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1859 - Whether you’re doing steps, low-impact aerobics or a plié, where would you be without the latest design in leotards? The original leotard design was a skintight, one-piece garment with the lower portion resembling tights. On this day, the designer of the leotard, Jules Léotard, made his first public appearance as the world’s first flying trapeze artist. Just 21 years old, Jules had been practicing since he was a little boy. He would swing from a trapeze hanging over the swimming pool in his father’s gymnasium. The years of practice paid off ... first as the daring young man on the flying trapeze ... and second as the designer of the leotard, still worn by acrobats, dancers and exercise enthusiasts throughout the world. Lunge, up, over, down, tap...
1914 - Theodore W. Richards of Harvard University became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Richards was awarded the prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
1920 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis accepted a contract to become the first baseball commissioner. He became the czar following the Black Sox scandal of 1919 and remained commissioner for seven years.
1925 - Louis Armstrong recorded My Heart, starting a career that brought him worldwide fame.
1926 - The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that women could get college credit for a dance course offered by the school.
1927 - After playing forty years in blue jerseys, Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish wore brilliant green jerseys and stockings for the first time. They took to the gridiron against Army in New York City.
1931 - Maple Leaf Gardens opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the new home of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to vehicular traffic. Total cost was $77.6 million. Tolls paid off the construction loans within twenty years.
1941 - Hot Lips Page performed the vocal for Artie Shaw’s very long and very slow version of St. James Infirmary on RCA Victor.
1942 - The World War II naval battle of Guadalcanal began. Although both sides suffered heavy losses, the U.S. won a major victory over the Japanese, whose forces on Guadalcanal were left virtually isolated.
1945 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Cordell Hull for his prominent participant in the originating of the United Nations.
1954 - The last detained alien on Ellis Island (a Norwegian seaman who had overstayed his shore leave) sailed off on a Battery-bound ferry, signaling the closing of the station and the end of an era. The immigration station in New York Harbor closed on this day after processing more than 12,000,000 immigrants since its opening in 1892.
1956 - The largest iceberg on record -- 208 miles long and 60 miles wide -- was sighted in the (far) South Pacific by the USS Glacier.
1966 - The Monkees was the number-one album in the U.S. The album featured songs made famous on The Monkees TV show: (Theme From) The Monkees, Saturday’s Child, I Wanna Be Free, Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day, Papa Gene’s Blues, Take a Giant Step, Last Train to Clarksville, This Just Doesn’t Seem to Be My Day, Let’s Dance On, I’ll Be True to You, Sweet Young Thing and Gonna Buy Me a Dog.
1967 - Pearl Bailey took over the lead in the Broadway musical, Hello Dolly! ‘Pearlie Mae’ was a smash hit in the role.
1970 - After a successful London run, Anthony Quayle starred in the Broadway opening of Sleuth.
1970 - (Through Nov 13) An East Pakistan cyclone and tidal waves killed 200,000 people. Another 100,000 were reported missing. (Some estimates went as high as 500,000 killed and/or missing.)
1971 - U.S. President Richard Nixon announced the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by the following February. Nixon declared, “American troops are now in a defensive position ... in a defensive role. The offensive activities of search and destroy are now being undertaken entirely by the South Vietnamese.”
1975 - Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, completing a record 36 1/2-year term.
1977 - New Orleans elected its first black mayor, Ernest ‘Dutch’ Morial -- despite vigorous white opposition.
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced an immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil and a freeze on Iranian assets in the U.S.
1980 - John Lennon’s (Just Like) Starting Over, from his Double-Fantasy album, was released. John and Yoko were seen kissing on the record cover.
1983 - Lionel Richie began the first of four consecutive weeks at the top of the music charts as All Night Long (All Night) became the most popular song in the U.S.
1984 - Spacewalker Joseph Allen became the first astronaut to rescue a satellite. The Discovery space shuttle made the $35 million rescue. When capturing the wayward satellite, Allen might have told mission control, “Hey, I can see HBO in here! The Movie Channel, too! And, look, there’s Showtime! Way cool!”
