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1877 - “From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.” With those words, Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S. Cavalry. The surrender took place at Bear’s Paw, Chinook, Montana.1910 - Portugal overthrew its centuries-old monarchy and proclaimed itself a republic.
1930 - This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on the radio web. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early forties.
1934 - The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the U.S.
1936 - Coaxial cable strung between New York City and Philadelphia made it possible for the first intercity telecast.
1939 - As long as Ted Weems’ orchestra recorded on Decca Records, so did the featured vocalist in his band, the barber from Canonsburg, PA, Perry Como. Before becoming a star in his own right, and making the move to RCA Records and NBC, ‘Mr. C.’ recorded I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now with Weems on Decca.
1941 - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the Court, died in Washington, DC. He was 84 years old.
1942 - 1,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia, were massacred by the Nazis.
1947 - The first U.S. president to make use of television addressed the nation from the White House. ‘Give ’Em Hell’ Harry Truman accomplished the feat. In this speech, Truman requested that the American people not eat meat on Tuesdays, nor poultry on Thursdays, to save on feed grains to help the starving in Europe.
1952 - After an 11-year run on ABC radio, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery series, was heard for the final time. We’ll never know if they oiled that squeaky door...
1953 - Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, succeeding Fred M. Vinson.
1954 - Hurricane Hazel was first spotted. The storm rampaged from South Carolina to New York -- and into Ontario, Canada. Hazel killed 95 people in the U.S., hundreds more in Haiti, and 78 in Canada.
1955 - The stage adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank opened at the Cort Theatre in New York City.
1958 - The record charts were dominated by a folk song for the first time as The Kingston Trio scored with Tom Dooley.
1962 - The Beatles’ first hit (in the U.K.), Love Me Do, was released in the United Kingdom.
1965 - Adding to his many credits, accolades and honors, Henry Mancini received a gold record for the soundtrack LP from the movie, The Pink Panther.
1969 - Monty Python’s Flying Circus made its debut on BBC-1. It ran on British TV until 1974.
1970 - British trade commissioner James Richard Cross was kidnapped in Canada by militant Quebec separatists; he was released the following December.
1974 - The Beach Boys’ Endless Summer was the #1 album in the U.S. The lovely Olivia Newton-John had the number-one single. I Honestly Love You was #1 for two weeks. The album that single was taken from, If You Love Me, Let Me Know, hit number one the following week after the one-week run by the Beach Boys. Tracks on Endless Summer: Surfin’ Safari, Surfer Girl, Catch a Wave, The Warmth of the Sun, Surfin’ USA, Be True to Your School, Little Deuce Coupe, In My Room, Shut Down, Fun, Fun, Fun, I Get Around, Girls on the Beach, Wendy, Let Him Run Wild, Don’t Worry Baby, California Girls, Girl Don’t Tell Me, Help Me, Rhonda, You’re So Good to Me, All Summer Long and Good Vibrations. The double-album not only hit number one, it spent almost three years on the charts, and went gold.
1978 - The Nobel Prize in Literature went to... Author Isaac Bashevis Singer for “...his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.”
1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a resolution granting honorary American citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg. The Swedish diplomat was credited with saving some 100,000 Hungarians, most of them Jews, from the Nazis during WW II. He became the second honorary American. (Winston Churchill was the first.)
1983 - Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights, for his efforts on behalf of Polish workers.
1986 - Figuring that the booming 1980s were prime time for a business news show, ABC broke ground with Business World. The half-hour program was hosted by correspondent Sander Vanocur.
1986 - Eugene Hasenfus, ex-U.S. Marine of Marinette, WI, was shot down and captured by Nicaraguan government soldiers. He was flying a C-123 cargo plane ferrying supplies to the contra rebels. The Iran-Contra scandal and hearings grew out of the incident.
1989 - Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent efforts to free his homeland from China. The Committee’s citation read, “The Committee wants to emphasize the fact that the Dalai Lama in his struggle for the liberation of Tibet consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people.”
1989 - Former evengelist, Jim Bakker, was convicted by a jury in Norfolk, VA of bilking 116,000 P.T.L. (Praise the Lord) TV show followers out of $158 million. Bakker was released from prison in 1994 after serving five years of his 45-year sentence. During his jail stay, Bakker’s wife and former co-host Tammy Faye divorced him.
1991 - Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch (with Loleatta Holloway) hit number one... one... one in the U.S. with Good Vibrations.
