November 1
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1512 - Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public after 4 1/2 years of work. Michelangelo (Buonarroti) had been commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.1755 - There had been no warning for the people of Lisbon, Portugal when the walls of their beautiful, tall buildings came tumbling down. A powerful ... we don’t know where it stood on the Richter scale ’cause Richter wasn’t born yet ... earthquake, felt across the European continent, rocked the city three times causing destruction of property, fires and a tsunami. Over 60,000 died, most drowning in the enormous tidal wave.
1848 - The first medical school exclusively for women opened its doors -- to twelve students. The Boston Female Medical School was founded by Samuel Gregory. Twenty-six years later, the school merged with Boston University School of Medicine becoming one of the first coed, medical colleges in the world.
1864 - Money orders were sold by the U.S. Post Office as a safe way to make payments by mail.
1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first weather observations. Up to that time, the observations had been the responsibility of the Signal Corps of the U.S. War Department. Take a weather person to lunch today.
1894 - The publication, Billboard Advertising, made it to desks for the first time. The periodical cost 10 cents. A subscription to the weekly magazine currently costs about $250 a year and is known as Billboard, the longtime bible of the radio and music industry.
1913 - Knute Rockne and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame beat Army at West Point, 35-13. Notre Dame had been an unknown in college football. What turned it around was the attention of thousands as Rockne handed Army its first loss of the season, thanks to a new secret weapon: the forward pass.
1937 - The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS radio; while on NBC radio, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.
1939 - Rockefeller Center opened in New York. On this day, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. drove the last rivet in the steel work of the United States Rubber Company Building. More than 75,000 people worked on the construction of the Center during the Depression years. The land for Rockefeller Center had been cleared of more than 200 brownstone houses and other antiquated buildings.
1941 - The Rainbow Bridge opened to traffic across the Niagara River. The bridge replaced the Upper Steel Arch Bridge (aka the Falls View Bridge aka the Honeymoon Bridge), which was sheared off of its river abutments by a record mass of ice on January 27, 1938.
1944 - The whimsical tale about an invisible rabbit named Harvey opened in New York City. One year later, the play by Mary Chase won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Movie fans remember the classic film, starring Jimmy Stewart in one of his most famous roles.
1947 - The famous racehorse, Man o’ War, died. His funeral was attended by over 2,500 people. Man o’ War was so famous that, while a stud in retirement, his guest book listed over 2,000,000 names!
1947 - Eddy Arnold began a 21-week run at #1 on U.S. country music charts with I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms). It was the biggest hit of Arnold’s illustrious career.
1950 - The first black man to play in the National Basketball Association hit the hardwood this day. Charles Cooper was in the Boston Celtics lineup for a game played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists attepted to assassinate President Harry S Truman at Blair House, Washington, DC (where the Truman’s were living during a three-year renovation of the White House). One of the gunman and one White House policemen were killed.
1951 - Johnny Mercer’s Top Banana premiered in New York City.
1951 - The first atomic explosion, as witnessed by U.S. troops, was set off at Camp Desert Rock in Nevada.
1955 - A time bomb aboard a United DC-6 killed 44 when the plane exploded above Longmont, Colorado. Jack Gilbert Graham had rigged the bomb for the Denver to Seattle flight and put it into his mother’s suitcase in order to collect insurance money on a policy he purchased at the airport. Graham was executed in the Colorado gas chamber Jan 11, 1957.
1956 - Walter Brattain, John Bardeen and William Shockley were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the transistor. The trio invented the transistor in 1948 at the Bell Laboratories. William Schockley founded Schockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Palo Alto; and two of his employees, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, later went on to start Intel Corp.
1957 - The Mackinac Straits Bridge, between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, opened to traffic. At the time, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge -- and is still one of the longest in the world -- at five miles long, with a main span of 3,800 feet/1,158 meters.
1959 - Jacques Plante, goalie for the Montreal Canadiens, showed up for a game wearing a plastic face mask. Plante had made it out of fiberglass and resin. His design was so popular, that goalies throughout the National Hockey League soon followed suit.
1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed in a military coup.
1968 - The current movie rating system of G, M, R, X followed by PG-13 and now NC-17, went into effect. The Production Code Administration hands out the ratings.
