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1456 - Saint John of Capistrano died on this day. And, every year the cliff swallows that nest in the San Juan Capistrano Mission (beginning each March 19th) depart on Oct 23. The mission was not named for Saint John of Capistrano because of this. It is just one of those great coincidences...1864 - The Civil War Battle of Westport was fought in Kansas City, Missouri. Union Major General Samuel Ryan Curtis set up his field command post on top of the Harris House Hotel so he could view the battle down along Brush Creek.
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman aviator. Blanche was known, not as an aviator, but an aviatrix. She soared to an altitude of 12 feet over Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
1915 - More than 33,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a big parade for woman suffrage. Known as the ‘banner parade’ because of the multitude of flags and banners carried, it began at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and continued until long after dark.
1928 - Animal Crackers opened at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre. The musical closed April 6, 1929 after running for 191 performances. Produced by Sam H. Harris, staged by Oscar Eagle, and starring the four Marx Brothers (Chico, Harpo, Groucho and Zeppo), it was the Marx Brothers’ third Broadway hit (after (I’ll Say She Is and The Cocoanuts). The musical was made into a movie in 1930 with the Marx Brothers repeating their roles from the stage production.
1929 - The first first all-air coast-to-coast service from Seattle to New York was announced this day. The trip took some 56 hours. Total time in the air was 32 hours.
1930 - The first miniature golf tournament came to a close on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN. The total cash purse was $10,000, with the top prize being $2,000. Qualification play-offs had been played in all of the 48 states. The final competition attracted over 200 players representing thirty states.
1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen’s comedy-variety program was known as The Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then, The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with The Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years.
1936 - Pan American Airways’ Philippine Clipper arrived in Hong Kong, establishing the first commercial air service between North America and the continent of Asia.
1941 - Clarinet a la King was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra -- on Okeh Records.
1942 - Britain launched a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein in Egypt. The action led to the eventual sweeping of the Germans out of North Africa.
1944 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf began this day as two American submarines were sent to the bottom of the ocean by two Japanese cruisers. The battle continued until October 26, when U.S. Admiral Marc A. Mitscher’s Task Force 38 ended the pursuit of the Japanese ships that survived the battle. The Japanese navy, trying desperately to halt American landings on the island of Leyte, lost 34 ships in the battle.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the first time, at the Assembly Hall auditorium in Flushing Meadow, NY. U.S. President Harry S Truman addressed the delegates.
1950 - LIFE magazine was adorned with a cover picture of Ed Wynn, and the caption, “TV GETS TOP COMICS.”
1950 - “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” (a billing he gave himself), Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), died at the age of 64.
1956 - Jonathan Winters became a TV star. Winters was seen coast to coast in the first videotape recording to be broadcast. The tape originated from WRCA-TV in New York City. The broadcast was developed for NBC network stations.
1956 - An anti-Stalinist revolt began in Hungary. The revolt was soon (Nov 4th) crushed by Soviet troops.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He, however, was forced to refuse the honor because of negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing Dr. Zhivago.
1961 - Dion’s Runaround Sue was the #1 U.S. single. It remained at the top for two weeks until being knocked off by Jimmy Dean’s Big Bad John.
1962 - The U.S. quarantine of Cuba (because of the Cuban Missile Crisis) was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 - U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson ‘dressed down’ U.S.S.R. Ambassador Valerian Zorin. Stevenson was irritated with the Russians about the Cuban Missle Crisis.
1963 - Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, premiered at the Biltmore Theatre in NYC. The comedy ran for a very respectable 1,530 performances.
1970 - ‘Lady Soul’, Aretha Franklin, won a gold record for Don’t Play That Song.
1972 - The musical Pippin premiered at the Imperial Theater and ran for 1,944 performances before closing on June 12, 1977. Pippin was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, with an original cast that included Ben Vereen, John Rubinstein, Christopher Chadman, Eric Berry, Jill Clayburgh , Leland Palmer and Irene Ryan.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings to Federal District Court Judge John J. Sirica, as requested by the Watergate special prosecutor. The tapes contained White House conversations about the Watergate case. During the three previous months, Nixon had insisted that the tapes remain in the White House under his absolute control.
1976 - Just one of the highlights of the championship football season for the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh: Pitt’s Tony Dorsett rushed for 180 yards (at Navy, beating them 45-0) and set the NCAA all-time rushing record of 5,206 career yards.
