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80 A.D. - The Colosseum in Rome (begun around 70 A.D. by emperor Vespasian) was completed by his son Titus on this day.1871 - The Great Fire of Chicago was finally extinguished after three days. Some 300 people had been killed and 90,000 were made homeless. Damage was estimated at over $200 million. And, considering those are 1871 dollars, that was one expensive fire.
1878 - From our Oops, Let’s Try That Again file: Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, was hanged. But it took two tries. On the first try, the rope slipped and Wild Bill’s knees dragged on the ground.
1881 - Roll film for cameras was patented. The patent went to D.H. Houston of Cambria, Wisconsin. The helpful gizmo contained a measuring roller that punched the film to indicate where it should be cut in the darkroom, and had an external pointer showing how much the film had been advanced.
1887 - Alexander Miles patented the electric elevator.
1887 - A patent for the adding machine was granted to Dorr Eugene Felt of Chicago, Illinois.
1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.
1939 - One of the classics was recorded this day. Body and Soul, by jazz great Coleman Hawkins, was waxed on Bluebird Records. It’s still around on CD compilations.
1940 - Glenn Miller recorded Make Believe Ballroom Time for Bluebird Records -- at the Victor studios in New York City. It would become the theme song for Make Believe Ballroom on WNEW, New York, with host Martin Block. Block created the aura of doing a ‘live’ radio program, complete with performers (on records) like Harry James or Frank Sinatra, from the ‘Crystal Studios’ at WNEW. His daily program was known to everyone who grew up in the NYC/NJ/Philadelphia area in the 1940s and 1950s.
1942 - In the World War II Battle of Cape Esperance in the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeated a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter.
1948 - One of radio’s last premiering soap operas, The Brighter Day, happened this day in Three Rivers. The show centered around the Dennis’ and their extended family. It’s interesting to take a look at the cast and see which names are still recognizable, like Hal Holbrook and William Redfield. Some of the sponsors are still around, too: Ivory Soap flakes, Blue Cheer detergent and Hazel Bishop lipstick. The soap opera lasted for six years on radio, then moved to TV.
1948 - Starting this night and for 792 performances, Frank Loesser’s musical, Where’s Charley?, played on Broadway. It included the show-stopping hit song: Once in Love with Amy.
1955 - The first ticket books were sold at Disneyland. They cost $2.50 and held A, B, and C coupons good for eight rides. (The D coupons were added in 1956; E coupons were added in 1959 and were used until 1982).
1958 - Spencer Tracy’s classic movie, The Old Man and the Sea was released. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, it is the story of an aging fisherman attempting to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip near Cuba. Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance, but was edged out that year by David Niven (for Separate Tables). Dimitri Tiomkin’s music for The Old Man and the Sea did win the Oscar for “Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.”
1962 - Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church’s Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, with a call for Christian unity. This was the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history.
1968 - The U.S. launched Apollo 7. Described by commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr. as a “magnificent flying machine,” Apollo 7 travelled some 4.5 million miles in orbit around the Earth to become the first manned flight in NASA’s lunar-landing program. The mission also featured the first live TV transmission from a spacecraft in orbit.
1975 - “Live from New York! It’s Saturday Night!” The late-night comedy show, Saturday Night Live, made its debut -- with George Carlin as the first guest host. Also in the cast: the ensemble of Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and the voice of Don Pardo. SNL would continue -- with many changes -- to become the highest rated late-night show ever.
1975 - William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham tied the knot in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bill was 29 and Hillary was 27 years old. Later, they became well known -- as U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They developed the CAT scan.
1980 - Soviet cosmonauts Valery V. Ryumin and Leonid I. Popov return to Earth after a record 185 days in space aboard Salyut 6.
1982 - English ship Mary Rose, which had gone to the bottom just after being launched in 1545, was raised at Portsmouth, England.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched to direct-dial service.
1984 - Space-shuttle Challenger astronaut Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first U.S. woman to perform an EVA (extra-vehicular activity), or walk in space.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks on arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland. (The talks collapsed the next day after the two leaders deadlocked on the crucial issue of restricting the U.S. space-based missile defense program widely known as Star Wars.)
1988 - Mathematicians used a network of computers in the United States, Europe, and Australia to factor a 100-digit number for the first time.
