March 28
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1797 - Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a device we commonly call the washing machine. Back then, however, there was a whole different way of speaking -- and of spelling -- to describe this wonderful invention. “This device is an improvement in washing cloaths.” Wow! Cloaths! Good thing Nathaniel Briggs didn’t have anything to do with vacuum cleaner, garbage disposal or other modern conveniences...1891 - The first world championship for amateur weightlifters was held in London.
1920 - Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were married this day.
1922 - Inventor Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C. patented a microfilm reading device.
1939 - Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded Three Little Fishies for Victor Records.
1942 - British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire. The purpose of the daring raid was to destroy the lock at the port, the only one capable of providing shelter to the battleship Tirpitz. By wrecking the port, Tirpitz could not operate in the Atlantic.
1948 - (2nd annual) Tony Awards were given at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. And the winners were (among others): Arthur Miller, author of All My Sons; Jose Ferrer, actor in Cyrano de Bergerac and Fredric March, actor in Years Ago; Helen Hayes, actress in Happy Birthday and Ingrid Bergman, actress in Joan of Lorraine.
1954 - (8th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the Plaza Hotel, New York. best Play was The Teahouse of the August Moon; best Musical went to Kismet. David Wayne, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Drake, Dolores Gray, Harry Belafonte and Gwen Verdon were among the many winners.
1958 - W.C. Handy, the composer known as the ‘Father of the Blues’ died in New York at the age of 84. Handy, who was white, wrote his blues from the melodies he heard performed by black musicians and singers in the South. His first composition, Memphis Blues, was published in 1912 and became popular through large sheet music sales. Handy’s most famous song was St. Louis Blues, published in 1914. Handy also led a band throughout the South from 1917 to 1923, but after that concentrated on composing and his music publishing business. A 1958 movie, St. Louis Blues, was based on W.C. Handy’s life, featuring Nat (King) Cole as the composer.
1960 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: Democratic Senators and presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy & Hubert H. Humphrey
1963 - Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League was changing names. Instead of Titans, the team would be known as the New York Jets.
1964 - Radio Caroline debuted as the first pirate radio station to broadcast off the coast of England. On this day, the combination of rock music and lively disk jockey patter played to a huge audience in Great Britain; but well out of reach of British authorities. However, that didn’t stop them from trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to shut down the radio station ship. Radio Caroline had become competition to the staid and usually dull British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
1967 - Raymond Burr starred in a TV movie titled Ironside. The show, about a wheelchair-bound detective, became very popular as a weekly series in the fall of 1967. Burr, known to millions as determined lawyer, Perry Mason (a past TV hit), played the part of Robert Ironside in the new show. He was joined by characters, Detective Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway), Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson), Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) and Commissioner Dennis Randall (Gene Lyons).
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, died after a long illness in Washington, DC. He was 78 years old.
1971 - The (25th annual) Tony Awards were presented at the Palace Theatre, New York. Big winners were (among others): Sleuth (best Play); Company (best Musical); Brian Bedford in The School for Wives (best Actor dramatic); Maureen Stapleton in Gingerbread Lady (best Actress dramatic); Hal Linden in The Rothschilds (best Actor musical); Helen Gallagher in No, No, Nanette (best Actress musical).
1974 - The group, Blue Swede, received a gold record for the single, Hooked on a Feeling. As payback for tormenting listeners worldwide with the introduction of “ooga-chocka, ooga-chocka,” when the group played their gold record, they heard the original B.J. Thomas version of Hooked on a Feeling. They were so excited by this development, they ooga-chocka’d all night long.
1974 - A streaker (i.e.: someone running around naked), ran onto the set of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. The clever NBC censors decided to blackout the lower half of the TV screen on the videotape to prevent an ‘X’ rating. The streaker was arrested, but released, for “lack of evidence,” said Johnny.
