November 15
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1806 - Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike sighted a mountain peak that now bears his name. The massive, towering (elevation 14,110 feet) behemoth had been called “The Long One” by Ute Indians. Its name was changed to honor the young army lieutenant. Zebulon Pike was leading a survey party into the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase when he spotted the snowcapped peak in the distance. “Pikes Peak or Bust!” was the familiar slogan of many a wagon train settler traveling west in the 1800s. Visitors to the Pikes Peak region (near Colorado Springs) continue to be captivated, inspired, and enthralled by Colorado’s most famous mountain.
1881 - The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada was formed -- in Pittsburgh, PA. Five years later the organization became the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
1884 - Samuel Sidney McClure of New York City started the first literary syndicate -- the McClure Syndicate. It bought authors’ works and then sold the right to print them to various newspapers across the U.S.
1896 - The completion of transmission lines permitted the use of the Niagara Falls waterpower electricity generating station as it began transmitting power to Buffalo NY.
1900 - Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Technical Schools in Pittsburgh PA. The school(s) became Carnegie Institute of Technology/Carnegie Tech in 1912 and Carnegie-Mellon University in 1967.
1904 - One of Broadway’s most famous phrases was uttered for the first time. Ethel Barrymore, appearing in the play, Sunday, spoke the famous line, “That’s all there is. There isn’t any more,” as the curtain fell.
1926 - Network radio was born. 24 stations carried the first broadcast from (bong-bing-bong) NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. The program was a gala 4½-hour broadcast from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Two remote pickups were also on the program. Opera star Mary Garden sang from Chicago and Will Rogers presented a humorous monologue from Independence, Kansas. Charles Lindbergh was among the luminaries who attended the broadcast.
1942 - The Battle of Savo Island, also called the Second Battle of Guadalcanal, began. The brand new battleship U.S.S. South Dakota, to become the Navy’s most decorated ship during World War II, sank three Japanese cruisers and damaged several others. The South Dakota was hit by 42 shells during the battle.
1948 - William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after 21 years, 4 1/2 months, the longest anyone has served as prime minister. Mackenzie King was succeeded by Louis St. Laurent.
1950 - The first black man in organized hockey suited up. Arthur Dorrington became a member of the Atlantic City Seagulls of the Eastern Amateur Hockey League.
1954 - Studio One on CBS-TV featured Joan Weber singing Let Me Go, Lover. The song had enjoyed limited popularity before the TV show, but skyrocketed to fame immediately after.
1956 - Love Me Tender, the first Elvis Presley film, premiered. Costarring with Elvis were Richard Egan and Debra Paget.
1959 - Prosperous farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife, daughter and son were found murdered in their Holcomb, Kansas home. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were eventually arrested, convicted of the killings and, in 1965, executed. The murders of the Clutter family became the basis for Truman Capote’s best-selling 1965 book, In Cold Blood. In Cold Blood became a movie in 1967, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe and Paul Stewart.
1960 - The U.S.S. George Washington, the first nuclear-powered sub with ballistic missiles, went to sea.
1965 - The fastest man on wheels, Craig Breedlove, set a world speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah with a speed of 600.601 mph.
1966 - The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic.
1969 - The first album featuring Karen and Richard Carpenter was released by A&M Records. Offering would not be a big seller, but a single from the disc, a remake of The Beatles’ Ticket to Ride, would gain national attention. Their next album, however, would establish them as major international stars (Close to You).
1969 - The first Wendy’s Hamburgers opened. Dave Thomas started the company with one restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He named the company after his second youngest daughter. When Thomas died in January 2002, the Wendy’s chain had grown to more than 6,000 restaurants worldwide, with a reputation for fresh, high quality food, and fast and friendly service. In 1995, Wendy’s merged with Tim Hortons, Canada’s largest coffee and fresh baked goods chain, that totals more than 2,000 units. Together, the two chains have system sales exceeding $8 billion.
1974 - The group, Faces, released their tune with the longest title. You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings). Whew!
