October 1
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1847 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer, discovered a comet and was elected this same day to the American Academy of Arts -- the first woman to be so honored. Mitchell (1818-1889) was the first person to find a comet by telescope.1880 - A new director of the United States Marine Corps Band was named. John Philip Sousa became the band’s 17th leader. In 1888 he composed Semper Fidelis, traditionally known as the official march of the Marine Corps.
1888 - National Geographic magazine was first published.
1890 - Yosemite National Park was established. The park includes a collection of waterfalls, meadows, and forests with groves of giant sequoias, the world’s largest living things.
1903 - Cy Young played in his (and everyone else’s) first World Series baseball game. The game was held in Boston between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Boston Pilgrims/Americans (now the Red Sox). Cy and Boston lost the game; the score was Pittsburgh 7, Boston 3; however, Boston came back to win the series, five games to three.
1907 - The first taxicabs took to the streets of New York City. Harry N. Allen led a parade of sixty-five shiny new red gasoline-powered French Darracq cabs, equipped with fare meters, down Fifth Avenue.
1908 - Imagine paying just $825 (equivalent to some $21,650 today) for a new car! That’s what it cost to buy the new Model T which was introduced by Henry Ford.
1928 - Duke Ellington recorded The Mooche on the Okeh label.
1928 - Forever, by Ben Pollack and his band, was recorded on Victor Records. In Pollack’s band were two talented young musicians: Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden.
1934 - Adolf Hitler secretly ordered the quick buildup of the German army and navy and created an air force, violating the Treaty of Versailles.
1937 - The Pullman Company formally recognized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) as the first contract between the union and the company took effect this day.
1938 - Germany annexed Sudetenland (a third of the Czech Republic).
1939 - In a radio broadcast this day, Winston Churchill called Russia a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
1940 - The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 160 miles in length, was opened to the public.
1942 - Little Golden Books published its first children’s book, The Poky Little Puppy.
1943 - Pop Quiz time: Who was the original host of People Are Funny? Radio and TV fans might say, “Art Linkletter.” They would be wrong. Art Baker was the original host. And it was on this day that Art Baker turned the show over to Art Linkletter.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship featured the St. Louis Cardinals beating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1947 - A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC radio. ‘Der Bingle’ was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics -- the venerable Ampex 200.
1949 - Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing.
1949 - As Chairman Mao was celebrating back in Beijing, the Republic of China (Taiwan) was being formed on the island of Formosa. The Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek had been defeated (by Mao) and fled to Taiwan where they took control.
1951 - The U.S. 24th Infantry Regiment, the last all-black military unit, was deactivated on this day.
1952 - Emcee Ralph Edwards began a new TV program on NBC-TV called This Is Your Life. Each show began with Edwards surprising some unsuspecting victim, er, lucky person. The surprisee would then be presented with the story of his or her life, complete with friends and relatives who had been brought in for the big occasion. The popular show ran for nine years.
1957 - U.S. B-52 bombers in the Strategic Air Command went on 24-hour alert status because of the perceived threat of an attack from the Soviet Union. The constant air surveillance continued for the next 34 years.
1958 - Christmas Island was transferred to Australian control from Singapore. Australia had bought the Indian-Ocean island the previous year for 2.9 million pounds.
1960 - Nigeria became an independent nation within the British Commonwealth (Independence Day).
1962 - “From New York ... heeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” Ed McMahon introduced the new host of NBC’s Tonight Show for the first time. Johnny Carson entertained late-night America for nearly three decades, give or take 20 years for vacations...
1962 - James Meredith succeeded in registering, and became the first black student, at the University of Mississippi. It was his fourth attempt to register.
1964 - The ‘Free Speech Movement’ was launched at the University of California at Berkeley. The incident that fired up the movement began when police arrested Jack Weinberg for setting up an unauthorized table in Sproul Plaza. Students surrounded the police car in a standoff that lasted 32 hours.
1966 - I Love My Dog was released by Cat Stevens. He was 19 years old. Five years later, he recorded such hits as Wild World, Morning Has Broken, Peace Train and Oh Very Young. By 1979, Cat Stevens [born, Steven Demitri Georgiou], disenchanted with the music business, converted to the Islamic religion and changed his name to Yusef Islam. He may not have liked the music biz anymore but Cat still loves his dog.