1990 - Octavio Paz was named winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first Mexican writer to be so honored.
1991 - Actor/comedian Redd Foxx, star of TV’s Sanford and Son, suffered a fatal heart attack on the set of his new sitcom, The Royal Family. He was 68. Foxx was known in 1950s for his party album Laff of the Party, featuring wall-to-wall raunchy stories recorded before a live audience. The album and Foxx’s later dirty joke LPs sold over 15 million copies, but he got little of the money: “I got robbed so bad”, he said, “I just didn’t want to make anymore.”
1992 - Republican President George Bush (I), Democrat Bill Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot met for the first of three U.S. presidential debates. This one was held at Washington University in St. Louis.
1995 - Americans Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland, and Dutch scientist Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their controversial work warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items were eating away Earth’s ozone layer.
1996 - It was first-run day in the U.S. for these flicks: The Chamber, starring Chris O’donnell, Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway; The Long Kiss Goodnight, with Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson and Yvonne Zima; Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman and Julia Roberts.
1996 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo of East Timor and Jose Ramos-Horta, in exile in Australia, for their work to end oppression and violence in East Timor.
1996 - Time Warner completed its $7.2 billion acquisition of Turner Broadcasting.
1997 - Authorities reported no survivors from the overnight crash of an Argentine jetliner in Uruguay, which killed all 74 people on board.
1998 - Pope John Paul II bestowed sainthood on Edith Stein, a Jewish-born woman who became a Catholic nun and was executed by Nazis in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1942.
1999 - Dr. Günter Blobel, a German American researcher of Rockefeller University, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Blobel was recognized for his work on how the human body puts addresses on individual proteins so that they arrive at a correct location.
2000 - The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to Daniel McFadden of U.C. Berkeley for developing ways of analyzing consumer decisions. Co-recipient of the big prize was James Heckman of the University of Chicago for developing techniques to strip out hidden biases in studies of the labor force.
2000 - Texas Governor George Bush and U.S. Vice-President Al Gore engaged in their second debate at Wake Forest, North Carolina.
2001 - Vidiadhar S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born English novelist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His books included A House for Mr. Biswas, Guerrillas (1975), Among the Believers (1981), and The Enigma of Arrival (1987).
2001 - New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected a $10 million donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Giuliani took offense at an attached press release that said the U.S. should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
2002 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Below, starring Bruce Greenwood, Olivia Williams, Matt Davis, Scott Foley, David Boreanaz, Zach Galifianakis and Holt McCallany; Bowling for Columbine the Michael Moore documentary featuring Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, Dick Clark, George W. Bush and Matt Stone; Knockaround Guys starring Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, Andrew Davoli, Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich; The Transporter, with Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Francois Berleand and Matt Schulze; Tuck Everlasting, starring Alexis Bledel William Hurt Sissy Spacek Jonathan Jackson Scott Bairstow Ben Kingsley Amy Irving Victor Garber Elisabeth Shue; and White Oleander, with Amy Aquino, John Billingsley, Elisa Bocanegra, Scott Allan Campbell, Sam Catlin, Debra Christofferson, Billy Connolly and Marc Donato.
2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”
2003 - Spain’s Madrid-Leida bullet train made its maiden journey. The train was designed for average speeds of 186 mph with peaks to 217 mph.
2003 - A team of 18 doctors in Dallas, Texas, began a complicated separation surgery in an attempt to give Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim, two-year-old conjoined twins from Egypt, a chance at independent lives. The 34-hour operaton to separate the twins went well.
2004 - Edward C. Prescott (63), an American, and Finn E. Kydland (60), a Norwegian, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for shedding light on how government policies and actions affect economies around the world.
2005 - Divers off Portsmouth harbour (south coast of England) raised the anchor and part of the bow of the wreck of the Tudor period warship Mary Rose, which sank by accident in 1545. (See 1982 above.)
2006 - A small plane, carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger, crashed into a 50-story condominium tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side killing both men. It was not clear who was at the controls.
2007 - Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a U.S. consumer rights group, said more than half the lipsticks it had tested were found to contain lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L’Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others.
2008 - India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched Kashmir’s first train service, the result of an eight-year project that overcame tough terrain and rebel strife. Singh’s visit was overshadowed by violence, and shops, businesses and schools were shut in protest.
