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1869 - The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railways met on this day. There was a grand celebration at Promontory Summit, Utah when, in honor of the linking of the two railways, a golden spike was driven into the railroad. The spike, valued at $400, was driven, along with bronze spikes into a laurelwood tie by the president of the Central Pacific, Leland Stanford. Some say Mr. Stanford missed on his first stroke. Interestingly, the people involved in this historic moment were unaware of its significance in the great scheme of things; and no markings were left at the specific location of the meeting of the rails. It is possible that the point at Promontory is a little to the left or south or north or right of the true spot where the rails were joined. In other words, like Mr. Stanford, we may have missed the exact spot that marks the final link in the ocean-to-ocean railroad.
1869 - Charles E. Hires began selling his root beer mix on this opening day at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Hires sold his mixture in tiny packets that contained the various herbs, barks, and berries. You still had to boil these ingredients, strain the mixture, add the correct amount of sugar and yeast, ferment the brew, and then bottle it. But you didn't have to collect the ingredients and buying the ingredients in one package was cheaper than buying all the ingredients separately. The pre-mixed ingredients were primarily sold to housewives, but were also marketed to druggists and soda fountains.
1872 - The first woman nominated to be President of the United States was Victoria Claflin Woodhull. She was chosen for the ballot by the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York City. Ms. Woodhull was not elected; nor has any woman ever been elected to the office of U.S. President (although Hillary Clinton came extremely close in 2016).
1876 - Richard Wagner’s Centennial Inaugural March was heard for the first time at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA. Wagner did just fine for creating the magnificent work. He received a paycheck of $5,000. In 1876 bucks, that would put groceries on the table and in the pantry for quite a bit of time...
1905 - Three horses made up the field of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY. Agile was the winner. With only three horses -- win, place and show -- does that mean that everyone in attendance won something?
1913 - Donerail won the Kentucky Derby on this day, making a very, very few in attendance very, very happy. Donerail was a 91-to-1 long shot! Whoa! Nellie!
1927 - The Hotel Statler in Boston, MA. became the first hotel to install radio headsets in each of its 1,300 rooms. What a concept! Of course, radio was only seven years old and, since this was the first hotel equipped with headsets, we heard that they were all plugged into the heaters -- and when guests turned up the heat knob, they singed their ears -- a lot like some radio programming does today!
1930 - The Adler Planetarium opened to the public in Chicago, IL.
1940 - Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded the classic, Perfidia for Decca Records. The song would later be a hit for The Ventures (1960).
1940 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned. Winston Churchill became the new Prime Minister and formed a new government. This, as Nazi Germany was invading Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. The Battle of Belgium, or Belgian Campaign, lasted 18 days and ended with the surrender of the Belgian Army.
1941 - England’s House of Commons was destroyed by a German air raid.
1941 - Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler, parachuted into Scotland to see the Duke of Hamilton on what he claimed was a peace mission. (Hess ended up serving a life sentence at Spandau prison until 1987, when he apparently committed suicide.)
1948 - The Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip made its debut. Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, a psychiatrist from Scottsdale, Arizona, created the strip as an entertainment -- and educational tool -- to heighten the awareness of readers about the importance of modern medicine.
1951 - Frank Sinatra teamed with Axel Stordahl’s orchestra and Mitch Miller on Columbia Records. He sang with Dagmar, It’s a Long Way (From Your House to My House), and the equally forgettable, Mama Will Bark. Yes, friends, Mama Will Bark, by Frank Sinatra with vocal impressions of a dog by Donald Bain! This sure wasn’t a session like the ones that produced In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, That’s Life, My Way or hundreds of other great tunes from Ol’ Blue Eyes.
