May 24
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1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse tapped out the message “What hath God wrought” in Morse Code. The development inaugurated America’s telegraph industry. The message was sent from Washington, DC to Baltimore, MD.1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, officially opened. At the time, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge. It is held together with 5,296 bound-steel cables. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, took 14 years to build. The span is 1,595 feet long, cost $16 million to construct and no, it’s not for sale!
1930 - Amy Johnson, a young British pilot from Hull, touched down in at Port Darwin, Australia. She had just completed an 8,600-mile journey from London alone in a two-year-old de Havilland Moth she had named Jason. The journey had taken her 19 1/2 days. Johnson earned her place in hostory as the first woman to fly from England to Australia solo.
1931 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) began service on the Columbian run between New York City and Washington, DC. The passenger train was the first train with air conditioning throughout.
1935 - The first major-league baseball game to be played under the lights saw the Cincinnati Reds defeat Philadelphia 2-1 at Crosley Field.
1938 - Art Kassel’s orchestra recorded a song for Bluebird Records that may not have been a smash hit, but had a title to die for: So You Left Me for the Leader of a Swing Band.
1941 - The Battle of the Denmark Strait took place. The German battleship Bismarck sank the British dreadnought Hood. Outraged at the grievous loss, Winston Churchill signalled the Admiralty just three words: “Sink the Bismarck!” Thus began one of the epic sea chases in the history of naval warfare. (On May 27, the Bismarck was indeed sunk.)
1950 - ‘Sweetwater’ (Nat) Clifton’s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters and was the first black player in the NBA.
1953 - A previously unknown actor, Rod Steiger, starred in Marty on the Goodyear Playhouse. Paddy Chayefsky wrote the original TV play and then adapted it for the Oscar-winning film.
1954 - The first traveling sidewalk in a railroad station was moving right along on this, its first day of operation, in Jersey City, NJ.
1958 - United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1963 - On the cover of LIFE magazine was astronaut Gordon Cooper. The photo was of Cooper before the final Mercury space flight, a 34-hour orbital mission on May 16, 1963. The caption on the LIFE cover read, “HIS FLIGHT HERALDS A FANTASTIC ERA OF SHRINKING TIME.”
1964 - The (18th annual) Tony Awards show was held at the at the New York Hilton Hotel. Winners included Luther (best Play); Hello, Dolly! (best Musical); Alec Guinness in Dylan (best Actor Dramatic); Sandy Dennis in Any Wednesday (best Actress Dramatic); Bert Lahr in Foxy (best Actor Musical); and Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly! (best Actress Musical).
1966 - Mame opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical comedy starred Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur. In 1969, Mame was moved to the Broadway Theatre, where it remained until closing on January 3, 1970. Between the two venues, it ran a total of 1,508 performances. (In 1958, a film titled Auntie Mame, based on the play, was released by Warner Brothers starring Rosalind Russell in the title role.)
1969 - The Beatles hit number one with Get Back. The song stayed parked at the top of the hit heap for five weeks.
1971 - Bob Dylan turned 30 and even the Peanuts comic strip mentioned the event. Dylan celebrated at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall.
1974 - After nine years on TV, the last Dean Martin Show was seen on NBC. Dean’s lovely group, The Golddiggers, returned to bid farewell in the show that had been seen in a variety of formats on Thursday and, later, on Friday evenings.
1974 - Bandleader Duke Ellington died in New York City of lung cancer. Often referred to as the greatest single talent in the history of jazz, he was variously referred to as ‘The Aristocrat of Swing’, ‘The King of Swing’ and ‘The King of Jazz’. He created an estimated two thousand compositions.
1976 - England and France both opened transatlantic Concorde service to Washington DC.
1981 - Bobby Unser was first to the checkered flag for his third major victory since 1968. He won the ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing,’ the Indianapolis 500. The victory, however, was short lived, as race stewards took the win away from Unser the next day and awarded it to Mario Andretti. It was the first time a driver had been stripped of the championship. Race officials, looking at videotape, said that Unser had violated the caution light rule and penalized him one lap. Oooops.
1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge fireworks display. Ooh, ah... Oh, it’s still not for sale!
1984 - Ralph Sampson, one of the twin towers of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, became the first unanimous choice for Rookie of the Year since Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabar) of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1970.
1986 - Montreal skated past Calgary 4-3 to capture its 23rd National Hockey League Stanley Cup championship. No other major North American pro sports franchise had earned as many titles.
1986 - Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love of All was starting week number two of a three-week stay at number one ... one ... one...
