November 11
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1889 - Washington became the 42nd of the United States of America on this day. Known as the Evergreen State because of its rich stands of Douglas fir, white and ponderosa pine, and spruce trees, Washington calls the willow goldfinch its state bird. The colorful rhododendron is the official flower. Olympia, home of the famous Olympia oyster (from Puget Sound), is the state capital.1905 - Editor William Bok of Ladies’ Home Journal called the Morris chair, which sold for $31.00, “a hideous piece of furniture.” The (very popular) Morris chair was named after William Morris, whose Morris & Company produced home furnishings. The chair had an adjustable back and loose, removable cushions. Editor Bok probably wouldn’t have been so critical had he known that the Morris chair (and others of similar design) would evolve into the big, soft, cushy, recliners we enjoy today.
1918 - This is Armistice Day or Remembrance Day or Veterans Day or Victory Day or World War I Memorial Day. The name of this special day may be different in different places throughout many nations; but its significance is the same. It was on this day -- at 11 a.m. -- that World War I ceased. The Allied and Central Powers signed an armistice agreement at 5 a.m. in Marshal Foch’s railway car in the Forest of Compiegne, France. Even today, many still bow their heads in remembrance at the 11th hour of this the 11th day of the 11th month.
1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
1929 - Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy recorded Froggy Bottom -- in Kansas City.
1933 - The Black Blizzard raged from Texas to Canada. The massive dust storm created sand drifts as high as six feet in some areas of the Midwest, burying roads and vehicles.
1938 - Kate Smith sang God Bless America for the very first time. It would later become her signature song. Irving Berlin penned the tune in 1917 but never released it until Miss Smith sang it for the first time on her radio broadcast.
1940 - The chant, “invovo legem magicarum,” was heard for the first time when Mandrake the Magician debuted on the Mutual radio network. Raymond Edward Johnson starred as Mandrake, “a mystic educated in Tibet by a master of magic.”
1940 - The Jeep, built by Willys-Overland, made its debut on this day. And just where did that name Jeep originate? There are several theories and it remains a debated topic among historians.
1942 - German troops entered previously unoccupied France, taking control of Limoges and Vichy, and reached the frontier with Spain. Corsica was occupied by German and Italian troops.
1944 - Frank Sinatra began a long and successful career with Columbia Records.
1944 - The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame got whipped by Army, 59-0. The shutout was the worst margin of defeat for any Notre Dame team.
1946 - A crowd of 17,205 showed up at Madison Square Garden to check out the new NBA team in town. The New York Knickerbockers, or Knicks, as they are known, played Chicago -- and lost, 78-68.
1958 - Hank Ballard & Midnighters recorded their original version of The Twist at King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio. The song became a smash hit, however, only after Chubby Checker recorded it.
1964 - Murray Schisgal’s play Luv premiered in New York City. The “smug comedy” ran through Jan 7, 1967 -- for 901 performances.
1965 - Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, declared its independence from Britain. It took until April 18, 1980 for independence to actually happen.
1971 - Neil Simon’s Prisoner of Second Avenue debuted on Broadway. This one ran for 798 performances -- through Sep 29, 1973.
1972 - The U.S. Army turned over its base at Long Binh to the South Vietnamese army, symbolizing the end of direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
1975 - Portugal granted independence to Angola on this day.
1976 - Sculptor Alexander Calder died. He was 78 years old. Calder invented the mobile as a new format for sculpture, and he designed toys, jewelry, some wallpaper and decorated DC-8s for Braniff Airlines.
1981 - The first rookie baseball player to win the coveted Cy Young Award was honored. The 21-year-old honoree was LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela.
1984 - 13-year-old TV star Gary Coleman (of Diff’rent Strokes) underwent a kidney transplant in Los Angeles. He had undergone his first transplant operation at age 5.
1984 - The Houston Oilers won their first game of the season by defeating the Chiefs, 17-16, in Kansas City. It was the first Oilers victory on the road since September 1981 (23 consecutive road losses).
