October 27
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1904 - The first subway cars were placed in operation, forming the New York City subway system. The cars operated between the Brooklyn Bridge and Broadway; from City Hall to W. 145th Street. This was the first underwater, underground rail system in the world.1917 - Jascha Heifetz made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Heifetz was a 16-year-old sensation who had played the violin since age 5.
1920 - Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a wireless -- amateur radio station 8XK -- that really got the whole thing started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station. It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2, 1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately 1,000 people. And so we salute this day as the official birthday of mass appeal radio.
1925 - It isn’t as exciting as radio’s birthday, maybe, but it was an exciting day for Fred Waller, who received a license of sorts from the U.S. Patent Office. Mr. Waller invented water skis. Now if he could have only invented an easy way to get up on those skis...
1941 - Everything I Love, by Buddy Clark, was recorded this day -- on the Okeh label (number 6469).
1944 - War Minister Josip Tito and his partisans, with a little help from the Soviet army, liberated Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1947 - This is Nora Drake premiered on NBC radio. Nora solved domestic, social and child-raising problems until January 2, 1959.
1947 - The one, the only Groucho Marx appeared as quizmaster on You Bet Your Life for the first time -- on ABC radio. George Fenneman was Groucho’s eternal straight man. Fenneman stayed with Marx during the program’s run on radio (1948 - 1959) and TV (1950 - 1961). By the way, who is buried in Grant’s tomb?
1954 - The show that ultimately altered TV for kids premiered on ABC-TV. Disneyland will be historically noted as ABC’s first smash. Many NBC and CBS affiliates in those days took ABC as a second network just to have the Disneyland show. Over the years, Disneyland changed names a few times. It was also titled, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color, The Wonderful World of Disney, Disney’s Wonderful World, The Disney Sunday Movie and The Magical World of Disney.
1960 - Singer Ben E. King recorded Spanish Harlem and Stand By Me. Both songs hit the top-ten the following year, and Stand By Me did it again in 1986.
1961 - In East Germany, American and Soviet tanks faced each other across Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Berlin Crisis. The Soviets issued an ultimatum demanding the western evacuation of the city, only to relent when the deadline passed.
1962 - Beyond the Fringe, the satirical comedy stage revue written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller opened at the John Golden theatre on Broadway. Hugely successful, it ran for 667 performances and 4 previews.
1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary were sitting pretty at #1 and #2 on the U.S. album chart with Peter, Paul and Mary and In the Wind.
1967 - A Catholic priest, Father Philip Berrigan, and two others poured blood on U.S. draft files in Baltimore in protest of the Vietnam War.
1969 - Ralph Nader set up a consumer organization knowned as Nader’s Raiders.
1975 - Rocker Bruce Springsteen appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. Things were certainly going well for ‘The Boss’ that week.
1975 - The American Medical Association endorsed use of the Heimlich Maneuver to aid persons choking on food. The technique was developed by Dr. Henry Heimlich.
1978 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. They were honored for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel.
1982 - China announced its population had reached one billion people plus. As China’s population continues to skyrocket, check the current total here.
1983 - An address to the American people by President Ronald Reagan explained the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada. Reagan said the U.S. action had prevented a Cuban occupation of the island, and had been aimed at protecting U.S. citizens there.
1985 - The Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals. It was was an all-Missouri feud, if you will; the I-70 Series; Kansas City versus St. Louis. The Kansas City Royals won, shutting out the St. Louis Cardinals in game seven this day, 11-0. The Royals rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series. Series MVP Bret Saberhagen pitched the shutout.
1986 - The ‘mighty’ New York Mets became world champs of baseball, as they beat Boston’s ‘hard-luck’ Red Sox in game seven of the World Series, 8-5. Two days after an improbable rally saved the Mets from the brink of defeat, they beat Boston, who had lost their three most recent World Series appearances (which had also gone seven games).
1990 - Janet Jackson’s Black Cat popped up to #1 for a week in the U.S. The single was one of the tracks on her number-one album of a year earlier, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814.
