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1776 - Rhode Island declared its independence from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. Rhode Island thus became the first of the American colonies to secede from England.1839 - The Cunard Steam Ship Company was founded by -- you guessed it -- somebody named Cunard. Shipyard owner Samuel Cunard of Halifax, Nova Scotia was the man. His contract to deliver the mail across the Atlantic from Great Britain to North America was signed on this day and involved a commitment to provide three steamships of 800 tons and 300 horsepower for the job.
1886 - The first practical phonograph, better known as the gramophone, was patented -- by Chichester A. Bell, a chemical engineer, and Charles Sumner Tainter, a scientist and instrument maker.
1899 - Manuel rushed to the finish line ahead of four others to win the 25th Kentucky Derby.
1905 - Belmont Park race track opened on Long Island, New York. Race King and Sysonby finished in a dead heat in the day’s feature race.
1925 - The Sid Terris-Johnny Dundee boxing match was the final event held at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City. Terris was the winner of the bout. Five different sites have been named Madison Square Garden over the years.
1932 - Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone, was jailed in the Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion.
1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea began. It was the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft -- the actual enemy fleets never came closer to one another than 100 km. A turning point in World War II, the battle of the Coral Sea raged through April 10, with 17 of 22 Japanese ships sunk, 144 Japanese planes destroyed and 5100 Japanese killed. U.S. losses were estimated to be one carrier, one destroyer and one tanker sunk, and one carrier damaged. 66 U.S. planes were destroyed and 543 men lost their lives.
1945 - Field Marshall Montgomery announced that all enemy forces in the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and Denmark had surrendered unconditionally.
1945 - June Christy sang with the Stan Kenton band on one of the most famous of all big band hits, Tampico. The tune was waxed as Capitol record number 202.
1946 - A two-day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay ended. Five people died in the uprising.
1953 - The Pulitzer prize for fiction was awarded to Ernest Hemingway for Old Man & The Sea.
1956 - Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps recorded Be-Bop-A-Lula for Capitol Records (#3450) at Owen Bradley’s Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Vincent had written the tune only three days before he auditioned in a record-company talent search that won him first place. Be-Bop-A-Lula, Capitol’s first rock ’n’ roll record, was rush-released and would be in stores within two weeks -- and in the top ten of U.S. pop charts by July 1956.
1957 - This was a tough day at the Kentucky Derby for Willie Shoemaker. He misjudged the finish line while aboard Gallant Man. In the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs was, instead, Iron Liege, ridden by jockey Bill Hartack. Gallant Man and Shoemaker did win the Belmont Stakes a few weeks later.
1959 - The first Grammy award winners (for the music of 1958) were announced. They included Volare, by Domenico Modugno (Record and Song of the Year), Tequila, by The Champs (Rhythm and Blues Performance), Tom Dooley by The Kingston Trio (Country and Western Performance), and The Music from Peter Gunn, by Henry Mancini (Album of the Year).
1961 - The first group of Freedom Riders left Washington DC for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals.
1964 - Another World premiered on NBC-TV. The soap opera dramatized the story of two families: the Randolphs and the Matthews.
1966 - Willie Mays hit home run number 512 of his career. The San Francisco Giants’ superstar broke Mel Ott’s record and became the greatest home run hitter in the National League to that time.
1970 - This was a sad day in U.S. history and for human rights as four Kent State University students were shot down by National Guard members during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration. Memorial services are held annually for Allison Krause, Sandra Lee Scheuer, Jeffrey Glenn Miller and William K. Schroeder on the Kent, Ohio campus.
1977 - Former President Richard M. Nixon spoke with interviewer, David Frost in the first of four television interviews. Nixon had been in seclusion for the two previous months.
1980 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, died three days before his 88th birthday.
1982 - The British torpedo boat HMS Sheffield was hit -- and destroyed -- by an Exocet rocket fired from an Argentine Super Etendard (SUE) aircraft off the Falkland Islands.
1985 - Spend A Buck posted the third fastest winning time in the Kentucky Derby by running the 1-1/4 mile track at Churchill Downs in 2 minutes and 1/8 second. Only Secretariat (1973) and Northern Dancer (1964) had been faster.
1985 - The famed Apollo Theatre, once the showcase for the nation’s top black performers, reopened after a renovation that cost $10.4 million. The landmark building on West 125th Street in New York was the first place The Beatles wanted to see on their initial visit to the United States. Ed Sullivan used to frequent the Apollo in search of new talent for his CBS show.