1968 - Night of the Living Dead had its world premier in Pittsburgh, PA, near where it was filmed in 1964 by a small collective of independent filmmakers.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, USA. The opening was planned for October when the crowds were slower. Disney planners wanted everything to move slowly at first, so any problems that sprang up could be fixed with minimal guest inconvenience. The dedication of the park was held on October 25, 1971. Roy O. Disney stood with Mickey Mouse in Town Square and read the dedication plaque: “Walt Disney World is a tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney . . . and to the talents, the dedication, and the loyalty of the entire Disney organization that made Walt Disney's dream come true. May Walt Disney World bring Joy and Inspiration and New Knowledge to all who come to this happy place . . . a Magic Kingdom where the young at heart of all ages can laugh, and play, and learn - together.” Walt Disney World eventually became the world’s largest, man-made, tourist attraction.
1971 - The computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan was introduced in England by the British engineer Godfrey N. Hounsfield (later Sir Godfrey), and by the South African (later American) physicist Alan Cormack.
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKO’d Joe Frazier in fifteen rounds to grab the heavyweight boxing title. The bout became famous as one of the three biggest fights of Ali’s career, and has been referred to since as the ‘Thrilla in Manila’.
1977 - 77,691 fans saw world-famous soccer player Pele in the last game of his career -- at the Meadowlands in New Jersey. He played the first half with the New York Cosmos and the second half with his former team, Santos of Brazil.
1977 - The U.S. Department of Energy was established. The mission of the Energy Department is “to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.”
1983 - Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart began a four-week run as the number one single in the U.S. The song, from her Faster Than the Speed of Night album, ran 5 minutes, 36 seconds and it took a day or two to get out of your head after you listened to it...
1987 - An earthquake in Los Angeles (eleven miles southeast of Pasadena) killed eight people and injured 200. The quake caused $358 millon in property damage and measured 5.9 on the Richter scale.
1989 - In Copenhagen, Denmark, eleven homosexual couples were married. It was the first time any country had allowed such marriages The Danish Registered Partnership Act states, “Two persons of the same sex may have their partnership registered” and “the registration of a partnership shall have the same legal effects as the contracting of marriage.” (By 2002 more than two thousand couples had registered, and 17% of them had subsequently ‘divorced’.)
1990 - Air Force General and former VP candidate Curtis E. LeMay died at March Air Force Base, California. He was 83 years old.
1991 - The U.S. trust territory of Palau emerged from UN trusteeship to become an independent nation -- in free association with the U.S.
1992 - The U.S Senate approved the ratification of START I (the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
1993 - The hauntingly beautiful (I Know I Got) Skillz, by Shaquille O’Neal, was released. Just a sample: “...I’m big like Gorilla, 6-7, large, I kick rhymes like moduck-kwong you, I smoke-smoke the mic-mic, I Chech and Chong you, you don’t like Shaq, frankly I don't give a damn, I know I got skillz man, I know I got skillz man...”
1993 - 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her Petaluma, California, home by a knife-wielding intruder; her body was found more than two months later. Richard Allen Davis was later found guilty of kidnapping/murder and sentenced to death.
1994 - Eric Clapton’s album From the Cradle was number one in the U.S. The rest of the top five for the week: II (Boyz II Men); Rhythm of Love (Anita Baker); The Lion King (soundtrack); Dookie (Green Day).
1994 - Broadway revived Show Boat (for the 6th time) as it opened on this day at the Gershwin Theatre in New York City. The Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. The show contributed such classic songs as Ol’ Man River, Make Believe, and Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man. Audiences couldn’t help lovin’ the revival of the 1927 show and kept coming to see it. It ran for 947 performances, closing Jan 05, 1997.
1996 - The minimum wage in the U.S. was raised to $4.75 per hour.
1996 - Theodore Kaczynski was charged by a U.S. federal grand jury with mailing a bomb that killed advertising executive Thomas Mosser in 1994. Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, pleaded guilty in January 1998 to mail bombings that killed three people and injured 23. He was sentenced in July 1997 to life without possibility of parole by a federal court in Sacramento, California.