1983 - Suicidal terrorists drove a truck loaded with TNT into the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The explosion that followed killed 240 U.S. personnel. Many French personnel were also killed in a similar attack on their location at the same time.
1984 - Actor Oskar Werner (Fahrenheit 451) died of a heart attack. He was 61 years old.
1987 - The U.S. Senate rejected (58-42) the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
1989 - After 33 years of Soviet rule, Hungary became an independent republic.
1991 - Clarence Thomas was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1992 - During a royal visit to China, Japanese Emperor Akihito (son of the wartime Emperor Hirohito) expressed his sorrow for Japan’s war crimes.
1993 - After his winning home run gave the Blue Jays the win, Joe Carter stepped on home plate and touched off a SkyDome celebration. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2 in the World Series to win the title for the second year in a row.
1994 - Actor Robert Lansing (Twelve O’Clock High, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Equalizer) died of cancer. He was 66 years old.
1995 - Former Selena fan club president Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of murdering the Tejano (Mexican-American popular music) star in a Texas motel room on March 31, 1995. The jury deliberated about two hours before handing down their verdict.
1998 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Apt Pupil, from Tristar Pictures, Ian Mckellen, Brad Renfro and David Schwimmer; and New Line Cinema’s Pleasantville, with Joan Allen, William H. Macy and Reese Witherspoon.
1998 - Typhoon Babs pummeled the northern Philippines, killing at least 189 people.
2000 - General Electric announced it had agreed to buy Honeywell for $48.4 billion in stock and assumed debt.
2001 - A relieved NASA team celebrated as the 2001 Mars Odyssey slipped into orbit around the Red Planet, two years after back-to-back failures by Mars missions.
2002 - Lyricist Adolph Green died at 87 years of age. His songs include New York, New York, The Party’s Over, Just in Time and Make Someone Happy. Green’s work with Betty Comden (his main collaborator in lyrics and screenplay work) included the screenplay for Singin’ in the Rain. Green and Comden won seven Tony Awards.
2003 - Santa Clara, California 7-Eleven owner Narinder Badwal learned that he had sold a winning California Lottery ticket and was entitled to a $250,000 commission. He later learned that he had sold one of two winning tickets -- worth $49,747,500 -- to himself. (The other winning ticket was held by aspiring Los Angeles actress Robynn Newton.)
2004 - Metropolitan Opera star Robert Merrill died at 87 years of age in New York City.
2005 - A referendum to ban civilian manufacture and sale of firearms in Brazil was rejected by a vote of 64 percent to 36 percent. (Brazil had the world’s highest death rate from firearms.)
2006 - Australian scientists warned that Global warming will force changes to Australia’s $4.8 billion wine export industry, threatening the very existence of some varieties.
2006 - Ford Motor Co. posted a third-quarter loss of $5.8 billion.
2007 - A copy of the Quran, written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, sold at auction in London for more than $2.3 million. And a nearly complete, 10th-century Kufic Quran, thought to be from North Africa or the near East, sold for $1,870,000.
2008 - Cuba and the European Union siged an agreement that called for E.U. members to send Cuba €2 million ($2.6 million) in hurricane recovery aid and up to €30 million ($38.8 million) more in financing the following year.
2008 - Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the financial crisis was a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami” which would have a severe impact on the U.S. economy, driving unemployment higher. Greenspan also said he was shocked by the breakdown in U.S. credit markets and that he had been “partially” wrong to resist regulation of some securities.
2008 - New York City Mayor Bloomberg persuaded the city council, in a 29-22 vote, to amend the term limit law allowing him to run for a third term.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Mia Wasikowska; the animated Astro Boy, featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell and Matt Lucas; Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, with John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, Patrick Fugit, Ray Stevenson, Michael Cerveris, Frankie Faison, Jane Krakowski, Orlando Jones, Kristen Schaal, Salma Hayek and Willem Dafoe; Saw VI, starring Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith and Peter Outerbridge; The Canyon, with Yvonne Strahovski, Will Patton and Eion Bailey; and (Untitled), with Marley Shelton, Adam Goldberg, Eion Bailey and Vinnie Jones.
2009 - U.S. safety officials met with their Chinese counterparts over complaints from American homeowners of illness and other damage from suspected drywall imported from China.