1988 - Rattle and Hum, the album by U2, started a six-week run at the top of the U.S. album charts. Hum along now, as we list the tracks on the Rattle and Hum: Helter Skelter, Van Diemen’s Land, Desire, Hawkmoon 269, All Along the Watchtower, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Freedom for My People, Silver and Gold, Pride (In the Name of Love), Angel of Harlem, Love Rescue Me, When Love Comes to Town, Heartland, God Part II, The Star Spangled Banner, Bullet the Blue Sky, All I Want is You.
1989 - Grand Hotel opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City. The musical drama ran for 1,017 performances.
1990 - Actress Eve Arden died in Beverly Hills, California. She was 82 years old. Arden is remembered for playing Constance ‘Connie' Brooks’ in the 1950s TV series Our Miss Brooks -- and for her other roles in dozens of films.
1990 - Japanese Emperor Akihito formally assumed the Chrysanthemum (Imperial) Throne.
1992 - In his first formal post-election news conference, U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton presented a detailed blueprint for action once he took office, and promised his administration would have the strictest ethical guidelines in history.
1993 - Former Nixon White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman died in Santa Barbara, CA. Haldeman, who was also involved the Watergate scandal, was 67 years old.
1994 - Wilma Rudolph, Olympic track and field gold medallist, died in Nashville, TN at age 54.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
1995 - Israel’s ruling Labor Party unanimously approved Shimon Peres as its new leader, replacing slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
1996 - A Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided with a Kazakh Ilyushin-76 cargo plane shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India. The crash killed 349 people.
1997 - Jury selection began in Sacramento, California, in the trial of accused Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
1997 - Ramzi Yousef was convicted in New York of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
1999 - First-run movies in the U.S. this day: Anywhere But Here, starring Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman and Bonnie Bedelia; Dogma, starring Ben Affleck, George Carlin, Matt Damon and Linda Fiorentino; and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, starring Milla Jovovich John Malkovich Faye Dunaway Dustin Hoffman.
1999 - In Turkey a 7.2 earthquake was centered at Duzce. More than 600 people were killed and another 3000 were injured. Damage from two late-1999 quakes was later estimated at $10-25 billion.
2000 - Leah Rabin died at the age of 72. Rabin was the widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. She was an outspoken campaigner for Mideast peace.
2001 - An American Airlines Airbus A300-600, en route from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, crashed 103 seconds after takeoff, killing 265 people. Within a day or two of the crash, the vertical tail of the Airbus A-300 was found nearly intact in nearby Jamaica Bay. In 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board said an overly sensitive rudder system on the Airbus and inadequate pilot training by American were contributing factors in the crash. But most of the blame was placed on the co-pilot’s improper use of the jet’s rudder while trying to steady the plane.
2003 - Actress Penny Singleton died. Singleton, born Dorothy McNulty, played in some fifty movies and was the voice of Blondie on radio (1939-1950). She was also the voice of Jane Jetson in the TV cartoon The Jetsons.
2004 - Scott Peterson was convicted of the first degree murder of his pregnant wife and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay in Dec 2002. Prosecutors portrayed the crime as a cold-blooded attempt to escape marriage and fatherhood byt the 32-year-old Peterson. He was also convicted of the second degree murder of the unborn child.
2004 - Kings, princes and presidents from around the world paid final tribute to Yasser Arafat at a military funeral in Cairo. Arafat was interned in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Looking on were tens of thousands of emotional mourners who had swarmed a Jordanian military helicopter that brought the body of the Palestinian leader from the funeral in Egypt.
2004 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: After the Sunset, with Pierce Brosnan, Woody Harrelson, Salma Hayek, Naomi Harris, Don Cheadle, Obba Babatunde and Alan Dale; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent; Finding Neverland, with Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell and Freddie Highmore; and Seed of Chucky, starring Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Billy Boyd, Debbie Lee Carrington, Redman, John Waters and Hannah Spearitt.
2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City.
2006 - Ang Chuang Yang, a 16-year-old student in Singapore, broke the Guinness World Record for shortest time needed to type a 160-character SMS (short message service) message. Yang whizzed through the task in less than 42 seconds, beating the previous mark of 42.22 seconds set in July 2006 by an American.
