October 21
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1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar was fought this day. Admiral Horatio Nelson led the English fleet to victory over Napoleon’s combined French and Spanish navies. This win ended any threat to England by Napoleon. Unfortunately, Admiral Nelson was hit by an enemy musket ball and died as the enemy surrendered.
1849 - The tattooed Irishman, James F. O’Connell, was put on exhibition at the Franklin Theatre in New York. We imagine that a lot of folks came by just to needle him.
1879 - After 14 months of experimenting in Menlo Park, NJ, Thomas Alva Edison succeeded in producing a working prototype of the electric, incandescent lamp. It could burn for thirteen and a half hours.
1907 - The Merry Widow opened in New York. The play starred Ethel Jackson and Donald Brian. The operetta had been introduced in Europe two years before.
1908 - A Saturday Evening Post advertisement offered a chance to buy, for the first time, a two-sided record. It was on Columbia.
1924 - It was a big night for a big band in New York’s Cinderella Ballroom. The crowd loved the Wolverine Orchestra from Chicago and the guy on the cornet, Bix Beiderbecke, the ‘young man with a horn’.
1938 - Quaker City Jazz was recorded on the Bluebird label by Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters Orchestra. The tune would become the theme of the band. It was not, however, recorded in the Quaker City of Philadelphia. The song was waxed in New York City.
1940 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill taunted Adolf Hitler in a radio broadcast, “We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. ... so are the fishes.”
1944 - The German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
1948 - Beersheba was liberated in Operation Ten Plagues conducted by the Israeli army.
1953 - Randy Turpin got the stuffing beaten out of him at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He was in a middleweight boxing match against Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson.
1958 - Orchestral strings were used for the first time in a rock and roll tune. Buddy Holly recorded It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, written by Paul Anka. Sadly, it would be Holly’s last studio session. The song wasn’t released until after his death in February of 1959.
1959 - The (Solomon R.) Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York. Wrote one reporter at the time, “the audience, which included many hostile to the circular building, was apparently caught up in the spirit and applauded wholeheartedly, differences forgotten.”
1960 - The fourth -- and last -- debate preceding the presidential election between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon was televised from New York City.
1963 - The Lord’s Prayer album by Mormon Tabernacle Choir was certified Gold (sales of over $1,000,000) by the RIAA.
1965 - The Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to Robert Burns Woodward for “for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.”
1966 - More than 140 people, mostly children, were killed when a coal waste landslide buried a school and several houses in South Wales.
1967 - 70,000 people assembled outside the Pentagon to protest the war in Vietnam.
1971 - The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
1971 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court following resignations by Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan.
1972 - Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling hit #1 in the U.S. It was number one for two weeks.
1972 - Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly movie soundtrack album started a four-week run at number one. The title song cracked the top-ten singles list in January 1973. Other tracks on the album: Little Child Runnin’ Wild, Pusherman, Freddie’s Dead, Junkie Chase, Give Me Your Love, Eddie You Should Know Better, No Thing on Me and Think.
1973 - Baseball manager Dick Williams turned in his last lineup card as skipper as the Oakland A’s won their second straight World Series. Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson each hit two-run homers as the A’s defeated the New York Mets 5-2 in game 7, and took the Series four games to three.
1976 - American Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work.”
1976 - The Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Yankees in the World Series four games to zip. In game four, played this day, with Johnny Bench slugging two home runs for five RBIs, the Reds rang up a 7-2 victory. It was the Red’s second straight World Series championship.
1979 - Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan resigned over his government’s refusal to negotiate with the Palestinians.
1980 - The Phillies won their first World Series title. Mike Schmidt knocked in two runs and Tug McGraw stopped Kansas City’s hitters, 4-1, in Philadelphia. The Phils won the Series, 4 games to 2.
1985 - William ‘The Refrigerator’ Perry of the Chicago Bears led his team to a 23-7 win over the Green Bay Packers. Perry, weighing in at 325 pounds (more than some Frigidaires), became a folk hero as he cut a path for Walter Payton’s two TDs. He then plodded over the goal line himself for another score.
1988 - A federal grand jury in New York indicted former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, on charges of fraud and racketeering. (Marcos died before he could be brought to trial; his widow, Imelda, was acquitted in 1990.)
1991 - American hostage Jesse Turner was freed by his kidnappers in Lebanon after nearly five years in captivity. Turner, who had been held by a pro-Iranian group called Islamic Holy War for the Liberation of Palestine, was an assistant professor of computer science and mathematics at Beirut University College when he was kidnapped by men posing as Lebanese police officers.
