March 25
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1902 - Irving W. Colburn patented the sheet glass drawing machine.1911 - A turning point in labor laws -- especially concerning health and safety -- occurred as a result of a tragic fire in a New York City garment factory. Fire broke out at about 4:30p.m. at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company trapping young, immigrant workers behind locked doors. Many jumped to their deaths or were burned beyond recognition. The fire left 146 dead; but they did not die in vain as new laws were passed to protect children and others from slave-type labor conditions. The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were indicted for manslaughter.
1913 - The Palace Theatre opened its doors in New York City. Ed Wynn was first on the vaudeville bill. Some 20 years later, Wynn would be named as radio’s top entertainer. He later became popular on television, as well.
1931 - Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis, for Brunswick Records. Both Kemp and Ennis sang in the Dorsey Brothers Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Eugene Ormandy (later, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra). The pair were part of the orchestra vocal quartet that also featured Nye Mayhew and Saxey Dowell in 1928.
1934 - Horton Smith won the first Masters golf tournament under the magnolia trees of Augusta National in Georgia.
1943 - Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiered on network radio. The pair replaced the popular Abbott and Costello following Lou Costello’s heart attack. Durante and Moore stayed on the air for four years. Moore would later make the move to television with The Garry Moore Show and To Tell the Truth both on CBS. Durante would also become a TV star on ABC with The Jimmy Durante Show in addition to nightclub appearances, movies and records.
1947 - A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois killed 111 miners. Most of those killed were asphyxiated by afterdamp, the mixture of gases left after the explosion.
1951 - The (5th annual) Tony Awards show was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Winners included The Rose Tattoo (best Play); Guys and Dolls (best Musical); Claude Rains in Darkness at Noon (best Actor Dramatic); Uta Hagen in The Country Girl (best Actress Dramatic); Robert Alda in Guys and Dolls (best Actor Musical); and Ethel Merman in Call Me Madame (best Actress Musical).
1954 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) began commercial production of TV sets that were equipped to receive programs in living color. To buy one of those huge sets, television buyers spent $1,000 -- and more.
1954 - Our wayback machine takes us to the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, as we remember the 26th Annual Academy Awards. Actor/singer/dancer Donald O’ Connor and actor Fredric March (in New York) kept the audience informed on who won what. From Here to Eternity (Buddy Adler, producer) was the big flick of the year, picking up the Oscar for Best Director for Fred Zinnemann, Best Supporting Actor for Frank Sinatra and Best Supporting Actress for Donna Reed, in addition to Best Writing/Screenplay (Daniel Taradash); Best Cinematography/Black-and-White (Burnett Guffey); Best Sound/Recording (John P. Livadary, Columbia SSD); and Best Film Editing (William A. Lyon). The Best Actor award for the films of 1953 went to William Holden for Stalag 17 while the Best Actress award went to Audrey Hepburn for Roman Holiday. Secret Love from Calamity Jane was the Best Music/Song of the Year (Sammy Fain, music, Paul Francis Webster, lyrics). An interesting note: The Best Writing/Story and Screenplay went to the 1953 version of Titanic (Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen). Other memorable movies that year (some Oscar winners, some not): The Robe, Shane, Mogambo, The Moon is Blue and Hondo.
1957 - The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community (Common Market).
1961 - Elvis Presley performed his first post-Army appearance, a benefit for planning and building the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The concert raised well over $64,000 and raised public awareness of the need for the memorial.
1965 - The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. The Selma to Montgomery March was held from March 21 to 25, with the protection of federal troops. A white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, was killed driving some of the black marchers back to Selma on this day.
1965 - Guitarist Jeff Beck replaced Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds. Clapton said he quit the British group because he objected to the band’s turn toward more commercial material.
1967 - The Who made their U.S. debut in New York as part of a week-long rock extravaganza promoted by disc jockey Murray (the K) Kaufman. The Who were virtually unknown in America at the time and were not among the top-billed acts.
1971 - Tom Jones went gold with his single, She’s a Lady. When Tom gingerly placed the gold disk on his stereo and played it, he was shocked to hear himself singing “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...” for more than four minutes and when he tried to stop it, he couldn’t. Amazing!