1960 - Around the world in 80 days ... uh, make that 84 days. That’s how long it took the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Triton to circumnavigate the globe. The Triton was the largest, most powerful submarine in the world when it made its record underwater trip. Captain Edward L. Beach led the 7,750-ton sub on a 41,500 mile voyage, following a similar route taken by explorer Ferdinand Magellan some three centuries earlier (obviously on the water’s surface, not below). The Triton’s conning tower reached above the waves off Delaware, completing the voyage that began February 16 at Groton, Connecticut with 183 aboard. One objective of the Triton’s trip was to test the physical and psychological effects on humans when deprived of sunlight and fresh air for an extended length of time. Captain Beach (author of "Run Silent, Run Deep") was thinking more of the sub’s test of power when he wrote in his log: “One can almost become lyrical thinking of the tremendous drive of the dual power plant of this great ship.”
1963 - The Rolling Stones produced their very first recordings this day. The session included Come On and I Wanna Be Loved. The Stones would make it to the American pop music charts in August, 1964.
1963 - Pope John XXIII received the Balzan Peace Prize, the first peace prize ever awarded to a pope.
1968 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sent all field offices an urgent memo escalating the FBI’s attack on dissent. It authorized an operation called Counterintelligence Program -- New Left.
1970 - The Boston Bruins won their first Stanley Cup since the beginning of World War II by defeating St. Louis. The Bruins would repeat the feat and take home Lord Stanley’s Cup again in 1972.
1974 - Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely earned a gold record for the group, The Main Ingredient. The trio began as the Poets in 1964. Cuba Gooding is heard singing lead. (Gooding’s son, Cuba Jr., starred in the 1991 film Boyz N The Hood.) The Main Ingredient’s biggest hit, Everybody Plays the Fool, made it to number three on the pop charts (1972).
1977 - Actress Joan Crawford died of pancreatic cancer in New York City. She was 69 years old.
1981 - François Mitterrand defeated Valery Giscard d’Estaing for President of France.
1982 - Elliott Gould made his dramatic television debut after 30 movies in 17 years. He starred in The Rules of Marriage which aired on CBS-TV. Elizabeth Montgomery, formerly of Bewitched, co-starred with Gould in the film about marriage and divorce.
1985 - Gordon Johncock announced that he was retiring from auto racing. Johncock, a 30-year veteran and twice an Indianapolis 500 winner, said that racing was “not fun anymore.” In his career, Johncock won 254 championship races.
1986 - Navy Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first black pilot to fly with the celebrated Blue Angels precision aerial demonstration team.
1989 - The government of General Manuel Antonio Noriega in Panama announced it had nullified the country’s elections. Independent observers said Noriega’s opposition (President Guillermo Endara Galimany, and Vice Presidents Ricardo Arias Calderón and Guillermo Ford) had won by a three-to- one margin. Not to worry: Shortly after being sworn in, the new government, with the support of the U.S. forces, took control of Panama. Noriega was arrested and taken to the United States to stand trial on charges of crimes related to drug trafficking.
1993 - 188 workers were killed in a doll factory fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
1994 - Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at the Statesville Penitentiary near Joliet, IL. He had been convicted of killing 33 young men and boys during the 1970s.
1995 - The World Health Organization said a mysterious disease in Zaire was caused by the deadly Ebola virus. The outbreak was declared under control in August 1999, but 244 of the 315 known victims had died.
1996 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Boys, with Winona Ryder, Lukas Haas, John C. Reilly, James Legros, Skeet Ulrich and Charlie Hofheimer; and Twister, starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck and Philip Hoffman.
1997 - A powerful earthquake in northeastern Iran claimed some 2400 lives. The quake struck the remote eastern region of the country, which borders Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.
1999 - A military jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, sentenced Captain Richard Ashby, convicted of obstruction of justice for helping destroy a videotape of his fatal flight over the Italian Alps, to six months in prison and dismissed him from the corps. Ashby is the Marine pilot whose jet clipped an Italian gondola cable Feb 3, 1998, sending 20 people plunging to their deaths. Ashby was acquitted Mar. 4, 1999 of manslaughter charges stemming from the incident.
1999 - Shel Silverstein, author of such acclaimed children’s books as A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, was found dead a heart attack at his home. He was 66. Silverstein’s output included songs, such as Sylvia’s Mother (recorded by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who would not take the garbage out), plays, and adult humor. He was best known as an author of sophisticated, and at times macabre, children’s books. He was known to many children around the world, and was possibly the best-loved author of juvenile literature after Dr. Seuss.
