May 29
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Events on This Day
1790 - The smallest of the United States joined the first 12 states as number 13. Rhode Island, the Ocean State, probably got its name when discoverer Verrazano noted that, the area we know as Rhode Island, looked about the size of the tiny Greek Isle of Rhodes. Rhode Island’s capital city is Providence, and the tiny violet is appropriate as the state flower. Probably the most famous variety of chicken, the Rhode Island Red, is the state bird.1827 - The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA. Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancastrian School was the name. Learning to set sail was the game...
1844 - The first dark horse candidate was born at the Democratic Convention in Baltimore, Maryland. With the political rush of support for James K. Polk, after just seven ballots, Mr. Polk’s name appeared to break the deadlock. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot and, eventually, the U.S. Presidency.
1848 - The land of lakes and large expanses of green gave name to Wisconsin, the 30th state to enter the United States of America. (Wisconsin, is thought to be the Chippewa Indian word for "grassy place".) The wood violet is the state flower, the robin is the state bird and Madison is the capital city. All this is quite elementary. However, Wisconsin’s nickname is the Badger State, but it is not named after the little animal, as you might have thought. It seems that the many lead miners in the Wisconsin grass lands in the 1830s were called -- badgers.
1858 - This one is really tough to nail down an absolute timeline on, but the story goes that Milton Hay of Springfield, Illinois heard Abraham Lincoln utter offhand a rule or maxim in politics. Hay later passed it on to Joseph Fifer of Bloomington, Illinois who found it so simple, so nicely singsong, that he couldn’t forget it: “It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
1900 - The trademark ‘Escalator’ was registered by Charles D. Seeberger. ‘Escalator’ became the sole property of the Otis Elevator Co. in 1910 when the company purchased the trademark and Seeberger’s patents.
1910 - Aviator Glenn Curtiss completed the first ‘long distance’ airplane flight -- from Albany, New York to New York City -- winning a prize of $10,000 in the process. The challenge (and the check) were issued by New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1916 - The U.S. President’s flag was adopted by executive order
1939 - When a Girl Marries was first heard on CBS. The serial continued for eighteen years on radio.
1942 - The biggest selling record of all time was recorded. A little out of season, perhaps, but White Christmas, the Irving Berlin classic, was recorded by Bing Crosby for Decca Records. The song was written for the film Holiday Inn. Some 50 million copies of Crosby’s most famous hit song have been sold and a total of nearly 100 million copies, including all versions of the standard, have been sold.
1943 - The Million Dollar Band was heard for the first time on NBC radio. Charlie Spivak was the first leader of the band that featured Barry Wood as vocalist. The unusual feature of the show was the awarding each week of five diamond rings!
1943 - Norman Rockwell’s portrait of Rosie the Riveter, symbolizing American women employed as industrial workers during the war, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1944 - The USS Block Island, an American aircraft carrier, was sunk by a German submarine near Madeira. It was the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic in World War Two.
1945 - The U.S. First Marine Division captured Shuri-castle on Okinawa, killing 67,000 Japanese troops.
1951 - The first North Pole flight in a single engine plane was accomplished by Charles F. Blair on this day.
1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1961 - Ricky Nelson reached the top spot on the Billboard singles chart with Travelin’ Man. It was was Nelson’s second chart-topping hit. Poor Little Fool made it to the top in August of 1958.
1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major-league baseball. He accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs. O’Neil had previously been a scout with the Cubs organization.
1968 - The Truth in Lending Act was signed into U.S. law.
1970 - Mike Cuellar of Baltimore became one of just 11 major-league hurlers since 1900 to strike out four batters in one inning -- because the catcher dropped the third strike of the third out.
1972 - The Osmonds received a gold record for the album, Phase III.
1973 - Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, Calfornia. He defeated incumbent Sam Yorty. Bradley retired in 1993.
1978 - The 13-cent postage stamp became the 15-cent postage stamp when new U.S. rates to mail letters went into effect.
1982 - Pope John Paul II became the first Pontiff to visit England in over 450 years.
1985 - Death and hundreds of injuries resulted from a riot at a soccer match in Brussels, Belgium. The European Cup Final at Heysel stadium between Liverpool and Juventus of Turin was televised throughout Europe. Just before the match was to begin, soccer fans rioted killing 39 and injuring 400 or more. 26 British soccer fans identified from the video tapes were extradited to Belgium to stand trial. The riot prompted increased security at later British soccer games.
1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived in Moscow, starting his first visit to the Soviet Union. Reagan opened the superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
1991 - Scientists at Emory University discovered the gene that causes fragile X syndrome, an untreatable mental retardation.