1968 - George Harrison’s soundtrack LP, Wonderwall, was released. It was the first solo album by one of The Beatles. The album was also the first on the new Apple label.
1969 - Abbey Road, by The Beatles, was #1 on U.S. album charts. Although Let It Be was the last Beatles album of new material to be released, Abbey Road was, in fact, the last album The Beatles recorded. The album, number one for eleven weeks, consisted of: Come Together, Something, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling, Octopus’s Garden, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes the Sun, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money. Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End, Her Majesty.
1969 - And speaking of lasts, Elvis Presley hit number one in the U.S. with Suspicious Minds. It was his first #1 pop single since Good Luck Charm in 1962 and his last #1 pop single.
1971 - The first Eisenhower dollar coins were put into circulation by the U.S. Mint. The coins were minted from 1971 to 1978.
1975 - Elton John’s Island Girl hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song parked itself at the top of the hit heap for 3 weeks.
1977 - A Russian TU-144 flew from Moscow to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, completing its first passenger flight. But, due to mechanical problems, it was unable to maintain even a modest one flight-per-week schedule. Seventeen TU-144s were manufactured, including a prototype and five ‘D’ models. The plane was known as the ‘Konkordski’, because most of the plans for the aircraft had been stolen from the the British and French. “Commercial Success? Nyet!”
1981 - First Class Mail prices were raised from 18 cents to 20 cents in the U.S.
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi.
1986 - Boston’s Third Stage album hit the big time this day as it became the number one album in the U.S. Memorable (and not so memorable) tracks on the album: Amanda, We’re Ready, The Launch, Cool the Engines, My Destination, A New World, To Be a Man, I Think I Like It, Can’tcha Say, Still in Love, Hollyann.
1987 - Tom Watson won the first Nabisco Championship (later named the Tour Championship) of Golf by two strokes over Chip Beck. Watson scooped up $384,000 in prize money -- the biggest payoff in golf to that day.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty took effect, creating a new European Union.
1994 - The Chicago Bulls retired Michael Jordan’s uniform (No. 23) and put it on display at the United Center. A sculpture was later commissioned and placed outside the arena with the inscription, “The Best There Ever Was. The Best There Ever Will Be.”
1995 - Bosnia peace talks for the countries of the former Yugoslavia were launched in Dayton, Ohio. The the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia were present.
1996 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Bad Moon, starring Micahel Pare, Mariel Hemingway and Mason Gamble; Larger Than Life, with Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo and Matthew Mcconaughey; and William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, with Leonardo Dicaprio as Romeo and Claire Danes as Juliet.
1998 - Steve Young and Jerry Rice connected for their 80th career touchdown. That TD broke an NFL record, previously held by the Miami duo of Dan Marino and Mark Clayton.
1999 - Former Chicago Bear NFL star Walter Payton died at age 45 from a rare cancer of the bile duct. Payton made the NFL Hall of Fame in 1993.
2000 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted to the United Nations, eight years after Belgrade had been expelled following the breakup of the old Yugoslav federation.
2002 - I Spy debuted in the U.S., with Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell, Gary Cole, Viv Leacock, Phill Lewis and Darren Shahlavi.
2002 - Queen Elizabeth II made a surprise revelation that she knew Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, had taken some of Diana’s possessions for safekeeping. The Queen prompted prosecutors to drop theft charges against Burrell.
2003 - Walt Disney Pictures’ Brother Bear opened in U.S. theatres. The animated family adventure fantasy features the voices of Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, D.B.Sweeney, Jason Raize, Joan Copeland and Michael Clarke Duncan.
2003 - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean stirred controversy within his party by telling The Des Moines Register he wanted to be “the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” The former Vermont governor explained that he meant to encourage the return of Southern voters who had abandoned the Democrats for decades but were disaffected with the Republicans.
2004 - The Grimsvötn volcano, under the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland, erupted. The eruption started some 150-200 meters (492-656 ft) under thick ice and melted its way through the ice cap in about one hour.
2005 - Canadian Justice John Gomery released the first part of the Gomery Commission report about corruption in the Liberal Party and the sponsorship program scandal (otherwise known as ‘AdScam’ or ‘Sponsorgate’). Gomery exonerated Prime Minister Paul Martin but criticized former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his Quebec lieutenant Alfonso Gagliano.