1992 - The Temptations’ Eddie Kendricks died of lung cancer. His wavering falsetto vocals were a major part of the group’s sound throughout their first decade on Motown Records. He was singled out as lead vocalist on their first major hit, The Way You Do the Things You Do and the 1966 Get Ready.
1994 - Forty-eight people were found dead in murder-suicides in two Swiss villages. The killings were carried out simultaneously by members of the secret Order of the Solar Temple, a religious cult. Five other bodies were later found in an apartment owned by the sect in Montreal, Canada.
1995 - Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His poetic works portray the pain of sectarian strife and growing up in a Roman Catholic farming family. His works include: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), North (1975), Field Work (1979), The Spirit Level (1996) and the Nobel lecture Crediting Poetry.
1996 - It was reported that a new Hawaiian island, Loihi, was rising 17 miles southeast of the big island of Hawaii. Its summit was 3,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific and its base was 15,000 feet below that. It is estimated that it will break the surface in about 50,000 years.
1999 - MCI Worldcom and Sprint announced a merger that rang in at some $129 billion.
2000 - The Beatles Anthology, a $60, 367-page book with 1,200 photos included, went on sale this day.
2001 - Mike Mansfield, former Montana Senator and ambassador to Japan, died in Washington, DC at age 98.
2001 - Bob Stevens (63), photo editor for The Sun tabloid newspaper, became the first American to die from inhalation anthrax since 1974. In the weeks that followed, several more cases of anthrax were traced to contaminated letters sent through the U.S. mail.
2001 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Joyride, with Steve Zahn, Paul Walker and Leelee Sobieski; Max Keeble’s Big Move, starring Alex D.Linz, Zena Grey, Josh Peck, Larry Miller, Jamie Kennedy and Orlando Brown; Serendipity, with John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Molly Shannon, Bridget Moynahan, John Corbett and Eugene Levy; and Training Day, starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Cliff Curtis, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Macy Gray.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 71st and 72nd record home runs at Pacific Bell Park. This broke the record of 70 held by Mark McGwire. Bonds hit number 73 two days later in the final game of the season.
2002 - Addressing police and National Guardsmen in New Hampshire, U.S. President George Bush (II) warned that Saddam Hussein could strike without notice and inflict “massive and sudden horror” on America. Bush was passing along the (VP Dick) Cheney hallucination (that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- and was ready to use them).
2003 - The Chicago Cubs won their first postseason series since 1908 as they beat Atlanta 5-1 in Game 5 of the National League playoff series.
2004 - Americans David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic nucleus.
2004 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards verbally sparred over jobs, judgment and Iraq in a hard-hitting debate.
2004 - Rodney “I don’t get no respect” Dangerfield died in LA. The comedian and film actor was 82 years old.
2005 - The Squid and the Whale opened in U.S. theatres. The drama stars Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, William Baldwin, Alexandra Daddario, Eli Gelb, Henry Glovinsky, Anna Paquin, Adam Rose and Benjamin Smolen.
2005 - Roman Catholic bishops of England, Wales, and Scotland issued a teaching guide called The Gift of Scripture, which explains that biblical passages should not be taken literally. The bishops decided that Creation, the Garden of Eden and the making of Eve from Adam’s rib are to be considered symbolic language.
2005 - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a ceremony at 10 Downing Street, awarded the Order for Maritime Services to six British military and civilian personnel responsible for the rescue of the mini-submarine AS-28 off the Kamchatka Peninsula.
2006 - Howard Stapleton won the 2006 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘electromechanical teenager repellant’, a device that produces a sound audible only to those 30 or younger. The device was later made famous when teenagers adopted the sound as a ring tone, so that teachers couldn’t hear them receiving calls in class.
2007 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Malin Akerman, Jerry Stiller, Rob Corddry, Carlos Mencia, Scott Wilson, Danny McBride, Stephanie Courtney, Polly Holliday, Roy Jenkins; The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, with Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eccleston, Alexander Ludwig, Jonathan Jackson, Amelia Warner, Gregory Smith, Emma Lockhart, Gary Entin, Edmond Entin, John Benjamin Hickey and Wendy Crewson; and Weirdsville, with Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning and Scott Speedman.
