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1636 - The Massachusetts General Court provided 400 pounds to support a school or college, and so, Harvard University was founded in Cambridge, MA.1746 - The Peruvian cities of Lima & Callao were demolished by an earthquake and tsunami. 18,000 people were killed.
1858 - Roland H. Macy opened Macy’s Department Store, selling “fancy dry goods” in New York City. Gross receipts of $1,106 were counted on that first day of business.
1886 - An emblem of Franco-American unity, the Statue of Liberty, was presented to the American people by the people of France and unveiled this day. The Statue of Liberty, at Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor, is the work of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who called it "Liberty Enlightening the World". Bartholdi was present at the dedication presided over by U.S. President Grover Cleveland.
1891 - An earthquake hit Mino-Owari, Japan. Some 7,300 people were killed.
1904 - Fingerprinting was first used by the St. Louis Police Department.
1913 - Krazy Kat, by George Herriman, appeared for the first time as an independent comic strip. Herriman had started the Krazy Kat idea in July 1910 to “...fill up white space” at the bottom of The Dingbat Family, the daily strip he was then doing. He had the family cat beaned with a stone thrown by an impudent mouse. This continued for weeks as a sideshow, but the characters eventually took on distinct forms. The mouse became Ignatz, and the cat became Krazy Kat.
1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game on radio. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field in the Windy City. The game description was first carried on phone lines to New York City, then broadcast. (Princeton 21, Chicago 18.)
1922 - Fascism came to Italy as Benito Mussolini took control of the government. Mussolini was dictator of Italy until 1943. He centralized all power in himself as the leader (il duce) of the Fascist party and attempted to create an Italian empire, ultimately in a doomed alliance with Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
1927 - Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) flew the first international flight -- from Key West, Florida to Havana, Cuba.
1936 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary during a campaign stop in New York.
1940 - The Greek people had much to celebrate. Their resistance and military had turned back Mussolini’s troops and Greece’s borders were closed to the Nazi supporters. This day is still celebrated throughout Greece as Ohi (No!) Day.
1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Sky King starred Roy Engel, then Jack Lester, Earl Nightingale and finally, Carlton KaDell, as Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky’s niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by Mars candy.
1949 - The first woman U.S. ambassador, Eugenie Anderson, was appointed as ambassador to Denmark by President Harry S Truman.
1950 - Jack Benny took his well-known radio show [on radio for 20 years] to television without missing a beat. Audiences watching CBS-TV this night at 7:30 p.m. finally got to see the stingy, vain-about-his-age, Benny. There he was with his violin, ancient Maxwell car, and his basement vault in living black and white. Eventually, TV audiences got to see Jack Benny, his wife Mary Livingstone, and his friends Eddy ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Don Wilson and Dennis Day in living color. The show lasted on TV for fifteen years!
1954 - The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway, the world-famous author of novels, such as The Sun Also Rises" (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
1961 - Brian Epstein, a record store owner in London, was asked by a customer for a copy of the record, My Bonnie, by a group known as The Silver Beatles. He didn’t have it in stock so he went to the Cavern Club to check out the group. He signed to manage them in a matter of days and renamed them The Beatles.
1961 - Groundbreaking ceremonies were held for the Municipal Stadium at the former site of the New York World’s Fair in Flushing, NY. The name was later changed to Shea Stadium, after New York Commissioner William A. Shea.
1965 - The Gateway Arch (630ft/192m high), St. Louis, Missouri, was completed. Construction had begun Feb 12, 1963.
1973 - Secretariat raced into history by winning the Canadian International Stakes in Toronto. It was the last race won ... and run ... by the magnificent thoroughbred.
1974 - Rhoda Morgenstern made TV history as she married Joe Girard on Rhoda on CBS. The show was a spin-off from the hugely successful The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
1978 - Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City was the number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The hit was a track from Gilder’s City Nights album.
1980 - Annette Funicello, Cubby O’Brien, Tommy Cole, Sherry Alberoni and Dickie Dodd joined other Mouseketeers wearing black ears and white shirts on a sound stage in Burbank, CA. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Mickey Mouse Club. While we’re celebrating the Mickey Mouse Club, do you remember the five special events each week? There was Fun with Music Day on Monday, Guest Star Day on Tuesday, Anything Can Happen Day on Wednesday, Circus Day on Thursday and Talent Roundup Day on Friday. “Y? Because we LIKE you!”
