October 25
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1760 - George III ascended the British throne upon the death of his grandfather, King George II.1825 - The Erie Canal, America’s first man-made waterway, was completed. The canal linked the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
1854 - At 11 a.m. this day, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (as memorialized by Lord Alfred Tennyson), took place during the Crimean War. An English brigade charged the Russian army against hopeless odds and suffered heavy losses. In what was actually called the Battle of Balaclava, 247 men of the 637 in the charge were killed or wounded.
1870 - The first U.S. trademark was awarded -- to the Averill Chemical Paint Company of New York City.
1902 - The Santa María (Guatemala) volcano erupted violently. Some 5,000 people were killed.
1937 - Radio’s Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire run. Stella Dallas was “A continuation on the air of the true-life story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel’s life.”
1940 - Cabin in the Sky opened for the first of 156 shows. Taking a Chance on Love is the one big hit that came from the musical.
1943 - Benny Carter and his orchestra recorded Poinciana on the Capitol label. The real title, incidentally, is Poinciana (Song of the Tree).
1945 - The Japanese surrendered Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek.
1945 - U.S. President Harry S Truman issued Executive Order 9646, laying out the design of the coat of arms of the President. The new seal featured an American eagle facing to the right, the direction of honor; and toward the olive branches in its’ right talon, symbolizing peace. The former design, first used in 1880 by President Rutherford B. Hayes, featured the eagle facing toward arrows in its left talon, symbolizing war.
1951 - England’s Labour Party lost to the Conservatives in the general election. Winston Churchill was elected prime minister, and Anthony Eden became foreign secretary.
1955 - The microwave oven was introduced in Mansfield, Ohio at the corporate headquarters of the Tappan Company. The manufacturer put a $1,200 price tag on the new stove that could cook eggs in 22 seconds, bacon in 90 seconds.
1960 - The Bulova Watch Company introduced its high-tech Accutron electronic wrist watch. Ten years after it was introduced (as the watch the astronauts wear), it sold in jewelry stores for about $200.
1962 - Author John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”
1964 - “And now, rrrrright here on this stage....” The Rolling Stones were introduced to American audiences on The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV.
1969 - Canada’s The Guess Who got a gold record for the single, Laughing.
1970 - George Blanda became a legend in his own time. Blanda replaced Daryle Lamonica, the Raiders injured quarterback, and took the Raiders to an easy victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers (31-14). And that was only the beginning. The following week, George Blanda kicked a field goal 48 yards to tie the Raiders with Kansas City -- with only three seconds left to play. The next week, Blanda replaced Lamonica in the last quarter. Oakland was down by one touchdown. With one minute and fourteen seconds remaining, Blanda threw a 14-yard touchdown, tied the game, then kicked a 52-yard field goal in the last three seconds. Another week, another game and another Blanda heroic ending -- with only four minutes left to play. Denver was in the lead over Oakland by two points. Blanda drove for 80 yards, then threw a touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff. Oakland won. His heroics continued the following week. With four seconds remaining, the game tied at 17, Blanda kicked a 16-yard field goal and San Diego went home the loser. Oakland won the division championship and Blanda became AFC Player of the Year and AP male athlete of the year. George Blanda passed away at the age of 83 on September 27, 2010. His sensational story is now enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
1974 - The single, Skin Tight, by The Ohio Players, went gold on this day.
1975 - Elton John’s Los Angeles concert was sold out at Dodger Stadium. 110,000 people saw the two shows, on October 25 and 26, 1975, the first in that stadium since The Beatles played there in 1965. Elton’s weekend stand in L.A. was the finale to his concert tour of the western U.S.
1980 - Barbra Streisand’s Woman in Love, from the number one album, Guilty, was the number one song in the U.S. Both the album and the single were #1 for three weeks.
1983 - 2,000 U.S. Marines invaded Grenada to take control away from the Soviet-Cubans. A political coup just one week earlier had made the tiny Caribbean Island a Soviet-Cuban colony.
1984 - John Cougar Mellencamp reached the two-million-dollar sales mark with his album, Uh-Huh. Also, country group Alabama went to the three-million-dollar mark with two albums this day: Feels So Right and Mountain Music.