2000 - High wind drove a blaze -- which had been intentionally set by the National Park Service to clear brush -- out of control near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It became the most destructive wildfire on record in that state, destroying more than 250 homes and forcing 20,000 people to evacuate. The fire consumed an estimated 47,000 acres and threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2001 - Boeing chose Chicago, IL as the site for its headquarters, replacing Seattle, WA.
2002 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The New Guy, starring DJ Qualls, Lyle Lovett, Eddie Griffin and Eliza Dushku; and Unfaithful, starring Diane Lane, Erik Per Sullivan, Richard Gere, Olivier Martinez, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Michelle Monaghan and Chad Lowe.
2003 - Iceland voters re-elected Davið Oddsson, Europe’s longest-serving prime minister.
2003 - The New York Times announced on its Web site that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had “committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud.”
2004 - Cicadas began their 17-year cycle, emerging from the ground in Bloomington, IN. Trillions of the flying, plant-sucking insects emerged across much of the eastern half of the U.S. over following six to ten weeks.
2004 - Charles Prince, CEO of Citigroup, said his bank would pay $2.65 billion to settle class-action litigation accusing it of misleading purchasers of WorldCom securities.
2005 - A U.S. federal bankruptcy judge freed United Airlines from responsibility for pensions covering thousands of employees. The court allowed United to default on the pensions, and gave the federal government the responsibility for about $7 billion in payments to 134,000 people.
2005 - Germany dedicated its national Holocaust memorial in Berlin, featuring an undulating field of 2,711 concrete slabs. The memorial is the size of several football fields and lies in the heart of Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate and is a stone’s throw from the buried ruins of Adolf Hitler’s bunker. The opening ended 17 years of debate over how Germany should mark the darkest chapter of its past.
2006 - Oklahoma was the last state to make tattoos legal. Governor Brad Henry signed legislation on this day to license and regulate tattoo artists and parlors.
2006 - The musical version of Tarzan debuted at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway. This Tarzan was based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1999 film of the same name, with songs written by Phil Collins. The production ran for 486 performances, closing Jul 08, 2007.
2006 - Russian President Vladimir Putin called population declines of hundreds of thousands a year one of Russia’s most serious problems. In an annual address to the nation, Mr Putin said falling birth rates and the rise in mortality made Russia’s demographic situation critical. He urged parliament to offer financial incentives for families to have more children.
2007 - The maker of the powerful painkiller OxyContin and three of its executives pleaded guilty in Virginia to misleading the public about the drug’s power of addiction. Purdue Pharma L.P., its president, top lawyer and former chief medical officer were ordered to pay $634.5 million in fines for claiming the drug was less addictive and less subject to abuse than other pain medications.
2007 - A U.S. federal jury in California convicted Chi Mak, a China-born engineer, of passing U.S. submarine data to Beijing. Chi Mak admitted that he had been placed in the U.S. in the 1980s to burrow into the defense-industrial establishment and steal secrets.
2007 - The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a point to 5.5% (the highest level since 2001) to tackle surging inflation.
2008 - A tornado roared through Picher, OK, killing seven people. The same storm system then moved into southwest Missouri, where tornadoes killed 15 others.
2008 - Police officer Juan Antonio Roman Garcia was shot dead as his car was sprayed with bullets outside his home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Garcia was one in a string of killings of high-ranking officials in an onslaught of attacks by Mexican gangs resisting a crackdown in drug smuggling.
2010 - Prominent Chinese AIDS activist Wan Yanhai arrived in Philadelphia after fleeing from China with his wife and 4-year-old daughter -- to escape increasing Chinese government harassment. Wan, a former Health Ministry official, had founded the Aizhixing Institute in 1994 to raise awareness and fight discrimination.
2010 - President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. The former law school dean became the third woman justice on the High Court; the first time the U.S. had three women justices.