1972 - The group, America, rode to the top of the pop music charts with their LP, America, and the single (included on the LP), A Horse with No Name. A Horse With No Name would be the group’s only gold record and one of two number one songs (the other was Sister Golden Hair, 6/14/75). America placed 11 tunes on the pop music charts between 1972 and 1983. George Martin, the producer of The Beatles, was behind five America tunes, including Tin Man, Lonely People, Sister Golden Hair, Daisy Jane and Today’s the Day. Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell were the original lineup of the trio that won the Best New Artist Grammy in 1972.
1972 - Bobby Hull joined Gordie Howe to become only the second National Hockey League player to score 600 career goals. Hull played for the Chicago Blackhawks and Howe spent his NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings.
1973 - The (27th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Imperial Theatre, New York. Winners included Borstal Boy (best Play); Applause (best Musical); Fritz Weaver in Child’s Play (best Actor Dramatic); Tammy Grimes in Private Lives (best Actress Dramatic); Cleavon Little in Purlie (best Actor Musical); and Lauren Bacall in Applause (best Actress Musical).
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1964-75) was shot to death by a nephew who had a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following June.
1978 - The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, aground in the English Channel since March 16, split in two, spilling the last of its 1.6 million barrels of oil.
1985 - Oscar time again? Yes, and for the 57th time ... and at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, no less. Host for the big show was actor/director Jack Lemmon (no stranger to Oscar, himself). The Best Picture of 1985 was Amadeus, produced by Saul Zaentz. The flick, about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also won Oscars for Best Director for Milos Forman and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. The film also won top honors for Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Peter Shaffer); Best Costume Design (Theodor Pistek); Best Sound (Mark Berger, Thomas Scott II, Todd Boekelheide, Christopher Newman); and Best Makeup (Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith). Sally Field was pronounced Best Actress for Places in the Heart, Best Supporting Actor was Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields, and the Best Supporting Actress Oscar was given to Peggy Ashcroft for A Passage to India. Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called to Say I Love You from The Woman in Red took the honors for Best Movie/Song. And the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Jimmy Stewart in recognition of more than 70 films in his 50-year career. Stewart earned one Oscar for Best Actor in Philadelphia Story (1940), and nominations for Best Actor in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Harvey, It’s a Wonderful Life and Anatomy of a Murder.
1990 - An arson fire swept the overcrowded, Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, NY, killing 87 people. It was the worst mass slaying in U.S. history and the deadliest New York blaze since the Triangle Shirt Waist factory disaster exactly 79 years earlier. Julio Gonzalez, 36, was charged with arson and murder.
1991 - Hollywood’s best got all dolled up and headed over to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to watch Billy Crystal host the 63rd Academy Awards show. Billy sported an Armani tuxedo as did actors Jeff Goldblum, Tom Hanks, Dennis Hopper, Steve Martin and Denzel Washington. Also clad in Armani ... gowns ... were Oscar nominees Michelle Pfeiffer, Julia Roberts and Jessica Tandy, prompting Women’s Wear Daily to refer to the occasion as the “Armani Awards”. Best Picture of the year (1990) was Dances with Wolves (Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, producers). Costner also won for his Best Direction of Dances with Wolves. The Best Actor Oscar went to Jeremy Irons for Reversal of Fortune. Best Actress was Kathy Bates for Misery. The prize for Best Supporting Actor was claimed by Joe Pesci for GoodFellas and Best Supporting Actress was Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost. The Best Music/Song was presented to Stephen Sondheim for Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man) from Dick Tracy.
1992 - Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who had spent ten months aboard the orbiting Mir space station returned to Earth.
1995 - Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the 1992 rape of a beauty pageant contestant.
1996 - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea, visited U.S. troops in Bosnia.
1997 - Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, 72, parachuted from a plane over the Arizona desert. Bush, the only American president to parachute from an airplane, sailed through the cloudless sky over the Arizona desert, deploying his orange, yellow and blue parachute at 4,500 feet. Two jump masters held a harness attached to Bush until he opened his chute.
1998 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) netted $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology.
1997 - Fans rushed record stores to snap up copies of The Notorious BIG’s album Life After Death. Its release came just two weeks after the rapper was slain in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard chart.
1999 - Russian Alexei Yagudin won the men’s title for the second time at the World Figure Skating Championships held in Helsinki, Finland.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Pakistan under heavy security, where he met with the new military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf. Clinton urged the government to restore democracy, reduce its nuclear arsenal, fight terrorism and find a peaceful solution to the Kashmir crises with India.