1977 - Rocky, Network, All the President’s Men. Titles to remember from the 49th Annual Academy Awards presentation, held this day at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Hosted by a cast of, uh, four (Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Richard Pryor), Rocky collected Oscars for Best Picture (Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, producers); Best Director (John G. Avildsen); and Film Editing (Scott Conrad, Richard Halsey). Network hauled in the gold for Best Actor (Peter Finch); Actress (Faye Dunaway); Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight); and Writing (Paddy Chayefsky). All the President’s Men was given awards for Best Supporting Actor (Jason Robards); Art Direction (George Jenkins); Set Direction (George Gaines); Sound (Dick Alexander, Les Fresholtz, Arthur Piantadosi, Jim Webb); and Writing (William Goldman). The Best Music/Song Oscar-winner titles are memorable too: Barbra Streisand (music) and Paul Williams (lyrics) for Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) from A Star is Born.
1979 - Extensive reevaluation of the safety of nuclear power-generating operations in the U.S. began in earnest this day. The reevaluations were prompted by a series of accidents that began at 4 a.m. at Three Mile Island. Failures in equipment brought the nuclear power plant close to a uranium core meltdown. The fear of extensive radiation contamination spread throughout the rural Pennsylvania area and the state capital of Harrisburg, just ten miles away.
1981 - The group Blondie, featuring Debbie Harry, received a gold record for the tune, Rapture. At the time, the pop-rock hit was perched at the top of the pop music charts. Blondie had eight charted hits. Four of them were million sellers, beginning with their first release, Heart of Glass in 1979. Four of the eight hits were number one on the charts, as well.
1985 - Roger Waters of Pink Floyd made radio history. His Radio City Music Hall concert in New York was broadcast live using a new high-tech sound system called ‘holophonics’. It is said to have recreated the stage experience in amazing detail. Didn’t surround (sound) start out that way?
1985 - Bill Cosby broke more records with The Cosby Show on NBC-TV. The program was the highest-rated program of any network series since 1983. It was also the first show in over a decade to nab the top Nielsen Ratings from the Academy Awards presentation (seen the same night). The Cosby Show became the highest-rated series since 1978 when Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber, premiered on ABC.
1987 - The first Disney Store opened at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California. It was the company’s very first retail shopping center venture outside of its theme parks.
1990 - U.S. President George Bush (I) presented the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Jesse Owens for his humanitarian contributions. The medal was given to Owens’ widow, Ruth S. Owens.
1995 - Mitsubishi Bank and the Bank of Tokyo agreed to a merger to create the world’s largest bank (at the time).
1996 - Phil Collins announced his departure from the group Genesis to strike out on his own. He had joined the band as drummer after the departure of John Mayhew in 1970. Collins became lead singer when Peter Gabriel exited in 1975.
1997 - These flicks started their runs in U.S. theatres: B*A*P*S, with Halle Berry, Martin Landau, Natalie Desselle and Jonathan Fried; The Sixth Man, starring Marlon Wayans and Akadeem Hardison; and Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, with Jason David Frank (Red Power Ranger), Steve Cardenas (Blue), Johnny Yong Bosch (Green), Catherine Sutherland (Pink), Nakia Burrise (Yellow) and Blake Foster (New Blue).
1999 - Venus Williams beat her younger sister, Serena, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to win the Lipton Championships.
2000 - In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply curtailed police powers to rely on anonymous tips for justification to stop and search people.
2001 - The European Union expressed concern over the abandonment of the Kyoto Treaty by U.S. President George Bush (II). The treaty was an agreement to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
2003 - Head of State opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic crime drama stars Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Tamala Jones, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker, Jude Ciccolella, Robin Givens, Stephanie March, Nick Searcy, Tracy Morgan and Ray Clark (III).
2004 - Actor Sir Peter Ustinov died at age 82 in Switzerland. Ustinov won two Oscars (Spartacus [1960], Topkapi 1964]) during an acting career that ranged from the evil Nero in Quo Vadis to the quirky Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot.
2005 - An 8.7 earthquake shook up northern Sumatra, Indonesia. At least 330 people were killed in collapsed buildings on Nias Island. Technically, this quake was considered an aftershock to the Dec 26, 2004 quake.
2005 - The Colorado Supreme Court threw out the death penalty in a rape-and-murder case because five of the jurors had consulted the Bible and quoted Scripture during deliberations.