2007 - Author Ira Levin died at 78 years of age in Manhattan. His work included the best-sellers Rosemary’s Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), and The Boys from Brazil (1976). Levin also wrote for the stage, including No Time for Sergeants, starring a young Andy Griffith, and the long-running Deathtrap. Both were later adapted to the screen.
2008 - The U.S. issued rules barring banks from processing payments to most online gambling sites, effectively making Internet betting illegal in the U.S.
2009 - The Atlantic seaboard was drenched in rain from Tropical Storm Ida. Three deaths were reported in Virginia and one in North Carolina.
2009 - U.S. prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation. The feds were after more than $500 million in assets of the Muslim nonprofit organization.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The documentary, Cool It (The end of civilization as we know it?); Skyline, starring Eric Balfour, Brittany Daniel, Donald Faison, David Zayas and Scottie Thompson; Tiny Furniture, with Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmonsl Grace Dunham, Jemima Kirke and Alex Karpovsky; and Unstoppable, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Elizabeth Mathis and Jessy Schram.
2010 - British detectives investigating the 2009 theft of some 300 brightly colored stuffed birds from the Natural History Museum in Tring arrested Edwin Rist (22), an American student. In July of 2011, Rist was given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £125,150, the amount he was estimated to have made by selling the stolen skins.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum 2011. The conference, with leaders of 20 other nations, in Hawaii was part of a 9-day trip that would include presidential visits to Australia and Indonesia.
2011 - The 22-member Arab League voted to suspend Syria if Bashar Assad’s regime did not take immediate steps to implement a peace plan designed to end months of unrest in the country.
2012 - British MPs (members of parliament) criticized executives of multinational companies Starbucks, Google and Amazon for not paying enough tax in Britain. Meanwhile, Amazon said it had received a $252 million (159 million pounds) demand for back taxes from France. A Reuters report showed that Starbucks had paid no corporation, or income, tax in the U.K. in the past three years and had paid only 8.6 million pounds since 1998. Apparently everything these companies were doing was legal, as it was avoidance and not evasion. But, there was a growing culture in the U.K. of naming -- and shaming -- the offending companies.
2013 - A 1969 painting Irish-born British figurative painter Francis Bacon set a world record for the most expensive artwork sold to that time at a Christie’s auction in New York City. “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” sold for $142,405,000.
2014 - The United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime said opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan had hit a record high in 2014 and accounted for 90% of the world’s heroin supply.
2014 - Following a yearlong global investigation, six major U.S. and European banks were fined $4.3 billion for failing to stop traders from trying to manipulate the foreign exchange market. UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, JPMorgan, Citigroup, HSBC and Bank of America were the banks involved.
2015 - 80-year-old mobster Vincent Asaro grinned and threw his hands into the air, shouting “Free,” as he walked out of a New York City courthouse. The display of glee followed his surprising acquittal on charges that he had helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist. While Asaro allegedly waited outside the terminal in a decoy ‘crash car’ that would intercept the police in case they responded to the heist, the robbery team, brandishing guns, detained Lufthansa terminal workers and robbed a vault of 50 boxes -- each containing $125,000 -- a silver box of jewelry and German money. Attorney Elizabeth Macedonia said, “The government failed to prove Mr. Asaro had any involvement in Lufthansa. Sometimes the government gets it wrong.” (The heist inspired the film, Goodfellas.)
2016 - From New York to Miami to Olympia, Washington, to Iowa City, the election results touched a nerve. Shouts of “Dump Trump” and “Not My President” were the battle cry punctuating gatherings along Fifth Avenue, outside the White House and in front of small-town city halls. Ben Wikler, Washington director for MoveOn.org said the protests, “show there is not a national mandate” of support for the policies of Trump. “Members of Congress should have no illusions.”
2017 - Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, ordered 40 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners -- a $15.1 billion deal -- at the start of the biennial Dubai Air Show.