2001 - Unlike so many Academy Award presentations, a single film didn’t sweep the 73rd Annual Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Sharing was the ‘word’ even in acceptance speeches. Russell Crowe won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Gladiator and dedicated his statuette to the working class who only dream of success, much like he did. “To anybody who’s on the downside of advantage, it’s possible,” said Crowe. Stephen Gaghan, who won for Best Adapted Screenplay (Traffic) dedicated his award to those who helped him through his addiction problems. Gladiator (Best Picture) won a total of five of the golden prizes, adding Best Visual Effects, Sound and Costume Design to its collection. Close runners-up with four Oscars each were Traffic (Director: Steven Soderbergh; Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Film Editing: Stephen Mirrione) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Best Foreign Film, Art Direction, Cinematography and Original Score). The night was full of surprises: Marcia Gay Harden won for Best Supporting Actress, a long-shot for her role in Pollock, and Cameron Crowe for his original screenplay, Almost Famous. Not so surprising was Julia Roberts’ Best Actress Award for Erin Brockovich, and Steve Martin’s winning performance as emcee. What we want to know is who won the high-definition TV award for shortest acceptance speech?
2002 - A series of earthquakes up to magnitude 6.1 rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. The temblors killed up to 1,000 people.
2003 - Celine Dion opened what was to have been a three-year engagement in the new $95-million Colosseum theater at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV. That three years, however, turned into five because of the huge success of the show. A New Day... ended on December 15, 2007, grossing over $385 million and drawing nearly three million people to 717 shows. Dion received some $100 million, plus 50 percent of the profits.
2005 - New movies in the U.S.: D.E.B.S., starring Sara Foster, Jordana Brewster, Devon Aoki, Jill Ritchie, Meagan Goode, Michael Clarke Duncan, Holland Taylor, Geoff Stults, Jimmi Simpson, Jessica Cauffiel, Ryan Xavier and Michael Mastro; Guess Who, with Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoë Saldaña and Judith Scott; and Naked Fame, starring Colton Ford, Blake Harper and ChiChi LaRue.
2005 - Paul Henning, producer of the TV series The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971) died in Burbank, CA. He was 93 years old. Henning also wrote the show’s theme song.
2005 - The U.S. announced that it would begin selling F-16 fighters to Pakistan.
2006 - Deaths on this day: Country superstar Buck Owens, died at 76 years of age; Owens shaped the sound of country music with hits like Act Naturally and he brought the music to TV on the long-running hit show Hee Haw. And Richard Fleischer (b.1916), film director, died in Woodland Hills, CA at 89 years of age; his films included 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970); his 1993 memoir was titled Just Tell Me When to Cry.
2007 - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said that his administration planned to create ‘collective property’ as part of sweeping reforms toward socialism, and that officials would move to seize control of large ranches and redistribute lands deemed to be idle.
2008 - Auctioneers said the painting La Surprise (1718) by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, missing for 200 years, had been found in a British country house and was valued at up to five million pounds. The existence of the original painting was known about only because of a 19th-century copy in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace.
2009 - North Dakota issued an urgent call for volunteers to help with sandbagging as record amounts of water poured into the Missouri River and evacuations were ordered in riverside areas.
2010 - Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy fantasy stars Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans, Asa Butterfield, Daniel Mays, Bill Bailey, Nonso Anozie, Katy Brand, Sam Kelly, Eros Vlahos, Rosie Taylor-Ritson, Oscar Steer and Lil Woods.
2010 - A Netherlands court fined the owner of what was the biggest marijuana-selling coffee shop in the country almost €10 million ($13.34 million) for violating liberal Dutch drug laws. The penalty was seen as a test for authorities seeking to rein in the growth marijuana superstores.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Sucker Punch, starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung; Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Rodick Rules, with Steve Zahn, Rachael Harris, Devon Bostick, Zachary Gordon and Peyton List; the animated The Lion of Judah, featuring the voices of Ernest Borgnine, Leon Clingman, Georgina Cordova, Scott Eastwood and Samantha Gray; Miral, with Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Yasmine Elmasri, Omar Metwally and Alexander Siddig; Peep World, starring Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Ben Schwartz, Judy Greer and Kate Mara; and White Irish Drinkers, with Karen Allen, Anthony Amorim, Zachary Booth and Daniel Carpenter.
