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1847 - Robert W. Thomson of England patented the rubber tire on this day.1879 - George Selden of Rochester, NY applied for the first automobile patent.
1886 - Dr. John S. Pemberton first sold his secret elixir. It was originally used for medicinal purposes. So Dr. Pemberton went to the right place to sell his new product: Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, GA. Three years later, Dr. Pemberton figured that his secret formula had been enough of a success for him to sell out. He did just that, for $2,300. Even in 1889 dollars, $2,300 was a mere drop in the bucket for what the still very classified, secret formula would be worth. Dr. Pemberton's medicine was sold to make people feel better and it still does that today. It's “the pause that refreshes.” It's “the real thing.” It's Coca-Cola. Have a Coke in honor of Dr. Pemberton, today.
1915 - Regret captured the 41st Kentucky Derby. The horse was the first filly (of three) to win the Run for the Roses in Louisville, KY.
1941 - Anita O’Day recorded Let Me Off Uptown on Okeh Records with Gene Krupa and his band.
1945 - King Leopold of Belgium was freed by the U.S. 7th Army. The Nazis had held the king and his family in Saxony and Salzburg, Austria.
1945 - This day was celebrated throughout the free world. It was V-E Day. The Allied Forces had achieved victory in Europe with the unconditional surrender of Germany. The surrender had been made official on May 7th at Reims, France.
1952 - U.S./allied fighter-bombers staged the largest raid of the war on North Korea.
1956 - Alfred E. Neuman (“What, me worry?”) first appeared on the cover of Mad Magazine. Neuman was indirectly named for Alfred ‘Pappy’ Newman, a noted film composer. The magazine was founded by William Gaines.
1959 - The final broadcast of One Man’s Family was heard on NBC radio after being on the air 27 years. The show had completed 3,256 episodes since its beginning back in 1932.
1961 - Shore Patrol Revisited became one of the most memorable episodes of the CBS-TV series, Hennessey. The program marked the first time that Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney appeared together professionally since they had been teenagers -- some 25 years earlier.
1961 - The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc. selected the Mets as the name for their National League baseball franchise that would begin play at the Polo Grounds in 1962. Other names considered at the time included the Rebels, Skyliners, NYBs, Burros (for the five boroughs), Continentals and Avengers; as well as the Jets and Islanders (names that would eventually find their way onto the New York sports scene).
1962 - Zero Mostel starred in one of his most famous roles, in the Broadway production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. The comedy opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. Audiences laughed through the entertaining show for a total of 964 performances.
1965 - College sophomore Randy Matson broke his own pending world record in the shot put by breaking the 70-foot barrier. Matson put that shot 70 feet, 7 inches at a meet in College Station, TX.
1968 - Catfish Hunter was pitching for Oakland in an American League baseball game against Minnesota. By the end of the game, with a score of 4-0, Catfish made history. He pitched what turned out to be the ninth perfect game in major-league baseball history.
1970 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew. The feature story about him, “Stern voice of the silent majority - SPIRO AGNEW KNOWS BEST.”
1973 - Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered on this day.
1978 - David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom to the six murder charges in the ‘Son of Sam’ shootings that had terrified New Yorkers.
1978 - The feat of climbing Mount Everest without oxygen was achieved by Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner and Austrian Peter Habeler on this very day.
1980 - The World Health Organization declared that smallpox had been eradicated around the world.
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela, the sensational crowd-pleasing pitcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers, won his fifth shutout of the young baseball season. Fernando went on to win eight games without a loss and posted an amazing ERA of just 0.50!
1984 - Joanie (Erin Moran) and Chachi (Scott Baio) got married on Happy Days! The comedy series, starring Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley and Marion Ross (Ron Howard and Anson Williams had already left the show), was winding down in its final season on ABC-TV. In the same episode, Fonzie (brilliantly portrayed by Winkler), filed papers to adopt a son.
1985 - Larry Bird scored a career-high 43 points to lead the Boston Celtics to a 130-123 win over the Detroit Pistons.
1987 - Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, the first American musical to be staged in China, opened at the Tianchao Theatre in Beijing. The production was translated into Chinese. The all-Chinese cast had little difficulty dealing with the trappings of American culture in the play.
1990 - The Estonian parliament voted to change that country’s name to Republic of Estonia from the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1991 - U.S. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander in the Persian Gulf War, received a hero’s welcome as he addressed Congress.
1991 - Concert pianist Rudolf Serkin died in Guilford, Vermont. He was 88 years old.