2011 - Microsoft announced its $8.5 billion deal to acquire Skype, the Internet voice and video communications company.
2011 - Marshall Zhang, an 11th-grade student at Richmond Hill’s Bayview Secondary School, received first place in the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge. The Toronto-area student used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that showed potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis.
2012 - The British government confirmed it had reversed its choice of fighter jets for future aircraft carriers, ditching the previously preferred conventional take-off version of the U.S.-built F-35 for the jump-jet model.
2013 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Aftershock, with Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez, Lorenza Izzo, Natasha Yarovenko and Selena Gomez; The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Isla Fisher, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Tobey Maguire, Adelaide Clemens, Callan McAuliffe, Gemma Ward, Amitabh Bachchan and Elizabeth Debicki; Peeples, with Kerry Washington, Kimrie Lewis-Davis, Craig Robinson, Ana Gasteyer, Tyler James Williams, Kali Hawk, David Alan Grier and S. Epatha Merkerson; And Now a Word from Our Sponsor, starring Bruce Greenwood, Parker Posey, Callum Blue, Allie MacDonald and Rhys Ward; No One Lives, with Luke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar, Beau Knapp, America Olivo, Lee Tergesen and Lindsey Shaw; and the documentary, Venus and Serena, about the tennis-star sisters.
2013 - A task force of 28 appointed members voted to demolish the existing Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut and have a new school built in its place. The $57 million project got underway on October 25, 2013. The old school was the scene of a murder–suicide spree that killed 27 people.
2013 - 19-year-old seamstress Reshma Begum, buried for 17 days in the wreckage of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, was rescued. Death toll from the building collapse was 1,129.
2014 - The City Council of Hearne, Texas voted unanimously to fire police officer Stephen Stem for the May 6 shooting of Pearlie Golden (93), who was armed with a handgun, during a confrontation at her home. Stem later sued for wrongful termination but the suit was dismissed by a federal judge who ruled city council members did nothing wrong by firing Stem, even though he had been cleared by a Grand Jury.
2015 - Cuban President Raul Castro thanked Pope Francis for brokering the thaw between Havana and Washington. Castro said the pope so impressed him that he was considering coverting to the Catholic Church, despite the fact that he was an 83-year-old communist.
2016 - Light showers and cooler temperatures helped slow the explosive wildfire in the Canadian province of Alberta that was dubbed ‘the beast’. The blaze had charred more than 620 square miles. The oil boomtown of Fort McMurray was dealt a devastating blow where more than 2,000 homes were destroyed by the flames.
2017 - South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in and vowed to immediately attack the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea’s advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the U.S. and China.
2017 - Acting very much like the Russian puppet that Hillary Clinton had accused him of being, POTUS Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the White House. Russian agencies tweeted photos from the Oval Office showing that in addition to Lavrov, Trump shook hands with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak — a key figure in the investigation into ousted national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
2018 - POTUS Trump signed the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today Act that Jewish groups praised as helpful to their efforts to reclaim lost property in Poland. JUST required the U.S. State Department to report to congress on steps that 47 countries in Europe, signatories of the 2009 Terezin Declaration, had taken to compensate Holocaust survivors and their heirs for assets seized by Nazi Germany and post-war communist governments.
2018 - The Royal Bank of Scotland agreed to pay the U.S. $4.9 billion in fines. The penalties settled litigation over subprime mortgage products RBS sold before the 2008 financial meltdown.
2019 - Movies starting in U.S. theatres included: The Hustle, starring Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson and Tim Blake Nelson; Poms, with Pam Grier, Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver; All Is True, starring Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti and Jack Colgrave Hirst; Daughter of the Wolf, with Gina Carano, Richard Dreyfuss and Brendan Fehr; The Professor and the Madman, starring Natalie Dormer, Mel Gibson and Jeremy Irvine; Student of the Year 2, with Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pandey; and Tolkien, with Lily Collins, Nicholas Hoult and Patrick Gibson.
