May 7
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Events on This Day
1789 - The first Presidential Inaugural Ball was held in New York City. Each lady in attendance received as a gift a portrait of George Washington. Actually, the ball was the first such event held for the incoming President of the United States.1847 - The American Medical Association was organized in Philadelphia, PA. Go sit in your doctor’s waiting room to celebrate...
1912 - Columbia University approved final plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories. The award was established by Joseph Pulitzer.
1912 - The first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD. This is strange, as the University of Maryland takes up about all of College Park! Maybe the flyer was looking for Terrapins (the school mascot). YIKES!
1915 - On its return trip from New York to Liverpool, England, the British ocean liner, Lusitania, was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. The Lusitania was carrying a cargo of ammunition from the U.S. to Great Britain. This was Germany’s reason for the attack even though the ship was carrying over 2,000 civilian men, women and children. 1,198 lives were lost.
1941 - Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded one of the great American music standards, Chattanooga Choo Choo, on this day. The song was recorded at the famous Victor recording studios in Hollywood, California. Song of the Volga Boatman, Elmer’s Tune, A String of Pearls, Moonlight Cocktail, That Old Black Magic and Kalamazoo were also Glenn Miller #1 recordings alongside Chattanooga Choo Choo. All aboard!
1943 - Bizerte, Tunisia was captured by American troops and the British took Tunis.
1945 - Baseball owner Branch Rickey announced the organization of the United States Negro Baseball League, consisting of six teams.
1945 - Nazi Colonel General Alfred Jodl, representing the German government, entered the headquarters of the Allied forces early this day. He was in a red school building in Reims, France for one purpose only ... signing the terms of unconditional surrender. Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff, Lt. General Walter B. Smith signed for the Allies.
1951 - Russia was admitted to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.
1953 - Can-Can kicked off at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre on this day. The Cole Porter musical starred Gwen Verdon. She and choreographer Michael Kidd won Tony Awards for Can-Can. The show ran for 892 performances, closing Jun 25, 1955.
1959 - It was one of the most touching and memorable nights in all of baseball on this night. 93,103 fans packed the LA Coliseum for an exhibition game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees. Sandy Koufax pitched for the Dodgers and lost to the Yankees, 6-2. It was Roy Campanella Night. The star catcher for the Dodgers, paralyzed in an automobile accident, was honored for his contributions to the team for many years. ‘Campie’ continued to serve in various capacities with the Dodger organization for many years.
1962 - Theodore H. White won a Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the President 1960.
1963 - The United States launched the Telstar II communications satellite. It transmitted the first public transatlantic broadcast.
1965 - The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards remembers waking up in the middle of the night in a motel room in Clearwater, Florida. The guitar riff to (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction was rolling around in his head. He recorded it on a cassette there and then. When he got up the next morning, he didn’t remember the riff until he listened to the tape. The Stones released Satisfaction on May 27. It hit number one on July 7 and went on to become their worldwide anthem.
1966 - The Mamas & The Papas made the climb to the top of the Billboard pop music chart with Monday, Monday. For three weeks Monday, Monday stayed at the top of the pop music world. The tune was the second hit by the group -- just two months after their first, California Dreamin’. These two songs would be the only number one hits for the group, though they made it to number two with Dedicated to the One I Love.
1970 - The Long and Winding Road was released by The Beatles. It was their last U.S. release.
1972 - The Rolling Stones released Exile on Main Street, one of their best and most successful albums.
1973 - The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for its investigation of the Watergate cover-up.
1977 - Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby. It was the first win on the way to his Triple Crown victory. Seattle Slew was the tenth -- and first unbeaten -- Triple Crown winner.
1984 - A $180-million out-of-court settlement was announced in an Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans. The vets charged they had suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant. A consortium of Dow Chemical and other manufacturers paid $184 million to veterans from the U.S, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
1987 - Shelly Long made her last appearance as a regular on the popular TV show, Cheers. Long, who played cocktail server Diane Chambers, to often hilarious results, left the hit comedy to pursue a movie career.
1989 - The body of actor Guy Williams was found in his apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He had died of a brain aneurysm a week earlier. Williams is remembered for his leading TV roles in Zorro and Lost in Space.
