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1781 - British general Charles Cornwallis formally surrendered his British army to a combined French and American force outside the Virginia tobacco port of Yorktown. Cornwallis’ second-in-command, Charles O’Hara, attempted to deliver Cornwallis’s sword to French general, Comte de Rochambeau. But Rochambeau directed O’Hara to American General George Washington, who coolly steered the British officer to Washington’s own second in command, Major General Benjamin Lincoln.1872 - The world’s largest gold nugget (215 kg) was found in New South Wales, Australia.
1879 - Thomas Alva Edison had a bright idea for the world when he made his electric light bulb work successfully.
1904 - The American Tobacco Company merged with Consolidated Tobacco Company and Continental Tobacco Company to form a single corporation to turn out many smokes and/or chews.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1936 - H.R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram beat out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times in a round-the-world race on commercial flights. The race took 18 1/2 days to complete.
1937 - A staple at checkout racks in supermarkets everywhere, Woman’s Day, was first published. It was a magazine designed expressly for the A&P store chain. After 20 years, A&P (the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) sold Woman’s Day to Fawcett Publications.
1937 - “The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold it high, guard it well.” The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor. Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast tablets and Lifebuoy soap.
1938 - The Bob Crosby Orchestra recorded I’m Free for Decca. Billy Butterfield was featured on trumpet. A few years later, the song would be retitled, What’s New.
1944 - An actor who would become legend in scores of tough guy roles made his stage debut in New York. Marlon Brando appeared in the Broadway hit, I Remember Mama.
1945 - President Harry S Truman was the only U.S. President to become a 33rd degree Mason.
1950 - U.S./U.N. forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1953 - Julius LaRosa, popular singer of the time, was unceremoniously fired on the air by Arthur Godfrey. “Julie lacks humility,” Godfrey told the stunned audience, while putting his arm around LaRosa. He said, “So, Julie, to teach you a lesson, you’re fired!”
1954 - Egypt and Britain concluded a pact on the Suez Canal, ending 72 years of British occupation. England agreed to withdraw its 80,000-man force within twenty months, and Egypt agreed to maintain freedom of canal navigation.
1959 - Twelve-year-old Patty Duke made her first Broadway appearance -- in The Miracle Worker. The play would last for 700 performances and become a classic motion picture, launching Patty to fame and fortune.
1963 - Buck Owens started a 16-week run at top of the U.S. Country chart with Love’s Gonna Live Here. It eventually became the biggest of all the Buck Owens hits.
1967 - Mariner 5 flew by Venus (2480 miles away), and sent back data indicating that the planet had no magnetic field and that its surface was unfit for human habitation.
1970 - One World Trade Center was ready for its first tenants this day, though the upper stories were not completed until 1972. Construction had begun in 1966 and the opening of the twin towers went on from 1970 to 1973. The actual ribbon cutting was held on April 4, 1973. At 1,368 and 1,362 feet and 110 stories each, the twin towers were the world’s tallest, and largest, buildings until the Sears Tower (Chicago) surpassed them both in 1974.
1974 - The late-night TV market welcomed Lloyd Dobins, Garrick Utley and Linda Ellerbee to the aptly named, Weekend news program, which debuted on NBC this day.
1977 - The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City after 19 months of delays caused by residents concerned about the Concorde’s noise.
1982 - Auto manufacturer John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a $24 million cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his bankrupt sports car company. He was tried -- and acquitted.
1985 - Take on Me, by a-ha, reached number one on the pop music charts. MTV was playing a-ha’s nifty Take on Me video regularly, too.
1987 - The Wall Street Journal said it all (the next day): “Stocks Plunge 508 Amid Panicky Selling; Percentage Decline Greater Than in 1929...” The Dow Jones industrial average (DJIA) closed down 22.6% this day (Black Monday). Volume was 604.3 million shares, almost double the previous record of 338.5 million shares set on the previous Friday. The DJIA was down 36.7% from its closing high less than two months earlier.
1988 - Americans Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their neutrino beam method and the discoveries made using this.”
1988 - Hartmut Michel, Robert Huber and Johann Deisenhofer of West Germany were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”
1989 - Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1992 - U.S. President George Bush (I), Democrat Bill Clinton and independent Ross Perot met in their third and final campaign debate -- in East Lansing, MI.
1993 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was re-elected. Bhutto returned to power after the resignation of both President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in July 1993.
1994 - Entertainer Martha Raye died in Los Angeles at age 78.
