May 14
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1607 - Three very small ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery sailed across the ocean blue from Plymouth, England to a place the ship’s crew and passengers called Jamestown, on this day. If you have ever been to today’s Jamestown and had the chance to climb aboard the restored ships, you would wonder how anyone could have survived that historic trip in such tiny, cramped quarters. We can only assume that some of us had ancestors who were very, very short.
1862 - Charles Victor Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph -- a timepiece that allows for split-second timing of sporting events.
1874 - McGill University (of Canada) and Harvard University met on Jarvis Field, Cambridge, MA for the first game of intercollegiate football in America.
1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline (for a brand of petroleum jelly) was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough. You have probably heard of his Chesebrough-Pond’s company.
1897 - A statue of George Washington was unveiled in Philadelphia, PA. To commemorate the occasion, John Philip Sousa’s march, The Stars and Stripes Forever, was performed. It was the first public performance for Sousa’s march and the President of the U.S., William McKinley, was in the audience.
1904 - The Olympic Games opened in St. Louis, MO. It marked the first time that the games were held in the United States.
1913 - John D. Rockefeller made the largest gift of money (to that time) by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation for $100,000,000. The foundation promotes “the well-being of mankind throughout the world.”
1919 - Henry John Heinz died. The H.J. Heinz Company and its products became known worldwide, in large part because of Henry’s outstanding ability to market his products as superior products. He coined the term ‘57 Varieties’, which is still used on much of the company’s labeling.
1937 - Duke Ellington and his band recorded the classic, Caravan, for Brunswick Records.
1940 - German bombers destroyed two thirds of the Dutch city of Rotterdam, killing almost 1,000 people and making some 80,000 homeless. As a result, on the following day, the Netherlands surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1945 - The Sparrow and the Hawk, a flying adventure serial for kids, was first broadcast over CBS radio.
1945 - Tennessee Jed made his debut on ABC radio. Johnny Thomas played the part of Tennessee Jed Sloan, “deadliest man with a rifle ever to ride the Western plains.” The show’s proud sponsor was yummy, enriched Tip-Top bread.
1948 - The state of Israel and its provisional government were established. Palestinian Jews celebrated their independence from British mandatory rule.
1951 - Comedian Ernie Kovacs launched his first TV show, It’s Time for Ernie, on NBC.
1955 - Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland.
1956 - Mercury Records released the first LP by The Platters. The group had already scored on the charts with Only You and The Great Pretender.
1957 - The musical, New Girl in Town, opened at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City. Thelma Ritter and Gwen Verdon starred in the Broadway adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. New Girl in Town had a run of 431 performances.
1960 - Bally Ache, the winner of the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, MD, was sold for $1,250,000. Wonder what he would have brought with a name change...
1963 - Kuwait became the 111th member of the United Nations.
1965 - Queen Elizabeth unveiled a memorial to the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy on a field at Runnymede, the site west of London where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215.
1967 - Mickey Mantle joined six other baseball legends as he hit home run number 500 -- in Yankee Stadium. He connected off of ‘The Butterfly Man,’ Stu Miller.
1969 - Jacqueline Susann’s second novel, The Love Machine, was published by Simon and Schuster. It went on to become a huge seller, and further established Susann as a writer of intense, erotic novels, several of which were turned into successful movies for TV.
1969 - The last Chevrolet Corvair rolled off the Willow Run assembly line in Ypsilanti, Mich. The last Corvair (the 6000th produced) was an ‘Olympic Gold’ Monza coupe with a black interior. It was also the last car Ralph Nader condemned as “unsafe at any speed.”
1971 - The Honey Cone received a gold record for the single, Want Ads. The female soul trio was formed in Los Angeles in 1969 and scored two million-sellers, Want Ads and Stick Up. The trio had a total of four songs on the charts that were moderate hits. Only Want Ads, however, made it to the number one position. Hey, that’s the latest, I’m Casey Kasem...
1975 - U.S. forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship Mayaguez. All 39 crew members were released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in the military operation.