1991 - In what is considered by the experts (Bob and Jim down at the bar), the seventh game of the World Series, played this day, was one of the greatest ever. Minnesota Twins’ pinch-hitter Gene Larkin’s tenth-inning bases-loaded single beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in the seventh game. The Twins captured their second World Championship in five years during the tight series that included three extra-inning games and five one-runners. And, for only the second time in history, the home team won all seven games (the first time it happened was 1987, a series that also featured the Twins.)
1994 - In the first trip to Syria by an American president in twenty years, President Bill Clinton met with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Clinton then headed to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli officials.
1994 - The Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population had exceeded one million for the first time in American history. There were 1,012,851 people in state and federal slammers at the end of June, 1994.
1995 - A Texas jury sentenced Yolanda Saldivar to life in prison for the murder of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the 23-year-old Tejano star.
1996 - In Egypt a twelve-story apartment building collapsed in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. Fifty people were killed and many others were missing. The owner had illegally -- and unwisely -- added the last five levels to the building.
1997 - The U.S. released a redesigned $50 bill. The new notes incorporated features to protect against counterfeiting and make U.S. currency more easily identifiable for people with low vision. The Series 1996 $50 note followed the introduction in March 1996 of the redesigned $100 note as part of a program to maintain the security of U.S. currency.
1997 - Intel Corporation and Digital Equipment announced a legal settlement. The agreement included the sale of Digital’s semiconductor manufacturing operations to Intel for about $700 million.
1997 - After a record drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street cut off trading. It was the first time that so-called ‘circuit breakers’ had been activated by the market’s plunge.
1998 - Gerhard Schröeder was sworn in as German chancellor the day after Helmut Kohl stepped down.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch cut through the western Caribbean, pummeling coastal Honduras and Belize. Mitch was the Atlantic basin’s fourth strongest hurricane ever with sustained winds of 180 mph. The storm, and the mudslides it caused, was blamed for some 10,000 deaths in Central America by Nov. 2, 1998.
1999 - Roger Clemens pitched the New York Yankees to their second straight World Series sweep, shutting down the Atlanta Braves, 4-1. This ended Clemens’ quest for the prize that had eluded him. Clemens and the Yankees shut out Atlanta into the eighth out dueling John Smoltz. Pitcher Mariano Rivera who had two saves and a win in the Series was selected as MVP.
2000 - These films made their U.S. debuts: Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2: “...returns to Maryland’s ominous Black Hills region to reconstruct a ghastly series of crimes...”; The Little Vampire: “They're Not Just Best Friends. They’re Blood Borthers.” (Hahahaha... Get it?); and Lucky Numbers, with John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow and Tim Roth: comedy about a TV lottery-fixing scheme.
2001 - 40-year-old Brian Robinson of San Jose, CA became the first person to hike the three major scenic trails in the U.S. in a calendar year. He reached the northern terminus of the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin on this day. Robinson had already finished the Pacific Crest Trail (2,645 miles) and the Continental Divide Trail (2,588 miles). All in all, he had trekked some 7,400 miles in 22 states.
2002 - The headline read, “Heaven can’t wait. Angels defeat Giants for first World Series championship!” Darin Erstad caught the fly ball for the final out of Game 7, and the mayhem began. The Anaheim Angels whooped it up, celebrating the championship with hugs, slaps and unabashed joy. This, just one day after the Giants blew a 5-0 lead in the seventh inning of Game 6. Had they held on to that lead, San Francisco would have wrapped up the series for themselves. Somehow, the Angels pulled it together. They had led the majors in hitting, overwhelmed the New York Yankees and Minnesota in the A.L. playoffs and then knocked out Bonds and Co. “Somewhere, Gene Autry (the Angels’ late owner) is smiling right now,” commissioner Bud Selig said, as he presented the trophy. It was the highest scoring World Series ever, with 85 runs scored.
2003 - Bank of America Corp. announced it had agreed to buy FleetBoston Financial Corp. for $47 billion in stock. The deal created the second largest banking company in the U.S.
2003 - Rod Roddy, the flashy-dressed announcer on the TV game show The Price is Right, died in Los Angeles. He was 66 years old. Roddy’s was the booming, jovial voice that invited lucky audience members to “Come on down!” for nearly twenty years.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in game 4 to wrap up the first Boston World Series championship in 86 years.