1978 - A chartered Icelandic Airlines DC-8, carrying 249 Moslem pilgrims from Mecca, crashed in thunderstorm during landing approach in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 183 people were killed.
1980 - After years of success on the music charts with the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition, Kenny Rogers got his first #1 song. Lady, written by Lionel Richie, stayed at the top for six weeks.
1986 - The first major operetta written by Gian Carlo Menotti in over 20 years was presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Starring tenor Placido Domingo, Goya was said by critics to be only “intermittently good.”
1987 - A Continental Airlines DC-9 crashed seconds after taking off from Denver’s Stapleton International Airport. 28 of 82 people on board were killed, including the pilot and co-pilot. The NTSB blamed, “The captain’s failure to have the airplane de-iced a second time after delay before take-off that led to upper wing surface contamination and a loss of control during rapid take-off rotation by the first officer. Contributing was the absence of regulatory or management controls governing operations by newly qualified flight crew members and the confusion that existed between the flight crew and air traffic controllers that led to the delay in departure.”
1988 - The legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
1989 - Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was cheered by American lawmakers as he told a joint meeting of Congress that U.S. aid to Poland “will not be wasted, and will never be forgotten.”
1990 - Milli Vanilli’s producer, Frank Farian, confirmed rumors the duo had not done any of the actual singing on their debut album, Girl You Know It’s True.
1991 - The 28-foot-tall Free Stamp (sculpture?) by Claes Oldenburg was inaugurated in Willard Park in the heart of Cleveland, OH.
1992 - After 200 victories, seven championships and more than 1,000 career starts, Richard Petty ended his career as a driver. In his final race, the Hooters 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he was involved in a multi-car crash, with his red and blue SIP Pontiac catching fire. Petty’s crew worked hard to get the the car running again, and with two laps remaining, he pulled out of the pits and drove to a 35th-place finish. Commenting on the fire, Petty said, “I wanted to go out in a blaze of glory; I just forgot about the glory part.”
1994 - ‘Marvelous’ Martina Navratilova ended her 19-year tennis career with a disappointing 6-4, 6-2 loss to Gabriela Sabatini in the first round of the WTA Championships at Madison Square Garden in New York. Navratilova, a Tennis Hall-of-Famer, played 380 singles tournaments and 1,650 matches. She won 167 titles and 1,438 matches, with a won-lost mark of 1,438-212. She won $20,344,061.
1994 - The U.S. Federal Reserve increased key interest rates by 0.75 percent (from 4 percent to 4.75 percent). It was the largest rate hike in 13 years.
1996 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: TriStar Pictures’ The Mirror Has Two Faces, with Barbra Streisnad, Jeff Bridges Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers, Brenda Vaccaro, Elle Macpherson, Austin Pendleton and Lauren Bacall.; and Warner Bros.’ Space Jam, starring Michael Jordan, Theresa Randle, Wayne Knight, Bill Murray, Billy West and Danny Devito.
1997 - Eddie Robinson coached his final home game at Grambling State University (losing 37-35 to North Carolina A&T). He was college football’s winningest coach with 408 wins. (Robinson ended his 56-year career two weeks later at the Bayou Classic against Southern University.)
1998 - Kwame Ture, the civil rights activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at 57 years of age.
1999 - The Clinton administration claimed victory in a seven-year struggle to persuade Congress to pay nearly $1 billion in back dues to the United Nations, saying restrictions in the deal on backing for international family planning would have no practical effect.
2000 - Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore and his wife, Betty I. Moore, announced the establishment a new multibillion dollar family foundation to underwrite scientific research, environmental protection and higher education projects.
2000 - The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Dick Cavett narrated the musical revival. It featured Tom Hewitt as Frank N. Furter, Alice Ripley as Janet, Jarrod Emick as Brad, Raúl Esparza as Riff Raff, Joan Jett as Columbia/Usherette, Lea DeLaria as Eddie/Dr. Scott, and Daphne Rubin-Vega as Magenta. The Rocky Horror Show revival ran for a respectable 437 performances, closing Jan 6. 2002.