1987 - 300,000 people jammed San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge; so many people that the normally convex bridge actually flattened out temporarily. The occasion was the Golden Gate’s 50th anniversary (the bridge first opened to traffic on May 28, 1937).
1989 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade premiered. The action adventure stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Sean Connery as Professor Henry Jones, Denholm Elliott as Dr. Marcus Brody, Alison Doody as Dr. Elsa Schneider, John Rhys-Davies as Sallah, Julian Glover as Walter Donovan and River Phoenix as Young Indy.
1990 - The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth Stanley Cup as they defeated the Boston Bruins, four games to one.
1991 - Israel started airlifting 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to safety as Ethiopian rebels advanced on Addis Ababa.
1992 - Al Unser Jr. became the first second-generation winner of the Indianapolis 500. Jr. edged Scott Goodyear by just .043 of a second in the closest Indy 500 finish ever. His father, four-time winner Al Unser, came in third.
1993 - Microsoft Windows NT (‘New Technology’) was launched. Geared toward the power user and the server market, NT was well received by developers because of its security, stability, and ‘rich’ user interface.
1993 - Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine) and The Piano jointly won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival.
1995 - 79-year-old Harold Wilson, former British Prime Minister (1964-1970, 1974-1976), died in London.
1996 - Spy Hard opened in U.S. theatres. Leslie Nielsen, Nicolette Sheridan, Charles Durning, Marcia Gay Harden and Barry Bostwick star.
1997 - Hanson’s single, MMMBop, rose to #1 for the first of three weeks in the U.S.
1998 - At the 51st Cannes Film Festival: The Golden Palm award went to the Greek film Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day), directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The Grand Prize went to the Italian film La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) directed by Roberto Benigni.
1999 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police violate people’s privacy rights when they bring TV camera crews or other journalists into homes during arrests or searches. The High Court said police can be sued for letting TV camera crews and other journalists accompany them into people’s homes to observe arrests or searches.
2000 - Anthony Landini sold his pair of ruby slippers at Christie’s East, New York. Landini had purchased the slippers in 1988 for $165,000. The pair was one of several worn by Dorothy (Judy Garland) in the movie, The Wizzard of Oz. Landini had grabbed the slippers at an auction at Christie’s. He sold them at that same auction house 12 years later to movie memorabilia collector David Elkouby, who paid $600,000, plus a $66,000 commission. After the auction, Landini was quoted as saying, “There’s no place like Christie’s.” “There’s no place like Christie’s.”
2000 - Israeli troops pulled out of South Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation. Within two hours, hundreds of armed guerrillas descended on the Israel-Lebanon border fence. Although armed with AK-47 and M-16 assault rifles, the guerrillas were in a festive rather than a fighting mood. Many cried “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great.”
2000 - New $5 and $10 bills, featuring a big and slightly off center Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton, respectively, made their debut. They joined new-look bills featuring Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses S. Grant ($50) and Benjamin Franklin ($100). The makeovers were designed to thwart high-tech counterfeiters.
2000 - Mission: Impossible 2 opened in the U.S. The action, adventure, mystery, thriller stars Tom Cruise Dougray Scott Thandie Newton Ving Rhames and Richard Roxburgh.
2001 - U.S. Democrats gained control of the Senate for the first time since 1994 after Vermont Senator James Jeffords abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
2002 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Enough, starring Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell and Juliette Lewis; Insomnia, featuring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank and Maura Tierney; and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, starring Matt Damon, James Cromwell and Daniel Studi.
2003 - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani wed longtime companion Judith Nathan. It was the third marriage for Giuliani and second for Nathan, a former nurse.
2003 - Accountant Chris Moneymaker (27) walked away from Las Vegas with $2.5 million and the title of champion in the 34th annual World Series of Poker.
2004 - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued the New York Stock Exchange, former exchange chairman Dick Grasso and an executive who headed its compensation committee. Spitzer wanted Grasso to return a substantial portion of the $139.5 million that the Exchange gave to Grasso upon his retirement in 2003.
2006 - Taylor Hicks was voted winner of American Idol: The Search for a Superstar. With help from his fans from the Soul Patrol, Taylor recieved more than 63 million votes to win season five of the TV talent contest. That 63 million votes was more than George W. Bush received in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election.
2007 - Mohamad ElBaradei, head of the U.N. nuclear agency, said he agreed with CIA estimates that Iran was three to eight years from being able to make nuclear weapons on its own. He urged the U.S. and other powers to pursue talks with the Islamic country.