1994 - Actor George Peppard died at the age of 65. Peppard is remembered for his many film roles, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, How the West Was Won, The Victors, The Carpetbaggers, Operation Crossbow, Blue Max, House of Cards, Cannon for Cordoba, The Groundstar Conspiracy, and the TV series Banacek [1972] and The A-Team [1983].
1996 - Aerosmith’s Get a Grip was the #1 U.S. album. The tracks: Intro, Eat the Rich, Get a Grip, Fever, Livin’ on the Edge, Flesh, Walk on Down, Shut Up and Dance, Cryin’, Gotta Love It, Crazy, Line Up, Can’t Stop Messin’, Amazing and Boogie Man.
1997 - In Japan a law was passed to preserve the culture of the aboriginal Ainu people who have inhabited northern Japan since prehistoric times.
1998 - These motion pictures debuted in the U.S.: Deep Impact, starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell and Morgan Freeman; and Woo, with Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Dave Chappelle and Paula Jai Parker.
1999 - Dana Plato, 34, former child actress who played Kimberly Drummond on the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes (1978 to 1986) died. Her death was ruled a suicide.
2000 - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to ban discrimination based on weight or height.
2001 - Ten earthquakes rattled El Salvador in one 30-minute period. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, CO detected two of the quakes, one of magnitude 5.3 at 12:02 p.m. and another of magnitude 5 about 13 minutes later. Some 100 small earthquakes hit the country over a 24-hour period. El Salvador had been rattled by more than 7,000 tremors of varying magnitudes since deadly January and February quakes that killed over 1,200 people.
2003 - The U.S. Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
2003 - The rear door and ramp opened accidentally on a Russian-built cargo plane over Congo. 120 Congolese soldiers and their families died after being sucked out of the Ilyushin 76.
2003 - Tornadoes swept through the Oklahoma City area, flattening hundreds of homes. At least 104 people were injured.
2004 - Former Iraq hostage Thomas Hamill returned home to a chorus of cheering family and friends in Mississippi. The 44-year-old Hamill had been wounded and taken hostage Apr 9, 2004 when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy outside Baghdad and killed four of his co-workers.
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) commemorated, “a great victory for liberty," at the American cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands in observance of the 60th anniversary of V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
2006 - U.S. federal judge Gary Klausner in Los Angeles sentenced 20-year-old ‘botmaster’ Jeanson Ancheta to 57 months in jail for hijacking some 400,000 computers -- including military servers -- and infecting them with malicious software.
2006 - Florida Governor Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency and called out the Florida National Guard to help fight wildfires that have burned thousands of acres and blanketed highways with thick smoke.
2006 - Hawaii abandoned gasoline price controls after an eight-month, first-in-the-U.S. experiment. Many drivers complained that the controls actually led to higher prices.
2007 - Austrian officials said Vienna’s City Hall had launched a sex hotline to raise money for the capital’s main public library. Callers paid 53 cents a minute to listen to an actress read breathless passages from erotica dating to the Victorian era.
2007 - A flood surge moved down the Missouri River and tributaries following heavy storms. Damages approached 1993 flooding levels.
2008 - Country singer Eddy Arnold died, just a week shy of his 90th birthday. Arnold’s mellow stylings on songs like Make the World Go Away, Bouquet of Roses, I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms), Just a Little Lovin’ Will Go a Long Way -- and dozens of albums -- made him one of the most successful country singers in history.
2008 - Spain formally laid claim to the shipwreck of Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish warship sunk by the British navy southwest of Portugal in 1804 with more than 200 people on board. The wreck yielded a $500-million treasure.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Little Ashes, with Adria Allue, Simón Andreu, Rubén Arroyo, Ferran Audí and Javier Beltran; Next Day Air, with Donald Faison, Mike Epps, Wood Harris, Omari Hardwick, Emilio Rivera, Darius McCrary, Cisco Reyes and Mos Def; and Star Trek, starring John Cho, Ben Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Simon Pegg, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy, Marlene Forte and Jimmy Bennett.
2009 - Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Jordan and expressed deep respect for Islam and said he hoped the Catholic Church could play a role in Mideast peace.
2009 - The 4-day-old Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara, California was just 10% contained, after charring more than 13 square miles and destroying about 31 homes with another 47 damaged.
2010 - Hundreds of flights between Europe and North America were delayed or canceled due to a spreading cloud of ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland. The cloud stretched across much of the northern Atlantic, forcing Spain to close 19 of its northern airports including Barcelona.
2010 - Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed sold Harrods, the luxury London department store, to Qatar Holding, the Gulf royal family’s investment company. The purchase price was £1.5bn.