1995 - Carol Channing began her final run in Hello, Dolly!. Channing played Dolly Gallagher Levi, the Yonkers widow who enticed the wealthy Horace Vandergelder to New York City, ostensibly so he could meet much younger widow Irene Molloy. (Of course, Dolly planned to get Vandergelder for herself.) The show ran for 116 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City.
1997 - American financier George Soros announced that he would spend some $1 to 2-billion over three years in Russia to improve health care, expand educational opportunities, and help retrain the military for civilian jobs.
1998 - Microsoft and prosecutors for the U.S. Department of Justice and twenty states met in federal court. It was the beginning of the antitrust case against the Microsoft Corporation.
1998 - A Nigerian pipeline inferno killed some 500 people. Many of the dead were women and children who had thronged to the area with cans and buckets to collect spilled gasoline from a burst pipeline belonging to a state-owned company.
1999 - The Lion King, a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name, debuted in London at the West End’s Lyceum Theatre (where it is still running). With music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions.
1999 - The Atlanta Braves won the National League pennant by beating the New York Mets (10-9) in the sixth game of their championship series.
2001 - New movies debuting in the U.S.: From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Holm, Jason Flemyng, Lesley Sharp and Susan Lynch; The Last Castle, with Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Clifton Collins Jr., Steve Burton and Brian Goodman; and Riding in Cars with Boys, starring Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Lorraine Bracco and James Woods.
2002 - Chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and the computer program Deep Fritz fought to a draw (4 points each) in the Brains in Bahrain match (series of eight games).
2002 - Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo died at 100 years of age. Bravo’s remarkable 80-year portfolio contained everything from mystical portraits of a bygone era to the striking realism of murdered laborers.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River. Blaine had entered the box on Sep 5 and survived only on water for 44 days and nights.
2003 - Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa before a crowd of 300,000.
2003 - The Afghan movie, Osama, by director Siddiq Barmak, won the top prize at Montreal’s International Festival of New Film and Media. Osama was one of the first features produced in Afghanistan and nominated since the fall of the Taliban.
2004 - Britain’s Man Booker prize and a $90,000 check was awarded to Alan Hollinghurst for his novel, The Line of Beauty.
2004 - Thousands of workers in the sex trade across South Korea rallied, protesting a government crackdown on prostitution. Thousands of prostitutes and pimps called for the resignation of Chi Eun-hee, Minister of Gender Equality. South Korea’s sex industry had annual sales estimated at 24 trillion won (21 billion dollars) in 2003.
2005- Environmentalists (a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organizations led by the Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC]) sued the U.S. Navy alleging that a widely used form of sonar for detecting enemy submarines disturbs and sometimes kills whales and dolphins.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma swirled into the most intense Atlantic storm on record. Wilma reached Category 5 status, with 175 mph winds and heavy rains. The storm was blamed for killing eleven people in Haiti and one in Jamaica as it bore down on Central America.
2006 - A Canadian court struck down sections of an anti-terrorism law, in a ruling that threw out warrants used to search the home of a reporter covering U.S. efforts to secretly send a Canadian terror suspect to Syria for interrogation.
2006 - Film and TV actress Phyllis Kirk died at 76 years of age in Woodland Hills, California. Among her many roles, Kirk starred in the 1953 3-D film House of Wax, and she played opposite Peter Lawford in TV’s The Thin Man (1957-1959).
2007 - It was opening day in U.S. theatres for 30 Days of Night, starring Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster and Manu Bennett; The Comebacks, with Carl Weathers, David Koechner, Matt Lawrence and Brooke Nevin; Gone Baby Gone, starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris; Rendition, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard and Christian Martin; Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour, with Rissa Walters; and Things We Lost in the Fire, starring Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny and Alison Lohman.
2007 - Train service resumed throughout much of France but many commuters in Paris biked, roller-bladed and even used children’s scooters as city transit workers kept up a second day of strikes against proposed economic reforms.
2008 - Richard Blackwell, actor turned fashion designer, died in Los Angeles at 86 years of age. In 1960, Mr. Blackwell, as he was popularly known, issued his first criticism of Hollywood fashion disasters.
2009 - The musical Memphis opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. The story is based roughly on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. "Memphis" won four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and the show ran for 1,165 performances, closing Aug 5, 2012.
2010 - Actor Tom Bosley died at 83 years of age. He was probably best known for his role at the father in the Happy Days TV series (1974-1985), but enjoyed many film and TV roles and TV commercials over the years.
2010 - Iran said some Western companies were refusing to refuel its planes in Europe and warned it would confront such measures, which it deemed illegal under international law.