1999 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, starring Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Williams, Kevin Clash, Caroll Spinney and Martin P. Robinson; Mystery, Alaska, with Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary Mccormack, Lolita Davidovich, Ron Eldard and Colm Meaney; and Three Kings, with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn and Mykelti Williamson.
2000 - On the last day of the Summer Olympics in Sydney, the U.S. men’s basketball team defeated France 85–75 for the gold medal. The U.S. led the way in the final medal tally collecting a total of 97 (40 gold, 24 silver and 33 bronze); Russia was second with 88 (32, 28 and 28), China third with 59 (28, 16, 15) and host Australia was fourth, with 58.
2001 - A Pakistan-based militant group attacked the state legislature in Indian-ruled Kashmir, killing 38 people.
2001 - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in an impassioned speech to the United Nations, said there was no room for neutrality in the global fight against terrorism. The mayor said, “On one side is democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human life; on the other is tyranny, arbitrary executions, and mass murder. We’re right and they’re wrong. It’s as simple as that. And by that I mean that America and its allies are right about democracy, about religious, political, and economic freedom. The terrorists are wrong, and in fact evil, in their mass destruction of human life in the name of addressing alleged injustices.”
2002 - German police found the body of Jakob von Metzler, the 11-year-old heir to a Frankfurt family banking fortune. The body was found days after the boy was kidnapped and a million-dollar ransom was paid. In 2003, Magnus Gaefgen told a Frankfurt state court that he had not intended the September 27th kidnapping to end in death.
2002 - Walter H. Annenberg, media tycoon, philanthropist and former ambassador, died in Wynnewood, PA. He was 94 years old.
2003 - Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh resigned from the ESPN cable TV network, three days after saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
2004 - New movies in U.S. theatres: I Heart Huckabees starring Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, Jake Muxworthy and Kevin Dunn; Ladder 49, with Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Morris Chestnut, Robert Patrick, Balthazar Getty, Jay Hernandez, Billy Burke and Tim Guinee; and Shark Tale, featuring the voices of Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie, Jack Black and Martin Scorsese.
2004 - U.S. fashion photographer Richard Avedon died at 81 years of age.
2005 - The Santa Ana (also known as the Ilamatepec) volcano in El Salvador erupted, spitting rock and ash into the air. The blast killed two people and the Salvadoran government evacuated hundreds of people from the region (some 40 miles west of San Salvador).
2005 - A bomb exploded outside of a packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma, killing one person -- the bomber.
2005 - Four explosions were set off in Bali at popular tourist areas, killing 23 people (including three bombers) and injuring more than 100 others.
2006 - A sweeping age-discrimination law went into effect in Britain. The new regulations made it unlawful to discriminate on grounds of age, and it overrode all pre-existing agreements.
2006 - The Israeli army abandoned its positions in Lebanon, withdrawing the last of its troops and fulfilling a key condition of the Aug 14 cease-fire that ended the monthlong-war with the radical Islamic Hezbollah.
2007 - In a big preview of events to come: Swiss banking giant UBS warned that the crisis in the U.S. housing market had cost it around 4 billion Swiss francs, as it announced a major management shakeup and plans to cut 1,500 jobs.
2007 - The DJIA rose 191.92 to a record 14,087.55.
2007 - The Shakespeare Theater Company opened their new Sidney Harman Hall, a 775-seat theater in downtown Washington, DC.
2008 - Spanish police announced their biggest ever operation against Internet child pornography, arresting 121 people suspected of involvement in a network that reached 75 countries.
2008 - The U.S. Senate voted to overturn a three-decade ban on atomic trade with India, allowing American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors in exchange for safeguards and U.N. inspections of India’s civilian nuclear plants.
2009 - Operators of the Friant Dam in California began releasing pulses of water in a move to rewet the San Joaquin riverbed. The object of the operation was to reintroduce salmon in 2010. The dam, completed in 1944, had turned 64 miles of the river into a dusty trench.