1992 - Deaths on this day: Jim Garrison, the Louisiana DA who investigated the JFK assassination, died at 70; and Jackson Weaver, long-time Washington DC radio personality and voice of Smokey the Bear, died at 72 years of age.
1993 - The play The Twilight of the Golds opened. “I don’t recall that one,” you say. Possibly because the play closed on Nov 14,1993 -- after just 29 performances.
1994 - The U.S. and North Korea signed an agreement requiring the communist nation to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections within five years. (Oct 2002 update: North Korea admitted it had never halted its nuclear program.)
1995 - Mariah Carey’s Daydream was the number one album in the U.S. The album featured the smash hits Fantasy and One Sweet Day (both debuted on the singles chart at #1).
1997 - Elton John’s tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind 1997, was declared by The Guinness Book of Records to be the biggest-selling single record of all time. In 37 days, the single reached 31.8 million copies sold, eclipsing the previous record held by Bing Crosby’s White Christmas. The Crosby song sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide -- in 55 years.
1998 - The invincible New York Yankees won their 24th World Series. They beat the San Diego Padres 3-0 this day to take the Series 4-0. It was New York’s second title in three years and its first sweep since 1950. Scott Brosius was MVP after finishing with a .471 batting average, eight hits, two home runs and six runs batted in. Mariano Rivera and Jeff Nelson both pitched in three Yankee games and both finished with a 0.00 ERA.
1999 - After twenty-seven previews, the Broadway production of Saturday Night Fever opened at the Minskoff Theatre. Arlene Phillips directed the show that was based on Nik Cohn’s 1975 New York magazine article Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night and Norman Wexler’s 1977 screenplay it inspired. It focuses on Tony Manero (played by James Carpinello), a Brooklyn youth whose weekend is spent at the local discotheque and Paige Price as girlfriend Stephanie Mangano. The musical ran for 501 performances. The cast included Orfeh as Annette, Paul Castree as Bobby C., and Bryan Batt as DJ Monty.
2000 - Baseball’s World Series got underway at Yankee Stadium. It was a ‘Subway Series’ between crosstown rivals New York Yankees and New York Mets (the Yankees won 4 games to 1).
2001 - Washington postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.
2001 - The Arizona Diamondbacks won the National League championship, defeating the Atlanta Braves (3-2) at Tuarner Field (Atlanta) in game five.
2002 - A U.N. panel accused criminal groups linked to the armies of Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Congo of plundering Congo’s riches, and called on the United Nations to impose financial restrictions on 29 companies and 54 individuals.
2003 - The U.S. Senate passed a bill prohibiting the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.
2004 - A poll found President George Bush (II) and Senator John Kerry locked in a tie for the popular vote for U.S. president.
2005 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: Doom, with Karl Urban, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Rosamund Pike, Deobia Oparei, Ben Daniels, Raz Adoti, Richard Brake, Al Weaver amd Yao Chin; Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story, starring Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue, David Morse and Freddy Rodríguez; North Country, starring Brad Henke, Frances McDormand, Jeremy Renner, Sissy Spacek, Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean, Michelle Monaghan and Richard Jenkins; Shopgirl, with Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Frances Conroy, Sam Bottoms, Rebecca Pidgeon and Joshua Snyder; and Stay, starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Bob Hoskins and Janeane Garofalo.
2005 - The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts.
2006 - In Mexico’s Michoacan state, 420 homicides were reported for the year, including 19 police chiefs and commanders. Juan Antonio Magana, the state’s attorney general, said half of the killings were drug-related.
2007 - A technical malfunction sent a Soyuz spacecraft on a wild ride home, forcing Malaysia’s first space traveler and two Russian cosmonauts to endure eight times the force of gravity before their capsule landed safely.
2009 - 24-year-old Mohammed Patel, who cost the insurance industry some £1.6 million by staging dozens of car crashes, was jailed for 4-1/2 years. Patel was the ringleader of a gang that staged some 92 car crashes in northwest England. They charged £500 to stage accidents which enabled fraudsters to claim an average of £17,000 from their insurers.
2009 - Northwest Airlines Flight #188 overflew its Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. Air traffic controllers and pilots tried for more than an hour night to contact the pilot and the flight’s captain using radio, cell phone and data messages. The pilots later said they had been involved in a heated discussion about airline policy. The FAA revoked the licenses of the two pilots saying they had been out of radio contact for 91 minutes.