2017 - Turkey reported its purchase of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles had been completed. The decision by NATO member Turkey to buy the S-400s from Moscow was been seen by some of its Western allies as a snub to the alliance. The deal also raised concern because the weapons could not be integrated into NATO defenses.
2018 - The death toll from the Camp Fire in Butte County (northern California) rose to 42. The fire covered 117,000 acres and was 30 percent contained.
2018 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged that Canadian intelligence had heard audio recordings of the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi that had been provided by Turkish intelligence.
2019 - Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the U.S. electric vehicle pioneer would build its first European factory and design center near Berlin.
2019 - The the FBI reported that U.S. hate crime murders totaled 24 in 2018 -- reaching a 27-year high. The total includes the 11 worshipers slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest anti-Semitic crime in U.S. history. The FBI said 184 hate crime offenses in 2018 were motivated by bias against transgender or gender non-conforming people.
2020 - For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat carried Arizona in a presidential election. President-elect Biden narrowly won Arizona, capturing the state’s 11 electoral votes and strengthening his Electoral College margin as POTUS Trump continued to make baseless attacks on the vote counts.
2020 - The United Kingdom reported 33,470 new cases of COVID-19, its highest daily total to that date, as the government struggled to control a second wave of infections going into the winter.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Belfast, starring Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie and Caitriona Balfe; Love Is Love Is Love, with Rosanna Arquette, Justin Ashforth and Kathy Baker; My Fiona, starring Sara Amini, Boston Beck and Travis Coles; Night Raiders, starring Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart and Alex Tarrant; and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, with Giorgi Ambroladze, Oliko Barbakadze and Giorgi Bochorishvili.
2021 - The Netherlands announced a partial lockdown. Bars and restaurants were to close early and sporting events would be held without spectators under a three-week effort to contain a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases.
2021 - The U.N. Security Council extended the mandate of its peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic at a meeting that saw Russia and the West clash over Russia’s military presence in the conflict-wracked nation.
2021 - A Los Angeles judge ended Britney Spears’ conservatorship, which had controlled almost all aspects of her life for some 14 years. The decision capped a stunning odyssey that saw Spears publicly demand the end of the conservatorship, hire her own attorney, have her father removed from power and finally win the freedom to make her own medical, financial and personal decisions for the first time since 2008.
2022 - Mid-term elections saw the Democrats retain control of the Senate (50-49) with Catherine Cortez Masto’s victory in Nevada. This, while Democratic candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez beat her Republican challenger, Joe Kent, to flip a Washington House seat that had been controlled by the GOP since 2011.
2022 - The United States, Japan, and South Korea made a pact to remain a unified force against the increasing threat from North Korea. President Biden met privately with Japanese Prime Minster Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. While the three talked about a variety of issues, Biden said the trio mostly focused on escalating military force seen by North Korea in recent weeks. “We face real challenges, but our countries are more aligned than ever, more prepared to take on those challenges than ever,” he said.
2023 - In the Billie Jean King Cup (women's tennis) at Seville, Spain: Leylah Fernandez & Marina Stakusic scored straight sets singles wins over Italy to lead Canada to its first BJKC title.
2023 - GOP presidential hopeful Chris Christie promised to tell Americans of the devastation he saw in Israel after becoming the first Republican candidate to visit the country following the Hamas attacks. “If you don’t understand the stakes after seeing this, then you’re lost,” he said while reemphasizing his support for Israel.
2023 - The health care crisis in Gaza deepened with thousands of hospital patients and staff seeking shelter from a constant barrage of Israeli airstrikes. At Gaza’s largest hospital, operating rooms were completely out of service and medics were working by candlelight. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was willing to help civilians at the embattled Al-Shifa Hospital by “creating safe corridors” for evacuation.
