March 30
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1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while his patient was anesthetized by ether on this day. Crawford had been observing several party-goers under the influence of nitrous oxide and sulfuric ether. Those folks were feeling no pain. And Crawford’s patient literally felt no pain as the good doctor removed a tumor from the man’s neck using the party concoction. This event has been commemorated as Doctors’ Day since this day in 1933. Doctors throughout the United States celebrate in Dr. Crawford. Long’s honor and, in honor of ether as an anesthetic.
1858 - Hymen L. Lipman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the writing device we call the pencil. Yes, it did have an attached eraser as well. Why, then, we wondered, wasn’t it called the Lipman? “Teacher, I’m sorry, but I seem to have forgotten my Lipman this morning.” Or -- “May I please go and sharpen my Lipman?” See? It works.
1867 - Alaska was purchased from Russia for two-cents an acre. The actual treaty was signed the following day, celebrated now as Seward’s Day every March 31. (The purchase was called “Seward’s Folly” by many who believed the two-cent-per-acre purchase by Secretary of State William H. Seward was too much. Other than its cold climate, very little was known about Alaska at the time.)
1909 - The Queensboro Bridge, the first double-decker bridge, opened in New York City. Harpers Bizarre’s hit The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy), written by Paul Simon, was inspired by the Queensboro Bridge.
1923 - The Audubon Ballroom in New York City was the scene of the first dance marathon. Alma Cummings danced the fox trot, one-step and waltz with half a dozen partners. It is not known who or how many survived...
1936 - The radio serial, Backstage Wife, made a move across the radio dial from the Mutual Broadcasting System to NBC radio. Once there, the program continued to air for the next 23 years.
1944 - 795 British bombers attacked Nuremberg, Germany. Luftwaffe nightfighters shot down 94 of the aircraft. It was the Royal Air Force’s heaviest loss in a single attack (12%).
1945 - The Dreft Star Playhouse was heard for the final time on radio. The show had been paying up to $3,000 per week to attract ‘name’ talent. Dreft, the show’s sponsor, was a popular laundry soap of the time.
1945 - Soviet troops entered Austrian territory on this day. The ‘Red Army’ captured Vienna April 13.
1946 - Academy Award was heard on radio for the first time. The first dramatized story was titled, Jezebel and starred actress Bette Davis.
1948 - Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin ordered all road and rail access to Berlin, Germany blocked. This was just the beginning of what would become a complete blockade of the German city three months later ... on June 24.
1950 - The invention of the phototransistor was announced by its inventor, Dr. John Northrup Shive of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. The phototransistor was operated by light rather than electric current.
1952 - The (6th annual) Tony Awards were presented at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. The Fourposter won for best Play; The King and I was voted best Musical. Other winners included Jose Ferrer (The Shrike), Julie Harris (I Am a Camera) Phil Silvers, (Top Banana) and Gertrude Lawrence (The King and I).
1955 - Brando, Kelly, O’Brien, Saint, Kazan. These were the names the 27th Academy Awards were made of. And all of the other big names of Hollywood gathered at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles to honor these stars and the motion pictures of 1954 including The Caine Mutiny, The High and the Mighty; A Star is Born; The Glenn Miller Story; Rear Window; Sabrina; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Actor/comedian Bob Hope and actress Thelma Ritter (in New York City) hosted. On the Waterfront (Sam Spiegel, producer) won Oscars for Best Picture, Director (Elia Kazan), Actor (Marlon Brando), Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint) and more (art direction, cinematography, film editing, writing). Grace Kelly was voted Best Actress for The Country Girl (“How far should a woman go...to redeem the man she loves?”). Best Supporting Actor was Edmond O’Brien for The Barefoot Contessa and Best Music/Song Oscars went to Jule Styne (music), Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for Three Coins in the Fountain from the flick of the same name.
1956 - Mount Bezymianny on the Kamchatka Peninsula (USSR) exploded. The eruption was “a classic example of what volcanologists call a Peléan eruption.” Peléan eruptions are characterized by the formation of domes and glowing avalanches.
1963 - The Chiffons began a four-week stay at the top of the pop music charts as their hit single, He’s So Fine, became number one. The song stayed at the top of the top tune tabulation until Little Peggy March came along with I Will Follow Him on April 27th.
