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---- - May Day has been a traditional holiday celebration since ancient times. On this day, spring festivals and Maypoles are common. The Maypole is a tall pole that is covered with streamers, flowers and other decorations of spring. People grab hold of a streamer and dance around the pole to ward off ol' man Winter for good. Since the 1880s, May Day has been celebrated in some countries, particularly socialist nations, as a labor holiday.
1751 - America’s first cricket tournament was held in New York City. Cricket is a popular European sport, played by teams of 11 players who use bats, balls and wickets.
1847 - The cornerstone of the first Smithsonian Institution building was laid in Washington, DC. The inscription on the cornerstone reads, “On the 1st day of May, 1847, was laid, in the city of Washington, this foundation-stone of a building to be appropriated for the Smithsonian Institution; founded by bequest of James Smithson, of Great Britain.” The building was completed in 1855.
1883 - Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) staged his first Wild West show near North Platte, Nebraska.
1885 - The first skyscraper in America was under construction. No, it wasn’t in New York. The ten-story (138 feet [42 m]) Home Insurance Building was located on the corner of LaSalle and Adams in Chicago, IL.
1893 - The World’s Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America, opened. New York City, Washington, DC, St.Louis and Chicago had all vied for the honor of hosting the exposition. Chicago’s lobbyists finally won out and, on April 25, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the act that designated Chicago as the site of the exposition. Also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, the expo was designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. It covered more than 600 acres (2.4 km2), featuring nearly 200 new (but purposely temporary) buildings. More than 27 million people attended during its six-month run. And for a fascinating read, get The Devil in the White City
, by Erik Larson (“Architect Daniel Burnham built it; serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes used the fair to lure victims to his nearby hotel, designed for murder.”)
1920 - The longest baseball game (by innings) was played. The Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers played an incredible 26 innings -- with the same pitchers! Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Boston’s Joe Oeschger went the distance and saw the game end in a 1-1 tie. Rumors that the groundskeeper had to roll up the poor pitchers’ arms after play was stopped are probably not far off...
1931 - Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career with CBS on this, her birthday. The 24-year-old Smith started out with no sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week for the nationally broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her salary increased to a more respectable $1,500 a week!
1939 - The two-part Sy Oliver arrangement of Lonesome Road was recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Listening carefully, one might note that the lead trombone is not that of Tommy Dorsey, but of Dave Jacobs, instead.
1941 - Cheerioats, a ready-to-eat oat cereal, was introduced by General Mills. The name of the cereal was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
1945 - The BBC reported that Hamburg radio had announced that Hitler had died in Berlin, Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels had committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, and German headquarters in Italy formally agreed to an unconditional surrender.
1948 - The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was founded. North Korea proclaimed its independence Sept. 9, 1948.
1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovered Nereid, the second satellite of Neptune.
1950 - Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer prize for Drama for their musical South Pacific. The musical is based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific.
1955 - Jockey Willie Shoemaker rode the legendary Swaps to a win in the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. The Run for the Roses was worth $108,400. (Swap’s colt, Chateaugay, would win the 1963 Derby with the exact same time as his daddy’s: 2 minutes, 1-4/5 seconds.) This was Shoemaker’s first Derby win. He would win again in 1959 aboard Tommy Lee and in 1965 on Lucky Debonair.
1960 - An American U-2 plane invaded Soviet airspace. The Soviets reacted by shooting down the plane piloted by the C.I.A.’s Francis Gary Powers. It took five days for the Soviets to announce the occurrance to the rest of the world. At first the U.S. referred to the U-2 as a weather reconnaissance plane, denying that Powers was a spy. Later, the U.S. State Department admitted that the mission was to photograph Soviet military installations, and that the mission was justified. Powers was tried as a spy by the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to solitary confinement for 10 years in "Matrosskaya Tishina". In 17 months, he was exchanged for Russian spy Rudolf Abel who had been exposed by the CIA.
1964 - Professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth University invented the BASIC programming language. The first implementation was a compiler. For those of you keeping score, the first BASIC program ran at about 4:00 a.m. on May 1, 1964.