2007 - 31-year-old Marion Jones, three-time Olympic gold medalist, pleaded guilty in White Plains, NY to lying to federal investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs. Jones said she took steroids between September 2000 and July 2001 and said she was told by her coach at the time that she was taking flaxseed oil when it was actually The Clear (Tetrahydrogestrinone). Jones also pleaded guilty to a second count of lying to investigators about her association with a check-fraud scheme.
2008 - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying the village of Nura in Kyrgyzstan. The quake killed some 75 people, including 41 children.
2008 - Iceland’s government and banks scrambled to rescue the country’s banking system. Its economy was one of the hardest hit by the global financial crises.
2009 - Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. The scientists’ insight inspired new lines of research into cancer.
2009 - The United Nations said Norway enjoyed the world’s highest quality of life, while Niger suffered the lowest. The revelations came in the U.N.’s Human Development Index, a ranking that highlights the wide disparities in well-being between rich and poor countries.
2010 - Two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking experiments with ultrathin carbon. The University of Manchester professors used Scotch tape to isolate graphene, a form of carbon only one atom thick but more than 100 times stronger than steel. The scientists found graphene to be the strongest and thinnest material known to mankind.
2011 - Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said the U.S. had agreed to base Aegis Cruisers on Spain’s coast, as part of the anti-ballistic missile defense system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat.
2011 - Steve Jobs, mastermind of Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac and iTunes, died at 56 years of age. People around the world mourned Jobs as a man whose wizardry transformed their lives in big ways and small.
2012 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: Butter, starring Olivia Wilde, Brooke Swinkowski, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner, Ashley Greene, Alicia Silverstone, Rob Corddry, Kristen Schaal and Ty Burrell; the animated comedy Frankenweenie, featuring the voices of Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Martin Short, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell, Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder; Sinister, with Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, James Ransone, Fred Dalton Thompson, Clare Foley, Michael Hall D’Addario and Danielle Kotch; Taken 2, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Serbedzija; The Paperboy, starring Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack and Scott Glenn; Pitch Perfect, starring Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Alexis Knapp and Brittany Snow; and V/H/S, with Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan and Joe Sykes.
2012 - Better than predicted U.S. jobs figures were released that included a surprise fall in the unemployment rate to its lowest level (7.8%) since January 2009.
2014 - Thousands took to the streets in Paris and Bordeaux, France to demonstrate for what they called “traditional family values” -- and against assisted pregnancies and surrogacy.
2015 - Air France executives fled from an angry mob after having their shirts ripped off by striking workers. Seven people were hurt, including a security guard. The company had proposed job cuts, believed to involve 300 pilots, 900 air hostesses and stewards, and 1,700 ground staff.
2015 - Twelve Pacific rim countries signed the world’s largest free trade area, delivering POTUS Barack Obama a major policy victory. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) included Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam.
2016 - A trio of European scientists won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing molecular machines that could one day be injected to fight cancer -- or used to make new types of materials and energy storage devices. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scotland’s J. Fraser Stoddart and Dutchman Bernard Feringa developed molecules that produce mechanical motion in response to a stimulus, allowing them to perform specific tasks.
2016 - New York native Donald Trump’s campaign swing through Nevada included a lecture to supporters at a rally about the correct way to pronounce the name of their state. Trump insisted it’s “Neh-VAH-da.” He declared that “nobody says it the other way.” The confused silence from the crowd mixed with a few shouts of disagreement indicated that quite a few Nevadans pronounce their home state “Neh-VAD-uh.” Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, of Nevada, issued a statement saying in part, “If Donald Trump wants to come down from the penthouse his daddy bought him to lecture us on how to say Nevada, he could at least pronounce it correctly.”
2017 - California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that created a sanctuary policy for the state. The law vastly limited who state and local law enforcement agencies could hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities.
2017 - The Nobel Prize in Literature went to Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro His most well-known novel is The Remains of the Day, which was turned into a popular movie. The Swedish Academy described the 62-year-old Ishiguro as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
2018 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: A Star Is Born, starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper and Sam Elliott; Venom, starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams and Woody Harrelson; Chasing the Blues, with Grant Rosenmeyer, Ronald L. Conner andChelsea Tavares; A Crooked Somebody, starring Michael Mosley, Amanda Crew and Ed Harris; Living in the Future’s Past, starring Jeff Bridges, Leonard Mlodinow and Piers Sellers; Loving Pablo, with Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard; and Shine, with Musetta Vander, Alysia Reiner and David Zayas.