2001 - United Airlines announced that it would put stun guns into the cockpits of each of its 500 passenger planes.
2002 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S.: Ararat, starring Christopher Plummer, Charles Aznavour, Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Bogosian and Brent Carver; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis and Sean Biggerstaff; and the documentary, Standing in the Shadow of Motown, with Richard ‘Pistol’ Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, Benny 'Papa Zita' Benjamin, Eddie 'Bongo' Brown, Bootsy Collins, Johnny Griffith, Ben Harper, Joe Hunter, James Jamerson, Uriel Jones, Montell Jordan, Chaka Khan, Gerald Levert and Joe Messina.
2003 - Comedienne, actress Dorothy Loudon died. She was 70 years old. Loudon won a Tony Award for playing the rib-cracking harridan Miss Hannigan in Annie in 1977.
2004 - Members of a Cuban dance troupe, performing in Las Vegas NV, asked for asylum. The U.S. granted asylum to 50 members of the troupe in 2005.
2005 - Sayako, Princess Nori of Japan, married a commoner, leaving the Imperial Family and taking the surname of her husband.
2005 - The FBI arrested Candice R. Martinez, a 19-year-old woman suspected of robbing four Virginia banks while talking on her cell phone. Martinez got a 12-year prison sentence in 2006, but was released Jul 4, 2016.
2007 - Baseball great Barry Bonds was indicted on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice related to a grand jury investigation into steroid distributor Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). The perjury charges against Bonds were dropped and an initial obstruction of justice conviction was overturned in 2015.
2008 - A subway tunnel under construction collapsed in Hangzhou (eastern China), trapping workers and creating a crater into which more than 10 vehicles plunged. 21 people were killed.
2010 - A fire engulfed a Shanghai, China high-rise building, killing 58 people and injuring 70. Panicked residents fled and thick smoke spread over China’s commercial hub. Police later detained eight welders on suspicion of accidentally starting the fire and three government officials were later detained for allowing illegal construction activities at the site. In June 2011 prosecutors charged 26 people with bribery and other crimes related to this fire.
2011 - 17 tons of marijuana were seized after the discovery of a cross-border tunnel linking warehouses in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Authorities said it was one of the most significant secret drug smuggling passages found to that date on the U.S.-Mexico border.
2011 - And more from the 440 Smuggling Department: Hong Kong customs officers intercepted a record haul of 33 rhino horns, 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 bracelets hidden inside a container shipped from South Africa
2012 - BP agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The gigantic oil and gas company also agreed to pay $4.5 billion in government penalties. Meanwhile, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the two highest-ranking BP supervisors on board the Deepwater Horizon on the day of the explosion with 23 criminal counts. A third BP executive was charged with lying to U.S. federal investigators.
2013 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The Best Man Holiday, with Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long; Cold Turkey, starring Wilson Bethel, Alicia Witt, Sonya Walger and Cheryl Hines; the documentary, Dear Mr. Watterson; Faust, with Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky and Isolda Dychauk; Charlie Countryman, starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood and Mads Mikkelsen; and Sunlight Jr., with Norman Reedus, Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon.
2013 - Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced in New York City to ten years in prison. Hammond had illegally accessed computer systems of law enforcement agencies and government contractors. The 10-year sentence was one of the longest punishments dished out for criminal hacking offences in U.S. history.
2014 - The G20 summit opened in Brisbane, Australia. Western leaders warned Vladimir Putin that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels in Ukraine.
2015 - Israel allowed some 9,000 Ethiopians to enter the country. Known as Falash Mura, the Ethiopians claimed Jewish lineage and their entry approval ended decades of debate on whether to allow them to immigrate despite uncertainty over their right to settle in Israel.
2015 - Speaking at a G20 leaders summit in Turkey POTUS Barack Obama vowed to step up efforts to eliminate the Islamic State in Syria and prevent it from carrying out attacks like those in Paris. And Obama joined European leaders in urging Russia to join in and focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists.