2009 - The United Russia party won big in more than 7,000 local elections in 75 of Russia’s 83 regions all but three seats on the 35-member Moscow city council. United Russia served as a power base for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has not ruled out a return to the presidency in 2012. However, allegations of election rigging were widespread.
2010 - Microsoft unveiled its Windows 7 mobile phone operating system as the computer giant sought catch up in the smart-phone war with iPhone, Blackberry -- and the many devices powered by Google’s Android software.
2010 - China, furious at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo, blocked European diplomats from meeting with Liu’s wife. Chinese authorities also cut off Liu Xia’s phone communication and cancelled meetings with Norwegian officials.
2012 - Smiley opened in U.S. theatres. The horror thriller stars Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen, Roger Bart and Keith David.
2012 - In the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 campaign, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan squabbled over the U.S. economy, taxes, Medicare and more. The contentious, interruption-filled debate was moderated by Martha Radatz of ABC at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
2013 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Captain Phillips, with Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus and Catherine Keener; Machete Kills, starring Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega, Mel Gibson, Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba, Charlie Sheen, Antonio Banderas and Cuba Gooding Jr.; Romeo & Juliet, with Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth and Damian Lewis; CBGB, starring Ryan Hurst, Stana Katic, Johnny Galecki, Malin Akerman, Rupert Grint, Ashley Greene, Alan Rickman, Donal Logue and Bradley Whitford; Escape from Tomorrow, with Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez; the documentary God Loves Uganda; The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, starring Jennifer Hudson, Anthony Mackie, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jeffrey Wright, Jordin Sparks, Julito McCullum and Adam Trese; and Zero Charisma, with Sam Eidson, Anne Gee Byrd and Brock England.
2013 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed 11 firearms laws designed to tighten controls on ownership, storage and types of weapons and ammunition available in the state. Brown vetoed seven other bills, including one that would have outlawed semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines.
2013 - The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. This, as the global watchdog worked to destroy Syria’ stockpiles of nerve gas and other poisonous agents.
2014 - Two gunmen walked into a radio station in Mexico and killed Atilano Roman Tirado, a local activist, while he was broadcasting his weekly radio program. Tirado was the leader of a group of farmers demanding compensation for lands flooded by dam construction.
2015 - Internet sites faced a new threat as millions of users downloaded ad-blockers to their phones, laptops and tablets, removing ads but potentially wiping out billions of dollars in advertising revenue.
2015 - A helicopter carrying five people went missing shortly after takeoff from Samosir island in Toba Lake, western Indonesia. On Oct 13 a survivor was found floating on plants in the Lake. He told rescuers the four other people on board also survived by jumping before the craft hit the water.
2016 - The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Matthew rose to 39. Half the deaths in North Carolina, where thousands were urged to evacuate as high waters pushed downstream. Damages in North Carolina from Matthew were estimated at $1.5 billion.
2016 - Share prices in South Korea-based Samsung Electronics tumbled after the company junked its Note 7 smartphone. Samsung told customers to stop using their Galaxy Note 7 devices and called a halt to worldwide sales as U.S. officials warned the handsets could catch fire
2017 - The Boy Scouts of America announced that it would admit girls into the cub scouts starting in 2018 and would establish a new program for older girls using the same curriculum as the Boy Scouts.
2017 - India’s Supreme Court ruled that having sexual intercourse with a wife younger than 18 is rape. A 2011 government census indicated that the percentage of below-18 marriages in India was as high as 47%.
2018 - Israel destroyed a cross-border tunnel running from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, which it said was dug by the Palestinian Hamas group in an ongoing effort to carry out attacks.
2018 - In the San Francisco Bay Area Rodney Halbower, called the Gypsy Hill Killer, was sentenced to two life sentences for the rape and murder of two teenage women in 1976.