1964 - “This ... is ... ‘Jeopardy’!” One of television’s best known game shows, Jeopardy, developed by Merv Griffin, aired on NBC-TV for the first time on this day. Your category: Game Show Hosts: for 200 points. This host never missed one show in 2,500 programs. “Um, who is Art Fleming?” Right you are!
1968 - General Ludvik Svoboda was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
1970 - Lauren Bacall starred in Applause which opened on Broadway. The show became one of the hardest tickets to get on the Great White Way. Critics called Bacall “a sensation.” The play, at the Palace Theatre, was an adaptation of the film, All About Eve. It continued for 896 performances. A London version of the show, also starring Bacall, opened in 1972.
1970 - Television dramas were added to the daytime lineups of both ABC and NBC. The Best of Everything was first seen on ABC as was A World Apart. On NBC-TV, Somerset debuted.
1970 - Secretariat, the great race horse that went on to win the Triple Crown of horse racing in 1973, was foaled.
1971 - The Bee Gees received a gold record for the single, Lonely Days. When playing it, they heard the song at a faster speed and said, “Hey, this sounds like disco!” and the rest was Saturday Night Fever music history...
1974 - John Denver reached the top spot on the music charts with his hit, Sunshine on My Shoulders. It was the singer’s first number one song. Three other singles by Denver reached the top of the music world: Annie’s Song, Thank God I’m a Country Boy and I’m Sorry. Take Me Home Country Roads made it to the number two position, while Rocky Mountain High just cracked the Top 10 at number 9. Denver wrote Leaving on a Jet Plane for Peter, Paul and Mary and won an Emmy for the TV special, An Evening With John Denver. Once again, I’m Casey Kasem in Hollywood. Keep those feet on the ground. Keep reaching for the stars...
1978 - Ellen Corby returned to Walton’s Mountain more than a year after she left in an ambulance, the victim of a stroke. The episode of The Waltons was called, Grandma Comes Home.
1980 - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was founded by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. PETA has grown into a worldwide animal rights organization, with more than 750,000 members and supporters. The organziation has exposed cruelty in animal laboratories, convinced many companies to stop cruel product tests on animals, and has drawn international attention to animal cruelty in the food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by a would-be assassin as the President walked to his limousine in Washington DC. Press Secretary James Brady and two police officers were also wounded in the attack. John W. Hinkley, Jr. was convicted of the crime.
1983 - Basketball player Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics set a regular season Celtic scoring record as he pumped in 53 points. The record stayed intact until 1985 when Bird broke his own record with a 60-point performance on March 12.
1987 - Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers brought $39.85 million -- more than triple the record for an auctioned painting. The sale was on the 134th anniversary of the birth of the artist. Singer Don McLean wrote and sang a musical tribute to this artistic genius, titled Vincent, in April of 1972.
1987 - The 59th Annual Academy Awards extravaganza emanated from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center. Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Hogan hosted. (Hogan was also an Oscar nominee for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen with Ken Shadie and John Cornell for Crocodile Dundee.) Now let’s get right to the good part: Best Picture: Platoon (Arnold Kopelson, producer); Best Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon; Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Color of Money; Best Actress: Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God; Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine for Hannah and Her Sisters; Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest for Hannah and Her Sisters and Best Music/Song: Giorgio Moroder (music), Tom Whitlock (lyrics) for Take My Breath Away from Top Gun. And HBO (Home Box Office) earned its first Oscar as Down and Out in America tied for Best Documentary feature. The cable-TV film played in a Los Angeles movie theatre for one week to qualify for the Academy Award. Now, stay tuned for your local news...
1989 - The Heidi Chronicles, by Wendy Wasserstein, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In the journalism category, the Anchorage Daily News won the public service award for its reports on alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans.
1992 - The 64th annual Academy Awards statuette-passing-out-party was thrown at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Funny man and actor/producer/writer/director Billy Crystal was host as that creepy The Silence of the Lambs (Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman, producers) won the prize for Best Picture of 1991. Silence also won the Best Director Oscar for the creepy Jonathan Demme; Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for the creepy Ted Tally; Best Actor for the creepy Anthony Hopkins and Best Actress for the anything-but-creepy Jodie Foster. Jack Palance won Best Supporting Actor for playing Curly in City Slickers and the Best Supporting Actress Oscar was claimed by Mercedes Ruehl for The Fisher King. Best Music/Song: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics) for Beauty and the Beast from, you guessed it, Beauty and the Beast. You probably wouldn’t have guessed that the movie, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, nominated in six categories, won four Oscars for Best Sound (Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff); Best Effects/Sound Effects Editing (Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders); Best Effects/Visual Effects (Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak); and Best Makeup (Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn). 1991 was definitely a creepy movie year!