2006 - The 500-foot-long MV Finnbirch, a Swedish freighter, capsized and sank in a storm on the Baltic Sea. The 14-member crew had to jump overboard to save themselves. Rescuers in helicopters plucked all but one man from the high waves and chilly waters.
2006 - Novelist William Styron died at 81 years of age. His books include The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) and Sophie’s Choice (1979). In 1953 Styron helped establish The Paris Review.
2007 - Japan’s defense minister ordered ships supporting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan to return home after lawmakers refused to support an extension of the mission. Lawmakers argued that the mission lacked a mandate from the U.N. and that it violated the country’s pacifist constitution, which forbids Japan from engaging in military operations overseas.
2008 - Deaths on this day: Peruvian-born singer Yma Sumac died at 86 years of age. Known as the ‘Nightingale of the Andes,’ her voice was said to range over 4½ octaves. Her first album, "Voice of the Xtabay" [1950], topped the LP charts. And Swiss oceanographer and engineer Jacques Piccard died at 86 years of age. Piccard was a scientist and underwater explorer who plunged deeper beneath the ocean than any other man.
2009 - Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in the Kosovo’s capital of Pristina to welcome Bill Clinton. The former U.S. President was attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself.
2010 - The San Francisco Giants won baseball’s World Series, beating the Texas Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 in San Francisco. Edgar Renteria blasted his second home run of the 2010 Fall Classic, a three-run shot, to win the championship. (Renteria also had the game-winning hit in the 11th inning of Game 7 in the 1997 World Series for the Florida Marlins.)
2011 - The U.S. government sued Houston-based Allied Home Mortgage Corporation, one of the largest privately held mortgage brokers, charging its decade-long fraudulent lending practices cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars and forced thousands of American homeowners to lose their homes. The suit named as defendants founder Jim Hodge and Jeanne Stell, the company’s executive vice president and its director of compliance.
2013 - New movies in the U.S.: Dallas Buyers Club, with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto; Ender’s Game, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield and Ben Kingsley; Last Vegas, with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas and Mary Steenburgen; the animated, Free Birds, featuring the voices of Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler, Keith David, Dan Fogler, Colm Meaney and George Takei; the documentary, 12-12-12; Big Sur, with Stana Katic, Kate Bosworth and Radha Mitchell; The Broken Circle Breakdown, starring Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh and Nell Cattrysse; Diana, starring Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews and Douglas Hodge; Man of Tai Chi, with Tiger Hu Chen, Keanu Reeves and Karen Mok; the documentary, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology; and Aftermath (Poklosie), with Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop and Zbigniew Zamachowski.
2013 - The Federal Aviation Administration announced that it was relaxing restrictions on the use of smartphones and other electronics inside flights by U.S. carriers. Passengers were still barred from making calls or downloading data off a cellular network, but were allowed to use devices to read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music, from boarding to deplaning.
2104 - China successfully recovered an experimental spacecraft that flew around the moon and back. The flight was a test run for China’s first unmanned return trip to the lunar surface and marked the first time in almost four decades that a spacecraft had returned to Earth after traveling around the moon.
2015 - Fred Thompson, former (1994-2003) Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, died in Nashville, TN at 73 years of age. He had appeared in at least 20 motion pictures and enjoyed a notable role in TV’s Law and Order from 2002-2007. Thompson was also a GOP presidential candidate in 2008.
2016 - Alaska’s Bureau of Land Management posted a video that soon came to be known as the Chena River Ice Monster, as captured by a baffled BLM employee. The video shows a strange, undulating icy shape appearing to move through the water. The video has a dramatic soundtrack and an overlay of a camcorder, but BLM insisted the footage itself was unedited. Previous videos posted to the Alaska BLM Facebook page have gotten a few hundred views apiece. This one quickly racked up half a million.
2017 - The CIA released files seized during the 2011 raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The release included a 19-page al-Qaida report in Arabic that showed Iran supported al-Qaida leading up to the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks.
2017 - The Houston Astros won game 7 of the World Series (5-1) beating the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. It was the first World Series title for the franchise that started in 1962 as the Houston Colt .45s of the National League. The team became the Astros a few years later when it moved into the Astrodome, and then joined the American League in 2013.
