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1848 - For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. An ice jam in the Niagara river above the rim of the falls caused the water to stop. We imagine that tours on the Maid of the Mist were canceled ... and that ticket prices were refunded.1871 - The Royal Albert Hall in London was opened by Queen Victoria.
1882 - The Knights of Columbus organization was granted a charter by the state of Connecticut. The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic, fraternal service, family organization of almost 6 million members.
1914 - Seven newspapers joined together to distribute the first newspaper rotogravure section. The first pictures were from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The seven papers in the rotogravure effort were: The New York Times, The Boston Sun Herald, The Philadelphia Public Ledger, The Chicago Tribune, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Kansas City Star.
1917 - Man o’ War, the famous American race horse, was foaled.
1927 - Major Henry O’Neal de Hane Segrave became the first person to drive a car over 200 miles per hour (203.793 mph). The feat took place on the sands of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1927.
1932 - Comedian Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his radio interview show. Benny got a real taste of radio two months later when he got his own show on the NBC radio network.
1937 - The radio serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, “Can this girl from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a wealthy and titled Englishman?” was asked each day as the show continued for the next 22 years!
1943 - Meat, butter and cheese were rationed in the U.S. because of the war effort. The meat ration was 28 ounces per week per person.
1943 - Russian dictator Joseph Stalin was pictured on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1951 - Actor/dancer/singer Fred Astaire was right at home in his tuxedo as he hosted the 23rd Annual Academy Awards. The big party was thrown at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles. Best Picture (of 1950) was All About Eve (“It’s all about women --- and their men!”), produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It won six Oscars in all, including Best Supporting Actor for George Sanders, Best Director and Best Writing/Screenplay for Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Best Costume Design/Black-and-White for Edith Head and Charles Le Maire; and Best Sound/Recording (20th Century-Fox Sound Dept.). All About Eve also was nominated eight other times. The Best Actor award went to José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac and the Best Actress was voted to be Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday. Best Supporting Actress was Josephine Hull for Harvey. Best Music/Song prizes were awarded to Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Nat King Cole classic, Mona Lisa, from Captain Carey, U.S.A..
1951 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed in June 1953.
1951 - The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I opened on Broadway. The King and I starred Yul Brynner in the role of the King of Siam -- the king who, along with his subjects, valued tradition above all else. Anna, the English governess hired to teach the King’s dozens of children, was portrayed by Gertrude Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Brynner acted, danced and sang their way into our hearts with such memorable tunes as: Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance, Hello, Young Lovers, I Whistle a Happy Tune, We Kiss in a Shadow, I Have Dreamed, Something Wonderful, A Puzzlement, and March of the Siamese Children. The King and I ran for a total of 1,246 outstanding performances at New York’s St. James Theatre.
1952 - U.S. President Harry S Truman removed himself from the 1952 presidential race.
1953 - The 7th annual Tony Awards were presented at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. The Crucible won for best Play; Wonderful Town was voted best Musical. Other winners included Tom Ewell, Shirley Booth, Thomas Mitchell and Rosalind Russell.
1959 - Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon was released in the U.S.
1961 - The 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It allowed Washington DC residents to vote for president.
1962 - Jack Paar left his highly successful late night TV talk show after five years. He left behind a salary of $250,000 and an estimated audience of eight-million people. Fill-in hosts were used, including one who would ultimately win the coveted position of host of The Tonight Show. He was Johnny Carson.
1967 - The first nationwide strike in the 30-year history of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) began this day, lasting for 13 days. Many familiar faces were absent from the TV screen during the strike, including that of Walter Cronkite of CBS News. A chap named Arnold Zenker, formerly a radio announcer in Wilmington, DE, got the call to fill in for Cronkite during that period. After the strike was settled, Zenker was never heard from again on network television.
1973 - After recording On the Cover of ‘Rolling Stone’, Dr. Hook finally got a group shot on the cover of Jann Wenner’s popular rock magazine. Inside, a Rolling Stone writer confirmed that members of the group (Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) bought five copies of the mag for their moms -- just like in the song’s lyrics!