1965 - Bandleader Spike Jones, who specialized in fractured versions of songs like Cocktails for Two, The William Tell Overture and All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, died in Los Angeles at age 53. Jones and his City Slickers used bells, whistles, pistol shots and other goofy noises to accentuate their music. Jones was labeled with that nickname, ‘Spike’, because his father worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
1967 - Elvis Presley got hitched to a girl he had dated since his army days in West Germany. Elvis and Priscilla Beaulieu married in Las Vegas, NV. The wedding cake, incidentally, cost $3,500. The marriage lasted until 1973.
1969 - Leonard Tose, a trucking executive from Philadelphia, PA, opened his wallet and pulled out $16,155,000 to buy himself the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. It was the largest price paid to that date for a pro football franchise.
1970 - Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin combined for the first time on Elton’s first American album simply titled, Elton John. The LP contained Elton’s first hit, Your Song, which made it to the top ten on the music charts in December.
1971 - A new word was introduced into the American traveling lexicon this day -- Amtrak. The word soon became synonymous with passenger train travel. Amtrak operates under the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. Now, people don’t take the train. They take Amtrak.
1978 - Naomi Uemura became the first person to reach the North Pole overland alone. (Uemira had reached the top of Mt. Everest on May 11th 1970.)
1979 - The Marshall Islands in the Pacific became self-governing.
1980 - A musical double feature, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine made its debut on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The first part of the show, A Day in Hollywood, was a revue of classic Hollywood songs of the 1930s performed by singers and dancers representing ushers from Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The second, A Night in the Ukraine, was loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s one-act play The Bear, and was presented in the style of a Marx Brothers movie. The show transferred to the Royale Theatre on Jun 17, 1980, and closed on Sep 27, 1981, after a total of 588 performances.
1982 - I Love Rock ’N Roll, by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, appeared at the top of the pop music charts for the seventh, and final, week. The rocker stayed on the charts for 16 weeks. Jett from Philadelphia, PA played guitar and formed the all-female rock band, The Runaways in the mid-’70s. The Blackhearts were founded in 1980. Jett starred in the film, Light of Day, playing the role of leader of a rock band called The Barbusters. The movie also starred Michael J. Fox and Michael McKean. The title song, Light of Day, was written by Jett and Bruce Springsteen. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts had nine hits on the charts into 1990, but I Love Rock ’N Roll was the group’s only million-plus selling record.
1986 - Race car driver Bill Elliott set a speed record with his Ford Thunderbird in Talladega, AL. Elliott zipped around the track at 212.229 mph.
1987 - During a visit to West Germany, Pope John Paul II beatified Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an employer has the legal burden of proving that its refusal to hire or promote someone is based on legitimate and not discriminatory reasons.
1989 - The 135-acre Disney-MGM Studios, now Disney’s Hollywood Studios, opened to the public in Orlando, FL.
1991 - Will Rogers Follies opened at Palace Theater in New York City -- for 981 performances. And it was an award winner as the show won 1991 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Original Score, Direction, Choreography, Costume Design and Lighting Design.
1991 - From the Baseball Desk: Nolan Ryan (age 44) of the Texas Rangers threw his seventh no-hitter, shutting out the Toronto Blue Jays 3-to-0. And Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A’s set a major-league record by stealing his 939th base during a game against the NY Yankees.
1992 - President Bush ordered 4,000 military troops into the riot-ravaged streets of Los Angeles, California.
1993 - The racehorse Sea Hero won the Kentucky Derby.
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka, was assassinated by a Tiger suicide bomber in Colombo.
1997 - Britons voted in a national election that gave the Labor Party a big victory over ruling Conservatives and elected Tony Blair Prime Minister.
1997 - John and Patsy Ramsey, the parents of slain six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, publicly declared their innocence, and asked for the public’s help in finding the killer of their daughter.
1998 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Black Dog, starring Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meat Loaf; Dancer, Texas Pop. 81, featuring Breckin Meyer, Ethan Embry and Peter Facinelli; and Les Misérables, starring Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush and Uma Thurman.
1999 - Liberty Bell 7, the Mercury space capsule flown by Gus Grissom, was located in the Atlantic Ocean, some 300 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liberty Bell 7 sank July 21, 1961, minutes after the capsule splashed down, when a hatch unexpectedly opened.