2019 - Films showing for the first time on U.S. theatre screens included: The animated, The Addams Family, featuring characters voiced byCatherine O’Hara, Charlize Theron, Finn Wolfhard, Chloë Grace Moretz, Pom Klementieff, Oscar Isaac, Allison Janney, Aimee Garcia, Nick Kroll, Mikey Madison, Maggie Wheeler, Bette Midler, Martin Short, Elsie Fisher and Jenifer Lewis; Gemini Man, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Will Smith and Clive Owen; Jexi, with Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp and Adam Devine; Albanian Gangster, starring Ashley C. Williams, Matthew A. Brown and Brooke Stone; Along Came the Devil II, with Bruce Davison, Laura Wiggins and Mark Ashworth; The Dead Center, starring Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan and Jeremy Childs; High Strung: Free Dance, with Jane Seymour, Thomas Doherty and Ace Bhatti; John Wynn’s Mirror Mirror, starring Vincent M. Ward, Tom Sizemore and Judi Evans; Lucky Day, with Luke Bracey, Nina Dobrev and Crispin Glover; Mary, starring Gary Oldman, Jennifer Esposito and Emily Mortimer; and Mister America, with Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington and Terri Parks.
2019 - Federal judges in California and New York halted POTUS Trump’s plans to deny legal status and work permits to noncitizens who accept public benefits, like foodstamps and Medicaid.
2019 - Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators that Trump had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of Ukraine.
2019 - Peter Jan Sartorio, owner of a California frozen foods company, was ordered in Boston to perform 250 hours of community service and pay a $9,500 fine for paying $15,000 to rig his daughter’s college entrance exam.
2020 - Single men who had become fathers via surrogacy were fleeing Russia. This, as conservative politicians sought to enforce rules that made big heterosexual families with two parents the only socially approved form of household.
2020 - The Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship. Led by LeBron James (his fourth title), the Lakers beat the Miami Heat four game to two to cap off an unusual postseason inside the Walt Disney World Bubble (created by the NBA to protect its players from the COVID-19 pandemic during the final eight games of the 2019–20 regular season).
2020 - The Israeli military opened a new coronavirus unit in a converted parking garage at a hospital in northern Israel. I was a first-of-its-kind effort by the army to assist the country’s overloaded health care system.
2021 - The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to U.S.-based David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens. Card made a career of studying unintended experiments to examine economic questions — like whether raising the minimum wage causes people to lose jobs. Angrist and Imbens developed research tools that helped economists to use real-life situations to test big theories, like how additional education affects earnings.
2021 - And speaking of well-respected awards: Jeff Uhlmeyer of Olympia, WA won the 48th annual Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, CA with a 2,191-pound gourd. His champion pumpkin, named Steve, started from a little seed he germinated in the middle of April 2021.
2021 - Walgreens closed five stores in San Francisco because of ongoing smash and grab retail thefts in the city.
2021 - American Airlines and Southwest Airlines said they would comply with President Biden’s executive order to require that their employees be vaccinated for COVID-19. Companies doing business in Texas faced new, complicated challenges after Governor Abbott banned COVID-19 vaccine mandates for all entities in the state -- including private businesses -- for employees or customers.
2022 - Irish-British and American actress Angela Lansbury died. The movie/TV/Broadway superstar won five Tony Awards and later starred in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, died at her home in Los Angeles -- just five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury was nominated for Academy Awards as best supporting actress for two of her first three films, Gaslight (1945) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1946). She earned a third nomination for The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Lansbury won a string of Tony Awards for her Broadway roles in Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975), and Sweeney Todd (1979). She received another nomination for Deuce in 2007, and her final Tony in 2009 for best featured actress in a revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
2022 - President Biden said he did not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would resort to using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. “I think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly,” Biden said. Biden, who warned the previous week that the risk of “nuclear Armageddon” was the highest in 60 years, added that it was irresponsible of Putin to talk about using nuclear weapons, because such threats could lead to “mistakes.”
2023 - President Biden announced new efforts to crack down on junk fees -- the hidden or misleading fees that “companies sneak into your bill to make you pay more,” Biden said. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) specifically unveiled a proposed rule that would ban the fees across multiple industries and require companies to show full prices upfront, preventing event ticketing companies, hotels and lodging companies, apartment and car rental agencies, and more from levying surprise or unexpected service charges.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova; and My Hero Academia the Movie: You’re Next, with Kaito Ishikawa, Yûki Kaji and Kayli Mills.