1976 - Former Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf was electrocuted while tuning a guitar at his home in London. He was 33 years old. The Yardbirds, at one time or another, employed three major rock guitar stylists: Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.
1980 - Actor Hugh Griffith (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones), died. Griffith was 67 years old.
1985 - The first McDonald’s restaurant -- in Des Plaines, IL -- became the first museum of the fast-food business. McMannequins, McPosters and loads of McPhotos display years of hamburger McProgress!
1988 - Atlantic Records celebrated its 40th anniversary with an 11-hour concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Many of the acts that recorded for the label since its founding in 1947 appeared; among them, a reunited Led Zeppelin. Other big names included Yes, Genesis (and Phil Collins), Iron Butterfly, The Rascals, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash (David Crosby didn’t show), Foreigner, Paul Rodgers, Bob Geldof, Booker T. Jones (and The MG’s), Wilson Pickett, The Coasters, The Spinners, Peabo Bryson, Dan Aykroyd, Roberta Flack, Manhattan Transfer, Debbie Gibson, The Bee Gees, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Ben E. King, and Vanilla Fudge.
1988 - Anything for You, by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, hit #1 (for one week) on Billboard.
1989 - Moonlighting, the comedy crime drama starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis, last aired on ABC-TV. The show had been on the air since March 1985.
1992 - Lee Iacocca stepped down as CEO of Chrysler Corportation.
1994 - B.B. King appeared at the opening of China’s first Hard Rock Cafe -- in Beijing. King said, "I don’t think there ain’t anybody in the world that don’t get the blues. I heard there was a billion people in China that said they’d like to hear some blues music."
1997 - Magician Harry Blackstone Jr. died from a severe bacterial infection, complications from an aneurysm, and pneumonia. He was 62 years old.
1998 - The Associated Press commemorated its 150th anniversary.
1998 - The last episode of the sitcom Seinfeld was shown after nine years on NBC-TV. Commercials in the final show cost sponsors for $2M for 30 seconds.
1998 - Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The singer and actor was 82 years old. Over his illustrious career, Sinatra collected an acting Oscar (for "From Here to Eternity"), an honorary Oscar (for the 1945 short film on tolerance, "The House I Live In"), the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (presented by the motion picture academy), and nine Grammies. Ol’ Blue Eyes also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, presented by former Hollywood neighbor President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
1999 - New movies in the U.S.: Black Mask, with Jet Li, Karen Mock, Lau Ching Wan and Francoise Yip; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Christian Bale, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel and Kevin Kline; and Tea with Mussolini, featuring Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith and Lily Tomlin.
2000 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi died in Tokyo. He was 62 years old.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (8-to-0) that there was no exception in federal law allowing people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses.
2002 - Former American President Jimmy Carter addressed the Cuban people and said the U.S. should end its embargo and Cuba should become more democratic.
2003 - Victoria, Texas sheriff’s deputies found 18 people dead in and around a tractor-trailer rig at a South Texas truck stop. The victims were apparently would-be immigrants from Mexico.
2003 - Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dave DeBusschere died of a heart attack at 62 years of age in New York City.
2003 - Long-time (his first film was First Love in 1939) actor Robert Stack died at the age of 84. The tough-guy hero of TV’s The Untouchables (1959-1963) and the host of Unsolved Mysteries (1987-2002) died of a heart attack.
2004 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Breakin’ All the Rules, starring Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Esposito and Peter MacNicol; and Troy, with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Peter O'Toole, Julie Christie, Saffron Burrows and Garrett Hedlund.
2004 - Actress Anna Lee, whose 70-year career spanned from her breakthrough role in How Green Was My Valley to an extended run on TV’s General Hospital, died of pneumonia. She was 91 years old.
2004 - Australian Mary Donaldson married Danish Crown Prince Frederik in Copenhagen, Denmark. She became Princess Mary as a result.
2005 - The retired aircraft carrier USS America sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean after being used as a live-fire test and evaluation, and weapons effect platform for the next generation aircraft carrier.