1986 - New Jersey-based rock band Bon Jovi rose to number one in the U.S. with their Slippery When Wet album. It was the number one album for eight -- count ’em -- eight weeks. Track listing: Let It Rock, You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin’ on a Prayer, Social Disease, Wanted Dead or Alive, Raise Your Hands, Without Love, I’d Die for You, Never Say Goodbye, Wild in the Streets.
1987 - The World Series began in a dome for the first time and the team with the best record at home happened to play in that dome. The St. Louis Cardinals were pounded in the first game, but fought back and forced the series to seven games before the Minnesota Twins could claim the championship -- their first -- on this day.
1989 - Novelist and critic Mary McCarthy died in New York. She was 77 years old. Her works included The Company She Keeps, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, The Group and Ideas and the Novel.
1990 - James ‘Buster’ Douglas, who had knocked out the undefeated Mike Tyson on Feb. 10, 1990 to win the world heavyweight title, was floored by Evander Holyfield in the third round this day in Las Vegas. This was to be Douglas’ only defense of that fleeting title.
1991 - Rock-and-roll impresario Bill Graham was killed in a helicopter crash in Sonoma County, Calif. Also killed were his girlfriend, Melissa Gold, and pilot, Steve Kahn.
1992 - Country Music Hall of Fame singer, songwriter, TV host Roger Miller died of throat cancer in Los Angeles at 56 years of age. During his oustanding career, Miller collected eleven Grammys, a platinum single, six gold singles, and five gold albums. Miller’s most memorable songs (written and/or performed by him) were: King of the Road, Chug-a-Lug, Little Green Apples, Dang Me, England Swings, Engine Engine Number Nine, In the Summer Time, Do-Wacka-Do, Kansas City Star, You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd.
1993 - Actor Vincent Price died of lung cancer and emphysema in Los Angeles. He was 82 years old. Among his best-remembered films are House of Wax (1953), House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
1993 - Canada’s Liberal Party ended nine years of rule by the Progressive Conservatives. Liberal leader Jean Chrétien was voted in as the 20th Prime Minister, ousting Kim Campbell.
1995 - Victor/Victoria made its musical debut at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway. The hit show closed on July 27, 1997 after 734 performances and 25 previews. The original cast included Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York, Richard B. Shull, Rob Ashford, and Greg Jbara. Andrews, feeling that the rest of the show had been overlooked, refused her (and the show’s only) Tony Award nomination in 1996.
1996 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: The Associate, with Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Lainie Kazan, Austin Pendleton, George Martin and Eli Wallach; High School High, starring Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Louise Fletcher, Mekhi Phifer, Malinda Williams and John Neville; and The Sunchaser, with Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda, Alexandra Tydings, Anne Bancroft, Talisa Soto and Victor Aaron.
1998 - Thousands were on hand in Oklahoma City for the ground-breaking ceremony of a memorial to the victims of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. “The people who died here were victims of one of the cruelest visitations of evil this nation has ever seen,” said Vice President Al Gore. “But we offer them today not pity but honor, for as much as any soldier who ever fought in any war, they paid the price for our freedom.”
1999 - Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan bolted from the GOP to mount a bid for the Reform Party nomination.
1999 - 42-year-old golfer Payne Stewart was killed, along with two agents and two pilots when their Lear Jet crashed near Mina, South Dakota. The plane had flown for hours on autopilot before it crashed. The occupants of the plane apparently had been rendered unconscious after all their oxygen had escaped from the plane’s cabin.
2000 - Divers found the first bodies from the wreckage of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the frigid murk of the Barents Sea. The sub sank after an explosion on Aug. 12. All 118 sailors on board were killed.
2001 - Microsoft released Windows XP. XP was Microsoft’s first operating system to combine the Windows 9x code with NT code, removing the MS-DOS layer from Windows.
2002 - These films debuted in the U.S.: All or Nothing, starring Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland, James Corden and Ruth Sheen; Ghost Ship, with Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington and Isaiah Washington; The Truth About Charlie, with Olga Sékulic, Stephen Dillane, Françoise Bertin, Thandie Newton, Sakina Jaffrey and Mark Wahlberg.
2002 - A small plane crashed in Minnesota, killing U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and five others. Wellstone’s re-election race was seen as critical to the balance of power in the Senate, where the Democrats held a 50-to-49 edge at the time.