2010 - The U.S. charged Miami-based American Therapeutic Corp. with Medicare fraud. Prosecutors said the company preyed on patients with severe dementia and charged the government more than $200 million for services it never rendered. The co-owners of the business were convicted of fraud in 2011 and both were sentenced to long prison terms.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Mighty Macs, with Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Bittner and Jennifer Butler; Paranormal Activity 3, starring Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner, Christopher Nicholas Smith, Chloe Csengery, Mark Fredrichs, Brian Boland and Jessica Tyler Brown; The Three Musketeers, with Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Helen George, Christian Oliver, Ray Stevenson and Til Schweiger; the documentary, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, Bill Barretta, Fran Brill, Kevin Clash, Joan Ganz Cooney, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell and Frank Oz; Boy Wonder, with James Russo, Tracy Middendorf, Zulay Henao, Bill Sage, John Sharian and Nicole Patrick; Cargo, with Natasha Rinis, Sayed Badreya, Philip Willingham and Raul I Torres; Le Havre, with André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel; Margin Call, starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore and Stanley Tucci; Retreat, with Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Thandie Newton and Jimmy Yuill; and Snowmen, starring Bobby Coleman, Josh Flitter, Ray Liotta and Christopher Lloyd.
2011 - U.S. political consultant John Haggerty (42) was convicted of cheating New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg out of some $750,000. In 2009, Haggerty had tricked Bloomberg campaign aides into donating to the New York’s Independence Party, promising to use the money to set up an Election Day voting-security operation. Instead he used the money to buy a house. Haggerty was sentenced to 1.3 to 4 years in prison.
2012 - Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints to the Catholic faith. Two of the saints were American: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S. and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy victims in Hawaii.
2013 - 21 current and former members of Arizona’s Air National Guard were indicted on charges of theft and money laundering in a $1.4 million scam to defraud the federal government. The officers and enlisted men and women had been resposible for remotely operating drones to support troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between November 2007 and September 2010, authorities said some of the defendants took home salaries that were up to five times the amount they should have been receiving. They had listed phony homes to qualify for the extra pay.
2014 - South Africa Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
2014 - 88 former students who were sexually molested by Franciscan Brother Stephen Baker at a Catholic high school in Altoona, PA settled their legal claims for $8 million. Baker worked at the school as an athletic trainer from 1992 to 2001.
2015 - Hard drive-maker Western Digital announced its acquisition of SanDisk, a flash-memory chip maker. The cash and stock deal was valued at some $19 billion.
2016 - New motion pictures in the U.S. included: I’m Not Ashamed, with Masey McLain, Ben Davies and Cameron McKendry; Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders and Robert Knepper; Keeping Up with the Joneses, with Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher and Zach Galifianakis; Ouija: Origin of Evil, starring Elizabeth Reaser, Doug Jones and Henry Thomas; Boo! A Madea Halloween, with Bella Thorne, Brock O’Hurn and Tyler Perry; American Pastoral, starring Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning and Ewan McGregor; Good Kids, with Zoey Deutch, Ashley Judd and Virginia Gardner; In a Valley of Violence, with Karen Gillan, Ethan Hawke and Taissa Farmiga; King Cobra, starring James Franco, Christian Slater and Molly Ringwald; and The Whole Truth, with Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
2016 - British American Tobacco offered to buy Reynolds American Inc. for $47 billion. Reynold balked at the price and in January 2017 agreed to an increased $49.4 billion price tag. The deal created the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company.
2016 - McDonald’s announced that its earnings per share had increased 16% from the previous year. The company reported that same-store sales, the performance of restaurants open at least a year, rose 3.5% worldwide. Sales were particularly strong in Japan and the U.K.
2017 - All five of America’s living former presidents took the stage at a benefit concert at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas to raise money for victims of the hurricane-ravaged southern U.S. and Caribbean.
2018 - The Green Climate Fund said it had approved more than $1 billion in new investments after a four-day meeting in Bahrain. The U.N.-backed fund approved a total of 19 new projects, including a program to protect freshwater resources in Bahrain.
2018 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to postpone the planned demolition of a West Bank hamlet to allow time for a negotiated solution with its residents. The move appeared to be an attempt at staving off the fierce international condemnation such a demolition would bring down on Netanyahu.
2019 - Four large drug companies reached a last-minute $260 million legal settlement in Ohio over their role in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic. The agreement with two Ohio counties averted a nine-week trial that was scheduled to start in Cleveland.
2019 - Representatives from more than 60 countries including Israel, but not Iran, met in Bahrain to discuss maritime security following attacks on tankers in the Gulf and Saudi oil installations. Most blamed the attacks on Iran.