1992 - Peter John ‘Ollie’ Halsall (43) guitarist, died of a heart attack in Madrid, Spain.
1992 - Actress Pippa Steele (Vampire Lovers), died of cancer. She was 44 years old.
1995 - Margaret Chase Smith died at 97 in Skowhegan, Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House and Senate (R-ME).
1997 - TV announcer George Fenneman died. He was 77 years old. Fenneman was best known as the announcer for Groucho Marx and his crazy quiz show, You Bet Your Life.
1998 - Barry M. Goldwater, five-term Arizona senator and 1964 Republican U.S. presidential candidate died. He was 89 years old.
1998 - New films opening in the U.S.: Almost Heroes, starring Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Eugene Levy and Kevin Dunn; Hope Floats, with Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlans; and The Last Days of Disco, with Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale and Chris Eigeman.
1999 - Hikers found a skeleton in a minivan at the bottom of a canyon near Malibu, California. It turned out to be the remains of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip ‘Taylor’ Kramer who had been missing since Feb 1995.
2000 - Indonesia’s state prosecutors placed former President (Mohamed) Suharto under house arrest. The former strongman’s trial on corruption charges was later abandoned because of concerns for his health.
2001 - Four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted in New York of the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa (224 died). Mohamed Rashid Daoud al-'Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Wadih El-Hage, and Mohamed Saddiq Odeh were found guilty of all 576 charges in the 302 counts included in their indictment.
2002 - FBI Director Robert Mueller said there may have been missed clues before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He suggested that investigators might have uncovered the plot had they been more diligent in their pursuit of leads.
2003 - AOL Time Warner and Microsoft reached a settlement in their battle over Internet browsers, with Microsoft agreeing to pay AOL $750 million.
2004 - Two Watergate figures died on this day: Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox died in Maine at 92 years of age. Cox was fired by U.S. President Richard Nixon for his efforts in the Watergate investigation; and Samuel Dash (79), chief Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, died in Washington DC.
2005 - French voters rejected the European Union’s first constitution, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the charter.
2006 - Toronto transit workers were ordered back to work, ending a wildcat strike that had stranded some 700,000 commuters and filled the streets of the city with cars, bicycles and pedestrians as commuters scrambled to get to work.
2008 - Comedian Harvey Korman died in Los Angeles at 81 years of age. Korman won four Emmys for his outrageously funny antics on TV’s The Carol Burnett Show and played the conniving politician Hedley Lamarr to hilarious effect in the film Blazing Saddles.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Drag Me to Hell, starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza, Fernanda Romero and Reggie Lee; The Brothers Bloom, starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi and Robbie Coltrane; the animated Up, featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo and Jordan Nagai; and What Goes Up, with Hilary Duff, Steve Coogan, Molly Shannon, Olivia Thirlby and Josh Peck.
2009 - 69-year-old former music producer Phil Spector was sentenced in Los Angeles to 19 years to life in prison for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson.
2009 - The U.S. National Ignition Facility was dedicated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It was designed to create conditions like those found in stars and in the explosions of hydrogen bombs.
2010 - Film star Dennis Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice, California. His death at age 74 was the result of complications from prostate cancer. Hopper’s film successes included Without a Cause, Giant, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and Hoosiers.
2010 - The Philadelphia Phillies’ Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major-league history in a 1-0 win over the Florida Marlins. It was the second perfect game in the majors in 2010 -- Dallas Braden achieved the feat for Oakland against Tampa Bay on May 9 -- the first time in the modern era in which two perfect games were thrown in the same season.
2011 - A fire started in the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona. It soon became the largest fire in the state’s history. The Wallow Fire, as it came to be known, was named for the Bear Wallow Wilderness area where the fire originated. The blaze charred more than 538,000 acres in eastern Arizona, destroying 32 homes, four businesses, and several dozen barns, sheds and other buildings during the six weeks that it burned out of control. The fires cost more than $79 million to suppress. Federal charges were filed in August 2011 against cousins Caleb Joshua Malbeouf and David Wayne Malbeouf for leaving their campfire unattended.
2013 - The Swiss government announced a change in policy that would allow banks to circumvent the country’s strict client secrecy laws. The move was part of an effort to end a long-running tax evasion dispute with the U.S. Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference in Bern thatSwitzerland is acting because U.S. patience is running out with the country’s banks that were suspected of aiding American tax cheats.