1976 - “And the Oscar goes to...” One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas, producers) selected as the Best Picture of 1975. The Academy Awards were spotlighted -- for the 48th time -- at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Hosts for the gala gala were Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal and Robert Shaw. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest also scored the Best Director prize for Milos Forman, the Best Actor honor for Jack Nicholson and the Best Actress Oscar for Louise Fletcher, plus the Oscars for Best Writing to Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben. The Best Supporting Actor nod went to eighty-year-old George Burns for The Sunshine Boys and Best Supporting Actress was Lee Grant in Shampoo. The Best Music/Song winner was Keith Carradine for I’m Easy from Nashville. Other favorite winning and nominated flicks from the year 1975 include: Dog Day Afternoon which won the Oscar for Best Writing/Original Screenplay (Frank Pierson); Jaws which was awarded gold statuettes for Best Sound (Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Mabery, John R. Carter), Best Film Editing (Verna Fields); and Best Music/Original Score (John Williams); The Day of the Locust; Funny Lady; and Tommy.
1981 - Woman of the Year, starring Lauren Bacall, opened at the Palace Theater in on Broadway -- for what turned out to be a run of 770 performances.
1982 - The oldest soap opera on network television, Search for Tomorrow, made a big change. It jumped from CBS, where it grew in popularity for 30 years, to the daytime schedule on NBC. During the change, the program, owned and sponsored by Proctor and Gamble, continued right along with the soap, going from one network to the other the following day. The company wanted to maintain its regular 12:30 p.m. time slot, but CBS had other plans for Search. NBC agreed to the 12:30 time and "Search" became an NBC property. Lots of celebs have been featured on Search for Tomorrow including: Don Knotts, Sandy Duncan, Lee Grant, Tom Ewell, Roy Scheider and Hal Linden.
1982 - Fond memories surface as we remember the 54th Annual Academy Awards, presented this day at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Talk-show host Johnny Carson acted as host for the party. Two of America’s most revered performers, Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn scored as Best Actor and Best Actress in On Golden Pond. The Best Picture (1981) and Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Colin Welland) was Chariots of Fire (David Puttnam, producer). It also won the prizes for Best Costume Design (Milena Canonero) and Best Music/Original Score (Vangelis). The Best Director Oscar went to Warren Beatty for Reds. Best Supporting Actor, John Gielgud, won for his work in Arthur. The Best Supporting Actress was Maureen Stapleton for Reds and Best Music/Song prizes went to Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross and Peter Allen for Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) from Arthur, of course. One of the night’s biggest winners (four Oscars -- Art Direction, Sound, Film Editing, Special Effects -- and four more nominations) was Raiders of the Lost Ark.
1987 - Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre the Giant before 93,136 Wrestlemania III fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI. The event was the biggest indoor sports/entertainment promotion ever. 2.5 million people watched on Pay-Per-View TV, as well.
1989 - The 61st Annual Academy Awards ceremony was presented at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. Rain Man (Mark Johnson, producer) was awarded the Best Picture Oscar with its star, Dustin Hoffman, scoring as Best Actor, Barry Levinson getting the Best Director prize, and Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow picking up the award for Best Writing/Original Screenplay. Best Actress (of all the movies of 1988) was Jodie Foster for The Accused. The Best Supporting Actor Oscar was won by Kevin Kline for A Fish Called Wanda and the Best Supporting Actress was Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist. Carly Simon won Best Music/Song for Let the River Run from Working Girl. Other popular movies from 1988 including Oscar winners and non-winning nominees were: Dangerous Liaisons; Mississippi Burning; Big; Gorillas in the Mist; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Beaches; Die Hard; Beetlejuice, et al.
1992 - Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton acknowledged experimenting with marijuana “a time or two” while attending Oxford University, adding, “...I didn’t like it and I didn’t inhale.”
