Puff Daddy featuring Mase hit #1 in the U.S. with Can't Nobody Hold Me Down: “I get the feelin sometimes they make me wonder; Why you wanna take us under; Why you wanna take us under. Can't nobody take my pride; Can't nobody hold me down.. Oh no; I got to keep on movin.”
1998 - A deeply divided United Auto Workers union approved a new contract with Caterpillar Inc., ending a 6 1/2-year contract battle.
1999 - Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial for murder, telling a jury in Pontiac, Michigan that he was just doing his professional duty when he assisted in a death videotaped and shown on TV’s 60 Minutes. (Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder four days later.)
2000 - The U.S. Senate voted to abolish the Social Security income penalty for people aged 65-69. President Bill Clinton signed the bill April 7, 2000. The penalty had reduced benefits by $1 for every $3 earned above $17,000.
2001 - Animation pioneer William Hanna died at 90 years of age. The Hanna-(Joseph)Barbara team created Huckelberry Hound in 1958 -- the first cartoon to receive an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Children’s Programming. Among Hanna-Barbera’s other renowned characters are Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Auggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi and Boo Boo Bear, Scooby Doo, Quick Draw McGraw, and many more.
2002 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Blade II, starring Wesley Snipes, Kris Kirstofferson, Norman Reedus, Leonor Varela, Luke Goss, Ron Perlman, Matt Schulze, Thomas Kretschmann and Danny John Jules; and Sorority Boys, with Barry Watson, Harland Williams, Michael Rosenbaum, Melissa Sagemiller, Heather Matarazzo, Brad Beyer, Tony Denman and Kathryn Stockwood.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) joined a United Nations poverty summit in Monterrey, Mexico, where he urged world leaders to demand political reform from poor countries in exchange for increased aid and warned that unchecked poverty can foster terrorism.
2002 - The U.S. Postal Rate Commission announced approval of higher postal rates, including a three-cent boost for first-class letters, to 37 cents.
2004 - Israel assassinated Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin and seven other Hamas members during a helicopter missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque. Yassin, a quadriplegic preacher, had organized the Islamic militant group in 1987.
2005 - The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its federal funds rate a quarter point -- to 2.75%.
2006 - General Motors Corp. and the auto parts supplier it once owned, Delphi Corp., announced a deal with the United Auto Workers. The pact offered buyouts to 13,000 hourly Delphi employees and up to 100,000 hourly GM workers represented by the United Auto Workers as GM extended its push to cut labor costs and stop billions of dollars in losses.
2006 - The European Union approved a joint blacklist of some 100 (mostly African) airlines considered to be unsafe. The move was spurred by a spate of fatal crashes in 2005.
2006 - The United Nations abolished the discredited Human Rights Commission (final on June 16, 2006), clearing the way for the new Human Rights Council to become the UN’s main rights watchdog. The Human Rights Commission had become a political pawn as abusive states vied for membership to protect themselves and their cohorts from condemnation.
2007 - A U.S. federal judge struck down a 1998 anti-porn law that made it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access ‘harmful’ material.
2007 - Dorie-Ann Kahale and her five daughters moved from a homeless shelter to a mansion, courtesy of billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto. The Japanese real estate mogul handed over eight of his multimillion-dollar homes in Hawaii to low-income Native Hawaiian families.
2007 - Debra Monk and David Hyde Pierce headlined the cast for the opening of Curtains on this day at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway. The musical mystery comedy, set in 1959 Boston, followed the fallout when an untalented star of a stage show is murdered during her opening night curtain call. It was then up to Lt. Frank Cioffi (Hyde Pierce), a police detective moonlighting as a musical theater fan to save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens, without getting killed himself. Fans liked the show enough to keep it running through Jun 29, 2008 -- with some 511 performances.
2008 - Egyptian and European archeologists announced they had discovered a statue of Queen Tiy, the wife of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, on the Colossi of Memnon, a site in southern Egypt.
