May 9
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1754 - The first cartoon appeared in The Pennsylvania Gazette, the newspaper published at the time in Philadelphia, PA, Benjamin Franklin’s hometown. The cartoon appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin commenting on “the present disunited state of the British Colonies.” The title of the featured cartoon is “JOIN, or DIE.” The drawing is of a snake, chopped into eight pieces. Each of the pieces are labeled with the abbreviation for one of the colonies. The message was that the colonies’ continued failure to join together would result in their eventual doom.1868 - On this day, a little town in Northwestern Nevada was officially named Reno (after General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer of the Civil War). In the mid 1800s, Reno was just another settlement of silver miners. When the Comstock Lode was discovered in the Virginia City area, intrigued fortune hunters throughout the world came to the area to strike it rich. And they still come to strike it rich at Reno’s glitzy gambling casinos.
1914 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint resolution of Congress authorizing federal agencies to observe Mother’s Day. The following year, Mother’s Day was proclaimed to be an annual national holiday.
1930 - For the first time, a starting gate was used to start a Triple Crown race. The gate was rolled into place at the Preakness at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD. Gallant Fox, the winner, had no problem with the new contraption. Prior to that time, this horse race began from a standing start at the start/finish line with the drop of a flag.
1937 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy started their own radio show on NBC -- only months after they had debuted on Rudy Vallee’s radio program. W.C. Fields, Don Ameche and Dorothy Lamour were a few of the stars that helped Bergen and the little blockhead, McCarthy, jump to the top of radio’s hit parade.
1939 - Ray Eberle recorded Stairway to the Stars with the Glenn Miller Orchestra for Bluebird records.
1940 - Actress Vivien Leigh made her American theatre debut with Laurence Olivier in Romeo and Juliet in New York City.
1944 - Jimmie Davis became the Governor of Louisiana. Davis was not only a politician, he was a songwriter. He wrote You Are My Sunshine.
1949 - Prince Louis II (Louis Honor Charles Antoine Grimaldi) of Monaco died shortly after delegating his powers to Prince Rainier III.
1957 - Ezio Pinza died. Pinza was a renowned Italian opera singer (La Scala of Milan, NY Metropolitan Opera, Broadway musicals).
1958 - Richard Burton made his network television debut in The Dupont Show of the Month presentation of Wuthering Heights on CBS-TV.
1959 - 16-year-old Wayne Newton made his Las Vegas debut at the Fremont Hotel. That first booking, scheduled to last two weeks, stretched into three years. Newton went on to become king of the Vegas showrooms, earning close to $20-million a year. He has been seen live by over 12 million people, more than have seen either Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley in concert.
1961 - Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles set a major-league baseball record by hitting grand slam home runs in two consecutive innings. The Orioles were playing the Minnesota Twins.
1962 - The Beatles signed their first recording contract. George Martin was hired to be the group’s producer and the band would record for EMI Parlophone.
1964 - Hello Dolly! became the top pop record in the U.S. The milestone put Louis Armstrong on the Billboard music chart in the top spot for the first time in his 41-year music career. Later, ‘Satchmo’ was cast in the movie version of Hello Dolly!.
1965 - Vladimir Horowitz played his first public concert in 12 years at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The audience applauded the piano virtuoso with a standing ovation that lasted for 30 minutes.
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.
1967 - Dr. Zakir Hussain was elected president of India.
1970 - Union leader Walter P. Reuther died in the crash of a leased jet while on union business. His wife May and three other people were also killed. Reuther was president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1971 - In the 23rd Emmy Awards show, the winners were: All in the Family, Jack Klugman and Jean Stapleton.
1977 - Novelist James Jones died at 55 years of age. Among the well-known Jones novels is From Here to Eternity.
1978 The bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who had been abducted by the ‘Red Brigades’, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.
1980 - 35 motorists (and bus passengers) were killed when the Liberian freighter Summit Venture rammed the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida. The collision caused a 1,400-foot section of the bridge to collapse into the bay.
1982 - Nine debuted at the Broadway’s 46th Street Theatre. The show went on to win five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and played for 729 performances, closing Feb 4, 1984.
1984 - Detroit beat Kansas City, 3-1, to tie the record for the best start of any major-league baseball team. The Tigers went 25-4 in their first 29 games -- a record matched only by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955.
1984 - It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, six minutes -- and two days -- to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history. Tom Seaver pitched one inning of relief in the suspended game to notch the win. The game tied the record for the longest game played to a decision.
1987 - All 183 people aboard a Polish jetliner were killed when the plane, bound for New York, crashed and burned in Warsaw. The pilot had attempted an emergency return/landing.
