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1629 - John Winthrop was elected Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company (while still in London, England).1864 - Helena, Montana was founded after the discovery of gold at Last Chance Gulch. Helena became the territorial capital after 1874 and the state capital in 1889.
1894 - D. (Daniel) M. Cooper of Rochester, New York patented the time clock. Timecards were inserted into what Daniel called the “workman’s time recorder.” The clock would then stamp the time on the card to record the actual time (assuming the clock was set correctly) employees started and ended work.
1925 - If you put everything into it except the kitchen sink, you’d have the TV transmitter that beamed TV to London for the first time. To build the transmitter, John Logie Baird used a tea chest, a biscuit box, darning needles, piano wire, motorcycle lamp lenses, old electric motors, cardboard scanning discs and glue, string and sealing wax.
1929 - It was announced that John D. Rockefeller was buying sound, common stocks to help stem the massive sell-off going on at the New York Stock Exchange. It didn’t help. More than 10.7 million shares had been dumped the previous day and the market was in a free fall. The Great Depression was on and not even a Rockefeller could stop it.
1938 - Orson Welles presented his famous dramatization of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds on CBS’s Mercury Theater. The show was set up as a music program interrupted by news bulletins saying that Martians had landed near Princeton, New Jersey. Though a disclaimer was broadcast several times throughout the hourlong program, most listeners did not pay attention to the explanation telling them that the story was fictional and a radio fabrication. Even the newspaper program guides printed the warning. Nobody ever found out why thousands of people believed the science-fiction drama.
1939 - The German U-boat U-56 failed in an attack on the English battleship HMS Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes on board.
1940 - The Cole Porter musical Panama Hattie premiered on Broadway at the 46th starring Ethel Merman as Hattie, Arthur Treacher as Vivian, Betty Hutton as Florrie, James Dunn as Nick, Phyllis Brooks as Leila, Joan Carroll as Geraldine, Rags Ragland as Woozy, and Pat Harrington as Skat. The show closed on January 3, 1942 after 501 performances.
1941 - The song that would become the theme of bandleader Tony Pastor was recorded. It was Blossoms on the Bluebird label. If you don’t remember Blossoms, maybe you remember this one by Pastor: Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking).
1944 - The Martha Graham ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, with Graham in a leading role.
1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of wartime leather shoe rationing.
1950 - U.S. General Douglas MacArthur ordered a combined Marine and Army force to cross the 38th parallel and “mop up” remaining North Korean soldiers. 12,000 Marines found themselves surrounded by eight Chinese divisions. The marines lost 4,000 men and the Chinese lost 37,500.
1952 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer, missionary surgeon and founder of Lambaréné leper Hospital in République du Gabon, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. Schweitzer donated his prize to the hospital.
1953 - Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to the economic rehabilitation of Europe after WWII, the so-called Marshall Plan.
1958 - Most of us remember the quiz show, Concentration, as being on the daytime TV lineup [August 1958-March 1973]. But on this night it appeared on our TV screens at 8:30 p.m. Concentration was a temporary replacement for Twenty-One, which had been canceled suddenly because of the quiz show scandals of the time. Jack Barry was brought over from the Twenty-One set to host Concentration for its four-week nighttime run.
1964 - Roy Orbison went gold with his hit single, Oh, Pretty Woman.
1965 - I Hear a Symphony, by The Supremes, debuted on Billboard’s Top-40 chart. It became The Supremes’ sixth #1 hit.
1968 - The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Luis Alvarez for “his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.” The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Lars Onsager for “the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.”
1972 - A command performance was given for the Queen of England by Elton John.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the 8th round at Kinshasa, Zaire, in the first heavyweight championship fight held in Africa. Ali was named fighter of the year by Ring magazine.
1975 - The New York Daily News headlined, “Ford to City: Drop Dead”, following President Gerald Ford’s initial decision to veto any proposed federal funding for the city of New York (then on the brink of fiscal collapse). Ford later recanted and supported the Big-Apple bailout.
1976 - The group, Chicago, started its second (and final) week at number one on the pop singles charts with, If You Leave Me Now. The hottest LP was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life. The album was number one for a total of 14 weeks.
1979 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his choice of federal appeals judge Shirley Hufstedler to head the newly created Department of Education.
1983 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Turkey’s eastern provinces of Erzurum and Kars. Some 1,300 people were killed.