1992 - Canadian singer Celine Dion celebrated her 24th birthday by performing a duet with Peabo Bryson. They sang their Oscar-nominated theme song from Beauty and the Beast on the Academy Awards show.
1997 - The Notorious BIG’s album Life After Death hit #1 on the Billboard album chart. This, exactly three weeks after the rapper was gunned down in Los Angeles.
1998 - BMW of Germany won a bidding war to take over luxury car makers Rolls-Royce and Bentley for 340 million pounds ($571 million). BMW owner, Vickers Plc, rejected a rival bid from Volkswagen.
2000 - Russia’s Alexei Yagudin won his third World Figure Skating Championship. Canada’s Elvis Stojko finished second, and American Michael Weiss was third.
2000 - In the midst of the 2000 presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore broke with the Clinton administration, saying he supported legislation to allow six-year-old Elian Gonzalez to remain in the U.S. while the courts resolved his custody case.
2000 - Contact, a musical ‘dance play’ that was developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman, premiered at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, at Broadway’s Lincoln Center. The show, consisting of three separate one-act dance plays, won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical. It ran for 1,010 performances, closing Sep 1, 2002.
2001 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Spy Kids, with Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming, Carla Gugino, Cheech Marin, Tony Shalhoub, Robert Patrick, Danny Trejo, Teri Hatcher, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabra; The Tailor of Panama, starring Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis and Leonor Varela; Tomcats, with Jerry O'connell and Shannon Elizabeth; and Someone Like You, starring Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear.
2002 - A massive dust storm spread from northwest China to South Korea. It was largest recorded since records began in 1872.
2002 - Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth died in her sleep at Royal Lodge, Windsor. She was 101 years old.
2003 - Hundreds of thousands of protesters demonstrated around the world against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. A crowd in Jakarta, Indonesia marched against the U.S. Embassy, chanting, “America Imperialist, No. 1 terrorist!”
2004 - AT&T and Vonage began offering phone calls via the Internet (VOIP: voice over Internet protocol) in New Jersey and Texas.
2004 - Alistair Cooke, author and TV host, died in NYC at age 95 years of age. His books included Alistair Cooke’s America (1972).
2005 - Beauty Shop debuted in the U.S. The comedy stars Queen Latifah, Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Alicia Silverstone, Mena Suvari, Little JJ, Andie MacDowell, Alfre Woodard, Bryce Wilson, Wilmer Valderrama and Golden Brooks.
2005 - American poet Robert Creeley died in Odessa, Texas. He was 78 years old. During a career spanning some six decades, Creeley authored more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad.
2006 - 60-year-old Portia Simpson Miller became Jamaica’s prime minister and first female head of government.
2006 - Irish writer John McGahern died in Dublin at 71 years of age. McGahern’s stark depiction of love and despair in repressive rural Ireland made him one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His novels include The Barracks (1963), The Dark (1965), The Leavetaking (1974), The Pornographer (1979) and Amongst Women (1990).
2007 - New movies in the U.S.: Blades of Glory, starring Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry and Craig T. Nelson; The Lookout, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, Aaron Berg, Kalyn Bomback, Alex Borstein, Paul Christie, Jeff Daniels, Sergio Di Zio, Morgan Kelly, Suzanne Kelly, Tracy McMahon, Toni Reimer, Janaya Stephens, Laura Vandervoort and Courtney-Jane White; and Meet the Robinsons, starring Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Adam West, Tom Kenny and Ethan Sandler.
2008 - British Airways cancelled some of its flights as it struggled to cope with a massive backlog of luggage at London Heathrow airport’s new multi-billion-pound Terminal 5.
2008 - The Vatican said Islam had overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world. Estimates put the Roman Catholic number at 1.13 billion and the Muslim number of followers at around 1.3 billion.