2020 - U.S. officials said Iran and Russia had obtained American voter registration data, and Iran used the information to send threatening, faked emails to voters. Iran was behind the spoof emails to some voters, and spread disinformation online about sending fraudulent ballots from overseas, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said. Russia also had access to voter registration data, just as it did in 2016, he said.
2020 - Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, blamed for helping to unleash the U.S. opioid crisis, agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges over its marketing of OxyContin. This, in a massive deal with the Justice Department. The company agreed to a civil settlement of $2.8 billion. Sackler (the family that owns Purdue Pharma) members separately agreed to pay $225 million to resolve the family’s civil liability.
2020 - Pope Francis voiced support for civil unions for same-sex couples, breaking with the Roman Catholic Church’s longtime position.
2021 - Actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and wounded a director when he discharged a ‘prop gun’ on the set during filming of the movie "Rust" in New Mexico. The 63-year-old Baldwin was handed what was supposed to be a safe gun, but it contained live rounds and turned deadly when it was fired.
2021 - The world’s biggest triceratops skeleton, known as “Big John,” was sold for €6.6 million ($7.7 million) at a Paris auction house. The skeleton, estimated to be over 66 million years old, was found in 2014 in South Dakota.
2022 - Regulations went into effect in Canada banning all sales, purchases, and transfers of handguns. The move was part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to reduce gun violence and halt firearm imports. The push for regulations came after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children killed.
2022 - A District Judge in Texas ruled that the victims of two deadly Boeing 737 Max plane crashes should be classified as “crime victims,” adding that the Justice Department violated their rights when it reached a prosecution deal with Boeing following the crashes. The judge declared that the 346 people, who perished aboard crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019, were entitled to due process that the prosecution deal did not allow them. That agreement saw Boeing admit to a widespread conspiracy, in which they conspired to defraud federal regulators about the true dangers of the 737 Max. Some family members of the victims pushed for Boeing executives to be prosecuted.
2023 - Michigan State University apologized after an image of Adolf Hitler was displayed on a stadium videoboard before a football game with the Michigan Wolverines this day. The image appeared on the Spartan Stadium board as part of a series of pregame trivia questions, and was linked to a question about Hitler’s birth country. Following uproar from the MSU community, the school released a statement saying it was “deeply sorry for the content that was displayed” and that the sourcing of the videoboard trivia came from a third-party company that would no longer be used.
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Birthdays on This Day October 21
1772 - Samuel Coleridge
poet: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; died July 25, 18341833 - Alfred Nobel
chemist: invented dynamite; industrialist: revenues from his dynamite factories made Nobel a fortune; philanthropist: his will created the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace; died Dec 10, 18961905 - Carleton Young
actor: The Day the Earth Stood Still, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Glenn Miller Story, The Last Hurrah, The Horse Soldiers, Here Come the Jets, Battle Hymn, The Brigand, Billy the Kid Outlawed, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; died Nov 7, 19941912 - Sir Georg Solti
orchestra conductor: Chicago Symphony Orchestra; 1st complete recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen; died Sep 5, 19971915 - Owen Bradley
Country Music Hall of Famer: musician: piano, bandleader, arranger, producer [produced hits by Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn]; credited with making Nashville the mecca of country music; owned his own studio; died Jan 7, 19981917 - Dizzy Gillespie
Grammy Award-winning musician: trumpet: Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie [1975], Live at the Royal Festival Hall [1991]; creator [w/Charlie Parker] of be-bop; trademark: puffed cheeks & bent trumpet; autobiography: To Be or Not to Bop; died Jan 6, 19931921 - Sir Malcolm Arnold
composer: screen scores: David Copperfield, The Chalk Garden, Suddenly, Last Summer, Solomon and Sheba, Island in the Sun, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Trapeze, I Am a Camera, The Belles of St. Trinian’s series, Eye Witness; died Sep 23, 20061924 - Joyce Randolph
actress: Cavalcade of Stars, The Honeymooners, The Doctors and the Nurses, Hi Honey, I’m Home, Cavalcade of Stars, Everything’s Jake; died Jan 13, 20241926 - Bob Rosburg
golf: PGA champion [1959]; sportscaster; died May 14, 20091928 - Whitey (Edward Charles) Ford
‘Chairman of the Board’: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1950, 1953, 1955-1958, 1960-1964/all-star: 1954-1956, 1958-1961, 1964/Cy Young Award: 1961]; pitching coachWhitey Ford; died Oct 8, 20201929 - Ursula Le Guin