2000 - Pop stars Lou Reed and The Eurythmics appeared with Pope John Paul II at the Jubilee 2000 celebration in Rome. They all appealed to the international community to cancel the outstanding debts owed by some of the world’s poorest countries.
2001 - A Seattle lawyer filed a suit, on behalf of Hindus, against McDonald’s Corporation for the fast-food chain’s nondisclosure of beef flavoring in its French fries.
2002 - Israeli armored vehicles began leaving Yasser Arafat’s battered West Bank compound, ending his five months of confinement.
2003 - President George Bush (II), standing on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, announced that “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Bush landed on the carrier just off San Diego in a Navy S-3B jet and spoke below a banner that read “Mission Accomplished.”
2004 - Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby and ran his record to 7-for-7. The horse was the first unbeaten Derby winner since Seattle Slew in 1977.
2005 - Newsweek magazine (May 9th edition) ran a story reporting that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay prison had flushed a Quran Muslim holy book down a toilet. (Newsweek later retracted the flushing story.)
2006 - Thousands of people rallied in cities across the U.S. for what organizers called, “A Day Without Immigrants.” An estimated 100,000 gathered in San Jose, CA, 400,000 in Chicago, 400,000 in Los Angeles and some 75,000 in Denver.
2006 - The Drowsy Chaperone opened at the Marquis Theatre in New York City’s Broadway district. The ‘musical within a comedy’ won five Tony Awards and ran for an impressive 674 performances, closing Dec 30, 2007.
2007 - Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Center in Colorado, reported that the Arctic ice cap was melting much faster than expected and was about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
2007 - U.S. President George Bush (II) cast the second veto of his presidency rejecting an attempt by both chambers of Congress to set a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
2007 - John Hickenlooper was re-elected mayor of Denver by pulling 86.3% of the vote.
2008 - South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on elephant killing. The country had some 18,000 elephants.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: Battle for Terra, with Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Luke Wilson, David Cross, Justin Long, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid, Chris Evans, James Garner, Rosanna Arquette, Chad Allen and Danny Glover; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Anne Archer, Amanda Walsh, Emma Stone, Michael Douglas, Robert Forster, Noureen DeWulf and Christa B. Allen; X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring ugh Jackman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan and Daniel Henney.
2009 - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had compared himself to Jesus Christ and Napoleon, boasted that he was the world’s most popular leader.
2009 - Indian officials reported 18 deaths caused by a scorching heat wave that had swept through more than a dozen Indian states.
2010 - Lee County, South Carolina Sheriff E.J. Melvin was arrested and charged with drug conspiracy. According to the FBI, Melvin dealt drugs from his police SUV and when state and federal agents gave him a list of possible drug dealers in his county, he immediately started calling to tip them off or extort money to get them off the list.
2010 - New York City police found a powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle parked with its engine running and its hazard lights on in Times Square. Although the crude device inside had apparently started to detonate, there was no explosion. Two days later federal agents arrested Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistan-born resident of Bridgeport. On June 21, 2010 Shahzad confessed to 10 criminal counts arising from the bombing attempt.
2011 - A French submarine, probing 3,900 meters (12,800 feet) below the ocean’s surface, located and recovered the flight data recorder of Air France Flight 447. The Airbus A330-200 jetliner had crashed June 1, 2009 in a remote area of the mid-Atlantic, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew.
2011 - A seemingly endless flow of Libyans crossed into Tunisia from Libya at the Dehiba border post, a day after a record 5,000 refugees fled the conflict in their country.
2012 - May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, saw protestors throughout Asia demanding wage increases, marches across Europe over government-imposed austerity measures, and Indonesian workers demanding better pay and protection of job security (watched warily by a heavy police and army presence). Meanwhile, ‘Occupy’ demonstrators and labor and immigration activists participated in May Day protests across the U.S.
2013 - A jury in Davenport, Iowa awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled turkey processing plant workers for what was described as years of “virtual enslavement” by Texas-based Henry’s Turkey Service.