1993 - Hollywood was all aglitter again, for the 65th Annual Academy Awards extravaganza at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Comedian/actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the fourth straight year. Clint Eastwood was honored with Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for his Unforgiven. He starred, directed and produced the gritty Western which also won an award for Best Film Editing (Joel Cox) and Best Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman). Best Actor was Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman and the Best Actress prize went to Emma Thompson for Howards End. Marisa Tomei took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny. ’Toons winning tune awards was a popular 1990s event at the Oscars and this year was no different. Aladdin picked up two: Best Music/Song awarded to Alan Menken (music), Tim Rice (lyrics) for A Whole New World and Best Music/Original Score (Alan Menken).
1994 - Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson resigned, capping a longstanding feud with team owner Jerry Jones.
1996 - These films debuted in the U.S.: All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 starring the voices of Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, Ernest Borgnine, Dom DeLuise, George Hearn, Bebe Neuwirth and Adam Wylie in the first full-length animated feature from MGM; A Family Thing, with Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall; and Sgt. Bilko, with Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman and Glenne Headly.
1997 - Philip Noel Johnson staged an Loomis, Fargo & Co. armored car robbery in Jacksonville, FL. Johnson got $19 million, but was arrested Aug 30 at a border crossing in Texas. Johnson, an armoured car guard, robbed his own company because he thought he was “being treated like a slave.”
1998 - Twenty-eight people were killed when a Russian-made Antonov military plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city of Piura. The plane, belonging to the Peruvian air force. had been carrying civilians fleeing El Niño-driven floods.
1999 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 10,000 for the first time, ending the day at 10,006.78.
1999 - Connecticut beat top-ranked Duke, 77-74, for its first NCAA basketball championship.
1999 - Legendary jazz singer Joe Williams died in Las Vegas. He was 80 years old. Williams, with a smooth baritone voice, was one of the last big-band singers. Over his long career he recorded dozens of songs, including many with the Count Basie Orchestra. Williams received two honorary doctorates degrees, made several acting apearances in movies and television, won a Grammy, was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and made countless live performances around the world.
2000 - The Supreme Court upheld (6-3) the authority of U.S. cities to ban nude dancing.
2001 - A chartered jet crashed near Aspen, Colorado, killing the three crewmembers and fifteen passengers on board.
2002 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Clockstoppers, with Jesse Bradford, Paula Garces, French Stewart, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas, Julia Sweeney, Garikayi Mutambirwa and Funkmaster Flex; Death to Smoochy, starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny Devito, Jon Stewart, Harvey Fierstein, Pam Ferris and Michael Rispoli; Panic Room, starring Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto and Kristen Stewart; and The Rookie, with Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Brian Cox, Beth Grant, Jay Hernandez, Angus T. Jones, Rick Gonzalez, Chad Lindberg and Angelo Spizzirr.
2003 - Michelle Kwan became only the third American to win five world figure skating championships (after Dick Button and Carol Heiss).
2003 - A low-flying Iraqi missile avoided the detection of U.S. defense systems and landed just off the coast of Kuwait City, shattering windows at the seaside Souq Sharq shopping mall.
2005 - New York’s Supreme Court ruled that an out-of-state programmer must pay state taxes on his full salary despite working mostly via computer.
2005 - Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. died in Los Angeles (brain tumor, age 67). He was a big part of the O.J. Simpson defense team during that 1995 sensational murder trial. The most famous quote from that trial was by Cochran, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
2006 - Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who spawned a congressional corruption scandal, was sentenced to some six years in prison in a Florida fraud case. Abramoff plead guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials.
2006 - Writer Henry Farrell died in Los Angeles at 85 years of age. Farrell’s melodramatic thrillers spurred a genre of horror movies, including Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
2007 - U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker was sworn in as the top U.S. envoy to Iraq, saying he was taking over the “most critical foreign policy mission” facing his country.
2007 - A Swiss man was jailed for ten years for insulting Thailand’s king by vandalizing his portraits during a drunken spree. Oliver Jufer, 57, had been arrested in December after drunkenly spray-painting posters of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
2008 - A police headquarters building in Angola’s capital (Luanda) collapsed and at least 24 people were killed.