2007 - The U.S. Congress passed a spending bill, providing an additional $95 billion for the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. President George Bush (II) signed the bill on May 25, 2007.
2008 - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, died in Santa Monica, CA. He was 86 years old. Rowan and Martin took TV by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me!”
2008 - A tour helicopter crashed on Santa Catalina Island, CA killing three people and injuring three others.
2009 - The White Ribbon, from Austrian director Michael Haneke, won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Christolph Waltz won the best actor prize for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress award for her role in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist.
2009 - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would continue to build homes in existing West Bank settlements, defying U.S. requests to halt settlement growth.
2010 - Australia expelled an Israeli embassy official from the country and reported that Israel was behind fake Australian passports linked to the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai.
2010 - Iran’s state IRNA news agency reported that police had launched a crackdown on irreverent social behavior, seizing 60 cars whose drivers were deemed to be harassing women. The police, however, did not explain what constituted the harassment.
2011 - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he would not defy a state Supreme Court order to increase aid to low-income school districts. But the governor complained that the decision was legally faulty and bad education policy. The Court ordered the state to provide some $500 million for its poorer school districts.
2012 - New Zealand’s government announced a 40 per cent hike in tobacco taxes over four years, hoping higher taxes and new restrictions would snuff out smoking entirely by 2025.
2013 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres: (Fast and) Furious 6, starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Luke Evans, Elsa Pataky, Gina Carano and Gal Gadot; The Hangover Part III, starring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, John Goodman, Heather Graham, Melissa McCarthy and Jamie Chung; the animated adventure Epic, featuring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Amanda Seyfried, Pitbull, Beyoncé Knowles, Josh Hutcherson, Judah Friedlander, Colin Farrell, Aziz Ansari, Blake Anderson, Christoph Waltz and Chris O’Dowd. Before Midnight, with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Yota Argyropoulou; the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, with Julian Assange and Adrian Lamo.
2013 - The Church of England published a plan to approve the ordination of women bishops.
2014 - Mahafarid Amir Khosravi (aka Amir Mansour Aria), a billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion Iran state bank scam, was executed. His was the largest fraud scandal since the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. A total of 39 defendants were convicted in the case. Four received death sentences, two got life and the rest received sentences of up to 25 years in prison.
2015 - 68th Cannes film festival came to a close. The Grand Prix went to Son of Saul, directed by Laszlo Nemes. The Palme d’Or was awarded to Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard. And the Jury Prize was won by The Lobster, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.
2016 - American biochemical engineer Frances Arnold (59), whose discoveries in ‘directed evolution’ helped produce medicines, including drugs for treating diabetes, was awarded the 2016 €1 million ($1.2 million) Millennium Technology Prize in Finland.
2017 - Pope Francis urged POTUS Donald Trump to be a peacemaker. Trump pledged that he would not forget the pontiff’s message. And the Pope presented Trump with a copy of his encyclical on preserving the environment.
2017 - The Moody’s ratings agency cut China’s credit rating due to surging debt. The move prompted a protest by Beijing and highlighted challenges faced by Communist leaders as they overhauled a slowing economy. It was the first time the agency had downgraded the country since 1989.
2018 - The former treasurer of Spain’s ruling People’s Party, Luis Barcenas, was given a 33-year prison sentence and fined €44 million for his part in a corruption case that had resulted in dozens of high-ranking party members getting jail terms. The scandal had triggered intense political turmoil in Spain.
2019 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres on this day included: Aladdin, starring Naomi Scott, Will Smith and Billy Magnussen; Booksmart, with Kaitlyn Dever, Skyler Gisondo and Billie Lourd; BrightBurn, starring Elizabeth Banks, Jackson A. Dunn and David Denman; Avengement, with Scott Adkins, Craig Fairbrass and Thomas Turgoose; Diamantino, with Carloto Cotta, Cleo Tavares and Anabela Moreira; Funny Story, starring Matthew Glave, Emily Bett Rickards and Jana Winternitz; Isabelle, with Amanda Crew, Adam Brody and Zoë Belkin; and The Lumber Baron, with Joseph Bezenek, Christina Baldwin and Anna Stranz.
2019 - U.S. regulators approved a horrendously expensive medicine -- for a rare inherited condition called spinal muscular atrophy. The disorder destroys a baby’s muscle control and kills nearly all of those with the most common type of the disease within a couple of years. The one-time gene therapy, developed by Novartis, Zolgensma, had a price tag of $2.125 million.