2008 - Ma Ying-jeou was elected as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Ma enjoyed a landslide victory of 58.45% of the popular vote (7,658,724 votes).
2009 - Warring bikers brawled through the Sidney airport, beating one person to death as they rampaged through the main terminal in front of terrified travelers. Anthony Zervas, brother of a Hells Angels motorcycle gang member, was bludgeoned to death with a crowd control barrier pole during the fracas.
2009 - A murder hunt started in England with the discovery of a victim’s left leg and foot by the side of a road. By April 11 all other body parts were found except for the man’s hands.
2010 - Google’s China search engine, google.cn, began redirecting queries to its service in China’s semiautonomous territory of Hong Kong, where Google was not legally required to censor searches.
2011 - Japanese crews connected all six reactors at the troubled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to the electrical grid, a day after smoke triggered an evacuation from the facility. But the plant’s operator cautioned that pumps, motors and other equipment had to be checked before the power could be turned on. A Japanese nuclear safety official said a pool for storing spent fuel at the crippled nuclear plant was heating up, with temperatures around the boiling point.
2012 - Russia’s Lukoil signed a $1 billion deal with South Korea’s Samsung Engineering to develop Iraq’s second-biggest oil field. The Russian energy giant had a majority stake in that oil field.
2013 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Admission, starring Paul Rudd, Michael Sheen, Tina Fey, Wallace Shawn, Lily Tomlin, Sonya Walger, Gloria Reuben amd Nat Wolff; the animated The Croods, featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke and Cloris Leachman; InAPPropriate Comedy, with Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan and Ari Shaffir; Olympus Has Fallen, staring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Ashley Judd, Radha Mitchell and Aaron Eckhart; Dorfman in Love, with Scott Wilson, Sara Rue, Johann Urb, Sophie Monk, Elliott Gould, Catherine Hicks, Keri Lynn Pratt and Kelen Coleman; Gimme the Loot, with Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Joshua Rivera and Zoë Lescaze; Love and Honor, starring Teresa Palmer, Liam Hemsworth, Aimee Teegarden, Chris Lowell, Wyatt Russell, Max Adler, Austin Stowell and Lauren Mae Shafer; Spring Breakers, with James Franco, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Heather Morris, Rachel Korine and Lauren Vera.
2013 - U.S. officials were in Beijing for two days of talks to lobby China on enforcement of new U.N. sanctions against North Korea. David Cohen, the U.S. Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said that the U.S. was heartened by Chinese expressions of resolve. Beijing was becoming more willing to cooperate because of its concern that North Korean behavior had begun threatening China’s economic and security interests.
2013 - The owners of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel (Honolulu’s Kyo-Ya Hotels and Resorts) removed the famous 1909 Maxfield Parish Pied Piper painting that had graced the hotel’s main bar for over a century and announced plans to sell it at auction. But the announcement of the impending sale produced such a public outcry that Kyo-Ya reversed its corporate decision. And, the Pied Piper, valued at between $3 million and $5 million, or perhaps more, was cleaned, refurbished and returned to its place of honor in the Palace bar.
2014 - A rain-drenched landslide hit near the town of Oso, Washington, about 55 miles north of Seattle. 43 people were killed and 49 homes were destroyed as the slide blocked the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. On July 22 searchers pulled the last missing body from the landslide.
2016 - Rob Ford, embattled former mayor of Toronto, Canada died (abdominal cancer). He was 46 years old. Ford had gained global notoriety for admitting to smoking crack cocaine while in office.
2016 - A wildfire began in Oklahoma and spread to Kansas. By Easter (March 27) the blaze covered 620 square miles, making it the largest wildfire in Kansas history.
2017 - Thousands of gay men who had been prosecuted and jailed in Germany under an arcane 19th century law were granted compensation. This, after the government quashed their convictions. About 50,000 men had been punished under the law, strengthened by the Nazis and only dropped in 1969 when homosexuality was decriminalised.