2008 - Sydney, Australia became the world’s first major city to turn off its lights for the Earth Hour, a global campaign to raise awareness of climate change.
2009 - The bloated Red River in North Dakota breached a dike, allowing water to flow into a school campus. Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker called it a wakeup call for a city that needs to be more vigilant for weaknesses in its levee system.
2009 - The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte voted to integrate fully with France, becoming the 101st department of France. The move brought financial benefits to residents but outlawed practices like polygamy and early marriages.
2010 - Some 2,000 people in Japan who suffered from a rare neurological disorder agreed to accept a settlement of ¥2.1 million per person. Minamata disease (discovered in 1956) was linked to the consumption of fish from southern Kyushu island’s Minamata Bay, where chemical company Chisso Corporation had dumped tons of mercury compounds from 1932 to 1968.
2010 - Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency set up the first nuclear fuel bank, signing into life a plan meant to bridge shortages caused by snags in deliveries of low enriched uranium to nuclear power reactors.
2011 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and President Raul Castro discussed U.S./Cuba relations in a meeting in Cuba. Castro repeated an offer to hold talks with the United States on any issue. “I hope we will be able to contribute to better relations between the two countries,” Carter said.
2012 - Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, asked the Japanese government for a capital injection of $12 billion. The cash infusion paved the way for the Japanese government to take control of what once was the world’s biggest private utility.
2012 - Newsies debuted at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre. The musical was based on the 1992 film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City. The show featured music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman. Newsies ran through Aug 24, 2014 with 1,004 performances.
2013 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: The Host, with Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Marcus Lyle Brown, William Hurt and Frances Fisher; Tyler Perry’s Temptation, starring Eric West, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Williams, Lance Gross, Zach Sale, Brandy Norwood and Renée Taylor; Detour, with Neil Hopkins, Brea Grant, John Forest, Ptolemy Slocum and Deb Snyder; Family Weekend, with Kristin Chenoweth, Matthew Modine, Olesya Rulin, Joey King and Shirley Jones; Mental, starring Liev Schreiber, Toni Collette, Caroline Goodall, Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Lily Sullivan and Deborah Mailman; and Renoir, with Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers and Thomas Doret.
2013 - San Francisco Giants’ catcher Buster Posey signed a 9-year, $167 million contract -- the largest in the club’s history.
2014 - A massive fire swept through the former Younkers department store in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The building, dating to 1899, was destroyed by the fire.
2015 - Egypt’s chief prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, named 18 Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group’s leader and his deputy, terrorists. The charges were the first implementation of a new anti-terror law.
2016 - Actress Patty Duke died in Idaho at 69 years of age (sepsis from a ruptured intestine). Duke won an Academy Award at age 16 for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. She also starred in Valley of the Dolls and The Patty Duke Show, which ran on TV from 1963 to 1966.
2017 - U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson issued a 24-page order in Hawaii blocking the government from suspending new visas for travelers from six Muslim-majority countries. The order also halted the U.S. refugee program. Watson had temporarily blocked POTUS Donald Trump’s revised travel ban hours before it was set to take effect.
2017 - The homeowner’s association of the sinking Millennium Tower in San Francisco sued the Transbay joint Powers Authority, the public agency building the nearby Transbay Transit Center, and others, for more than $200 million in damages. The tower had sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches since it was completed in 2009.
2018 - Volkswagen AG paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February. The automaker had admitted to circumventing the emissions control system in U.S. diesel vehicles for vehicles sold since 2009, prompting the resignation of the company’s chief executive. In total, Volkswagen agreed to spend more than $25 billion in the U.S. for claims from owners, environmental regulators, states and dealers and offered to buy back about 500,000 polluting U.S. vehicles.
