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1819 - The first plow with interchangeable parts was patented by Jethro Wood.1859 - The Pullman sleeping car was placed into service. The car was built by company namesake George Pullman and he was assisted by Ben Field.
1878 - Originally there were no female telephone operators in the young communications industry. However, the callers complained that the operators were rude. And so, the first woman was hired to be the courteous, friendly voice on the other end of the black box and wire. The first woman telephone operator was Emma M. Nutt, who started work saying “Number pu-leeeeeze” for the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston, Massachusetts on this day. She remained in her career choice for 33 years. We’ve come a long way, baby... In fact, we’ve come full circle. Wasn’t that last telephone operator’s voice, male? Well, at least he was polite.
1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. We know it better as the record player. Emile got the patent, but Thomas Edison got the notoriety for making it work and making music with his invention.
1894 - A massive forest fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota and about a dozen other towns. The fire(s) burned 350,000 acres and killed 418 people.
1906 - Pitcher Jack Coombs of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics went 24 innings. For the record, the A’s defeated the Boston Red Sox.
1922 - The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on WBAY radio. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program’s editor, originated from New York City.
1923 - The earth shook violently in Kanto, Japan. It was the worst earthquake in Japan’s history (magnituded 7.1), killing some 140,000 people.
1939 - This day would live in infamy as the beginning of World War II. It was marked by the invasion of Poland by Nazi troops and planes. Polish defenses crumbled under the massive mechanized land and air assault.
1939 - General George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. Army.
1942 - A U.S. federal judge in Sacramento, CA upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
1949 - Martin Kane, Private Eye debuted on NBC-TV. William Gargan starred on the Thursday night program. Gargan’s Martin Kane was a smooth, wisecracking operator who worked closely with the cops. His headquarters were at Happy McMann’s tobacco shop. As time passed, the format changed and so did the lead. Kane no longer worked closely with the fuzz and three other actors played the famous detective, Lloyd Nolan (1951-52), Lee Tracy (1952-53) and Mark Stevens (1953-54). Martin Kane, Private Eye ended on June 17, 1954.
1951 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact, the ANZUS Treaty.
1954 - Paramount Pictures released Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Stewart plays a professional photographer confined to his apartment with a broken leg and while gazing out his rear window, sees a murder in the next apartment house. Rear Window is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of the greatest films ever made.
1961 - On the cover of LIFE magazine: First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who revealed her plans for the White House. NY Political Zoo, California Surfers, Paris Fashions.
1962 - An earthquake struck northwestern Iran near Qazvin. The magnitude 7.3 quake killed some 12,000 people.
1965 - The Pakistan army launched a major assault on Kashmir. To relieve pressure on the Kashmir front, Indian forces counter-attacked in the Punjab, near the Pakistani city of Lahore, and they crossed the international border. By mid-September 1965, the war had reached a stalemate. On September 20, the United Nations Security Council called for a ceasefire, to which both sides agreed by September 22. A settlement was negotiated, and, although both sides made important territorial concessions, the underlying causes of the Kashmir dispute were never resolved, and the dispute continues...
1969 - A coup in Libya overthrew the monarchy of King Mohammed Idris and brought 27-year-old Colonel Moammar Gadhafi to power. Gadhafi took over as leader of the revolutionary government and, among other things, ordered the closure of Wheelus Air Force Base, the U.S. base near Tripoli (June 1970).
1970 - The last episode of I Dream of Jeannie aired on NBC-TV. The comedy/fantasy had aired since September 18, 1965 with 139 half-hour episodes. I Dream of Jeannie was created by Sidney Sheldon and centered around the mishaps and misadventures of astronaut Anthony Nelson, played by Larry Hagman, and a genie named Jeannie, played by Barbara Eden. Nelson discovered Jeannie in a bottle on a desert island during an aborted space mission. Each episode was full of unusal happenings that Jeannie conjured up with the wink of an eye to please her master. Music for the series was done by Hugo Montenegro.
1971 - When Danny Murtaugh manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, handed in his lineup card to the umpire, it contained the names of nine black baseball players -- a first for the major leagues.
1972 - The O’Jays received a gold record for Back Stabbers. It was the first hit for the group from Canton, OH. The O’Jays would place nine more hits on the pop and R&B charts. Five of them were gold record winners: Love Train, I Love Music, Use ta Be My Girl, For the Love of Money and Put Your Hands Together.
1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1973 - Horse-racing jockey Braulio Baeza won two races at Belmont Park, New York. Baeza then boarded an airplane and flew to Liberty Bell race track in Philadelphia to ride Determined King to victory in the Kindergarten Stakes.