2002 - Irish actor, singer Richard Harris died of Hodgkin’s Disease at 72 years of age. He had appeared in over 70 films, but was best known to modern audiences for his portrayal of Dumbledore, the kindly and wily head of Hogwarts School in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Harris’ greatest singing claim to fame came with his 1968 album, A Tramp Shining, which included the top-ten single, MacArthur Park, written by Jimmy Webb.
2003 - World Series game 6: The Florida Marlins were all over the New York Yankees, wrapping up the series 4 games to 2.
2004 - Cuba said that U.S. dollars would no longer be accepted at island businesses and stores.
2005 - Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson bought most of the troubled British telecom equipment manufacturer Marconi.
2006 - President George Bush (II) conceded that the U.S. was taking heavy casualties in Iraq, saying, “I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq...”
2006 - New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples deserve the same privileges as heterosexuals. At the same time the court said, “lawmakers must determine whether the state will honor gay marriage or some other form of civil union.”
2007 - The Airbus 380, the world’s largest jetliner, completed its first commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney with 471 passengers (and crew of 30), some of them traveling in luxury suites with double beds.
2007 - The U.S. government issued a flurry of product-safety recalls affecting hundreds of thousands of Chinese-made children’s toys and jewelry.
2008 - Arkansas KATV anchorwoman Anne Pressly (26) died in Little Rock. She had been found beaten in her home. On Nov 26, 28-year-old Curtis Lavelle Vance was arrested and charged with her murder.
2009 - The New York Yankees won their first American League pennant in six years (their 40th pennant overall), beating the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 in Game 6 of the AL championship series.
2010 - The Singapore and Australian stock exchanges announced an 8.3 billion dollar merger to create one of the world’s largest and most diversified financial trading hubs.
2011 - The White House announced that President Obama was taking executive action to ease the burden of student loans. The administration also issued new initiatives that urged Community Health Centers to hire 8,000 veterans in the next three years and expand opportunities for vets to become physician assistants.
2012 - An explosive story in The New York Times charged that family members of China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao had accumulated some $2.7 billion during his decade in office.
2013 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: The Counselor, starring Brad Pitt, Natalie Dormer, Michael Fassbender, Dean Norris, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, Emma Rigby, John Leguizamo and Rosie Perez; Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, with Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Spike Jonze, Georgina Cates, Blythe Barrington-Hughes, Kamber Hejlik and Kassidy Hejlik; the documentary, Spinning Plates; and A True Story, starring Katrina Bowden, Jon Gries, Malcolm Goodwin, Cameron Fife and Tyler McGee.
2013 - Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron charged U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and unnamed newspapers with assisting Britain’s enemies by helping them avoid surveillance by its intelligence services. “What Snowden is doing and, to an extent, what the newspapers are doing in helping him do what he is doing, is frankly signalling to people who mean to do us harm how to evade and avoid intelligence and surveillance and other techniques,” Cameron told reporters.
2014 - An Afghan court in Kabul sentenced mullah Mohammad Amin to 20 years in prison after finding the religious teacher guilty of raping a 10-year-old girl. The rape took place in the girl’s home village near the provincial capital of Kunduz.
2014 - Jack Bruce, Scottish musician, composer and vocalist for Cream, died at his home in Suffolk, Enlgand. He was 71 years old. Cream also included drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist Eric Clapton. Cream had the world’s first platinum-selling double album, Wheels of Fire, in 1968. Although recognized first and foremost as a vocalist, bassist and songwriter, Bruce also played double bass, harmonica, piano and cello. He was trained as a classical cellist but considered himself a jazz musician, although much of his catalogue of compositions and recordings tended toward blues and rock and roll. In a 2011 interview, Bruce told The Telegraph that he had “squandered too much money on drugs.”
2015 - Pope Francis brought to a close a 3-week bishops’ meeting on family issues. He called for a more open-hearted, compassionate Church rooted in people’s lives instead of a programmatic, arid Church that fears changes and challenges.
2016 - Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio was charged with criminal contempt-of-court after the sheriff defied a 2011 court order to stop his immigration patrols. The sheriff’s deputies continued to arrest and deliver undocumented immigrants to federal authorities when there were no state charges against them, long after the judge had banned the practice.