author: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, A Wizard of Earthsea, Left Hand of Darkness; died Jan 22, 20181933 - Georgia Brown (Lillian Klot)
actress: Oliver, Cheers; died July 5, 19921939 - Ted (Theodore Otto) Uhlaender
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1972]; died Feb 12, 20091940 - Frances FitzGerald
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam1940 - Manfred Mann (Michael Lubowitz)
singer, musician: group: Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers: Do Wah Diddy Diddy, The Mighty Quinn; Earth Band: Blinded by the Light; solo: High Time, I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Boy1941 - Steve Cropper
musician: guitar: group: Blues Brothers; Booker T and The MG’s: Green Onions, Hang ’Em High, Time is Tight1942 - Elvin Bishop
musician: guitar, singer: group: Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Drunk Again; Elvin Bishop Group; solo: Fooled Around and Fell in Love; more1942 - Judge Judy Sheindlin
New York Family Court Judge; TV star: Judge Judy1943 - Ron Elliott
musician: guitar: group: Beau Brummels: Laugh, Laugh, Just a Little, You Tell Me Why; solo: LP: The Candlestick Maker1946 - Lee Loughnane
musician: brass: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I’m Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?1948 - John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick
musician: keyboards; songwriter, singer: group: Free: All Right Now, I’m a Mover, Walk in My Shadow, I‘ll Be Creepin’, Fire and Water; more1948 - Bill (William Ellis) Russell
baseball: LA Dodgers: [all-star: 1973, 1976, 1980/World Series: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981]1949 - Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel [1996–1999, 2009–2021]; first Israeli P.M. born in Israel after the establishment of the state1950 - Ronald E. McNair
physicist, astronaut: mission specialist aboard the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle; died Jan 28, 19861953 - Charlotte Caffey
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Go-Gos: We Got the Beat, Our Lips are Sealed, Vacation, Head Over Heels, Turn to You1955 - Eric Faulkner
musician: guitar: group: Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love1956 - Carrie Fisher
actress: Star Wars series, The Blues Brothers, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, Shampoo; writer: Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink, Delusions of Grandma; daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds; died Dec 27, 20161957 - Julian Cope
musician: bass, guitar, singer: groups: Crucial Three, Nova Mob, A Shallow Madness The Teardrop Explodes: Sleeping Gas, Bouncing Babies, Reward, Treason, You Disappear from View; solo: Competition, World Shut Your Mouth1957 - Steve Lukather
musician: guitar: group: Toto: Rosanna, Africa, Hold the Line; songwriter: Turn Your Love Around1959 - George (Antonio) Bell
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1987, 1990], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1991], Chicago White Sox1959 - Ken Watanabe
actor: Inception, Batman Begins, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Last Samurai, Memories of Tomorrow1967 - John Flaherty
baseball [catcher]: George Washington Univ; Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, New York Yankees1973 - Sasha Roiz
actor: Grimm, Caprica, CSI: Miami, House, NCIS, The Mentalist, Lie To Me, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Man of the Year, Unthinkable, Warehouse 131975 - Toby Hall
baseball [catcher]: Univ of Nevada-Las Vegas; Tampa Bay Devil Rays1976 - Jeremy Miller
actor: Growing Pains, The Willies, Emanon1976 - Andrew Scott
actor: Spectre, Sherlock, Big Hero 6: The Series, Ripley, Steel, Cognition, 19171978 - Will Estes
actor: Blue Bloods, American Dreams, U-571, How To Make An American Quilt, Dutch, 7th Heaven, Meego, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Reunion1980 - Kim Kardashian
model, actress: Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Deep in the Valley, Disaster Movie1983 - Charlotte Sullivan
actress: Web Cam, Unstable, Iron Road, Booth, Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story, When Innocence Is Lost, Harriet the Spy1983 - Aaron Tveit
actor: Broadway: Next to Normal, Catch Me If You Can; films: Undrafted, Better Off Single, Les Misérables; TV: Gossip Girl, Grease Live!, Graceland, BrainDead1988 - Glen Powell
actor: Scream Queens, Sex Ed, The Expendables 3, Ride Along 2, The Dark Knight Rises, Everybody Wants Some!!1989 - Festus Ezeli
basketball [forward/center]: NBA: Golden State Warriors [2012-2016]: 2015 NBA champs1992 - Sofia Vassilieva
actress: Medium, My Sister’s Keeper, Day Zero, Eloise at Christmastime1993 - Louriza Tronco
actress: Zapped, Make It Pop, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Spiral, The Order1995 - Doja Cat (Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini)
rapper, songwriter, singer: Say So, Streets, Juicy [with Tyga], Candy
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Hit Music on This Day October 21
1949You’re Breaking My Heart (facts) - Vic Damone
Someday (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
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