2009 - The Open Cloud Manifesto was published. IBM and other tech companies issued a statement of principles that called for keeping cloud computing services as open as possible.
2009 - Argentina’s health minister acknowledged that the country was in the middle of a dengue fever epidemic with nearly 8,000 people infected. Neighboring Bolivia had about 51,000 cases reported, while Brazil counted some 40,000 cases.
2010 - Paramhamsa Nityananda, a 32-year-old Hindu holy man with thousands of followers acros India, resigned as head of Dhyanapeetam (knowledge center). This, after a video showing Nithyananada in a compromising situation with a woman was broadcast on the Tamil television channel Sun News.
2011 - The chairman of Japan’s TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) said four of the six Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plants were damaged beyond repair. U.N. nuclear agency officials said readings outside the exclusion zone of the Japan nuclear disaster showed radiation exceeding recommended evacuation levels by the agency. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata also revealed his decision to take over daily operations at Tokyo Electric because the company’s president had been hospitalized for an illness brought on by stress.
2012 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Wrath of the Titans, starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Sam Worthington, Rosamund Pike, Bill Nighy, Toby Kebbell and Danny Huston; Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts, Lily Collins, Armie Hammer, Sean Bean, Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham and Michael Lerner; the documentary Bully (“to show how we’ve all been affected by bullying”); Dark Tide, starring Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez, Ralph Brown, Mark Elderkin, Luke Tyler, Thoko Ntshinga and Sizwe Msutu; the documentary Hot Flash Havoc (fact vs. fiction surrounding menopause); Intruders, with Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Ella Purnell and Kerry Fox; and L!fe Happens, with Krysten Ritter, Kate Bosworth, Rachel Bilson, Geoff Stults, Justin Kirk, Fallon Goodson and Andrea Savage.
2012 - Two people were fatally shot and 12 others were wounded when gunmen opened fire on mourners at a funeral in Miami, Florida. About 100 people were in the parking lot of the Funeraria Latina Emanuel in North Miami when gunmen in a passing car fired shots into the crowd. An argument among members of several gangs of mourners was blamed for the ambush.
2014 - A 10-hour Albuquerque, New Mexico protest over police shootings turned violent as demonstrators clashed with officers in riot gear. The protesters blocked traffic, tried to get on freeways and shouted anti-police slogans. There had been 37 Albuquerque police shootings since 2010 -- 23 of them fatal. (In late October 2014 the U.S. Justice Department reached an agreement with Albuquerque to overhaul the city’s police department.)
2015 - An indictment was unsealed in San Francisco charging DEA special agent Carl Force and Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges with stealing digital currency while investigating the Silk Road online marketplace and its founder Ross William Ulbricht. (Force and Bridges were later sentenced to 6+ years in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution.)
2016 - Japanese regulators approved the use of a giant refrigeration system at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant -- to contain radioactive water and keep out groundwater. The system used refrigeration pipes dug 100 feet underground designed to freeze the soil around them, forming a nearly 1-mile wall around the reactor and turbine buildings.
2017 - Volkswagen AG announced that it had agreed to pay $157.45 million to settle environmental claims from 10 U.S. states over its excess diesel emissions. In total, VW had agreed to spend up to $25 billion in the U.S. to address claims from owners, environmental regulators, states and dealers and to make buyback offers. Volkswagen admitted to cheating: fixing its diesel engines to activate pollution controls during government treadmill tests, but to deactivate the controls for highway driving.
2017 - North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed a bill rolling back the state’s bathroom bill, including the requirement that transgender people had to use the bathroom that matched their birth certificate. The action by the governor and state legislature ended a yearlong backlash over transgender rights that cost the state dearly in various business projects, conventions and sport tournaments.
2018 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness, withCaitlin Leahy, Jennifer Taylor and Tatum O’Neal; All I Wish, starring Sharon Stone, Tony Goldwyn, Ellen Burstyn; Birthmarked, with Matthew Goode, Toni Collette and Fionnula Flanagan; FourPlay, starring Tammy Blanchard, Bryan Greenberg and Dominic Fumusa; Gemini, with Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz and John Cho; The Last Movie Star, starring Burt Reynolds, Ariel Winter and Clark Duke; Love After Love, starring Andie MacDowell, Chris O’Dowd and Francesca Faridany; and Status Update, with Ross Lynch, Courtney Eaton and Olivia Holt.