1992 - Endeavour, the $2 billion replacement for the Challenger, was launched on its maiden voyage. During shuttle mission STS-49, astronauts set new records for duration of spacewalk and the number of astronauts outside the craft.
1994 - 1,322 guitarists, led by Randy Bachman, gathered in Vancouver, B.C. to play Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Takin’ Care of Business for 68 minutes and 40 seconds. The outdoor strumathon set two world records: the greatest number of guitarists and the longest mass guitar jam session.
1995 - Jacques Chirac won the French election for president, beating Socialist opponent Lionel Jospin by garnering 52.64% of the votes cast. Chirac’s election ended fourteen years of Socialist control of the presidency.
1996 - The first international war crimes trial since Nuremberg opened at The Hague in the Netherlands. A Serbian police officer, Dusan Tadic, faced trial on murder-torture charges. A year later, he was convicted of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1997 - The release of the Intel Pentium II computer chip was announced.
1998 - The parent company of Mercedes-Benz agreed to buy Chrysler Corporation for more than $37 billion. (In 2007 Daimler-Benz/DaimlerChrysler sold Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management.)
1999 - These movies opened in the U.S.: The Castle, starring Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Sophie Lee, Wayne Hope and Costas Kilias; and The Mummy, featuring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo and Kevin J. O’Connor.
2000 - President Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in what was called Russia’s first democratic transfer of power.
2000 - A second fire was set to contain an earlier blaze that was begun to clear brush on the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico; that second fire blew out of control, destroying more than 200 homes and damaging part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory before it was controlled.
2000 - Film actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr died at 90 years of age.
2001 - ‘Great Train Robber’ Ronnie Biggs, who had eluded capture for decades following his prison escape in 1965, returned to Britain, where he was arrested and jailed to complete the 28 remaining years of his sentence.
2002 - A China Northern Airlines jetliner crashed into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people. The Chinese government later blamed a saboteur who had set a fire on board the aircraft.
2003 - A research team led by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that it had altered a common cold virus to destroy brain tumors in mice. The ‘viral smart bomb’ therapy completely eradicated the tumors, while leaving normal brain tissue alone.
2004 - Movies opening in the U.S.: New York Minute, starring Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Andy Richter, Jared Padalecki, Riley Smith, Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy; and Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Silvia Colloca, Schuler Hensley, Will Kemp, Josie Maran, Kevin J. O'Connor, David Wenham and Samuel West.
2004 - Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary, testified before Congress for six hours and apologized for Iraqi prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers.
2005 - 50-1 shot Giacomo beat those large odds and won the $1.6 million Kentucky Derby. Giacomo caught Afleet Alex in the final strides to generate the second-highest payoff ($102.60 for a $2 mutuel bet) in the history of the Derby.
2006 - Israeli police evicted dozens of Jewish squatters from a Palestinian home in West Bank city of Hebron. The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert eventually moved to uproot tens of thousands of settlers from the West Bank.
2007 - Six Islamic militants from Yugoslavia and the Middle East were arrested in New Jersey on charges of plotting to attack the Fort Dix Army post.
2008 - The price of oil closed at a record high with light, sweet crude settling at $123.53 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
2008 - Clearwire and Sprint Nextel announced they would combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55-billion communications company to be called Clearwire.
2009 - Mexico City residents at the center of the swine flu epidemic were welcomed back to their favorite seats in taco joints and fancy restaurants, where they ordered their first meals out in almost two weeks. High schools and universities closed by the swine flu epidemic also reopened. Teachers and parents carefully checked returning students for flu symptoms. The death toll due to the H1N1 flu reached 44.
2009 - Ten of the largest U.S. banks came up collectively some $75 billion short, according to government stress tests. U.S. federal regulators ordered the banks to shore up their capital.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The documentary Babies, directed by Thomas Balmes; Badmaa$h Company, with Shahid Kapur, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang and Vir Das; Happiness Runs, starring Hanna Hall, Mark L. Young, Jesse Plemons, Rutger Hauer and Rich Sickler; Iron Man 2, with Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson and Paul Bettany; Mother and Child, with Naomi Watts, Samuel L. Jackson, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington and Carla Gallo; Multiple Sarcasms, starring Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Dana Delany, Mario Van Peebles and India Ennenga; OSS 117: Lost in Rio, with Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, Rüdiger Vogler, Alex Lutz and Reem Kherici; and Trash Humpers, with Paul Booker, Dave Cloud, Chris Crofton, Charles Ezell and Chris Gantry.