1975 - The last Monday Night Baseball game was broadcast on NBC-TV. Montreal’s Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5. ABC-TV picked up the games in 1976.
1977 - Singer Debbie Harry (of Blondie) signed a recording deal with Chrysalis Records. Chrysalis bought the group’s private stock label for $500,000. With the high visibility of the former Playboy Bunny, it was difficult to think of Blondie as a band, and not just Debbie Harry.
1978 - The last broadcast of Columbo aired on NBC TV. The Peter Falk whodunit was one of the most popular TV crime shows of all time. Columbo had begun as part of the NBC Mystery Movie, where it rotated with two other mysteries: McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver, and McMillan and Wife, with Rock Hudson and Susan St. James.
1982 - After a two-year absence from the major leagues (following a near-fatal stroke in June of 1980), pitcher J.R. Richard was called back to the Houston Astros.
1983 - A Soviet interceptor plane destroyed a Korean Air Boeing 747 that had strayed 100 miles off course, flying over Soviet military installations. Flight 007, carrying 240 passengers and 29 crew members, had departed from New York and was en route to Seoul, Korea. All 269 on board perished.
1985 - The sat with his eyes almost glued to the monitor and calmly commented: “It’s something there.” The wreck of the luxury liner RMS Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912, was found by Robert Ballard and other scientists aboard the U.S. Navy vessel Knorr in the Atlantic south of Newfoundland.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, Baseball Commissioner, died of a heart attack at his summer home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He was 51 years old.
1992 - Chess champ Bobby Fischer came out of his 20-year retirement to hold a press conference in Yugoslavi a. He spit on an order from the U.S. Treasury Department warning him of his pending violation of U.N. sanctions if he played chess in Yugoslavia. Fischer announced that he would, indeed, play his one-time rival, Boris Spassky, in a $5-million chess match in Sveti Stefan, Yugoslavia -- despite the sanctions. The match began on Sep 30 and ran thru Nov 11 (Fischer won).
1993 - Louis Freeh was sworn in as the Director of the FBI. Freeh would not serve as director for the entire 10-year term, resigning June 25, 2001.
1995 - The 716-acre Limekiln State Park on the California Big Sur coast opened.
1995 - The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
1997 - The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised $50,475,055 -- a record -- to support Muscular Dystrophy Association research and services.
1997 - The minimum wage in the U.S. was raised to $5.15 per hour. Most of the nearly 7,000,000 workers to profit were those who work in the fast food, retail and service sectors.
1997 - Henri Paul, the driver of the Mercedes in which Princess Diana was fatally injured, had a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. The Paris prosecutor’s office said, “The analysis of his blood showed a concentration of alcohol at an illicit level.”
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 56th and 57th home runs (in the Cardinals 7-1 win over the Marlins), breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
1999 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Chill Factor, with Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer and Hudson Leick; and Outside Providence, starring Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Amy Smart, George Wendt, Jonathan Brandis, Gabriel Mann and Jon Abrahams.
2000 - These films opened in the U.S.: Highlander: Endgame, starring Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne, Lisa Barbuscia, Donnie Yen and Adam Copeland (Edge); Saving Grace, with Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo, Valerie Edmond, Phyllida Law, Leslie Phillips, Tristan Sturrock and Jamie Foreman; and Whipped, starring Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams and Judah Domke.
2003 - Actor Rand Brooks, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s first husband in Gone with the Wind, died in Santa Ynez, CA. He was 84 years old.
2004 - Vanity Fair opened in U.S. theatres. The romantic drama stars Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Aileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Douglas Hodge, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Natasha Little, Geraldine McEwan and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
2004 - Philadelphia officials announced plans to turn all 135 square miles of the city into the world’s largest wireless Internet hot spot. Cost of the project was estimated at $10 million.
2005 - Thirteen percent (64 of 490) of the female students at Timken Senior High School in Canton, Ohio were reported to be pregnant. One girl, eight months pregnant, said she believed the school’s abstinence-based sex education program wasn’t enough.
2005 - Mexican President Vicente Fox, in his last state-of-the-nation address, urged citizens to stay committed to Mexico’s newfound democracy.
2006 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres: Crank, starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez, Jose Cantillo, Jay Xcala, Carlos Sanz and Keone Young; Crossover, with Anthony Mackie, Welsey Jonathan, Wayne Brady, Kristen Wilson, Eva Pigford, Little JJ and Allen Payne; and The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, LeeLee Sobieski and Molly Parker.
2006 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno in Chad on the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region and on Chad’s oil production. It was the final stop of Obama’s tour of Africa.