2016 - Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev over allegations that he extorted a $2-million bribe from top oil producer Rosneft. The bribery investigation had reached into the upper echelons of Putin’s government.
2016 - The rebuilding of the cast-iron dome of the U.S. Capitol Building was completed after a $60 million overhaul. The fix included repairing rust-choked gutters and more than 1,300 cracks. interior and exterior decorations scraped, cleaned, and restored. 1,215 gallons of paint were used to repaint the exterior.
2017 - A 500-year-old painting, the last known to be by Leonardo da Vinci, sold for $450.3 million in New York, setting a new world record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction.
2018 - Greece reported about 74,000 asylum-seekers were living in the country, and efforts were underway to expand housing for them and improve conditions at island camps for migrants who arrive by sea.
2018 - Morocco inaugurated Africa’s fastest train which cut in half the travel time between the commercial and industrial hubs of Casablanca and Tangier. After seven years of work on the high-speed railway line, King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron boarded the train for the inaugural trip from Tangier to the capital Rabat. The train runs at 320 km (198 miles) per hour. The $2 billion project was jointly funded with France and several Arab states.
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Charlie’s Angels, starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska as the new generation of Angels; Ford v. Ferrari, starring Christian Bale, Matt Damon and Caitriona Balfe; The Good Liar, starring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson; Feast of the Seven Fishes, with Skyler Gisondo, Madison Iseman and Josh Helman; Radioflash, starring Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan and Will Patton; The Report, starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm; The Shed, with Jay Jay Warren, Cody Kostro and Sofia Happonen; The Warrior Queen of Jhansi, with Derek Jacobi, Rupert Everett and Jodhi May; and Waves, starring Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Alexa Demie.
2019 - Chicago teachers approved a contract that ended an 11-day strike and included pay raises. Some $35 million from the city was included to enforce limits on class sizes -- along with a pledge to supply each school with a nurse and a social worker.
2019 - Martin Fox, the 62-year-old former president of a private tennis club in Texas, pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal. He had brokered bribes to help wealthy parents rig their children’s college entrance exams. Fox was among 50 people who were charged in March 2019, including high-profile defendants actresses Felicity Huffman, who appeared in Desperate Housewives, and Lori Loughlin who starred in Full House.
2019 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) crossed the 28,000 mark for the first time. And the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit all time highs too.
2020 - A SpaceX rocket launched four astronauts into orbit for a six-month stay on the International Space Station. NASA designated the launch as the first operational flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, built and operated by SpaceX, the rocket company started by Elon Musk.
2020 - Pro golfer Dustin Johnson won his first Masters, by five strokes. Johnson completed the Masters in fewer than 268 strokes, breaking the 1997 record of 270 held by Tiger Woods.
2020 - Michigan and Washington joined several other states in announcing renewed efforts to combat COVID-19. More than 11 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported in the United States -- with the most recent million happening in less than one week.
2021 - President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law. The new law funneled billions to states and local governments to upgrade outdated roads, bridges, transit systems and more. GOP Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, one of the bill’s authors, commented on the bill’s bipartisanship, saying, “This is what can happen when Republicans and Democrats say we’re going to work together to get something done.”
2021 - Los Angeles-based Air Lease Corporation sealed a deal to acquire 111 new aircraft from European plane maker Airbus at the Dubai Air Show. Founded in 2010, ALC had ordered a total of 496 Airbus aircraft to this date in 2021.
2021 - As COVID-19 infections fell and vaccinations rose, India began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular commercial flights.
2022 - Earth’s population reached 8 billion, just 11 years after passing 7 billion. Growth was slowing, with the 9-billion mark not expected to be reached until 2037, according to the United Nations.
2022 - House Republicans voted to elect House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be their next speaker of the House. The vote came as Republicans remained one seat shy of the 218 seats they need to claim a House majority -- but were still expected to get it.
2022 - Former POTUS Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president again in 2024. The announcement came as many Republicans blamed the twice-impeached Trump for the party’s disappointing performance in the midterm elections.
2023 - With the U.S., U.K. and Russia abstaining, the U.N. Security Council called for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip”.