1981 - Game 6 of the World Series saw the Los Angeles Dodgers storm back, winning their forth straight game (9-2), and the championship, after having been down two games to none to the New York Yankees. Rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela started the Dodger comeback, and batters Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Garvey, and Steve Yeager took them the rest of the way. There had been genuine concern that snow might interfere with the Fall Classic since it was being played so late in the season in New York City. And we worry about that every year that there’s a World Series game in a northern city...
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty was celebrated in New York with “a grand ceremony.” Major repairs and improvements to the statue had begun during the early 1980s. The restoration project, costing $66,000,000, was completed in time for a 4-day ‘Liberty Weekend’ festival on July 4.
1989 - The Oakland Athletics beat the San Francisco Giants 9-6 to complete a four-game sweep of the World Series, the first World Series sweep since 1976. The A’s scored first in every game and never lost the lead once. Oakland pitcher Dave Stewart pitched two games, won two games, struck out fourteen hitters in sixteen innings, had an earned run average of 1.69 and was named MVP. The Series will be remembered not not only for the A’s dominance, but but for the earthquake before game three that killed sixty- seven people in the San Francisco Bay area.
1993 - Doris Duke only child of American Tobacco founder James Buchanon, died. She was 80 years old. Duke left her fortune to her butler, Bernard Lafferty.
1995 - Atlanta Braves right fielder David Justice broke a scoreless tie with the Cleveland Indians. It was a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth in in Game 6 of the World Series, and it was all the Braves would need. Pitcher/Series MVP Tom Glavine allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth to seal the championship, the first in Atlanta’s history.
1997 - A day after plunging 554 points, the U.S. stock market roared back, posting a 337-point recovery, with more than one billion shares traded.
1998 - British poet Ted Hughes died at the age of 68. His work included 35 books of poems, three works of prose, two opera libretti, and four stage plays.
1999 - China Netcom Corp. began operations. It was formed earlier in the year by several government agencies as a competitor to the state-owned telecom monopoly, China Telecom Corp.
2000 - David Trimble, leader of Northern Ireland’s Protestant party, narrowly won a crucial party battle, keeping alive the power-sharing government.
2002 - Robert Flores, a failing 41-year-old nursing student, shot and killed three professors and then himself at the College of Nursing in Tucson, Arizona.
2003 - Southern California wildfires covered 600,000 acres. The death toll climbed to twenty. Some 11,467 firefighters were attacking the blazes. Arson was suspected in most of the ten fires.
2004 - FOX News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly (55) settled a harassment lawsuit brought by former FOX producer Andrea Mackris. Mackris accused him of graphically discussing sex on the telephone with her. The New York Daily News, citing unidentified sources, reported that O’Reilly had agreed to pay Mackris anywhere from $2 million to $10 million.
2005 - Movies making debuts in U.S. theatres: The Legend of Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund and Adrian Alonso; Prime, with Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams; Saw II, starring Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell, Franky G., Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuael Vaugier, Beverley Mitchell and Eric Knudsen; and The Weather Man, with Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Gemmenne de la Peña, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Rispoli, Judith McConnell and David Darlow.
2005 - Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice by a grand jury. Libby, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, immediately resigned. The indictments stemmed from a two-year investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald into whether Libby or -- any other administration officials -- knowingly disclosed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame or lied about their involvement to investigators.
2005 - Elvis Presley topped Forbes magazine’s list of Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities for the fifth successive year, earning US$45 million in royalties. Elvis was followed by Charles M. Schulz ($35M), John Lennon ($22M), Andy Warhol ($16M), and Dr. Seuss ($10M).
2006 - Russian officials said dozens of people had died and 1,000 others had received hospital treatment in a wave of alcohol poisoning that was sweeping the country.
2007 - A fire erupted in a beach house in Ocean Isle Beach, NC. Six of the sleeping students who were killed attended the Univ of South Carolina and the seventh attended Clemson University.
2007 - Country music star Porter Wagoner died at 80 years of age. Wagoner was known for a string of country hits in the 1960s, perennial appearances at the Grand Ole Opry (in his trademark rhinestone suits), and for launching the career of Dolly Parton. The Missouri-born Wagoner signed with RCA Records in 1955 and joined the Opry in 1957. His syndicated TV show, The Porter Wagoner Show, ran for 21 years, beginning in 1960.
2007 - In Denver, the Boston Red Sox won game 4 (4-3) of the World Series, sweeping the Colorado Rockies, and touching off celebrations in New England.