2011 - Canadian opposition parties toppled Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government on the grounds that it was tainted by sleaze, had managed the economy poorly and was in contempt of Parliament. Canada’s 40th Parliament ended with cheers from opposition legislators as politicians voted along party lines to drive the Conservatives out of office.
2012 - U.S. President Barack Obama met with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey shares a border with Syria and has been a key player in trying to stop violence that had claimed an estimated 8,000 lives over the previous year. Erdogan said, “We cannot remain a spectator to these developments.”
2013 - 76 years after building an extension of Highway 1 at Devil’s Slide in California, Caltrans officially opened a pair of state-of-the-art tunnels through a mountainside behind the precarious cliffs. The route of the old road had been the scene of many landslides and erosion over the years and the new tunnels provide a much safer route through the mountains.
2014 - Meeting in the Netherlands, 35 countries pledged to turn international guidelines on nuclear security into national laws, a move aimed at preventing terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear material.
2014 - King Digital Entertainment began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Dublin, Ireland-based game maker raised $500 million from the sale of 22.2 million shares. Established in 2002, King’s business took off in 2013 thanks to the spectacular popularity of Candy Crush Saga, which boasted nearly 100 million players worldwide.
2015 - A U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision threw out a lower court ruling that had upheld a state legislature redistricting plan in Alabama. The plan had forced black voters into certain districts in a way that diminished their clout at the polls.
2015 - Because of “deep emotional distress,” a number of pilots of Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary, Germanwings, refused to fly following a deadly crash in the French Alps the previous day. Pilots and crew booked on around 40 of the airline’s flights said they were mourning the victims of the doomed aircraft.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams; My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, with Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and Michael Constantine; Born to Be Blue, starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo and Callum Keith Rennie; Get a Job, with Bryan Cranston, Alison Brie and Anna Kendrick; I Saw the Light, starring Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Olsen and Cherry Jones; Jane Wants a Boyfriend, with Lindsay Arber, Amir Arison and Jon Bass; and Mia madre, starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro and Giulia Lazzarini.
2016 - North Koreans were mobilized en masse to boost production and demonstrate their loyalty to leader Kim Jong Un. This, in a 70-day campaign aimed at wiping out “indolence and slackness.” To show their loyalty, workers had to put in extra hours to boost production in everything from coal mining to fisheries. (Don’t you wish you lived -- and worked -- in North Korea?)
2016 - The Rolling Stones performed a free concert for hundreds of thousands in Havana, Cuba. The band also spearheaded a “musician to musician initiative” aimed at getting donated top quality instruments (like Gibson and Gretsch guitars, as well as other gear like Zildjian cymbals and Pearl drums) into the hands of Cuba’s talented but equipment-needy musicians.
2017 - Sydney’s Opera House and Harbour Bridge were plunged into darkness to mark Earth Hour. Landmarks around the world also dimmed their lights to draw attention to climate change. Conservation group WWF started Earth Hour in 2007.
2017 - China detained Feng Chongyi, an associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney, and prevented him from returning to Sydney because he was suspected of “endangering national security.” Feng had been on a three-week trip researching human rights lawyers. And it just so happened that Chinese authorities had staged a wide-reaching crackdown on human rights lawyers across since July 2015. (On April 1 Feng Chongyi was allowed to return to Australia.)
2018 - The maiden flight of Qantas non-stop regular passenger service between Australia and Britain touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport. The new link with Perth, a 14,498-km (9,009-mile) journey, was about three hours quicker than routes involving stopovers in the Middle East.
2018 - 64 people, 41 of them children, died in a fire that broke out in a multi-story shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. Survivors reported that the fire started in a fourth floor play area, with the heat of the flames rising to 700°C, the heat so high it caused the bouncy castles to burst into flame. Many of the victims were in the mall’s three cinemas, where two of the cinema roofs collapsed from the fourth floor into the third. The fire alarm system at Kemerovo shopping mall had been switched off by a security guard.
2019 - High profile attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested in New York City on charges that included trying to shake down Nike for as much as $25 million by threatening the company with bad publicity. He was released after posting a $300,000 bond. (48-year-old Avenatti was also charged with bank and wire fraud in separate cases in New York and California.)