2019 - Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May resigned (effective Jun 7) in an emotional address, ending a dramatic three-year tenure of near-constant crisis over Brexit. Her resignation increased the likelihood of Britain crashing out of the European Union. May also stepped down as head of the Conservative Party.
2020 - A federal judge ruled that a Florida law requiring felons to pay legal fees (as part of their sentences) before regaining their right to vote was unconstitutional for those unable to pay, or unable to find out how much they owe. On July 1 a federal appellate court stayed the lower court ruling pending a review of the case.
2020 - Brazil surpassed Russia with a total of 347,398 confirmed coronavirus cases. Russia reported its coronavirus figure at a total of 344,481.
2021 - Western outrage grew and the European Union threatened more sanctions over the forced diversion of a Ryanair passenger jet to Belarus in order to arrest opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich. The dramatic gambit was ordered by the country’s authoritarian president to suppress dissent. Britain then barred Belarus’s national airline from its skies and instructed U.K. aircraft to avoid Belarussian airspace.
2021 - Sweden said it was donating 3 million doses of vaccine to the COVAX facility for the year, up from a previous pledge of 1 million doses.
2022 - 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by an 18-year-old mentally-deranged gunman
2022 - Rock band Aerosmith cancelled its Las Vegas concerts that had been set for June and July because of singer Steven Tyler’s return to drug rehab.
2023 - The Wagner mercenary group said it was handing over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, after capturing it for Russia. This, after one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war.
2023 - Human rights groups and LGBTQ advocacy groups were issuing travel warnings for Florida after a slew of new restrictive laws and policies were enacted in the state. The Human Rights Campaign in partnership with Equality Florida, a state LGBTQ advocacy group, issued an updated travel notice outlining the potential impacts of six bills that were recently passed under the hand of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. The NAACP had already issued an advisory because of “DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.” And the League of United Latin American Citizens issued its own advisory in response to a new state immigration law.
2024 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Alyla Browne, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke; the animated The Garfield Movie, featuring characters voiced by Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, and Snoop Dogg; and Sight, with Terry Chen, Greg Kinnear, Ben Wang, Fionnula Flanagan and Wai Ching Ho.
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Birthdays on This Day May 24
1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
physicist: developed system for cleaning mercury to keep it from sticking to glass; inventor: alcohol thermometer [1709], mercury thermometer [1714]; created measure of temperature which bears his name [1724]; died Sep 16, 17361816 - Emanuel Leutze
artist: Washington Crossing the Delaware, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, Columbus Before the Queen; died July 18, 18681819 - Queen Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1837-1901]; Empress of India [1877-1901]; died Jan 22, 19011883 - Elsa Maxwell
gossip columnist, actress: Our Betters, Elsa Maxwell’s Hotel for Women, The Lady and the Lug; died Nov 1, 19631887 - Mick (Edward) Mannock
WWI flying ace [Great Britain]: 73 hits; killed when his plane was shot down July 26, 19181895 - Samuel I. (Irving) Newhouse
billionaire in communications and publishing industry: newspapers, magazines, TV, cable TV, radio stations; died Aug 29, 19791909 - Victoria Hopper
actress: Escape from Broadmoor, Cornelius, Nine Till Six, The Mill on the Floss, The Lonely Road, Lorna Doone, The Constant Nymph; died Jan 22, 20071914 - Lilli Palmer (Lillie Marie Peiser)
actress: Chamber of Horrors, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Boys from Brazil; died Jan 27, 19861918 - Jack Wrather
petroleum millionaire; TV producer: The Lone Ranger, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Lassie; died Nov 12, 19841933 - Jane Byrne
mayor of Chicago, Illinois [1979-1983]: Chicago’s first woman mayor; died Nov 14, 20141935 - Jim E. Mora
football: NFL: head coach: New Orleans Saints [1986–1996]; Indianapolis Colts [1998-2001]1937 - Tim Brown
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III; actor: The Wild Wild West, M*A*S*H, Nashville, Dynamite Brothers, Zebra Force, Doombeach; died Apr 4, 20201938 - Tommy Chong
comedian: half of comedy team: Cheech and Chong; actor: That ’70s Show1941 - Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: Gotta Serve Somebody [1980]; Like a Rolling Stone, Lay Lady Lay, Positively 4th Street, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Hurricane [Part 1]; actor: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, Renaldo and Clara [w/Joan Baez]; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1988]; received Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award [1991]; 1991 Golden Globe and Academy Award for song Things Have Changed from 2000 film Wonder Boys