2018 - Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp, in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange, agreed to launch a $930 million Indian joint solar energy venture with Chinese firm GCL System Integration Technology Co. The investment came as part of SoftBank’s India solar investment roadmap. In 2015 SoftBank had said that it would invest up to $20 billion, along with Foxconn Technology Co Ltd and Bharti Enterprises, in solar projects in India, which has a goal of generating 100 gigawatts (GW) of power from solar by 2022.
2018 - Lines of people were reported as pubs in Ireland opened at 7 a.m. to serve alcohol, thanks to legislation that overturned the 1927 ban on pubs opening on Good Friday.
2019 - Cities around the world marked Earth Hour by turning off their lights. This, in a call for global action on climate change. Beginning in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour spread to more than 180 countries, with tens of millions of people joining in. The U.N. headquarters in New York, the pyramids of Egypt and Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue were among top world monuments plunged into darkness for an hour to put the spotlight on climate change and its impact on the planet.
2019 - French ‘yellow vests’ demonstrators staged their 20th week of anti-government protests despite bans in hotspot areas, as banks called for an end to violence against branches, cash machines and personnel.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)The captain of the aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, docked in Guam, asked for permission to isolate the bulk of his roughly 5,000 crew members on shore, which would take the warship out of duty. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier said the spread of the disease was ongoing and accelerating and that removing all but 10% of the crew was a “necessary risk” in order to stop the spread of the virus. A day later the Navy agreed to the request, but on April 2, Crozier was relieved of command by acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly. At the time of his removal, 114 of 4,865 crew members had tested positive for the coronavirus. As he disembarked, sailors cheered him and chanted his name. Crozier himself began showing symptoms of coronavirus, and was placed in quarantine in Guam. 2)The European Commission said European Union countries should allow the hundreds of thousands of seasonal migrant workers who plant or harvest crops to cross borders despite national measures to contain the coronavirus. 3)Tokyo organizers announced the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo has been rescheduled for July 23, 2021.
2020 - Singer-songwriter Bill Withers died in Los Angeles of heart complications. He was 81 years old. His soulful hits such as Lean on Me and Ain’t No Sunshine earned him induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lean On Me had become associated with the Coronavirus pandemic, with many people posting their own versions to support health workers.
2020 - Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man from Rochester, NY, died after he was taken off life support, seven days after an encounter with police. Prude had run naked through the streets before officers placed a hood on him and pressed his face into the ground for two minutes.
2021 - Britain reported that China had breached the Sino-British Joint Declaration that had "guaranteed" Hong Kong’s freedoms. This, after Beijing passed a law that barred candidates from elections on the grounds of insufficient patriotism.
2021 - New York state’s highest court cleared the way for Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, to sue Donald Trump for defamation. Her action came after the former U.S. president called her a liar for accusing him of sexual assault.
2021 - The World Health Organization and some 20 heads of government and global agencies called for an international treaty for pandemic preparedness to protect future generations.
2022 - NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and two Russian counterparts landed in Kazakhstan after leaving the International Space Station in a Russian spacecraft. The space station is one of the few areas where day-to-day cooperation between the United States and Russia continued.
2022 - U.N. human rights official Michelle Bachelet said Russia had committed war crimes by killing civilians and destroying hospitals in its pounding of Ukrainian cities.
2023 - Donald Trump became the first U.S. President to face criminal charges. He was indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on this day for hush payments paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
2023 - Turkey approved Finland’s application to join NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), putting an end to months of delays while also continuing to block Sweden from joining the military alliance. The vote fulfilled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s promise to allow Finland into NATO. Turkey was the last NATO member to approve Finland’s accession, although Hungary only did so on Monday.