2011 - On the first day of a 48-hour strike in Greece in protest of an austerity bill in parliament, hundreds of young people smashed and looted stores in central Athens.
2011 - Thailand’s new prime minister acknowledged that the country’s flood crisis had overwhelmed her government. P.M. Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded for mercy from the media and solidarity from the country in battling the relentless waters. The death toll from flooding had reached 317, mostly from drowning, with nearly 9 million people affected and 27 of the country’s 77 provinces inundated.
2012 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Paranormal Activity 4, with Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively and Brady Allen; Alex Cross, with Rachel Nichols, Giancarlo Esposito, Jean Reno, Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, John C. McGinley, Edward Burns and Carmen Ejogo; Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Richard Jenkins and Ray Liotta; That’s What She Said, with Alia Shawkat, Anne Heche, Miriam Shor, Marcia DeBonis, Kellie Overbey and Mandy Siegfried; and the documentary Yogawoman, written by Kate McIntyre Clere and Saraswati Clere.
2012 - Relatives of four British soldiers killed in the war in Iraq in 2003 won the right to sue the government for negligence. It was a landmark Court of Appeal ruling that could open the door for other claims. Families of some of the soldiers who lost their lives said Britain sent them to the front line with inadequate equipment.
2013 - The violin played by the Titanic’s bandmaster as the ship sank sold at a London auction for £900,000 (€1.06 million, $1.45 million), a world record for memorabilia from the doomed liner.
2014 - The Swedish military said it had made three credible sightings of foreign undersea activity in its waters. It was apparently a Russian intrusion in the area.
2014 - Hong Kong police charged into protesters gathered at a barricade, leaving many in need of medical treatment. The attack came just hours after the government agreed to talks aimed at ending three weeks of pro-democracy rallies.
2015 - U.S. federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Congressional action prohibited federal drug enforcers from shutting medical marijuana dispensaries that comply with state law.
2015 - Canadian elections: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory. The Liberals seized a Parliamentary majority, a turn in political fortunes that smashed the record for the number of seats gained from one election to the next.
2016 - The final debate of the 2016 presidential race came as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met at University of Nevada, Las Vegas for the third and final debate of the U.S. presidential campaign. The big headline was made when Donald Trump refused to say he would accept the election’s outcome. Critics of the GOP nominee, including members of his own party, said it was further evidence Trump was upending a bedrock of American democracy: the peaceful transfer of power. Clinton spoke directly to women, committing to upholding the values laid out in Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion in the United States. She spoke of protecting healthcare centers like Planned Parenthood that make upholding those values possible. Watchers were split on who was more sincere and authentic during the debate, with 47% saying Trump was and 46% seeing Clinton that way.
2017 - Egyptian lawyer Nabih el-Wahsh said on a TV talk show that harassing or raping women wearing ripped jeans was a “national duty.” Mr Wahsh said that women who wore revealing clothing were “inviting men to harass them,” and said “protecting morals is more important than protecting borders.” On Nov 2 Egypt’s highest women’s rights body filed a complaint seeking legal action against El-Wahsh. And on Dec 2 Wahsh was sentenced to three years in prison as punishment for his comments.
2017 - The Yves Saint Laurent museum opened its doors to the public in Marrakech, Morocco. The museum was inaugurated Oct 14 by the wife of Moroccan King Mohammed VI, Lalla Salma, alongside actresses Catherine Deneuve and Marisa Berenson.
2018 - Movies beginning runs in U.S. theatres included: Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak; The Hate U Give, with Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall and Russell Hornsby; Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant and Dolly Wells; An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, with Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement and Emile Hirsch; Galveston, starring Elle Fanning, Ben Foster and Lili Reinhart; and The Guilty, with Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage and Omar Shargawi.
2018 - The U.S. charged Russian Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova with helping oversee the finances of a sweeping, secretive effort to sway American public opinion through social media. The complaint was the first federal case alleging Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections.
2019 - A woman identified in a lawsuit as Jane Doe, sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), and former Ice agent Wilfredo Rodriguez, seeking $10m in damages. The Honduran woman living in Connecticut accused Rodriguez of sexually assaulting her over a period of seven years under the threat of deportation.
2019 - Turkish-backed Syrian fighters clashed with Kurdish-led forces in several parts of northeast Syria. Both sides blamed each other for fighting that had rattled the U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
2020 - The U.S. Justice Department charged six Russian military intelligence officers with an aggressive worldwide hacking campaign that caused mass disruption and cost billions of dollars. Targets of the gang included a French presidential election, the electricity grid in Ukraine and the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. The six were from the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, which has become the most aggressive Russian actor in cyberspace and the principle source of many of the most damaging cyber actions of the last few years.