2008 - 38-year-old former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail for four months for his part in a sex-and-text scandal.
2008 - Internet search giant Google, along with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild, announced a book copyright settlement. Google agreed to pay $125 million to start the Books Rights Registry, resolve legal fees and deal with other issues relating to authors and online book use.
2009 - Michael Jackson’s This Is It debuted in U.S. theatres. The film is a compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his 2009 series of sold-out shows in London.
2009 - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s ‘supreme leader’, ruled that questioning the results of Iran’s June presidential election to be a crime. Khamenei said, “The day after the election, some people, without logic or reason, called the glorious election a lie.” He said questioning the election was “the biggest crime.”
2009 - Kuwait’s highest court ruled that women lawmakers were not obliged by law to wear the headscarf (known as hijab). The ruling was a blow to Muslim fundamentalists who wanted to fully impose Islamic Sharia law on this small oil-rich state.
2010 - A White House panel reported that Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP’s doomed Gulf of Mexico oil well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in US history. Halliburton had run a series of tests on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the weeks before the April 20 explosion that showed the material was unstable. Apparently, the unstable cement mixture allowed hydrocarbons to flow up the drill pipe and onto the floor of the rig, where they ignited.
2010 - Actor James MacArthur died at 73 years of age. He is probably best remembered as Danno -- detective Danny Williams -- in the original version of TV’s Hawaii Five-O. MacArthur’s breakout role was in the 1957 Climax! TV series production of The Young Stranger, in which he starred as the 17-year-old son of a movie executive who has a run-in with the law.
2011 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Amber Heard and Richard Jenkins; Anonymous, with Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall and David Thewlis; In Time, starring Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki and Colin McGurk; And They’re Off, with Sean Astin, eter Jacobson, Kevin Nealon, Alex Rocco and Mo Collins; The Double, starring Odette Annable, Stephen Moyer, Richard Gere, Stana Katic, Topher Grace and Martin Sheen; Inkubus, with Robert Englund, William Forsythe, Jonathan Silverman, Joey Fatone, Michelle Ray Smith and Chad A. Verdi; Janie Jones, with Abigail Breslin, Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue, Peter Stormare, Joel David Moore and Frances Fisher; and Like Crazy, with Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley and Alex Kingston.
2011 - The Philippine government said it was seizing three Manila properties belonging to flamboyant former first lady Imelda Marcos. This, as payment for money she embezzled in 1983.
2012 - London police arrested former pop star Gary Glitter as part of an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile. Glitter, who gained fame in the early 1970s with his hit, Rock and Roll, had been dogged over the years by child sex accusations. He was convicted of abusing two girls in Vietnam in 2006 and was jailed in that country.
2012 - The San Francisco Giants won the 2012 World Series beating the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in Game 4 of a 4-game sweep.
2013 - A petition campaign demanding justice topped a million signatures in Kenya after three men accused of brutally gang raping a Kenyan schoolgirl in June were ordered to cut grass as punishment.
2013 - A major storm, called the St Jude storm, lashed southern Britain, the Netherlands and parts of France, knocking down trees, flooding low areas and causing travel chaos.
2014 - An unmanned U.S. supply rocket exploded shortly after lifting off from the Wallops Flight Facility launch pad in Virginia. It was the first failure since NASA turned to private operators to run cargo to the International Space Station. The 14-story Antares rocket was built and launched by Orbital Sciences Corp.
2015 - Former House speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty to making illegal bank transactions -- to evade requirements to report where the money was going. Hastert had been paying a former student to stay quiet about allegations of sexual abuse from when he was a wrestling coach and teacher in Yorkville, IL.
2016 - New motion pictures in the U.S. included: Inferno, starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones and Ben Foster; Gimme Danger, with Iggy Pop, Danny Fields and Ron Asheton; New Life, starring James Marsters, Terry O’Quinn and Barry Corbin; and The Unspoken, with Jodelle Ferland, Sunny Suljic and Matt Bellefleur.
2016 - 11 days before the U.S. presidential election: In a letter sent to members of Congress, FBI Direct James Comey said new emails had been discovered in an “unrelated” (to Hillary Clinton) case. The emails were discovered as part of an investigation into Anthony Weiner and were sent or received by Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates disagreed with the FBI Director’s decision to notify Congress about his bureau’s review of emails. And, as it turned out, no wrongdoing by Clinton was discovered in those emails. But, the announcement by Comey so close to the election changed the outcome.