2019 - Chinese prosecutors filed charges against former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, accusing him of abuse of power and taking bribes. Interpol, the global police coordination agency based in France, said Meng had resigned as its president in 2018.
2020 - A speeding 2020 McLaren 600LT ran into a Los Angeles stop sign -- and a tree -- killing passenger Corey La Barrie (25). Tattoo artist Daniel Joseph Silva, who had been featured on the TV reality show Ink Master, was the driver and was arrested after the crash.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)U.S. cases rose 1.8% from a day earlier as fatalities approached 80,000. The U.K. outlined plans to restart activity and get people who can’t work at home back on the job. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the rate of coronavirus hospitalizations and the death toll had dropped to the lowest level since mid-March, when the shutdown began and before the state became the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. Cuomo said 207 people died May 10, down from 226 deaths the day before
2)The C&C Breakfast and Korean Kitchen in Castle Rock, Colorado opened for Mothers’ Day in defiance of state rules banning in-person dining. The next day the Tri-County Health Department issued an order for the restaurant to close. Governor Jared Polis called it an immediate health hazard and suspended the restaurant’s license.
3)Infections were accelerating again in Germany just days after its leaders loosened social restrictions, raising concerns that the pandemic could once again slip out of control.2021 - California Governor Gavin Newsom expanded the drought emergency proclamation to a cover a large swath of the state. One of the warmest, driest springs on record was threatening the American West.
2021 - Public Health England said data from the rollout of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shows one dose of the shot results in 80% less risk of death from the disease.
2022 - Apple ended production of its iPod music player -- after 21 years.
2022 - U.S. rate of gun-related deaths was the highest in 24 years (in 2020), according to the CDC, with firearm homicides increasing 35% to 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people nationwide.
2022 - Tom Brady agreed to a record 10-year, $375m deal to be Fox Sports’ lead analyst; the money surpassed the $303m the quarterback earned in salary during his NFL career.
2023 - Boston Red Sox reliever Kenley Jansen became the seventh MLB pitcher with 400 career saves. This record came with his 5-2 victory over the Braves in Atlanta on this day.
2024 - Movies set to open in U.S. theatres included Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, starring Freya Allan, Kevin Durand and Dichen Lachman; and Not Another Church Movie, with Lamorne Morris, Mickey Rourke and Jamie Foxx.
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Birthdays on This Day May 10
1838 - John Wilkes Booth
actor, assassin: shot and killed U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC; killed Apr 26, 18651899 - Fred Astaire (Austerlitz)
dancer, actor: Funny Face, Silk Stockings, Finian’s Rainbow, Daddy Long Legs, Easter Parade, Let’s Dance, That’s Entertainment, The Towering Inferno; died June 22, 1987; more1899 - Dimitri Tiomkin
conductor, composer: film scores: The Alamo, Dial ‘M’ for Murder, Friendly Persuasion, High Noon, It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; died Nov 11, 19791902 - David O. (Oliver) Selznick
producer: King Kong, A Star Is Born, The Prisoner of Zenda, Gone with the Wind, Duel in the Sun, The Third Man, A Farewell to Arms; died June 22, 19651909 - Mother Maybelle Carter (Addington)
musician: played melody on bass strings of guitar, rhythm on treble, singer: group: The Carter Family: Keep on the Sunny Side, Foggy Mountain Top; member Grand Ole Opry: A Jilted Love, Don’t Wait; died Oct 23, 19781914 - Charles McGraw
actor: A Boy and His Dog, Cimarron, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Defiant Ones, The Horizontal Lieutenant, Spartacus; died July 30, 19801917 - Margo (Maria Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O’Donnell)
