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Events on This Day
1816 - The American Bible Society was formed in New York City.1858 - Minnesota entered the United States of America this day as the Union’s 32nd state. Although its state bird is the common loon, there’s nothing common about Minnesota, whose Dakota-Sioux Indian name means sky-tinted water. The North Star State’s capital is St. Paul, which has a twin city, Minneapolis. The state flower is the lovely lady’s slipper.
1900 - In an effort to regain the heavyweight boxing title, James J. Corbett, known as Gentleman Jim, was knocked out cold by James J. Jeffries -- in the 23rd round. Maybe if he’d stopped at, say, 12 rounds...
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was created by an act of Congress. The park had 26 named glaciers in 2011, down from 150 in 1850. Those that remain are typically mere remnants of their former frozen selves.
1927 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded; although the first Oscars were not presented for several years after its founding.
1928 - WGY-TV in Schenectady, NY began the first schedule of regular TV programs. A very short schedule, in fact. WGY offered programming to the upstate New York audience three times a week using the mechanical scanning method. And mechanical scanning was not to be the wave of the future. It was electrical scanning, developed by Philo Farnsworth, that would make television available to the masses.
1940 - New York World’s Fair reopened. The fair had been open from Apr 30 to Oct 31, 1939. The second (and final) season ran from May 11 to Oct 27, 1940.
1946 - Jack Barry, a familiar face on TV game shows, hosted Juvenile Jury on WOR radio in New York City. The show was such a hit after five weeks on the air that it debuted on the Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast. Maybe Barry became a bit too familiar in 1959. It was Twenty One, the enormously popular show that Barry hosted, that led to the Quiz Show Scandal that rocked television and the U.S. Congress.
1947 - B.F. Goodrich announced the development of the tubeless tire. If you guessed that the B.F. Goodrich company started in Akron, Ohio, you win the T-shirt.
1949 - Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world body’s 59th member by a vote of 37-12.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand. FYI: The word ‘thai’ means ‘free’, and ‘Thailand’ means ‘Land of the Free’.
1949 - U.S. President Harry S Truman signed a bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1950 - The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington was dedicated. Under construction since 1933, the dam had been in operation since 1942. It was finally completed in 1975.
1957 - Monte Irvin retired from baseball at the age of 39, due to a back injury.
1960 - Israeli Mossad operatives captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Capturing the former SS officer, who once had hundreds of men to carry out his murderous commands, turned out to be easy. The agents jumped Eichmann as he exited a bus bringing home from work. The man who had ordered the slaughter of so many people during World War II, and who had managed to escape justice after the war, surrendered meekly.
1965 - Liza Minnelli opened in Flora the Red Menace. The musical ran for only 87 performances at the Alvin Theatre.
1969 - An infamous and bloody battle in Vietnam began with U.S. attempts to seize Dong Ap Bia mountain, known as ‘Hamburger Hill’. After 10 days, U.S. troops conquered the hill, only to abandon it soon after. The North Vietnamese then retook the mountain. The battle highlighted the futility of the American military strategy in Vietnam.
1970 - The Chairmen of the Board received a gold record for the hit, Give Me Just a Little More Time. The Detroit group recorded three other songs in 1970, with moderate success.
1972 - The San Francisco Giants announced that they were trading Willie Mays to the New York Mets.
1977 - The U.S. government outlawed the use of chlorofluorocarbons as spray can propellants.
1978 - Margaret A. Brewer became the first female general of the U.S. Marine Corp.
1981 - Heavyweight boxing challenger Gerry Cooney left former champ Ken Norton on the ropes and unconscious after 54 seconds of the first round at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers defeated the California Angels 8-2 and set a major-league record for victories at the beginning of a baseball season. The Tigers, under Sparky Anderson, won 26 of their first 30 games.
1985 - Scott Brayton turned in the fastest lap ever at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Brayton was traveling at 214.199 MPH in the third lap of qualifying. He had already set records in the first two trips around the track. Brayton’s average speed of 212.354 broke the record previously set by Tom Sneva in the 1984 time trials.