1989 - In a speech to the United Negro College Fund, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind, or, not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” Quayle was attempting to quote the motto of the United Negro College Fund, “A mind is terrible thing to waste.” At least, we think that’s what he meant to say...
1992 - A methane gas explosion roared through the Westray coal mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, killing 26 miners. The bodies of 11 men were recovered. Further recovery was called off due to the danger of a cave-in.
1994 - Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa. Mandela, the country’s first black president, promised a South Africa for “all its people, black and white.”
1997 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Father’s Day, with Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski and Charlie Hofheimer; and The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Brion James, Tiny Lister Jr. and Lee Evans.
1999 - The Mummy movie enjoyed the biggest opening weekend of the year (to that point) with $44.6 million.
2000 - Former four-term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards was convicted of extorting payoffs in return for licensing riverboat casinos. (Edwards was sentenced in January 2001 to ten years in prison and fined $250,000.)
2001 - It was reported that El Paso Merchant Energy had inflated the price of natural gas and forced California power buyers to pay some $3.8 billion in excess over the previous year.
2002 - Maryland Governor Parris Glendening suspended all executions in his state while a study was done on whether the death penalty was being meted out in a racially discriminatory way. (Glendening was unseated by Robert Ehrlich in November 2002. Ehrlich promptly lifted the ban upon taking office.)
2003 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Daddy Day Care, starring Eddie Murphy, Anjelica Huston, Steve Zahn and Jeff Garlin; and Hope Springs, starring Colin Firth, Minnie Driver, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, Mary Steenburgen and Frank Collison.
2004 - Comedian Alan King died in New York City. He was 76 years old. King’s books included Is Salami and Eggs Better than Sex? (1985).
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) joined Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders in Moscow’s Red Square to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe during World War II. The annual celebration is known in Russia as Victory Day.
2006 - Rising gold and oil prices helped the Canadian dollar trade above the 91-cent U.S. level; gold futures closed above $700 for the first time since 1980.
2008 - Films opening in the U.S.: Speed Racer, with Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Hiroyuki Sanada, Richard Roundtree, Rain, Benno Fuermann, Kirk Gurry, Paulie Litt and Roger Allam; and What Happens in Vegas, starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Michelle Krusiec, Dennis Farina, Krysten Ritter, Jason Sudeikis, Queen Latifah, Zach Galifianakis and Treat Williams.
2008 - A South Korean aid group, the Seoul-based Good Friends, said North Koreans were dying because of food shortages in rural areas. An unidentified North Korean official was quoted as saying, “So far, mass deaths have not occurred as people have become more used to (starvation) than in the 1990s, but famine is a matter of time.”
2009 - United Nations officials said a U.N.-sponsored treaty to combat highly dangerous chemicals had been expanded beyond the original ‘dirty dozen’ to include nine more substances that were used in pesticides, flame retardants and other products.
2010 - Jazz singer and actress Lena Horne died in NYC at 92 years of age. Horne was known for her plaintive signature song Stormy Weather and for her triumph over the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them. In 1942’s Panama Hattie, her first movie with MGM, she sang Cole Porter’s Just One of Those Things, winning critical acclaim.
2010 - Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game in a 4-0 victory for the Oakland Athletics over the Tampa Bay Rays. It was the 19th perfect game; that is, no hits, no walks, no errors, not a single batter reaching first base.
2011 - Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver announced their separation after 25 years of marriage. Schwarzenegger had acknowledged that he had fathered a child with a member of his household staff some ten years earlier.
2011 - The operator of Japan’s aging Hamaoka nuclear plant, located near a tectonic faultline southwest of Tokyo, said it would temporarily shut down its last two running reactors. Executives agreed to the shut down so that the plant could be redesigned to better withstand earthquakes and tsunamis.
2012 - Japan’s government approved a plan to take a controlling stake in the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant. Tokyo would invest one trillion yen ($12 billion) as part of the 10-year restructuring aimed at preventing the vast regional power monopoly from going bankrupt.
2013 - U.S. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn unsealed an indictment accusing a cybertheft ring of stealing $45 million from banks around the globe and using the loot for Rolex watches, luxury cars and other booty. Lajud-Pena and 7 other New York suspects were accused of withdrawing $2.8 million in cash from hacked debit card accounts in less than a day.
2014 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The animated, Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, featuring the voices of Hugh Dancy, Lea Michele, Patrick Stewart, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer, Tom Kenny, Bernadette Peters, James Belushi, Martin Short, Oliver Platt and Megan Hilty; Moms’ Night Out, starring Sarah Drew, Sean Astin and Patricia Heaton; Neighbors, with Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron; Chef, starring Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson; the documentary, Fed Up; God’s Pocket, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks and Richard Jenkins; and Stage Fright, with Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf and Allie MacDonald.