2010 - Chinese lawyers Tang Jitian and Liu Wei were informed by Beijing judicial authorities that their licenses had been revoked. The attorneys had represented a member of an outlawed spiritual movement. Jitian and Wei said the penalty was designed to scare other lawyers away from taking on sensitive human rights cases.
2011 - Europe faced the specter of Greek calls for new financial help as Athens’ “catastrophic” finances returned to haunt stressed eurozone states, despite efforts to prevent panic. The Greek public deficit for 2010 had been revised upwards, from 9.4 percent of gross domestic product to 10.5 percent.
2011 - The 137th running of the Kentucky Derby was won by Animal Kingdom, a 20-1 longshot with a replacement jockey aboard. An injury to Animal Kingdom’s regular rider, Robby Albarado, had cleared the way for John Velazquez to pick up the mount on the 20-1 long shot. He took the reins and rode his good luck all the way to the winner’s circle. “For once, I'm on the good end of it,” Velazquez said. “All of a sudden I pick up this one and he wins the Derby, so it was meant to be.”
2012 - Barack Obama formally started campaigning for another four years as U.S. president. Meanwhile, a Politico/George Washington University poll showed Mitt Romney leading Obama 48 percent to 47 percent.
2013 - Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford defeated Democratic businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special House election for South Carolina’s first congressional district. Representative Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Busch’s efforts were an example of how the party would stay aggressive in future elections. “The fact that the Democrat made this competitive is a testament to the strength of Elizabeth Colbert Busch as a candidate and the Republican habit of nominating flawed candidates,” Israel said. “Democrats will be aggressive and drive deep into Republican-held territory ... to find districts with flawed candidates where we can compete.”
2014 - A Saudi newspaper said blogger Raif Badawi had been sentenced to ten years in prison and 1000 lashes. He was charged with insulted Islam on an online forum. Badawi was also ordered to pay a fine of about $266,000. (In March of 2015, Badawi’s wife told reporters that judges in Saudi Arabia’s criminal court wanted to retry him for apostasy [renouncing his religion]. If found guilty, he would be sentenced to death.)
2015 - Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory in Britain. The Conservatives won 331 of 650 seats. Cameron formed the first majority Conservative government since John Major’s surprise victory in 1992. Labor won 232 seats.
2015 - Organizers of the Miss Zimbabwe pageant said they were investigating 25-year-old Emily Kachote two weeks into her reign after photos after nude photos of her were leaked by a bitter former lover. This, a year after her predecessor had quit over a similar scandal.
2016 - Voters in Austin, Texas rejected a campaign by Lyft and Uber to overturn a requirement for fingerprinting drivers for ride-hailing companies. In response, Uber and Lyft halted services Austin.
2017 - Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed what he called a ban on so-called ‘sanctuary cities’. The Texas law allowed police to ask about a person’s immigration status and threatened sheriffs with jail if they did not cooperate with federal authorities. The governor signed the new law despite intense opposition from immigrant-rights groups and Democrats, who said the law echoed Arizona’s immigration crackdown in 2010 that prompted national controversy and lawsuits.
2018 - Hawaii authorities battling lava flows and gas erupting from Kilauea volcano warned that some residents should ‘go now’ after a new fissure opened and more structures were destroyed.
2018 - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new ‘zero tolerance’ border enforcement policy. That ill-thought-out policy created a continuing mess for the U.S.
2019 - Inspectors reviewing a border station in El Paso, Texas, reported poor conditions for migrants, including overcrowding and a lack of sanitary conditions. The U.S. government’s treatment of immigrants has become increasingly harsh and inhumane. Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy has caused the separations of many children from their families. U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 5,400 children from their parents at the Mexico border between July 2017 and March 2020. And 24 immigrants, including seven children, have died in U.S. custody since 2018.