1987 - Chicago bluesman Paul Butterfield, who brought the blues to a generation of rock fans in the 1960ss, was found dead in his Los Angeles home. He was 44. His death was attributed to alcohol and drug abuse.
1990 - Latvia’s parliament voted unanimously for Independence.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush (I) suffered shortness of breath while jogging at Camp David, MD. He was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital where doctors found an irregular heartbeat. He was later diagnosed as suffering from Graves’ disease.
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed the GazaJericho First accord on Palestinian autonomy. The agreement granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1996 - Grindstone won the 122nd Kentucky Derby, giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas his sixth straight victory in a Triple Crown race.
1997 - FBI director Louis Freeh announced that “catastrophic mechanical failure” was the most likely cause of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July 1996 -- or was it?
1998 - Following emotional testimony from his victims and their families, Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was given four life sentences plus 30 years by a federal judge in Sacramento, California, under a plea agreement that spared him the death penalty.
1999 - Five New York police officers went on trial for the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. One officer later pleaded guilty, a second was convicted, and the other three saw their obstruction-of-justice convictions thrown out.
2000 - The e-mail ILOVEYOU virus hit millions of computers around the world. It was considered the most virulent and costly ($2.6 billion) virus to that time.
2001 - The Mummy Returns opened in the U.S. The action adventure stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vasloo, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velasquez, Freddie Boath, The Rock, Adewale and Shaun Parkes.
2002 - A Nigerian airliner crashed into a densely populated district of the northern city of Kano just after takeoff from Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport. The crash killed a total of 154 people on the plane and the ground.
2002 - 20-1 shot War Emblem scored a down-to-the-wire, four-length victory over Proud Citizen in the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby.
2003 - Idaho Gem, the first cloned mule, was born at the University of Idaho.
2003 - A Soyuz spacecraft delivered a three-man, U.S.-Russian crew to Earth in the first landing since the Columbia space shuttle disaster. The Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft touched down some 460 kilometers short of its intended landing zone, but all on board landed safe.
2004 - Thousands of people were evacuated as some 3,000 firefighters battled wildfires in Southern California.
2005 - Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space shattered the record price for a sculpture at auction when it sold for $27,450,000 at Christie’s sale of Impressionist and modern art.
2006 - U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life, to “die with a whimper,” for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Moussaoui retorted, “God save Osama bin Laden. You will never get him.”
2006 - The Vatican excommunicated two bishops ordained by China’s state-controlled church, which is not recognized by the Holy See.
2007 - Lucky You debuted in U.S. movie houses. The drama stars Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall and Debra Messing.
2007 - Tornadoes in southwest Kansas killed at least seven people and leveled most of the town of Greensburg.
2008 - Democrat Barack Obama beat rival Hillary Clinton by just 7 votes in Guam’s presidential primary. Record numbers of residents had turned out to voted.
2008 - A boat ferrying people home from a religious festival sank in the Amazon region on the Solimoes River in Brazil. Dozens of people were killed or missing.
2009 - Actor, comedian Dom DeLuise died at 75 years of age. Though very funny onscreen, DeLuise was deeply passionate about food. He also created a career as a chef and cookbook author.
2010 - Perfect Combination, debuted in the U.S. The starring romantic comedy stars Christian Keyes, Tiffany Hines, Angell Conwell, Debra Wilson, Kareem J. Grimes, Ayo Sorrells, Dawn Richard, Terrell Carter, Gina Comparetto, Aaron Hill, Johnny Gill, Chico Benymon, Michael Bower, Jeff Lam and Meredith Myers.
2010 - British Petroleum (BP) said efforts to contain the giant oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico were costing £3.9 million a day; winds had pushed a giant slick towards fragile wetlands on the U.S. coast; efforts intensified to bottle up the ruptured well.
2011 - Ukrainian prosecutors said they had started a criminal investigation against the former head of the Kiev Zoo, where hundreds of animals had died or gone mysteriously missing in recent years. Svitlana Berzina was suspected of embezzling some €32,000 ($47,000) from the zoo by commissioning projects that weren’t carried out. Berzina was fired in 2010 after nearly one-half of the zoo’s animals either died or disappeared.