2019 - New movies in U.S. theatres on this day icluded: Dumbo starring Eva Green, Colin Farrell and Michael Keaton; The Beach Bum, with Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg and Isla Fisher; The Chaperone, starring Haley Lu Richardson, Miranda Otto and Elizabeth McGovern; Diane, with Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy and Estelle Parsons; The Highwaymen, starring Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson and Kim Dickens; The Last, with Reed Birney, Rebecca Schull and Elaine Bromka; Making Babies, starrng Eliza Coupe, Steve Howey and Ed Begley Jr; Unplanned, with Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan and Robia Scott; A Vigilante, starring Olivia Wilde, Morgan Spector and Betsy Aidem; and White Chamber, with Shauna Macdonald, Oded Fehr and Amrita Acharia.
2019 - A federal judge in North Carolina ruled that a charter school promoting traditional values was engaging in unconstitutional sex discrimination by requiring girls to wear skirts.
2019 - District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled in Alaska that an executive order by POTUS Donald Trump lifting an Obama-era ban on drilling in the Arctic Ocean and parts of the North Atlantic coast was “unlawful and invalid.”
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)A day after pulling into its temporary home in the port of Los Angeles the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) was ready to receive patients and take the pressure off local civilian hospitals inundated by the coronavirus. 2)The U.S. led the world with confirmed COVID-19 cases: more than 142,000 -- some 2,500 deaths. 3)Alan Merrill, writer of the hit song I Love Rock and Roll, died in New York of complications from the coronavirus. He was 69 years old. Merrill had written the song for his own band, the Arrows, in 1975 but it became a hit for Joan Jett in 1982. 4)France used two high-speed TGV trains and a German military plane to move more than three dozen critically ill patients to ease the pressure on overwhelmed hospitals in eastern France. The country was in virtual lockdown.
2020 - A storm moving through the central U.S. spawned multiple tornadoes with eight in Iowa, three in Arkansas, one in Missouri, four in Illinois and one in Wisconsin. In Arkansas six people were hurt in the college town of Jonesboro.
2021 - The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd went on trial, with prosecutors showing the jury video of Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on the Black man’s neck for several minutes as onlookers yelled at him repeatedly to get off and Floyd gasped that he couldn’t breathe.
2021 - The United Nations said scores of Chinese and foreign companies producing “well-known global brands” were involved in human trafficking, forced labor and other human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. No specific companies were named, but the U.N. working group mentioned the sectors of agribusiness, tech, automotive, and textile and garment.
2021 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the two vaccines available since December — Pfizer and Moderna — were 90% effective after two doses.
2021 - A joint World Health Organization-China study concluded that it was “extremely unlikely” that the coronavirus pandemic started with a leak from a Chinese lab and that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal was the most likely cause.
2022 - President Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Incredibly, it was the first U.S. legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime. The act was named for the Black teenager whose killing in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 became a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement.
2022 - The Washington Post and CBS reported that White House records showed an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump’s telephone calls the day of the deadly Jan 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Deletion of those calls marked a violation of the "Presidential Records Act" – the statute that mandates preservation of White House records pertaining to a president’s official duties.
2022 - The World Bank put four projects in Afghanistan, worth $600 million, on hold. The funds freeze came after the country’s ruling Islamist leaders decided to ban girls from public high schools.
2023 - Researchers warned that crucial, deep Antarctic ocean currents would collapse by some 42% by 2050, stopping nutrient-dense water from flowing north. This would accelerate ice melt and the warming of the world’s oceans. Three years of computer modeling had found the Antarctic overturning circulation – also known as abyssal ocean overturning – is on track to make that slowdown if the world continues to burn fossil fuels and produce high levels of planet-heating pollution.
2024 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: the action adventure Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, starring Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens and Kaylee Hottle; and action crime flick In the Land of Saints and Sinners, with Kerry Condon, Desmond Eastwood and Conor MacNeill.