1985 - Cartoonist Chester Gould died. Gould introduced crime and violence to the comics with the creation of Dick Tracy. He created a rogues’ gallery of bizarre criminals, including Big Boy, Stooge Viller, the Blank, Littleface Finney, Pruneface, the Brow, Shakey, Pear Shape, Doc Hump, Boris Arson, the Mole, BB Eyes and Flattop. Gould had retired in 1977.
1989 - Kenya announced that it would seek a worldwide ban on the trade of ivory. The ban was an attempt to preserve Kenya’s dwindling elephant herds.
1992 - Margarita drink inventor Carlos Herrera died at 90 years of age.
1995 - A United Nations conference extended the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was to expire after being in force for 25 years. The treaty was extended indefinitely on this day.
1996 - The crew of ValuJet Flight 592 reported smoke in the cabin shortly after takeoff from Miami. The airliner, bound for Atlanta, attempted to turn around but crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing 105 passengers and five crew members.
1997 - Deep Blue, IBM’s supercomputer, made history by defeating chess-master Gary Kasparov. After losing the first game in the match, the computer gained a win in game two, and managed draws in games three, four and five. The final score was 3 1/2 points for Deep Blue and 2 1/2 for Kasparov, who, for the first time ever, conceded defeat. Afterwards, he bolted from the room shaking his head in disgust. “I’m ashamed by what I did at the end of this match,” Kasparov said at a news conference. “But so be it.”
1998 - The first Euro coin was struck at France’s official mint, making France the first of the 11 nations participating in the launch of the single currency in 1999 to produce the money.
1999 - Ricky Martin was released. The album, by the international superstar who detonated the Latin pop explosion, featured: Livin’ La Vida Loca, Spanish Eyes, She’s All I Ever Had, Shake Your Bon-Bon, Be Careful (Cuidado Con Mi Corazón), I Am Made of You, Love You For a Day, Private Emotion, La Copa de la Vida (La Cancion Oficial de la Copa Mundial, Francia ’98), You Stay with Me, Livin’ la Vida Loca, I Count the Minutes, Bella (She’s All I Ever Had), and María.
2001 - A Knight’s Tale opened in the U.S. The action/comedy/adventure stars Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell and Shannyn Sossamon. Also opening this day: Replicant, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Rooker and Catherine Dent.
2001 - Author Douglas Adams died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 49 years old. Douglas was most well-known for his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
2001 - Puerto Rico’s Denise Quiñones August won the Miss Universe contest held in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
2002 - Former Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, known as Joe Bananas, died in Tuscon, AZ. He was 97 years old.
2004 - A video, posted on an al-Qaida-linked Web site, showed the beheading of Nick Berg, an American civilian in Iraq. The 26-year-old Berg was from West Chester, PA. (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, aka Ahmad Fadhil al Khalayeh, was later identified as the killer.)
2006 - Boxer Floyd Patterson died at his home in New Paltz, NY. He was 71 years old. Patterson was a two-time heavyweight boxing champion [1956, 1960] and was the youngest heavyweight champ in 1956.
2007 - New movies in U.S. theatres: 28 Weeks Later, with Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Idris Elba and Mackintosh Muggleton; Delta Farce, featuring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, D.J. Qualls, Keith David, Danny Trejo and Danielle Hartnett; and Georgia Rule, starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney, Cary Elwes and Garrett Hedlund.
2007 - Firefighters struggled to protect Avalon, California, Catalina island’s main city, from a wildfire. The blaze had forced hundreds of residents to flee on ferries as ash rained down like snow.
2007 - North and South Korea adopted a military agreement allowing the first train crossing of their heavily armed border in more than half a century.
2009 - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized on behalf of all politicians for the public outrage over revelations of excessive expenses claims. Brown pledged to overhaul the allowance system and win back public trust.