2016 - New York novelist Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sellout, his 4th novel.
2017 - In recent weeks, women in Kashmir had reported some 100 cases of having their hair chopped off by marauding masked men. The attacks — most reportedly occurring inside people’s homes — were so strange that police initially suggested women were suffering from hallucinations, but took the reports seriously after the government-run Women’s Commission warned them against making dismissive comments.
2018 - Yosemite Park, California Rangers recovered the bodies of 29-year-old Vishnu Viswanath and 30-year-old Meenakshi Moorthy from about 800 feet (245 meters) below Taft Point, where visitors can walk to the edge of a vertigo-inducing granite ledge that doesn’t have a railing. The Indian husband and wife had set up a tripod for a selfie near the ledge -- apparently too near the edge -- and fell to their deaths.
2018 - Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Beijing as both countries tried to repair ties that had been riven by disputes over territory, military expansion in the Pacific and World War II history.
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres included: Black and Blue, starring Mike Colter, Naomie Harris and Frank Grillo; Countdown, with Charlie McDermott, Anne Winters and Elizabeth Lail; Burning Cane, starring Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers and Dominique McClellan; Full Count, with John Paul Kakos, Natalia Livingston and E. Roger Mitchell; The Gallows Act II, starring Ema Horvath, Chris Milligan and Brittany Falardeau; Girl on the Third Floor, with C.M. Punk, Trieste Kelly Dunn and Sarah Brooks; The Great Alaskan Race, starring Brian Presley, Treat Williams and Brad Leland; The Kill Team, with Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff and Adam Long; Paradise Hills, starring Eiza González, Emma Roberts and Milla Jovovich; Portals, with Deanna Russo, Ptolemy Slocum and Neil Hopkins; and Synonyms, starring Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire and Louise Chevillotte.
2019 - The U.S. Defense Department announced a $10 billion, 10-year Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award to Microsoft Corp. Amazon had been considered a front-runner to win. In July, POTUS Trump said he was looking at the contract after companies had protested the bidding process. While Trump didn’t cite Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos by name at the time, the billionaire executive had been a constant source of frustration for Trump. Bezos owns The Washington Post, which Trump had regularly criticized for its coverage of his administration. Trump also had gone after Amazon repeatedly on other fronts, such as claiming it does not pay its fair share of taxes and rips off the U.S. Post Office.
2019 - A federal magistrate in San Francisco held U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt of court and fined her $100,000 for violating a court order by continuing to collect debts from more than 16,000 former students of Corinthian Colleges. The rare rebuke came after U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim said she was “astounded” to discover that DeVos and her department continued to chase more than 16,000 former students from the bankrupt Corinthian Colleges Inc. for funds allegedly owed earlier -- despite a 2018 order to stop.
2019 - The American Civil Liberties Union said U.S.immigration authorites separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexican border early in the Trump administration. More than 5,400 children had been taken from their parents since July 2017.
2019 - A Missouri jury recommended that St. Louis County police Sgt. Keith Wildhaber be awarded nearly $20 million after finding the department discriminated against him because he was gay. Wildhaber’s case in the weeklong trial included testimony about him being passed over 23 times for promotion and his transfer to the Jennings precinct from the Affton precinct after filing an EEOC complaint. “We wanted to send a message,” the jury foreman told reporters. “If you discriminate you are going to pay a big price. … You can’t defend the indefensible.”
2020 - New York became the fourth U.S. state to surpass half a million coronavirus cases amid a nationwide surge in infections. New York had suffered over 33,000 COVID-19 deaths.
2020 - Spain ordered a nationwide curfew (11 p.m.-6 a.m.) after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez warned that the country was facing an increasingly dire situation. Sánchez said the number of coronavirus cases may be as high as three million people. 34,752 people had died.
2021 - Hertz said it was converting some 100,000 electric vehicles, 20 percent of its rental fleet, to Tesla’s electric cars. The announcement helped propel Tesla’s stock value past $1 trillion for the first time.
2021 - The United Nations reported greenhouse gas concentrations had hit a record in 2020 and the world was “way off track” on capping rising temperatures. The report added urgency to the task facing climate talks in Glasgow.