2014 - Two spellers were declared co-champions of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland. Indian-Americans Sriram Hathwar of New York and Ansun Sujoe of Texas shared the title after a riveting final-round duel. The pair exhausted the 25 designated championship words to become only the fourth co-champions in the bee’s 89-year history. It was the first time since 1962.
2015 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres on this day included: Aloha, starring Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams and Bradley Cooper; San Andreas, with Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino; Heaven Knows What, starring Ron Braunstein, Eleonore Hendricks, Arielle Holmes; Results, with Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders and Kevin Corrigan; Survivor, starring Milla Jovovich, James D’Arcy and Pierce Brosnan; and Unfreedom, with Victor Banerjee, Adil Hussain and Bhanu Uday.
2015 - The Italian Coast Guard rescued some 4,400 migrants off Libya’s coast in 22 separate operations. Rescuers found 17 people dead aboard one rubber dinghy.
2015 - Japan’s Mount Shindake erupted on Kuchinoerabu island, spewing out rocks and sending black clouds of ash 9 km (5.6 miles) into the sky.
2015 - 31-year-old Ross Ulbricht, an American convicted of masterminding the criminal website Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison. Ulbricht created and ran an online enterprise that sold $200 million in drugs to customers worldwide.
2016 - The Libertarian Party, meeting in Orlando, Florida, nominated former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson as its presidential candidate. Johnson was also the party’s candidate in 2012.
2017 - Protesters in Austin opposing the tough new Texas law against sanctuary cities staged a demonstration from the public gallery in the Texas State House. The raucous event was apparently contageous and prompted a scuffle among the lawmakers below, who later accused each other of assault.
2018 - ABC-TV cancelled its hit sitcom Roseanne hours after its star Roseanne Barr posted a tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Obama, that said if: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj” -- responding to a Twitter thread about a conspiracy that Jarrett had helped cover up CIA spying.
2018 - 8,000 Starbucks stores closed to give employee antibias training after an incident when two black men were arrested at a Starbucks store in Philadelphia. The two men had entered the Starbucks and asked to use to the bathroom. An employee told them it was only for paying customers. When they then sat in the store without ordering anything, the manager called police, and the men were arrested for trespassing.
2019 - Special counsel Robert Mueller shut down his two-year investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mueller said POTUS Donald Trump had not been exonerated, but the investigation had lacked the power to charge a sitting president.
2020 - Transcripts of phone calls that played a pivotal role in the Russia investigation were declassified and released. The record showed that Michael Flynn, adviser to then-President-elect Donald Trump, urged Russia’s ambassador to be “even-keeled” in response to punitive Obama administration measures, and assured him “we can have a better conversation” about relations between the two countries after Trump became POTUS.
2020 - POTUS Trump accelerated his efforts to seize property for a border wall in southern Texas. His administration had brought 78 lawsuits against landowners on the border, 30 of them this year.
2020 - A police officer was seen on camera firing what appeared to be pepper balls at a news crew during a live TV broadcast of the second night of Louisville, Kentucky protests. The action prompted an apology from the Louisville Metro Police Department. The crew, from WAVE-TV, was covering demonstrations after the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed by police in her own home in March.
2020 - COVID-19 news:
1)The European health regulator said healthcare professionals should closely monitor coronavirus patients receiving the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for serious side effects, stressing the need for in-depth clinical data on risks.
2)South Africa said it had a backlog of nearly 100,000 unprocessed tests for the coronavirus. It was a striking example of the painful shortage of testing kits and reagents across Africa as cases steadily rose. South Africa had the most confirmed cases in Africa (27,403).2021 - Hollywood actor Steven Seagal, long-time admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a Russian citizen since 2016 joined A Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth. The party was formed when three leftist parties, all of which supported Putin, merged into one.
2021 - Deaths on this day included: Gavin MacLeod, the wise-cracking news writer on the classic 1970s sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the hospitable cruise ship captain on The Love Boat, died in Palm Desert, CA. He was 90 years old. And Grammy-winning singer B.J. Thomas (78) died at his home in Arlington, Texas. His songs included Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head (1969) and Hooked on a Feeling (1975). The Raindrops song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
2021 - Activists from Doctors for Extinction Rebellion, concerned about the effects on public health from environmental degradation, marched on the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. They demanded that health authorities make climate change and biodiversity loss their top priorities.
2022 - A man disguised as an elderly disabled woman threw a cake at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris. He was, apparently, not an art lover. The precious painting was undamaged.
2022 - Marcus Ericsson became the second Swedish-born driver to win the Indianapolis 500. Ericsson held off a furious charge from Pato O’Ward with two laps to go to win the big race.