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Birthdays on This Day March 30
1746 - Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes
artist: The Caprices, The Family of Charles IV, Majas, The 2nd of May, The 3rd of May; died Apr 18, 18281853 - Vincent van Gogh
post-impressionist artist: The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Night Cafe; died July 29, 18901880 - Seán O’Casey
playwright: Harvest Festival, The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars; died Sep 18, 19641900 - Ted Heath
musician: trombone, bandleader: played big band concerts every Sunday at the Palladium in the 1940s and 1950s; died Nov 18, 19691913 - Frankie Laine (Frank Paul LoVecchio)
singer: That’s My Desire, Mule Train, That Lucky Old Sun, The Cry of the Wild Goose, Jezebel, High Noon [Do Not Forsake Me], Moonlight Gambler, Love is a Golden Ring, I Believe; died Feb 6, 20071916 - Will Hare
actor: Mob Queen, Me and Veronica, Dream West, Pennies From Heaven, Enter the Ninja, The Electric Horseman; died Aug 31, 19971919 - McGeorge Bundy
president of the Ford Foundation; Special Assistant for National Security Affairs under U.S. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; died Sep 16, 19961926 - Peter Marshall (Pierre LaCock)
TV host: Hollywood Squares, Yahtzee, The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments, Moments to Remember: My Music, Reel to Reel; stage performer: Bye-Bye-Birdie [London] Skyscraper [Broadway], High Button Shoes, Anything Goes, Music Man, 42nd Street, Neil Simon’s Rumors, La Cage Aux Folles; TV/film actor: The Return of Jesse James, The Millionaire, Ensign Pulver, Harold Robbins’ 79 Park Avenue, H.M.S. Pinafore; radio host: syndicated Big Band show; 1950s comedy partner of actor-entertainer Tommy Noonan; brother of actress Joanne Dru1929 - Richard Dysart
actor: L.A. Law, Wall Street, Back to the Future 3, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, The Day of the Locust, Pale Rider, The Terminal Man, Wall Street; died Apr 5, 20151930 - John Astin
actor: The Addams Family, The Pruitts of Southampton, Operation Petticoat, Night Court, I’m Dickens, He’s Fenster, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., National Lampoon’s European Vacation1930 - Rolf Harris
Australian entertainer, singer: Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, Two Little Boys; actor: Web of Suspicion, The Rolf Harris Show, Rolf’s Cartoon Club; died May 10, 20231937 - Warren Beatty (Henry Warren Beaty)
actor: Splendor in the Grass, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Parallax View, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, Bulworth, Town and Country; Academy Award-winning director: Reds [1981]; Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy, Bulworth; Irving G. Thalberg Memorial [Academy] Award [2000]1940 - Jerry Lucas
Basketball Hall of Famer: Ohio State Univ. [NCAA Championship: 1960]; U.S. Olympic Team [1960], Cincinnati Royals [NBA Rookie of the Year: 1963-64], San Francisco Warriors, New York Knicks [NBA championship: 1973]; participated in seven NBA All-Star Games [1964-69, 1971]; NBA career record of 10,000+ points and 10,000+ rebounds1941 - Graeme Edge
musician: drums: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, LP: Kick Off Your Muddy Boots, Long Distance Voyager1942 - Bobby Wright
country singer: Lay a Little Happiness on Me, Here I Go Again1945 - Eric Clapton (Eric Patrick Clapp)
rock guitarist: group: Yardbirds: For Your Love; song writer: Layla, score for The Hit; Grammy Award-winning singer: Bad Love [1990], LPs: Tears from Heaven and Unplugged [1993], I Shot the Sheriff, Lay Down Sally, Promises, I Can’t Stand It, Wonderful Tonight1950 - Dave Ball
musician: guitar: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel, Cerdes [Outside the Gates Of]1950 - Robbie Coltrane
actor: Harry Potter series, Ocean’s Twelve, Van Helsing, The World is Not Enough, Alice in Wonderland1950 - LaRue Martin
basketball: Loyola Univ., Portland Trail Blazers1955 - Randy VanWarmer
songwriter, singer: Just When I Needed You Most, All I Have Tonight, Suzi Found a Weapon, I’m in a Hurry [And Don’t Know Why], I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes; died Jan 12, 20041957 - Paul Reiser
comedian, actor: Diner, Mad About You, Aliens, Beverly Hills Cop1962 - MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell)
Grammy Award-winning singer: U Can’t Touch This [1990], Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em: The Movie [1990]; Ring ’Em, Adam’s Groove [Addams Family Theme]; dancer, actor: Amen1964 - Tracy Chapman