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Birthdays on This Day March 29
1790 - John Tyler
10th U.S. President [1841-1845]; the first president to marry while in office; married to: L. Christian, J. Gardiner [8 sons, 7 daughters]; nickname: Accidental President; died Jan 18, 18621867 - Cy (Denton True) Young
Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: Cleveland Spiders [World Series: 1892, 1895, 1896], St. Louis Perfectos, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Somersets, Boston Pilgrims [World Series: 1903], Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Naps, Boston Rustlers; Cy Young Award [for best pitcher in both leagues] named for him; died Nov 4, 19551874 - Lou Henry Hoover
wife of 31st U.S. President Herbert Hoover; died Jan 7, 19441889 - Howard Lindsay
playwright: A Woman’s World; died Feb 11, 19681905 - Philip Ahn
actor: Portrait of a Hitman, Hong Kong Confidential, Disputed Passage, A Scream in the Night; first Asian American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; died Feb 28, 1978
1908 - Arthur O’Connell
actor: Huckleberry Finn, Ben, There Was a Crooked Man..., 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, Gidget, Bus Stop, Taint Legal; appeared in over 100 films; died May 18, 19811908 - Dennis O’Keefe
actor: All Hands On Deck, Angela, Abandoned, Hi Diddle Diddle, The Girl From Scotland Yard, Thirteen Hours by Air; appeared in over 200 films; died Aug 31, 19681914 - Phil Foster (Feldman)
stand-up comedian; actor: Laverne & Shirley, Bang the Drum Slowly, Conquest of Space, Hail; died July 8, 19851916 - Eugene (Joseph) McCarthy
US senator from Minnesota [1959-1971], presidential candidate [1968: Hubert H. Humphrey won the Democratic nomination]; died Dec 10, 20051918 - Pearl (Mae) Bailey
jazz singer: Takes Two to Tango, A Little Learnin’ is a Dangerous Thing [w/Sinatra]; actress: St. Louis Woman, Variety Girl, Porgy and Bess, lead in black cast of Hello Dolly; TV series; died Aug 17, 19901918 - Sam Walton
founder of Wal-Mart retail chain and Sam’s Club wholesale stores; died Apr 5, 1992
1919 - Eileen Heckart
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Butterflies are Free [1972]; The Bad Seed, Bus Stop, Heartbreak Ridge, Up the Down Staircase; died Dec 31, 20011927 - John McLaughlin
TV host: McLaughlin [CNBC Network]; editor, columnist; died Aug 16, 20161931 - Philip Gilbert
actor: Superman III, Fanatic, Bachelor of Hearts, Simon and Laura; died Jan 6, 20041938 - Duane Rupp
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins1940 - Ray Davis
singer, founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, Atomic Dog, Flashlight, Maggot Brain; died Jul 5, 20051942 - Scott Wilson
actor: In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, Junebug, The Ninth Configuration, The Walking Dead, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation1943 - Eric Idle
actor: Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Casper, Splitting Heirs, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1943 - John Major
Prime Minister of England [1990-1997]1943 - Vangelis Papathanassiou
composer, digital musician: sound tracks: Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner1944 - Terry Jacks
singer: group: The Poppy Family: Which Way You Goin' Billy?; solo: Seasons in the Sun1944 - Denny (Dennis Dale) McLain
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers: [all-star: 1966, 1968, 1969/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1968/Cy Young Award: 1968/World Series: 1968], Washington Senators, Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics; entertainer1945 - Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier
Basketball Hall of Famer: Southern Illinois Univ. All-American; NY Knicks [1967-1977/NBA championship teams: 1970, 1973/NBA all defensive first team: 1969-1975/all-star: 1970-1976/MVP: 1975], Knicks’ all-time assists leader: 4,791; Cleveland Cavaliers; lifetime average of 18.9 points per game in 825 regular-season games, 20.7 points per game in 93 playoff contests; nickname [Clyde] taken from the folk-hero robber Clyde Barrow1947 - Bobby Kimball (Toteaux)
singer: group: Toto: Africa, Rosanna1948 - Ken Burrow
football: San Diego State Univ., Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders1948 - Bud Cort