1986 - Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form Unisys, becoming the #2 computer company. Changeover costs were estimated at $15 million.
1989 - Two days after the Berlin Wall and the rest of the East German border opened, an estimated 1 million East Germans poured into West Germany for a day of celebration, visiting and shopping.
1992 - For the first time, women were permitted to become priests of the Church of England. One of 28 Anglican state churches throughout the world, the Church of England voted in favor of women on this day.
1992 - Bobby Fischer won his re-match with Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia. The match was organized by banker Jedzimir Vasiljevic. Fischer had 10 wins, 5 losses, and 15 draws. He got $3.65 million for his winnings and Spassky received $1.5 million.
1993 - A bronze statue honoring the more than 11,000 American women who had served in the Vietnam War was dedicated in Washington DC.
1994 - Microsoft founder Bill Gates paid $30.8 million for a 72-page document by Leonardo da Vinci. Gates renamed the work Codex Leicester. It was written backwards (mirror writing) with illustrations of the author’s theories on the movement of water and air.
1995 - Smashing Pumpkins’ album Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness hit #1 on the U.S. album chart. The Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan, James Iha, D’arcy and Jimmy Chamberlin) band was formed in 1988.
1996 - Phan Thi Kim Phuc laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. Phan Thi Kim had suffered severe napalm burns after a napalm bombing of her village in June 1972.
1997 - Photography giant Eastman Kodak announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs because of fierce competition from Japan’s Fuji Photo Film Co. (And phones with cameras were still just around the corner...)
1999 - Sixty-seven people were killed when an apartment building collapsed in Foggia, Italy; an investigation blamed the collapse on cheap materials and slipshod construction.
2000 - A cable car crammed with skiers and snowboarders caught fire while being pulled through an Alpine tunnel in Austria. 155 people were killed.
2000 - Republicans went to court, seeking an order to block manual recounts from continuing in Florida’s razor-thin presidential election.
2001 - Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan, with help from U.S. ‘advisers’ and warplanes, captured Taloqan. Some 200 Taliban were reported killed.
2001 - A 36-hour storm hit Algeria, causing the worst flooding in some twenty years. The death toll soon reached 618.
2002 - Microsoft chief Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight the AIDS epidemic in India.
2004 - Delta Air Line pilots accepted over $1 billion in annual pay cuts and agreed to forgo raises through 2009.
2005 - Opening in U.S. theatres: Derailed, a thriller starring Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel and Melissa George; and Zathura, the family adventure with Tim Robbins, Josh Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo.
2005 - Saudi Arabia became a member of the World Trade Organization, becoming the WTO’s 149th member.
2006 - Tyler Walker Williams, a U.S. citizen and a student of India’s national language Hindi, became the first foreigner to win a student election at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Williams was an opponent of the U.S.-led Iraq War and of the George Bush (II) foreign policy.
2007 - A major storm broke a small Russian oil tanker in two in the Strait of Kerch (connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov). The Volganeft-139 wreck spilled more than 2000 metric tons of fuel oil into the sea and killed 23 sailors.
2008 - The U.N. reported that hundreds of Congolese soldiers had rampaged through villages in eastern Congo raping women and pillaging homes as they moved ahead of a feared rebel advance.
2009 - Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting 200 One Dollar Bills sold for a record 43.8 million dollar bills at a Sotheby’s auction in New York City.
2010 - The Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that the head of Russia’s deep cover U.S. spying operations had betrayed the network and defected, potentially giving the West one of its biggest intelligence coups since the end of the Cold War. Kommersant named the man as Colonel Shcherbakov and said he had left Russia days before U.S. authorities announced the spy ring arrests on June 28. The Kremlin vowed to get revenge on the double agent.
2010 - A 40-year-old woman made her way from North to South Korea becoming the 20,000th to do so. The first defector arrived in South Korea in 1949. But until 2000, less than 1,000 had made it their escape. Then, the government started a resettlement program that provided money and other assistance to defectors. Soon, the process of defection started to reinforce itself as people who had already arrived earned money to pay for family members to also make the break.