2018 - A South Korea court sentenced former President Lee Myung-bak to 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges. Lee was convicted of bribery and embezzlement and was also fined $11.5 million.
2018 - The Nobel Peace Prize went (jointly) to 1) Denis Mukwege, a doctor who treats war rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2) to Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State. Mukwege dedicated his award to all women affected by rape and sexual violence.
2018 - British street artist Banksy stunned the art world with an audacious prank, destroying one of his best-known works moments after it brought more than a million pounds at auction in London. Shortly after the hammer came down on the item, the canvas began to pass through a shredder installed in the frame.
2019 - The United States and Greece signed a revised defense cooperation pact, which U.S. officials described as critical for responding to new security challenges in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The nations agreed to increasing joint U.S.-Greece and NATO activity at Larissa, Stefanovikio, and Alexandroupoli as well as infrastructure and other improvements at the Souda Bay naval base.
2020 - U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) announced the awarding of a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It was the company’s first government contract to build satellites.
2020 - POTUS Trump returned to the White House after three days at Walter Reed Hospital. “Don’t be afraid of Covid,” Trump tweeted, on the same day that the White House outbreak spread further and several hundred more Americans died from virus complications.
2021 - A report by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse said clergy members in the Roman Catholic Church in France sexually abused more than 200,000 minors over the previous seven decades. The report concluded that the problem was far more pervasive and systematic than previously known.
2021 - The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome, for their work in helping to understand complex systems, including how humanity influences the climate.
2021 - India’s top court ordered state authorities to pay $674 (50,000 rupees) as compensation for each death caused by COVID-19, as a way to help families cope with the loss.
2022 - The Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless (his 2nd Nobel) for their work on Click Chemistry.
2022 - The family of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed by a prop gun fired by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the film "Rust", reached a settlement in its wrongful-death lawsuit against Baldwin and the movie’s producers. Hutchins’ husband, Matthew, announced the agreement, saying, “I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame (to the producers or Mr. Baldwin). All of us believe Halyna’s death was a terrible accident.”
2023 - A record 961 migrating birds died after hitting the McCormick Place Lakeside Center building in Chicago. In 2024 the center took corrective measures. Following advice from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the center added bird-friendly window film and automatic drapes/shades that could be closed to reduce light spill at night.
2023 - The Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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Birthdays on This Day October 5
1829 - Chester A. (Alan) Arthur
21st U.S. President [1881-1885]; married to Ellen Lewis Herndon [two sons, one daughter]; nickname: The Gentleman Boss; died Nov 18, 18861882 - Robert (Hutchings) Goddard
‘father of the Space Age’: launched a liquid-fuel powered rocket as early as 1926; died Aug 10, 19451902 - Larry Fine
comedian: The Three Stooges: Nertsery Rhymes, Plane Nuts, Three Little Beers, Ants in the Pantry, Whoops, I’m an Indian!, Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb, You Nazty Spy!, All the World’s a Stooge, Three Little Twirps, Shivering Sherlocks, Punchy Cowpunchers, Booty and the Beas, Bedlam in Paradise, Guns A-Poppin, Have Rocket, Will Travel, The New Three Stooges; died Jan 24, 19751902 - Ray Kroc
entrepreneur: founder of McDonald’s; baseball team owner: San Diego Padres; died Jan 14, 19841908 - Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III)
producer, director, writer: Ensign Pulver; director: Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, Fanny, South Pacific, Sayonara, Bus Stop, Picnic; died July 12, 19881912 - Tony Marvin
radio, TV announcer: Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends; his was the original voice for Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger; died Oct 10, 19981917 - Allen Ludden (Ellsworth)
TV host: Password, The G.E. College Bowl, Liar’s Club; married to actress Betty White; died June 9, 19811919 - Donald Pleasance
actor: You Only Live Twice, Fantastic Voyage, Tale of Two Cities, The Adventures of Robin Hood; died Feb 2, 19951922 - Bil Keane
cartoonist: Family Circus; died Nov 8, 20111923 - Glynis Johns
actress: Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis; died Jan 4, 20241924 - Bill Dana
comedian, actor: The Steve Allen Show, The Bill Dana Show: “My name, Jose Jimenez.”; died Jun 15, 20171925 - Gail Davis (Betty Jeanne Grayson)
actress: On Top of Old Smoky, Blue Canadian Rockies, Cow Town, Brand of Fear, Winning of the West; died Mar 15, 19971929 - Richard Gordon Jr.