Grammy Award-winning folk, pop singer-songwriter: Fast Car [1989], Give Me One Reason [1997]1964 - Dave Ellett
hockey [defense]: Winnipeg Jets, Toronto Maples Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues
1964 - Ian Ziering
actor: Beverly Hills 90210, The Fighter, Biker Mice from Mars, Stripped Down, Subliminal Seduction, Savate, Flour Babies, Terrible Things My Mother Told Me, Endless Love, Spider-Man [TV], Sharknado1965 - Juliet Landau
actress: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Ed Wood, Haunted Echoes, Green Lantern: First Flight, Monster Mutt, The Yellow Wallpaper, Justice League: Doom1965 - Piers Morgan
journalist, TV host: CNN: Piers Morgan Live [2011-2014]; TV judge: Britain’s Got Talent, America’s Got Talent; author; editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children; co-presented ITV’s Good Morning Britain [2015–2021]: on Mar 9, 2021 ITV announced that Morgan was leaving the program, following negative comments he made about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in the days after the U.S. airing of the Oprah with Meghan and Harry interview1968 - Céline Dion
Academy/Grammy Award-winning singer: Beauty and the Beast; LPs: Celine, Celine Dion, The Colour of My Love, D’eux, Falling Into You, Let’s Talk About Love, S’il Suffisait D’aimer, These Are Special Times, All the Way...A Decade of Song1971 - Mark Consuelos
actor: Alpha House, All My Children, The Legend of Butch and Sundance, The Great Raid, Beautiful Girl, Pride and Loyalty, The Last Place on Earth, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Wedding Daze, Cop Out, Missing; married to TV talker/actress Kelly Ripa1972 - Flame (Alicia Vickers)
actress [1991-1998]: X-rated films: Valley of the Sluts, Bloodbath, Battle of the Superstars, Casanova, The One and Only, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Auction, Crazed, Street Angels, Pro Ball, Taboo 9, Taboo 10, Taboo 11, Seymore Butts: In the Love Shack1976 - Jessica Cauffiel
actress: White Chicks, Stuck On You, Legally Blonde, Valentine, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Road Trip, The Out-of-Towners; daughter of author, producer Lowell Cauffiel1976 - Matt Doran
actor: The Great Raid, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Neophytes and Neon Lights, The Matrix, The Thin Red Line, Lilian’s Story1978 - Josh Bard
baseball [catcher]: Texas Tech Univ; Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres1979 - Norah Jones
singer: Come Away with Me, The Nearness of You, Don’t Know Why, Seven Years, I’ve Got to See You Again, Painter Song, The Long Day Is Over; daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar1981 - Katy Mixon
actress: Mike & Molly, Eastbound & Down, Drive Angry, Wilfred, Take Shelter1982 - Jason Dohring
actor: Black Cadillac, Train Quest, Ready to Run, Deep Impact, Journey, Prehysteria! 2, Someone She Knows1984 - Justin Moore
singer: Small Town USA, If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away, Til My Last Day, Backwoods1986 - Sergio Ramos
Spanish footballer: Real Madrid [2005–2021]; Spain national team [2005-2021]: 2010 World Cup Champs1988 - Capri Anderson
actress [2007-2017]: X-rated films: Cable Guy Sex, Nymphetamine 3, Mother-Daughter Exchange Club 12, Spider-Man XXX: A Porn Parody, Barely Cops Sin City, OMG... It's the Leaving Las Vegas XXX Parody1988 - Richard Sherman
football [cornerback]: Stanford Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2011–2017]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs]; San Francisco 49ers [2018–2020]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2021]1989 - Chris Sale
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox [2010–2016]; Boston Red Sox [2017–2019]: 2018 World Series champs1990 - Thomas Rhett
singer: Die a Happy Man, Marry Me, It Goes Like This, Make Me Wanna, Crash and Burn, T-Shirt, Craving You, Get Me Some of That; more1990 - Cassie Scerbo
actress: Bring It On: In It to Win It, Make It or Break It, Sharknado, Sharknado 3, Soccer Mom, CSI: Miami1994 - Alex Bregman
baseball [3rd base/shortstop]: Houston Astros [2016– ]: 2017 World Series champs1995 - Simone Ashley
actress: Bridgerton, Sex Education, A Working Mom’s Nightmare, Broadchurch, Boogie Man, The Little Mermaid
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day March 30
1947The Anniversary Song (facts) - Dinah Shore
How are Things in Glocca Morra (facts) - Buddy Clark
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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