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Birthdays on This Day November 12
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women’s rights activist; died October 26, 19021839 - Frank Furness
Lieutenant in U.S. Army during Civil War, rising to the rank of Captain; architect: designed 400+ buildings including banks, churches, synagoges, rail stations for the Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and numerous stone mansions; died June 27, 19121840 - Auguste Rodin
sculptor: Gates of Hell, The Kiss, The Thinker, The Balzac, The Burghers of Calais, St. John the Baptist Preaching; museums in Paris and Philadelphia named for him; died Nov 17, 19171866 - Sun Yat-Sen
Chinese revolutionary leader: China [1911]; died Mar 12,19251898 - Leon Stukelj
Olympic gold medalist: gymnast [2 gold medals in 1924]; first gymnast from Slovenia to win an Olympic gold medal; died Nov 8, 19991903 - Jack Oakie
actor: Lover Come Back, The Rat Race, Song of the Islands, Tin Pan Alley, The Texas Rangers; died Jan 23, 19781908 - Harry Blackmun
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1970]: wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade; died Mar 4, 19991917 - Jo Stafford
singer: Shrimp Boats [Are A-Comin’, There’s Dancin’ Tonight], Jambalaya, Long Ago and Far Away, No Other Love, Candy, You Belong to Me, Make Love to Me; group: Pied Pipers: Dream; died July 16, 20081920 - Sunset Carson
actor: Stage Door Canteen, Rio Grande Raiders, Alias Billy the Kid; died May 1, 19901920 - Richard Quine
actor: Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal, director: The World of Suzy Wong, Bell Book and Candle, How to Murder Your Wife, Sex and the Single Girl; died Jun 10, 19891922 - Kim Hunter
Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House; died Sep 11, 20021926 - George Ratterman
football: QB: Univ. of Notre Dame, Buffalo Bills, NY Yankees, Cleveland Browns; died Nov 3, 20071929 - Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)
Academy Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1954]; To Catch a Thief, High Society, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial “M” for Murder; singer: True Love [w/Bing Crosby]; died Sep 14, 19821931 - Bob Crewe
songwriter, producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, The Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By; died Sep 11, 20141934 - Ann Flood
actress: The Edge of Night; died Oct 7, 20221943 - Brian Hyland
singer: Sealed with a Kiss, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini, Let Me Belong to You1943 - John Maus
musician: bass, singer: trio: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Make It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore; died May 7, 20111943 - Wallace Shawn
actor: Young Sheldon, House Arrest, Clueless, The Magic Bubble, Radio Days, The Princess Bride, Micki & Maude, The Hotel New Hampshire, A Little Sex, My Dinner with Andre, Simon, All That Jazz1944 - Booker T. Jones
musician: group: Booker T and the MG’s: Green Onions, Time is Tight1944 - Ken Houston
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Houston Oilers safety: NFL Individual Season Record holder: 4 interceptions returned for touchdowns [1971]1944 - Al Michaels
sportscaster: Thursday Night Football [Prime Video 2023- ]; Sunday Night Football [NBC 2006-2021]; Monday Night Football [ABC 1986-2005]; Emmy: Outstanding Sports Personality -- Play-by-Play [Host]: 1986, 1989, 1995]; inducted into National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame [1998]; NSSA Sportscaster of the Year: 1980, 1983, 1986]1945 - John Schroeder
golf: PGA, SPGA tour; commentator: NBC Sports; son of Wimbledon and Davis Cup winner, Ted Schroeder1945 - Neil Young
singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: Deja Vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth1947 - Buck Dharma
musician: guitar: group: Blue Öyster Cult: [Don’t Fear] The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin’ for You1948 - Errol Brown
songwriter [w/Tony Wilson]: Think About Your Children, Bet Your Life I Do; singer: group: Hot Chocolate: Give Piece a Chance, Love is Life, I Believe in Love, Brother Louie, Cicero Park, Emma, Disco Queen, You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, I’ll Put You Back Together Again, Every 1’s a Winner, Girl Crazy, Chances; died May 6, 20151948 - Cliff Harris