NASA astronaut [walked in space on Gemini 11: 1966], orbited the moon on Apollo 12 [1969]; died Nov 6, 20171930 - Skip (George) Homeier
actor: Starbird and Sweet William, Cry Vengeance, The Gunfighter, The Halls of Montezuma, The Interns; died Jun 25, 20171933 - Diane Cilento
actress: Winner Takes All, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Tom Jones, Negatives, Hombre, The Naked Edge; died Oct 6, 20111935 - Peter Brown
actor: Lawman, Laredo, Darby’s Rangers, Ride the Wild Surf, Backtrack!, Days of Our Lives, Foxy Brown, Calendar Girl Murders; died Mar 21, 2016; more1935 - Margie Singleton
singer: Keeping Up with the Joneses [w/Faron Young], Eyes of Love, Old Records; TV performer: Louisiana Hayride1936 - Václav Havel
government official: ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia [1989-1992]; first president of the Czech Republic [1993-2003]; died Dec 18, 20111936 - Adrian ‘Odie’ Smith
basketball: Univ of Kentucky [NCAA title: 1957-58], U.S. Olympic team gold medal [Rome: 1960], Cincinnati Royals1937 - Barry Switzer
football coach: Oklahoma Sooners; NFL: Dallas Cowboys1938 - Johnny Duncan
singer: She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed [Anytime], Slow Dancing, He’s Out of My Life, Hello Mexico [And Adios Baby to You]; with Janie Fricke: It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better, Thinkin’ of a Rendezvous, Stranger, Come a Little Bit Closer; died Aug 14, 20061938 - Carlo Mastrangelo
singer: group: Dion and The Belmonts: I Wonder Why, No One Knows, Don’t Pity Me, A Teenager in Love, Where or When; died Apr 4, 20161942 - Richard Street
singer: group: The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do, My Girl, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, Cloud Nine, I Can’t Get Next to You, Just My Imagination; died Feb 27, 20131943 - Steve Miller
singer, songwriter: group: The Steve Miller Band: The Joker, Rock’n Me, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra, Take the Money and Run1945 - Brian Connolly
singer: group: The Sweet: Little Willy, Funny Funny, Co-Co, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Jell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run; died Feb 9, 19971945 - Robert Holmes
football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: Super Bowl IV; died Apr 14, 20181947 - Brian Johnson
singer: group: AC/DC: Highway to Hell, Wall All Over You, Shot Down in Flames, Get It Hot, Dirty Deeds Done Cheap, Rocker, Problem Child1949 - Anna Keaveney
actress: Brookside, Asylum, The Cry, Border Cafe, Shirley Valentine, The Young Americans, Widows, The 51st State, Vera Drake; died Nov 20, 20041949 - B.W. Stevenson
singer: Shambala; songwriter: My Maria; died Apr 28, 19881950 - Eddie Clarke
musician: guitar: group: Motorhead: Please Don’t Touch, White Line Fever, Leavin’ Here, Overkill, Bomber; died Jan 10, 20181950 - Jeff Conaway
actor: Taxi, The Patriot, Sunset Strip, A Time to Die, Almost Pregnant, Bounty Hunter 2002, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, Grease, Pete’s Dragon; died May 27, 20111951 - Karen Allen
actress: Ghost in the Machine, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Backfire, National Lampoon’s Animal House, Starman, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull1951 - Bob Geldof
singer, songwriter: group: Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, She’s So Modern, Rat Trap, I Don’t Like Mondays, This is the World Calling, Love like a Rocket; organized fund-raising group: Band Aid1952 - Clive Barker
author: Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser, Imajica, The Inhuman Condition1956 - Drew Hill
football [wide receiver]: Georgia Tech Univ; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, Los Angeles Rams, Houston Oilers; died Mar 19, 20111957 - Bernie Mac
comedian, actor: The Bernie Mac Show, Inspector Gadget’s Biggest Caper Ever, Guess Who, Mr. 3000, Bad Santa, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen; died Aug 9, 20081958 - Neil deGrasse Tyson
astrophysicist, science communicator: Director of the Hayden Planetarium; research associate at American Museum of Natural History; TV host: NOVA ScienceNow [PBS]1960 - Daniel Baldwin
actor: The Heroes of Desert Storm, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Mulholland Falls, The Outer Limits, Touched by an Angel, King of the Ants, The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell, Shut Up and Shoot!; brother of actors Alec, Stephen and William Baldwin1962 - Michael Andretti