2017 - Judges at the Hague International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to an extra year in jail (added to his 18-year jail term for war crimes) and fined him €300,000. The penaties were assessed for bribing witnesses during his trial.
2018 - Top Russian media outlets launched a rare boycott of parliament after it dismissed claims from several journalists that a senior lawmaker had sexually harassed them. Reporters for both Western and Russian independent media had accused Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma’s foreign affairs committee, of making lewd sexual comments and groping.
2018 - POTUS Donald Trump ordered tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of Chinese imports. This, amid rising concerns of a trade war. Measures would be designed to penalize China for trade practices that the Trump administration said involved stealing American companies’ intellectual property. The penalties would target products in the technology sector where China held an advantage over the U.S.
2018 - Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public sector workers joined forces in France to march against President Emmanuel Macron’s reforms. The demonstrations brought widespread travel disruptions and resulted in brief clashes with police in some cities. It was the first time public sector workers, ranging from air-traffic controllers to civil servants, had joined with rail workers and pensioners to protest over the economic reforms Macron sought to introduce since taking office in May 2017.
2019 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The Islands, starring Teuira Shanti Napa, Mira Sorvino and Ricky Sua’ava; Us, with Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss and Anna Diop; Slut in a Good Way, starring Marguerite Bouchard, Romane Denis and Rose Adam; El Chicano, with Logan Arevalo, Jose Pablo Cantillo and David Castañeda; Dragged Across Concrete, starring Jennifer Carpenter, Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn; Hotel Mumbai, with Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and Nazanin Boniadi; Maze, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward and Martin McCann; and Sunset, with Susanne Wuest, Vlad Ivanov and Urs Rechn.
2019 - An agreement was announced between the state of Michigan and attorneys for the ACLU in which faith-based adoption agencies paid by the state would no longer be able to turn away same-sex couples or LGBTQ individuals because of religious objections. The settlement recognized that a 2015 Michigan law violated federal anti-discrimination laws. The law had permitted state-contracted child welfare agencies to refuse to provide foster care or adoption services that conflicted with their religious beliefs.
2019 - A federal judge ruled that New York state’s ban on personal ownership of stun guns was unconstitutional.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)POTUS Trump said he had ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ship mobile hospital centers to the hard-hit states of Washington, California and New York. 2)U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the lockdown affecting large segments of the American public was likely to last 10-12 weeks, or until early June. 3)Hawaii Governor David Ige instituted a 14-day self-quarantine of all people traveling to the state. Hawaii announced 11 new cases of the virus bringing the state’s total to 48. 4)Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) tested positive for COVID-19 and went into quarantine. He was the first member of the U.S. Senate to be infected. 5)Australia enforced more stringent controls, closing pubs, casinos, restaurants and other venues after the number of infections in the nation surged past 1,000. 6)Fatalities in France rose to 562. An emergency room doctor in Northern France died, the first medic to die in that country. 7)Iran’s supreme leader refused U.S. assistance to fight the coronavirus, claiming it could be man-made by the U.S. His comments came as Iran imposed a two-week closure on major shopping malls and centers across the country. Pharmacies, supermarkets, groceries and bakeries remained open. 8)As the number of U.S. cases soared past 26,000 and the death count eclipsed 300, millions of Americans spent their first weekend under stay-at-home orders. 9)More pandemic news.
2021 - Hall of Fame baseketball forward Elgin Baylor died in Los Angeles. He was 86 years old. Baylor played 14 seasons for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers and has been named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
2021 - A gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. Police Officer Eric Talley (51), who responded to the scene, was among the fatalities. Police identified the gunman as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa (21). He used a Ruger AR-556 pistol, purchased six days earlier. A judge later ruled that Alissa was mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital.
2021 - Tests results showed the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford provided strong protection (79% effective) against Covid-19, preventing the worst outcomes from the disease while causing no serious side effects.