2023 - Russia’s Interior Ministry put U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on a wanted list. The Ruskies were upset by his comments about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Graham had stated that “the Russians are dying” and described the U.S. military assistance to Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever spent.”
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Birthdays on This Day May 29
1630 - King Charles II
British monarch: King of England, Scotland, Ireland [1660-1685]; died Feb 6, 16851736 - Patrick Henry
American revolutionary patriot: “...give me liberty, or give me death!”; died June 6, 17991874 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
author: created Father Brown crime-fiction series; The Man Who was Thursday, English Men of Letters; died June 14, 19361880 - Oswald Spengler
historical author: The Decline of the West; died May 8, 19361894 - Beatrice Lillie (Gladys Lillie)
actress: On Approval, Thoroughly Modern Millie; died Jan 20, 19891903 - Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope)
comedian, entertainer, actor: ‘Road’ series [w/Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour]: The Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morroco, Utopia, Rio, Bali, Hong Kong; multitude of other films; nightclub entertainer, countless TV specials; host of The Academy Awards; possibly best known for his USO tours and entertaining of troops overseas and on the front lines during World War II, the Korean War, the Viet Nam War and even during Desert Storm; died July 27, 2003
1909 - Dick Stabile
musician: saxophone, bandleader; worked with Jimmy Dorsey, Vincent Lopez, Bunny Berigan, Paula Kelly, Burt Shaw, Gracie Barrie, Martin, Jerry Lewis; died Sep 25, 19801914 - (Walter) Stacy Keach Sr.
actor: The Parallax View, High Velocity, Fighting Back, Armed and Dangerous, The Rockford Files, Bonanza, Longstreet, Maverick; father of actors Stacy Jr and James Keach; died Feb 13, 20031917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th U.S. President [1961-1963]; married to Jaqueline Bouvier [two sons, one daughter]; nickname: JFK, Jack; youngest, first Roman Catholic, first to win Purple Heart, first to serve in U.S. Navy, first to win Pulitzer Prize [book: Profiles in Courage], fourth U.S. President to be assassinated, second buried at Arlington National Cemetery; assassinated Nov 22, 19631921 - Clifton James
actor: Lone Star, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, The Man with the Golden Gun, Live and Let Die, David and Lisa, Cool Hand Luke, Lewis & Clark, City of Angels; died Apr 15, 20171922 - Joe Weatherly
NASCAR Hall of Famer: championship [1953]; Grand National Champion [1962, 63]; killed in crash at Riverside International Raceway Jan 19, 1964; The Joe Weatherly Museum at Darlington International Raceway is named for him1923 - Eugene Wright
jazz musician: bass: led 16-piece band: Dukes of Swing; played w/Dave Brubeck, Gene Ammons, Count Basie, Arnett Cobb, Buddy DeFranco, Red Norvo; died Dec 30, 20201925 - Danny Davis (George Nowland)
Grammy Award-winning bandleader: group: Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass: Best Country Instrumental Performance [1969]; Country Music Awards Instrumental Group of the Year [1969 - 1974]; died Jun 12, 20081932 - Richie Guerin
basketball: NY Knicks [in 8 years w/Knicks he scored 10,392 points and averaged 20.1 points; St. Louis Hawks; player/coach: St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks; lifetime stats: 14,676 points [17.3 ppg], 4,278 rebounds [5.1 rpg], 4,211 assists [5.0 apg] over 848 games [in 42 playoff contests he averaged 15.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 5.1 assists]; broadcaster: NY Knicks; Wall Street stockbroker1932 - Paul Ehrlich
biologist, writer: The Population Bomb; helped form group: Zero Population Growth, advocating a limit of 2 children per family1938 - Francis ‘Fay’ Vincent Jr.
baseball commissioner [1989-1992]1939 - Al Unser Sr.