2019 - Chinese President Xi Jinping signed multibillion-dollar deals on energy, food, transport and other sectors, and a bilateral statement on climate change. All this, during his state visit to France. During his state visit Jinping attended the signing of a multi-billion dollar deal between European aircraft maker Airbus to China. And he agreed to work with European leaders to seek fairer international trade rules and to address the world’s economic and security challenges.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), a bi-partisan bill to provide financial relief to individuals and businesses impacted by the coronavirus. The aid measure sent direct payments of $1,200 to Americans earning up to $75,000, substantially expand help for the jobless, and provide hundreds of billions of dollars in loans to businesses affected by the pandemic. 2)U.S. coronavirus infections continued to climb rapidly and passed the 55,000 mark, with deaths approaching 800. More than 471,000 people worldwide have been infected and the number of dead surpassed 21,000. 3)U.S. Navy and Marine Corps service members in Guam were ordered to break their own quarantine to set up makeshift shelters for troops coming off the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, where a COVID-19 outbreak was rapidly spreading. 4)India began a 21-day lockdown and Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that he was worried the coronavirus could set the his country back decades. Everything but essential services like supermarkets was closed.
2020 - Turkish prosecutors formally charged two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- and 18 other Saudi nationals -- over the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
2021 - The University of Southern California announced that it would pay more than $1.1 billion to the former patients of campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. He had preyed sexually on hundreds of patients. A Los Angeles County Superior Court approved the that gave 710 women who alleged that they were abused by Tyndall an $852 million settlement. That was in addition to a $215 million settlement in 2020 that was part of a different federal class action lawsuit. The latest payout marked what university officials called “the end of a painful and ugly chapter in the history of our university.”
2021 - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey lifted COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and events and prohibited government mask mandates -- allowing bars and nightclubs to open their doors without restrictions. A few weeks later, Arizona’s COVID-19 hospitalizations were rapidly increasing raising potential hospital capacity concerns.
2022 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. included: The Lost City, starring Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe; The Duke, with Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney and Stephen Rashbrook; Everything Everywhere All At Once, starring Jenny Slate, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis; The Greatest Inheritance, with Mena Suvari, Jaleel White and Leticia Jimenez; Infinite Storm, starring Naomi Watts, Billy Howle and Denis O’Hare; Mothering Sunday, with Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor and Nathan Chester Reeve; and Topside, starring Zhaila Farmer, Celine Held and Jared Abrahamson.
2022 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added Russia’s AO Kaspersky Lab, China Telecom (Americas) Corp and China Mobile International USA to its list of communications equipment and service providers deemed to be threats to U.S. national security.
2022 - Britain’s defense ministry said Ukraine had retaken towns and defensive positions up to 35 km east of Kyiv. This, as Russian forces had falling back because of overextended supply lines.
2022 - Oil prices turned positive after reports of a missile strike and a fire at Saudi Arabia's state-run oil company Aramco’s facility. Aramco's petroleum products distribution station in Jeddah was hit, causing a fire in two storage tanks but no casualties.
2023 - A Pentagon study found a higher risk of cancer for U.S. military airmen and ground crews. Commissioned by Congress in 2021, the study followed some one million service members who flew on or worked on military aircraft between 1992 and 2017. It found that military pilots and the ground crews who helped them were at greater risk of developing cancer of any kind compared to the general U.S. population.
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Birthdays on This Day March 25
1867 - John Gutzon Borglum
sculptor: Mt. Rushmore National Memorial [George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt]; died March 6, 19411867 - Arturo Toscanini
68 years in musical career: conductor: Milan, Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra; cellist at age 19; died Jan 16, 19571873 - Lee Shubert
producer: theatres in NY and LA named after him; died Dec 25, 1953
1881 - Béla Bartók
composer: Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, Solo Sonata for Violin, Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra; died Sep 26, 19451901 - Ed Begley
actor: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Sweet Bird of Youth, Sorry Wrong Number, On Dangerous Ground, The Oscar; died Apr 28, 19701903 - Frankie Carle (Carlone)
pianist, bandleader [w/Horace Heidt], led own band: Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Year, wrote: Oh What It Seemed to Be, Falling Leaves, Lover’s Lullaby; died Mar 7, 20011908 - David Lean
Academy Award-winning director: Lawrence of Arabia [1962], The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]; Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations; died Apr 16, 19911909 - Dutch (Emil John) Leonard
baseball: pitacher: Brooklyn Dodgers Washington Nationals [all-star: 1940, 1943-1945], Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1951]; died Apr 17, 19831918 - Howard Cosell (Cohen)
attorney, TV sports journalist/commentator: ABC’s Wide World of Sports, boxing, Monday Night Football; author: Tell It like It Is; died Apr 23, 1995; more1919 - Jeanne Cagney
actress: A Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand; sister of actor James Cagney; died Dec 7, 19841921 - Nancy Kelly
actress: The Great Gatsby [1926], To the Shores of Tripoli, The Bad Seed; died Jan 2, 19951921 - Simone Signoret (Kaminker)
Academy Award-winning actress: Room at the Top [1959], Ship of Fools, Is Paris Burning?; died Sep 30, 19851922 - Eileen Ford
founded modeling agency [1946]: Ford models; died Jul 9, 20141925 - (Mary) Flannery O’Connor
writer: A Good Man is Hard to Find; died Aug 3, 19641928 - James A. Lovell Jr.