2018 - The U.N. General Assembly vote 189-2 to approve a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo of Cuba. The U.S. and Israel voted no. Moldova and Ukraine did not vote. Resolutions adopted by the U.N. world body are unenforceable, but they reflect world opinion and the vote had given Cuba an annual stage for several decades to demonstrate the isolation of the U.S. on the embargo.
2018 - Google employees in more than 20 offices around the world held walkouts to protest the internet company’s handling of sexual harassment problems. Amit Singhal, a former search chief, left the company in 2016 after being accused of groping a female. The Google board had approved a $45 million settlement for him. Andy Rubin, who used to head the Android division, had left the company after being accused of sexual misconduct. His exit package was $90 million.
2019 - Films opening in the U.S. included: The animated Arctic Dogs, featuring characters voiced by Anjelica Huston, James Franco, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Laurie Holden, Michael Madsen and John Cleese; Harriet, with Joe Alwyn, Jennifer Nettles and Cynthia Erivo; Motherless Brooklyn, starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw; Terminator: Dark Fate, starring Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger; Cousins with Thiago Cazado, Paulo Sousa and Denis Camargo; and Light from Light, starring Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan and Josh Wiggins.
2019 - A wildfire exploded in Southern California, closing schools and forcing over 7,000 residents to evacuate. The Maria Fire broke out in Santa Paula in Ventura County and quickly grew to some 8,300 acres.
2019 - A clash of storm fronts that began on Halloween created havoc that caused flooding, knocked over trees, downed power lines and damaged homes from the Deep South throughout the Northeast U.S. More than 100,000 homes and businesses were without electricity in the Philadelphia suburbs. More than 200,000 customers were without power in New York state. In Maine, more than 120,000 customers were without power. In Vermont more than 20,000 customers were without power and in New Hampshire it was about 16,000.
2019 - The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole board commuted the sentences of some 450 inmates. Oklahoma House Bill 1269 took effect on this day. It was designed to limit prison time for low-level drug and property crime offenders.
2020 - The Texas Supreme Court denied a request by conservative activists for an order that drive-through voting violated Texas election law. And the court rejected a bid to toss out almost 127,000 votes cast in drive-through lanes
2020 - Johns Hopkins University reported that 31 states across the U.S. had at least one record-high day of COVID-19 cases during October 2020. The country’s seven-day average of new daily cases was 78,380.
2021 - Mayor Bill de Blasio said about 9,000 New York City municipal workers were put on unpaid leave for refusing to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Thousands of city firefighters called out sick in an apparent protest over the requirement. However, last-minute compliance with the order substantially reduced the number of employees who might have been affected, city officials said. De Blasio said some 2,300 city workers were immunized during the day.
2021 - Yahoo stopped allowing its services to be accessible from mainland China “in recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment.”
2022 - The fifth Israeli election to be held in some four years was won by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party. They defeated sitting Prime Minister Yair Lapid.
2022 - The second woman who said Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her into getting an abortion told her story. The woman, who asked ABC’s Frontline to continue identifying her as “Jane Doe”, said she and Walker had a six-year affair in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Walker was married. She said when she got pregnant that Walker told her “because of his wife’s family and powerful people around him, that I would not be safe and that the child would not be safe.” It was “very menacing,” she said.
2023 - Two International Space Station astronauts lost a tool bag during a spacewalk 200 miles above earth on this day. Not to worry about getting clunked by the falling bag though, as objects such as that disintegrate when falling to earth.
2023 - 120 fires were confirmed to still be burning across Australia’s eastern states. The fires had burned through 111,000 hectares (275,000 acres), with 58 homes lost around Tara, Queensland.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Absolution, starring Liam Neeson, Ron Perlman and Frankie Shaw; Here, starring Tom Hanks, Kelly Reilly and Robin Wright; the animated Hitpig, featuring characters voiced by Andy Serkis, Jason Sudeikis and Rainn Wilson; My Dead Friend Zoe, with Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales and Ed Harris; and Weekend in Taipei, starring Luke Evans, Sung Kang and Lun-Mei Gwei.