2009 - Late-night TV talker David Letterman admitted to sexual relationships with female employees. Letterman admitted the affairs after a CBS News employee tried to extort $2 million from him.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Case 39, starring Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Kerry O’Malley and Keith Rennie; Chain Letter, with Nikki Reed, Brad Dourif, Keith David, Betsy Russell and Ling Bai; Douchebag, starring Andrew Dickler, Ben York Jones, Marguerite Moreau, Nicole Vicius and Amy Ferguson; Hatchet II, with Danielle Harris, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder, Tom Holland and R.A. Mihailoff; Let Me In, with Richard Jenkins, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Jimmy Pinchak and Sasha Barrese; and The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Rashida Jones, Joseph Mazzello, Justin Timberlake and Brenda Song.
2010 - Indian cinema’s most expensive movie Endhiran (Robot), starring former bus conductor Rajinikanth, opened in India and the U.S. The weekend opening of the 1.65-billion rupee ($35 million) science-fiction fantasy broke box office records.
2011 - Cigarette vending machines were banned in England. The government move was designed to cut down the number of children smoking cigarettes.
2011 - Some 700 protesters in New York City were arrested during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense confrontation with police. The Occupy Wall Street group had been camped out in a plaza in Manhattan’s Financial District for nearly two weeks staging various marches and speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances.
2012 - The U.S. Postal Service defaulted on a $5.6 billion pre-payment for future retiree health benefits. It was the second payment deadline missed in 2012. USPS reported operating losses of $15 billion were expected for the fiscal year.
2013 - The U.S. Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown, forcing some 800,000 federal workers off the job. A ‘funding-gap’ was created when the House and Senate failed to agree to an appropriations continuing resolution. The Republican-led House of Representatives, in part pressured by conservative senators such as Ted Cruz and conservative groups such as Heritage Action, offered several continuing resolutions with language delaying or defunding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’). The Democratic-led Senate passed several amended continuing resolutions for maintaining funding at then-current sequestration levels with no additional conditions. Political fights over this and other issues between the House on one side and President Barack Obama and the Senate on the other led to a budget impasse which threatened massive disruption.
2013 - President Obama’s health insurance exchanges were launched. HealthCare.gov went ‘live’ as planned, but the launch was marred by serious technological problems, making it difficult for the public to sign up for health insurance.
2014 - Julia Pierson resigned as director of the U.S. Secret Service following several security lapses.
2015 - 17 European Union countries and four regions (in two other countries) banned the cultivation of GMO crops on their territories. By October 5, 19 E.U. countries had decided to opt out.
2016 - Iranian media reported that its Revolutionary Guard had built a new attack drone similar to the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone that was captured in 2011.
2016 - Donald Trump declared a billion-dollar writedown on his tax returns in 1995, a report showed. The Republican presidential nominee had declared a $916 million loss in 1995, providing him with a deduction so large it could have eliminated his obligation to legally pay annual U.S. federal taxes for nearly two decades.
2017 - A new law took effect in China that prohibited disrespect of the national anthem, barred the song’s use in commercials and parodies, and outlined punishments for people who do not stand with respect and maintain a dignified bearing when it is played.
2017 - Deranged retired accountant Stephen Craig Paddock opened fire from his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino unleashing a hail of bullets on the outdoor Route 91 Harvest Festival taking place across the street below. 58 people were killed in what became the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The 64-year-old Paddock had 23 guns with him and investigators found at least 19 additional firearms at his home in Mesquite, Nevada, about 80 miles from Las Vegas. The motive for the murders remains a mystery.
2018 - Researchers from the U.S. and Japan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation” (discoveries that help the body marshal its cellular troops to attack invading cancers). James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University shared the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize.
2018 - Canadian dairy farmers castigated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government for yielding to U.S. demands for greater access to Canada’s protected milk and cheese market as part of a new continental trade pact.
2019 - China’s Communist Party marked 70 years in power with a military parade that showcased the country’s global ambitions. This, while police in Hong Kong fought protesters demonstrating against China’s tightening grip there. 31 people were admitted to hospitals, two in a critical condition.
2020 - POTUS Trump said he was beginning a “quarantine process” after Hope Hicks, a top adviser, tested positive for the coronavirus.