2006 - Bush White House chief of staff Andy Card resigned. He was replaced (in April 2006) by budget director Joshua Bolten.
2006 - The German state of Bavaria announced a ban on the use of cell phones in schools in an effort to prevent students from viewing images of pornography and extreme violence.
2007 - U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City fired 3,400 of its highest-paid hourly workers and annunced plans to hire replacements willing to work for less money. The fired workers were to get a severance package and a chance to reapply for their former jobs -- at lower pay.
2007 - Briton Richard Rogers, famed for his world-wide series of iconic buildings, was announced as the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
2008 - New films in the U.S.: 21, starring Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Josh Gad, Jim Sturgess, Masi Oka and Sam Golzari; The Cool School, starring Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Billy Al Bengston, Irving Blum, Walter Hopps, Ed Moses, Ed Ruscha (II), Dean Stockwella and Jeff Bridges; Run, Fat Boy, Run, with Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Jade Ramsey, Nikita Ramsey, Ameet Chana, Harish Patel and India de Beaufort; Stop-Loss, with Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ciarán Hinds, Timothy Olyphant, Victor Rasuk and Rob Brown; and Superhero Movie, with Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Kevin Hart, Marion Ross, Ryan Hansen, Jeffrey Tambor, Brent Spiner, Keith Davaid, Simon Rex, Craig Bierko, Tracy Morgan, Ragina Hall and Pam Anderson.
2008 - President Raul Castro’s government said it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or who held key posts with the state.
2008 - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it would change they way its officers search passengers with body piercings. This, after a Texas woman complained she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane.
2010 - An armed gang of masked men raided the Grand Casino near Basel Switzerland. The 10-man gang dressed in black arrived in two cars shortly after 4:00 a.m. and made off with hundreds of thousands of francs. Not all went swimingly for the thieves, however, as police later revealed that the robbers fled the scene having failed in their attempt to break into the casino’s strong room.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama reasserted the U.S. responsibility, as a world leader, to prevent atrocities as he defended U.S. intervention in Libya. Meanwhile, Libyan rebel forces fought their way to the doorstep of Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, a key government stronghold guarding the road to the capital Tripoli.
2013 - Britain’s domestic spy agency, MI5, chose Andrew Parker to be its new director. The 50-year-old Parker had been deputy chief of MI5. He had worked for MI5 for 30 years and had worked on terrorism in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, counter espionage, and serious and organised crime.
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Noah, starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Hopkins; Sabotage, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington and Terrence Howard; Boys of Abu Ghraib, starring Sara Paxton, Sean Astin and John Heard, the biography, Cesar Chavez, with Michael Cudlitz, Rosario Dawson and John Malkovich; the documentaries, Finding Vivian Maier and Mistaken for Strangers; The Raid 2, with Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle and Yayan Ruhian; and Bad Words, starring Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn and Allison Janney.
2014 - The Democratically controlled California Senate voted to suspend three Democrats who faced felony charges in separate criminal cases. The action came after the latest lawmaker to be hauled into court refused to step down. The resolution prevented Senators Ron Calderon, Leland Yee and Roderick Wright from exercising any powers of their office until the criminal cases against them had been resolved.
2015 - Millions of people turned off their non-essential lights from from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. local time in observance of Earth Hour. The initiative began in Sydney, Australia in 2007 and appealed yearly to participants in more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide.
2015 - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked with the International Space Station after blasting off from Kazakhstan. An American and two Russians floated into the ISS. And Scott Kelly of the U.S. and Mikhail Kornienko of Russia each began what was to be a year away from Earth.
2016 - The FBI said it had unlocked the iPhone used by one of the Dec 2, 2015 San Bernardino terror attackers, ending a heated legal standoff with Apple that had pitted U.S. authorities against Silicon Valley.
2016 - California Governor Jerry Brown announced a deal with state lawmakers and public unions that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022, up from $10. The governor signed the legislation into law on April 4.
