May 22
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1761 - The first life insurance policy issued in the United States was issued on this day. Can you think which company it was? Nope. Don’t even try. You’ll never guess. It was the Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers. WOW-Zers! Can you image what size their letterhead must have been? It was the CftRoPaDPMaoftPaDWaCoPM ... for short. We wonder how long the policy must have been...1819 - The steamship Savannah was the first to cross the Atlantic. It sailed from Savannah, Georgia to Liverpool, England. This day is now celebrated in the United States as National Maritime Day.
1841 - Henry Kennedy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was lounging around the house when the mailman rang his doorbell (or cranked it, since electricity wasn’t even available, yet ... or, heck, maybe he just knocked on the door. There were doors back then, you know...) In any case, a patent had arrived for Mr. Kennedy for the first reclining chair. So, sit back (er, recline), relax, and enjoy the rest of today’s show...
1849 - Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating dry dock.
1868 - The masked Reno Gang pulled off the great train robbery at Marshfield, IN. They hauled in $96,000 in loot.
1900 - Allen DeVilbiss, Jr. of Toledo, OH patented his pendulum-type computing scale. Many are still around. Check out your nearest produce stand at the market.
1900 - Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, MI patented his pianola: a pneumatic piano player. The device could be attached to any piano. Batteries not included.
1927 - A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Gulang, Kansu in the Republic of China. Over 40,000 people were killed.
1931 - From the Mmmm, Good! file: The Floridian Products Corporation of Arcadia offered its product for sale. Was it orange juice, rattlesnake meat, sectioned grapefruit or alligator purses? If you said rattlesnake meat, you were looking a line ahead and were cheating, but that is the correct answer!
1939 - Representatives of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed the Pact of Steel, committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.
1942 - Ted Williams was sworn into the U.S. Navy. He returned to the Boston Red Sox in 1946 and took up where he had left off, leading the team to the World Series, and winning the MVP crown.
1943 - The first operational jet fighter was tested. The German Me262 first flew on this day.
1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman signed into law the Truman Doctrine. Enacted by the U.S. Congress in response to a request by Truman, the law appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
1947 - The first ballistic missile was fired. It was a U.S. Army Corporal missile, fired at White Sands proving Grounds, NM.
1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last live network radio broadcast after a run of 23 years. Mr. Benny was devoting his time fully to TV. His program brought many of his old cronies to TV as well: announcer Don Wilson; bandleader Phil Harris; Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson; singer Dennis Day; and Benny’s wife, Mary Livingstone.
1958 - Singer Jerry Lee Lewis announced his marriage to his 14-year-old cousin, Myra. The resulting controversy caused Lewis to be booed off the stage in London and forced the cancellation of all but three of the 37 scheduled concerts on his British tour.
1961 - Ernie K-Doe, aka Ernest Kador Jr., joined the growing list of one hit wonders (recording artists who had only one hit song). Mother-In-Law was Ernie’s one hit, and a number one tune on U.S. pop music charts.
1965 - The Beatles got their eighth consecutive number one listing as Ticket to Ride rode to the top of the singles list. The song topped the charts for one week.
1966 - Bruce Springsteen recorded his very first song, along with his band, The Castilles. It was titled, That’s What You Get. The song was never released. Bruce was just practicing. He was just sixteen...
1967 - What was to become the Public Broadcasting System’s longest-running children’s program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, debuted on this day.
1967 - The final To Tell the Truth program was seen on CBS-TV. It had been on the air for over 10 years. The show began syndication sometime later, in a slightly different format.
1970 - The Guess Who from the Winnipeg, Canada area earned a gold record for both the album and single, American Woman. It would be one of three million-seller awards for the group. Their other hits included, These Eyes, Laughing and No Sugar Tonight. The group, which dates back to 1963, disbanded in 1975, with several reunions since then. From the Additional Information You Probably Didn’t Need To Know department: Randy Bachman played lead guitar before leaving the group in August, 1970 to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Burton Cummings was lead singer starting in 1966.