2005 - The U.S. Department of Justice cleared the way for the $16-billion merger of AT&T and SBC Communications -- as well as the $8.5-billion purchase of MCI by Verizon.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Catch a Fire, with Robert Hobbs, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna and Tim Robbins; and Saw III, starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus MacFadyen, Bahar Soomekh and Dina Meyer.
2006 - The St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series, beating the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in game 5. It was the first major-league baseball crown for the Cardinals since 1982.
2007 - Anti-Iraq-War rallies were staged across the U.S. Thousands of people called for a swift end to the war in Iraq as they marched, chanting and carrying signs that read, “Wall Street Gets Rich, Iraqis and GIs Die” or “Drop Tuition Not Bombs.”
2008 - A Washington DC jury found Alaska’s Senator Ted Stevens guilty of trying to hide free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor. (On April 1, 2009, the U.S. Justice Department dropped charges against Stevens, because of prosecutors’ mistakes.)
2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 203 to 8,175.77, a 5½ year low.
2009 - Dead Air opened in U.S. theatres. The horror flick stars Bill Moseley, Patricia Tallman, Joshua Feinman, David Moscow, Navid Negahban and the very creepy Corbin Bernsen.
2009 - The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said the Sep 28 massacre by Guinean troops of some 150 people and the rapes of dozens of women at a pro-democracy rally in Guinea were premeditated, and that the raping of kidnapped women continued for days.
2010 - South Korea’s Red Cross said North Korea had demanded that the South resume large-scale food aid and joint economic projects in return for regular reunions of family members separated by the Korean War.
2011 - The Hammer opened in U.S. movie theatres. The biographical drama stars Russell Harvard, Raymond J. Barry, Shoshannah Stern, Michael Anthony Spady and Courtney Halverson.
2011 - Pope Benedict XVI joined Buddhist monks, Islamic scholars, Yoruba leaders and others to make a communal call for world peace. The group insisted that religion should never be used as a pretext for war or terrorism. The event, in Assisi, Italy, commemorated the 25th anniversary of a daylong prayer for peace first called by Pope John Paul II in 1986.
2012 - Senior U.S. secret service agent Rafael Prieto committed suicide. This, in the wake of an April 2012 prostitution scandal involving 13 agents and officers during a presidential trip to Colombia. For nearly six years the married father had kept his extramarital affair with a Mexican woman a secret from the agency.
2012 - Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa announced plans to give a bigger share of bank profits to the country’s poor. Under the plan, taxes would go up on bank holdings abroad and an excise tax on financial services would increase, with the proceeds used to increase lump-sum payments to single mothers, the elderly poor and other needy Ecuadoreans.
2013 - Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Lou Reed died at 71 years of age in Southampton, New York. The rock guitarist and singer formed and led the Velvet Underground [1965-1970] but his solo career spanned several decades. Reed is probably best remembered for his solo hit Walk on the Wild Side in 1972. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time included two albums by Reed as a solo artist: Transformer and Berlin.
2014 - San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee signed a law legalizing Airbnb and other short-term home rentals in the city.
2014 - 51 people, including six sitting mayors, were arrested in Spain for bribery and embezzlement.
2015 - The U.S. defied China, sending a warship close to artificial islands China was building in disputed waters. Not surprisingly, Beijing reacted by saying the move damaged U.S.-China relations...
2015 - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. acquired Rite Aid Corp. for $9.42 billion. Including debt, the deal was valued at $17.2 billion.
2016 - ZTO Express, the China-based delivery company, raised $1.4 billion in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange -- the largest offering of the year. The stock closed down 15% at $16.75.
2016 - The plane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence, his family, staffers and members of the press skidded off the runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. Despite the rough landing, everyone appeared to be okay. Passengers, including the Indiana governor, were evacuated from the plane following the incident.
2017 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres included: Jigsaw, with Laura Vandervoort, Tobin Bell and Callum Keith Rennie; Suburbicon, starring Julianne Moore, Matt Damon and Oscar Isaac; Thank You for Your Service, with Haley Bennett, Miles Teller and Keisha Castle-Hughes; All I See Is You, starring Blake Lively, Jason Clarke and Ahna O’Reilly; The Divine Order, with Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek and Rachel Braunschweig; The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, starring Rico Rodriguez, Matthew Modine and James Franco; Let There Be Light, with Kevin Sorbo, Sam Sorbo and Daniel Roebuck; and Mr. Roosevelt, starring Noël Wells, Nick Thune and Britt Lower.