2007 - The Mountaineers of Appalachian State Univ (Boone, NC) pulled off one of the great upsets in college football history as Appalachian State beat No. 5 Michigan 34-32. It was the only time a team ranked in the AP poll has ever been defeated by a Division I-FCS team.
2008 - Movie-trailer voiceover artist Don LaFontaine died in Los Angeles CA. “The Voice of God,” as he was called by many, was 68 years old. The ‘King of Trailers’ narrated more than 5,000 movie previews and voiced some 350,000 radio and network TV promotional spots and commercials during a career spanning 43 years. His oft-repeated trailer opening, “In a world...” became kind a national in-joke with the movie geek crowd.
2008 - Hurricane Gustav smashed into the Gulf coast as a Category 2 storm with 110-mph winds. It came ashore just southwest of New Orleans, where levees held as waves splashed over. Some 750,000 people were left without power in Louisiana. It was later estimated that the storm caused at least $372 million in damage to crops.
2008 - The Republican National Convention opened at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. The first night’s session was abbreviated because of concerns about Hurricane Gustav roaring in the Gulf of Mexico.
2009 - An amended fisheries laws took effect in the Bahamas, giving protection to all sea turtles found in the Atlantic archipelago’s waters. The law banned the harvest, possession, purchase and sale of the endangered reptiles, including their eggs.
2009 - The Station wildfire continued to rage in Southern California with 53 homes destoyed thousands of people evacuated. The towering flames came within 15 miles of downtown Los Angeles. The fire, later blamed on arson, was not contained until Oct 17, 52 days after it started.
2010 - The American opened in U.S. theatres. The drama thriller stars George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund, Violante Placido and Paolo Bonacelli.
2010 - A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened the rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It was another twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks had overruled each other. Assange denied the rape allegations. And he charged that they were part of a smear campaign by opponents of his WikiLeaks on-line whistleblower site that angered Washington by publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2011 - The U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency filed lawsuits seeking billions in compensation against major banks, accusing them of bundling subprime home loans into bonds that never should have been sold to investors. Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the FHFA oversees, lost more than $30 billion, in part because of these deals. And the losses were mostly bourne by taxpayers.
2012 - U.S. Republican VP-hopeful Paul Ryan said he did not run a marathon in less than three hours as he had claimed in a nationally broadcast interview. It was more like four hours. Ryan had told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he ran a “two hour and fifty-something” marathon. That would be a pace of less than 7 minutes per mile for a 26.2 mile course — extremely fast for a recreational runner. Ryan acknowledged that he had misstated his marathon time by more than an hour.
2013 - The new eastern half of the San Francisco Bay Bridge opened for traffic. The $6.4 billion project replaced an unsafe cantilever portion of the bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. It was the largest public works project in California history.
2014 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Japan and its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The leaders pledged to strengthen their country’s ties to counter the rising influence from China.
2014 - A Saudi Arabian court sentenced 17 men to 26 years in prison for seeking to fight in Iraq and for funding militants.
2015 - POTUS Obama, visiting the Exit Glacier in Alaska, which has receded 1.25 miles since 1815 and 187 feet in the previous year alone, called it a signpost of climate change.
2015 - Jeff Mizanskey, sentenced to life in prison without parole on a marijuana-related charge, walked out of a Missouri prison a free man. Mizanskey had been sentenced in 1996 after police said he conspired to sell 6 pounds of marijuana to a dealer connected to Mexican drug cartels. His release followed years of lobbying from family, lawmakers and advocates for the legalization of marijuana, who argued that the sentence was unjust. The law under which Mizanskey was originally sentenced has been changed.
2016 - International Space Station commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins completed a smooth six-hour 48-minute spacewalk, retracting a spare cooling radiator, installing two high-definition TV cameras and inspecting a massive solar array rotation mechanism that had experience subtle vibrations in recent months. The spacewalk was the 195th devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998, the fourth and final outing planned for 2016.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama visited Midway Atoll, the remote coral reef that serves as a reminder of both modern global climate changes and the dominance the U.S. has held in the Pacific since its World War Two victory there.
2017 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: the animated Animal Crackers, featuring the voices of Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, John Krasinski, Ian McKellen, Raven-Symoné and Sylvester Stallone; A Boy Called Po, with Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder and Kaitlin Doubleday; Goon: Last of the Enforcers, with Elisha Cuthbert, T.J. Miller and Liev Schreiber; I Do... Until I Don’t, starring Lake Bell, Ed Helms and Mary Steenburgen; Jackals, with Stephen Dorff, Deborah Kara Unger and Johnathon Schaech; Mike Boy, starring Hugh Massey, Emily Killian and Robert Sisko; Sky Sharks, with Naomi Grossman, Tony Todd and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa; Unlocked, starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom and Toni Collette; and Viceroy’s , with Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon and Hugh Bonneville.