auto racer: Indy 500 winner [1970, 1971, 1978, 1987]) retired [1994]; younger brother of Bobby and father of Al Jr. [first father/son to race each other at Indy [1983]; died Dec 9, 20211941 - Roy Crewsdon
musician: guitar: group: Freddie and The Dreamers: I’m Telling You Now, Do the Freddie1941 - Bob Simon
TV news reporter, host: 60 Minutes; won 20+ News & Documentary Emmy Awards; killed in car crash Feb 11, 20151942 - Kevin Conway
actor: Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy, The Quick and the Dead, Gettysburg, One Good Cop, Home Boy, Rage of Angels, Paradise Alley, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye, Other People’s Money, Of Mice and Men, When You Comin’ Back - Red Ryder?1942 - Larry Mavety
hockey: Port-Huron Flags, LA Sharks, Chicago Cougars, Indianapolis Racers; Coach/GM: Kingston Frontenacs1944 - Helmut Berger
actor: The Damned, Dorian Gray, The Godfather, Part 3; died May 18, 20231945 - Gary Brooker
musician: keyboards, singer: solo: Say It Ain’t So Joe, Switchboard Susan, LPs: No More Fear of Flying, Lead Me to the Water, Echoes in the Night; groups: Procol Harum: Whiter Shade of Pale; The Paramounts; died Feb 19, 20221947 - Anthony Geary
actor: General Hospital, High Desert Kill, Scorchers, Night of the Warrior, Crack House, UHF1948 - Nick Mancuso
actor: Dr. Scorpion, Ice Time, Ticket to Heaven, Heartbreakers, My Soul to Take, In the Mix, Lives of the Saints, Lightning: Bolts of Destruction, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory1949 - Francis Rossi
musician: guitar, singer: group: Status Quo: LPs: Picturesque Matchstickable, Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You1950 - Rebbie (Maureen Reilette) Jackson
singer: LPs: Centipede [written by brother, Michael], Reactions; oldest member of the Jackson family1952 - Fred (Fredrick William) Holdsworth
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Milwaukee Brewers1953 - Mike (Michael Dennis) Dupree
baseball: pitcher: SD Padres1953 - Danny Elfman
singer: group: Oingo Boingo; composer: soundtracks: Batman, Beetlejuice, The Simpsons; film composer: Mission: Impossible, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Scream 21956 - La Toya (Yvonne) Jackson
singer: The Jacksons; solo: Playboy photo spread1957 - Ted Levine
actor: Monk, Crime Story, Ironweed, The Last Outlaw, Wiseguy, Flubber, From the Earth to the Moon, Wild Wild West, Evolution, Monk1958 - Annette Bening
actress: Richard III, The American President, Love Affair, Bugsy, Postcards from the Edge, The Grifters, Valmont, The Great Outdoors, Mars Attacks!, American Beauty1959 - Rupert Everett
actor: My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Right Hand Man, Shakespeare in Love, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Inspector Gadget1961 - Melissa Etheridge
Grammy Award-winning singer: Come to My Window [1994], Ain’t It Heavy [1992]1962 - Eric Davis
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, LA Dodgers, Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals, SF Giants
1963 - Lisa Whelchel
actress: The Facts of Life, Where the Red Fern Grows: Part 2, Twirl, The Double McGuffin1965 - Charlie Hayes
baseball: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros1967 - Mike Keane
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche, NY Rangers, Dallas Stars, SL Blues, Vancouver Canucks1972 - Laverne Cox
actress: Orange Is the New Black, Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word, Doubt, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again; TV host: If We’re Being Honest with Laverne Cox1972 - Bill Curley
basketball [forward]: Boston College; NBA: Detroit Pistons, Minnesota Timberwolves, Houson Rockets, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks1973 - Trever Miller
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers, L.A. Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Houston Astros1975 - Jason Allison
hockey [right wing]: NHL: Washington Capitals, Boston Bruins, L.A. Kings, Toronto Maple Leafs1975 - Melanie ‘Scary’ Brown
singer: group: Spice Girls: 2 Become 1, Wanna Be, Spice Up Your Lives, Let Love Lead the Way, Wasting My Time, Oxygen; LPs: Forever, Spice, Goodbye, Spiceworld1976 - Raef LaFrentz
basketball [forward]: Univ of Kansas; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics1984 - Carmelo Anthony
basketball [small/power forward]: Denver Nuggets [2003–2011]; New York Knicks [2011–2017]; Oklahoma City Thunder [2017–2018]; Houston Rockets [2018–2019]; Portland Trail Blazers [2019]; U.S. Olympic basketball gold medalist [Beijing 2008, London 2012]1989 - Riley Keough
actress: Mad Max: Fury Road, American Honey, The Girlfriend Experience, The Runaways, Magic Mike, The Good Doctor; daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough1992 - Gregg Sulkin
actor: Sixty Six, As the Bell Rings, Wizards of Waverly Place, Avalon High, The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex, Faking It, Don’t Hang Up1993 - Maika Monroe
pro kiteboarder, actress: At Any Price, Labor Day, The Guest, It Follows, Independence Day: Resurgence
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Hit Music on This Day May 29
1948Nature Boy (facts) - Nat King Cole
Now Is the Hour (facts) - Bing Crosby
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