1942 - Derek Quinn
musician: guitar: group: Freddie and the Dreamers: If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody, I’m Telling You Now, You Were Made for Me, I Understand, Do the Freddie1943 - Gary Burghoff
Emmy Award-winning actor: M*A*S*H; Casino, Small Kill1944 - Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte)
singer: Down the Aisle, Lady Marmalade, On My Own, New Attitude1945 - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (Priscilla Ann Wagner)
actress: Dallas, Naked Gun series; mother of Lisa Marie Presley, was married to Elvis Presley; coexecutor of the Elvis Presley estate, Priscilla transformed Graceland into a $50-million business1946 - Ellie (Eliseo Delgado) Rodriguez
baseball: catcher: NY Yankees, KC Royals [all-star: 1969], Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1972], California Angels, LA Dodgers1947 - Sybil Danning
actress: L.A. Bounty, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Tomb, Young Lady Chatterley II, Private Passions, They’re Playing with Fire1948 - Judith Kahan
actress: Mary, The Hogan Family, Ferris Bueller, Doc, All’s Fair1949 - Jim Broadbent
actor: Iris, Harry Potter film series, Moulin Rouge, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Cloud Atlas, Hot Fuzz, Eddie the Eagle, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe1950 - Jo Ann Washam
golf: champ: Portland LPGA [1975]1951 - Dwight McDonald
football: San Diego State Univ.1953 - Alfred Molina
actor: Dead Man, Letter to Brezhnev, Ladyhawke, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ladies Man, Chocolat, Murder on the Orient Express [TV: 2001]1955 - Roseanne Cash
singer: LPs: Right Or Wrong, King’s Record Shop, Interiors, 10 Song Demo; writer: Bodies of Water; daughter of Johnny Cash1956 - Larry Blackmon
singer: group: Cameo: Word Up!1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas
actress: Life as a House, Gosford Park, Random Hearts, The Horse Whisperer, The English Patient, Four Weddings and a Funeral1963 - Joe Dumars
Basketball Hall of Famer: Detroit Pistons [shooting guard, point guard]; Detroit Pistons’ President of Basketball Operations1964 - Pat Verbeek
hockey [right wing]: NJ Devils, Hartford Whalers, NY Rangers, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings1965 - John C. Reilly
actor: Year of the Dog, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Dark Water, The Aviator, The Hours, Chicago, Gangs of New York1966 - Ricky Craven
NASCAR race car driver: champ: Old Dominion 500 [2001], Dodge Dealers 400 [2003]1967 - Eric Close
actor: Without a Trace, American Me, Santa Barbara, McKenna, Dark Skies, The Magnificent Seven [1998–1999], Now and Again, Taken, Nashville1967 - Carlos Hernandez
baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals1969 - Rich Robinson
musician: guitar: group: The Black Crowes: LPs: Shake Your Money Maker, The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, Amorica, Three Snakes and One Charm1971 - Kris Draper
hockey [center]: Winnipeg Jets, Detroit Red Wings1973 - Bartolo Colon
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians [1997–2002], Montreal Expos [2002], Chicago White Sox [2003], Anaheim/LA Angels [2004–2007], Boston Red Sox [2008], Chicago White Sox [2009], New York Yankees [2011], Oakland Athletics [2012–2013], New York Mets [2014–2016]: 2015 World Series, Atlanta Braves [2017], Minnesota Twins [2017], Texas Rangers [2018]1974 - Marcus Coleman
football [cornerback]: Texas Tech Univ; NFL: NY Jets, Houston Texans1975 - Will Sasso
actor: MADtv, The Hot Chick, Best in Show, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Sixth Man, Doctor Who, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, A Mighty Wind, Beverly Hills Ninja1978 - Brad Penny
baseball [pitcher]: Florida Marlins [2000–2004]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2004–2008]; Boston Red Sox [2009]; San Francisco Giants [2009]; St. Louis Cardinals [2010]; Detroit Tigers [2011]; Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks [2012]; San Francisco Giants [2012]; Miami Marlins [2014]1979 - Joe Kennedy
baseball [pitcher]: Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics1986 - Mark Ballas
singer, songwriter, musician, professional dancer: Dancing with the Stars: won with Kristi Yamaguchi [2008], then Shawn Johnson two series later [2009]1990 - Joey Logano aka Sliced Bread
NASCAR race car driver: won 2015 Daytona 500, 2008 Meijer 3001998 - Daisy Edgar-Jones
actress: Cold Feet, War of the Worlds, Normal People, Fresh, Where the Crawdads Sing, Under the Banner of Heaven
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Hit Music on This Day May 24
1952Kiss of Fire (facts) - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango (facts) - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
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