2017 - The FDA approved Genentech’s Ocrevus, the first drug for an aggressive kind of multiple schlerosis. Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) is a disease-modifying therapy for both forms (relapsing and primary progressive) of MS, a chronic autoimmune disease.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo many Obama-era climate change regulations that he believed were hobbling oil drillers and coal miners. Trump signed an executive order to review and revise Obama’s flagship energy policy, the Clean Power Plan, which had never been implemented. Flanked by coal miners and coal company executives, Trump had proclaimed his "Energy Independence" executive order at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency.
2018 - Facebook unveiled new privacy settings aimed at giving its users more control over how their data is shared. The changes followed a scandal (and resulting outcry) over a breach that exposed the personal information of millions and was allegedly used by a political consultancy.
2019 - George Clooney called for the boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the Hotel Bel-Air and six others in the U.S. and Europe with ties to the sultan of Brunei, who had implemented Islamic criminal laws to punish gay sex by stoning offenders to death.
2019 - Fire in a 22-story commercial building in Bangladesh, killed 25 people, injured some 60 others and trapped others. The building had four upper floors that lacked appropriate fire exits. Two of the owners of the building were arrested the following week.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)New York City reported at least 26,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, with 450 deaths. The city’s density aided the spread of the virus -- with 27,000 people per square mile, the densest metro area in the U.S. 2)South African billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe said his group of companies was donating 1 billion rand ($57 million) to help fight the outbreak that had forced the country into total lockdown as infections climbed. 3)The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown by restarting some metro services and reopening borders.
2020 - The Taliban said it had refused to negotiate with a team announced by the Afghan government, in a potential setback for a U.S.-brokered peace process. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group would not negotiate with the team as it was not selected in a way that included “all Afghan factions.” The U.S. had signed a troop withdrawal deal with the Taliban in February, but progress was delayed by a feud between Afghan politicians and disagreement between the Taliban and the government over the release of prisoners and a possible ceasefire as preconditions for talks.
2021 - A heli-skiing excursion chopper crashed in Alaska, killing Czech billionaire, Petr Kellner (56) and four others, including the pilot. One person survived.
2021 - A year after becoming an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York and New Jersey were again atop the list of U.S. states with the highest rates of infection. New Jersey had been reporting about 647 new cases for every 100,000 residents over the past 14 days. New York had averaged 548.
2022 - Indian companies were snapping up Russian oil as it was available at a deep discounts after some countries shunned purchases from Moscow due to sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion. India, which had refrained from outright condemnation of Moscow, did not ban the importation of Russian oil.
2022 - President Biden submitted a $5.79 trillion budget plan to Congress that called for record peacetime military spending while raising taxes for billionaires and companies -- and lowering government deficits.
2022 - Faaaaar right-wing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education law (commonly known as the Don’t Say Gay act or as the Don’t Say Gay or Trans act), that prohibited classroom instruction and discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in some elementary school grades.
2022 - A real head scratcher from Fox News as host Tucker Carlson offered a warning about the repercussions of removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power (in response to President Biden’s assertion that “Putin cannot remain in power”), and suggested that Islamic extremists would somehow get hold of the Russia’s nuclear weapons and use them on Americans.
2023 - Congress remained gridlocked on gun control measures in the wake of the school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, including three children. President Joe Biden had said that he had done all he could to address gun control and urged members on Capitol Hill to act. “I can’t do anything except plead with the Congress to act reasonably,” Biden said. But the shooting had not compelled lawmakers in Washington -- particularly Republican leadership -- to push gun control legislation forward. The Republican-controlled House had rejected Biden’s calls for an assault weapons ban. Democrats in Congress were slamming House Republicans for their disinterest. “All we’re going to get are thoughts and prayers out of their Twitter accounts, and that’s not enough,” Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar said. In an unusual rant from the Republican side, Representative Tim Burchett, R-TN, doubled down on his comments that Congress is “not gonna fix” the problem of school shootings, saying that the country needed a “real revival” rather than gun control legislation.
2023 - Healthy kids and teenagers were no longer advised to get a Covid-19 shot, according to revised global vaccination recommendations from the World Health Organization. The updated guidance was designed to prioritize Covid-19 vaccines for those at greatest risk of death and severe disease, according to the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE).