2022 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Abortion Accessibility Act
. The legislation (SB245) was intended to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for abortion services, ensuring cost was not a barrier to accessing care in California.2022 - Dozens of Disney employees walked out in Burbank, CA after the company appeared to have avoided taking a public stance on anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation in Florida. Employees were calling for Disney to stop making political donations to certain Florida politicians – including Governor Ron DeSantis – and commit to a plan to protect LGBTQIA+ staff from such legislation, among other demands.
2022 - Starbucks workers in a cafe in Seattle, WA, the coffee chain’s hometown, voted 9 to 0 in favor of joining a labor union. It was the seventh Starbucks-owned cafe in the United States to join the union, following five in Buffalo, New York and one in Mesa, Arizona.
2022 - Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Jamaica as part of a week-long Caribbean tour, hours after activists protested to demand reparations for slavery amid growing scrutiny of the British Empire’s colonial legacy.
2023 - Two faculty members at a Denver high school were shot by a student, prompting a frantic search. The 17-year-old shooter was later found dead of what a coroner found to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Austin Lyle shot the school administrators as they patted him down in the school’s office area -- away from other students and staff.
2024 - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy adventure stars Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts, Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Bill Murray, Celeste O’Connor, Patton Oswalt and Dan Aykroyd.
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Birthdays on This Day March 22
1887 - Chico (Leonard) Marx
comedian; the Marx Brother who wore the hat: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup; died Oct 11, 19611908 - Louis L’Amour
novelist (Westerns): The Iron Marshal, The Quick and the Dead, Down the Long Hills, The Shadow Riders, The Daybreakers, Sackett, The Broken Gun, Utah Blaine, Kilkenny; died Jun 10, 19881910 - Herbert Rudley
actor: Forever and Beyond, Call Her Mom, Follow That Dream, Beloved Infidel, Tonka, The Black Sleep, The Silver Chalice; died Sep 9, 2006
1912 - Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich)
actor: Streets of San Francisco, Streetcar Named Desire, The Sting, How the West was Won, On the Waterfront; spokesperson: American Express commercials; died Jul 1, 20091914 - Sonny Burke
songwriter, composer, arranger, big band leader: Midnight Sun, Black Coffee, Somebody Bigger than You and I, How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies; died May 31, 19801917 - Virginia Grey
actress: The Rose Tattoo, Bachelor in Paradise; died Jul 31, 20041917 - Paul Rogers
actor: Oscar and Lucinda, The Tenth Man, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Old Curiosity Shop, Three Into Two Won’t Go, Life for Ruth; died Oct 6, 20131920 - Ross Martin (Martin Rosenblatt)
actor: The Wild Wild West, Dying Room Only; died Jul 3, 19811920 - Werner Klemperer
Emmy Award-winning actor: Hogan’s Heroes [1968-1969]; Ship of Fools; died Dec 6, 20001923 - Marcel Marceau (Mangel)
mime: famous quote from Marceau “!”; he spoke in Silent Movie - the only speaking part in the film; died Sep 22, 20071924 - Bill Wendell (William Joseph Wenzel, Jr.)