2006 - A searing heatwave in central Pakistan had killed at least 84 people with temperatures as high as 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) during the previous week.
2007 - The cost of first-class U.S. letters went up 2 cents to 41 cents.
2007 - DaimlerChrysler announced the sale of its money-losing Chrysler division to Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm, for $7.4 billion. The then-named Daimler-Benz AG had bought Chrysler in 1998 for some $36 billion.
2008 - A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and jumped from a plane, giving the first public demonstration of his homemade device. Yves Rossy performed figure eights and soared high above the Alps.
2009 - An Australian court suspended a government programto kill 7,000 kangaroos on federal land near the capital, halting efforts to thin the mushrooming population of marsupials that authorities said were threatening endangered species.
2009 - A French Ariane-5 rocket, loaded with the Herschel Space Observatory, including the world’s largest space telescope, blasted off from Kourou, near the jungles of French Guiana. European scientists hoped the Herschel would help them unravel the mystery of the universe’s creation. The mission was named after British astronomer Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of the infrared spectrum and planet Uranus.
2010 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Just Wright, starring Paula Patton, Queen Latifah, Pam Grier, Mehcad Brooks and Michael Landes; Letters to Juliet, with Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, Christopher Egan and Franco Nero; and Robin Hood, starring Mark Strong, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Durand and Danny Huston.
2010 - Truck driver Bruce Mendenhall (59) was convicted of the June 2007 death of a woman at a Nashville, Tennessee truck stop. Police said he preyed on prostitutes at truck stops. Mendenhall was also charged with killing women in Lebanon TN, Indianapolis IN and Birmingham, AL.
2011 - 62-year-old Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France, was yanked from an airplane moments before it was to depart for Paris. He was arrested for the alleged sexual assault of Nafissatou Diallo, a New York City hotel maid -- an immigrant from Guinea. She identified Strauss-Kahn in a line-up. (The charges against Strauss-Kahn were later dismissed at the request of the prosecutor, who said there were serious doubts as to Diallo’s credibility and there was inconclusive physical evidence to the alleged crime.)
2012 - Minnesota’s Governor Mark Dayton signed a $975 million stadium creation bill for the Minneapolis-based Vikings football team. Minneapolis and the state would pay $498 million and the Vikings would pay $477 million. The stadium would be built on the downtown Minneapolis site of the team’s old home, known as the Metrodome.
2013 - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under fire for his costly lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense. This, as his government was slashing welfare benefits and raising taxes to cope with a huge deficit.
2014 - The Grace Kelly melodrama, Grace of Monaco, kicked off the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival. But the film, starring Nicole Kidman as Kelly during her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, was not warmly received. “It’s an easy watch, lush, stylish... and is often side-splittingly funny,” Empire blog’s Damon Wise said. “The trouble is, it’s not actually meant to be a comedy.”
2015 - B.B. King, Mississippi-born blues guitarist and 15-time Grammy winner, died in Las Vegas at 89 years of age. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time.
2016 - Hundreds of climate change activists in New York and Washington state mobilized as part of a global protest against fossil fuels. The so-called Break Free 2016 was a 12-day event seeking to call attention to climate change and demanding a transition to clean energy.
2017 - 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron was sworn in as president of France. He vowed to restore the country’s status in Europe and the world and to heal divisions in French society. Macron, a pro-European Union centrist, had fought a bitter campaign to defeat far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
2018 - 36-year-old Australian Steve Plain climbed Mount Everest and became the fastest to scale the highest peaks in seven continents. Plain had taken just 117 days for the feat popularly called the ‘Seven Summits’. This, four years after a spinal injury nearly left him paralyzed.
2019 - Comedian Tim Conway, former co-star of the Carol Burnett variety show, died in Los Angeles. He was 85 years old. From 1966 to 2012 he appeared in more than 20 TV shows, TV series and films. Among his more notable roles, he portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II TV situation comedy McHale’s Navy; co-starred with Don Knotts in several films; was the title character in the Dorf series of eight sports comedy direct-to-video films; and provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. Twice (1970, 1980–1981) he had his own TV series. Click here for some of his great stuff.