2014 - The Navajo Nation and a group led by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and actor Robert Redford said they have agreed on a plan to manage thousands of wild horses on the Navajo reservation and keep the animals from being slaughtered. It was estimated that as many as 75,000 wild horses were roaming the Navajo Indian Reservation and contaminating drinking wells. The Navajo Nation Department of Agriculture had been rounding up some of the wild horses which were then sent to be slaughtered. After a public outcry, the round-up ceased.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo; Far from the Madding Crowd, with Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenaerts; She’s Funny That Way, starring Jennifer Aniston, Imogen Poots and Quentin Tarantino; Private Number, with Judd Nelson, Tom Sizemore and Nicholle Tom; and Ride, starring Brenton Thwaites, Helen Hunt and Robert Knepper.
2015 - The new Whitney Museum of American Art opened in New York City. The $422 million building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano. It was named for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron.
2016 - Delegates from Germany’s anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), backed an election manifesto that proclaimed Islam was not compatible with Germany’s constitution and called for a ban on minarets and the burqa. The Central Council of Muslims likened the AfD’s attitude towards Muslims to that of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis towards the Jews.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump opened the door to a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un by offering unusual praise for the communist leader at a time of escalating international nuclear tension.
2017 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that cities have grounds to sue when banks make predatory loans to racial minorities. The decision allowed a city of Miami lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Bank of America to continue. The suit for damages under the Fair Housing Act, accused the big banks of causing economic harm with discriminatory and predatory lending practices.
2018 - Workers and protesters around the world observed May Day with rallies and strikes demanding their governments address better working conditions and other labor issues. In many parts of Europe, May Day is still celebrated as the onset of spring with picnics and outdoor barbecues. But across the world, May 1 is also traditionally marked with strikes, parades and occasionally violent protests.
2019 - Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May fired defense minister Gavin Williamson for pushing media reports that the government had agreed, against the advice of the U.S., to let Huawei, a Chinese multinational technology corporation, participate in some aspects of Britain’s new 5G wireless communications network. Williamson denied the accusation.
2019 - Russia’s Vladimir Putin signed into law expanding government control over the internet. The law required internet providers to install equipment to route Russian internet traffic through servers in the country.
2020 - Scientists for the first time identified a fast radio burst inside the Milky Way coming from a magnetar. Magnetars are incredibly dense neutron stars, with 1.5 times the mass of our sun squeezed into a space the size of Manhattan. Magnetars had been known for a dozen years, having been spotted outside our galaxy, but prior to this sighting had not been seen inside the Milky Way.
2020 - COVID-19 news: 1)Operation Warp Speed (OWS), a U.S. government effort to have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, was begun as a partnership between Health and Human Services, The Defense Department and many health-related agencies. 2)A survey from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported U.S. manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low in April as the coronavirus wreaked havoc on supply chains. 3)Alaska Airlines and Southwest required passengers to wear face coverings. All major U.S. airlines had made that requirement. 4)Supermarket chain Kroger said it had put purchase limits on ground beef and fresh pork at some of its stores following growing concerns over meat shortages due to coronavirus-induced supply disruptions.
2021 - Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby, but was later disqualified after failed drug tests. after the race. The final results: 1)Mandaloun, 2)Hot Rod Charlie and 3)Essential Quality.
2021 - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended the requirement that passengers on planes, trains and buses wear face masks. The rule was set to expire May 11 but was extended through Sep 13.
2022 - A body in a barrel was found on the newly exposed bottom of Lake Mead (drought conditions had drastically lowered water levels). Investigators believed the person was likely a murder victim who died from a gunshot wound.
2022 - University of Texas at Austin chemical engineers developed a new enzyme variant that can break down plastic in hours or days.
2022 - Britain said Russia was using a troll factory to spread disinformation about its war in Ukraine on social media. Putin’s thugs were targeting politicians across a number of countries including Britain and South Africa.
2023 - Russia had suffered more than 100,000 casualties, including 20,000 killed, since December 2022 in its attack on Ukraine. The stunning number, released by White House official John Kirby, included both wounded and killed, and was a key signal that Moscow’s winter offensive had “backfired.”