2017 - American comedian and actor Shelley Berman died at his home in Bell Canyon, near Los Angeles. Berman’s first comedy album Inside Shelley Berman was produced in 1959 and received the first ever Grammy Award for spoken word. His acting career spanned some 60 years and included his Emmy Award-winning role as Larry David’s father on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Shelley Berman also taught humor writing at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years.
2017 - Rescuers searched through flooded neighborhoods across southeast Texas for people stranded by Hurricane Harvey’s deluge as POTUS Donald Trump asked Congress for $7.85 billion in federal disaster relief. 50 people were feared dead from flooding that paralyzed Houston.
2017 - In China anyone who mocked the national anthem faced up to 15 days in police detention after parliament criminalized such acts in a new law that covered Hong Kong and Macau.
2018 - The United Nations human rights mission left Nicaragua after being ordered out by a government the agency had criticized for its heavy-handed response to anti-regime protests.
2018 - Two pleasure boats collided head-on on the Colorado River -- in a region of Moabi Regional Park marking the border between the Arizona and California. 4 people were killed and 12 others were injured in the crash, which threw everyone from both boats into the water.
2019 - Scientists detected microplastics at several locations around Lake Tahoe for the first time ever. The particles of synthetic fiber and bits of red and blue plastic no bigger than the head of a pin showed up in analyses of water samples collected by researchers at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, NV. “On one level, we’re heartbroken and disappointed by this discovery,” said Monica Arienzo, an assistant research professor at the institute and leader of the investigation. “We really hoped we wouldn’t find much of this material in Tahoe’s water, which is almost entirely snow melt.” At the same time, she said, the team is looking forward “to diving deep into the many questions and concerns it raises.”
2019 - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visiting the town of Wielun, Poland, where Nazi bombers caused large-scale civilian casualties of in a World War II air raid on Sep 1, 1939, said his country would not forget the past and has taken responsibility for the war’s terror and atrocities.
2020 - A new Austrian law went into effect allowing descendants from Jewish refugees expelled under Nazi rule to apply for Austrian citizenship.
2020 - A thousand police in Germany raided the homes of 50 people as part of a nationwide crackdown on the online sharing and distribution of child pornography. Investigators seized some 2,000 phones, computers and other devices.
2020 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] issued an order temporarily halting millions of U.S. renters from being evicted. This, in a bid to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2020 - Russia became the fourth country [behind the U.S., Brazil and India] to surpass 1 million coronavirus infections as authorities reported 4,729 new cases. Lockdown restrictions had been lifted in the majority of the country’s regions. Russia had a total of 1,000,048 reported cases and 17,299 deaths.
2021 - A miles-long oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico was left by Hurricane Ida. And remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled into New York City, killing at least 46 people, including 25 in New Jersey.
2021 - Hewlett Packard won a 10-year, $2 billion contract to supply high-performance computing systems to the National Security Agency (NSA).
2022 - Ravil Maganov, chair of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after falling from a sixth-floor window in a Moscow hospital. The death was called a suicide. Maganov, 67, was being treated in the hospital after a heart attack, and had been taking anti-depressants. But he was also the latest in a series of Russian business leaders to die under mysterious circumstances.
2022 - In prime-time address in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, President Biden warned of “threats to democracy” from MAGA Republican extremism.
2023 - The Equalizer 3 was set to open in the U.S. The action, crime movie stars Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman and Sonia Ammar and was directed by Antoine Fuqua.
2023 - Five hotel workers died after the cable of a lift in which they were traveling snapped, plunging them into a ravine at the Ayuterra Resort in Ubud, Bali. The workers, two men and three women, were in the hotel’s glass-encased lift that runs on a track up a 35-degree slope when the steel cable suddenly snapped, plunging them 100 meters down a steep embankment.
2023 - Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on a visit to show support for one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities. It was the first time a pope had visited the landlocked Asian country and came at a time when the Vatican’s relations with Mongolia’s two powerful neighbors, Russia and China, were strained. Francis arrived in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar after an overnight flight passing through Chinese airspace, affording the pontiff a rare opportunity to send a note of greetings to President Xi Jinping. Vatican protocol calls for the pope to send such greetings whenever he flies over a foreign country.