1972 - The first U.S. president to visit Moscow did so on this day. President Richard Nixon met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon admitted to a White House role in the Watergate cover-up, citing national security.
1979 - Canadians went to the polls in parliamentary elections that put the Joe Clark’s Progressive Conservatives in power. The election ended the 11- year tenure of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
1985 - GTE Corporation (General Telephone and Electronics) was named by Fortune magazine as the largest utility in the U.S. In the same issue of Fortune, Sears was named as the nation’s largest retailer for the 21st year in a row.
1986 - Sylvester Stallone agreed to a 10-picture, six-year deal with United Artists. He signed for a reported $15 million for each film. The deal made him the richest actor in Hollywood.
1989 - India test-fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile, igniting worries over nuclear proliferation and starting a spiraling arms race on the subcontinent.
1992 - Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the last time. It was the end of three decades of late nights spent with Carson and his sidekick, Ed McMahon and bandleader, Doc Severinsen. Comedian Jay Leno replaced Carson.
1993 - More than 40,000 fans packed a heavily-secured park along Tel Aviv’s beachfront to see Guns N’ Roses kick off a 15-country European tour. Tickets were $43 - the highest price for a rock concert in Israel.
1995 - Photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope this day showed two new moons in Saturn’s orbit. The discovery was made by astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
1996 - Mission: Impossible, starring Tom Cruise and Jon Voight, opened in theaters across the U.S. The film, also starring Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vanessa Redgrave, broke the $100-million box-office mark eleven days later.
1997 - The U.S. Postal Service released a Bugs Bunny commemorative stamp. Bugs was the first animated character to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.
1998 - Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland turned out in large numbers to cast ballots giving resounding vote in favor of peace in violence-torn Ulster. The vote paved the way for a power-sharing deal designed to end decades of sectarian strife. 3,600 people had died since violence erupted in British-ruled Northern Ireland in 1969.
1998 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and The Opposite of Sex, with Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei, Megan Blake, Colin Ferguson, Dan Bucatinsky, Chauncey Leopardi, Rodney Eastman and Heather Fairfield.
1998 - Actor, director John Derek died in Santa Maria, CA. He had been married to Pati Behrs, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and Bo Derek.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law that shielded children from sex-oriented cable TV channels.
2001 - Ford Motor Company announced plans to spend more than $2 billion to replace some 13 million Firestone tires on its vehicles because of safety concerns.
2002 - The remains of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who had disappeared more than a year earlier, were found in a Washington DC park.
2002 - A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls.
2003 - Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich signed a bill that reduced criminal penalties for seriously ill people who smoke marijuana to a maximum $100 (with no jail time).
2003 - NASA released the first photo of Earth taken from Mars, 86 million miles away.
2004 - Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe married former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz, the first commoner in line to be queen in Spanish history.
2004 - Filmmaker Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sep 11 attacks, won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
2005 - The United Nations condemned as “utterly unacceptable” the abuse of detainees at a U.S. air base (Bagram) in Afghanistan.
2006 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that police without a warrant could enter a home to break up a fight, overturning three Utah court rulings.
2007 - Iran raised gasoline prices by 25%, and the government said it was ready to begin rationing fuel.
2008 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth in the Indiana Jones film series, opened in the U.S. The action adventure stars Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Shia LaBeouf.
2008 - The U.S. Congress enacted a massive election-year farm bill over the veto of President George Bush (II). The law created new, and bigger, subsidies for farmers.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Dance Flick, with Damon Wayans Jr., Craig Wayans, Shoshana Bush, Essence Atkins and Affion Crockett; Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal, Bill Hader, Alain Chabat, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon; and Tormented, starring Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Larissa Wilson, Mary Nighy and Dimitri Leonidas.
2009 - U.S. President Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, saying it was a turning point for American consumers by ending the days of unfair rate hikes and hidden fees.