2021 - NASA scientists detected what they think to be the first planet in another galaxy -- in Whirlpool Galaxy M51, some 28 million light-years away.
2022 - German sportswear manufacturer Adidas cut ties with U.S. rapper and fashion designer Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. This, over anti-Semitic remarks he made in interviews and on social media. Twitter and Instagram had suspended Ye earlier after he made antisemitic posts, including one on Twitter threating to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.” In a statement, Adidas said, “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
2022 - Britain’s new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, vowed to guide the country through “a profound economic crisis,” while admitting that it could take some “difficult decisions.” Sunak said in his first speech as prime minister that he would restore confidence in the Conservative government, which has been shaken by scandals that brought down Boris Johnson and a controversial tax-cut plan that rattled markets and sent the British pound plummeting under Liz Truss, who resigned under pressure after just six weeks. Sunak said Truss’ government had made mistakes in a “noble effort” to boost economic growth, and he was elected “in part to fix them.”
2022 - Hope Hicks, once a trusted adviser to Donald Trump, met with members of the House committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol attack. Hicks left the White House six days after the riot and had pushed back against Trump’s false claim that the election was stolen from him.
2023 - 18 people were killed and 13 injured in a shooting in a Lewiston, Maine bowling alley and restaurant. The gunman, 40-year-old Robert Card, was found dead two days later. He had shot himself in a tractor-trailer near a recycling center in Lisbon where he had been employed. Later examination of Card's brain tissue revealed that he had traumatic brain injures likely attributable to his eight years as a grenade instructor, when he was exposed to repeated blasts.
2023 - Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco as a category 5 storm with 165-mph winds. It was the strongest hurricane to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast. The storm killed 52 people (with 32 others missing).
2024 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman and Lucian Msamati; and Venom: The Last Dance, with Alanna Ubach, Tom Hardy and Juno Temple.
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Birthdays on This Day October 25
1340 - Geoffrey Chaucer
poet: Canterbury Tales; actual date of birth unknown; died Oct 25, 14001825 - Johann Strauss
‘The Waltz King’: composer: On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Emperor Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Wine, Women and Song; operettas: Die Fledermaus, A Night in Venice, The Gypsy Baron; died June 3, 18991838 - Georges Bizet
composer: Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, The Young Girl of Perth; died June 3, 18751881 - Pablo Picasso
artist: founder of cubism: Guernica, Ma Jolie; died Apr 8, 19731886 - Leo G. Carroll
actor: The Prize, The Parent Trap, North by Northwest, Father of the Bride, Forever Amber, Bahama Passage, Topper, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Going My Way, Life with Luigi; died Oct 16, 19721888 - Richard E. Byrd
polar explorer: first to see North Pole; died Mar 11, 19571912 - Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley)
Country Music Hall of Fame comedienne: “Howdee!”: On Stage America, Hee Haw, Grand Ole Opry; singer: Giddyup Go-Answer; CMA Hall of Famer; died Mar 4, 19961924 - Billy Barty
comedian: The Spike Jones Show, Ford Festival, Club Oasis; actor: Circus Boy, Snow White, Willow, Tough Guys, Rumpelstiltskin, Roustabout, The Amazing Dobermans, Day of the Locust; died Dec 23, 20001924 - Earl Palmer
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [drums: La Bamba [Ritchie Valens], The Fat Man [Fats Domino], Tutti Frutti [Little Richard], Lawdy Miss Clawdy [Lloyd Price], also played w/Frank Sinatra, Phil Spector, Rick Nelson, Ray Charles, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Dizzy Gillespie, Basie, Earl Palmer’s Rock Party, Dave Bartholomew’s Band; died Sep 19, 20081926 - Jimmy Heath
