October 14
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1066 - The Battle of Hastings was fought. William the Conqueror’s victory in the battle opened up England to the Normans.1834 - Henry Blair of Glen Ross, Maryland received a patent on a corn planter. Henry was the first black man to receive a U.S. patent.
1913 - Cabrillo National Monument was established. The monument celebrates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay (September 28, 1542).
1926 - Oh-tay, boys and girls, gather ’round as we tell you that the classic A.A. Milne book, Winnie-the-Pooh, made its debut on this day. Alan Alexander Milne wrote this and other delightful Winnie-the-Pooh stories, centering the tales around his little son, Christopher Robin, and Christopher’s stuffed animals, like the honey-loving Pooh Bear, Eeyore (the donkey), Piglet and Tigger, too. The other A.A. Milne Pooh books were The House at Pooh Corner, When We were Very Young and Now We are Six. That’s it.
1930 - I Got Rhythm, by Ethel Merman, was a show-stopper in the production of Girl Crazy on Broadway. It was Merman’s debut on the Great White Way as she captivated audiences and launched her stellar career. Girl Crazy went on for 272 performances.
1934 - Folks had clean hands for 21 years beginning this day. The Lux Radio Theater was heard on the NBC Blue radio network. The show was also known as Lux Presents Hollywood and nearly every famous Hollywood star over the next three decades appeared on the program. Lux Radio Theater adapted novels, Broadway plays and Hollywood films into radio’s favorite dramatic series. The show was such a hit, the sponsors literally cleaned up in profits. Besides the title sponsor, Lux soap, Rinso Blue bleach and detergent and Spry shortening were also supportive, especially in the 1950s.
1938 - One of the great songs of the big band era was recorded by Bob Crosby (Bing’s brother) and The Bob Cats. Big Noise from Winnetka on Decca Records featured Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc. Haggart whistled and played bass, while Bauduc played the skins.
1943 - The U.S. 8th Air Force was in the most savage air battle ever fought. Mission #115, the raid against the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany. The day became known as Black Thursday. 65 bombers and 650 American airmen were downed.
1944 - British and Greek troops recaptured Athens, Greece, ending three years of occupation by Nazi German troops.
1945 - The Sunday color comic strip, Uncle Remus, was first published.
1947 - U.S. Air Force Captain Charles Yeager rode the X-1, attached to the belly of a B-29 bomber, to an altitude of 25,000 ft. over dry Rogers Lake in California. After releasing from the B-29, he rocketed to an altitude of 40,000 ft. and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1954 - Talk about screen credits! With a cast of 25,000, the C.B. DeMille epic, The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. Incidentally, Heston’s name was mentioned waaaaaay at the top in big letters. After the film became a smash, DeMille issued Commandment Eleven: Thou shalt not use 25,000 extras ever again in the making of a major motion picture.
1955 - A TV hat trick was scored. Ethel and Albert, one of the few shows to play on all three major U.S. networks, came to ABC-TV. The show, starring Alan Bunce and Peg Lynch, had been on NBC and CBS previously. A popular radio show in the 1940s, Ethel and Albert got a second life (three years) on TV.
1958 - Paul Osborn’s The World of Suzie Wong, premiered in NYC.
1959 - Actor Errol Flynn (Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Dawn Patrol, Objective, Burma!, Adventures of Don Juan), died of heart attack. He was 50 years old.
1960 - It was on this day that U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggested the idea of a Peace Corps -- to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.
1961 - The Broadway production How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opened on Broadway. And succeed it did. The show won seven Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle award, and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And it ran for 1,417 performances, closing Mar 06, 1965.
1964 - The youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize received the $54,000 award this day. Martin Luther King, Jr. donated the dollars to support civil rights in the U.S.
1965 - Dodger ace Sandy Koufax, working on just two days rest, pitched a three-hit shutout of the Minnesota Twins. Koufax struck out ten Twins on his way to the 2-0 win. And the Dodgers were World Series champs for the second time in three years.
1968 - Apollo 7 became the first U.S. manned space mission to broadcast live television signals from space.
1973 - Scottish racecar driver Jackie Stewart announced his retirement from auto racing. He also announced his newfound ability to be a race commentator for ABC-TV.