2019 - The U.S. National Labor Relations Board issued a memorandum that defined Uber drivers as contractors, not employees. The ruling meant the drivers would not be eligible to the full range of benefits offered to full-time employees. The NLRB said the flexibility and control given to Uber drivers means they work with “entrepreneurial freedom consistent with independent-contractor status.”
2020 - Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected POTUD Trump’s bid to end a lawsuit that accused him of violating anti-corruption provisions of the U.S Constitution by owning hotel in Washington while in office.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The Labor Department said roughly 36 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the two months since the coronavirus first forced millions of U.S. businesses to close their doors and shrink their workforces.
2)37-year-old citizen journalist China Zhang Zhan went missing in Wuhan, the city where the novel coronavirus was first recorded. She disappeared the day after she shared a video which described empty streets and life in the city after Wuhan lifted its lockdown. Later it was revealed that Zhang Zhan was imprisoned without charge.
3)Italy said would start testing a representative sample of 150,000 people in 2,000 cities to understand the extent of its epidemic. Italy has had more than 222,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and over 31,000 deaths since the outbreak.
4)Texas recorded single day highs of 1,458 new cases of the coronavirus and 58 deaths.
5)California to date had 74,564 cases of coronavirus and 3,042 deaths. Total cases nationwide reached over 1,415,894 with the death toll at 85,807.2020 - A coalition of 20 groups, including Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. The video app TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, was said to be collecting personal information of kids under 13 without their parents’ consent.
2020 - Facebook and a team of African and global telecom companies said they had struck a deal to build one of the world’s largest subsea cable networks, boosting internet availability across three continents. The 2Africa partners included South Africa’s MTN GlobalConnect, Mauritius-based infrastructure provider WIOCC, China Mobile International, French telecoms major Orange SA, Saudi Arabia's stc, Telecom Egypt, and Vodafone.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and/or virtual) this day included: Profile, with Valene Kane, Shazad Latif and Christine Adams; Spiral, starring Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan David Jones; The Djinn, with Ezra Dewey, Rob Brownstein and Tevy Poe; Finding You, starring Katherine McNamara, Tom Everett Scott and Vanessa Redgrave; The Killing of Two Lovers, with Chris Coy, Clayne Crawford and Arri Graham; The Man in the Hat, starring Ciarán Hinds, Stephen Dillane and Sasha Hails; and Those Who Wish Me Dead, starring Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult and Finn Little.
2021 - A North Carolina federal civil rights case jury awarded $75 million to two black, intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
2021 - The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic as federal regulators were forced to shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir. The U.S said it would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream -- or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year.
2021 - Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and Publix were among the first major retailers to announce that shoppers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 would no longer have to wear masks in their stores -- unless otherwise required by state or local law.
2022 - Surrealist artist Man Ray’s 1924 photograph Le Violon d’Ingres sold for $12.4 million, making it the most expensive ever sold at auction.
2022 - An 18 year-old gunman killed 10 people and wounded three at a Tops supermarket in east Buffalo, New York. The FBI said the shooting was both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism.
2023 - Cyclone Mocha slammed into Myanmar with wind gusts of over 195 mph. The damage was extensive. 460 people were killed and hundreds of others were missing -- and feared dead. The United Nations said that 16 million people were affected by the storm, 5.1 million living in northwestern Rakhine State.