2010 - Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737–800, trying to land at a tricky hilltop runway at Mangalore in southern India, overshot the runway, crashed over a cliff and burst into flames at dawn, killing 158 people. There were 8 survivors. An investigative panel later found that the pilot had slept through more than half the flight and was disoriented during landing.
2010 - Jordan Romero (13), an eighth-grader from California, became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, surpassing the previous record set by Temba Tsheri (16) of Nepal.
2011 - The Cannes Film Festival awarded its top prize to the drama Tree of Life, by Terence Malick. Kirsten Dunst won the best actress prize for Melancholia. Jean Dujardin claimed the best actor prize for the silent film The Artist.
2011 - A tornado tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri, killing 154 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin. The storm left a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood. The National Weather Service said it was the single deadliest twister in 60 years.
2012 - Russia’s President Vladimir Putin targeted those who opposed him by introducing new fines for protesters and handing out Kremlin jobs to widely his lieutenants. The new law imposed a 200-fold increase in fines for taking part in unsanctioned protests. And police rounded up several members of the liberal Yabloko party who attempted to protest the new law outside parliament.
2013 - U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh and Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno told a Senate panel that they were addressing, as their top priority, the service’s sexual harassment and sexual assault problems. This, as they reported that a sergeant had been accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers at West Point. (In March 2014 Sgt. First Class Michael McClendon pled guilty to the videotaping and was sentenced to 33 months’ confinement.)
2014 - The U.S. FBI issued arrest warrants for 16 police officers in Puerto Rico on charges of corruption. In August 2014 all 16 pleaded guilty. The officers had used their affiliation with law enforcement to commit robbery and extortion, to manipulate court records in exchange for bribes, and to sell illegal narcotics.
2015 - Films opening in the U.S. included: Poltergeist, with Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris and Rosemarie DeWitt; Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie; The Human Centipede 3, with Eric Roberts, Bree Olson and Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister; and Sunshine Superman starring John B. Macaulay, Marah and John Long.
2015 - Irish voters backed same-sex marriage by a margin of 62.1%, making it the first country to adopt same-sex marriage via a popular vote.
2015 - 23-year-old Jordan James Kirby of Paradise (near Sacramento, CA) was sentenced to 29 years in federal prison for tricking young girls on Facebook into sending him explicit photographs of themselves and then using the pictures to extort them.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama arrived on his first (and only) visit to Vietnam. The trip was meant to help with the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner -- and to help the U.S. counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump arrived in Israel on a visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara escorted the American president and first lady across the red carpet after they left Air Force One, the Netanyahus walked hand in hand, but when Trump reached for his wife’s hand, she did not respond. Never one to take rejection well, Trump grabbed her hand. The first lady promptly shook it loose.
2018 - China jailed Tibetan businessman Tashi Wangchuk for five years for “inciting separatism,” after he advocated the use of Tibetan in schools and was featured in international media reports. Wangchuk was an advocate for the teaching of the Tibetan language after Tibetan classes were closed down in his local area, prompting concerns that future generations of Tibetans would grow up unable to speak their mother tongue.
2018 - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a pair of U.S.-German science satellites and five commercial communications satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in southern California. NASA contributed $430 million to the new mission and the German contribution was €77 million.
2019 - British and Japanese mobile phone companies said that they were putting on hold plans to sell new devices from Chinese company, Huawei. This, in the latest fallout from U.S. tech restrictions aimed at Huawei.
2019 - A U.S. federal judge ruled that Qualcomm unlawfully squeezed out cellphone chip rivals and charged excessive royalties to manufacturers. The judge ordered Qualcomm to renegotiate licensing deals with customers, license its patents to rival chip makers at fair prices, and stop signing exclusive supply agreements with smartphone makers, like Apple, that block competitors from access to that market.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open in the U.S. (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: Survive the Night, starring Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray and Lydia Hull; The Trip to Greece, with Kareem Alkabbani, Marta Barrio and Rob Brydon; and Military Wives, starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Emma Lowndes.