2020 - Former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said POTUS Trump was aiding and abetting efforts by Russian President Vladimir Putin to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.
2020 - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused Vladimir Putin of being behind his poisoning, as Navalny vowed to return to Russia to press on with his opposition campaign. Meanwhile, Britain, France, Germany, Estonia and Belgium wrote in a letter to the U.N. Security Council that the poisoning of Kremlin critic Navalny constituted “a threat to international peace and security.” “We call on the Russian Federation to disclose, urgently, fully and in a transparent manner, the circumstances of this attack and to inform the Security Council in this regard,” envoys from the U.K., France, Germany, Estonia and Belgium wrote in the letter.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The animated The Addams Family 2, with characters voiced by Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Bette Midler and Bill Hader; The Many Saints of Newark, with Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr. and Jon Bernthal; Venom: Let There Be Carnage, starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Naomie Harris; Coming Home in the Dark, with Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson and Miriama McDowell; Falling for Figaro, starring Gary Lewis, Joanna Lumley and Danielle Macdonald; Old Henry, with Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze and Gavin Lewis; Titane, starring Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle and Garance Marillier; and Witch Hunt, with Gideon Adlon, Abigail Cowen and Elizabeth Mitchell.
2021 - Christian Broadcasting Network announced that 91-year-old Pat Robertson was stepping down. The Conservative Christian leader’s decision came after a half-century of running the "700 Club" on daily TV. Robertson turned a tiny Virginia TV station into a global religious broadcasting network.
2021 - Switzerland offered gift certificates to people who persuaded others to be vaccinated against COVID-19, part of efforts to increase the country’s low vaccination rate.
2022 - A stampede at an Indonesian soccer stadium killed 131 people in Malang city, East Java. The crushing rush started after police fired teargas at rioters in the crowd. Abdul Haris, a match official, was later convicted “due to his negligence causing people to die,” as stated by a judge in the Surabaya court. He was given a sentence of one and a half years in prison. Suko Sutrisno, a security official, was sent to jail for one-year after he was found guilty of negligence.
2022 - The doctor who allowed Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to play again following a head injury was fired by the NFL Player’s Association. Tagovailoa was injured during a game against the Buffalo Bills, but was cleared by medical staff to return to the field — despite appearing to be wobbly and unstable. Just four days later, during a Thursday game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Tagovailoa hit his head again and had to be stretchered off the field.
2023 - 13 people died when a fire tore through three nightclubs on the outskirts of Murcia, Spain. The blaze broke out at the Teatre nightclub in Atalayas. The dead were found in the Fonda, one of three adjoining clubs, which had sustained the majority of fire damage, including the collapse of its roof. And that collapse made it difficult to locate victims.
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Birthdays on This Day October 1
1881 - William Boeing
aviation technology pioneer, founded Boeing Aircraft in 1916]; died Sep 28, 19561903 - Vladimir Horowitz
concert pianist; died Nov 5, 19891903 - Richard Loo
actor: The Man With the Golden Gun, Kung Fu, The Sand Pebbles, A Girl Named Tamiko, The Bamboo Prison, First Yank Into Tokyo, Secret of the Wastelands; died Nov 20, 19831909 - Everett Sloane
actor: Citizen Kane, Marjorie Morningstar, The Enforcer; died Aug 6, 19651920 - Walter Matthau
Academy Award-winning actor: The Fortune Cookie [1966]; The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Dennis the Menace, Kotch, Pete & Tillie, Plaza Suite, The Sunshine Boys, JFK, Fail-Safe, Earthquake; died July 1, 20001921 - James Whitmore
actor: Give ’Em Hell Harry, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!; died Feb 6, 20091924 - Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President [1977-1981]; married to Rosalynn Smith [three sons, one daughter]; full name: James Earl Carter; more1924 - William Rehnquist