2020 - The number of coronavirus cases worldwide crossed 40 million. COVID-19 had killed more than 1.1 million people. Some 220,000 of those were in the U.S., the world’s worst-hit country -- despite having less than 5% of the global population.
2021 - Surgeons in New York announced their attachment of a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human, and said the organ worked normally.
2021 - Israeli aviation startup AIR and partner Aeroauto unveiled the first “easy-to-operate” electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The company plans to sell the AIR ONE directly to consumers predominantly in the United States starting in 2024. “We feel that AIR’s advanced technology will be a great asset to the industry of personal transportation as a whole. The AIR ONE is an exciting addition to the U.S.’s personal transportation market and for all the people that have been dreaming of these incredible machines for decades,” said Sean Borman, Aeroauto CEO.
2022 - President Biden released another 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve -- and called for energy companies to share some of their record profits with consumers by lowering prices. Biden’s plan to sell the stockpiled oil in December is the final part of an unprecedented release of 180 million barrels of oil to keep gas prices from rising. Biden pointed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for pushing oil prices higher, and said he was “doing everything in my power” to bring prices down.
2022 - U.S. District Court Judge David Carter in California said (in court filings) that former POTUS Donald Trump signed a court document affirming evidence of voter fraud in Georgia he knew to be false. Carter said in an 18-page opinion that emails from attorney John Eastman, a key figure in Trump’s effort to overturn his 2020 election loss, show Trump knew the numbers were wrong. Carter also said Trump “more likely than not” committed crimes connected to efforts to prevent Congress from certifying President Biden’s electoral victory.
2023 - President Joe Biden appealed to Americans for support in the wars in Israel and Ukraine, announcing his request to Congress for over $100 billion in aid and resources for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and the U.S. border with Mexico.
2023 - Former Donald Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell pled guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start. Her plea deal with Fulton County prosecutors required her to testify truthfully against her co-defendants at any upcoming trials, including against Trump himself.
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Birthdays on This Day October 19
1605 - Thomas Browne
physician, author: Religio Medici; died Oct 19, 16821748 - Martha Jefferson (Wayles)
wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson; died Sep 6, 1782 -- 19 years before Jefferson became president1850 - Annie Peck
mountain climber: climbed the Matterhorn [1895]; died July 18, 1935
1885 - Charles Merrill
stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch; died Oct 6, 19561896 - Nat Holman
Basketball Hall of Famer: Original Celtics: made the pivot play and the man-to-man defensive switch popular; coach: City College of New York; died Feb 12, 19951900 - Roy Worters
hockey [goaltender]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Canadiens, New York Americans; recorded 66 career shutouts; at 5'3" tall,he was the shortest player to play in the NHL; died Nov 7, 19571907 - Alex Montoya
actor: Daring Game, The King’s Pirate, The Flight of the Phoenix, Dangerous Charter, The Magnificent Seven, Untamed Youth; died Sep 25, 19701909 - Robert Beatty
actor: Where Eagles Dare, Postmark for Danger, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Against the Wind; died Mar 3, 19921911 - George Cates
musician: Moonglow/Theme from Picnic, Autumn Leaves [w/Steve Allen]; musical director of Lawrence Welk Show for 25 years; died May 12, 20021920 - LaWanda Page
actress: Sanford and Son, Detective School; died Sep 14, 20021921 - Bern Bennett
staff announcer: CBS Radio; died May 29, 20141922 - Jack Anderson
columnist: Washington Merry-Go-Round, commentator: Mutual, USA Radio Network; author: Stormin’ Norman, Japan Conspiracy; died Dec 17, 20051931 - John Le Carré (David Cornwell)
author: The Russia House, A Small Town in Germany, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Night Manager; died Dec 12, 20201932 - Robert Reed (John Robert Rietz Jr.)