2020 - Actress Lori Loughlin pleaded guilty to paying half a million dollars to get her two daughters enrolled at the University of Southern California. Her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, also pleaded guilty. The couple was accused of paying consultant Rick Singer $500,000 to get their daughters into the University of Southern California as rowing recruits.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)Hollywood producer William Sadleir was arrested. The former chairman and CEO of Aviron Pictures, was accused of defrauding the government of millions of dollars meant for coronavirus relief, and of using nearly $30 million in investor funds for his personal use — including his buying a $14-million Beverly Hills Mansion.
2)Car rental company Hertz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid the economic fallout from the global pandemic.
3)China dropped its annual growth target for the first time and pledged more government spending as the pandemic hammered the world’s second-largest economy.
4)Total cases in the U.S. reached ablut 1.6 million with the death toll at 96,000.2021 - Virgin Galactic, British billionaire Richard Branson’s private spaceship company, completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico. Branson founded the company in 2004 and this was the third time his company reported reaching space.
2021 - Twenty six countries competed in the final Eurovision song contest in the Netherlands, vying for votes in the world’s most popular live music event, which returns after being cancelled last year due to the pandemic. Maneskin won the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song Zitti E Buoni beat 25 other acts from across Europe to bring the title home for Italy. France came in second, and Switzerland came in third.
2022 - At the PGA Championship (May 19–22 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, OK) Justin Thomas edged Will Zalatoris by 1 stroke in a 3-hole playoff after 54-hole leader Mito Pereira double bogeyed the 72nd hole.
2022 - U.S. Southern Baptists released a scathing report on sexual abuse in the largest U.S. Protestant denomination. The report showed details of 20 years of allegations that were either ignored or covered up by top clergy -- and stories of how some of those leaders mistreated victims of abuse.
2023 - A deal cutting water usage of the Colorado River was agreed to by California, Arizona and Nevada -- aiings to save some 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026.
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Birthdays on This Day May 22
1813 - Wilhelm Richard Wagner
composer: Tristan, Isolde, Lohengrin; died Feb 13, 18831844 - Mary Cassatt
artist: The Bath; died June 14, 19261859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
physician; writer; died July 7, 1930
1892 - Ralph Peer
talent scout: discovered Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family; founder of Peer-Southern Music Publishing Company; died Jan 19, 1960
1907 - Sir Laurence (Kerr) Olivier
Academy Award-winning actor: Hamlet [1948]; War Requiem, The Boys from Brazil, Brideshead Revisited, Carrie, The Jazz Singer, Peter the Great, Richard III, Spartacus, The Merchant of Venice, Marathon Man, Khartoum; Emmy Award-winning actor: The Moon and Sixpence [1960], A Long Day’s Journey into Night [1973], Love Among the Ruins [1975], Brideshead Revisited, King Lear [1984]; died July 11, 19891907 - Harry Ritz
half of Ritz Brothers comedy team; actor: Silent Movie, Blazing Stewardesses, Hi’ya, Chum, Behind the Eight Ball, The Three Musketeers; died Mar 29, 19861910 - Johnny Olson
radio, TV announcer: The Price Is Right, Body Language, Tattletales, Password Plus, Double Dare, Family Feud, Concentration; died Oct 12, 19851914 - Vance Packard
writer The Hidden Persuaders; died Dec 12, 19961914 - Sun Ra (Herman Blount)
jazz musician: piano, organ, synthesizer; died May 30, 19931922 - Judith Crist (Klein)