2023 - Eight people were killed when a dust storm in Illinois caused more than 70 vehicles to crash on I-55 south of the state capital after dust from newly plowed fields engulfed both north and southbound lanes, police said. 45-mph winds picked up the dust and made it nearly impossible to see. Dozens were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
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Birthdays on This Day May 1
1672 - Joseph Addison
essayist: periodicals: The Spectator, The Tatler, The Guardian, The Freeholder; author: Cato; died June 17, 17191825 - George Inness
artist: Peace and Plenty, Delaware Valley, Spring Blossoms; died Aug 3, 18941830 - Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones
‘The Miner’s Angel’: labor leader; died Nov 30, 1930 [note: Mary Jones stated that her birthday as May 1, 1830, however historians have placed it variously between 1830 and 1844]1852 - Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary-Burke)
U.S. Wild West frontierswoman: often dressed in men's clothing and was reputed to be both a crack shot and an expert rider; she was married 12 times; died aug 1, 19031895 - Leo Sowerby
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: The Canticle of the Sun [1946]; died July 7, 19681907 - Ralph Freed
songwriter, composer: Hawaiian War Chant, How About You?, Little Dutch Mill, Who Walks in When I Walk Out?, Mama Don’t Allow It; died Feb 13, 19731907 - Kate Smith
singer: God Bless America, When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain; performer: The Kate Smith Show [see above, 1931]; died June 17, 1986; more1913 - Louis Nye
comedian, actor: The Steve Allen Show, The Ann Sothern Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Good Neighbor Sam, Harper Valley P.T.A., Inspector Gadget series [voice]; died Oct 9, 20051915 - Archie Williams
Olympic Gold Medalist: 400 meters in 46.5 seconds [1936], disputing Hitler’s theory of Aryan superiority; died June 24, 19931916 - Glenn Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford)
actor: The Teahouse of the August Moon, Blackboard Jungle, Midway, Don’t Go Near the Water, Cimarron, Final Verdict; died Aug 30, 20061917 - John Beradino
actor: General Hospital, The New Breed, I Led Three Lives, Don’t Look Back: The Story of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige, Moon of the Wolf; baseball player; died May 19, 19961918 - Jack Paar
TV host: The Tonight Show; died Jan 27, 20041919 - Dan O’Herlihy
actor: Fail-Safe, Halloween 3, RoboCop; died Feb 17, 20051922 - Julian Goodman
president, chairman: NBC; died Jul 2, 20121923 - Joseph Heller
writer: God Knows, Sex and the Single Girl, Dirty Dingus Magee, Catch-22; died Dec 10, 19991924 - Art Fleming
TV game show host: Jeopardy!, Doctor I.Q., Pantomime Quiz died Apr 25, 19951925 - Scott Carpenter
U.S. aquanaut [SEALAB II], test pilot, astronaut: second American to orbit the Earth, 4th American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn; died Oct 10, 20131929 - Sonny James (James Loden)
The Southern Gentleman; singer: Young Love, First Date, First Kiss, First Love; appeared in films: Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar, Nashville Rebel, Las Vegas Hillbillies, Hillbilly in a Haunted House; died Feb 22, 20161930 - Ollie Matson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Francisco Univ. All-American; U.S. Olympic medal winner [track: 1952]; Chicago Cardinals [#1 draft pick: 1952/Pro Bowl MVP: 1956], LA Rams, Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles; 12,844 combined net yards, 5,173 yards rushing, 222 receptions, 438 points, record 9 TDs on punt, kickoff returns, played in 5 Pro Bowls; died Feb 19, 20111934 - Shirley Horn
jazz musician: piano; singer: I Just Found Out About Love, The Great City, A Time for Love, Here’s to Life, I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; died Oct 20, 20051939 - Judy Collins
singer: Both Sides Now, Amazing Grace, Send In the Clowns; more1940 - Bobbie Ann Mason
author: In Country, Spence and Lila1945 - Rita Coolidge
singer: Higher and Higher, We’re All Alone, You, All Time High1946 - Jerry Weiss
musician: trumpet, flugelhorn: group (1967-1968): Blood, Sweat & Tears: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, When I Die1946 - John Woo
film director: Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Red Cliff, Hard Target1947 - Jerry Heard
golf: struck by lightning [w/Lee Trevino, Bobby Nichols] during 1975 Western Open [forced new safety standards in weather preparedness at PGA events]; developed Jerry Heard Super Swing technique1950 - Dann Florek
actor: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Smart Guy, NYPD Blue, Hunter, Matlock, The Pentagon Wars, The Pretender1954 - Ray Parker Jr.