1984 - Barry Manilow opened at Radio City Music Hall, New York. His concerts sold out to the tune of $1.9 million, besting (by $100,000) the record set by Diana Ross.
1984 - Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, aka The Blues Brothers (Jake and Elwood), hit the two-million-dollar sales mark with their LP, Briefcase Full of Blues.
1990 - Workers digging the rail tunnel under the English Channel linked up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed. The Chunnel, connecting Folkestone, England, with Calais, France, opened for traffic in May 1994.
1991 - BET Holdings Inc. (Black Entertainment Television) became the first African-American company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1993 - Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II - Back Into Hell was the #1 album in the U.S. One of the album’s singles, I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That, hit #1 in twenty-five countries. Meat Loaf (his real name is Marvin Lee Aday) did a 215-show tour to promote the album.
1995 - David Bowie, Tom Donahue, Gladys Knight and The Pips, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles, The Velvet Underground, and Pete Seeger were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
1997 - Belfast lawyer and professor Mary McAleese was elected president of Ireland. She was the second woman in a row to capture the presidency in the traditional Roman Catholic society. Mary Robinson had broken the gender barrier in 1990, becoming the country’s first female president.
1998 - Movies opening in the U.S.: American History X, starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Avery Brooks, Stacey Keach, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Lien, Elliot Gould, Guy Torry, Ethan Suplee and William Russ; Living Out Loud, with Holly Hunter, Danny Devito and Queen Latifah; and John Carpenter’s Vampires, starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin and Sheryl Lee.
2000 - Steve Allen, TV entertainer, died at his home in Encino CA. He was 78 years old. Allen was the creator and first host of the Tonight Show. He recorded 49 albums, wrote 53 books and starred/appeared in numerous TV shows.
2001 - NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey snapped its first (thermal infrared temperature) picture of Mars, one week after the spacecraft arrived in orbit around the Red Planet.
2001 - Ford Motor Co. chairman William Clay Ford Jr. took over as chief executive after the ouster of Jacques Nasser.
2002 - In Minnesota Walter Mondale took the ballot place of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, some 48 hours after Wellstone’s death in an airplane crash.
2003 - A multistory parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino & Resort near Atlantic City’s boardwalk collapsed, killing five people and injuring 21 others.
2003 - Russian President Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on the Kremlin by relieving his chief of staff from duty. Putin named Dmitry Medvedev, the first deputy chief of staff and the chairman of the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, to succeed Alexander Voloshin in the post.
2003 - The original production of the musical Wicked premiered on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre, after completing pre-Broadway tryouts at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in May/June 2003. Its original stars included Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as the Wizard. The show won three Tony Awards and six Drama Desk Awards, while its original cast album received a Grammy Award. As of Oct 1, 2017, Wicked had been presented 5,811 times at the Gershwin -- and was still running.
2004 - Actress-dancer Peggy Ryan died in Las Vegas at 80 years of age. Ryan danced and acted in dozens of films, but her most memorable roles were with dancer Donald O’Connor (Mister Big, Chip Off the Old Block, The Merry Monahans, Bowery to Broadway); and she is remembered for her role in the TV police drama Hawaii Five-O; she played Jenny Sherman, secretary to Jack Lord’s Steve McGarrett.
2005 - Category 3 Hurricane Beta was the first hurricane named with the Greek letter. Beta, 23rd storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, approached Nicaragua and Honduras on this day.
2005 - Baseball Hall of Fame catcher and magager Al López died at 97 years of age. Lopez managed the Chicago White Sox to a pennant in 1959.
2006 - Super Typhoon Cimaron swept across the northern Philippines, killing 15 people in a barrage of landslides, uprooted trees and flooding.
2007 - Singer, actor Robert Goulet died at 73 years of age. Goulet’s Broadway debut in Camelot launched an award-winning stage and recording career (If Ever I Would Leave You, My Love, Forgive Me). He also performed in movies ranging from the animated Gay Purr-ee (1962) to Underground (1970) to The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991) and on TV: Blue Light (1966), Brigadoon, Kiss Me Kate (1966).
2007 - The U.N. General Assembly voted -- for the 16th straight year -- to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its “brutal economic war” to new levels.