2011 - Paraguay’s national bank announced that it was dropping 3 zeros from its currency, the guaraní, and was renaming it the ‘new guaraní’.
2012 - Indonesia’s embassy in Singapore demanded that the cleaning of outside windows on high-rise apartments in Singapore be banned. This, after eight maids had fallen to their deaths in the first four months of the year. Indonesia, which supplies about half of Singapore’s 200,000 maids, asked employment agencies to include a clause in work contracts that prohibits maids from cleaning the outside of windows or hanging laundry from high-rise apartments. (Indonesia got that ban in June 2012.)
2013 - U.S. officials leaked news that the Obama administration was about to provide $100 million in new Syria aid. The money was intended for humanitarian purposes only and was not to be used for arming Syrian rebels.
2014 - Police officers across London began wearing video cameras when responding to emergency calls. In January 2015 Scotland Yard announced the extension of the trial program from the original one year to ten years and plans to add up to 20,000 officers with the devices.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: Hot Pursuit, starring Sofía Vergara, Reese Witherspoon and Jodi Lyn Brockton; 5 Flights Up, starring Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton and Carrie Preston; Bravetown, starring Maria Bello, Josh Duhamel and Laura Dern; The D Train, starring James Marsden, Mariana Paola Vicente and Jack Black; In the Name of My Daughter, with Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel; Maggie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin and Joely Richardson; and Noble, with Deirdre O'Kane, Sarah Greene and Gloria Cramer Curti.
2016 - Guatemalan vice president Roxana Baldetti resigned, saying that she was giving up her immunity from prosecution and promising “to collaborate with all investigations” into a graft scheme. Baldetti’s former aide, Juan Carlos Monzon Rojas, was suspected of having been the ringleader of a scheme to defraud Guatemala of millions of dollars by taking bribes in exchange for lower customs duties.
2016 - The sight of cars thundering down the most famous boulevard in Paris was replaced by people strolling, cycling and taking selfies. The Champs-Elysees went traffic-free as part the city’s Paris Respire (Paris Breathes) anti-pollution program. The closure happens once per month on the first Sunday.
2017 - Former U.S. acting Attorney General Sally Yates told Congress that she warned the Trump White House in January 2017 that hiring Michael Flynn to be National Security Adviser would be a bad idea because Flynn “could be blackmailed” by the Russians for lying about his contacts with Moscow’s ambassador in Washington. “The Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others,” Yates said. And President Barack Obama himself had warned Trump -- shortly after the November 2016 election -- about hiring Flynn.
2018 - New Zealand announced that it planned to significantly boost the amount of aid money it was spending in the South Pacific. International concern was rising about China’s growing influence in the region.
2018 - The European Union restated its support for the Iran nuclear deal in last-minute talks with Tehran. This, just hours before POTUS Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the U.S. out of the accord.
2019 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing for more armed teachers in state classrooms. The debate over arming teachers reached the highest levels of government in December, when the White House Federal Commission on School Safety called for schools to consider arming school personnel –- one of nearly 100 recommendations included in its school safety report.
2019 - California moved to ban the agricultural use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used by farmers on crops from apples to walnuts. The state had classified chlorpyrifos as a “toxic air contaminant.”
2020 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres included: The High Note, starring Dakota Johnson, June Diane Raphael and Bill Pullman; Fire Will Come, with Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez and Inazio Abrao; A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, starring Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg and Andrew Simpson; How to Build a Girl, with Emma Thompson, Beanie Feldstein and Lucy Punch; Krack, starring Shruti Haasan, Ravi Teja and Varalaxmi Sarathkumar; and The Legion, starring Mickey Rourke, Bai Ling and Joaquim de Almeida.
2020 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) awarded a $275.4 million contract to Alabama-based Caddell Construction Company to construct approximately 14 miles of contiguous new border wall system within U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Laredo Sector located in Webb County, Texas.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)POTUS Trump broke with health experts, and other knowledgeable people, telling reporters that the coronavirus would “go away without a vaccine.”
2)Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster”.
3)75-year-old magician Roy Horn, who alongside Siegfried Fischbacher starred in a popular, long-running Las Vegas act built around rare tigers, died in Las Vegas from complications of COVID-19.
4)Russia’s coronavirus case count rose by over 10,000 for the sixth straight day, bringing the nationwide tally to 187,859. Around 100 central bank employees had been diagnosed, most of them in Moscow. Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said city residents would be required to wear masks in public places. Residents not wearing masks inside public transport would face a fine of 5,000 rubles ($68).