2014 - Hong Kong and the United States reached an information-sharing agreement under a law meant to combat offshore tax dodging by Americans. The "Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010" (FATCA) required foreign banks, investment funds and insurers to hand over information to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service about accounts of more than $50,000 held by Americans. The U.S. had negotiated dozens of deals to help financial institutions comply with FATCA and local banking laws.
2015 - An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole in the retrial of a corruption case. But, accounting for time he had already served, the court gave the 87-year-old Mubarak the OK to go home.
2016 - An Australian law firm filed a compensation claim against Russia and President Vladimir Putin in the European Court of Human Rights. This, on behalf of families of victims of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The Russian Federation and Putin were named as respondents. The action asked for $10 million in compensation -- per passenger.
2016 - Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi (44), who made objects shaped like her vagina, was convicted after a high-profile obscenity trial. The Tokyo District Court slapped her with a 400,000 yen ($3,700) fine for distributing digital data of her genitals but said her figurines, decorated with fake fur and glitter, could be considered pop art.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. The abrupt dismissal threw into question the future of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia and appeared to be an underhanded effort to stymie a probe that had shadowed the Trump administration from its beginnings.
2018 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin and discuss military coordination. The trip came amid new strikes in Syria blamed on Israel.
2018 - World leaders expressed regret over POTUS Trump’s withdrawing of the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal. China and others said they remained committed to the landmark pact. The agreement, signed with six world powers - the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the European Union - locked Iran into scaling back its uranium enrichment program and promising not to pursue nuclear weapons.
2018 - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed on rules to allow a limited number of family members to join migrants in Germany, ending a long-standing dispute between the parties in her two-month old right-left coalition.
2019 - Pope Francis issued a new church law about reporting clergy sex abuse and cover-up. The new law provided whistle-blower protections for anyone making a report and required all dioceses around the world to have a system in place to receive the claims confidentially. And it outlined procedures for conducting preliminary investigations when the accused was a bishop, cardinal or religious superior.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The British government told airlines it would introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
2)Mexico said the number of deaths in the border city of Tijuana has soared and the mortality rate from the virus was twice the national average. Mexico City officials had tabulated more than 2,500 deaths that doctors suspect are related -- as opposed to just 700 reported by the government in the area.
3)And in Mexico City coronavirus patients were being turned away from hospitals, as both public and private medical facilities quickly fill up and the number of new infections continues to rise.2020 - Little Richard, trailblazing rock ’n’ roll pioneer who drew deeply from gospel and the blues to create a thrilling new sound, died in Tennessee of bone cancer. He was 87 years old. His hits included Tutti Frutti, Lucille, Keep a Knockin’, Long Tall Sally and Good Golly Miss Molly. Musicians and celebrities alike took to social media following news of his death to pay their respects.
2021 - Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change.
2021 - Spaniards chanting “freedom” danced in streets and partied on beaches as a COVID-19 curfew ended in most of the country, but others feared it was too soon. Spain had suffered 78,792 coronavirus deaths and some 3.6 million cases.
2022 - 44 more inmates died in a prison riot in Ecuador, leading Amnesty International to say imprisonment was nearly “a death sentence” in Ecuador.
2022 - The Group of Seven nations agreed to ban or phase out Russian oil and gas imports in response to Moscow’s Ukraine invasion. “This will hit hard at the main artery of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s economy and deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war,” a G-7 statement read. The G-7 includes the U.S., Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and Britain, the seven largest, advanced economies. The U.S. had already banned importing Russian oil, gas, and coal, but European nations that rely more heavily on Russian energy were moving more slowly.
2022 - An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at auction in New York. The close-up, super-saturated portrait of Marilyn Monroe is from a series based on the late actress’s publicity photo for the film Niagara. It is relatively small, measuring only 40 inches by 40 inches—but made a big impact.
2023 - A federal jury former president Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996. The jury awarded Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation. Carroll called the verdict a victory for her and other victims of abuse. Trump did not face any jail time as a result of the civil verdict, but it certainly did add to his mounting pile of legal troubles.
2023 - The Justice Department filed criminal charges against New York Representative George Santos, an embattled GOP lawmaker who was facing several federal and local investigations into his finances. Santos had faced scathing criticism for lying extensively about his resume, education and family background. Top Democrats, joined by some New York Republicans, had been calling for the freshman congressman to resign over allegations ranging from criminal behavior to petty personal dishonesty stretching back more than a decade.