2008 - The last flight lifted off from Tempelhof Airport. Famous for the Berlin airlift and the rebirth of the German capital, Tempelhof experienced low traffic, was surrounded by densely populated neighborhoods and was producing heavy financial losses.
2008 - Japan announced a $51.5 billion stimulus package to help its economy during the global financial crises.
2009 - Films debuting in U.S. theatres: Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, starring Julie Benz, Clifton Collins Jr., Judd Nelson, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Norman Reedus and Peter Fonda; Gentlemen Broncos, with Michael Angarano, Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement and Jennifer Coolidge; How to Seduce Difficult Women, with Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Stephanie Szostak, Jackie Hoffman and Rachel Roberts; Looking for Palladin, starring Ben Gazzara, David Moscow, Talia Shire, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Angélica Aragón, Roberto Díaz Gomar, Jimmy Morales, Sammy Morales and Vincent Pastore; Skin, with Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge and Ella Ramangwane; and The House of the Devil, starring A.J. Bowen, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Dee Wallace, Jocelin Donahue and Greta Gerwig.
2009 - The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise liner, began its maiden voyage to Florida. The monster ship glided out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board. It cost €1 billion ($1.5 billion) and took two and a half years to build.
2010 - Alexandria Mills, an 18-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky, was named winner of the 60th Miss World Competition, held on Hainan Island, China. Second place went to Emma Wareus of Botswana, and Adriana Vasini of Venezuela was voted third.
2011 - Chinese state media announced that China would maintain its strict ‘one-child’ policy, despite calls for the rule to be relaxed.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy toppled trees and power lines in the Canadian province of Ontario, leaving at least 145,000 people without power. The storm left 23 people dead on Staten Island, accounting for more than half of the 43 deaths in New York City.
2013 - Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said that four people accused of sabotaging one of Iran’s sensitive nuclear sites were only thieves -- not saboteurs.
2013 - The residents of Rjukan, Norway saw faint rays from the winter sun in the town’s market square for the first time. The glimmers followed the construction of three 183-square-foot mirrors on a nearby mountain. Tucked in-between steep mountains, the town is normally shrouded in shadow for almost six months every year.
2014 - The World Bank announced that it was providing $100 million to support the deployment of additional health workers to Ebola-stricken areas of West Africa.
2015 - New motion pictures in the U.S. included: Our Brand Is Crisis, starring Sandra Bullock, Zoe Kazan and Billy Bob Thornton; Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, with Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller and Joey Morgan; the documentary, The Armor of Light; Bare, with Dianna Agron, Paz de la Huerta and Chris Zylka; Love starring Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman and Klara Kristin; The Wonders, with Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu and Sam Louwyck; and Sex, Death and Bowling, starring Selma Blair, Adrian Grenier and Bailey Chase.
2016 - Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan was sworn in as the 54th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
2016 - 20-year-old Owen Labrie of Vermont was sentenced to a year in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old freshman girl. The assault was part of an upperclassman tradition (to rack up sexual conquests) at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire.
2016 - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid wrote a blistering letter to FBI Director James Comey, accusing the FBI chief of holding back “explosive” information about Donald Trump’s close Russian ties while possibly violating the Hatch Act by reviving the Clinton email investigation. “Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another,” Reid wrote, adding that through Comey’s “partisan actions, you may have broken the law.”
2017 - NBC News confirmed that it had terminated its contract with political journalist Mark Halperin, who was accused of sexual harassment by several women when he worked at ABC News in the early 2000s.
2017 - POTUS Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort and a former Manafort business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted on felony charges of conspiracy against the U.S. The pair was also charged with acting as unregistered foreign agents, and several other financial counts involving tens of millions of dollars routed through offshore accounts. Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced that George Papadopoulos, a former Trump foreign policy advisor, had pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to lying to FBI agents about the timing and detail of his attempts to line up meetings between Russian government officials and the Trump campaign.
2018 - Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger (89) was found dead in his cell one day after being transferred to the West Virginia federal prison. He was apparently beaten to death by at least two fellow inmates.
2018 - Hawaii’s Supreme Court upheld a decision to grant a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope planned for Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Construction had stopped in April 2015 after protesters were arrested for blocking the work. A second attempt to restart construction a few months later ended with more arrests and crews retreating when they encountered large boulders in the road. Scientists revere the mountain for its summit above the clouds that provides a clear view of the sky with very little air and light pollution. Opponents said the telescope would desecrate sacred land on the Big Island. Supporters say it would bring educational and economic opportunities to the state.