TV critic: TV Guide, Saturday Review, Today Show; died Aug 7, 20121924 - Charles Aznavour (Shahnour Varenagh Aznavurjian)
actor Edith & Marcel, The Tin Drum, Twist, Ten Little Indians, Candy, Shoot the Piano Player; singer, songwriter; died Oct 1, 2018; died Oct 1, 20181926 - Elaine Leighton
drummer: played w/Billie Holiday1927 - Michael Constantine (Constantine Joanides)
Emmy Award-winning actor: Room 222 [1969-70]; Sirota’s Court, Hey Landlord, The Hustler; died Aug 31, 20211928 - Jackie (Jacqueline) Cain
singer: duo: Jackie & Roy [Kral]: Flamingo, Over the Rainbow, Euphoria, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles; died Sep 15, 20141928 - Frank Converse
actor: Broadway: The Philadelphia Story, Design for Living, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lady in the Dark, The House of Blue Leaves, South Pacific [2000]; film: Coronet Blue, N.Y.P.D., Movin’ On, Our Town, Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase, Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, Mystery at Fire Island, Marilyn: The Untold Story1931 - Kenny Ball
musician: trumpet: bandleader: Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen: Midnight In Moscow; died Mar 7, 20131934 - Al Brown
entertainer: group: Al Brown & The Tunetoppers: LP: The Madison Dance Party1934 - Peter Nero (Nierow)
pianist: Theme from the Summer of ’42; died Jul 6, 20231938 - Richard Benjamin
actor: Goodbye Columbus, Diary of a Mad Housewife, He and She, Portnoy’s Complaint, Love at First Bite, The Sunshine Boys, Westworld; director: The Money Pit, Little Nikita, Made in America, Milk Money1938 - Frank Converse
actor: Brother Future, Tales of the Unexpected, Home at Last, Cruise into Terror, N.Y.P.D., Movin’ On, The Family Tree, Coronet Blue, Dolphin Cove1938 - Susan Strasberg
actress: The Marriage, Toma, Picnic, Rollercoaster, Delta Force; died Jan 21, 19991939 - Larry Siegfried
basketball: Boston Celtics; died Oct 14, 20101939 - Paul Winfield
actor: Tyson, Breathing Lessons, Carbon Copy, Cliffhanger, Dennis the Menace, Presumed Innocent, Sounder, The Terminator, Star Trek 2; died Mar 7, 20041940 - Michael Sarrazin
actor: Lena’s Holiday, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, The Flim Flam Man, For Pete’s Sake, Mascara, The Seduction; died Apr 17, 20111940 - Mick Tingelhoff
football: Minnesota Vikings center: All-Pro team [1964, 65, 66, 67, 68, 68]; died Sep 11, 20211942 - Barbara Parkins
actress: Peyton Place, Captains and the Kings, Valley of the Dolls, Calendar Girl Murders, The Deadly Trap1943 - Tommy (Thomas Edward) John
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1968], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977, 1978/all-star: 1978], NY Yankees [all-star: 1979, 1980/World Series: 1981], California Angels, Oakland Athletics1948 - Buddy Alan (Alvis Alan Owens)
songwriter, singer: Let the World Keep on a Turnin’, When I Turn Twenty One, Santo Domingo, Cowboy Convention, Too Old to Cut the Mustard [with Buck]; son of singers Buck Owens and Bonnie Owens1948 - Doug Gray
musician: guitar, singer: group: Marshall Tucker Band: Can’t You See, Heard It in a Love Song, Searchin’ for a Rainbow, Ramblin’, Fire on the Mountain, This Ol’ Cowboy, 24 Hours at a Time, Long Hard Ride1950 - Bernie Taupin
Elton John’s lyricist: Your Song, Friends, Rocket Man, Honkey Cat, Crocodile Rock, Daniel, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me1955 - Iva Davies
musician: guitar, singer: group: Icehouse1957 - Gary Sweet
actor: Alexandra’s Project, Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline, Stingers, Gettin’ Square, The Tracker, Hard Knox, The Big House, Love in Ambush, Blue Murder, Crimebroker1959 - (Stephen) Morrissey
singer: group: The Smiths: Hand in Glove, This Charming Man, What Difference Does It Make, Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, William It Was Really Nothing, Reel Around the Fountain, Suffer Little Children, Bigmouth Strikes Again, That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore, Shakespeare’s Sister, Boy with the Thorn in His Side, The Queen is Dead, Frankly Mr. Shankly, Cemetry Gates1961 - Ann Cusack