musician: reeds: group: Heath Brothers: LP: Marchin’ On, Passin’ Thru, Live at the Public Theatre, In Motion, Expressions of Life, Brotherly Love; band leader: LP: The Thumper, Really Big, The Quota, Triple Threat, Swamp Seed, On the Trail; died Jan 19, 20201926 - Biff McGuire
actor: The Thomas Crown Affair [1968], The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Serpico, Midway, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, The Last Word; died Mar 9, 20211927 - Barbara Cook
Tony Award-winning actress, singer: The Music Man [1957]; Flahooley, Oklahoma, Carousel, Plain and Fancy, Candide, The Gay Life, She Loves Me, Any Wednesday, Funny Girl, The Gershwin Years; died Aug 8, 20171927 - Bud (Franklin) Held
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 1st [1953] to throw javelin more than 260 feet; his record: 268’ 2 1/2" [1955]; javelin designer1928 - Jeanne Cooper
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Young and the Restless [2008], Lifetime Achievement Award [2004]; The Redhead from Wyoming, The Boston Strangler, Tony Rome, Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Ironside, Touched by an Angel, L.A. Law, MacGyver, The Tomorrow Man, Carpool Guy; mother of actor Corbin Bernsen; died May 8, 2013; more1928 - Tony Franciosa (Anthony Papaleo)
actor: A Hatful of Rain, Death Wish 2, The Drowning Pool, A Face in the Crowd, The Long Hot Summer, Stagecoach, The Name of the Game, Matt Helm, Wheels, Valentine’s Day, Search, Finder of Lost Loves; died Jan 19, 20061928 - Marion Ross
actress: Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge, Mr. Novak, Life with Father, The Gertrude Berg Show, Forever Female, Grand Theft Auto1934 - Earl Ingarfield
hockey: Vancouver Canucks, NY Rangers, Cleveland Barons, Pittsburgh Penguins, Oakland Seals, California Golden Seals; head coach: NY Islanders1937 - Jeanne Black
singer: He’ll Have to Stay; died Oct 23, 20141939 - Zelmo Beaty
basketball: Atlanta Hawks; all-star [1966]; died Aug 27, 20131940 - Bobby Knight
Basketball Hall of Famer: coach: Indiana University, West Point; Pan-American games; player: Ohio State University NCAA championship team1941 - Helen Reddy
singer: I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone [Ruby Red Dress], Peaceful, Keep on Singing, Angie Baby, You & Me Against the World, I Am Woman; died Sep 29, 20201941 - Ann Tyler
author: The Accidental Tourist, Searching for Caleb, Morgan’s Passing, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant1944 - Jon Anderson
singer: group: Yes: Roundabout; solo: LP: Olias of Sunhollow, Song of Seven; duo: Jon and Vangelis: I Hear You Now, I’ll Find My Way Home1944 - James Carville
political consultant, TV analyst: Crossfire, K Street; in films: The People vs. Larry Flynt, The War Room1944 - Taffy Danoff (Nivert)
singer: group: Starland Vocal Band: Afternoon Delight1948 - Dave Cowens
Basketball Hall of Famer [forward, center]: Florida State Univ; NBA: player, coach: Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks; coach: San Antonio Spurs, Charlotte Hornets1948 - Dan Gable
Olympic Hall of Famer: lightweight wrestling division gold medalist [1972]; wrestling coach: University of Iowa1948 - Dan Issel
Basketball Hall of Famer: Kentucky Colonels: Rookie of the Year [1970-1971]; Denver Nuggets: player, head coach1948 - Glenn Tipton
musician: guitar: group: Judas Priest: Tyrant, Victim of Changes, Ripper, Beyond the Realms of Death, Take on the World, Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law1949 - Brian Kerwin
actor: Lobo, The Young and the Restless, The Chisholms, The Blue and the Gray, Switched at Birth, Murphy’s Romance, A Real American Hero1950 - John Matuszak
football: Oakland Raiders defensive end: Super Bowls XI, XIV; actor: North Dallas Forty, The Ice Pirates, The Goonies, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission; died June 17, 19891951 - Greg Stemrick
football: Houston Oilers, New Orleans Saints; died Aug 2, 20161956 - Matthias Jabs
musician: guitar: group: Scorpions: LPs: Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love at First Sting, World Wide Live1958 - Mark Miller
singer: group: Sawyer Brown: Step That Step, Some Girls Do, The Walk, This Time, I Don’t Believe in Goodbye1961 - Brian Kelly
football: head coach: Grand Valley State Univ [1991–2003], Central Michigan Univ [2004–2006], Univ of Cincinnati [2006–2009]; Notre Dame Univ [2010-2021]: 2013 NCAA BCS title game 2012; Louisiana State Univ [2022- ]1961 - Chad Smith