2019 - The Washington (DC) Nationals beat the Houston Astros 6-2 to win the 2019 World Series. The Nats were initially handcuffed in game 7 by Houston starter Zack Greinke, who gave up only two hits in six innings. Then, Washington scored all six runs in the last three innings.
2019 - The U.S. Federal Reserve lowered borrowing costs for the third time in 2019. But the Federal Reserve put itself on a potential collision course with POTUS Trump when it signalled to the financial markets that it had no immediate intention of cutting the cost of borrowing further.
2019 - At a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Boeing Co. Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg admitted that the company had made mistakes in the development of a key safety system known as MCAS. The system had been found to be at the center of two fatal 737 MAX crashes.
2019 - A new wildfire erupted in southern California, forcing the evacuation of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and nearby homes. This, as both ends of the state struggled with blazes, dangerously gusty weather and deliberate blackouts.
2020 - A study of U.S. plastic trash concluded that one to two million tons a year of the stuff (the equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person) was ending up in oceans and on roadways.
2020 - A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos. The shaking collapsed buildings in the city of Izmir In western Turkey. At least 116 people were killed in Turkey, with more than 900 others injured.
2021 - The heads of the world’s 20 biggest economies kicked off two days of talks in Rome. They acknowledged the existential threat of climate change, but stopped short of radical new commitments to tame global warming. Thousands of people marched during the summit, calling on the G20 leaders to take a tougher stand.
2022 - 141 people died when a 19th-century pedestrian bridge collapsed in India’s western Gujarat state. As many as 400 people were on the suspension bridge when a cable snapped and it fell into the River Machchhu. Survivor Prateek Vasava told the Gujarati-language news channel 24 Hours that he fell into the river and swam to the bank, unable to save any of the children near him. "I wanted to pull some of them along with me but they had drowned or got swept away," he said.
2022 - Iranian students at dozens of universities continued protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by morality police over the way she was dressed. The confrontations prompted the threat of a tougher crackdown in the seventh week of demonstrations sparked by the death the young woman.
2023 - Former basketball star Magic Johnson was the fourth athlete to become a billionaire (after Michael Jordan, Lebron James, and Tiger Woods), according to Forbes Magazine. Johnson's career as a businessman came after savvy investments in the Los Angeles Lakers and Starbucks. And he is the chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises.
2023 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire with Hamas, saying “this is a time for war” -- as Israeli ground forces moved into the Gaza strip.
2023 - President Joe Biden signed the first U.S. artificial intellegence executive order, with directives for federal agencies in the use of AI. The order expanded voluntary commitments the White House previously secured from leading AI companies and
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Birthdays on This Day October 30
1735 - John Adams
2nd U.S. President [1797-1801], 1st Vice President; married to Abigail Smith [two sons, three daughters]; nickname: Atlas of Independence; father of John Quincy Adams [6th U.S. President]; died July 4, 18261751 - Richard Sheridan
playwright: The Critic, School for Scandal, The Rivals; died July 7, 18161839 - Alfred Sisley
artist: impressionist: The Bridge at Hampton Court, View of Montmarte, Misty Morning, Snow at Louveciennes, The Rest by the Stream, The Church at Moret; died Jan 29, 18991882 - William ‘Bull’ (Frederick) Halsey Jr.