2011 - New movies in the U.S.: Immortals, starring Immortals Luke Evans, Henry Cavill, Kellan Lutz, Mickey Rourke, Isabel Lucas, Freida Pinto, and John Hurt; 11-11-11, with Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes, Denis Rafter and Wendy Glenn; Jack and Jill, starring Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Dana Carvey, Allen Covert, Regis Philbin, Natalie Gal and Shaquille O’Neal; Cook County, with Anson Mount, Xander Berkeley, Ryan Donowho, Polly Cole and Rutherford Cravens; The Greening of Whitney Brown, starring Sammi Hanratty , Brooke Shields, Aidan Quinn, Kris Kristofferson, Charlotte Matthews and Keith David; Into the Abyss, with Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry, Jeremy Richardson and Adam Stotler; Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt and Alexander Skarsgård; and the documentary Thrive, with Lane Andrews, John Bedini and Deepak Chopra.
2011 - London-based record label EMI, that for decades brought the world musical stars from the Beatles to Queen to Coldplay to Katy Perry, was chopped up and sold in pieces. Vivendi’s Universal Music Group won EMI’s recorded music auction for $1.9 billion (1.1 billion pounds). A consortium led by Japan’s Sony Corp reported that it had won the auction for EMI’s music publishing operations in a deal valued at $2.2 billion. For EMI owner Citigroup Inc, which had taken control after a buyout group defaulted on loans owed, the deal value approached the break-even level.
2012 - Thieves posing as eager art students and their teacher stole more than $2 million worth of paintings from the Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa. On Nov 13 police found four of the missing five pieces of art in a private cemetery in Port Elizabeth, hundreds of miles away from where they had been stolen.
2013 - Japan activated the first turbine at a floating wind farm 12 miles off the coast of Fukushima, site of the March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
2013 - A Russian space capsule carrying the Sochi Olympic torch and three astronauts returned to Earth (Kazakh Steppe) from the International Space Station.
2015 - Danish brewer Carlsberg says it was slashing 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its white-collar work force. This, after posting a 4.5 billion kronor ($650 million) loss in the third quarter.
2016 - New in U.S. movie houses: Almost Christmas, with Gabrielle Union, Danny Glover and Jessie T. Usher; Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, with Kristen Stewart, Vin Diesel and Garrett Hedlund; Shut In, starring Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay; The Anthropologist, with Mary Catherine Bateson, Susan Cratea nd Margaret Mead; and Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte and Anne Consigny.
2016 - Thousands protesting Donald Trump’s presidential election victory took to the streets for a third night of demonstrations and vigils in several U.S. cities. Protests and marches continued in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Dallas and Oakland, California and Portland, Oregon.
2016 - Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, posted nearly $18 billion in sales for the day, breaking last year’s record for Singles Day shopping. Singles Day began as an anti-Valentine’s Day founded by college students in the 1990s.
2017 - The Orange County (California) Health Care Agency reported two cooling towers at Disneyland had been shut down following a dozen cases of legionnaires’ disease. The towers were in a backstage area near the New Orleans Square Train Station, each more than 100 feet from areas accessible to guests. A Disneyland employee was among those who fell ill with the disease.
2017 - Pope Francis met with a delegation of Pacific leaders and told them he shared their concerns about rising sea levels and increasingly intense weather systems that are threatening their small islands. The Pope blasted “shortsighted human activity” for global warming and rising sea levels and urged world leaders at climate talks going on in Germany to take a global outlook as they negotiated ways to curb heat-trapping emissions.
2018 - Electron, a small rocket from the little-known company Rocket Lab, lifted off from the east coast of New Zealand carrying a clutch of tiny satellites. It was the first commercial launch by the U.S.-New Zealand company.