astronaut: first to complete 4 spaceflights, first to make 2 flights to the Moon: aboard Gemini 7 [1965: spent 14 days in space] for rendezvous in orbit with Gemini 6; commander of Gemini 12 [Nov 1966: last Gemini mission]; command module pilot of Apollo 8 [Dec 1968: man’s first flight around the moon]; commander of Apollo 13 [Apr 1970: planned lunar landing that was aborted after an explosion on Apollo service module1932 - Woody (Woodson George) Held
baseball: NY Yankees, KC Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, Chicago White Sox; died Jun 10, 20091932 - Wes Santee
runner: miler: “America’s greatest mile prospect of all time,” who never quite ran the mile in under 4 minutes; banned by AAU for expense violations just before 1956 Olympics; died Nov 14, 20101934 - Johnny Burnette
‘The Master’: singer: Dreamin’, You’re Sixteen; brother of singer Dorsey Burnette; killed in boating accident Aug 14, 19641934 - Gloria Steinem
feminist; publisher: Ms.1938 - Hoyt Axton
singer, musician, songwriter: Greenback Dollar, The Pusher, Joy to the World, Never Been to Spain [Axton’s mother, Mae Boren Axton, wrote Elvis Presley’s Heartbreak Hotel]; actor: The Rousters, Gremlins, Disorganized Crime, The Civil War, Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, King Cobra; died Oct 26, 19991940 - Anita Bryant
singer: Paper Roses, Till There Was You; Miss Oklahoma and runner-up to Miss America [1958]; Florida orange juice spokesperson1941 - Barclay Plager
hockey: NHL: SL Blues1942 - Aretha Franklin
‘Lady Soul’: Grammy [15] Award-winning singer; Respect, Baby I Love You, Natural Woman, Chain of Fools, Think, Day Dreaming; first woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; actress: The Blues Brothers; died Aug 16, 2018; more1943 - Paul Michael Glaser
actor: Starsky & Hutch, Single Bars Single Women; director: Butterflies are Free, The Air up There, The Cutting Edge, The Running Man, The Amazons, Band of the Hand1944 - Kelly Garrett
actress, singer: Your Hit Parade, Headliners with David Frost: That Was the Week that Was; died Aug 7, 20131947 - Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight)
musician, singer, songwriter: Your Song, Honky Cat, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Bennie & The Jets, Daniel, Philadelphia Freedom; actor: Tommy; established the Elton John Aids Foundation [1992]1948 - Bonnie Bedelia (Culkin)
actress: Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Presumed Innocent, They Shoot Horses Don’t They1949 - Neil Jones
musician: group: Amen Corner: Gin House Blues, Bend Me Shape Me, [If Paradise Is] Half as Nice1949 - Jean Potvin
hockey: NHL: LA Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, NY Islanders, Cleveland Barons, Oklahoma City Stars, Minnesota North Stars1951 - Maizie Williams
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon1953 - Mary Gross
actress: The Santa Clause, Troop Beverly Hills, Feds, Club Paradise, Billy, A Mighty Wind; comedienne: Saturday Night Live; sister of actor, Michael Gross1958 - James McDaniel
Emmy-winning actor: Edge of America [2006]; NYPD Blue, Bunker Hill, El Cortez, Twenty Questions, Sunshine State, Livin’ for Love: The Natalie Cole Story1960 - Steve Norman
musician: sax, guitar, percussion: group: Spandau Ballet: True, Gold, Only When You Leave, Lifeline, Communication, Instiction, Chant No.1 [I Don’t Need This Pressure On]1960 - Peter O’Brien
actor: The Pact, The Innocent, Halifax f.p: Swimming with Sharks, See How They Run, The Violent Earth, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord, The Flying Doctors1960 - Brenda Strong
actress: Dallas [2012], Desperate Housewives, The Last Guy on Earth, The Work and the Glory: A House Divided, The Kid and I, Starship Troopers, Exposed1961 - John Stockwell (Samuels)