1977 - Crooner Bing Crosby suffered a fatal heart attack while playing golf at a course near Madrid, Spain. Crosby, 73, had just completed a tour of England that had included a sold-out engagement at the London Palladium.
1979 - Over 100,000 people marched in Washington, DC in the first national gay rights march in the U.S.
1982 - 5,837 couples were married in a mass ceremony in Seoul, South Korea.
1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared war on drugs.
1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson’s Detroit Tigers walloped the Padres 8-4 in the Motor City and Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. Not since 1927 had a team won the World Series after leading its division since the first day of the season.
1987 - A media frenzy occurred when hundreds of rescuers came to the aid of little 18-month-old Jessica McClure. At 9:30 a.m. on this day, Jessica fell 22 feet into an abandoned well in her backyard in Midland, Texas. She was brought out of the well 58 hours later and was rushed to the hospital, where she underwent minor surgery. Gifts, especially stuffed animals, pouring into the hospital from well-wishers, most of whom had never met Jessica or her family.
1990 - Composer, conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at the age of 72. Bernstein’s successes as a composer ranged from the Broadway stage (most notably, West Side Story) to concert halls all over the world, where his orchestral and choral works continue to thrive.
1991 - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma (Myanmar), won the Nobel Peace Prize. For six years, from 1989 to 1995, Aung San Suu Kyi was kept in isolation under house arrest for speaking out against the government, which used torture and forced labor, and refused to hand over power even though it lost a national election.
1992 - American Rudolph A. Marcus won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry; the prize in physics went to George Charpak of France.
1994 - Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.”
1995 - The Atlanta Braves won the National League pennant by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 6-to-0, to complete a four-game sweep.
1996 - Singer/entertainer Madonna gave birth to her daughter, Lourdes Maria, in Los Angeles, California. The father is Carlos Leon, her former fitness-trainer.
1997 - Harold Robbins died at age 81. The novelist chronicled the sex-and-drug-filled lives of the jet-set rich and famous in such books as The Carpetbaggers and Never Love a Stranger.
1997 - The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was won by Americans Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes for their work on derivatives.
1998 - The Federal Reserve approved the merger of Wells Fargo and Norwest Corp., creating the eventh largest bank in the U.S. The merger was allowed to procede after both banks agreed to sell $721 million in deposits and 12 branches in Nevada to satisfy federal antitrust guidelines.
1999 - Japan’s Sumitomo Bank and Sakura Bank announced their merger.
2000 - A mudslide caused by heavy rains swept through the Swiss Alpine village of Gondo. Rocks and mud tore through the town, destroying buildings and killing fourteen people.
2000 - Angela Perez Baraquio (24), Miss Hawaii, was crowned Miss America in Atlanta City, NJ.
2001 - As U.S. jets opened a second week of raids in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush (II) sternly rejected a Taliban offer to discuss handing over Osama bin Laden to a third country. Bush remarked, “They must have not heard. There’s no negotiations.”
2002 - The San Francisco Giants won the National League Championship with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
2003 - Five outs from their first World Series berth in 58 years, the Chicago Cubs saw their luck change when a fan’s attempt at a foul-ball catch interfered with Moises Alou’s catch of the ball. By the end of the game, the 3-0 Cubs lead had become an 8-3 deficit. The loss forced Game 7 of the National League Championship Series the following night at Wrigley Field -- a game the almost-down-and-not-quite-out Florida Marlins won to eliminate the Cubs and advance to the World Series where they beat the New York Yankees.
2005 - Sony Pictures confirmed that actor Daniel Craig had been chosen to be the sixth James Bond, the famous fictitious British agent 007.
2006 - The dedication of the $30-million United States Air Force Memorial took place in Arlington, VA. The memorial opened to the general public on October 17, 2006 and honors the service and sacrifices of the men and women who have served in the U.S. Air Force and its predecessor organizations.
2006 - The Detroit Tigers won the American League baseball pennant race in four games, sweeping the Oakland Athletics.
2006 - Singer/songwriter Freddy Fender died in San Benito, Texas at 69 years of age. His biggest hits included Wasted Days and Wasted Nights and Before the Next Teardrop Falls.
2007 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the first U.S. law requiring semiautomatic pistols to leave a unique imprint on bullets that are fired, giving police a way to link shootings to the criminals who carry them out. The governor also signed legislation banning toys containing toxic plastic softeners.