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Birthdays on This Day November 1
1871 - Stephen Crane
novelist: The Red Badge of Courage; died June 5, 19001911 - Victoria Horne
actress: Cuckoo on a Choo Choo, Affair With a Stranger, Harvey, The Life of Riley, To Each His Own, The Scarlet Claw; husband was actor Jack Oakie; died Oct 10, 20031920 - James J. Kilpatrick
journalist, TV: 60 Minutes: Point-Counterpoint; died Aug 15, 20101926 - Lou Donaldson
musician: alto saxophone: LPs: New Faces New Sounds, The Time is Right, Midnight Sun, Here ’Tis, The Natural Soul, Sweet Lou, Sassy Soul Strut; singer: Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman; more1926 - Betsy Palmer (Patricia Bromek)
TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret, What’s It For, Masquerade Party; TV host: Today; actress: Knots Landing, The Last Angry Man, It Could Happen to Jane, Mr. Roberts, Friday the 13th series; columnist: Chicago Tribune; died May 29, 20151935 - Gary Player
World Golf Hall of Famer: British Open champion [1959, 1968, 1974]; Masters [1961, 1974, 1978]; PGA [1962, 1972]; PGA Seniors [1986, 1988, 1990]; U.S. Senior Open [1987, 1988]1937 - ‘Whispering’ Bill (James) Anderson
songwriter: City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me; singer: Still, Three Times a Lady, My Life, 8x10; [w/Jan Howard]: For Loving You, If It’s All the Same to You, Someday We’ll Be Together; member of Grand Ole Opry1939 - Barbara Bosson
actress: Hill Street Blues, Cop Rock, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye, Hooperman, The Committee, The Last Starfighter; died Feb 18, 20231940 - Barry Sadler
songwriter, singer: Ballad of the Green Berets; died Nov 5, 19891941 - Robert Foxworth
actor: Falcon Crest, Storefront Lawyers, Double Standard, Ants, Frankenstein, Damien: Omen 21942 - Larry Flynt
magazine publisher: Hustler; died Feb 10, 20211942 - Marcia Wallace
actress: The Bob Newhart Show, My Mom’s a Werewolf; Emmy Award-winning voice-over: Mrs. Karbappel: The Simpsons [1991-1992]; died Oct 25, 20131943 - Tom Mack
Pro Football Hall of Famer [guard]: Univ of Michigan; NFL: Los Angeles Rams [#1 draft pick]: during his career he never missed a game [184]; played in 11 Pro Bowls1943 - John McEnery
actor: Richard II, Merlin, When Saturday Comes, The Buddha of Suburbia, Beltenebros, The Plot to Kill Hitler1945 - Rick Grech
musician: bass guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar, mandolin, banjo: groups: Family; Blind Faith; Traffic; Crickets; Square Dance Machine; died Mar 17, 19901946 - Lynne Russell
journalist, TV news anchor: CNN Headline News [1983-2001]1947 - Ted Hendricks
Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts, Green Bay Packers, Oakland Raiders: played 215 consecutive games in 15 seasons1949 - Jeannie Berlin
actress: The Heartbreak Kid, Portnoy’s Complaint, In the Spirit, The Baby Maker1949 - David Foster
Grammy Award-winning musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, arranger; Chairman of Verve Music Group; has produced Bryan Adams, Christina Aguilera, Air Supply, All-4-One, The Bee Gees, Andrea Bocelli, Boz Scaggs, Toni Braxton, Michael Bublé, Mariah Carey, Charice, Cher, Chicago, Destiny’s Child, The Corrs, Neil Diamond, Céline Dion, Earth Wind and Fire, Sheena Easton, Gloria Estefan, Jackie Evancho, Josh Groban, Hall & Oates, Keith Harkin, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Katherine Jenkins, Chaka Khan, Beyoncé Knowles, Kenny Loggins, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Misia, Olivia Newton-John, Nsync, Prince, LeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, Seal, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Tamia, The Tubes, Shania Twain, and Yuna1950 - Dan Peek
musician: guitar, singer: group: America: A Horse with No Name; LPs: Hat Trick, Holiday, Hearts; died Jul 24, 20111951 - Ronald (Kool) Bell
musician: saxophone: group: Kool & The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C.1954 - Chris Morris
musician: guitar: group: Paper Lace: Billy Don’t Be a Hero, Black-Eyed Boys, The Night Chicago Died1957 - Lyle Lovett