2023 - Red One opened in the U.S. The action adventure stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons and Bonnie Hunt. After Santa Claus (code name: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security (Callum Drift) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Jack O’Malley) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.
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Birthdays on This Day November 15
1887 - Georgia O’Keeffe
artist: Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, A Cross by the Sea, Canada, Black Iris, Farmhouse Window and Door, Lake George; died Mar 6, 19861891 - W. Averell Harriman
U.S. diplomat, Governor of New York [1955-1959]; died July 26, 19861891 - Erwin Rommel
‘The Desert Fox’: WWII German field marshal and commander; accused in unsuccessful plot to assassinate Hitler: forced to commit suicide Oct 14, 19441905 - Mantovani
musician: violin; songwriter, composer, orchestra leader: Charmaine, The Song From Moulin Rouge, Cara Mia, Swedish Rhapsody, La Paloma, Perfidia, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Besame Mucho; died Mar 29, 19801919 - Carol Bruce
actress: WKRP in Cincinnati; died Oct 9, 20071919 - Joseph Wapner
judge, actor: The People’s Court; died Feb 26, 20171928 - Gus Bell
baseball [outfield]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves; died May 7, 19951928 - C.W. McCall
singer, songwriter: Convoy, Old Home, Filler-up, Keep on Truckin’ Cafe, Wolf Creek Pass, Classified, There Won’t be No Country Music, Roses for Mama; died Apr 1, 20221929 - Ed Asner
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1970-71, 1971-72, 1974-75], Rich Man, Poor Man [2/1/76], Roots-Part One [1/23/77], Lou Grant [1977-78, 1979-80]; Thunder Alley, Hearts Afire, Change of Habit, The Doomsday Flight, Fort Apache The Bronx, JFK, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!; president of Screen Actor’s Guild; died Aug 29, 20211931 - John Kerr
actor: South Pacific [1958], The Crowded Sky, Waterloo Bridge, Tea and Sympathy, The Pit and the Pendulum [1961], Arrest and Trial, Peyton Place [TV series], Twelve O’Clock High, The Streets of San Francisco, The Park Is Mine; died Feb 2, 20131932 - Petula Clark
Grammy Award-winning singer [1965]: Downtown, I Know a Place, This is My Song, My Love1933 - Clyde McPhatter
singer: Treasure of Love, Long Lonely Nights, A Lovers Question, Lover Please; groups: Dominoes: Do Something for Me, Sixty Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby; Drifters: Money Honey, Such a Night/Lucille, Honey Love;died June 13, 1972 1934 - Joanna Barnes
actress: The Trials of O’Brien, 21 Beacon Street, Spartacus, Parent Trap, Goodbye Charlie; died Apr 29, 20221937 - Little Willie John
singer: Sleep, Talk to Me Talk to Me, Fever; convicted of manslaughter, died Mar 26, 1968 in Washington State Prison1939 - Yaphet Kotto
actor: Two If by Sea, The Puppet Masters, Extreme Justice, Midnight Run, The Running Man, Eye of the Tiger, Fighting Back, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Shark’s Treasure, Live and Let Die, The Thomas Crown Affair, Five Card Stud, Nothing But a Man, Blue Collar, Homicide: Life on the Street, For Love and Honor, Roots; died Mar 15, 20211940 - Sam Waterston
actor: Grace and Frankie, The Killing Fields, Law & Order, Friendly Fire, I’ll Fly Away, The Great Gatsby, Serial Mom1942 - Daniel Barenboim
musician: piano, conductor: English Chamber Orchestra1945 - Bob Gunton
actor: Broadway: Evita; films: The Shawshank Redemption, Demolition Man, Patch Adams, Royal Pains, 24, Desperate Housewives, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Argo1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad
singer: group: Abba: Fernando, Dancing Queen, Take a Chance on Me, Waterloo1947 - Bob Dandridge
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks forward1947 - Bill Richardson