2017 - British budget airline easyJet reached an agreement with Air Berlin to buy parts of the bankrupt German airline. The deal was part of a €40-million ($46-million) deal. The German news agency dpa reported that easyJet would take over 25 Air Berlin Airbus A320 jets.
2018 - Mexican voters in a referendum rejected the completion of a new, partly constructed Mexico City airport by a 70 to 29 percent margin. This effectively ended the $13 billion project that was already one-third built.
2018 - IBM bought software maker Red Hat Inc. for $33.4 billion, its biggest acquisition to that time. Red Hat started in 1993 as a distributor of a particular variation of Linux, the open-source operating system that has been commonly used in server computers that power company data centers.
2018 - The Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 5 of the World Series to win the series 4 games to 1. Manager Alex Cora capped off one of the greatest runs by a first-year skipper in leading Boston to the World Series championship.
2019 - The Vatican changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives. Containing millions of documents spanning some 12 centuries, he archives first got their name around 1610. The collection of papers, documents and parchments dates back to the 700s, making it one of the world’s most important research centers.
2019 - POTUS Trump attended a conference of police chiefs in Chicago. Eddie Johnson, the city’s top cop, skipped the event. City Mayor Lori Lightfoot also refused to meet with Trump during his visit. It was almost as if Trump was not Chicago’s favorite president.
2019 - The Getty Fire in Los Angeles forced thousands of residents to flee their homes as winds reached extremely dangerous levels. In northern California the Kincade Fire that broke out the previous week amid Sonoma County’s vineyards and wineries grew to at least 103 square miles (267 square km), destroying 94 buildings, including 40 homes. Nearly 200,000 people were under evacuation orders, mostly from the city of Santa Rosa.
2020 - In another puzzling election-year move, Donald Trump opened up more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, stripping protections that had safeguarded one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests for nearly two decades.
2020 - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed election officials in two battleground states, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, to accept absentee ballots for several days after Election Day.
2020 - Mexico’s health ministry reported 5,595 additional cases of COVID-19 and 495 more deaths in the country, bringing the official number of cases to 906,863 and the death toll to 90,309.
2020 - Switzerland tightened restrictions to contain the country’s rising wave of COVID-19 cases, ordering dance clubs to be closed, halting in-person university classes, and placing new limits on sporting and leisure activities. This, as Germany, France and other countires imposed new lockdowns to curb virus spread.
2021 - The state of Florida sued the Biden administration over its coronavirus vaccine mandate for federal contractors, in yet another spat between Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and the Democrat in the White House.
2021 - Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Brazil’s authorities would not tolerate the dissemination of fake news in upcoming elections. This, after an electoral court acquitted far-right President Jair Bolsonaro of spreading fake stuff in the 2018 election. “We are not going to allow these digital militias to try again to destabilize the elections, the democratic institutions, backed by spurious and undeclared financing,” Moraes said from the bench.
2022 - Movies opening in the U.S. included Prey for the Devil, starring Virginia Madsen, Jacqueline Byers and Colin Salmon; and Till, with Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell and Whoopi Goldberg.
2022 - An hammer-wielding intruder attacked Paul Pelosi, 82-year old husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their California home. She was not at home, but Paul Pelosi was seriously injured and underwent surgery for his fractured skull. San Francisco police arrested David DePape, age 42, at the scene. He had planned to take Speaker Pelosi hostage and “interrogate” her.
2022 - Swedish engineers in Linköping produced the world’s first female crash dummy (previous female dummies were just scaled down version of the male figure). The seat evaluation tool was designed on the body of the average woman. When a woman is in a car crash she is up to three times more likely to suffer whiplash injuries in rear impacts in comparison to a man, according to U.S. government data. Although whiplash is not usually fatal, it can lead to physical disabilities - some of which can be permanent.
2023 - In the 10th Rugby World Cup, at Stade de France, north of Paris, South Africa became the first to win four World Cups and the second to get back-to-back wins. This, after a gripping 12-11 win over New Zealand.
2023 - Former Vice President Mike Pence ended his 2024 presidential campaign. He made the announcement during remarks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, stating that he was dropping his bid for the White House because, “it’s not my time.”