U.S. Naval Commander and Admiral: WWII: South Pacific arena; his flagship: USS Missouri; died Aug 16, 19591885 - Ezra Pound
poet: Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, The Pisan Cantos; died Nov 1, 19721892 - Charles Atlas (Angelo Siciliano)
bodybuilder: 97-lb. weakling who had sand kicked in his face advertisement; died Dec 24, 19721896 - Ruth Gordon (Jones)
Academy Award-winning actress: Rosemary’s Baby [1968]; Every Which Way But Loose, Harold and Maude; screenplay writer [w/Garson Kanin]: Adam’s Rib; Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi: Sugar Mama [Jan 16, 1979]; died Aug 28, 19851906 - Sue Carol (Evelyn Lederer)
actress: The Lone Star Ranger, Walking Back, Captain Swagger; talent agent: discovered Alan Ladd [who became her fourth husband in 1942]; died Feb 4, 19821911 - Ruth Hussey (O’Rourke)
actress: Stars and Stripes Forever, Northwest Passage, The Philadelphia Story, Madame X, Another Thin Man; died Apr 19, 20051914 - Patsy Montana
singer: I Wanna Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart, Gold Coast Express, The She Buckaroo, The Wheel of the Wagon Is Broken, Lone Star; died May 3, 19961915 - Fred Friendly
broadcast journalist; TV producer: CBS, PBS; died Mar 3, 19981917 - Bobby (Robert Randall) ‘Nig’ Bragan
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1947]; died Jan 21, 20101923 - Herschel Bernardi
actor: Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba, Bajour, Harbor Command, The Eleventh Hour, State Trooper, Third Watch, ER; died May 9, 19861927 - Joe (Joseph Wilbur) Adcock
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Braves [record for total bases in a game: 18, 4 home runs, 1 double: 7/31/54/World Series: 1957, 1958/all-star: 1960], Cleveland Indians, LA Angels, California Angels; died May 3, 19991930 - Néstor Almendros
cinematographer: New York Stories, Places in the Heart, Sophie’s Choice, The Blue Lagoon, Kramer vs. Kramer, Love on the Run, The Green Room, Madame Rosa, Cockfighter, Six in Paris; died Mar 4, 19921931 - Richard Gautier
actor: Here We Go Again, Bye Bye Birdie, When Things Were Rotten, Mr. Terrific; panelist: Liar’s Club, Here We Go Again, Get Smart; died Jan 13, 20171932 - Louis Malle
director: Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Aurevoir Les Enfants, Goodbye Children, Crackers, The Fire Within; died Nov 23, 19951935 - Jim (James Evan) Perry
baseball: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1961], Minnesota Twins [World Series: 1965/all-star: 1970, 1971/Cy Young Award-winner: 1970]], Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics1936 - Dick Vermeil
football: head coach: UCLA: Rose Bowl [1975]; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles [Super Bowl XV], St. Louis Rams [Super Bowl XXXIV], Kansas City Chiefs; career record: 126–114–0 [includes postseason]1937 - Claude Lelouch
Academy Award-winning director: A Man and a Woman [1966]; Bolero, Another Man, Another Chance1939 - Eddie Holland
songwriter: writing team: Holland-Dozier-Holland: Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, I Hear a Symphony, You Keep Me Hangin’ On, Reach Out, I’ll Be There; team inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]); singer: Jamie1939 - Grace Slick (Wing)
singer: group: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship: Somebody to Love, White Rabbit, Rejoice, Miracles, Count on Me, Runaway, We Built This City, Sara1940 - Ed Lauter
actor: Rattled, Mulholland Falls, Trial by Jury, Extreme Justice, Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise, Youngblood, Death Wish, Lassiter, In the Custody of Strangers, Death Hunt, King Kong, Fat Man and Little Boy, The Longest Yard, Stephen King’s Golden Years, B.J. and the Bear; died Oct 16, 20131941 - Jim Ray Hart
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1966], NY Yankees; died May 19, 20161941 - Otis Williams
singer: group: The Temptations: I Can’t Get Next to You, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, Just My Imagination, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, Masquerade1943 - Joanna Shimkus
actress: The Virgin and the Gypsy, Les Aventuriers, Six in Paris1945 - Henry Winkler
Emmy Award-winning actor: Barry; Happy Days, An American Christmas Carol, The Lords of Flatbush; TV coproducer: MacGyver; director: Cop and a Half, Memories of Me, A Smokey Mountain Christmas1946 - Glen Combs
basketball: Dallas/Texas Chaparrals1946 - Chris Slade
musician: drums: group: AC/DC: Highway to Hell, Wall All Over You, Shot Down in Flames, Get It Hot, Dirty Deeds Done Cheap, Rocker1947 - Timothy B. Schmit