football: Dallas Cowboys safety: Super Bowl: V, VI, X, XII, XIII1950 - Barbara Fairchild
singer: The Teddy Bear Song, Kid Stuff1952 - Steve Bartkowski
football: QB: Univ. of California, Atlanta Falcons [NFC Rookie of the Year: 1975]1955 - Leslie McKeown
singer: group: The Bay City Rollers: Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, I Only Wanna Be With You, Saturday Night1958 - Megan Mullally
actress: Will & Grace, The Pact, Stealing Harvard, Monkeybone, Best Man in Grass Creek, Anywhere But Here, Winchell, Queens Logic1961 - Nadia Comaneci
Olympic Gold Medalist: gymnastics [1976]: 7 perfect 10s1961 - Greg Gagne
baseball [shortstop, second, third base, outfield, designated hitter]: Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals, LA Dodgers1962 - Jeff Reed
baseball [catcher, third base]: Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs1963 - Sam Lloyd
actor: Scrubs, Super Capers, Tour de Fright, Cry for Help, The Real Old Testament, Galaxy Quest, A Bucket of Blood, Rising Sun1967 - Michael Moorer
boxing: heavyweight career record: 47-4-1, 37 KOs1968 - Aya Hisakawa
singer, actress: Puni puni poemi, Cardcaptor Sakura: Fuin sareta card, Geobreeders, Yosei Hime Ren, Aozora Shoujotai, Mamono Hunter Yôko no jijô1968 - Randy Knorr
baseball [catcher]: Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos1968 - Sammy Sosa
baseball: Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs [joined Mark McGwire in breaking Roger Maris's record of 61 home runs in single season with 66 in 1998, 63 in 1999, 64 in 2001/all-star: 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001]1970 - Tonya Harding
ice skater: involved in attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice1970 - Craig Parker
actor: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Weekend Lovers, No One Can Hear You, The Tommyknockers1972 - Homer Bush
baseball [shortstop, second base]: New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins1973 - Mayte Garcia
dancer and singer, actress: That’s Incredible!, Firehouse Dog, Dus, Love Don’t Cost a Thing, The Sacrifice of Victor, Las Vegas, Nip/Tuck; former wife of pop star, Prince1973 - Radha Mitchell
actress: Pitch Black, Finding Neverland, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, Silent Hill, The Crazies1974 - Lourdes Benedicto
actress: 24, NYPD Blue, The Nine, Cashmere Mafia, V1974 - Tamala Jones
actress: Castle, Booty Call, The Wood, Kingdom Come, The Brothers, Two Can Play That Game1975 - Chris Wells
hockey [center]: Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers1978 - Alexandra Maria Lara
actress: Contro, Youth Without Youth, Nackt, Downfall, About the Looking for and the Finding of Love, The Reader; more1978 - Ashley Williams
actress: Obstacles, Indian Summer, Good Morning, Miami, As the World Turns1979 - Cote de Pablo
actress: NCIS, The Jury, The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, The Dovekeepers1979 - Corey Maggette
basketball [forward]: Duke Univ; NBA: Orlando Magic, LA Clippers1980 - Lance Briggs
football [linebacker]: Chicago Bears [2003–2014]: 2007 Super Bowl XLI1980 - Ryan Gosling
actor: The Believer, Remember the Titans, Frankenstein and Me, Young Hercules, Breaker High, First Man1981 - Chez Reavie
golf champ: PGA: 2008 RBC Canadian Open1982 - Anne Hathaway
actress: Get Smart [2008], Becoming Jane, Brokeback Mountain, Havoc, Ella Enchanted, Nicholas Nickleby, The Other Side of Heaven1987 - Jason Day
golf champ: PGA: 2010 HP Byron Nelson Championship; 2015 Farmers Insurance Open; 2015 RBC Canadian Open; 2015 PGA Championship [scored a record 20 strokes under par]; 2015 The Barclays; 2015 BMW Championship; 2016 Arnold Palmer Invitational; 2016 The Players Championship; 2018 Farmers Insurance Open; 2018 Wells Fargo Championship1988 - Russel Westbrook
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Oklahoma City Thunder; won gold medal with the U.S. team at the 2012 Summer Olympics1991 - Kathleen Herles
voice actress: Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora
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Hit Music on This Day November 12
1944I’ll Walk Alone (facts) - Dinah Shore
Dance with a Dolly (facts) - The Russ Morgan Orchestra (vocal: Al Jennings)
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