U.S. Supreme Court Justice [sworn in Jan 7, 1972], Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1986-2005]; died Sep 3, 20051924 - Roger Williams (Louis Weertz)
pianist: 18 gold/platinum albums, charted Billboard hits in four different decades: Autumn Leaves, Born Free, The Impossible Dream, Till, Almost Paradise, Two Different Worlds, Near You, Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago, Theme from Somewhere in Time; in October 2000 Williams celebrated his 75th birthday by playing a 12-hour marathon at the opening of Steinway Hall in Phoenix; died Oct 8, 20111926 - Max Morath
musician: piano: wrote, performed on NET: The Ragtime Era, Turn of the Century; died Jun 19, 20231927 - Tom Bosley
actor: Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries, Murder, She Wrote, The Dean Martin Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home; died Oct 19, 20101928 - Laurence Harvey (Laruschka Mischa Skikne)
actor: Room at the Top, Butterfield 8, The Manchurian Candidate, Of Human Bondage; died Nov 25, 19731928 - George Peppard
actor: The A-Team, Banacek, The Carpetbaggers, The Blue Max, Pork Chop Hill, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, How the West was Won, Night of the Fox, Bang the Drum Slowly, The Executioner; died May 8, 19941930 - Richard Harris
actor: Camelot, The Guns of Navarone, Hawaii, A Man Called Horse, Mutiny on the Bounty, Unforgiven, Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; singer: MacArthur Park, Didn’t We; LP: A Tramp Shining; died Oct 25, 20021930 - Philippe Noiret
actor: Il Postino, The Palermo Connection, Cinema Paradiso, The Family, My New Partner, Coup de Torchon, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, The Clockmaker, Night Flight from Moscow, Murphy’s War, Topaz, The Day of the Jackal; died Nov 23, 20061931 - Frank Gardner
auto racer; died Aug 29, 20091931 - Bonnie Owens
songwriter, musician: guitar, singer: Why Don’t Daddy Live Here Anymore, Don’t Take Advantage of Me, Number One Heel; died Apr 24, 20061932 - Albert Collins
Grammy Award-winning musician: blues guitarist, songwriter: LP: Showdown! [1985]; LPs: Love Can Be Found Anywhere Even in a Guitar, Ice Pickin’, Frostbite, Frozen Alive!, Don’t Lose Your Cool, Live in Japan, Cold Snap; Blues Hall of Famer [1989]; died Nov 24, 19931934 - Chuck (Charles Joseph) Hiller
baseball: SF Giants [World Series: 1962], NY Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates; died Oct 20, 20041935 - Julie Andrews (Julia Wells)
Academy Award-winning actress: Mary Poppins [1964]; The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria, 10, Hawaii; Emmy Award-winner: Victoria Regina: Hallmark Hall of Fame [1961-62]; My Fair Lady, The Boyfriend1938 - Stella Stevens (Eggleston)
actress: The Poseidon Adventure, Li’l Abner, The Nutty Professor, Flamingo Road, Ben Casey; died Feb 17, 20231939 - George Archer
golf: Masters Champion [1969]; died Sep 25, 20051942 - Herb Fame (Feemster)
singer: Herb of Peaches & Herb: Reunited1943 - Jerry Martini
musician: saxophone: group: Sly and the Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher, Everyday People, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Family Affair1945 - Rod (Rodney Cline) Carew
Baseball Hall of Famer: Minnesota Twins [Rookie of the Year: 1967/all-star: 1967-1978/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1977], California Angels [all-star: 1979-1984]1945 - Donny Hathaway
singer: Where is the Love, You’ve Got a Friend, The Closer I Get to You [w/Roberta Flack]; died Jan 13, 19791947 - Stephen Collins
actor: Scarlett, A Woman Named Jackie, The Big Picture, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brewster’s Millions, Inside the Third Reich, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Promise, All the President’s Men, Nick & Hillary, Tattingers, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Working It Out1947 - Mariska Veres
singer: group: Shocking Blue: Venus, Love Is in the Air, Lucy Brown Is Back in Town, Shocking You, Eve and the Apple, Let Me Carry Your Bag; died Dec 2, 20061950 - Randy Quaid
actor: The Last Picture Show, Dead Solid Perfect, Days of Thunder, The Paper, Bye Bye Love, Caddyshack 2, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Vegas Vacation, Independence Day1956 - Vance (Aaron) Law
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1988], Oakland Athletics1956 - Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Leader of the Conservative Party [2016-2019]1962 - Hakeem Kae-Kazim