2010 - French unions took their battle against extending retirement age from 60 to 62 to the courts, challenging orders to return to work the day after the Senate backed the fiercely-contested reform. The National Assembly approved the reform Oct 27, 2010.
2011 - Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) declared liberation in the wake of Kadhafi's capture and death. It said the new Libya will be governed in line with Islamic sharia law, but emphasized that it would remain a ‘moderate’ Muslim country.
2011 - In Switzerland national elections, the right wing Swiss People’s Party lost seats in the National Council for the first time since 1975. This, as centrist parties made gains after voting dominated by concerns about immigration, nuclear power and the economy.
2012 - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it was ending its contract with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd (RIM) in favor of Apple’s iPhone. ICE had used RIM’s products for eight years, but claimed the BlackBerry smartphones, “can no longer meet the mobile technology needs of the agency.”
2013 - Russia dropped piracy charges against 30 people involved in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling. The charges were replaced with lesser offenses and the maximum jail sentences the protestors faced was reduced to seven years -- from 15.
2014 - U.S. Treasury Dept reported Islamic State militants were earning $1 million a day from black market oil sales.
2014 - The general director of Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport and his deputy resigned, and Russian investigators detained four other airport employees, following a plane crash that killed a top French oil executive and three crew members. The driver of the snowplough that collided with Total boss Christophe de Margerie’s plane as it was taking off from a Moscow airport was also ordered to be held behind bars for two months.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: Jem and the Holograms, with Ryan Guzman, Molly Ringwald and Stefanie Scott; The Last Witch Hunter, starring Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie and Elijah Wood; Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, with Chris J. Murray, Brit Shaw and Ivy George; Rock the Kasbah, starring Bruce Willis, Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Bill Murray, Taylor Kinney, Scott Caan and Kelly Lynch; Asthma, with Benedict Samuel, Krysten Ritter and Nick Nolte; Blackhats, starring Errol Sadler, Doris Morgado and Ted Huckabee; Burnt, starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Omar Sy; I Smile Back, with Sarah Silverman, Josh Charles and Thomas Sadoski; Nasty Baby, with Kristen Wiig, Alia Shawkat and Reg E. Cathey; Suffragette, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep; and Steve Jobs, with Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen.
2015 - The U.S., Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia met in Vienna to work on a political solution to the Syrian civil war, despite a U.S.-Russian disagreement over Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian airstrikes in Syria had killed at least 446 people, more than a third of them civilians, since they began in late September.
2016 - Donald Trump picked up his first battleground newspaper’s endorsement -- that of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The newspaper was owned by Las Vegas-based Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson.
2016 - Hillary Clinton had a 12-point lead over Donald Trump and had reached 50% support nationally among likely voters, an ABC News tracking poll showed. The poll reported Clinton with 50% support to Trump’s 38%, with 5% backing Libertarian Gary Johnson and 2% supporting the Green Party’s Jill Stein. The poll came on the heels of the third presidential debate, which polls showed Clinton won.
2017 - London placed a levy on the oldest and most polluting cars entering the city center. Most diesel and gas vehicles registered before 2006 — as well as some later models — were subject to a £10 ($13) ‘T Charge’ when entering central London on weekdays. That tax almost doubled the price that polluting motorists had to pay.
2017 - The Hollywood sexual abuse scandal widened after 38 women accused U.S. film director James Toback of unwanted sexual encounters over a period of decades. Toback ‘reeled them in’ with boasts about his movie career and connections and with claims he could make them stars.
2018 - British electric appliance pioneer Dyson said it had picked Singapore as the site for its first electric car plant. The choice sparked criticism of the company’s Brexit-backing billionaire founder James Dyson for not investing more in British manufacturing.
2018 - China opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland. The feat of engineering had immense economic and political significance. The $20-billion bridge took almost a decade to build and includes an undersea tunnel allowing ships to pass through the Pearl River delta, the heart of China’s crucial manufacturing sector.
2018 - Thousands of people were evacuated in western Mexico, where buildings were boarded up and schools closed along the Pacific coast. This, as Hurricane Willa battered tourist resorts. The storm lashed coastal areas with powerful winds and heavy rain before weakening to a tropical depression and moving inland. Nearly 102,000 homes last power as the storm made landfall.