2018 - Online shoppers in China shattered the previous record of $24 billion in sales on the annual Singles Day buying frenzy, as the tradition marked its 10th year. Singles Day began as a spoof event celebrated by unattached Chinese university students in the 1990s. In Chinese, it is called “Double 11,” after the numbers in the month and date. The informal holiday was co-opted by e-retailers in 2009 and transformed into China’s version of Cyber Monday, as the Monday after Thanksgiving is known.
2018 - President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the millions of soldiers killed during World War One, holding an emotional ceremony in Paris attended by dozens of world leaders to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.
2019 - The impeachment inquiry against POTUS Trump released transcripts of House committee interviews with Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and Michael McKinley, a former top adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. They detailed a “highly irregular” channel of foreign policy to Ukraine involving Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, among others, and a smear campaign against Yovanovitch.
2019 - SpaceX launched 60 mini satellites, each weighing 575 pounds, from Cape Canaveral. This was the second group in the orbiting Starlink network meant to provide global internet coverage.
2020 - President-elect Joe Biden chose his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff. Klain had many years of experience in the top role in the White House.
2020 - Outgoing sleazeball POTUS Trump tried to deport several women who alleged they were mistreated by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center. ICE had already deported six former patients who complained about Dr. Mahendra Amin, who was accused of operating on migrant women without their consent and/or performing procedures that were medically unnecessary and potentially endangered their ability to have children.
2020 - Pope Francis pledged to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offered prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. This, a day after the Vatican released a detailed report into the decades long church cover-up of McCarrick’s sexual misconduct.
2020 - Britain reported a total of 50,365 deaths due to COVID-19, making it the fifth country, but the first in Europe, with more than 50,000 deaths from the coronavirus.
2021 - Authorities reported heavy rains across southern India and Sri Lanka had killed at least 41 people, 16 in Tamil Nadu and 25 in Sri Lanka.
2021 - After the coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation in 2020 of ceremonies to mark the 1918 end of World War I, Armistice remembrances took place around the world on this day.
2022 - Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opened in the U.S. The action adventure drama, stars Angela Basset, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright and Richard Schiff.
2022 - An advertisement poster for the ill-fated ‘Winter Dance Party’ concert featuring Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959 - the day they died in a plane crash - sold at auction for $447,000.
2022 - Actor Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit against several crew members associated with the film Rust. The lawsuit accused the film’s armorer and first assistant director, among others, of knowingly handing Baldwin a loaded firearm that discharged and killed the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin filed the lawsuit as a cross-complaint against Mamie Mitchell, who was suing Baldwin for his alleged role in Hutchins’ death. Baldwin’s lawyers said the film’s armorer was mostly to blame for the shooting, writing in the filing, “This tragedy happened because live bullets were delivered to the set and loaded into the gun.”
2023 - The Icelandic town of Grindavík, on Reykjanes peninsula, was evacuated after thousands of earthquakes and rising magma pointed to an imminent eruption. The quakes were followed by a volcanic fissure -- on Dec 18 -- that spared the village. The roughly 4,000 residents of Grindavik were not cleared to return to their homes until Feb 19, 2024, though only a hundred or so chose to come back at that time.
2023 - Low water levels in the Mississippi River had an increasing number of ripple effects on barge operators and farmers. The big river was unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they could carry -- cutting into farm profits.