actor: The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Bradys, The Defenders, Mannix, Nurse, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I, Roots, The Runaways; died May 12, 19921934 - Dave Guard
songwriter, singer: groups: The Kingston Trio [1957-1961]: Tom Dooley, A Worried Man, Tijuana Jail, Greenback Dollar, Reverend Mr. Black, Sloop John B., Scotch and Soda; The Whiskeyhill Singers: The Erie Canal, 900 miles, The Ox Driver, Raise a Ruckus Tonight, Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger; died March 22, 19911937 - Peter Max (Finkelstein)
pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster; designer: postage stamp: Expo ’74; 1982 World’s Fair official artist1940 - Michael Gambon
actor: Mary Reilly, Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale, Toys, The Heat of the Day, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The Rachel Papers, Turtle Diary, The Singing Detective, Harry Potter film series; died Sep 27, 20231941 - Simon Ward
actor: The Monster Club, Supergirl, The Chosen, The Four Musketeers, The Three Musketeers, All Creatures Great and Small, Dracula, If...; died July 20, 20121945 - Patricia Ireland
social activist: president of NOW1945 - John Lithgow
Emmy Award-winning actor: 3rd Rock from the Sun [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Tony Award-winning actor: The Changing Room [1973]; Twilight Zone-The Movie, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Raising Cain, The Pelican Brief, Cliffhanger, Twenty Good Years1945 - Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson)
Grammy Award-winning singer: Harper Valley P.T.A. [1968]; Country Girl, The Girl Most Likely, There Never was a Time, Oh Singer, Good Enough to be Your Wife1948 - Pete Solley
musician: keyboards: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel, Cerdes [Outside the Gates Of]1949 - Lynn Dickey
football: Green Bay Packers quarterback1950 - Luke Witte
basketball: Ohio State University, USA Men’s Pan American Games [1971]; Cleveland Cavaliers1950 - Morris Bradshaw
football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV1956 - Nino DeFranco
singer: group: The DeFranco Family: Heartbeat - It’s a Lovebeat1957 - David Palmer
baseball [pitcher]: Montreal Expos, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers1957 - Karl Wallinger
musician: keyboards, guitar; group: World Party1958 - Michael Steele
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland [2003-2007]; chairman of the Republican National Committee [2009-2011]; TV political analyst [MSNBC]1960 - Jennifer Holliday
singer: And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going; actress: Dreamgirls, Touched by an Angel, Ally McBeal1961 - Tim Belcher
baseball: pitcher: Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Kansas City Royals, Anaheim Angels1962 - Evander Holyfield
boxer: World Heavyweight Champion [1990-1992]; Junior Heavyweight Champion [1986, 1988]1964 - Ty Pennington
artist, philanthropist, carpenter, TV host: Extreme Makeover Home Edition, American Diner Revival1966 - Jon Favreau
director: Elf, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Cowboys & Aliens, Chef; screenwriter, comedian, actor: Rudy, Swingers, Very Bad Things, The Break-Up, Chef1967 - Amy Carter
First Daughter: daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy and Roselyn Carter1970 - Chris Kattan
actor: Saturday Night Live, The Middle, A Night at the Roxbury1972 - Keith Foulke
baseball [pitcher]: San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox1972 - Joe McEwing
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals1973 - Robert Tate
football: Univ of Cincinnati; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Cardinals1974 - Leonard Little
football [linebacker]: Univ of Tennessee; NFL: St. Louis Rams1976 - Omar Gooding
actor: Tough Like Wearing Dreadlocks, The Gospel, Verbal Communications, Freedom Song, The Ernest Green Story, Ghost Dad; younger brother of actor Cuba Gooding Jr.1976 - Desmond Harrington
actor: Dexter, The Hole, Wrong Turn, Ghost Ship, TiMER, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, The Dark Knight Rises, Gossip Girl1976 - Michael Young
baseball [shortstop, third base]: Texas Rangers [2000–2012]: 2010, 2011 World Series; Philadelphia Phillies [2013]; Los Angeles Dodgers [2013]1978 - Gabrielle Dennis
actress: Rosewood, Teen Summit, The Game, Blue Mountain State, My First Love1979 - Alex Feldman
actor: Come Away with Me, When Will I Be Loved?, Mr. Smiths Gets a Hustler, American Gun, Bridget1982 - Gillian Jacobs
actress: Community, Love, Girls, Gardens of the Night, The Lookalike, Monsters vs. Aliens, Don’t Think Twice1982 - Louis Oosthuizen
golf champ: 2010 The Open Championship1983 - Rebecca Ferguson
actress: The White Queen, A One-Way Trip to Antibes, Nya tider, The Red Tent, Despite the Falling Snow, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, The Greatest Showman2001 - Art Parkinson
actor: Game of Thrones, Kubo and the Two Strings, Zoo
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Hit Music on This Day October 19
1947I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Feudin’ and Fightin’ (facts) - Dorothy Shay
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