actress: My Sister’s Keeper, Black River, Stigmata, From the Earth to the Moon, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1961 - Dana Williams
musician: bass guitar; singer: group: Diamond Rio: Meet in the Middle, Mirror Mirror, Mama Don’t Forget to Pray for Me, Norma Jean Riley, Nowhere Bound, In a Week or Two, Oh Me, Oh My Sweet Baby1967 - Dan Roberts
musician: guitar: group: Crash Test Dummies: Keep a Lid on Things, Get You in the Morning, Superman’s Song, Androgynous, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm1967 - Brooke Smith
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, The Silence of the Lambs, A Little Help, The Namesake, Bad Company, The Broken Giant, Mr. Wonderful, The Moderns1968 - Randy Brown
basketball [guard]: NBA: Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns1968 - Brent Geiberger
golf champ: Canon Greater Hartford Open [1999], Chrysler Classic of Greensboro [2004]1968 - Alan Levine
baseball [pitcher]: Southern Illinois Univ; NFL: Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels, TB Devil Rays, Detroit Tigers1970 - Naomi Campbell
model; writer: Swan; actress: Miami Rhapsody1972 - Anna Belknap
actress: CSI: NY, The Handler, Medical Investigation1972 - Alison Eastwood
actress: I’ll Be Seeing You, How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, Power Play, Breakfast of Champions, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1972 - Mike Hollis
football [kicker]: Univ of Idaho; NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills1974 - Sean Gunn
actor: Gilmore Girls, Guardians of the Galaxy, October Road, Angel, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Yes, Dear, True Jackson, VP, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Bunheads1974 - Andrei Nazarov
hockey [right wing]: San Jose Sharks, Tampa Bay Lightning, Calgary Flames, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Boston Bruins, Phoenix Coyote, Minnesota Wild1978 - Ginnifer Goodwin
actress: Big Love, Mona Lisa Smile, He’s Just Not That into You, Once Upon a Time1979 - Maggie Q (Margaret Denise Quigley)
actress: Nikita, Live Free or Die Hard, Mission: Impossible III, The Counting House, Operation: Endgame1981 - Melissa Gregory
ice dancer [w/partner/husband Denis Petukhov]: 2006 U.S. Olympic team; silver medal at the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships; placed second at 2005 Four Continents Championships; Bronze medalist at 2005 Skate Canada1982 - John Bobek
actor: Desperate Housewives, How I Met Your Mother, Numb3rs, House M.D., Heartland, Related, Girlfriends, The West Wing, Wizards of Waverly Place, Welcome Back Satan, The Touch1982 - Nazanin Boniadi
actress: Charlie Wilson’s War, Iron Man, The Next Three Days, Homeland; more1982 - Apolo Anton Ohno
short track speed skater: eight-time Winter Olympic medalist [two gold, two silver, four bronze]1986 - Julian Edelman
football [wide receiver]: Kent State Univ: NFL: New England Patriots [2009–2020]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs; 2017 Super Bowl LI champs; 2019 Super Bowl LIII champs [MVP]; TV football commentator: Inside the NFL [Paramount+]1987 - Novak Djokovic
tennis pro: won multiple Grand Slam singles titles [2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 Australian Open; 2011, 2014 Wimbledon; 2011 U.S. Open; 2016 French Open2001 - Judah Lewis
actor: The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Demolition, Point Break, The Christmas Chronicles, The Christmas Chronicles 22004 - Peyton Elizabeth Lee
actress: Andi Mack; Secret Society of Second-Born Royals; Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.
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Hit Music on This Day May 22
1950My Foolish Heart (facts) - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched (facts) - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
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