2019 - POTUS Trump declared success in pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, saying the action was part of his promise to put a stop to the U.S. involvement in “endless wars.” This action, however, came at the price of ending the Syrian Kurds’ dream of local autonomy.
2019 - Two dozen U.S. House Republicans delayed an impeachment-related deposition for hours after bursting into the proceedings. The ruckus was apparently intended to show POTUS Trump they were on his side. The Republican protesters decried the ongoing impeachment process as a “sham” and lambasted House Democrats for conducting the process behind closed doors. (Only members of the committees conducting the hearing were allowed in the room.)
2019 - Google announced a breakthrough in computer research, saying it had solved a complex problem in minutes with a so-called quantum computer. The same promblem wouldhave taken 2019’s most powerful supercomputer thousands of years to crack.
2020 - Movies scheduled to open on this day (many theatres were still closed by the Covid-19 crisis) included: The Empty Man, starring James Badge Dale, Stephen Root and Joel Courtney; After We Collided, with Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Louise Lombard; Friendsgiving, starring Malin Akerman, Kat Dennings and Aisha Tyler; The Place of No Words, with Nicole Elizabeth Berger, Eric Christian Olsen and Bodhi Palmer; Synchronic, starring Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton and Anthony Mackie; and Nationtime, with Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr, and Richard Hatcher.
2020 - A 115-year-old Confederate monument that was the subject of protests this year was removed from outside a county courthouse in Huntsville, Alabama. The monument was first erected in 1905 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
2020 - Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could not be refused because a voter’s signature did not appear to match the one on file. Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar had issued an advisory earlier in the year saying local election officials could not toss ballots because of signature comparisons alone.
2020 - A Texas appeals court ruled the Republican governor could not limit drop-off sites for mail ballots to one per county. The ruling was a setback for Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent as many people as possible from voting.
2020 - 85,000 new coronavirus cases were reported across the U.S. broke the single-day record set on July 16, 2020 by 10,000 cases. Meanwhile, Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum called on residents to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people as the capital grappled with a surge of coronavirus hospitalizations.
2021 - Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks sold for a combined $109 million in a Las Vegas auction happening near the artist’s 140th birthday.
2022 - Two people died after Hurricane Roslyn slammed into Mexico’s Pacific coast as a powerful Category 3 storm (top sustained winds were 120 miles per hour). A 74-year-old man was killed by a falling beam in Mexcaltitan de Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit state’s Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection told Reuters. And a 39-year-old woman died when a fence collapsed on her in the state’s Rosamorada district. The storm’s strong winds and torrential rains flooded streets and damaged homes.
2022 - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he would not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister’s job he was ousted from some three months earlier. Johnson’s withdrawal left former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak the strong favorite to become Britain’s next prime minister (Sunak was appointed prime minister by King Charles III two days later.)
2023 - One of the two Israeli hostages released from Hamas custody described being kidnapped by gunmen and taken to a tunnel in Gaza. “I went through hell,” Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, said during a media conference. She detailed her experience being taken underground into Hamas’ huge network of tunnels, saying it “looks like a spiderweb.” Liftschitz was released on this day, along with her neighbor and friend Nurit Cooper, 79. But more than 200 people remained in captivity. This, as Israel’s defense minister said the country wass preparing for a “multilateral operation” against Hamas from the “air, ground, and sea” in an attempt to wipe out the Islamist group.