2020 - The Justice Department dropped the criminal case against POTUS Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Flynn’s prosecution was a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters to attack the FBI’s Russia investigation.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The Labor Department reported that 3.2 million Americans claimed unemployment benefits for the first time, bringing the total to 33.5 million since March 21, roughly 22.1% of the working-age population.
2)U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a massive coronavirus-response. Major components included additional aid to state and local governments, more money for coronavirus testing and help for the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service.
3)11 members of the U.S. Secret Service had tested positive for COVID-19, according to Department of Homeland Security documents.
4)California reported a budget deficit of $54.3 billion due to a huge drop in revenue -- combined with increased expenses.
5)British physicians in The Lancet reported that a rare, life-threatening condition was developing in some children after exposure to the coronavirus that researchers were calling Pediatric Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome...2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Here Today, starring Sharon Stone, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Kevin Kline and Billy Crystal; Wrath of Man, with Jason Statham, Holt McCallany and Josh Hartnett; Initiation, with Lochlyn Munro, Froy Gutierrez and Jon Huertas; Mainstream, starring Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke and Nat Wolff; The Water Man with Rosario Dawson, Maria Bello, Alfred Molina; and White People Money, starring J. Adrienne, Nicole Arbour and Matthew Azuh.
2021 - 48-year-old Daniel Kamensky, a New York hedge fund founder who predicted he might go to jail for corrupting the sale of some assets during the bankruptcy of Neiman Marcus, turned out to be correct. He was sentenced to six months.
2021 - A Southern California man was arrested on federal charges spending millions of dollars in coronavirus relief on luxurious cars, lavish vacations personal expenses. Mustafa Qadiri of Irvine obtained some $5 million in Payment Protection Program money after claiming to own four businesses in nearby Newport Beach, none of which were in business.
2022 - Afghan women were ordered to cover their faces in public (hijab reaching head to toe) by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- or her male guardian would face criminal punishment.
2022 - U.S. District Court Judge James Donato dismissed a lawsuit filed by former POTUS Trump against Twitter over its decision to permanently kick him off the social media platform following the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. The judge ruled that federal lawmakers’ proposals for legislation regulating Twitter and similar platforms did not amount to the kind of direct intimidation or demand that could plausibly lead to the conclusion that Twitter was acting on behalf of the federal government when it shut down Trump’s account. Donato’s 17-page decision also rejected arguments from Trump attorneys that a controversial 1996 law known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act led to the then-president’s expulsion in January of last year. That law allows internet sites to police message boards and other user postings without incurring potential liability as a publisher of the content. “The government cannot plausibly be said to have compelled Twitter’s action through Section 230, which in any event imposed no affirmative obligations on Twitter to act in any particular way,” the judge wrote.
2023 - Russian drone strikes rained down on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine. But Kyiv’s mayor said more than 30 drones targeting the capital were shot down. Ukraine also said it downed a Russian hypersonic missile (that Russia had said was unstoppable) using the U.S. Patriot missile defense system.
2023 - A man rammed his car into a group of migrants waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas, killing eight people and injuring ten others. George Alvarez, a 34-year-old resident of Brownsville, was arrested and charged with eight counts of intoxication manslaughter, eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Toxicology tests indicated Alvarez had cocaine, marijuana and Benzodiazepines -- depressants -- in his system at the time of the crash. Alvarez had a lengthy criminal record, including arrests for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assaulting a public servant and driving while intoxicated.