2009 - Pope Benedict XVI confronted the dark history of his native Germany on the first day of his visit to Israel, shaking the hands of six Holocaust survivors at the Holocaust memorial, telling them the victims of the genocide “lost their lives but they will never lose their names.”
2009 - U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent was sentenced to 3 years in prison for lying to investigators about sexually abusing two female employees at his Galveston, Texas, courthouse. It was the first sex abuse case ever against a sitting federal judge.
2010 - A maritime museum, the House of the Sea in Lysekil, Sweden reported that a ‘giant herring’ measuring 3.5 meters (11.4 feet) had been discovered on a beach on Sweden’s western coast. It was the first such fish to be found in Sweden in more than 130 years.
2010 - French lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution, asserting that face-covering Muslim veils were contrary to the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.
2011 - Billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was convicted in New York City of fraud and conspiracy. Accused of conspiring with others in insider trading in several publicly traded companies, Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in prison. -- the longest-ever term imposed in an insider-trading case. He was also fined $92.8 million.
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Dark Shadows, starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley and Bella Heathcote; The Dictator, with Megan Fox, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, John C. Reilly, B.J. Novak and Kevin Corrigan; Girl in Progress, starring Eva Mendes, Patricia Arquette, Matthew Modine, Eugenio Derbez, Landon Liboiron, Raini Rodriguez and Russell Peters; Where Do We Go Now, with Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Antoinette Noufaily and Julian Farhat; and Tonight You’re Mine, with Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton and Alastair Mackenzie.
2012 - JPMorgan Chase faced intense criticism for claiming that a surprise $2 billion loss by one of its trading groups was the result of a sloppy but well-intentioned strategy to manage financial risk. The 2-billion screwup prompted calls for much tougher U.S. financial rules.
2013 - Thousands of Gabonese people marched to protest ritual killings, in which people were murdered so their body parts could be used in amulets to bring good luck. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, Gabon‘s first lady, led the event along with Christian and Muslim religious leaders.
2014 - China signed a deal with East African leaders to build a $3.8 billion rail link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi. It is the first stage of a rail line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. China would finance 90% of the first stage, put at $3.8bn (£2.3bn), with the work, of course, to be carried out by a Chinese firm.
2015 - Greece used funds from an emergency International Monetary Fund holding account to repay €750 million ($839 million) due the IMF. Athens used all €650 million in the holding account and €100 million from its cash reserves to make the payment.
2016 - Italy’s parliament approved gay civil unions. Italy was the the last major Western country to officially recognize same-sex relationships.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump said that he had planned to fire FBI Director James Comey no matter what top Justice Department officials suggested. “Oh, I was gonna fire Comey, regardless of recommendation,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with NBC "Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt. The White House had initially said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memorandum to Attorney General Jeff Sessions prompted Trump to fire Comey. And while the White House insisted the firing had nothing to do with the FBI’s Russia investigation, Trump wrote in his letter informing Comey of this dismissal: “I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation.”
2018 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Breaking In, starring Gabrielle Union, Billy Burke and Richard Cabral; Revenge, with Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens and Vincent Colombe; Another Kind of Wedding, starring Kathleen Turner, Jessica Paré and Jessica Parker Kennedy; Anything, with John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer and Maura Tierney; Beast, starring Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James; Class Rank, with Skyler Gisondo, Olivia Holt and Kristin Chenoweth; Dark Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marton Csokas; Measure of a Man, with Judy Greer, Donald Sutherland and Beau Knapp; The Seagull, starring Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss and Annette Bening; Soller’s Point, with McCaul Lombardi, Jim Belushi and Tom Guiry; and Terminal, starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg and Mike Myers.
2018 - Former Baltimore police Sgt. Thomas Allers was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to nine robberies while (get this) he was on the Gun Trace Task Force.
2019 - CO2 levels at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reached 415 parts per million, more than twice the level of CO2 that was present during the ice ages. Scientists said the concentration had not been seen in 3 million years, a time when Antarctica was covered in forests.