2008 - Iceland’s blue chip stocks plunged 77 percent when trading reopened after a near week-long suspension. An official delegation from the island nation sought Russian help in saving the economy from collapse.
2008 - Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper won reelection in Canada with a bolstered minority government. Some 59.1% of eligible Canadian voters went to the polls, breaking the previous record low turnout of just under 61% in 2004. And the Liberal share of the popular vote fell to 26%.
2008 - China unveiled a plan to achieve universal health care, attempting to cover 90% of the population within two years and achieving universal health care by 2020.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama called for a second round of $250 stimulus payments for seniors, veterans, retired railroad workers and people with disabilities. The payments would be equal to about a 2% increase for the average Social Security recipient, who would not receive a cost of living increase in 2010.
2009 - Swiss researchers reported that Alpine glaciers melting were releasing toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.
2010 - New York state regulators approved Verizon’s request to stop mass-printing residential phone books. The company estimated it would save 3,575 tons of paper per year while conserving the energy associated with printing, binding and distributing the directories.
2010 - The Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge on the Arizona and Nevada border was dedicated after nearly eight years and $240 million worth of construction. The soaring Hoover Dam bypass bridge high above the Colorado River was named for Mike O’Callaghan, a former Nevada governor and executive editor of the Las Vegas Sun, and Pat Tillman, an Arizona Cardinals football player who joined the Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
2011 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: The Thing, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Paul Braunstein; The Big Year, starring Jim Parsons, Rosamund Pike, Owen Wilson, Jack Black, Steve Martin and Rashida Jones; Fireflies in the Garden, with Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Julia Roberts and Ioan Gruffudd; Father of Invention, starring Kevin Spacey, Camilla Belle, Heather Graham, Virginia Madsen, John Stamos and Johnny Knoxville; the documentary Bombay Beach; Miss Bala, with Stephanie Sigman and Irene Azuela; The Skin I Live In, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes and Bárbara Lennie; Texas Killing Fields, with Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Stephen Graham and Annabeth Gish; Trespass, starring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Liana Liberato, Dash Mihok and Jordana Spiro; The Woman, with Carlee Baker, Shana Barry, Marcia Bennett, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers and Lauren Ashley Carter; and the documentary, Revenge of the Electric Car.
2011 - Greenpeace launched a new Rainbow Warrior at a ceremony on this day in Berne-Motzen, Germany. The $33 million schooner replaced its battered 50-year-old boat, which saw numerous encounters with whalers, seal hunters and illegal loggers. The first Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French intelligence agents in a New Zealand harbor in 1985 for opposing nuclear testing. The second Rainbow Warrior was retired in 2011 to become a hospital ship in Bangladesh.
2012 - Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner plummeted into the record books, breaking the mark for highest-ever skydive after leaping from a balloon more than 24 miles above New Mexico. Baumgartner’s supersonic descent hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph.
2013 - Three Americans, Eugene Fama (74), Robert Shiller (67) and Lars Peter Hansen (60), won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The trio developed methods to study trends in stock, bond and home prices.
2013 - In reaction to increasing public anger, the Chinese government demonstrated a newfound concern for smog in North China. The government announced that it would be passing out rewards amounting to 5 billion yuan ($816.91 million) for curbing the air pollution.
2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Texas from enforcing key parts of a 2013 law that had closed all but eight of the state’s abortion clinics.
2014 - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight Ebola.
2015 - Researchers reported that 47 fossilized human teeth found in China’s Hunan province dated back to 80,000-120,000 years. Earlier fossils from southern Asia were only about 45,000 years old.
2016 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick and Jon Bernthal; Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and Laura Dern; Desierto, with Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Alondra Hidalgo; Jack Goes Home, starring Britt Robertson, Natasha Lyonne and Nikki Reed; Little Sister, with Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy and Keith Poulson; Max Steel, starring Ben Winchell, Josh Brener and Maria Bello; Priceless, with Amber Midthunder, David Koechner and Jim Parrack; and Search Engines, starring Joely Fisher, Natasha Gregson Wagner and Grace Folsom.
2016 - Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The action came a day after the U.N. cultural agency adopted a draft resolution that denied the deep, historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem. Israel Education Minister Naftali Bennett said the organization, in its decision, was “giving a boost to terrorism” and denying history.