singer, songwriter: Ghostbusters, The Other Woman, I Still Can’t Get Over Loving You1955 - Nick Feldman
musician: bass guitar: group: Wang Chung: Everybody Have Fun Tonight, Let’s Go, Dance Hall Days, Hypnotize Me, To Live and Die in L.A.1957 - Steve Farris
musician: guitar: group: Mr. Mister: Broken Wings, Kyrie, Is It love1959 - Phil Smith
musician: saxophone: group: Haircut 100: Favourite Shirts [Boy Meets Girl], Love Plus One, Fantastic Day, Nobody’s Fool1960 - Steve Cauthen
horse jockey: Triple Crown Winner [1978], riding Affirmed1965 - Debi Diamond
actress [1983-2010]: X-rated films: The Magic Shower, Steamy Windows, Say Something Nasty, Overnight Sensation, No Man’s Land 8: Eight Women Who Ate Women, All the President’s Women, Maliboob Beach1966 - Johnny Colt
musician: bass: group: The Black Crowes: LPs: Three Snakes & One Charm/Blackberry, Sho’ Nuff, Amorica1966 - Charlie Schlatter
actor: Diagnosis: Murder, 18 Again!, Bratz, Out at the Wedding, Miss Cast Away, A Town Without Pity, Ed, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, Stormy Weathers1967 - Tim McGraw
singer: Welcome to the Club; LPs: Tim McGraw, Not a Moment too Soon, Everywhere, Place in the Sun; more1968 - D’arcy Elizabeth Wretzky
musician: bass guitar, singer: group: The Smashing Pumpkins: Siva, Rhinoceros, Drown, Cherub Rock, Today, Disarm, Landslide1970 - Alex Van Pelt
football [quarterback]: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: KC Chiefs, Buffalo Bills1971 - Stuart Appleby
Austrialian golf pro1972 - Julie Benz
actress: Dexter, Angel, Answers to Nothing, Held Hostage, Saw V, Circle of Friends, Lackawanna Blues, The Long Shot, The Brothers1973 - Curtis Martin
Pro Football Hall of Fame running back: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: NE Patriots, NY Jets1978 - James Badge Dale
actor: 24, The Pacfiic, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, The Black Donnellys, Fort Pit, Shame, The Conspirator, The Grey, Flight, Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3, World War Z1981 - Manny Acosta
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves [2007-2009]; NY Mets [2010-2012]1981 - Wes Welker
football [wide receiver]: Texas Tech Univ; NFL: San Diego Chargers [2004]; Miami Dolphins [2004–2006]; New England Patriots [2007–2012]: tied Super Bowl record [11 receptions in a single game] in 17–14 loss to Giants in Super Bowl XLII [2008], 2012 Super Bowl XLVI; Denver Broncos [2013–2014]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII; St Louis Rams [2015]1982 - Jamie Dornan
actor: Once Upon a Time, Flying Home, Fifty Shades of Grey, Marie Antoinette, The Fall1983 - Jennifer Ellison
actress: Brookside, The Codfather, The Commander: Abduction, The Phantom of the Opera1986 - Emilia Clarke
actress: Game of Thrones, Triassic Attack, Spike Island, Shackled, Dom Hemingway; Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s [2013]1990 - Caitlin Stasey
actress: Neighbours, Tomorrow, When the War Began, Reign, Please Like Me, APB1992 - Madeline Brewer
actress: Orange is the New Black, Hemlock Grove, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Deleted2003 - Lizzy Greene
actress: A Million Little Things, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, Knight Squad, Damaged Goods, Cousins for Life2004 - Charli D’Amelio
dancer, social media personality: Dancing with the Stars season 31 [2022] winner
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Hit Music on This Day May 1
1952Blue Tango (facts) - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Blacksmith Blues (facts) - Ella Mae Morse
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