2017 - POTUS Trump ordered the shrinking of several national monuments: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante in Utah along with Nevada’s Gold Butte and Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou. The reductions were a symbolic salvo in a campaign to reverse Obama-era public land expansions.
2018 - White nationalist Robert Bowers killed eight men and three women during worship services in the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA. A responding tactical police team shot and wounded him. Bowers was indicted on 44 federal counts, including hate crimes. He was also charged with 36 state criminal counts, including 11 counts of criminal homicide, 6 counts of aggravated assault, 6 counts of attempted criminal homicide, and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation.
2018 - Australia protesters rallied in Sydney and Melbourne calling for an end to the country’s South Pacific detention centers which were housing refugees who had tried to reach Australia by boat. Particular focus was directed toward the wellbeing of children on the tiny island nation of Nauru. More than 1,400 people were being held in the Australian-run detention centers on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, some had been detained for years.
2019 - The U.S. Air Force X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center following 780 days in orbit. The solar-powered plane was flown by remote control -- without an onboard crew.
2019 - French auction house Acteon reported that Christ Mocked, a long-lost painting by 13th century Italian master Cimabue, found earlier in the year in the kitchen of an elderly French woman, was sold for €24 million ($26.6 million). The price was more than four times the pre-auction estimate.
2020 - A federal judge denied POTUS Trump’s request that the United States government replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll. The suit alleged that Trump had raped Carroll in a Manhattan department store in 1995/1996. DOJ lawyers argued that Trump, in responding to Carroll’s accusation, had acted in his official capacity. In addition to replacing Trump’s personal lawyers, the right to move the proceedings from state to federal court was asserted. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan issued a statement that in part read: “Trump’s effort to wield the power of the U.S. government to evade responsibility for his private misconduct is without precedent.”
2020 - The Los Angeles Dodgers, after years of near misses, beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-1, to win their first World Series title since 1988. The 2020 series, capping a coronavirus-shortened season, was the first played entirely at a neutral field (Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas).
2020 - Russia ordered people across the country to wear facemasks in some public places and asked regional authorities to shut down bars and restaurants overnight after a surge in coronavirus cases. 16,550 new cases and 320 deaths had been reported - the country’s highest daily toll since the beginning of the pandemic.
2021 - The State Department issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation. It was a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who do not identify as male or female. The U.S. began offering the option to nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming people in early 2022.
2021 - William George Davis, a former nurse was sentenced to death for killing four patients at a hospital in Tyler, Texas. From 2017 to 2018, multiple patients experienced unexplained complications after heart surgeries while in recovery. Prosecutors played a recording of a call from Davis in jail to his ex-wife in which he claimed that he wanted to lengthen the patients’ time in the intensive care unit so that he could earn more overtime.
2022 - Elon Musk closed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, ending months of drama and legal fighting after he tried to back out. Musk fired the social media company’s chief executive, chief finance officer, and at least two other top executives as he began following through on his plan for sweeping changes on the social media company.
2022 - A three-judge federal appeals court panel declined Donald Trump’s request to place a hold on its decision to allow the handover of his IRS tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. The decision came after the full DC Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s request to review the panel’s August decision to release the returns. Ways and Means Committee chair Richard Neal (D-MA) said lawmakers have “waited long enough – we must begin our oversight of the IRS’s mandatory presidential audit program as soon as possible.”
2023 - Movies set to open in the U.S. included: After Death, with Michael Jovanovski, Koko Marshall and Doug Lito; Five Nights at Freddy’s, starring Matthew Lillard, Josh Hutcherson and Elizabeth Lail; Freelance, with Alice Eve, Alison Brie and John Cena; and Sight, starring Greg Kinnear, Fionnula Flanagan and Terry Chen.
2023 - Gaza was plunged into a total communications blackout as Israel carried out a big night of bombing. This, as the United Nations General Assembly called for a humanitarian truce -- the U.S. and Israel lead 14 countries in voting against the measure.