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Birthdays on This Day October 23
1835 - Adlai Ewing Stevenson
23rd Vice President of the U.S. [1893-1897]; grandfather of U.S. presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson [1952, 1956]; died June 14, 19141844 - Sarah Bernhardt (Rosalie Bernard)
actress: Hamlet, La Dame aux camélias, Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, Jeanne Dore, Mères françaises; died Mar 26, 19231869 - John W. Heisman
instrumental in the development of the American game of football; coach: Auburn, Clemson, University of Pennsylvania, Washington and Jefferson, Rice, Georgia Tech (33 straight wins), Washington & Jefferson, Texas, Rice Institute; football’s Heisman Memorial Trophy named for him; died Oct 3, 19361893 - (Milton) ‘Gummo’ Marx
theatrical agent; vaudeville with his four brothers (Marx Brothers): The Four Nightingales, Fun in Hi Skule, Mr. Green’s Reception, Home Again; died Apr 21, 19771905 - Gertrude Ederle
Olympic swimming medalist [1924]: gold: 4x100-meter relay team; bronze: 100-meter freestyle; 1st woman to swim English Channel [14 hrs., 31 minutes - set a world record]; swimming instructor of deaf children; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer; died Nov 30, 20031914 - Gordie Drillon
Hockey Hall of Famer [right wing]: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens; career: one Stanley Cup, scored 155 goals, Lady Byng Trophy; died Sep 22, 19861914 - ‘Bruiser’ Frank Kinard
College and Pro Football Hall of Famer: University of Mississippi; NFL’s Brooklyn Dodgers; AAFC’s NY Yankees; All-Pro: [1940, 1941, 1943, 1944]; ‘ironman of football’: played 708 out of 720 season minutes [1936]; missed only one game in nine years of pro ball; died Sep 7, 19851917 - Robert Bray
actor: A Gathering of Eagles, Never Love a Stranger, Bus Stop, Big House, U.S.A., Vigilante Terror, The Maverick, The Gunman; died Mar 7, 19831918 - James Daly
Emmy Award-winning actor: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Eagle in a Cage [1965-1966]; Medical Center, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders; father of actress Tyne Daly; died July 3, 19781922 - Ewell Blackwell
‘The Whip’: baseball: pitcher: Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1946-1951], NY Yankees [World Series: 1952], Kansas City Athletics; died Oct 29, 19961922 - Frank Sutton
actor: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Jim Nabors Hour, Marty, Hurricane; died June 28, 19741923 - Ned Rorem
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Air Music [1976]1925 - Johnny Carson
Emmy Award-winning comedian, TV host: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1977-1978, 1978-1979], 1979-1980, 1991-1992]; The Johnny Carson Show, Who Do You Trust?, Earn Your Vacation; died Jan 23, 20051927 - Sonny Criss
musician: saxophone: LP: The Bop Masters, Saturday Morning, Criss Craft, Out of Nowhere, Warm and Sonny; died Nov, 19, 19771927 - Barron Hilton
business magnate: former Hilton Hotels Chairman of the Board; his fortune was estimated at over $2.5 billion; died Sep 19, 20191931 - Jim Bunning
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1957, 1959, 1961-1963], Philadelphia Phillies [pitched seventh perfect game in history (against the NY Mets: 6-21-64)/all-star: 1964, 1966], Pittsburgh Pirates, LA Dodgers; U.S. Senator from Kentucky; died May 26, 20171931 - Diana Dors (Mavis Fluck)
actress: Children of the Full Moon, Oliver Twist, Unicorn, Theatre of Blood, The Devil’s Web, Baby Love; died May 4, 19841935 - Juan ‘Chi-Chi’ Rodriguez
World Golf Hall of Famer: record for most consecutive wins on Senior PGA Tour [3]; established pro-am tournament: proceeds for Children’s Hospital in Puerto Rico; founded: Chi Chi Rodriguez Youth Foundation1936 - Philip Kaufman
director, screenwriter: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Invasion of the Body Snatchers; his Henry & June [1990] was the first film to be rated NC-171937 - Yvonne Staples
singer: group: The Staple Singers: I’ll Take You There, Marching Up Jesus, Tell Heaven, I’m Coming Home; died Apr 10, 20181939 - Charlie Foxx
singer: Mockingbird [w/sister Inez]; died Sep 18, 19981940 - Ellie Greenwich (Ellie Gay, Ellie Gee)
songwriter [w/Jeff Barry]: Be My Baby, Chapel of Love, Da Do Ron Ron, Then He Kissed Me, River Deep, Mountain High; singer: group: Raindrops: What a Guy, The Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget; solo: LP: Let It Be Written, Let It Be Sung; on Broadway: Leader of the Pack; died Aug 26, 20091940 - Freddie Marsden
musician: drums: group: Gerry and the Pacemakers: Ferry Cross the Mersey, How Do You Do It?, I Like It, Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying; died Dec 9, 20061940 - Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento)
Brazil’s soccer star; record for most wins: 3 winning teams [1958, 1962, 1970]; most career goals in international competition [97, 1957-70]; most career hat-tricks [92, 1956-77] in film: Escape to Victory1942 - Michael Crichton