5)An Indian train killed 16 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track while attempting to walk to a station, from where they were hoping to get a train home. India had organized special trains to take migrants to their home villages. Tens of thousands of them fled cities on foot when India went into lockdown.2021 - Tesla CEO Elon Musk, while hosting Saturday Night Live, revealed he had Asperger’s syndrome. His appearance on the show also led to a tumble for his favorite cryptocurrency, Dogecoin.
2021 - India reported its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll. The health ministry reported 4,187 fatalities, taking the overall death toll close to 240,000.
2022 - First lady Jill Biden visited Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska at a school in Uzhhorod, Ukraine.
2022 - The 148th running of the Kentucky Derby saw Venezuelan jockey Sonny Leon ride 80-1 longshot Rich Strike to victory -- the second biggest longshot to win in the history of the Kentucky Derby.
2023 - Iran hanged two men who had been convicted of blasphemy, carrying out death sentences for the crime following months of unrest. Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli-Zare ran dozens of social media accounts “dedicated to atheism and desecration of the sanctities,” the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported. Iran was one of the world’s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of 2023.
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Birthdays on This Day May 8
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant
Nobel Peace Prize-winning author; philanthropist: founder of Red Cross Society; died Oct 30, 19101848 - Oscar Hammerstein
playwright, producer died Aug 1, 19191884 - Harry S Truman
33rd U.S. President [1945-1953]; married to Bess Wallace [one daughter: Margaret]; nickname: Give ’em Hell Harry; died Dec 26, 19721893 - Francis Ouimet
stockbroker; philanthropist; golfer: credited with establishing the popularity of golf in U.S.; died Sep 2, 19671895 - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
TV clergyman: Life is Worth Living; died Dec 9, 19791905 - Ernest ‘Red’ Nichols
musician: coronet: group: Red Nichols and His Five Pennies: Indiana [Back Home Again In], Poor Butterfly; died Jun 28, 19651906 - Roberto Rossellini
director: Seven Deadly Sins, The Messiah; died June 3, 19771911 - Robert Johnson
Blues Hall of Famer: singer, songwriter, guitarist: Sweet Home Chicago, Cross Road Blues, Me and the Devil Blues; subject of film, Crossroads; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1986]; died Aug 16, 19381915 - John Archer
actor: Destination Moon, Best of the Badmen, Rock Around the Clock, Claverdeek, The Little Sister, Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star, Blue Hawaii, Affair in Reno, The Stars Are Singing; died Dec 3, 19991919 - Lex Barker (Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr.)
actor: A Place Called Glory, La Dolce Vita, Apaches Last Battle, Away All Boats, Executioner of Venice; died May 11, 19731926 - David Attenborough
naturalist, author: Life on Earth, Trials of Life1926 - Don Rickles
comedian, actor: Kelly’s Heroes, CPO Sharkey, Beach Blanket Bingo, The Rat Race, The Don Rickles Show, Daddy Dearest, Toy Story [film series]; died Apr 6, 20171928 - Theodore C. (Ted) Sorensen
Special Counsel to U.S. President John F. Kennedy; author: Kennedy; Leaders of Our Time, The Kennedy Legacy, Why I Am a Democrat, Watchmen in the night : Presidential accountability after Watergate; died Oct 31, 20101929 - Miyoshi Umeki
Academy Award-winning (supporting) actress [Sayonara, 1958]; The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; singer: If I Give My Heart to You, China Nights [Shina No Youru], Teach Me Tonight, Sayonara [The Japanese Farewell Song]; died Aug 28, 20071932 - (Charles) Sonny Liston
International Boxing Hall of Famer, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion [1962, 1963]; International Boxing Hall of Famer; 54 bouts: won 50 [39 KOs], lost 4; died Dec 30, 19701937 - Mike (Miguel Angel Santana) Cuellar
baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals, Houston Astros [all-star: 1967], Baltimore Orioles [Cy Young Award Winner: 1969/all-star: 1970, 1971, 1974/World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], California Angels; died Apr 2, 20101937 - Thomas Pynchon
writer: V., Slow Learner: Early Stories1940 - Peter Benchley
author: Jaws, The Deep, The Island; died Feb 11, 20061940 - Ricky Nelson
actor: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Rio Bravo, Wackiest Ship in the Army, Love and Kisses; singer: I’m Walkin’, Be-Bop Baby, Poor Little Fool, Lonesome Town, Never Be Anyone Else But You, Travelin’ Man, Garden Party; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1987]; died in plane crash Dec 31, 19851940 - Toni Tennille