Indy race car driver, co-owner of Andretti Green racing team; father is racer Mario Andretti; brother is racer Jeff Andretti; son is racer Marco Andretti; cousin is racer John Andretti1965 - Trace Armstrong
football [defensive end]: Univ of Florida; NFL: Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders1965 - Mario Lemieux
hockey player: Pittsburgh Penguins scoring star [1984-1997]: Calder Trophy [1984], Art Ross Trophy [1986, 1993], Hart Memorial Trophy: [1988, 1993], Stanley Cup winner [1991, 1992]: holds record for points scored in a game [8]: Conn Smythe Trophy [1991, 1992]; owner: bought the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1999 and brought the club out of bankruptcy1965 - Patrick Roy
hockey [goalie: ‘Saint Patrick’]: NHL: Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Avalanche; voted greatest goaltender in NHL history by a panel of 41 writers and a fan poll [2004]; more1966 - Fredrik Olausson
hockey: Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins1967 - Guy Pearce
actor: Death Defying Acts, First Snow, Till Human Voices Wake Us, The Time Machine, The Count of Monte Cristo, Memento1967 - Rey Sanchez
baseball: Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Devil Rays1968 - Juli Ashton
actress [1994-2005]: X-rated films: Corporate Assets, Brassiere to Eternity, Naked Ambition, Orgazmo, Queen of S.M.U.T., Older Women, Hotter Sex1970 - Josie Bissett
actress: Melrose Place, Secrets, The Hogan Family, Desire, Mikey, Book of Love, All-American Murder1971 - Chad Lewis
football [tight end]: Brigham Young Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, SL Louis Rams1972 - Grant Hill
basketball [forward]: Duke University; NBA: Detroit Pistons [1994–2000]; Orlando Magic [2000–2007]; Phoenix Suns [2007–2012]; Los Angeles Clippers [2012–2013]1975 - Parminder Nagra
actress: Bend It Like Beckham, ER, Alcatraz, Psych, The Blacklist, Compulsion, Horrid Henry: The Movie, Twenty8k1975 - Kate Winslet
actress: Titanic, Heavenly Creatures, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Quills, The Reader, Steve Jobs, Mildred Pierce; among the few performers to have won Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards1976 - Ronnie Heard
football [defensive back]: Univ of Mississippi; NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons1978 - James Valentine
musician: guitar: group: Maroon 5: Makes Me Wonder, Moves Like Jagger, One More Night, Payphone, This Love, She Will Be Loved, Maps, Daylight1983 - Jesse Eisenberg
actor: The Social Network, Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale, The Education of Charlie Banks, Adventureland, Zombieland, Holy Rollers, 30 Minutes or Less; voice actor: Rio1983 - Nicky Hilton
actress: Wishman; heiress: daughter of real estate mogul Rick Hilton and actress Kathy Richards; sister of Paris Hilton1984 - Nate Thompson
hockey [center]: Seattle Thunderbirds, Providence Bruins, Boston Bruins, New York Islanders1985 - Nathalie Kelley
actress: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, In Like Flynn, Body of Proof, Unreal, The Vampire Diaries, Dynasty, The Baker and the Beauty1989 - Travis Kelce
football [tight end]: NFL: Kansas City Chiefs [2013- ]: Super Bowl LIV [54], LVII (57), LVIII (58) champs; Kelce began dating singer-songwriter Taylor Swift in 2023. They have been widely referred to as a supercouple; some call them “America’s very own royal couple.”)1993 - Kara Royster
actress: Pretty Little Liars, Hollywood Heights, Faking It, God Friended Me, Youth & Consequences2001 - Dalila Bela
actress: Odd Squad, Once Upon a Time, Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise, The Adventure Club, Anne with an E.2005 - Lulu Wilson
actress: Ouija: Origin of Evil, Annabelle: Creation, The Haunting of Hill House, The Glorias, Star Trek: Picard, 50 States of Fright, Becky2006 - Jacob Tremblay
actor: Room, Before I Wake, Wonder, The Book of Henry, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, Good Boys, Doctor Sleep, The Little Mermaid, Animals, The Twilight Zone, Harley Quinn, The Super Friendship Heroes
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Hit Music on This Day October 5
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I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
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