actress: Viva Zapata!, Lost Horizon, I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Winterset; died July 17, 19851922 - Nancy Walker (Ann Myrtle Swoyer)
actress: McMillan and Wife; Bounty paper towel spots; Murder by Death, Broadway Rhythm, Forty Carats; died Mar 25, 19921927 - Mike Souchak
golf champion: PGA Tour record holder: lowest score in 9 holes [27] and 72 holes [257]: 1955 Texas Open; died Jul 10, 20081930 - Pat Summerall
football: New York Giants kicker; TV sportscaster: football, golf; died Apr 16, 20131934 - Gary Owens
Radio Hall of Famer; TV announcer, actor: Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in: “From beautiful Downtown Burbank...”, The Gong Show; died Feb 12, 20151935 - Larry Williams (Lawrence E. Williams)
singer: Short Fat Fannie, Bony Maronie, Dizzy Miss Lizzie; died Jan 2, 19801937 - Arthur L. Kopit
playwright: Hands of a Stranger, The Phantom of the Opera, Roswell: The U.F.O. Cover-up; died Apr 02, 20211938 - Henry Fambrough
singer: group: Spinners: I’ll Be Around, Could It Be I’m Falling in Love, The Rubberband Man; died Feb 7, 20241938 - Manuel Santana
tennis: International Tennis Hall of Famer; died Dec 11, 20211940 - Wayne A. Downing
four-star United States Army general: Commander of Special Operations forces in Panama and Iraq; Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command [USSOCOM]; National Director and Deputy National Security Advisor for combating terrorism; died Jul 18, 20071941 - Ken (Allen Kent) Berry
baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1967], California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians1941 - Danny Rapp
singer: group: Danny & The Juniors: At the Hop, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay; died Apr 5, 19831944 - Jim Abrahams
writer, director: Hot Shots! series, Big Business, Top Secret!, Police Squad, Help Wanted, Airplane!; writer: The Naked Gun; director: Ruthless People, Big Business1944 - Judith Jamison
dancer: American Ballet Theatre [debut: 1964], Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; starred in Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies; choreographer: created works for many companies, Rift, Hymn, Riverside, Sweet Release; autobiography: Dancing Spirit1944 - Marie-France Pisier
actress: Prize of the Peril, Miss Right, Chanel Solitaire, We Will Not Enter the Forest, Cousin Cousine, French Postcards, The Other Side of Midnight; died Apr 24, 20111945 - Randy Rasmussen
football: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: New York Jets guard: Super Bowl III1946 - Graham Gouldman
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: For Your Love, Evil Hearted You; group: 10cc1946 - Donovan (Leitch)
singer: Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Atlantis; composer: film: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, appeared in film: The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Brother Sun, Sister Moon1946 - Dave Mason
songwriter, musician, singer: Alone Together, Hole in My Shoe, Just for You, Feelin’ Alright, We Just Disagree, So High1946 - Jimmy Ponder
jazz guitarist: Smokin’, Mama Roots, Infant Eyes; died Sep 16, 20131947 - Jay (John) Ferguson
singer: group: Spirit: I Got a Line on You, Nature’s Way; group: Jo Jo Gunne1948 - Meg Foster
actress: Undercover, Lady in Waiting, To Catch a Killer, They Live, The Emerald Forest, Carny, James Dean, Adam at 6 a.m., Cagney & Lacey, Sunshine, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill1951 - Ron Banks
singer: group: The Dramatics: What You See is What You Get, Hey You! Get Off My Mountain, Be My Girl, Ocean of Thoughts and Dreams, You’re The Best Thing in My Life; died Mar 4, 20101952 - Lee Brilleaux
singer: group: Dr. Feelgood: Roxette, Back in the Night, Sneakin’ Suspicion, Baby Jane, Milk and Alcohol, Hong Kong Money, See You Later Alligator; died Apr 7, 19941954 - Laurence Lau
actor: One Life to Live, All My Children, Jumping for Joy, The Penny Promise, Return to the Secret Garden, The Best Little Girl in the World; more1955 - Chris Berman
TV sportscaster: ESPN: SportsCenter, NFL Primetime, Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight, US Open coverage; National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s National Sportscaster of the Year [1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001]1956 - Paige O’Hara