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Birthdays on This Day May 14
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough
artist: The Blue Boy, The Watering Place; died Aug 2, 17881885 - Otto Klemperer
German composer, conductor: one of the best-known and most vigorous interpreters of his generation; fled to the U.S. in 1934 after the Nazis came to power; died Jul 6, 19731900 - Billie Dove (Lilian Bohny)
actress: All the Brothers were Valiant, The Black Pirate; died Dec 31, 19971916 - Skip (Lloyd) Martin
bandleader, composer, arranger: Hammer Blow [from Mike Hammer], Singin’ in the Rain, Guys and Dolls, April Love, Funny Face, Silk Stockings, Les Girls; died Feb 12, 19761917 - Norman Luboff
choral leader: The Norman Luboff Choir; died Sep 22, 19871921 - Richard Deacon
actor: The Dick Van Dyke Show, B.J. and the Bear, Leave It to Beaver, Carousel, Francis in the Haunted House, The Patsy, Bad Manners, Blackbeard’s Ghost; died Aug 8, 19841925 - Al Porcino
jazz musician: trumpet: played with Louis Prima, Tommy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Don Costa, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Jerry Lewis, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Buddy Rich, Chuck Mangione, Mel Torme; died Dec 31, 20131925 - Les (John Lester) Moss
baseball: catcher: SL Browns, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox; died Aug 29, 20121925 - Patrice Munsel
soprano: Metropolitan Opera diva [at age 17]; actress: The Great Waltz, Melba; radio performer: The Great Sopranos - Voices of Firestone Classic Performances; radio host: The Patrice Munsel Show; died Aug 4, 20161928 - Will ‘Dub’ Jones
singer: groups: The Cadets: Stranded in the Jungle; The Coasters: Charlie Brown, Yakety Yak, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy; died Jan 16, 20001929 - Gump (Lorne John) Worsley
Hockey Hall of Famer: goaltender: New York [Calder Trophy as NHL’s top rookie: 1953], Montreal Canadians [Stanley Cup: 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969/Vezina Trophy winner: 1964, 1966], Minnesota North Stars: consented to wear a mask during his last season in NHL; physical resemblance to a popular comic strip character earned him the nickname; died Jan 26, 20071936 - Bobby Darin (Cassotto)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Mack the Knife [1959]; Splish Splash, Dream Lover, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Things, If I Were a Carpenter; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; actor: Captain Newman, M.D., If a Man Answers, Come September; died Dec 20, 19731936 - Dick (Richard Dalton) Howser
baseball: KC Athletics [all-star: 1961], Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees; manager: NY Yankees, KC Royals:: 404-365 record [.525], 2 division titles, World Championship [1985], uniform [#10] was 1st number retired by Royals retired by Royals; died June 17, 19871939 - Troy Shondell
singer: This Time; died Jan 7, 20161942 - Tony Pérez (Atanasio Pérez Regal)
Baseball Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976/World Series: 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976], Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983]; manager: Cincinnati Reds1943 - Jack Bruce
musician: bass: group: Cream: Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, Crossroads; group: Graham Bond Organization; solo: Themes for an Imaginary Western; died Oct 25, 20141943 - Derek Leckenby
musician: guitar: group: Herman’s Hermits: Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter, I’m Henry VIII I Am; died Jun 4, 19941944 - Gene Cornish
musician: guitar: group: The [Young] Rascals: Groovin’, How Can I Be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to Be Free1944 - George Lucas (George Walton Lucas Jr.)
film producer, director: Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti1947 - Dick (Richard William) Tidrow
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978], Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, NY Mets; died Jul 10, 20211948 - Dave (David Eugene) LaRoche
baseball: pitcher: California Angels [all-star: 1977], Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1976], NY Yankees [World Series: 1981]1948 - Tom Gilmore
hockey: WHA: LA Sharks, Edmonton Oilers1950 - Jill Stein
U.S. physician, progressive, liberal politician: 2012, 2016 Green Party presidential nominee1951 - Pierre Plante
hockey: NHL: Philadelphia Flyers, SL Blues, Chicago Blackhawks, NY Rangers, Quebec Nordiques1951 - Robert Zemeckis