actor: Harold and Maude, Brewster McCloud, M*A*S*H1949 - Michael Brecker
jazz musician: reeds, group: The Brecker Brothers; died Jan 13, 20071950 - Ed Ratleff
basketball: Long Beach State Univ., 1972 Olympics USA Men’s Basketball Team, Houston Rockets1953 - Tom (Thomas Hubert) Hume
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1982], Philadelphia Phillies1955 - Earl Campbell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Heisman Trophy winner: [Univ. of Texas: 1977], Texas All-American, Houston Oilers [1978-1984], New Orleans Saints [1984-1985]; career-high 1,934 yards rushing, including four 200-yard rushing games [1980], career stats: 9,407 yards, 74 TDs rushing, 121 receptions, 806 yards, played in five Pro Bowls1955 - Brendan Gleeson
actor: Harry Potter film series, Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, Troy, The Guard, The Treaty, Into the Storm, The Banshees of Inisherin1955 - Dianne Kay
actress: Eight Is Enough, Andy Colby’s Incredible Adventure, Portrait of a Showgirl, Flamingo Road, 1941, Dog and Cat1955 - Christopher Lawford
actor: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Counterstrike, Red Zone, Exit Wounds, Thirteen Days, The 6th Day, Mary, Mother of Jesus1955 - Marina Sirtis
actress: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek film series, Death Wish 3, Diagnosis: Murder, The Wicked Lady, Stargate SG-1, Family Guy, Without a Trace, Annihilation Earth, Grey’s Anatomy, Young Justice1956 - Kurt Thomas
gymnast: first American male to win a world champion gymnastics event since 1932 [floor exercise - 1978, 1979]; Sullivan Award-winner [1979]; TV sports commentator; operates a gymnastics school; more1957 - Christopher Lambert
actor: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Mortal Kombat, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, To Kill a Priest1960 - Annabella Sciorra
actress: True Love, Jungle Fever, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Cop Land, The Sopranos1961 - Amy Sedaris
actress: Andy Barker, P.I., Snow Angels, Stay, Bewitched, Strangers With Candy, The Wrong Coast, My Baby’s Daddy, Elf1961 - Michael Winterbottom
film director: The Silk Road, Wonderland, Butterfly Kiss, Under the Sun, Alleyn Mysteries, Cracker1964 - Elle MacPherson
supermodel, actress: South Kensington, A Girl Thing, Batman & Robin, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Sirens, Friends1967 - Brian Jordan
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals [1992–1998], Atlanta Braves [1999–2001], Los Angeles Dodgers [2002–2003], Texas Rangers [2004], Atlanta Braves [2005–2006]1968 - Chris Calloway
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, New England Patriots1968 - Lucy Lawless
actress: Xena: Warrior Princess, For the Love of Mike, Hercules and the Amazon Women, Lucy Lawless: Kiwi Superstar1972 - Alex Ochoa
baseball [right, left field]: New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Anaheim Angels1973 - Brandi Love
actress [2007- ]: X-rated films: Succubus XXX, MILF Mania, Hot MILF Handjobs, This Ain’t Game of Thrones XXX, Bad Teachers1975 - Danny Kolb
baseball [pitcher]: Illinois State Univ; Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves1976 - Jennifer Capriati
tennis champ: Olympic gold-medalist [1992], Wimbledon [1990]1979 - Cody Westheimer
musician, film composer: Smile, Second Thoughts, Devon’s Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy, Premonitions, Freedom Park, One Door Down; has scored dozens of short films and TV ads and programs1981 - Megan Hilty
actress: Broadway: Wicked, 9 to 5: The Musical; films/TV: Bitter Feast, Dorothy of Oz, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Desperate Housewives, The Penguins of Madagascar1983 - Justin Tuck
football [defensive end]: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: New York Giants [2005–2013]: 2008 Super Bowl XLII champs, 2012 Super Bowl XLVI champs]; Oakland Raiders [2014–2015]1986 - Romina Oprandi
tennis pro: won 22 ITF singles titles and 10 ITF doubles titles
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Hit Music on This Day March 29
1946Oh, What It Seemed to Be (facts) - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Day by Day (facts) - Frank Sinatra
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
TWtD Calendar