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Birthdays on This Day October 11
1759 - Mason Weems
clergyman, author: Life of Washington; died May 23, 18251844 - H.J. (Henry John) Heinz
catsup & pickle mogul: Heinz 57 Varieties; died May 14, 19191872 - Harlan (Fiske) Stone
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1925-1941], Chief Justice [1941-1946]; died Apr 22, 19461884 - Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady: wife of 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; U.S. Delegate to the United Nations; died Nov 7, 19621887 - Willie Hoppe
Billiard Congress of America Hall of Famer: 18.1 balkline [1906, 1908, 1909-1911, 1914-1926, 1927]; 18.2 balkline [1907, 1910-1920, 1923-24, 1927]; three-cushion [1936, 1940-44, 1947- 52]; died Feb 1, 19591906 - Earl ‘Dutch’ Clark
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: Colorado College, Portsmouth Spartans, Detroit Lions; coach: Detroit Lions, Cleveland Rams, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado College; died Aug 5, 19781906 - Charles Revson
cosmetic mogul: founder of the Revlon Co.; died Aug 24, 19751912 - Mike (Fermin) Guerra
baseball: catcher: Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox; died Oct 9, 19921918 - Jerome Robbins (Rabinowitz)
Academy Award-winning director: West Side Story [1961]; Tony Award-winning choreographer: Fiddler on the Roof [1965], West Side Story [1958], High Button Shoes [1948]; Tony Award-winning director: Fiddler on the Roof [1965], Jerome Robbins’ Broadway [1989]; died July 29, 19981919 - Art Blakey
musician: drums, bandleader: Messengers, Jazz Messengers; composer [w/Benny Golson]: film score: Des Femmes Disparaissente; died Oct 16, 19901921 - Linda Stirling (Louise Schultz)
actress: Jesse James Rides Again, Rio Grande Raiders, Zorro’s Black Whip, Cyclotrode "X"; died July 20, 19971921 - ‘Knobby’ Grant Warwick
hockey: NHL: NY Rangers [Calder Trophy: 1942], Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens; died Sep 27, 19991925 - Elmore Leonard
author: 3:10 to Yuma, Get Shorty, The Switch, Split Images, LaBrava, Bandits, Touch, Freaky Deaky, Killshot, Maximum Bob, Rum Punch, Pronto, Riding the Rap, Out of Sight, Cuba Libre, Glitz, City Primeval; died Aug 20, 20131932 - Dottie West (Dorothy Marie Marsh)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Here Comes My Baby, Country Sunshine, Is this Me?, Would You Hold It Against Me, Paper Mansions; [w/Don Gibson]: Rings of Gold, There’s a Story Goin’ Round; [w/Kenny Rogers]: All I Ever Need is You, Every Time Two Fools Collide, What are We Doin’ in Love; died Sep 4, 1991 [of injuries suffered in Aug 30, 1991 auto crash]1937 - Bobby Charlton
footballer [midfielder]: Manchester United [1956–1973]; Preston North End [1974–1975]; Waterford United [1976]; England team [1958–1970]: 1966 World Cup champs; retired with the most career goals for both England [49] and Manchester United [249]; died Oct 21, 20231937 - Ron Leibman
Emmy Award-winning actor: Kaz [1978-79]; Tony Award-winner: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches [1993]; We Bombed in New Haven, Pacific Station, The Hot Rock, Norma Rae; died Dec 6, 20191939 - Maria Bueno
tennis champion: Wimbledon [1959, 1960, 1964], U.S. Open [1959, 1963, 1964, 1966]; died Jun 8, 20181943 - Gene Watson
singer: Fourteen Carat Mind, Love in the Hot Afternoon1945 - Robert Gale
medical doctor: cofounder of International Bone Marrow Registry1946 - Daryl Hall (Hohl)
singer: group: Hall & Oates: She’s Gone, Sara Smile, Rich Girl, Kiss on My List, Private Eyes, You Make My Dreams, I Can’t Go for That, Did It in a Minute, Maneater1947 - Alan Atkins
rock vocalist: group: Judas Priest: The Green Manalishi, Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law, Hot Rockin’, Heading Out to the Highway, The Hellion1950 - Ron Mayo
football: Morgan State Univ, Houston Oilers, Baltimore Colts1950 - Andrew Woolfolk
musician: reeds: group: Earth, Wind and Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Let’s Groove, Boogie Wonderland1953 - David Morse
actor: St. Elsewhere, Stephen King’s The Langoliers, The Getaway, The Brotherhood of the Rose1955 - Norm Nixon
basketball: Duquesne Univ, LA Lakers1957 - Dawn French
actress, writer, comedienne: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Maybe Baby, David Copperfield, Look at the State We’re In!, Stanley Baxter in Reel Terms1961 - Steve Young