announcer: Tonight, Late Night with David Letterman; died Apr 14, 19991928 - ‘Easy’ Ed (Edward) Macauley
Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Univ., St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics [all-star: 1951-57/1st NBA all-star game: MVP: 1951/NBA championship: 1958], St. Louis Hawks; coach: St. Louis Hawks; died Nov 8, 20111930 - Pat Robertson (Marion Gordon Robinson)
TV evangelist; died Jun 8, 20231930 - Stephen Sondheim
composer, lyricist: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods; lyricist: West Side Story, Gypsy; material for films: Reds [Goodbye For Now], Dick Tracy [Academy Award-winning Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)]; other awards included eight Tonys [more than any other composer], eight Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize; died Nov 26, 2021; more1931 - William Shatner
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Practice [2004], Boston Legal [2005]; Star Trek, Rescue 9-1-1, T.J. Hooker1934 - May Britt (Maybritt Wilkens)
actress: The Young Lions, The Hunters, Murder, Inc., Haunts1935 - Gene (Eugene George) Oliver
baseball: SL Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs; died Mar 3, 20071935 - M. (Michael) Emmet Walsh
actor: Relative Fear, The Mighty Quinn, Serpico, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Fletch, Blade Runner, Reds, Ordinary People, East of Eden, Stiletto, Unsub, The Sandy Duncan Show1936 - Roger Whittaker
singer: The Last Farewell, Durham Town, New World in the Morning, I Don't Believe in ‘If’ Anymore1940 - Dick (Richard Clark) Ellsworth
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1964], Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers; died Oct 10, 20221940 - Dave Keon
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs [Rookie of the Year; 1961/Lady Byng Trophy: 1962, 1963/Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1967], Hartford Whalers1941 - Jeremy Clyde
singer: group: Chad & Jeremy: Yesterday’s Gone, A Summer Song, Willow Weep for Me, Before & After1941 - Bruno Ganz
actor: The American Friend, Wings of Desire, The Last Days of Chez Nous, Children of Nature; died Feb 16, 20191941 - Bob Leiter
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Flames1943 - George Benson
singer: This Masquerade, On Broadway, Give Me the Night; session guitarist: CTI Records1943 - Keith Relf
musician: harmonica, guitar; songwriter, singer, founder of The Yardbirds: For Your Love, Shapes of Things, I’m a Man, Heart Full of Soul, Over Under Sideways Down; died May 14, 19761946 - Don Chaney
basketball: Univ. of Houston, LA Lakers, Boston Celtics; coach: Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets [1991 Coach of the Year]1946 - Harry Vanda
musician: guitar: group: The Easybeats: She’s So Fine, Wedding Ring, Sad and Lonely and Blue, Woman, Come and See Her, Friday on My Mind, Hello How are You, Good Times1947 - Patrick Olive
musician: drums, bass guitar: group: Hot Chocolate: You Sexy Thing, Give Peace a Chance, Love Is Life, You Could Have Been a Lady, I Believe in Love1947 - James Patterson
mystery author: Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard series; many stand-alone thrillers, nonfiction and romance novels; more1948 - Wolf Blitzer
TV news reporter, anchor: CNN1948 - Randy Hobbs
musician: bass: group: The McCoys: Hang on Sloopy1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
composer: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Cats, Phantom of the Opera1949 - Fanny Ardant
actress: Sabrina [1995], El Ano del diluvio, Callas Forever, Le Libertin, Ridicule, Rien que des mensonges, La Grande cabriole1952 - Bob Costas (Robert Quinlan)
sportscaster: WSYR radio/TV [Syracuse NY], KMOX radio [voice of ABA Spirits of St. Louis MO], CBS Sports, NBC Sports: Contributor: Dateline NBC, Anchor: MSNBC’s InterNight1955 - Lena Olin
actress: Enemies: A Love Story Romeo is Bleeding, Havana, After the Rehearsal1956 - Alexey Pajitnov
Russian computer engineer residing in the U.S.: developed the popular game Tetris1957 - Stephanie Mills
singer; actress: The Wiz1959 - Matthew Modine
actor: Fluke, Short Cuts, Married to the Mob, And the Band Played On, Pacific Heights, Full Metal Jacket, Mrs. Soffel, The Hotel New Hampshire, Birdy, Private School1965 - Glenallen Hill