politician: Governor of New Mexico [2003-2011]; U.S. Secretary of Energy [1998-2001]; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations [1997-1998]; member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico [1983-1997]; died Sep 1, 20231948 - Bob Beckel
news analyst, political commentator: Fox News Channel co-host: The Five; columnist: USA Today; died Feb 20, 20221950 - Otis Armstrong
football: Denver Broncos running back: AFC Leading Rusher: [1974]: Super Bowl XII1951 - Beverly D’Angelo
actress: Entourage, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Paternity, Hair, Annie Hall, Every Which Way but Loose, National Lampoon’s Vacation series, Captains and the Kings1951 - Bo Matthews
football: Univ of Colorado, San Diego Chargers, New York Giants, Miami Dolphins1953 - Alexander O’Neal
songwriter, singer: The Time, Hearsay, All True Love, Lovers Again, Fake, Saturday Love1954 - Tony Thompson
musician: drums: group: Chic: Dance Dance Dance, Everybody Dance, Le Freak, I Want Your Love, Good Times; played with Led Zeppelin: Live Aid; drummer with Patti LaBelle; died Nov 12, 20031956 - Michael Hampton
musician: guitar: group: Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, Atomic Dog, Flashlight, Maggot Brain1957 - Kevin Eubanks
musician: guitar: bandleader: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; composer: film scores: Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault, Psalms from the Underground, The Dinner, The Week that Girl Died; more1957 - Mario Van Peebles
actor: Hard Luck, Gang of Roses, The Street Lawyer, Blowback, Mama Flora’s Family, Los Locos, Robbery Homicide Division1960 - Karen Clark-Sheard
multi-Grammy Award-winning singer: group: The Clark Sisters1963 - Kevin J. O’Connor
actor: The Mummy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Birdland, Gideon's Crossing1966 - Rachel True
actress: The Craft, Nowhere, Embrace of the Vampire, Groove, New Best Friend, Half & Half1967 - Greg Anthony
basketball [guard]: New York Knicks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks; ESPN TV sports analyst1967 - Pedro Borbón
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals1970 - Jack Ingram
musician: guitar; singer: Wherever You Are, Love You, Lips of an Angel, Measure of a Man, Maybe She’ll Get Lonely, That’s a Man, Barefoot and Crazy1972 - Jonny Lee Miller
actor: Elementary, Trainspotting, Hackers, Eli Stone, Emma, Marathon, Aeon Flux, The Escapist, Dracula 2000, Mansfield Park, Afterglow, Dead Man’s Walk1974 - Chad Kroeger
musician: guitar; singer: group: Nickelback: How You Remind Me, Someday, Photograph, Gotta Be Somebody, When We Stand Together1977 - Sean Murray
actor: NCIS, Hocus Pocus, Trial by Fire, The Sleepwalker Killing, Fall Into Darkness, The Lottery, Spring Break Lawyer1977 - Robaire Smith
football [defensive end]: Michigan State Univ; NFL: Tennessee Titans, Houston Texans1981 - Lorena Ochoa
golf pro: LPGA Tour [2003-]2010; was top-ranked female golfer in the world from Apr 2007 to her retirement in May 20101982 - Jenifer Bartoli
singer: Jenifer, Le passage1983 - Sophia Di Martino
actress: Loki, Casualty, 4’O Clock Club, Mount Pleasant, The Royal Today1986 - Winston Duke
actor: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Us, Person of Interest, Swagger!1988 - Zena Grey
actress: Snow Day, Max Keeble’s Big Move, The Shaggy Dog1988 - B.o.B (Bobby Ray Simmons Jr)
rapper: Nothin’ on You, Airplanes, Magic, Strange Clouds, So Good, Both of Us1991 - Shailene Woodley
actress: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Descendants, The Spectacular Now, White Bird, Divergent, The Amazing Spider-Man 22001 - Sadie Stanley
actress: The Goldbergs, Kim Possible, The Sleepover, Let Us In, Well-Behaved Women, Somewhere in Queens
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Hit Music on This Day November 15
1947Near You (facts) - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
You Do (facts) - Dinah Shore
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