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Francisco 49ers quarterback: Super Bowl XXIII [didn’t play], XXIV, XXIX: holds individual Super Bowl record: touchdowns thrown in game [6], fastest touchdown: a 44-yd. pass to Jerry Rice [1 minute, 24 seconds]; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Express; more1962 - Joan Cusack
actress: Saturday Night Live, Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, My Bodyguard, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl, Toys1965 - Sean Patrick Flanery
actor: Kaw, Savage Planet, The Insatiable, Demon Hunter, 30 Days Until I’m Famous, Borderline, The Method1965 - Orlando Hernández
baseball [pitcher]: New York Yankees [World Series champs 1998, 1999, 2000]; Chicago White Sox [World Series champs 2005]1965 - Lennie James
actor: Les Misérables, Snatch, Colombiana, Jericho, Low Winter Sun, The Walking Dead1966 - Gregg Olson
baseball [pitcher]: Auburn Univ; Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Dodgers1966 - Luke Perry
actor: Beverly Hills 90210, Terminal Bliss, 8 Seconds, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sweet Trash, John from Cincinnati; died Mar 4, 20191968 - Jane Krakowski
Tony Award-winning actress: Nine [2003]; films/TV: 30 Rock, Ally McBeal, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant1968 - Claude Lapointe
hockey [center]: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Aalanche, Calgary, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers1969 - Stephen Moyer
actor: True Blood, Conjugal Rites, Lord of Misrule, Prince Valiant, 88 Minutes, Priest1970 - Chidi Ahanotu
football [defensive end]: Univ of California; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, Miami Dolphins1970 - Constance Zimmer
actress: Entourage, Boston Legal, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Love Bites, House of Cards, UnREAL1971 - MC Lyte
rapper: Lyte as a Rock, Cha Cha Cha, Ruffneck, I Ain’t Having It, Cold Rock a Party, Cappucino, I Cram to Understand [Sam]1972 - Claudia Black
actress: Farscape, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Continuum, Queen of the Damned, Uncharted, Dragon Age: Origins, Pitch Black, Gears of War, Queen of the Damned, City Life1972 - Cherokee Parks
basketball [forward]: Duke Univ; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Twins, Vancouver Grizzlies, Washington Wizards, San Antonio Spurs, LA Clippers, Golden State Warriors1974 - Jason Arnott
hockey [center]: Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Dallas Stars1976 - Emily Deschanel
actress: Bones, Cold Mountain, The Alamo, Glory Road, The Diagnosis, My Sister’s Keeper, Tit for Tat1977 - Matthew Bomer
actor: White Collar, Chuck, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Flightplan, Amy Coyne, Traveler1977 - Desmond Mason
basketball [forward]: Okalahoma State Univ; NBA: Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks1978 - Trevor Donovan
actor: 90210, A Snow Globe Christmas, Bermuda Tentacles, JL Ranch, Love Finds You in Charm1980 - Julie McNiven
actress: Mad Men, Supernatural, Stargate: Universe, Failing Better Now, The Cave Movie, Doses of Roger, Dangerous Crosswinds, The Possession of Michael King; more1982 - Terrell Suggs
football [linebacker]: NFL: Baltimore Ravens [2003-2018]: 2013 Super Bowl XLVII champs; Arizona Cardinals [2019]; Kansas City Chiefs [2019])1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg
actress: Buffy the Vampire Slaye, Gossip Girl, Take Me Home Tonight, Cop Out, 17 Again, The Hill, EuroTrip, Inspector Gadget, Harriet the Spy1988 - Omar Gonzalez
footballer [defender]: Los Angeles Galaxy [2009-2015]: 2012 MLS Cup MVP; U.S. national team: 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup champs; Toronto FC [2019–2021]; New England Revolution [2022–2023]1989 - Michelle Wie (Sung-Mi Wie)
golf: Big Wiesy: golf pro turned pro at age 151992 - Cardi B (Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar)
rapper: Bodak Yellow, I Like It, WAP, Please Me, MotorSport1994 - T.J. Watt
football [linebacker]: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers [2017- ]
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Hit Music on This Day October 11
1948A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ (facts) - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
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