singer: group: Captain & Tenille: Love Will Keep Us Together, The Way I Want to Touch You, Lonely Night [Angel Face], Muskrat Love1941 - James Mitchum
actor: In Harm’s Way, Code Name: Zebra, Hollywood Cop, Marked for Murder, Ride the Wild Surf1942 - Jack Blanchard
musician: sax, keyboards, songwriter, singer: group: Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan: Big Black Bird, Tennessee Bird Walk, Humphrey the Camel, Fire Hydrant 79, The Legendary Chicken Fairy, You’ve Got Your Troubles [I’ve Got Mine], There Must Be More to Life [Than Growing Old], Just One More Song
1944 - Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)
singer: Rock And Roll (Parts I & II), I’m the Leader of the Gang [I Am], I Love You Love Me Love, Hello Hello I’m Back Again, Do You Wanna Touch, Another Rock ’n’ Roll Christmas1947 - Phil Sawyer
musician: guitar: group: Spencer Davis Group [1967-1968]: Gimme Some Lovin’, Keep on Running, Strong Love, I’m a Man; songwriter, producer, composer: score from movie Twenty-One1951 - Chris Frantz
musician: drums: group: Talking Heads: Love, Building on Fire, Psycho Killer, Oh, Love Comes to Town, Take Me to the River1951 - Deborah Harmon
actress: Just the Ten of Us, Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie, Baby Girl Scott, When the Bough Breaks, My Wicked, Wicked Ways... The Legend of Errol Flynn, Bachelor Party1953 - Billy Burnette
musician: guitar, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac; son of singer Dorsey Burnette1953 - Alex Van Halen
drummer: group: Van Halen: Jump, Why Can’t This Be Love, When It’s Love, Dance the Night Away; brother of Eddie and Michael1954 - David Keith
actor: The Great Santini, Take This Job & Shove It, An Officer and a Gentleman; director: The Curse, The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck1957 - Bill Cowher
football: head coach: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [1992–2006]: 2005 Super Bowl XL champs; TV sports analyst1958 - Lovie Smith
football: head coach: NFL: Chicago Bears [2004–2012]: 2007 Super Bowl XLI1959 - Ronnie (Ronald Mandel) Lott
Pro Football Hall of Famer: All-American DB USC; NFL: San Francisco 49ers [1981–1990]: 4× Super Bowl champs: 1982 Super Bowl XVI, 1985 Super Bowl XIX, 1989 Super Bowl XXIII, 1990 Super Bowl XXIV; Los Angeles Raiders [1991–1992]; New York Jets [1993–1994]; Kansas City Chiefs [1995])1961 - Bill de Blasio
politician: 109th Mayor of New York City [2014-2021]; New York City Council member from 39th district [2002-2009]1961 - Janet McTeer
actress: Significant Others, As You Like It, Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, The King Is Alive, Waking the Dead, Carrington1964 - Melissa Gilbert
actress: Little House on the Prairie, The Miracle Worker, Her Own Rules, Murder at 75 Birch1969 - Brad Culpepper
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears1970 - Luis Enrique
footballer [midfielder]: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Spanish national team [1991-2002]1972 - Darren Hayes
singer: Popular, Darkness, Insatiable, Crush, Strange Relationship, I Miss You, Ride, Falling at Your Feet; former member of the Australian band Savage Garden1975 - Enrique Iglesias
songwriter, singer: Bailamos, Be With You, Hero, Not in Love, Sad Eyes, Solo Me Importas Tu, Rhythm Divine, Love to See You Cry; son of singer Julio Iglesias1978 - Matthew Davis
actor: The Vampire Diaries, Pearl Harbor, Tigerland, Legally Blonde, Blue Crush, Lone Star State of Mind1978 - Josie Maran
model, actress: The Aviator, Van Helsing, Swatters, The Mallory Effect1980 - Jamaal Jackson
football [center]: Delaware State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles1980 - Kimberlee Peterson
actress: Serious Moonlight, Stray, Secret Cutting, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Homecoming, The Young and the Restless1981 - Stephen Amell
actor: Arrow, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Rent-a-Goalie, Justice for Natalee Holloway, Hung, Code 81982 - Adrián González
baseball [1st base]: Texas Rangers (2004–2005); San Diego Padres [2006–2010]; Boston Red Sox [2011–2012]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2012–2017]; New York Mets [2018]1983 - Elyes Gabel
actor: Scorpion, Casualty, Waterloo Road, Game of Thrones, Body of Proof, World War Z, A Most Violent Year1992 - Olivia Culpo
model: winner of Miss USA 2012 [from Rhode Island] and Miss Universe 2012
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Hit Music on This Day May 8
1945Candy (facts) - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford
I’m Beginning to See the Light (facts) - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Kitty Kallen)
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