2016 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany should make an effort to deport migrants who did not have the right to stay in the country. After an influx of almost 900,000 migrants in 2015, Germans feared that their country was being overrun by foreigners. Merkel had attracted criticism for her migrant policy, and her conservatives lost some support to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party.
2017 - Britain’s Times newspaper reported that Iran had carried out a cyber attack on British lawmakers in June 2016. The hack had initially been blamed on Russia.
2017 - The Safari Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia was largely destroyed when a massive truck bomb exploded in front of it. The death toll eventaully climbed to 512 in what became the deadliest attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation. 62 people remained missing.
2018 - Emergency workers in Libya uncovered another 35 bodies at a mass grave near Sirte, taking to 110 the total number of remains retrieved from the site. When the municipal council first announced the discovery of the site, a spokesman said the bodies were believed to be Islamic State group members. IS jihadists had overrrun Sirte in June 2015 and were ousted by forces loyal to Libya’s UN-backed government in December the following year.
2018 - Britain, France and Germany insisted that “light must be shed” on the whereabouts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as they called for a credible investigation into his disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a "Washington Post" contributor, vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain official documents for his upcoming marriage. (The CIA later concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s assassination inside the consulate.)
2019 - Author Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize for her novel Girl, Woman, Other. Evaristo split the £50,000 ($62,800) prize with Margaret Atwood, Canadian author of The Testaments, in a surprise double award. Evaristo, of Nigerian and British parentage, was the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its origin in 1969 -- and the first black British author to win the prize.
2019 - Zimbabwe said it was increasing diamond production to 11 million carats by 2023 -- from 3.2 million carats in 2018. The move was part of an ambitious plan to raise mining output and earn the country $12 billion a year.
2020 - Scientists said half the coral that makes up Australia’s Great Barrier Reef had died since 1995 and that the decline would continue if no drastic action ws taken on climate change.
2020 - The U.S. Postal Service agreed to reverse changes that had slowed mail service nationwide. The move settled a lawsuit filed by Montana Governor Steve Bullock during a pandemic that was expected to force many more people to vote by mail.
2021 - The Justice Department reversed its 2018 firing of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s deputy director, settling a lawsuit he filed asserting that he was dismissed for politica reasons. And he was. POTUS Trump had been hounding him over his role in the Russia investigation. McCabe won retirement benefits and back pay in the settlement.
2021 - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered a “whole-of-government” response to elevated levels of lead in Benton Harbor’s water and vowed to accelerate the replacement of the community’s lead pipes.
2021 - A fire in a residential building in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung killed 46 people and injured another 41.
2022 - Halloween Ends opened in the U.S. The horror, thriller stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards and Will Patton.
2022 - Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) faced his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker, during their only scheduled debate, as the closely-watched race for the Georgia Senate seat continued. Warnock accused his opponent of being a habitual liar, saying that Walker had “a problem with the truth,” while Walker tried to tie Warnock to President Biden’s plunging approval ratings. In a notable moment, Walker -- who had falsely claimed to have worked in law enforcement -- appeared to flash a fake police badge on stage.
2022 - Grocery giant Kroger said it was purchasing competitor Albertson’s for $24.6 billion. The merger would bring together the two largest supermarket chains in the U.S. Kroger was the largest grocery conglomerate in the country, owning store brands such as Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Mariano’s, and Fred Meyer. The chain has over 2,700 stores nationwide. Albertson’s, Kroger’s main competitor, had some 2,300 stores, including store brands like Safeway, Jewel-Osco, and Acme Markets. In 2023 Kroger and Albertsons agreed to sell more than 400 stores and other assets, for about $1.9 billion, to clear a path for the merger with antitrust regulators. The stores, along with QFC, Mariano’s and Carrs brand names, were sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers. Kroger also divested the Debi Lilly Design, Primo Taglio, Open Nature, ReadyMeals and Waterfront Bistro private label brands. In addition, C&S will get eight distribution centers and two offices.
2022 - Employees at an Apple store in Oklahoma City voted to unionize, marking the company’s second retail location in the country to do so. The unionizing group, which called itself the Penn Square Labor Alliance, joined the Communications Workers of America labor force.