musician: bass guitar, singer: group: Poco: Crazy Love, Heart of the Night; Eagles: Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Heartache Tonight, The Long Run, I Can’t Tell You Why1948 - J.D. Hill
football [wide receiver]: Arizona State, Buffalo Bills1950 - Phil Chenier
basketball: Washington Bullets1950 - Levi Johnson
football: Detroit Lions1951 - Greg Gantt
football: NY Jets punter1951 - Harry Hamlin
actor: L.A. Law, Studs Lonigan, Laguna Heat, Clash of the Titans, Dinner at Eight, Murder So Sweet, Under Investigation, Save Me1953 - Charles Martin Smith
actor: The Road Home, Speechless, And the Band Played On, The Untouchables, Starman, Herbie Goes Bananas, The Buddy Holly Story, American Graffiti, Fuzz, Culpepper Cattle Co.; actor, director: Fifty/Fifty; director: Boris and Natasha: The Movie, Trick or Treat1954 - T. Graham Brown
singer: Hell and High Water, I Tell It Like It Used to Be, I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again, Brilliant Conversationalist, Don’t Go to Strangers1956 - Shanna Reed
actress: Major Dad, The Colbys, The Night Caller, Rattled, Don’t Talk to Strangers, The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story, Legs1957 - Kevin Pollak
actor: The Usual Suspects, The Whole Nine Yards, The Whole Ten Yards, Blizzard, Juwanna Mann, The Santa Clause 2, Dr. Dolittle 2, 3000 Miles to Graceland, End of Days, From the Earth to the Moon1960 - Diego Maradona
soccer: Argentina: individual record for most games played in the finals [21: 1982-1994]; he spent his career with 7 different teams and scored 81 goals in 188 appearances for Napoli [1984-1991]1965 - Kevin Edwards
basketball [guard]: Miami Heat, New Jersey Nets, Orlando Magic, Vancouver Grizzlies1965 - Franky G
Frank Gonzales: actor: Saw II, The Italian Job, Confidence, Wonderland, The Devil’s Tomb, Dead Man Down1967 - Ty Detmer
football [quarterback]: Brigham Young Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions1968 - Snow (Darrin O’Brien)
rapper: Informer, Lonely Monday Morning, Runway, Girl I’ve Been Hurt, Lady With the Red Dress, Murder Love, Sexy Girl1970 - Nia Long
actress: NCIS: Los Angeles, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Third Watch, Boyz n the Hood, Boiler Room, Soul Food, Love Jones, The Best Man, Big Momma’s House, Are We There Yet?1975 - Keith Brooking
football [outside linebacker]: Georgia Tech Univ; NFL: Atlanta Falcons1976 - Maurice Taylor
basketball [forward]: Univ of Michigan; NBA: LA Clippers, Houston Rockets, NY Knicks1978 - Natália Lage
Brazilian actress: Hard (HBO), A Divisão, The Awakener: The Series, Under Pressure, Slaps & Kisses, Shades of Sin, Cara & Coroa1978 - Matthew Morrison
actor: Broadway: Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza; TV: Glee, As the World Turns; films: Dan in Real Life, Music and Lyrics1980 - Sarah Carter
actress: Falling Skies, DOA: Dead or Alive, Pledge This!, Haven, A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster, Final Destination 2, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, Shark1981 - Fiona Dourif
actress: True Blood, Curse of Chucky, The Master, The Messenger, Thief, Bored to Death, After the Fall, Gutshot Straight, Fear Clinic1981 - Ivanka Trump
daughter of 45th POTUS Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana; married to Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to Trump1982 - Clémence Poésy
actress: The Tunnel, Harry Potter film series, 127 Hours, Gossip Girl, The Silence of Joan (Jeanne Captive), Mr. Morgan’s Last Love, In Bruges1988 - Janel Parrish
actress: One Kine Day, April Showers, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke, Heroes1989 - Nastia Liukin
artistic gymnast: U.S. Olympic individual all-around Champion [2008]; World Champion on the balance beam [2005, 2007], World Champion on the uneven bars [2005]; nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual1990 - Joe Panik
baseball [second base]: San Francisco Giants: 2014 World Series champs1993 - Marcus Mariota
football [quarterback]: Univ of Oregon: 2014 Heisman Trophy winner; NFL: Tennessee Titans [2015-2019]; Las Vegas Raiders [2020–2021]; Atlanta Falcons [2022]; Philadelphia Eagles [2023]; Washington Commanders [2024– ]2006 - Saniyya Sidney
actress: King Richard, Hidden Figures, The Passage, The First Lady
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Hit Music on This Day October 30
1949You’re Breaking My Heart (facts) - Vic Damone
That Lucky Old Sun (facts) - Frankie Laine
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