author, producer, director, screenwriter: Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next, Pirate Latitudes; died Nov 4, 20081947 - Greg Ridley
musician [bass], singer: groups: Dino of Dino and The Danubes; The Dakotas; The Ramrods; VIPs; Art: LP: Supernatural Fairytales; Spooky Tooth: LPs: It’s All About, Spooky Tooth, Ceremony, Cross Purpose; Humble Pie: Town and Country, Sucking on the Sweet Vine, Big George [Rock On], Smokin', Street Rats; All Stars: LP: Marriott; Small Faces: LP: Playmates; died Nov 19, 20031948 - John Holliman
news reporter: CNN; killed in car crash Sep 12, 19981950 - Ed Smith
football: Colorado College, Denver Broncos1954 - Ang Lee
Academy Award-winning film director: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [2000], Brokeback Mountain [2005], Life of Pi [2012]; Sense and Sensibility, Lust, Caution, Hollywood Chinese, Taking Woodstock1956 - Dwight Yoakam
songwriter, singer: I’ll be Gone, Bury Me, Miner’s Prayer, South of Cincinnati; LP: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., A Town South of Bakersfield1959 - Nancy Grace
lawyer, TV talk-show host: CNN Headline News [2005–2016]; Court TV [1996–2007]: Closing Arguments; co-author: Objection! - How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendants, and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System1959 - ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
singer, comedian: parodies: Eat It, My Bologna, Another One Rides the Bus, I Love Rocky Road, King of Suede, I Lost on Jeopardy, Polkas on 45, The Brady Bunch, Like a Surgeon, Word Crimes; actor: The Naked Gun series, Spy Hard, 'Weird Al' Yankovic Live!1962 - Beatie Edney
actress: Highlander, Highlander: Endgame, Mister Johnson, Lost Empires, Rosemary & Thyme, A Touch of Frost, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Wallander, Hard Times, Dressing For Breakfast, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!, The Biographer, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, In the Name of the Father1962 - Doug Flutie
football: Boston College quarterback: Heisman Trophy winner [1984]; CFL: British Columbia Lions [1991 record: passing yards gained in a season: 6,619]; NFL: Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers1962 - Mike Tomczak
football [quarterback]: Pittsburgh Steelers; Chicago Bears quarterback: Super Bowl XX1963 - Lincoln Peirce
cartoonist: Big Nate comic strip; TV author/illustrator: Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon1964 - Robert Trujillo
musician: bass: group: Metallica1965 - Al Leiter
baseball [pitcher]: New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Marlins, New York Mets1966 - Yvonne Perry
actress: As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, Ten ’til Noon, UnCivil Liberties1968 - Kendall Gammon
football [tight end]: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints, Kansas City Chiefs1969 - Sanjay Gupta
neurosurgeon: assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine, associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA; chief medical correspondent for CNN TV net1969 - Jon Huertas
actor: Castle, Generation Kill, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, The Objective, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, Generation Kill, Stash House, Reparation1974 - Greta Brawner
TV talk show host: Washington Journal [C-SPAN]1975 - Keith Van Horn
basketball [forward]: Univ of Utah; NBA: New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks1976 - Ryan Reynolds
actor: National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Waiting..., Just Friends, Definitely Maybe, The Proposal, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deadpool, The Green Lantern, The Proposal, Smokin’ Aces, The In-Laws, Big Monster on Campus, The Adam Project, Bullet Train1978 - John Lackey
baseball [pitcher]: Anaheim Angels/LA Angels of Anaheim1985 - Masiela Lusha
actress: George Lopez, Blood: The Last Vampire, Muertas, Katie Malone, Ballad of Broken Angels, Summoning, A Father’s Love, Time of the Comet1986 - Emilia Clarke
actress: Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys, Me Before You, Triassic Attack, Spike Island; Broadway: Breakfast at Tiffany’s [2013]1986 - Briana Evigan
actress: Step Up 2: The Streets, Sorority Row, Burning Bright, Mother’s Day, The Devil’s Carnival, Stash House, Mine Games, Step Up 5: The Rain Dance1997 - Nick Bosa
football: NFL defensive end: San Francisco 49ers [2019– ]1998 - Amandla Stenberg
actress: Colombiana, The Hunger Games, Sleepy Hollow, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mr. Robinson
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Hit Music on This Day October 23
1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
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