actor: Hotel Rwanda, Black Sails, The Front Line, Lost, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, 24, 24: Redemption, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, X-Men Origins: Wolverine1963 - Mark McGwire
baseball: Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals: Broke Roger Maris’ major-league single-season home-run record [60] Sep 8, 1998, set single-season record in 1998: 70; more1964 - Roberto Kelly
baseball: New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos, L.A. Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers1964 - Christopher Titus
comedian, actor: Titus, Twilight Zone, Yes, Dear, 21 Jump Street, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Jenny, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Scar, Remarkable Power1965 - Ted King
actor: General Hospital, Hoodlum and Son, Imposter, Interlude, Blade, The X Files1965 - Cindy Margolis
model, actress: The Price is Right, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Chairman of the Board, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, The Cindy Margolis Show; Most Downloaded Woman [Guiness Book of World Records]1965 - Cliff Ronning
hockey [center]: St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Nashville Predators, LA Kings, Minnesota Wild, New York Islanders1967 - Chuck McElroy
baseball [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, California/Anaheim Angels, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres1969 - Zach Galifianakis
stand-up comic, actor: The Campaign, The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, Due Date, Reno 911!, Dog Bites Man, Boston Common, Due Date, Puss in Boots, Bored to Death, Baskets, Missing Link1969 - Heather Hunter
actress [1988-2004]: X-rated films: Heather Hunter on Fire, Hot Talk Radio, Frankenhooker, Positions Wanted, The Stiff, Bloopers and Boners, Mission Erotica, It’s a Vivid Girl Reunion1970 - Alexei Zhamnov
hockey [center]: Winnipeg Jets, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins1972 - Danielle Scott-Arruda
volleyball: 1996 Olympics, 2000 Olympics, 2004 Olympics, 2008 Olympics, tying U.S. female volleyball athlete record for Olympic appearances1973 - Alex McCord
actress: All Fall Down, The Great New Wonderful, Queen of Beasts, The Tollbooth, The Warrior Class, Uptown Girls1974 - Mats Lindgren
hockey [center]: Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks1974 - Sherri Saum
actress: Sunset Beach, One Life to Live, Rescue Me, Relative Stranger, Ten Stories Tall, In Treatment, Drift, Anne B. Real Beggars and Choosers, Girlfriends, Gossip Girl, Body of Proof, Revenge, The Fosters1979 - Rudi Johnson
football [running back]: Auburn Univ; NFL: Cincinnati Bengals1980 - Sarah Drew
actress: Everwood, Grey’s Anatomy, Christmas Pen Pals, Indivisible, Wieners, Tug, Moms’ Night Out, Daria, Mad Men, Twinkle All the Way, Republic of Sarah1980 - Layla Jade
actress [1998-2012]: X-rated films: Butt Banger Bonanza, Hard to Swallow 7, Black and the Blonde, Torture Room, All Day Sucker, Knee Pad Nymphos Vol. #9, Busty Cops: Protect and Serve!1984 - Matt Cain
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants [2005–2017]: 2010 and 2012 World Series champs; he pitched the Giants’ first perfect game [June 13, 2012, against the Houston Astros]1984 - Greg Davis Jr aka Klarity
actor: 10 Items or Less, Lincoln Heights, The Shield, CSI: New York, SHFTY: Super Happy Fun Time, Yay!, King Bachelor’s Pad1986 - Jurnee Smollett-Bell
actress: On Our Own, Full House, Eve’s Bayou, The Great Debaters, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Friday Night Lights, True Blood, Birds of Prey, Underground1989 - Brie Larson
actress: Right on Track, Sleepover, Remember the Daze, United States of Tara, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street, Kong: Skull Island, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame1992 - Xander Bogaerts
baseball [shortstop/third base]: Boston Red Sox [2013-2022]: 2013 World Series champs; San Diego Padres [2023- ]1998 - Danika Yarosh
actress: See Dad Run, Shameless, Heroes Reborn, Greenhouse Academy, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back2001 - Luna Blaise
actress: Manifest, Surviving Theater 9, Concrete Kids, Fresh Off the Boat
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day October 1
1947Feudin’ and Fightin’ (facts) - Dorothy Shay
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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