2020 - In the Netherlands five experienced surfers drowned when they went out for a session in stormy weather off the coast of The Hague. The Hague’s night mayor, Pat Smith, said he knew two of the victims very well, and told a local radio station the surfers were training on the water and “got lost in the foam.”
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The World Health Organization said that coronavirus cases had jumped in countries that eased their stay-at-home orders, underscoring the “challenges that may lie ahead.”
2)Thirsty Czechs were allowed to return to beer gardens in one of the government’s most eagerly anticipated moves to relax coronavirus restrictions. Authorities also eased travel restrictions, allowing residents from outside the European Union to enter the country if they could show a negative test and were taking up certain kinds of work, such as in the healthcare sector.
3)The International Monetary Fund agreed to lend Egypt $2.77 billion in emergency assistance to deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic.2021 - Arizona Republicans passed a law that would sharply limit the distribution of mail ballots that used a widely popular early voting list. It was another effort in a conservative push to restrict minority voting across the U.S.
2021 - U.S. manufacturers that rushed to produce face masks over the previos year were reportedly stuck with hundreds of millions of unsold face coverings. This, because China was flooding the market with below-cost masks.
2022 - A Boston municipal court judge found celebrity chef Mario Batali not guilty of indecent assault and battery. The allegations stemmed from a 2017 encounter in a bar, where a Boston woman said Batali aggressively kissed and groped her while they took a selfie. Boston Municipal Court Judge James Stanton agreed with claims made by Batali’s lawyers that the selfie photo showed the incident was amicable.
2022 - President Biden hit the road to talk about the role American farmers can play in alleviating global food shortages caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He defended his administration’s efforts to fight inflation, saying, “I know families across America are hurting because of inflation. I understand what it feels like.” Biden also accused “ultra-MAGA” Republicans of exploiting frustration over inflation to push their “extreme agenda.”
2023 - Overweight people became protected against discrimination in New York City under a law passed by the city council on this day. The new legislation meant that people could not be denied public housing or jobs for being obese. (Mayor Adams signed the bill into law on May 26.) San Francisco had also outlawed weight discrimination and similar laws were being considered other states.
2023 - The Biden administration said it would start denying asylum to migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border if they had not applied on line or requested protection in a country they traveled through. The measure was part of an attempt to prevent a wave of illegal border crossings after the expiration of Title 42, the pandemic-era policy allowing border officials to turn away asylum seekers in the name of preventing the spread of COVID-19. The new policy, which had gone through a public comment period, stopped short of being a total ban but placed tough limits on asylum for anyone failing to seek a legal pathway -- while offering a chance of asylum for those with legitimate claims pursued legally.
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Birthdays on This Day May 11
1888 - Irving Berlin
composer: Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Always, Doin’ What Comes Naturally, Puttin’ on the Ritz, Blue Skies, Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, Play a Simple Melody, Easter Parade, There’s No Business Like Show Business, God Bless America; scores for Broadway shows: Annie Get Your Gun; films: Top Hat, won Oscar for his composition, White Christmas; could neither read nor write music; died Sep 22, 1989
1894 - Martha Graham