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Birthdays on This Day November 11
1744 - Abigail Smith Adams
First Lady: wife of 2nd U.S. President of the United States John Adams; died Oct 28, 18181821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
political revolutionary, author: The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot; died Feb 9, 18811836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
author: The Story of a Bad Boy, Cruise of the Dolphin, The Sisters' Tragedy, The Wyndham Towers; died Mar 19, 19071885 - George S. Patton
‘Old Blood and Guts’: U.S. Army General: commander of Third Army during drive across France in WWII: “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”; subject of film: Patton; died Dec 21, 19451899 - Pat O’Brien
actor: Knute Rockne, All American, Ragtime, Fighting Father Dunne, Some like It Hot, Harrigan and Son; died Oct 15, 19831899 - Pie Traynor
Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman: [World Series: 1925, 1927/all-star: 1933, 1934]; playing manager, Pirates’ scout, radio announcer; died Mar 16, 19721906 - Harry Holcombe
actor: The Fortune Cookie, Foxy Brown, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Search for Tomorrow, Matilda, Fun With Dick and Jane, Psychic Killer, The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, Yours, Mine and Ours; died Sep 15, 19871909 - Robert Ryan
actor: Bad Day at Black Rock, Battle of the Bulge, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day, On Dangerous Ground; TV narrator: World War I; died July 11, 19731911 - Patric Knowles
actor: Chisum, The Devil’s Brigade, Auntie Mame, Three Came Home, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Wolfman, How Green was My Valley, The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938], The Charge of the Light Brigade; died Dec 23, 19951918 - Stubby Kaye
actor: Cat Ballou, Guys and Dolls, Li’l Abner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, My Sister Eileen, Love & Marriage; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; died Dec 14, 19971922 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
writer: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions; died Apr 11, 20071925 - Jonathan Winters
Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian: Davis Rules [1990-91]; The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters, NBC Comedy Hour, The Jonathan Winters Show, Mork & Mindy, Hee Haw, And Here’s the Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Shadow, The Flintstones; character: Maude Frickert; TV panelist: Masquerade Party; commercials: Hefty trash bags; died Apr 11, 20131927 - Mose Allison
musician: piano, songwriter, singer: The Seventh Son, Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand, Blueberry Hill, Stop This World, New Parchman, How Much Truth, Ever Since the World Ended; died Nov 15, 20161929 - LaVern Baker
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer: Tweedle-Dee, I Cried a Tear, Jim Dandy; second woman [Aretha Franklin was first] inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1991]; died March 10, 19971934 - John Reilly
actor: General Hospital, As the World Turns, The Patricia Neal Story, Touch and Go, Books of Days, Cityscrapes: Los Angeles, Uncommon Valor, Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase, The Main Event; died Jan 9, 20211935 - Bibi Andersson
actress: Duel at Diablo, Story of a Woman, The Concorde: Airport ’79; died Apr 14, 20191938 - Roger Lavern
musician: keyboards: group: The Tornados: Telstar, Globetrotter; died Jun 15, 20131939 - Denise Alexander
actress: General Hospital1940 - Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senator from California [1993-2017]1945 - Vince Martell
musician: guitar, singer: group: Vanilla Fudge: You Keep Me Hanging On, Take Me for a Little While1945 - Daniel Ortega
President: Nicaragua [1985-1990, 2007-2012]1946 - Chris Dreja
musician: guitar: group: Yardbirds: For Your Love, I’m a Man1947 - Pat Daugherty
musician: bass: group: Black Oak Arkansas: Jim Dandy to the Rescue, Memories at the Window1950 - Jim Peterik
musician: keyboard: group: Survivor: Eye of the Tiger, Burning Heart; singer: group: Ides of March: Vehicle1951 - Paul Cowsill
singer: group: The Cowsills: Hair, Indian Lake1951 - Bill Moseley
actor: House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera, The Devil’s Rejects, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; musician: guitar: group: Cornbugs1951 - Marc Summers
TV personality, host: Double Dare, Unwrapped, Restaurant: Impossible [executive producer]1951 - Fuzzy Zoeller
golf champion: Masters [1979], U.S. Open [1984]1953 - Andy Partridge
musician: guitar; songwriter, founding member of XTC: Statue of Liberty, This Is Pop?, Making Plans for Nigel, Generals and Majors, Towers of London1955 - Stephen Lee