2012 - Films debuting in the U.S.: The Avengers, starring Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård. Lou Ferrigno, Clark Gregg and Jenny Agutter; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imri, Ronald Pickup and Tena Desae; A Little Bit of Heaven, starring Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Gael García Bernal, Lucy Punch, Kathy Bates, Steven Weber and Whoopi Goldberg; LOL, with Ashley Greene, Demi Moore, Miley Cyrus, Thomas Jane, Douglas Booth, Gina Gershon, Austin Nichols and Fisher Stevens; Meeting Evil, starring Leslie Bibb, Samuel L. Jackso, Luke Wilson, Tracie Thoms, Peyton List and Ryan Lee; The Perfect Family, with Emily Deschanel, Kathleen Turner, Jason Ritter, Richard Chamberlain, Elizabeth Peña, Michael McGrady, Sharon Lawrence and Kristen Dalton; and The Samaritan, with Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga, Tom Wilkinson, Gil Bellows and Aaron Poole.
2012 - British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party suffered widespread losses in local elections as voters punished Cameron for biting austerity measures and a stalled economy. Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats suffered similar losses. Meanwhile, Ed Miliband declared that Labour was “winning back people’s trust” after a night of big gains across the country saw his party take control of several key councils.
2013 - A stretch limo caught fire on the San Mateo Bridge (near San Francisco). The driver and four women in a bridal party escaped, but five others, including the bride, died in the fire.
2014 - A Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two Vietnamese Sea Guard vessels in a part of the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has deployed a giant oil rig. China has claimed almost the entire oil- and gas-rich South China Sea, rejecting rival claims to parts of it from Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei.
2016 - Japanese-based Takata Corporation recalled another 35-40 million air bag inflators bringing the total recall to some 69 million.
2016 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation raising the smoking age from 18 to 21. Brown also signed a bill tightening restrictions on use of the increasingly popular e-cigarettes.
2017 - Donald Trump returned to New York for the first time since taking office -- as many New Yorkers took to the streets to protest his politics. The POTUS motorcade passed hundreds of demonstrators as it arrived at the decommissioned aircraft carrier Intrepid in the early evening for a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
2018 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: Bad Samaritan, with David Tennant, Kerry Condon and Robert Sheehan; Overboard, starring Anna Faris, Eva Longoria and Swoosie Kurtz; Tully, with Mackenzie Davis, Charlize Theron and Mark Duplass; The Cleanse, with Anna Friel, Johnny Galecki and Kyle Gallner; Ray Meets Helen, starring Keith Carradine, Sondra Locke and, Keith David; and Taco Shop, with Tyler Posey, Eric Roberts and Laura Harring.
2018 - The Pentagon announced the launch of a new naval command to bolster the U.S. and NATO presence in the Atlantic Ocean. “The return to great power competition and a resurgent Russia demands that NATO refocus on the Atlantic to ensure dedicated reinforcement of the continent and demonstrate a capable and credible deterrence effect,” Johnny Michael, a Pentagon spokesman, said. The new NATO command “will be the linchpin of trans-Atlantic security,” he said. Outlines of the plan were approved at a February meeting of NATO defense ministers as part of a broader effort to ensure the security of the sea lanes and lines of communication between Europe and North America.
2018 - The Swedish Academy which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said it would not present an award in 2018. The cancellation came after a sexual misconduct scandal that caused turmoil and led to a string of board members stepping down. The scandal began in November 2017 when French photographer Jean-Claude Arnault, who ran a cultural project with funding from the Swedish Academy, was accused by 18 women of sexual assault. Several of the alleged incidents reportedly happened in properties belonging to the academy. Mr Arnault denied the allegations.
2019 - Japanese aerospace startup Interstellar Technology Inc. successfully launched a small rocket into space, making it the first commercially developed Japanese rocket to reach orbit.
2020 - J. Crew, the mass-market clothing company whose preppy-with-a-twist products were worn by Michelle Obama and appeared at New York Fashion Week, announced that its parent company, Chinos Holdings, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)U.S. Supreme Court justices, separated by the pandemic, began hearing arguments via telephone for the first time.
2)Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would contribute €525 million ($573.51 million) to a global fund-raising push to search for vaccines and treatment. World leaders in a video conference launched a pledging "marathon" - without the United States - to raise at least $8.2 billion for research into a possible vaccine and treatments for the coronavirus, but warned that it is just the start of an effort that must be sustained over time to beat the disease.
3)Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, winner of the 2020 Genesis Prize, announced in Israel that he was donating his $1 million Genesis award to organizations fighting the coronavirus pandemic and assisting people most affected by the outbreak.
4)U.S. cases nationwide reached 1,152,372 with the death toll at 67,456; global cases surpassed 3.5 million with deaths at over a quarter of a million.2021 - President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on this day: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. Biden said the federal government had failed to allocate the necessary resources to prevent the thousands of unsolved cases of missing and murdered Native Americans. He pledged his administration’s support to address this “ongoing tragedy” in Indian Country.