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Birthdays on This Day May 7
1812 - Robert Browning
poet: Pauline, Men and Women, The Ring and the Book, Pippa Passes: God’s in His Heaven - All’s Right with the World; married to poet, Elizabeth Barrett; died Dec 12, 18891833 - Johannes Brahms
composer: Requiem, Symphony #1 in C Minor, Symphony #4 in E Minor; died Apr 3, 18971840 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
composer: Marche Slave, 1812 Overture, Swan Lake, Nutcracker Suite, Romeo and Juliet; died Nov 6, 18931861 - Rabindranath Tagore
Nobel prize-winner: literature [1913]; Hindu poet, mystic, musical composer; died Aug 7, 19411885 - Gabby (George Francis) Hayes
actor: sidekick of both Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers, appeared in over 100 films; vaudevillian, silent movie villain; died Feb 9, 1969; more1892 - Archibald MacLeish
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Conquistador [1933], Collected Poems, 1917-1952 [1953]; U.S. Librarian of Congress; died Apr 20, 19821901 - Gary (Frank James) Cooper
Academy Award-winning actor: Sergeant York [1941], High Noon [1952]; Beau Geste, The Virginian, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The Wreck of the Mary Deare; died May 13, 19611915 - Win Elliot
sports announcer: NY Rangers; prizefight announcer; TV gameshow host: Tic Tac Dough, Make That Spare, Break the Bank; radio gameshow host: Quick as a Flash; died Sep 17, 19981917 - David Tomlinson
actor: Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug, Tom Jones, The City Under the Sea, The Liquidator, Wombling Free, The Water Babies, Dominique, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu; died Jun 24, 20001919 - Eva (Evita) Peron
Argentina’s spiritual leader and wife of Argentina’s President, Juan Peron; actress on stage, film and radio; autobiography: The Reason for My Life; founder and president of the union entity: Agrupacion Radial Argentina; subject of the Broadway musical and film Evita; died July 26, 19521921 - Gale Robbins
actress, singer: The Barkley’s of Broadway, The Fuller Brush Girl, Three Little Words, The Belle of New York; died Feb 12, 19801922 - Darren McGavin
actor: The Night Stalker, Airport ’77, A Christmas Story, Billy Madison, Child in the Night, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Martian Chronicles, The Natural, Perfect Harmony, Dead Heat; died Feb 25, 2006; more1923 - Anne Baxter
actress: The Ten Commandments, Walk on the Wild Side, All About Eve, Cimarron, East of Eden, Homecoming; died Dec 12, 19851927 - Jim Lowe
songwriter, singer: Green Door; songwriter: The Gambler’s Guitar, Close the Doors They’re Coming in the Windows; DJ: WCBS, WNBC, WNEW; syndicated host: Jim Lowe and Friends; died Dec 12, 20161929 - Dick (Richard Hirschfeld) Williams
Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1953], Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, Boston Red Sox; manager: Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics [winning 2 World Series], California Angels, Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners; died Jul 7, 20111930 - Totie Fields (Sophie Feldman)
entertainer, comedienne: “I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.”; died August 2, 19781930 - Babe (Vito) Parilli
football: Univ of Kentucky: all-American; NHL: Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, NY Jets [Super Bowl III]; offensive coach: Denver Broncos, New England Patriots; died Jul 15, 20171931 - Teresa Brewer (Theresa Breuer)
singer: Music, Music, Music, Ricochet, Let Me Go Lover, A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl, ’Til I Waltz Again with You; actress: Redheads from Seattle; died Oct 17, 20071933 - Johnny Unitas
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers quarterback; holds consecutive records for game touchdown passes [47] from 1956-1960; died Sep 11, 20021939 - Johnny Maestro
singer: group: The Crests: Sixteen Candles, Trouble in Paradise, Step by Step, The Angels Listened In, Six Nights a Week; The Brooklyn Bridge: The Worst that Could Happen; died Mar 24, 20101939 - Jimmy Ruffin
singer: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Hold on to My Love, There Will Never be Another You; died Nov 17, 20141940 - John Irvin
film director: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Dogs of War, Raw Deal, Hamburger Hill, Next of Kin, Robin Hood [1991], When Trumpets Fade, Shiner, The Moon and the Stars, Dot.Kill, The Fourth Angel, Noah’s Ark, City of Industry, A Month By the Lake, Widows’ Peak; more1942 - Lorrie (Lawrencine May) Collins