2023 - Australia voters turned down a proposal to alter its constitution and give indigenous communities more rights. Supporters of the amendment said entrenching the Indigenous peoples into the constitution would unite Australia and usher in a new era. Leaders against the proposal said that the idea was divisive and would create special classes of citizens where some were more equal than others.
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Birthdays on This Day October 14
1644 - William Penn
colonist: founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers; died July 30, 17181890 - Dwight David Eisenhower
5-star U.S. army general: Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War II; 34th U.S. President [1953-1961]; married to Mamie Doud [two sons]; nickname: Ike; died Mar 28, 19691893 - Lillian Gish (de Guiche)
actress: Birth of a Nation, Orphans of the Storm, Sweet Liberty, A Wedding, The Whales of August; died Feb 27, 19931894 - E. E. Cummings aka e e cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings)
poet, playwright: Him, Santa Claus; writer: The Enormous Room; died Sep 3, 19621907 - Allan Jones
singer: The Donkey Serenade; actor: Showboat, Rose Marie, Firefly, One Night in the Tropics, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races; father of singer, Jack Jones; died June 27, 19921909 - Dorothy Kingsley
screenwriter: Angels in the Outfield, Valley of the Dolls, Pal Joey, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kiss Me Kate, When in Rome, Neptune’s Daughter; died Sep 26, 19971910 - John Wooden
Basketball Hall of Famer: player; coach: UCLA Bruins: most NCAA titles [10], Indiana State; died Jun 4, 20101916 - Jack Arnold
director, actor: Marilyn: The Untold Story, Sex and the Married Woman, McNaughton’s Daughter, Black Eye, Hello Down There, The Lively Set, No Name on the Bullet; died Mar 17, 19921916 - C. Everett Koop
U.S. Surgeon General [1981-1989]; Director of Office of International Health [1982]; Senior Scholar: C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College; died Feb 25, 20131924 - Robert Webber
actor: Private Benjamin, 10, Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Stripper, The Sandpiper, Twelve Angry Men, Moonlighting; died May 19, 19891926 - Bill (William E.) Justis (Jr.)
musician: saxophone: Raunchy; died July 16, 19821927 - Sir Roger (George) Moore
actor: The Saint, Maverick, The Persuaders, The Alaskans; James Bond ‘007’: A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy; died May 23, 2017; more Moore1938 - Melba Montgomery
singer: No Charge, Angel of the Morning, Hall of Shame, The Greatest Ones of All1939 - Ralph Lauren (Lifshitz)
fashion designer: Polo clothes, cologne, linens, etc.1940 - Tommy Harper
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Seattle Pilots, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1970], Boston Red Sox, California Angels, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles1940 - Cliff Richard (Harry Webb)
singer: Move It, Devil Woman, Dreaming, High Class Baby, Livin’ Doll, Travelin’ Light, Please Don’t Tease, I Love You, The Young Ones, The Next Time, Bachelor Boy, Summer Holiday, The Minute You’re Gone, Congratulations, Power to all Our Friends; in films: The Young Ones, Summer Holiday, Wonderful Life1940 - J.C. (Jesse Carlyle) Snead
golf: 22-year PGA Tour pro; Senior PGA Tour [1990]; career winnings total $5,000,000+1941 - Jerry Glanville
football: coach: Detroit Lions, Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers; Univ of Hawaii defensive coordinator; head coach: Portland State Univ; TV sports analyst: CBS, HBO: Inside the NFL; racecar driver1942 - Billy Harrison
musician: guitar: group: Them: Gloria1943 - Lance Rentzel
football: Dallas Cowboys WR1946 - Justin Hayward
guitarist, singer: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, Your Wildest Dreams; solo: Forever Autumn, LP: Songwriter, Moving Mountains, Other Side of Life, Sur la Mer1946 - Al (Albert) Oliver
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971/all-star: 1972, 1975, 1976, 1980-1983], Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, SF Giants, LA Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays; more1947 - Charlie Joiner
Pro Football Hall of Famer [enshrined 1996]: Grambling State WR, Houston Oilers wide receiver, Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers: player, receivers coach1947 - Bob Kuechenberg