modern dancer: Denishawn dance school and performing troupe, Graham company, established school of modern dance at Bennington College; choreographer: Cave of the Heart, Appalachian Spring; “The center of the stage is where I am.”; died Apr 1, 19911904 - Salvadore (Felipe Jacinto) Dalí (y Domenech)
surrealist artist: Accommodations of Desire, The Persistence of Memory, Visage of War; died Jan 23, 19891911 - Phil Silvers (Philip Silversmith)
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: The Phil Silvers Show [Sgt. Bilko: 1955, 1956, 1957]; The Beverly Hillbillies, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; died Nov 1, 19851911 - Doodles (Winstead) Weaver
actor: Road to Nashville, The Errand Boy, The Ladies’ Man, Way He Was; died Jan 17, 19831912 - Foster Brooks
comedian, actor: The Villain, Cracking Up, Oddballs, The New Bill Cosby Show, Mork & Mindy, The Dean Martin Show, The Bobby Vinton Show, The Book of Lists; died Dec 20, 20011913 - Salvatore ‘Tutti’ Camarata
instrumentalist, orchestrator, composer, producer, arranger: Jimmy Dorsey Band; worked in movies, radio, TV: Bing Crosby Show, The Vic Damone Show, The Alcoa Hour; died Apr 13, 20051919 - John Michael Hayes
screenwriter: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much; died Nov 19, 20081920 - Denver Pyle
actor: The Dukes of Hazzard, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Life & Times of Grizzly Adams, Bonnie & Clyde; died Dec 25, 19971927 - Bernard Fox
actor: Titanic, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, Knight Rider, The Mummy, Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes; died Dec 14, 20161927 - Mort Sahl
comedian: Broadway, night club acts, actor: Don’t Make Waves, Doctor You’ve Got to be Kidding; died Oct 26, 20211930 - Stanley Elkin
author: Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show, The Franchiser, The Living End, George Mills, Alex & the Gypsy; died in 1995; died May 31, 19951931 - Marilyn King
singer: group: The King Sisters: The King Family Show; died Aug 7, 20131932 - Valentino (Garavani)
fashion designer: dedicated Collection Blanche to Jackie Kennedy [1967]; his ready-to-wear collections have been shown in Paris since 1969; founded Valentino Academy [1990]1933 - Louis Farrakhan
leader of black racist cult Nation of Islam, founder of Million Man March [1996]1934 - Jack Twyman
Basketball Hall of Famer [forward]: Univ of Cincinnati; NBA: Rochester/Cincinnati Royals: career: 15,840 points, 19.2 points per game average [in 823 games], 5,421 rebounds; died May 30, 20121935 - Doug McClure
actor: The Gambler Returns, Omega Syndrome, The Unforgiven, The Virginian, Search, Roots, Out of this World, The Overland Trail, Checkmate, The Barbary Coast; died Feb 5, 19951936 - Carla Bley
musician: piano and organ; composer: Escalator Over the Hill; bandleader: Blues in 12 Bars/Blues in 12 Other Bars, Les Trois Lagons; died October 17, 20231939 - Milt (Miltiades Stergios Papastegios) Pappas
‘Gimpy’: baseball [pitcher]: Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1962, 1965], Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs; died Apr 19, 20161939 - Frank (Francis Ralph) Quilici
‘Guido’: baseball: Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965]; died May 14, 20181940 - Butch (Larry) Hartman
auto racer: USAC: four stock car crowns [1970s]; died Dec 21, 19941941 - Eric Burdon
singer: groups: The Animals: When I was Young, Good Times, San Franciscan Nights, Sky Pilot, Ring of Fire, House of the Rising Sun; Eric Burdon and War: Spill the Wine; soundtrack for: Comeback1943 - Les (John) Chadwick
musician: bass: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: How Do You Do It?, I Like It, You’ll Never Walk Alone, I’m the One, Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying1943 - Nancy Greene
skier: Olympic Gold Medalist: giant slalom, Silver, slalom [1968]; Canadian Sports Hall of Famer1946 - Robert Jarvik
physician: inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart [implanted into Barney Clark in 1982: kept Clark alive 112 days]1947 - Butch Trucks (Claude Hudson Trucks)
musician: drums: group: The Allman Brothers: Whipping Post, Midnight Rider, Ramblin’ Man; died Jan 24, 20171948 - Bobby Cole
golf: champ: Buick Open [1977]1952 - Shohreh Aghdashloo