country singer: rockabilly group [w/Larry Collins]: The Collins Kids: Rock Away Rock, In My Teens, Rock Boppin’ Baby, Hop Skip & Jump; featured on TV: Town Hall Party, Grand Ole Opry, Steve Allen Show1943 - Ricky West
musician: guitar: group: Brian Poole & The Tremeloes: Twist & Shout, Do You Love Me, Someone Someone, Silence is Golden1945 - Robin Strasser
actress: One Life to Live, Picture This, Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, Lady Boss, White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd, Baby M, The House That Cried Murder1946 - Thelma Houston
singer: Don’t Leave Me This Way; actress: Death Scream, Norman ... Is That You?, The Seventh Dwarf; cousin of singer Whitney Houston; more1946 - Marv Hubbard
football: Colgate Univ, Oakland Raiders1946 - Bill Kreutzmann
musician: drums: group: The Grateful Dead: Dark Star, Anthem of the Sun, Touch of Grey, Workingman’s Dead, Skulls and Roses, American Beauty1947 - Dave Hampton
football: Green Bay Packers: First 1,000-Yard Rusher [1,002 yards: 1975], Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles1949 - Kathy Ahern
golf champ: LPGA [1972]; died July 6, 19961950 - Tim Russert
TV host, moderator: NBC: Meet the Press, CNBC: Tim Russert; died Jun 13, 20081953 - Terry Richardson
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, SL Blues1954 - Amy Heckerling
film director: Clueless, Look Who’s Talking series, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Johnny Dangerously, Fast Times at Ridgemont High1955 - Peter Reckell
actor: Days of Our Lives, Knots Landing, One Stormy Night, Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage, Shades of Love: Moonlight Flight1957 - Ned Bellamy
actor: Twilight, Skills Like This, The Contract, Lords of Dogtown, Saw, Antitrust, Being John Malkovich1959 - Michael E. Knight
actor: All My Children, Hexed, Date with an Angel1960 - Mike Sanders
basketball [forward, guard]: Univ of California; San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers; coach: Black Hills Gold [IBA], Washington Congressionals, Adirondack Wildcats [USBL]; assistant coach: Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks, Wisconsin Blast [IBA], Ashville Altitude [NBDL]1968 - Traci Lords
actress [1984-1987]: X-rated films: Talk Dirty to Me, Part III, Kinky Business, Tailhouse Rock, Sex Fifth Avenue, New Wave Hookers, Electric Blue series, Traci Takes Tokyo; actress: Warm Up with Traci Lords, Not of This Earth, The Nutt House, The Tommyknockers, Serial Mom, Melrose Place, Profiler1974 - Breckin Meyer
actor: Robot Chicken: Star Wars, 54, Clueless, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare1975 - Nicole Sheridan
actress [2000-2011]: X-rated films: Backseat Driver 13, Taboo 2001: A Sex Odyssey, Eruptions: Pink’s My Favorite Color, Terminally Blonde, Beautiful/Nasty Too, Everybody’s Doing It!, Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre1976 - Calvin Booth
basketball [center]: Penn State Univ; Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Seattle SuperSonics, Milwaukee Bucks1978 - Shawn Marion
basketball: NBA: Phoenix Suns [1999–2008], Miami Heat [2008–2009], Toronto Raptors [2009], Dallas Mavericks [2009–2014]: 2011 NBA champs; Cleveland Cavaliers [2014–2015]1979 - Katie Douglas
basketball [shooting guard, small forward]: WNBA: Orlando Miracle [2001–2002]; Connecticut Sun [2003–2007]; Indiana Fever [2008–2013]: 2012 WNBA champs; Connecticut Sun [2014]1979 - Betsy Rue
actress: My Bloody Valentine 3D, Halloween II, Unfabulous, How I Met Your Mother, According to Jim, True Blood, Femme Fatales, Eastwick, iCarly1987 - Aidy Bryant
comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Horace and Pete, Shrill1989 - Earl Thomas
football [defensive back]: NFL: Seattle Seahawks [2010–2018]: 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII champs; Baltimore Ravens [2019]1990 - Sydney Leroux
footballer [striker]: U.S. women’s soccer team [2011]; 2015 World Cup Championship team1991 - Taylor Abrahamse
singer, actor: The Future Is Wild, Doc, Canada: A People’s History1992 - Alexander Ludwig
actor: The Hunger Games, The Seeker, Race to Witch Mountain1997 - Cameron Young
golf: 2022 British Open runner-up, 2-time winner on Korn Ferry Tour
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Hit Music on This Day May 7
1944I Love You (facts) - Bing Crosby
I’ll Get By (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
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