2021 - Sotheby’s said it would accept bitcoin and ethereum as payment for Banksy’s iconic artwork Love Is in the Air, a first for a physical art auction -- and the latest sign of growing mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies.
2021 - India’s government said eight Asiatic lions at a zoo in Hyderabad had contracted the coronavirus, adding that there was no evidence that animals could transmit the disease to humans. The Nehru Zoological Park was closed as a result.
2022 - Rhode Island’s highest court upheld a state law guaranteeing its citizens’ right to abortion. The 27-page opinion upheld a Superior Court judge’s decision to dismiss a challenge to the law known as the Reproductive Privacy Act, brought by anti-abortion activists, whose failed argument was that the law violated the state constitution.
2022 - The European Union tried to weaken President Vladimir V. Putin’s ability to finance the war in Ukraine, proposing a total embargo on Russian oil. These steps were taken as Putin continued to use Russia’s destructive power with missile strikes in the west of the country and deadly attacks in the east.
2023 - Singer, songwriter Ed Sheeran was found not guilty (by a Manhattan federal jury) of copying Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On for Sheeran’s 2014 single Thinking Out Loud. A copyright infringement suit had been filed by the heirs of Gaye’s co-writer Ed Townsend.
2023 - The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 over as a global health emergency, but was an ongoing health issue and significant threat, with seven million known deaths (the real total was more like 20 million).
2023 - The head of Wagner, the private military company hired by Russia to advance its war on Ukraine, said his fighters were leaving the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut due to insufficient support from Moscow. The move came after the Wagner boss unleashed an expletive-laden challenge to Russia’s military leadership, blaming its lact of support for the spike in Wagner casualties.
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Birthdays on This Day May 4
1796 - Horace Mann
educator: the father of public education in the U.S.; founder of Westfield, MA State College; author, editor: Common School Journal; died Aug 2, 18591820 - Julia Tyler (Gardiner)
wife of 10th U.S. President John Tyler; died July 10, 18891889 - Cardinal (Francis) Joseph Spellman
Roman Catholic clergy leader; died Dec 2, 19671909 - Howard Da Silva (Silverblatt)
actor: The Lost Weekend, The Great Gatsby, Mommie Dearest, Abe Lincoln in Illinois; died Feb 16, 19861923 - Ed ‘Cass’ Cassidy
musician: drums: groups: New Jazz Trio, Taj Mahal, Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Nature’s Way; died Dec 6, 20121928 - Maynard Ferguson
musician: trumpet, trombone, other horns; bandleader: LPs: Primal Scream, Conquistador, New Vintage, Carnival, Hot, It’s My Time, Hollywood, High Voltage; died Aug 23, 20061928 - Betsy Rawls
golf champion: first of two players to win U.S. Open four times [1951, 1953, 1957, 1960]; also two-time LPGA Champion [1959, 1969]; died Oct 21, 20231929 - Audrey (Edda Kathleen) Hepburn (van Heemstra)
Academy award-winning actress: Roman Holiday [1953]; Gigi, War and Peace, Love in the Afternoon, The Unforgiven, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Children’s Hour, Charade, My Fair Lady; died Jan 20, 1993
1930 - William James Eyden musician: drummer: groups: Procol Harum, Jazz Couriers, Georgia Flame, Blue Flamers, Vic Ash-Harry Klein Quintet; died Oct 15, 2004
1930 - Roberta Peters (Peterman)
opera soprano: Metropolitan Opera; Rigoletto [Gilda], Il Barbiere di Siviglia [Rosina]; films: City Hall, Tonight We Sing; Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in Performing Arts [1997]; died Jan 18, 20171932 - Harlon Hill
football: Florence State Teachers College [All-American], Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions; Harlon Hill Trophy [to player of the year in NCAA Div. II] named after him; died Mar 21, 20131936 - Manuel Benítez Pérez
‘El Cordobés’: Spanish bullfighter1937 - Dick Dale
musician: guitar [‘King of the Surf Guitar’]: group: Dick Dale and The Del-Tones: Misirlou, Let’s Go Trippin’; died Mar 16, 20191938 - Tyrone Davis
soul singer: Turn Back the Hands of Time, Can I Change My Mind; died Feb 9, 20051939 - Paul Gleason
actor: Van Wilder, Not Another Teen Movie, No Code of Conduct, Money Talks, Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence; died May 27, 20061941 - Nickolas Ashford