musician: drums: groups: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Under the Bridge, Give It Away, Californication, Scar Tissue, Otherside, Suck My Kiss, By the Way; Chickenfoot, Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats1963 - Melinda McGraw
actress: Albino Alligator, Wrongfully Accused, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Meeting Spencer, Weather Girl, Senor White, The X-Files: The Unopened File, The Big Knife, Mad Men1963 - Tracy Nelson
actress: Father Dowling Mysteries, Square Pegs, Glitter, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Yours, Mine & Ours1964 - Michael Boatman
actor: Spin City, China Beach, Arli$$, The Good Wife, Gossip Girl, Anger Management1966 - Wendel Clark
hockey [left wing]: Toronto Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks1969 - Samantha Bee
comedienne: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; TV host: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee1970 - Adam Goldberg
actor: Entourage, Joey, Two Days, Deja Vu, Keeping Up With the Steins, Man About Town, Frankenstein [2004], How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Saving Private Ryan, Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, Dazed and Confused, Zodiac1970 - Adam Pascal
actor: Temptation, The School of Rock, SLC Punk!; Broadway: Rent1970 - Ed Robertson
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: founding member of Barenaked Ladies: One Week, Too Little Too Late, Wonderful Wizard of Magicland, Never Do Anything, It’s All Been Done, Testing 1,2,3, Maybe Katie1970 - Chely Wright
singer: Single White Female, It Was, Jezebel, Never Love You Enough, The Bumper of My SUV; gay rights activist1971 - Pedro Martinez
baseball [pitcher]: LA Dodgers, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets; brother of player Ramon Martinez1971 - Midori (Goto)
musician: violin; created Midori and Friends foundation [musicians travel to NY public schools to give concerts and classes]1971 - Craig Robinson
stand up comedian, actor: Hot Tub Time Machine, Pineapple Express, The Office, Miss March, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Shrek Forever After1974 - Frank Middleton
football: Univ of Arizona; NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, Miami Dolphins1979 - Samantha Esteban
actress: Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Harsh Times, Training Day, A Pig’s Tale, Sunset Beach1979 - Sarah Thompson
actress: Babysitter Wanted, Blackwater Valley Exorcism, L.A. Twister, Malibu’s Most Wanted, Cruel Intentions 2, A Wake in Providence1980 - Mehcad Brooks
actor: Supergirl, Necessary Roughness, My Generation, The Deep End, Desperate Housewives, Boston Public1981 - Josh Henderson
actor: Desperate Housewives, Dallas [2012], Over There, Yours, Mine and Ours, The Jerk Theory, Rushlights, The Arrangement1984 - Katy Perry
songwriter, singer: I Kissed a Girl, Fingerprints, Hot N Cold, Waking Up in Vegas, California Gurls, Teenage Dream, Firework, E.T., Last Friday Night [T.G.I.F.], Part of Me, Wide Awake1985 - Ciara (Ciara Princess Harris)
singer: Goodies, And I, 1, 2 Step, Oh, Pick Up the Phone, Lookin’ at You; actress: I Hate You, Dad, Mama, I Want to Sing!, All You’ve Got1985 - Kara Lynn Joyce
swimmer: 4-time Olympic silver medalist [2004: Athens; 2008: Beijing]1993 - Xander Schauffele
golf champ: 2024 PGA Championship; 2024 British Open; 2022 Zurich Classic of New Orleans; 2022 Travelers Championship; 2022 Genesis Scottish Open; 2020 Olympic gold; 2019 Sentry Tournament of Champions; 2017 Tour Championship; 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions; 2017 Greenbrier Classic1998 - Keean Johnson
actor: Spooksville, Nashville, Alita: Battle Angel, The Fosters, Guidance1998 - Juan Soto
baseball [outfielder]: Washington Nationals [2018–2022]: 2019 World Series champs; San Diego Padres [2022–2023]; New York Yankees (2024– )2001 - Princess Elisabeth
Duchess of Brabant, heir apparent to the Belgian throne
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Hit Music on This Day October 25
1944I’ll Walk Alone (facts) - Dinah Shore
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby) (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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