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Birthdays on This Day March 28
1890 - Paul Whiteman
bandleader: Washboard Blues, Ol’ Man River, Felix the Cat, Heartache, Ain’t Misbehavin’; died Dec 29, 19671899 - August A. Busch Jr.
beer magnate; Anheuser-Busch; St. Louis Cardinals owner; died Sep 29, 19891903 - Rudolf Serkin
concert pianist: “An artist of unusual and impressive talents in possession of a crystalline technique, plenty of power, delicacy, and tone pure and full.”; “A masterly musician ... a scholar of profound art without pedantry, with the loftiest conceptions of beauty, whose every thought and emotion is for the glory of his art.”; died May 8, 19911905 - Marlin Perkins
zoologist; TV host: Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom; died Jun 14, 19861907 - Irving (Paul) ‘Swifty’ Lazar
Hollywood talent agent to the stars: Humphrey Bogart, Cole Porter, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway; died Dec 30, 19931912 - Frank Lovejoy
actor: House of Wax, Strategic Air Command; died Oct 2, 19621914 - Edmund S. (Sixtus) Muskie
Governor of Maine [1955-1959]; U.S. Senator from Maine [1959-1980]; Democratic nominee for vice-president [1968 w/Hubert Humphrey]; Secretary of State [1980-1981]; died Mar 26, 19961915 - Jay Livingston
composer: To Each His Own, Mona Lisa, Tammy; died Oct 17, 20011919 - Vic (Victor John Angelo) Raschi
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953/all-star: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952], SL Cardinals, KC Athletics; died Oct 14, 19881921 - Dirk Bogarde (Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde)
actor: The Damned, Death in Venice, The Vision, A Bridge Too Far, Night Flight from Moscow; died May 8, 19991923 - Thad Jones (Thaddeus Joseph Jones)
musician: trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn: played with Count Basie, Thelonious Monk; bandleader: Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra; composer: A Child is Born; died Aug 20, 19861924 - Freddie Bartholomew (Frederick Llewellyn March)
actor: Anna Karenina, Captains Courageous, David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy; died Jan 23, 19921930 - Eric Dixon
musician: saxophonist/flutist: Count Basie orchestra; died Oct 19, 19891940 - Kevin Loughery
basketball: Baltimore Bullets, Miami Heat; coach: New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers Miami Heat; TV host: CNN: This Week in the NBA; columnist: CNNSI.com1941 - Charlie McCoy
musician: harmonica: Today I Started Loving You Again, Wabash Cannonball, Release Me, I Really Don’t Want to Know; backed Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley1941 - Jim Turner
football: NY Jets kicker: Super Bowl III, Denver Broncos kicker: Super Bowl XII1942 - Jerry Sloan
basketball: Evansville (Indiana) College, Baltimore Bullets, Chicago Bulls; coach: Chicago Bulls, Utah Jazz1943 - Richard Eyre
film director: Stage Beauty, Iris, The Absence of War, The Insurance Man, The Ploughman’s Lunch, Comedians, Play for Today1943 - Conchata Ferrell
actress: Two and a Half Men, L.A. Law, Hearts Afire, A Peaceable Kingdom, McClain’s Law, Hot L Baltimore, E/R, B.J. and the Bear, The Buccaneers, True Romance, Mystic Pizza, Edward Scissorhands, Deadly Hero1944 - Rick Barry
Basketball Hall of Famer: Golden State Warriors: NBA Playoff Record for 8 steals in a game [shared with 5 others]1944 - Ken Howard
actor: The White Shadow, The Thorn Birds, Country Girl, Oscar; died Mar 23, 20161945 - Chuck Portz
musician: bass: group: The Turtles: It Ain’t Me Babe, Let Me Be, You Baby, Happy Together, She’d Rather be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me1947 - Barry Miles
musician: drums, keyboards: group: Silverlight; Roberta Flack’s musical director1948 - John Evan
musician: keyboards: group: Jethro Tull: Living in the Past, Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Steel Monkey, Sweet Dream, The Witch’s Promise, A New Day Yesterday1948 - Sam Lacey
basketball: New Mexico State Univ; NBA: Cincinnati Royals/Kansas City-Omaha Kings [1970–1981], New Jersey Nets [1981–1982], Cleveland Cavaliers [1982–1983]; died Mar 14, 20141948 - Dianne Wiest