actress: Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Belle’s Magical World; Broadway: Showboat, Les Misérables; more1957 - Phil and Steve Mahre
downhill ski champs: Phil won gold medal at the 1984 Games in the men’s slalom, Steve won silver in the same event; Phil also won silver at the 1980 Olympics; the twin brothers run the Mahre Training Center ski camps in Deer Valley, Utah1957 - Sid Vicious (John Simon Ritchie)
musician: bass guitarist: Sex Pistols; died Feb 2, 19791958 - Ellen Ochoa
astronaut: first Hispanic woman in space [NASA missions: STS-56, STS-66, STS-96, STS-110]; Director of the Johnson Space Center [2013-2018]1959 - Victoria Rowell
actress: The Young and the Restless, Diagnosis: Murder, A Town Without Pity, Without Warning, Home of the Brave, Polly and Marie, Grand Theft Auto V1960 - Bono (Paul Hewson)
singer: group: U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride [In the Name of Love], With You or Without You1966 - Mikael Andersson
hockey [left wing]: Buffalo Sabres, Hartford Whalers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders1966 - Jason Brooks
actor: Days of Our Lives, Baywatch1968 - Jeff Wood
songwriter, singer: You Call That a Mountain, There’s No Place Like You, You Just Get One, I Want It All, Between the Earth and the Stars, Use Mine1969 - Judson Mills
actor: Walker, Texas Ranger, As the World Turns, The X-Files, Mighty Joe Young, Crossing Jordan, The Guardian, CSI: Miami, Saving Grace1970 - Gina Philips
actress: Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Jeepers Creepers, Love & Debate, The Anarchist Cookbook, Dead and Breakfast, The Sick House, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, ER, CSI, Medium, Monk1970 - Sally Phillips
actress: Bridget Jone’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, The Junkies, Boy Town, The Decoy Bride1973 - Jerome Williams
basketball [forward]: Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, NY Knicks1974 - Grant Williams
football [tackle]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, NE Patriots, SL Rams1975 - Andrea Anders
actress: Better Off Ted, The Class, Joey, Numb3rs, Sex Drive, Mr. Sunshine, Alice, Necessary Roughness1975 - Hélio Castroneves
Brazilian auto racing driver: won Indianapolis 500 [2001, 2002, 2009, 2021]; more1976 - Rhona Bennett
singer: group: En Vogue: Hold On, Free Your Mind, My Lovin’ [You’re Never Gonna Get It], Don’t Let Go [Love], Give It Up, Turn It Loose, Whatta Man1977 - Amanda Borden
gymnast: gold medalist [1996 Summer Olympics]1977 - Todd Lowe
actor: Gilmore Girls, Redline, Silver Lake, The Princess Diaries, The ’70s, Where the Heart Is, A Texas Funeral, True Blood1978 - Kenan Thompson
comedian, actor: Kenan, Saturday Night Live, Kenan & Kel, All That, Good Burger, Fat Albert; more1979 - Tony Alvarez
baseball [outfielder]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox1984 - Kelly Wells
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: With Daddy’s Permission, Mouth 2 Mouth 3, Playgirl: Illicit Affairs, Revenge Is a Bitch!, Watching Momma, Throat: A Cautionary Tale1985 - Odette Annable
actress: House, Kindergarten Cop, South Beach, October Road, Cloverfield, The Unborn, Banshee, Two and a Half Men, The Truth About Lies, The Astronaut Wives Club1985 - Ryan Getzlaf
hockey: NFL: Anaheim Ducks [2005- ]; gold medalist with Team Canada: 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics1990 - Salvador Pérez
baseball [catcher]: Kansas City Royals [2011-2018]: 2014 World Series, 2015 World Series champs1993 - Halston Sage
actress: How to Rock, Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, Joan’s Day Out, The First Time, The Bling Ring, Poker Night, Grown Ups 2, Townies, Neighbors, Paper Towns, Goosebumps1995 - Missy Franklin
swimming champ [backstroke, freestyle]: won four gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games
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Hit Music on This Day May 10
1947Linda (facts) - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
Heartaches (facts) - The Ted Weems Orchestra (whistler: Elmo Tanner)
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