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, SF Giants, Seattle Mariners, NY Yankees, Anaheim Angels1966 - Brian Shaw
basketball: St. Mary’s, Californa-Santa Barbara; NBA: Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers, LA Lakers1968 - Ramón Martínez
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates; brother of player Pedro Martinez1971 - Keegan-Michael Key
actor: MADtv, Gary Unmarried, The Wild Bunch, Larry of Arabia, Frangela, Alleyball, Garage: A Rock Saga1971 - Will Yun Lee
actor: Witchblade, Bionic Woman, Die Another Day, Hawaii Five-0 [2012], Where the Road Meets the Sun, Bangkok Love Story, Lost for Words, The Wolverine1972 - Cory Lidle
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets [1997]; Tampa Bay Devil Rays [1999–2000]; Oakland Athletics [2001–2002]; Toronto Blue Jays [2003]; Cincinnati Reds [2004]; Philadelphia Phillies [2004–2006]; New York Yankees [2006]; killed Oct 11, 2006 when his plane crashed into a 40-story apartment building in New York City1972 - Elvis Stojko
figure skater: three-time World champion [1994, 1995, 1997], two-time Olympic silver medalist [1994 Lillehammer, 1998 Nagano], seven-time Canadian champion [1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002]1973 - Beverley Knight
singer: Greatest Day, Get Up!, Shoulda Woulda Coulda, Come as You Are; TV: Just the Two of Us1975 - Guillermo Diaz
actor: Scandal, Half Baked, 200 Cigarettes, Stonewall, Mercy, Law & Order, Weeds, ER, Cop Out1975 - Anne Dudek
actress: Covert Affairs, House, The Book Group, Mad Men, A Coat of Snow, Big Love, 10 Items or Less, Shadow People1975 - Cole Hauser
actor: Yellowstone, Covert Affairs, Paparazzi, The Cave, Olympus Has Fallen, Hart’s War, Tears of the Sun, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Cave, K-Ville, The Stone Angel1976 - Jessica Darlin
actress [1997-2008]: X-rated films: Moral Degeneration, Luciano: R.I.P., Tongue in Cheeks, Grand Theft Anal, Naughty Therapy1976 - Reese Witherspoon
Academy Award-winning actress: Walk the Line [2005]; Freeway, Pleasantville, Cruel Intentions, American Psycho, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Big Little Lies1979 - Juan Uribe
baseball: Colorado Rockies [2001–2003]; Chicago White Sox [2004–2008]: 2005 World Series champs; San Francisco Giants [2009–2010]: 2010 World Series champs; Los Angeles Dodgers [2011–2015]; Atlanta Braves [2015]; New York Mets [2015]1981 - Tiffany Dupont
actress: Greek, The Work and the Glory, One Night with the King, The Bedford Diaries, He’s Such a Girl1982 - Constance Wu
actress: Crazy Rich Asians, Fresh Off the Boat, Torchwood, Covert Affairs, Franklin & Bash, All the Creatures Were Stirring, Next Gen1983 - Thomas Davis
football [outside linebacker]: NFL: Carolina Panthers [2005–2018]: 2016 Super Bowl 50; Los Angeles Chargers [2019]; Washington [2020]1985 - Keira Knightley
actress: The Imitation Game, Pirates of the Caribbean series, Silk, Domino, Pride and Prejudice, King Arthur, Love Actually1985 - James Wolk
actor: The Crazy Ones, Front of the Class, Shameless, Happy Endings, Political Animals, Mad Men1986 - Dexter Fowler
baseball [center fielder]: Colorado Rockies [2008–2013]; Houston Astros [2014]; Chicago Cubs [2015–2016]: 2016 World Series champs1988 - Tania Raymonde
actress: Goliath, Lost, Malcolm in the Middle, Trophy Kids, Wild Cherry, Foreign Exchange, Children on Their Birthdays1991 - Dominique Fishback
actress: Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, Judas and the Black Messiah, Swarm1993 - Mick Hazen
actor: As the World Turns, Going the Distance, A Very Serious Person, Plainsong1995 - Nick Robinson
actor: Jurassic World, The Kings of Summer, Melissa & Joey, The 5th Wave1999 - Mick Schumacher
race car driver: Haas, Ferrari Driver Academy: won 2018 FIA F3 European championship, 2020 Formula 2 championship; son of seven-time Formula One world champ Michael Schumacher
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Hit Music on This Day March 22
1948Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover (facts) - The Art Mooney Orchestra
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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