producer, songwriter: duo: Ashford & Simpson: Let’s Go Get Stoned, I’m Every Woman, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Ain’t Nothing like the Real Thing, You’re All I Need to Get By, Reach Out and Touch Somebody’s Hand; performers [Ashford & Simpson]: Solid [As a Rock], Found a Cure; died Aug 22, 20111941 - George F. Will
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist: syndicated in some 460 papers, Newsweek; Washington editor: National Review; contributing analyst: ABC-TV News: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, This Week1943 - Ronnie Bond (Ronald Bulls)
musician: drums: group: The Troggs: Wild Thing, With a Girl like You, I Can’t Control Myself, Any Way that You Want Me, Give It to Me, Night of the Long Grass, Hi Hi Hazel, Love is All Around, Little Girl1944 - Fred (Frederic) Stanfield
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, Minnesota North Stars, Buffalo Sabres1947 - Richard Jenkins
actor: The Cabin in the Woods, Six Feet Under, The Visitor, Killing Them Softly, Jack Reacher, The Company You Keep, Friends with Benefits1949 - Zal Cleminson
musician: guitar: groups: Tear Gas, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Nazareth: Love Hurts, Holiday, My White Bicycle, This Flight Tonight, Hair of the Dog, Love Leads to Madness, Star1951 - Jackie (Sigmund) Jackson
singer: group: The Jackson Five, The Jacksons: I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save, I’ll Be There, Enjoy Yourself, Shake Your Body, State of Shock1951 - Mick Mars
musician: guitar: group: Motley Crue: If I Die Tomorrow, Saints of Los Angeles, Anarchy in the U.K., Hooligan’s Holiday, Without You, Dr. Feelgood, Smokin’ in the Boys Room, Girls, Girls, Girls1954 - Pia Zadora
actress: Hairspray, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Pajama Tops, The Lonely Lady, Fakeout, Butterfly, Naked Gun 33 1/3; more1955 - Danny Brubeck
drummer: Two Generations of Brubeck, In Your Own Sweet Way, The Duke; Dave Brubeck’s son1959 - Randy Travis (Randy Bruce Traywick)
singer: Forever and Ever Amen, On the Other Hand, Diggin’ Up Bones, Always and Forever1961 - Jay Aston
singer: group: Bucks Fizz: Making Your Mind Up, Land of Make Believe, My Camera Never Lies, Now Those Days are Gone, If You Can’t Stand the Heat1961 - Mary Beth McDonough
actress: The Waltons, Boston Legal, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Christmas at Cadillac Jack’s, One of Those Nights, Waiting to Act, Mom, Midnight Offerings, Lovely But Deadly1967 - Ana Gasteyer
actress: Saturday Night Live, What Women Want, Woman on Top1969 - Michael Clark II
golf champ: John Deere Classic [2000], NIKE Olympia Open [1996], NIKE Hershey Open [1998]1970 - Will Arnett
actor: We’re the Millers, Despicable Me, Spring Breakdown, On Broadway, Blades of Glory, RV, The Acting Class1972 - Mike Dirnt
musian: bass, co-founder of Green Day; other groups: Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Frustrators, Screeching Weasel, Squirtgun1973 - Matthew Barnaby
hockey [left wing]: Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche, Chicago Blackhawks1976 - Hunter Kemper
U.S. Olympic triathlete: U.S. national champ [1998, 1999, 2001, 2003]1977 - Emily Perkins
actress: The X Files, Mom P.I., Miracle on Interstate 880, Christy: The Movie, Dead Like Me, She’s the Man1978 - Erin Andrews
TV personality: Dancing with the Stars, College GameDay, Good Morning America1978 - James Harrison
football [linebacker]: Kent State Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers[2004-2012], [2014-2017]: 2006 Super Bowl XL, 2009 Super Bowl XLIII; New England Patriots [2017]1979 - Lance Bass
singer: group: ’N Sync: I Want You Back, Tearin’ Up My Heart, Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You, I Drive Myself Crazy, Music Of My Heart; more1989 - Rory McIlroy
golf champ from Northern Ireland: Dubai Desert Classic [European Tour 2009]; Quail Hollow Championship [PGA Tour 2010]; US Open [2011]; PGA Championship [2012]; Open Championship [2014]; PGA Championship [2014]; Genesis Scottish Open [2023]; European Tour: Dubai Desert Classic [2009]; represented Europe in the Ryder Cup [2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023]; more1992 - Gracie Gillam (Grace Victoria Phipps)
actress: The Vampire Diaries, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Teen Beach Movie, Dark Summer
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1950If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake (facts) - Eileen Barton
My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
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