football: NFL: Miami Dolphins guard: Super Bowls VI, VII, VIII, XVII1948 - Marcia Barrett
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon1950 - Sheila Young (Ochowicz)
International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist [3 in 1976]: speed skater; national and world cycling sprint champion [1981]1952 - Harry Anderson
actor: Night Court, Dave’s World; magician; died Apr 16, 20181953 - Greg Evigan
actor: B.J. and the Bear, Masquerade, My Two Dads, Tek War, Deepstar Six, P.S. I Luv You1956 - Beth Daniel
World Golf Hall of Famer: champ: LPGA [1990], Rookie of the Year [1979], Player of the Year [1980]; AP Female Athlete of the Year [1990]1956 - Arleen Sorkin
actress: It’s Pat: The Movie, Days of Our Lives, Duet; TV host: America’s Funniest People1958 - Jimmy Hayward
film animator: Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story, A Bug’s Life1962 - Trevor Goddard
actor: JAG, Mortal Kombat, Assault on Devil’s Island, First Encounter, Deep Rising, Dead Man’s Run; died June 7, 20031963 - Lori Petty
actress: Prison Break: The Final Break, Broken Arrows, Route 666, A League of Their Own, Clubland, Tank Girl1964 - Joe Girardi
baseball [catcher]: Northwestern Univ; Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals1964 - David Kaye
actor: AcceleRacers: Ignition, X2, Live from Baghdad, MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate, Ladies and the Champ, Mermaid1965 - Steve Coogan
comedian, actor: Around the World in 80 Days, The Other Guys, Tropic Thunder, In the Loop, Hamlet 2, Our Idiot Brother, Ruby Sparks, Night at the Museum film series, The Trip, A Cock and Bull Story; Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, What Maisie Knew, The Look of Love, Philomena; voice actor: Despicable Me 2, Minions1965 - Karyn White
singer: Romantic, Secret Rendezvous, The Way You Love Me, Superwoman; LPs: Karyn White, Ritual of Love, Make Him Do Right, Carpe Diem1969 - David Strickland
actor: Suddenly Susan, Forces of Nature, Mad About You; died Mar 22, 19991970 - Jon Seda
actor: Twelve Monkeys, Primal Fear, Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Thin Air, Rikki the Pig, Double Bang1971 - Derrick Rodgers
football [linebacker]: Arizona State Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints1971 - Frank Wycheck
football [(tight end]: Univ of Maryland; nfl: Washington Redskins, Houston/Tennessee Oilers, Tennessee Titans1974 - Natalie Maines
singer: group: Dixie Chicks: LPs: Wide Open Spaces, Fly1976 - Brian Jennings
football [tight end]: Arizona State Univ; NFL: San Francisco 49ers1978 - Usher Raymond IV
singer: You Make Me Wanna, Nice & Slow; actor: Moesha1979 - Stacy Keibler
actress: The Firm, The Pelican Brief, True Lies, The Comebacks, George Lopez, What About Brian, Samurai Girl, October Road, In the Motherhood; pro wrestler: Nitro Girls [WCW], WCW Monday Nitro1980 - Ben Whishaw
actor: Nathan Barley, Criminal Justice, The Hour, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, I’m Not There, Bright Star, Brideshead Revisited, Cloud Atlas, Paddington, Skyfall1983 - Vanessa Lane
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: 3 For All, Cum Sumption Cocktails, Woman of the Year, Lexie and Monique Love Rocco, Dirty Dreams, Erotic Ghost Whisperer1987 - Jay Pharoah
comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live, Ride Along with Kevin1988 - Max Thieriot
actor: Bates Motel, The Pacifier, My Soul to Take, Chloe, Disconnect, House at the End of the Street, Dark Horse, Texas Rising, SEAL Team1989 - Mia Wasikowska
actress: Alice in Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right, In Treatment, Jane Eyre, Restless, Albert Nobbs, Lawless, Stoker1994 - Jared Goff
football [quarterback]: Univ of California, Berkeley: first-team All-Pac-12 QB [2015]; NFL: Los Angeles Rams [2016-2020]: 2019 Super Bowl LIII [53]; Detroit Lions [2021– ]1998 - Ariela Barer
actress: Runaways, The Thundermans, King John, Ladyworld, Atypical2001 - Rowan Blanchard
actress: Girl Meets World, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, The Goldbergs, A Wrinkle in Time, A World Away
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Hit Music on This Day October 14
1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
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