Academy Award-winning actress: Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]; Bullets over Broadway, Radio Days, Edward Scissorhands, Little Man Tate, Footloose, I Care a Lot1948 - Milan Williams
musician: keyboards: group: Commodores: I Feel Sanctified, Slippery When Wet, Fancy Dancer, Just to Be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy, Three Times a Lady; died Jul 9, 20061949 - Ronnie Ray Smith
sprinter: 1968 Olympics gold medal winner: 4-by-100 meter relay [w/Charles Greene, Melvin Pender & Jim Hines]1955 - Reba (Nell) McEntire
multi Grammy, CMA, ACM Award-winning singer: How Blue, Somebody Should Leave, Who Ever’s in New England, What am I Gonna Do about You, For My Broken Heart, The Last One to Know [30 #1 singles, 14 #1 albums]; actress: Buffalo Girls, Forever Love, One Night at McCool’s; autobiography: Reba: My Story1960 - Chris Barrie
actor: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Simon the Sorcerer, Testimony, Red Dwarf series1961 - Orla Brady
actress: Fringe, The Deep, Strike Back, Out of the Blue, Wayland’s Song, Noah’s Ark, Family Law, Shark, Eternal Law, Doctor Who, Banished, American Odyssey, The Price of Desire1961 - Byron Scott
basketball [shooting guard]: NBA: Los Angeles Lakers [1983–1993: 3× NBA champions 1985, 1987, 1988], Indiana Pacers [1993–1995], Vancouver Grizzlies [1995–1996], Los Angeles Lakers [1996–1997]; coach: Sacramento Kings [1998–2000], New Jersey Nets [2000–2004], New Orleans Hornets [2004–2009: NBA Coach of the Year 2008], Cleveland Cavaliers [2010–2013], Los Angeles Lakers [2014–2016]1966 - Jason Garrett
football [quarterback]: Princeton Univ; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants; offensive coordinator for Dallas Cowboys1966 - Salt (Cheryl James)
Grammy Award-winning rap singer: duo: Salt-N-Pepa: None of Your Business [1994]; Push It, LP: Hot, Cool & Vicious1969 - Rodney Atkins
singer: If You’re Going Through Hell [Before the Devil Even Knows], Watching You, These Are My People, Cleaning This Gun [Come on in Boy], It’s America, Take a Back Road1970 - Vince Vaughn
actor: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A Cool, Dry Place, Return to Paradise, Clay Pigeons, The Sky Is Green, No Place Like Home, The Wedding Crashers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie1972 - Nick Frost
comedian, actor: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced, Attack the Block, Paul, Man Stroke Woman, Mr. Sloane, Doctor Who1973 - Paul Wilson
baseball [pitcher]: Florida State Univ; NY Mets, TB Devil Rays, Cincinnati Reds1975 - Russell Davis
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals1977 - Darryl Laplante
hockey [center]: NHL: Detroit Red Wings1978 - Heather Ashley Chase
actress: Task Force, Unravelled, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, Alien Abduction, The Dream of Alvareen, Guardian of the Realm, Evil Unleashed1980 - Luke Walton
basketball [forward]: Los Angeles Lakers [2003–2012: NBA champs 2009, 2010]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2012–2013]1981 - Julia Stiles
actress: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Raving, The Omen [2006], The Prince and Me, Mona Lisa Smile, 10 Things I Hate About You1986 - Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta)
songwriter, singer: Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance, Telephone, Alejandro, Born This Way, Judas, The Edge of Glory; recognized for her flamboyant, diverse and outré contributions to the music industry through fashion, performance and music videos; more1990 - Laura Harrier
actress: Spider-Man: Homecoming, Fahrenheit 451, Black Klansman, Remnants, Galyntine, One Life to Live, BlacKkKlansman
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Hit Music on This Day March 28
1945My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time (facts) - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
A Little on the Lonely Side (facts) - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra (vocal: Jimmy Brown)
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