actor: Born to Ride, Top Gun, City Limits, Christine, Losin’ It, My Science Project; director: Undercover1962 - Marcia Cross
actress: Desperate Housewives, Everwood, The Wind Effect, Living in Fear, Target Earth, All She Ever Wanted, M.A.N.T.I.S., Almost Grown, Pros and Cons1964 - Lisa Gay Hamilton
actress: The Practice, Reversal of Fortune, Way Cool, Twelve Monkeys, True Crime, A House Divided, The Truth About Charlie1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker
actress: Sex and the City, Miami Rhapsody, L.A. Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Little Match Girl, The Innocents, Annie, Square Pegs, A Year in the Life, Equal Justice; opera singer: Hansel and Gretel, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Parade; dancer: Cincinnati Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre1966 - Tom Glavine
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, New York Mets1966 - Jeff Healey
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Jeff Healey Band; CBC radio show: My Kind of Jazz; died Mar 2, 20081967 - Debi Thomas
figure skater: Olympic bronze medalist [Calgary, Alberta, 1988]1969 - Travis Fryman
baseball [shortstop, first, third base]: Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians1969 - Dan Wilson
baseball: Univ of Minnesota: Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners1970 - Kari Matchett
actress: Covert Affairs, Invasion, 24, Cube 2: Hypercube, Earth: Final Conflict, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Heartland, ER, Crash, Elementary, Goose on the Loose, The Tree of Life1974 - Laz Alonso
actor: Fast & Furious, Jarhead, This Christmas, Miracle at St. Anna, Stomp the Yard, Down for Life, G, Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood; voice actor: Avatar1977 - Adrianna Nicole
actress [2004-2013]: X-rated films: Sexy Fast and Furious, Armpit Confidential, Sick Chixxx, Hand to Hand Combat, Private Xtreme 45: All Girl Fight Club, Bitches in Training 2, Praise The Load 21977 - Édgar Ramírez
actor: The Bourne Ultimatum, Zero Dark Thirty, Carlos, Ché, Wrath of the Titans1979 - Lee Pace
actor: Pushing Daisies, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, The Hobbit, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: There and Back Again1980 - Tinsel Korey
actress: The Twilight Saga film series, Rabbit Fall, Black Forest, Blackstone1982 - Sean Faris
actor: Never Back Down, The King of Fighters, Forever Strong, Sleepover, Pearl Harbor, The Brotherhood II: Young Warlocks, Twisted1982 - Danica Patrick
race car driver: 2005 Indy Racing rookie of the year; only woman to win a race in the IndyCar Series; holds the highest finish (3rd) by a woman at the Indianapolis 5001982 - Jenny Slate
actress: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Saturday Night Live [2009–2010], Bored to Death, Parks and Recreation, Zootopia1984 - Katharine McPhee
singer: Over It, My Destiny, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Love Story, Dangerous, Ordinary World, Neglected; runner-up: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar [2006]; actress: Scorpion, Smash, The House Bunny, Shark Night 3D1986 - Kyle Lowry
basketball [point guard]: Memphis Grizzlies [2006–2009]; Houston Rockets [2009–2012]; Toronto Raptors [2012–2021]: 2019 NBA champs; Miami Heat [2021-2024]; Philadelphia 76ers [2024– ]1988 - Ryan Lewis
record producer, DJ, singer [w/rapper Macklemore]: Thrift Shop, Same Love, Can’t Hold Us1991 - Seychelle Gabriel
actress: Falling Skies, The Spirit, The Last Airbender, Weeds, Revenge1992 - Elizabeth Lail
actress: Once Upon a Time, Dead of Summer, Unintended, You, Countdown, Ordinary Joe
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