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Birthdays on This Day October 27
1728 - James Cook
British sea captain, explorer: Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands; killed by angry natives at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, Feb 14, 17791782 - Nicolò Paganini
violin virtuoso; died May 27, 18401858 - Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President [1901-1909]; married to A. Lee, E. Carow [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: TR, Trust Buster; first president to ride in a car, submerge in a submarine and fly in a plane; initiated the National Monument System; died Jan 6, 19191872 - Emily Post (Price)
etiquette authority: author: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage; syndicated newspaper columnist; died Sep 25, 19601910 - Jack Carson
actor: Sammy the Way Out Seal, The Bramble Bush, Magnificent Roughnecks, Ain’t Misbehavin’, A Star Is Born [1954], The Good Humor Man; died Jan 2, 19631910 - Fred De Cordova
Emmy Award-winning producer: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1991-1992]; director: Bedtime for Bonzo, Frankie and Johnny, I’ll Take Sweden; died Sep 15, 20011911 - Leif Erickson (William Anderson)
actor: The High Chaparral, Force Five, On the Waterfront, Rocky 3, Tea and Sympathy, Waikiki Wedding; died Jan 29, 19861914 - Dylan Thomas
playwright: The Three Weird Sisters, Under Milkwood; poet: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Adventures in the Skin Trade; died Nov 9, 19531917 - Oliver Tambo
President of South Africa’s African National Congress; died Apr 24, 19931918 - Teresa Wright
Academy-Award-winng [supporting] actress: Mrs. Miniver [1942]; The Rainmaker, Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception, The Good Mother, The Men, The Fig Tree, Bill: On His Own, Dolphin Cove, Playhouse 90, The Little Foxes; died Mar 6, 20051920 - Nanette Fabray (Fabares)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Caesar’s Hour [1955, 1956]; One Day at a Time, Westinghouse Playhouse, Our Gang series; aunt of actress Shelley Fabares; died Feb 22, 20181922 - Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Hallmark Hall of Fame: Decoration Day [1990-91]; Peyton Place, Zora Is My Name, Do the Right Thing, A Raisin in the Sun, The Jackie Robinson Story, All God’s Children, Gore Vidal’s Lincoln, Roots: The Next Generation; died Jun 11, 20141922 - Ralph (Mc Pherran) Kiner
Baseball Hall of Famer: outfielder: National League’s first $100,000 player; Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1948-1953/led league in home runs: 1946-52], Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians; broadcaster: NY Mets; died Feb 6, 20141923 - Roy Lichtenstein
sculptor; artist: Blam; died Sep 29, 19971927 - Kyle Rote
College Football Hall of Famer: Southern Methodist University; New York Giants running back; sportscaster; died Aug 15, 20021930 - Bill George
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Bears middle linebacker: All-Pro [1955-1962]; LA Rams; died Sep 30, 19821932 - Kathy Cornelius (McKinnon)
golf champion: U.S. Open [1956]1933 - Floyd Cramer
pianist: Last Date, On the Rebound, San Antonio Rose; died Dec 31, 19971938 - Lara Parker
actress: Foxfire Light, The Solitary Man, Race with the Devil, Night of Dark Shadows; more1939 - John Cleese
Emmy Award-winning actor: A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Splitting Heirs, Life of Brian, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Silverado, The Big Picture; guest performer: Cheers [1986-1987]1942 - Lee Greenwood
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1983, 1984]: Dixie Road, Hearts Aren’t Made to Break [They’re Made to Love], Going, Going, Gone, Mornin’ Ride, I Don’t Mind the Thorns [If You’re the Boss], God Bless the U.S.A.; musician: sax, piano: band leader: Trick; more1945 - Dickie Dodd
musician: drums: group: The Standells: Dirty Water, Big Boss Man, Riot on Sunset Strip; former Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer; died Nov 29, 20131945 - Mike Lum
baseball: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs1945 - Carrie Snodgress
actress: Diary of a Mad Housewife, 8 Seconds, The Solitary Man, Woman with a Past, Pale Rider, Chill Factor; died Apr 1, 20041945 - John Williams