Grammy Award-winning singer: Best Male Country Vocal [1989]; Cowboy Man, songwriter: This Old Porch [w/Robert Earl Keen], You Can’t Resist It, Closing Time, If I Had a Boat; actor: Ready to Wear, Short Cuts, The Player1958 - Rachel Ticotin
actress: The Wharf Rat, Natural Born Killers, Don Juan DeMarco, One Good Cop, Total Recall, Fort Apache, the Bronx, Ohara, For Love and Honor, Crime & Punishment1960 - Tim Cook
business executive, CEO of Apple Inc.: joined Apple in March 1998 as Senior VP of Worldwide Operations, also served as Executive VP of Worldwide Sales and Operations, was COO until he was named CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011, succeeding Steve Jobs1960 - Fernando (Anguamea) Valenzuela
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers [Rookie of the Year: 1981/Cy Young Award: 1981/World Series: 1981/all-star: 1981-1986]], California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, SD Padres1962 - Mags Furuholmen
musician: keyboards, singer: group: a-ha1962 - Anthony Kiedis
musician: guitar; lead singer: group: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By the Way1963 - Rick Allen
musician: drums: group: Def Leppard: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Photograph, Love Bites, Let’s Get Rocked, Two Steps Behind, Animal, Heaven Is; LPs: Hysteria, Adrenalize1966 - Bob Wells
baseball [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins
musician, singer: LPs [hit singles]: Tongues and Tails [Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover], Whaler [As I Lay Me Down], Timbre [Walking In My Blue Jeans]1970 - Alla Korot
actress: All My Children, Gone But Not Forgotten, Shoo Fly, The Colony, Night of the Cyclone1970 - Erik Spoelstra
basketball coach: NBA: Miami Heat [1997- ]: 2012, 2013 NBA champs1972 - Toni Collette
actress: The Sixth Sense, Muriel’s Wedding, Clockwatchers, Diana & Me, 8½ Women, Shaft [2000]; Broadway: The Wild Party1972 - Jenny McCarthy
model: Playboy’s Playmate of the Year [1994]; hostess of MTV’s Singled Out; actress: Silk Stalkings, Baywatch, Wings, Home Improvement, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Diamonds, Scream 3, The View1975 - Manuel Ferrara
actor [1999-2012]: X-rated films: Trouble at the Slumber Party, Gonzomania, Hit Me With Your Best Squirt, Bark Like a Dog; director: Fucked on Sight, Slutty & Sluttier, Raw, Evil Anal, Battle of the Sluts, Anal Expedition, Teen Cum Squad, Bangin’ Black Boxes, Ass Attack, I’m Your Slut, Mindfuck, New Whores on the Block1976 - Chad Lindberg
actor: CSI: NY, The Fast and the Furious, October Sky, I Spit On Your Grave, Supernatural, My Big Break, NCIS, Castle, Midnight Rider1977 - Alistair Griffin
songwriter, singer: Bring It On, Oblivion, Real World, Something About Her, In Your Smile, The Heart Can’t Live, You and Me [Tonight], My Lover’s Prayer1979 - Coco Crisp (Covelli Loyce Crisp)
baseball [left, center field]: Cleveland Indians [2002–2005]; Boston Red Sox [2006–2008]: 2007 World Series champs; Kansas City Royals [2009]; Oakland Athletics [2010–2016]; Cleveland Indians [2016]; more1981 - Matt Jones
actor: Bob Hearts Abishola, Breaking Bad, Mom, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, Cooties, Austin Found, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie1981 - Marie Luv
actress [2000-2012]: X-rated films: Anal Fiction, Pulp Friction, Stuck in the Deep End, Bad Luck Betties, Legs Up Hose Down, Interracial Nut Bustin Orgies, Navy Girls Love Semen1982 - Trent Gill
actor: Redefining Normal, Rule Number One, Little Black Book, Point of Origin, Alcatraz Avenue1984 - Natalia Tena
actress: Harry Potter film series, Game of Thrones, Bel Ami, You Instead/Tonight You’re Mine, Womb, Afterlife1986 - Penn Badgley
actor: Gossip Girl, John Tucker Must Die, The Stepfather, Easy A, Margin Call1991 - Anthony Ramos
actor: Broadway: Hamilton, Grease [2011], Damn Yankees, In the Heights, 21 Chump Street; TV/films: Younger, White Girl, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, She’s Gotta Have It
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Hit Music on This Day November 1
1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
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