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Birthdays on This Day October 28
1466 - Desiderius Erasmus (Gerhard Gerhards)
scholar, author: Encomium Moriae [In Praise of Folly]; died July 12, 15361842 - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, orator, author: ‘American Joan of Arc’; died Oct 22, 19321846 - Auguste Escoffier
‘King of Chefs and Chef of Kings’: invented Peach Melba; Legion d’Honneur: contribution to international reputation of French cuisine; died Feb 12, 19351896 - Howard Hanson
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer: Symphony No. 4 [1944]; George Foster Peabody Award [1946]; Laurel Leaf of the American Composers Alliance [1957]; Huntington Hartford Foundation Award [1959]; Priz de Rome [1921]; president: Eastman School of Music; died Feb 26, 19811897 - Edith Head
Academy Award-winning costume designer: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1960, 1973; died Oct 24, 19811902 - Elsa Lanchester (Elizabeth Sullivan)
actress: Come to the Stable, Witness for the Prosecution, The Bride of Frankenstein, Nanny and the Professor, The John Forsythe Show; wife of actor Charles Laughton; died Dec 26, 19861914 - Dr. Jonas Salk
medical researcher: Salk polio vaccine; AIDS research; died June 23, 19951915 - Dody Goodman
comedienne, actress: Forever Fernwood, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Jack Paar Show, Punky Brewster, Diff’rent Strokes; TV panelist: Liar’s Club; died Jun 22, 20081926 - Bowie Kuhn
attorney; baseball commissioner [1969-1984]; died Mar 15, 20071927 - Cleo Laine
Grammy Award-winning singer: Cleo at Carnegie: The 10th Anniversary Concert [1983]1929 - Joan Plowright
actress: Avalon, Dennis the Menace, Enchanted April, The Merchant of Venice, Equus, The Entertainer; wife of actor Lord Lawrence Olivier1930 - Bruce Morton
Emmy Award-winning news correspondent: The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: Reports from the Lt. Calley Trial [1970-71]; CNN national correspondent; died Sep 5, 20141932 - Suzy Parker (Cecelia Anne Renee Parker)
model, actress: The Interns, The Best of Everything, Ten North Frederick, Funny Face; died May 3, 20031934 - Jim Beatty
National Track & Field Hall of Famer: LA Track Club distance runner; Sullivan Award-winner [1962]: AAU indoor-mile champion [1961-63]: first person to run an indoor mile under 4 minutes [3:59.9]1936 - Charlie Daniels
CMA Award-winning musician [1979]: guitar, fiddle; singer: group: Charlie Daniels Band: The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Uneasy Rider, Still in Saigon; in film: Urban Cowboy; died Jul 6, 20201937 - Lenny Wilkens
Basketball Hall of Famer: St. Louis Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers; player/coach: Seattle Supersonics: 1979 NBA championship, Portland Trail Blazers; VP/General Mgr.: Seattle Supersonics; coach: Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks1939 - Jane Alexander (Quigley)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Playing for Time [1980-81]; Kramer vs. Kramer, The Great White Hope, All the President’s Men, Eleanor & Franklin; chairperson: National Endowment for the Arts1941 - John Hallam
actor: Arabian Nights, The 10th Kingdom, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, White Peak Farm, Return to Treasure Island, The Master of Ballantrae; died Nov 14, 20061941 - Curtis Lee
singer: Pretty Little Angel Eyes, Under the Moon of Love; died Jan 8, 20151941 - Hank Marvin (Brian Rankin)
musician: guitar: group: The Shadows: Apache, Kon Tiki, Wonderful Land, Dance On, Foot Tapper, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina1942 - Michael (John) Crichton
writer: Jurassic Park, Twister, Rising Sun, The Great Train Robbery, The Terminal Man, Disclosure, The Great Impostor, The Secret of Canta Victoria, Congo; director: Runaway, Coma, Westworld, The Great Train Robbery; died Nov 4, 20081944 - Dennis Franz (Schlachta)
Emmy Award-winning actor: N.Y.P.D. Blue [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1998-1999]; Nasty Boys, Hill Street Blues, Chicago Story, Beverly Hills Buntz, The Bay City Blues, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Body Double, Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill1945 - Wayne Fontana (Glyn Ellis)
singer: group: Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders: Game of Love, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um; solo: Come on Home, Pamela Pamela; died Aug 6, 20201948 - Telma Hopkins
singer: group: Dawn: Candida, Knock Three Times, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; actress: A New Kind of Family, Getting By, Family Matters, Bosom Buddies, Gimme a Break, Tony Orlando and Dawn1949 - Bruce (William) Jenner aka Caitlyn Jenner