Academy Award-winning director: Forrest Gump [1994]; Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone, Used Cars, I Wanna Hold Your Hand; script writer [w/Bob Gale]: 1941; executive producer: Tales from the Crypt1952 - David Byrne
singer: group: Talking Heads: Love Goes to Building on Fire; composer for film: True Stories1953 - Tom Cochrane
musician: guitar: group: Red Rider: White Hot, Lunatic Fringe, Young Thing, The Untouchable One, Good Times; solo: Life is a Highway, Sinking Like a Sunset, I Wish You Well1959 - Rick Vaive
hockey: NHL: Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Birmingham Bulls [WHA]1961 - Tim Roth
actor: Lie to Me, Rob Roy, Legend of 1900, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Skellig, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk1962 - Ian Astbury
singer: group: The Cult: Spiritwalker, Resurrection Joe, She Sells Sanctuary1962 - C.C. DeVille
musician: guitar: group: Poison: Every Rose Has It’s Thorn, Something to Believe In, Fallen Angel, Ride the Wind, Talk Dirty to Me, Nothing But a Good Time1963 - Pat Borders
baseball [catcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, KC Royals, Houston Astros, SL Cardinals, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers1966 - Mike Inez
musician: bass guitar: group: Alice in Chains: Man in the Box, Them Bones, Rooster, Angry Chair, No Excuses, I Stay Away, Grind, Heaven Beside You1966 - Fabrice Morvan
performer, lip-syncer: group: Milli Vanilli: Girl I’m Gonna Miss You, Baby Don't Forget My Number, Blame It on the Rain1969 - Cate Blanchett
actress: The Missing, The Shipping News, The Lord of the Rings series, Bandits, The Gift, The Talented Mr. Ripley1969 - Danny Wood
singer: group: New Kids On the Block: Step by Step, You Got It (The Right Stuff), I’ll Be Loving You (Forever), Cover Girl, Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind), Please Don’t Go Girl, Tonight, This One’s for the Children, Valentine Girl, Let’s Try It Again, Hangin’ Tough, If You Go Away, Baby, I Believe in You, Call It What You Want1971 - Sofia Coppola
Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Lost in Translation [2003]; director: The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, Somewhere, The Bling Ring; actress: Frankenweenie, The Cotton Club, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Godfather Part III, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, CQ1972 - Gabriel Mann
actor: Revenge, The Bourne Identity, 80 Minutes, Mad Men, Legend of the Seeker, The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes1973 - Shanice (Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox)
songwriter, singer: I Love Your Smile, Saving Forever for You, Love Is the Gift, If I Never Knew You, [Baby Tell Me] Can You Dance, No 1/2 Steppin’, When I Close My Eyes1974 - Ken Belanger
hockey [left wing]: Toronto Maple Leafs, NY Islanders, Boston Bruins, LA Kings1977 - Roy Halladay
baseball [pitcher]: Toronto Blue Jays [1998–2009]; Philadelphia Phillies [2010–2013]: perfect game [May 29, 2010 against the Florida Marlins]; postseason no-hitter [October 6, 2010] against the Cincinnati Reds; 2× Cy Young Award winner [2003, 2010]; killed Nov 7, 2017 when his light-sport aircraft crashed into the Gulf of Mexico1978 - Eddie House
basketball [guard]: Arizona State Univ; NBA: Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Sacramento Kings, Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets1983 - Frank Gore
football [running back]: NFL: San Francisco 49ers [2005–2014]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII; Indianapolis Colts [2015–2017]; Miami Dolphins [2018]; Buffalo Bills [2019]; New York Jets [2020]1983 - Amber Tamblyn
actress: Joan of Arcadia, Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard, Live Nude Girls, General Hospital, The Unusuals; daughter of actor Russ Tamblyn1984 - Mark Zuckerberg
computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur: co-created the social networking site Facebook1986 - Clay Matthews III
football [linebacker]: Univ of Southern California; NFL: Green Bay Packers[2009–2018]: 2011 Super Bowl XLV champs; Los Angeles Rams [2019]1989 - Rob Gronkowski
football [tight end]: Univ of Arizona; NFL: New England Patriots [2010–2019]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs, 2017 Super Bowl LI, 2019 Super Bowl LIII champs; Tampa Bay Buccaneers [2020–2021]: 2021 Super Bowl LV champs)1993 - Miranda Cosgrove
actress: iCarly, Despicable Me film series, Crowded; singer: About You Now, Sparks Fly, High Maintenance, Dancing Crazy
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Mockingbird Hill (facts) - Patti Page
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