actor: Lured Innocence, The Negotiator, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes, Prehysteria!, Boston Legal, Nip/Tuck, Who Do I Gotta Kill?; died Aug 14, 20141956 - Ian Craig Marsh
musician: keyboards: group: Heaven 17: We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang, Ball of Confusion, Temptation, Crushed by the Wheels of Industry, Soul Deep, The Foolish Thing to Do, Steel City; Human League: LP: Reproduction1960 - Stanley Tucci
actor: Shall We Dance, The Terminal, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The Core, Maid in Manhattan, Road to Perdition1962 - Mic Michaeli
musician: keyboard: group: Europe: The Final Countdown1962 - Demi Moore
actress: Indecent Proposal, Ghost, The Seventh Sign, A Few Good Men, Color of Night, St. Elmo’s Fire, Choices, General Hospital, Striptease, G.I. Jane1964 - Calista Flockhart
actress: Ally McBeal, The Guiding Light, Pictures of Baby Jane Doe, Telling Lies in America1964 - Roberto Hernandez
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets1964 - Philip McKeon
actor: Alice, Red Surf, Return to Horror High1966 - Vince Colosimo
actor: The Floating World, Solo, Opal Dream, Take Away, The Nugget, Walking on Water, The Wog Boy, Seven Deadly Sins1968 - Ronnie Devoe
singer: groups: New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe: Poison1968 - José Offerman
baseball: LA Dodgers, Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies1969 - Dave Moore
football [tight end]: University of Pittsburgh; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills1969 - Gary Powell
musician: drums: groups: Dirty Pretty Things: Bang Bang You’re Dead, Deadwood, Wondering; The Libertines: What a Waster, Up the Bracket; New York Dolls1970 - Richie Rich (Richard J. Eichhorn)
socialite, TV personality, Ice Capades figure skater, fashion designer: founded the Heatherette fashion company1971 - David DeLuise
actor: Wizards of Waverly Place, Megas XLR, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Jesse, RoboDoc; son of comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur1971 - Paula Price
actress [1990-1995]: X-rated films: Lunar Lust, Behind the Backdoor 4, Titillation 3, Hard Core Cafe Revisited, Stacked with Honors1972 - Adam Beach
actor: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Comanche Moon, Flags of Our Fathers, Windtalkers, A Thief of Time, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story1972 - Tyler Christopher
actor: General Hospital, Into the West, One for the Money, Face the Music, Out of the Black, Catfish in Black Bean Sauce1973 - Terrance Shaw
football: NFL: San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio
actor: Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, The Revenant, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Great Gatsby, Django Unchained, Titanic, Parenthood, Growing Pains, Critters 3, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator1975 - Eyal Podell
actor: The Young and the Restless, 24, Defying Gravity, Lake Effects1976 - Jason Grilli
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers1976 - Brad Hoover
football [running back]: NFL: Carolina Panthers1977 - Scoot McNairy
actor: Argo, Killing Them Softly, Promised Land, Monsters, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, 12 Years a Slave, Non-Stop1979 - Olivia Saint
actress [2000-2010]: X-rated films: Babes In Pornland 9: All American, Nasty Beautiful, Secret Suburban Sex Parties, Bigger Longer Faster and Deeper1980 - Willie Parker
football [running back]: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers1983 - Philipp Lahm
soccer: captain: Bayern Munich, German national team: 2014 World Cup champs1986 - Victor Cruz
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Massachusetts; NFL: New York Giants [2010-2016]: 2012 Super Bowl XLVI champs1986 - Rafael de la Fuente
actor: Empire, Every Witch Way, The One I Wrote for You, Chasing LA1986 - Mark Sanchez
football [quarterback]: Univ of Southern California; NFL: New York Jets [2009-2013]; Philadelphia Eagles [2014-2015]; Dallas Cowboys [2016]; Chicago Bears [2017]1991 - Christa B. Allen
actress: Revenge, 13 Going on 30, Cake, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past1996 - Tye Sheridan
actor: X-Men: Apocalypse, Joe, Mud, The Tree of Life, Ready Player One, Mud, Joe, The Stanford Prison Experiment1999 - Samara Joy
jazz singer: LPs: Samara Joy, Linger Awhile; 2023 Grammy winner for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best New Artist, her single, Tight, won Best Jazz Performance
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Hit Music on This Day November 11
1952You Belong to Me (facts) - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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