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Birthdays on This Day May 9
1800 - John Brown
abolitionist: led attack on Harper’s Ferry in 1859; executed [hanged] Dec 2, 18591843 - Belle Boyd
actress; lecturer; author: Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison; Confederate spy; died June 11, 19001860 - Sir James Barrie
author, dramatist: Peter Pan, The Little Minister, The Admirable Crichton, What Every Woman Knows, Dear Brutus; died June 19, 19371870 - Harry Vardon
golf champ: 1900 U.S. Open; won The Open Championship a record six times; died Mar 20, 19371882 - Henry J. (John) Kaiser
industrialist: ship builder; auto manufacturer: Jeep; aviation, aluminum, steel, magnesium; founder of Hawaii Kai residential neighborhood in Honolulu; died Aug 24, 1967; more1914 - Hank Snow (Clarence Eugene)
Country Music Hall of Famer: singer, songwriter: I’m Moving On [recorded in 36 languages], Golden Rocket, I Don’t Hurt Anymore, Rhumba Boogie, Hello Love, I’ve Been Everywhere; died Dec 20, 1999; more1917 - John Arnatt
actor: A Royal Scandal, The Moving Finger, Crucible of Terror, Joey Boy, Dr. Crippen, Whistle Down the Wind, Richard of Bordeaux; died Dec 21, 19991918 - Mike (Myron Leon) Wallace
reporter, interviewer: 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace at Large; died Apr 7, 20121923 - Johnny Grant
TV personality: Honorary Mayor of Hollywood, California since 1980: M.C. of the unvailings of Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; he produced the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade for several decades; died Jan 9, 20081928 - (Richard) Pancho Gonzales
tennis: U.S. Open Champion [1948, 1949; died July 3, 19951931 - Jan Holden
actress: Lace II, The Haunted House of Horror, The Loves of Larch Hill, The Primitives, Escort for Hire, Curtain of Fear; TV: Fabian of the Yard, Douglas Fairbanks Presents, The Avengers; died Oct 11, 20051932 - Geraldine McEwan
actress: Miss Marple, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie [TV], Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Carrie’s War; died Jan 30, 20151935 - Nokie Edwards
musician: guitar: group: The Ventures: Walk Don’t Run, Perfidia, Hawaii Five-O Theme; died Mar 12, 20181936 - Albert Finney
actor: Tom Jones, Shoot the Moon, Annie, The Dresser, Murder on the Orient Express, Scrooge; died Feb 7, 20191936 - Glenda Jackson
Academy Award-winning actress: Women in Love [1970], A Touch of Class [1973]; died Jun 15, 20231936 - Floyd (Andrew) Robinson
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics1937 - Sonny Curtis
musician: guitar: group: Buddy Holly & The Crickets: My Little Girl; solo: A Beatle I Want to Be; songwriter: Rock Around with Ollie Vee, Walk Right Back, More Than I Can Say, I Fought the Law1937 - Dave Prater Jr.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: group: Sam and Dave: Hold On, I’m Comin’, You Got Me Hummin’, Soul Man; killed in car crash Apr 9, 19881939 - Ralph Boston
National Track & Field Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer: gold medalist: long jump [1960], silver [1964], bronze [1968]; broke world long jump record 5 times, the last at 27 feet, 5 inches [1965]1940 - James L. Brooks
Emmy Award-winning writer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1971, 1977]; Emmy Award-winning producer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1975, 1976, 1977], Taxi [1979, 1980, 1981], The Tracy Ullman Show [1989], The Simpsons [1990, 1991]; Academy Award-winning director: Terms of Endearment [1984], I’ll Do Anything, Broadcast News, Thursday’s Game; screenwriter: I’ll Do Anything, Broadcast News, Terms of Endearment, Starting Over, Thursday’s Game, Room 2221940 - Dick Morrissey
musician: tenor sax, soprano sax, flute; LP: It’s Morrissey, Man!; The Dick Morrissey Quartet: LPs: Have You Heard?, Storm Warning!, Here and Now and Sounding Good!; group: If: Here Comes Mr. Time, Forgotten Roads, Sweet January, What Can a Friend Say?; Morrissey-Mullen: Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, Blade Runner; died Nov 8, 20001941 - Pete Birrell
musician: bass: group: Freddie & The Dreamers: If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, I’m Telling You Now, You Were Made for Me, I Understand, Do the Freddie1942 - Tommy Roe
singer, songwriter: Sheila, Save Your Kisses; singer: Susie Darlin’, Everybody, The Folk Singer, Sweet Pea, Hooray for Hazel, Dizzy, Jam Up Jelly Tight1944 - Richie Furay
musician: group: Poco, Buffalo Springfield: I Still Have Dreams, Call It Love1945 - Steve Katz