National Track & Field and Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist: decathlon winner [1976]; AP Athlete of the Year, Sullivan Award-winner [1976]; sportscaster; Wheaties box star1952 - Annie Potts
actress: Designing Women, Love & War, Goodtime Girls, Breaking the Rules, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ghost Busters series, Young Sheldon1955 - Bill Gates (William H. Gates)
computer software mogul, one of the world’s richest, president and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation1956 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran [2005-2013]1960 - Mark Derwin
actor: One Life to Live, The Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless1960 - Tony Montana (Julio Gonzales)
actor [1984-2006]: X-rated films: Too Naughty to Say No, Swedish Erotica series, Amazing Tails series, Suite Sensations, Snow Black and the Seven Wienies, Life Is Butt a Dream, Between a Rock and a Hot Place, Twin Cheeks, Positions Wanted, Breakfast with Tiffany1962 - Daphne Zuniga
actress: The Sure Thing, Melrose Place, Modern Girls, Spaceballs, Last Rites, Gross Anatomy, The Fly II, Staying Together, Degree of Guilt, Stories from My Childhood1963 - Lauren Holly
actress: NCIS, Dumb & Dumber, All My Children, A Smile Like Yours, Picket Fences, Down Periscope, Chicago Hope, Any Given Sunday, What Women Want1964 - Lenny Harris
baseball [outfield, shortstop, first, second, third base]: Los Angesles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins1964 - Paul Wylie
Olympic medalist: figure skating1965 - Jami Gertz
actress: Square Pegs, Sibs, The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Sixteen Candles, Alphabet City1966 - Chris Bauer
actor: True Blood, The Wire, 61*, Third Watch, Smith, Life on Mars, The Lost Room, Fringe, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, The Office1966 - Tim Bogar
baseball [shortstop, first, second, third base]: Eastern Illinois Univ; MLB: New York Mets, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers1966 - Andy Richter
writer, actor: Conan [TBS]; The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Conan O’Brien [NBC]; Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Seeing Other People, New York Minute, Death and Texas, Elf, My Boss’s Daughter, Andy Barker, P.I.; Celebrity Jeopardy! winner [$29,400]1967 - Julia Roberts
Academy Award-winning actress: Erin Brockovich [2000]; Pretty Woman, Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, I Love Trouble, Mary Reilly, Blood Red, Flatliners, My Best Friend's Wedding, Conspiracy Theory, Runaway Bride, Ocean’s Eleven1972 - Terrell Davis
football [running back]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: Denver Broncos [1995–2002]: Super Bowl XXXII MVP [1998]1972 - Brad Paisley
musician: guitar, songwriter, singer: He Didn’t Have To Be, I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song), Celebrity, Mud on the Tires, Alcohol, When I Get Where I’m Going [w/Dolly Parton], Out in the Parking Lot [w/Alan Jackson], Cornography; more1974 - Henri Crockett
football [linebacker]: Florida State Univ; NFL: Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings1974 - Braden Looper
baseball [pitcher]: St. Louis Cardinals, Florida Marlins, New York Mets1974 - Joaquin Phoenix
actor: Parenthood, SpaceCamp, Russkies, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Walking the Dog, Return to Paradise, Clay Pigeons, 8MM, Gladiator, Buffalo Soldiers, Walk the Line1977 - Lauren Woodland
actress: Alien Nation, Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up, Sunset Beach, Port Charles, Undressed, The Young and the Restless1978 - Gwendoline Christie
actress: Game of Thrones, Wizards vs Aliens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi1979 - Martin Škoula
hockey: Colorado Avalanche, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, Pittsburgh Penguins, New Jersey Devils)1981 - Dwayne Cameron
actor: The Locals, One of Them, Street Legal, Mercy Peak, The Tribe1982 - Matt Smith
actor: eleventh Dr. Who [2010-2014], The Sarah Jane Adventures, Party Animals, Terminator: Genisys; stage: The History Boys, Swimming with Sharks, American Psycho1985 - Troian Bellisario
actress: Pretty Little Liars, JAG, First Monday, NCIS, Pleased to Meet You, C.O.G.1988 - Devon Murray
actor: Harry Potter film series1998 - Nolan Gould
actor: Modern Family2002 - Lola Tung
actress: The Summer I Turned Pretty
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Hit Music on This Day October 28
1947Near You (facts) - The Francis Craig Orchestra (vocal: Bob Lamm)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
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