Emmy Award-winning actress: House of Saddam [2009;] House of Sand and Fog, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, 24, The Stoning of Soraya M., The Expanse1952 - Frances Fisher
actress: Unforgiven, Titanic, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Perfect Game, In the Valley of Elah, Mrs. Harris, Laws of Attraction, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis1955 - Mark Herndon
musician: drums: group: Alabama: She and I, Mountain Music, Feels So Right, Old Flame, Tennessee River, Love in the First Degree, 40 Hour Week [For a Livin’]1957 - Peter North
actor [1983-2011]: X-rated films: On Golden Blonde, For Your Thighs Only, Tailhouse Rock, Surfside Sex, Wild Bananas on Butt Row, Hillbilly Honeys, North Pole series1959 - Martha Quinn
VJ (video jockey): MTV Music Television; actress: Bad Channels, Problem Child 2, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, Tapeheads, Dead Heat, Dangerous Curves1963 - Roark Critchlow
actor: Mr. Deeds, How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale, Making It Home, The Man Upstairs, Cadence1963 - Natasha Richardson
actress: Widow’s Peak, Nell, Hostages, Past Midnight, The Handmaid’s Tale, Patty Hearst, Gothic, On the Razzle, The Charge of the Light Brigade; daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, sister of actress Joely Richardson, niece of actress Lynn Redgrave, wife of actor Liam Neeson; died in New York City Mar 18, 2009 [following a skiing accident Mar 16, 2009 near Montreal, Canada]1964 - Tim Blake Nelson
film director, writer, actor: O Brother, where Art Thou?, The Incredible Hulk, Leaves of Grass, CHAOS, Yelling to the Sky, Flypaper, Modern Family, The Big Year, Detachment, Big Miracle, Lincoln, Child of God, Snake and Mongoose1965 - Marguerite MacIntyre
actress: The Vampire Diaries, Kyle XY, The Shield, Radioland Murders, Our Lips Are Sealed, Red Dragon, April Apocalypse1966 - Trenidad (Trent) Hubbard
baseball: Southern Univ; Colorado Rockies, SF Giants, Cleveland Indians, LA Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles1966 - Chris Mohr
football [punter]: Univ of Alabama; TB Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills Atlanta Falcons1968 - Jeffrey Donovan
actor: Burn Notice, Changeling, Hitch, Believe in Me, Come Early Morning, Touching Evil, J. Edgar1971 - Kerry Ligtenberg
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Minnesota; Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays1974 - Kevin Brown
hockey [right wing]: LA Kings, Ottawa Senators, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Edmonton Oilers1975 - Coby Bell
actor: Burn Notice, Third Watch, The Game, Showdown at Area 51, Ball Don’t Lie, A.T.F.1982 - Jonathan Jackson
actor: Nashville, Tuck Everlasting, On the Edge, Crystal Clear, The Deep End of the Ocean, Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., Camp Nowhere, General Hospital1983 - Matt Leinart
football [quarterback]: Univ Southern California: won Heisman Trophy [2004]; NFL: Arizona Cardinals [2006–2009]; Houston Texans [2010–2011]; Oakland Raiders [2012]1983 - Holly Valance
model, actress: Neighbours, Prison Break; singer: Kiss Kiss, City Ain’t Big Enough, Harder They Come, Send My Best, State of Mind, Curious, Tongue Tied, Double Take1984 - Andres Iniesta
footballer [midfielder]: F.C. Barcelona [2001-2018]; Spain national team: 2010 World Cup Champs1985 - Jadyn Wong
actress: Scorpion, Being Erica, Caprica, Rookie Blue, Client Seduction, Debug1988 - Brad Marchand
hockey [winger]: NHL: Boston Bruins [2008- ]: 2011 Stanley Cup champs1989 - Cam Newton
football [quarterback]: Auburn Univ [2010 Heisman Trophy winner]; NFL: Carolina Panthers [2011–2019]: 2016 Super Bowl 501992 - Bryan Rust
hockey [right winger]: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins [2014– ]1997 - Lana Condor
actress: X-Men: Apocalypse, To All the Boys film series, Deadly Class, Alita: Battle Angel, voice: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
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Hit Music on This Day May 11
1948Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
Mañana (facts) - Peggy Lee
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