record producer; musician: guitar, harmonica, singer: group: Blood, Sweat and Tears: And When I Die, You Make Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel1946 - Candice Bergen
Emmy Award-winning actress: Murphy Brown [1989, 1990, 1992, 1993]; Starting Over, The Group, Boston Legal; daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen1948 - John Mahaffey
golf champion: PGA [1978]; more1948 - Calvin Murphy
Basketball Hall of Famer: Houston Rockets1949 - Billy Joel
Grammy Award-winning singer: Just the Way You Are [1979]; My Life, You May be Right, It’s Still Rock ’n’ Roll to Me, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, Tell Her about It, Uptown Girl, Piano Man; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99]1950 - Tom Petersson
musician: bass, singer: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Ain’t That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices1951 - Alley Mills
actress: The Bold and the Beautiful, Satin, Never Get Outta the Boat, Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare, The Atlanta Child Murders, The Other Woman1953 - Amy Hill
actress: Magnum P.I. [2018], 50 First Dates, All-American Girl [TV series], Strip Mall [TV series], Max Keeble’s Big Move, Big Fat Liar, The Cat in the Hat, Cheaper by the Dozen [2003]1956 - Wendy Crewson
actress: Niagra Motel, Jack, The Clearing, An Unexpected Love, The Santa Clause, The Matthew Shepard Story, 24, ReGenesis1960 - Tony Gwynn
baseball [right field]: San Diego State Univ; San Diego Padres; died Jun 16, 20141961 - John Corbett
actor: Northern Exposure, The Visitor, Dreamland, Sex and the City, Bigger Than the Sky, Elvis Has Left the Building, Raising Helen, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Prance Returns1962 - David Gahan
singer: group: Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence, Just Can't Get Enough, People are People, Personal Jesus1962 - Paul Heaton
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Housemartins: Now That's What I Call Quite Good, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, London 0, Hul 4; group: The Beautiful South: Painting It Red, Quench, Blue is the Colour1965 - Steve Yzerman
hockey [center]: NHL: Steve Yzerman [1983–2006]: 1997, 1998, 2002 Stanley Cup champs1969 - Teresa Hill
actress: Van Wilder, The Look, Van Wilder, The New Women, Cruel Intentions 2, Twin Falls Idaho, Kiss and Tell, Bio-Dome1969 - Hudson Leick
actress: Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Unconditional, Cold Heart, Chill Factor, After the Game, Knight Rider 20101970 - Doug Christie
basketball [guard]: Pepperdine Univ; LA Lakers, NY Knicks, Toronto Raptors, Sacramento Kings, Orlando Magic1972 - Lisa Ann
actress [1994-2013]: X-rated films: Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?, Tits a Wonderful Life, The Cougar Hunter, Interactive Sex with Lisa Ann, Meat Your Teacher, Mandingo: Hide Your Wives!, The Booty Pageant1975 - Chris Diamantopoulos
actor: The Three Stooges, Frasier, The Sopranos, Les Miserables, Community, The Office, Arrested Development, Family Guy, American Dad!, Hannibal, The Truth1975 - Tamia Hill
singer: Spend My Life with You, You Put a Move on My Heart, Stranger in My House, Into You, Me, Beautiful Surprise1977 - Wilbert Brown
football [offensive guard]: Univ of Houston; NFL: SD Chargers, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots1977 - Danny Clark
football [linebacker]: Univ of Illinois; NFL: New York Giants, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans1979 - Rosario Dawson
actress: Sin City, Rent, Seven Pounds, Kids, Men in Black II, 25th Hour, Clerks II, Death Proof, The Rundown, Eagle Eye, Alexander, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Unstoppable1982 - Rachel Boston
actress: American Dreams, The News, Crazy, Smoking Herb, 7th Heaven, The Ex List1984 - Ezra Klein
journalist, blogger, columnist, contributor: The Washington Post, MSNBC1996 - Noah Centineo
actor: The Fosters, How to Build a Better Boy, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before [& sequels], Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, The Perfect Date1996 - Mary Mouser
actress: Body of Proof, Frenemies, Ball Don’t Lie, Medeas, Field of Lost Shoes
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1946Oh, What It Seemed to Be (facts) - The Frankie Carle Orchestra (vocal: Marjorie Hughes)
Shoo Fly Pie (facts) - The Stan Kenton Orchestra (vocal: June Christy)
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