football [offensive lineman]: Baltimore Colts [1968–1971]: Super Bowl III; Super Bowl V champs; Los Angeles Rams [1972–1979]; died Jul 8, 20121946 - Ivan Reitman
director: Ghostbusters series, Dave, Kindergarten Cop, Meatballs, Stripes1947 - Terry Anderson
news correspondent: kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists in Beirut [1985], released [1991]1949 - Garry W. Tallent
musician: guitar: group: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Born In the U.S.A., Dancing in the Dark, Glory Days, Blinded By the LightRosalita [Come Out Tonight]1951 - K.K. Downing
musician: guitar, songwriter: group: Judas Priest: The Green Manalishi, Living After Midnight, Breaking the Law, Hot Rockin’, Heading Out to the Highway, The Hellion1951 - Jayne Kennedy
actress: Night Trap, Body and Soul, Ms. 45, Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women, Death Force, Big Time, Cover Girls; TV sportscaster: The NFL Today; Playboy covergirl [1981]1952 - Roberto Benigni
comedian, screenwriter; Academy Award-winning actor: Life is Beautiful aka La vita è bella [1999]; Son of the Pink Panther, The Monster, Coffee and Cigarettes, To Rome with Love; director: The Monster, Life Is Beautiful, Pinocchio, The Tiger and the Snow1952 - Pete Cusick
football: Ohio State, NE Patriots DT1953 - Peter Firth
actor: Pearl Harbor, Amistad, Spooks, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Aces High, Diamonds on Wheels, Letter to Brezhnev, The Greatest Game Ever Played1953 - Robert Picardo
actor: Star Trek: Voyager, China Beach, Innerspace, The Wonder Years, Wagons East, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe1956 - Veronica Hart
actress [1980-2009]: X-rated films: Wanda Whips Wall Street, Pandora’s Mirror, Private School Girls, Electric Blue series, Satisfaction Jackson, Sex Academy, Latex, Still Insatiable1956 - Patty Sheehan
golf champ: U.S. Women’s Open [1992, 1994], LPGA Championship [1983, 1984, 1993], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1996]; more1958 - Simon LeBon
singer: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys1959 - Rick Carlisle
basketball: Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, New Jersey Nets; coach: Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Dallas Mavericks; more1963 - Marla Maples
actress: Will Roger’s Follies, Executive Decision, Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish1967 - Scott Weiland
songwriter, singer: Stone Temple Pilots [1989-2002]: Creep, Interstate Love Song, Vaseline; Velvet Revolver [2003-2008]; died Dec 3, 20151969 - John Kasay
football [kicker]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, Carolina Panthers1973 - Jason Johnson
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers1978 - Stephanie Abrams
TV meteorologist: The Weather Channel: Wake Up with Al, Morning Rush1982 - Patrick Fugit
actor: Almost Famous, Promised Land, Touched by an Angel, Legion of Fire: Killer Ants, Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, White Oleander, Saved!, The Amateurs, Bickford Shmeckler’s Cool Ideas, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, We Bought a Zoo1984 - Kelly Osbourne
singer: Shut Up, Papa Don’t Preach, Come Dig Me Out, More Than Life Itself, Live Freaky Die Friday; TV dance contestant: Dancing with the Stars; daughter of singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne1986 - Inbar Lavi
actress: Underemployed, Gang Related, Prison Break, Imposters, Lucifer1992 - Brandon Saad
hockey [left winger]: Chicago Blackhawks [2011–2020]: 2013, 2015 Stanley Cup champs; Colorado Avalanche [2020-2021]1993 - Troy Gentile
actor: The Goldbergs, Bad News Bears, Nacho Libre, Good Luck Chuck, Drillbit Taylor, Hotel for Dogs1996 - Samantha Logan
actress: All American, 13 Reasons Why, 666 Park Avenue, The Fosters, General Hospital1997 - Lonzo Ball
basketball [point guard]; NBA: Los Angeles Lakers [2017–2019]; New Orleans Pelicans [2019–2021]; Chicago Bulls [2021- ]
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Hit Music on This Day October 27
1946Five Minutes More (facts) - Tex Beneke
To Each His Own (facts) - Eddy Howard
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