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Birthdays on This Day September 1
1791 - Lydia Sigourney
author: Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, Letters to Young Ladies, How to Be Happy; died June 10, 18651854 - Engelbert Humperdinck
opera composer: Hansel and Gretel; name borrowed by pop singer Arnold Dorsey; died Sep 27, 19211875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
writer: Tarzan of the Apes; died Mar 19, 19501898 - Richard Arlen (Van Mattimore)
actor: Road to Nashville, Johnny Reno, Apache Uprising, Sex and the College Girl, Buffalo Bill Rides Again, Island of Lost Souls; died Mar 28, 19761900 - Don Wilson
announcer, actor: The Jack Benny Show; died Apr 25, 19821904 - Johnny Mack Brown
actor: Apache Uprising, Ghost Rider, The Masked Rider, Oregon Trail, Rustlers of Red Dog, Texas Kid; died Nov 14, 19741907 - Walter (Philip) Reuther
labor union leader: president of United Automobile Workers [UAW] and Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; killed in plane crash May 9, 19701916 - Arleen Whelan
actress: Never Wave at a WAC, Ramrod; died Apr 7, 19931920 - Richard Farnsworth
actor: The Fire Next Time, The Two Jakes, The Natural, Misery, Anne of Green Gables, Lassie, The Grey Fox, Legend of the Lone Ranger, Havana, The Boys of Twilight; died Oct 6, 20001922 - Yvonne De Carlo (Peggy Yvonne Middleton)
actress: The Munsters, Salome, Where She Danced, The Ten Commandments, McLintock!; died Jan 8, 20071922 - Vittorio Gassman
actor: Sharkey’s Machine, The Scent of a Woman, Abraham, Bitter Rice, War and Peace, The Family; died June 29, 20001922 - Melvin R. Laird
politician: U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin; U.S. Secretary of Defense [1969-1973], ended the military draft and created the all-volunteer force; died Nov 16, 20161923 - Rocky Marciano (Rocco Marchegiano)
boxer: World Heavyweight Champion [1952-56]: the only world champion to have won every fight in professional career [1947-56]; died Aug 31, 19691928 - George Maharis (Maharias)
actor: Route 66, Rich Man, Poor Man - Book 1, The Most Deadly Game, The Crash of Flight 401, Return to Fantasy Island, Murder on Flight 502, Land Raiders, Exodus; died May 24, 20231931 - Boxcar Willie (Lecil Martin)
‘The Singing Hobo’: songwriter, singer: Not the Man I Used to Be; died Apr 12, 19991933 - Marshall Lytle
musician: bass: groups: Bill Haley & His Comets: Rock Around the Clock, Crazy Man, Crazy [co-writer]; The Jodimars; died May 25, 20131933 - Ann Richards
politician: Governor of Texas [1991-1995]; died Sep 13, 20061933 - Conway Twitty (Harold Lloyd Jenkins)
songwriter: Walk Me to the Door; singer: It’s Only Make Believe, Danny Boy, Lonely Boy Blue, What Am I Living For, Next In Line, Hello Darlin’, 15 Years Ago, You’ve Never been this Far Before, Don’t Cry Joni; CMA Male Vocalist of the Year [1975], Grammy Award-winner [w/Loretta Lynn]: After the Fire is Gone [1971]; owns booking agency, music publishing company, Twitty Burgers, Twitty City theme park; died June 5, 19931935 - Seiji Ozawa
orchestra leader: Toronto Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony’s Ravinia summer festival, Boston Symphony; died Feb 6, 20241935 - Guy Rodgers
basketball: Milwaukee Bucks, Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia Warriors; died Feb 19, 20011937 - Al Geiberger
golf: holds PGA Tour Record for lowest score in 18 holes [59], played in 1977 during the second round of the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic at the Colonial Country Club1937 - Ron O’Neal
actor: Original Gangstas, Up Against the Wall, Trained to Kill, Super Fly, Red Dawn, No Place to Be Somebody, The Equalizer, Bring ’Em Back Alive; died Jan 14, 20041939 - Lily (Mary Jean) Tomlin
Emmy Award-winning comedy writer: Lily [1973-74], Lily Tomlin [1975-76], The Paul Simon Special [12/8/77], producer: Lily: Sold Out [1980-81]; Tony Award-winning actress: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe [1986]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 9 to 5, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, And the Band Played On, Short Cuts, Nashville, Grace and Frankie1939 - Rico (Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo) Carty
baseball: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1970], Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays1943 - Don Stroud
actor: Dillinger and Capone, Prime Target, Twisted Justice, Amityville Horror, The Buddy Holly Story, Sudden Death, Killer Inside Me, Madigan, Coogan’s Bluff, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Kate Loves a Mystery, Dragnet1944 - Archie Bell
singer: group: Archie Bell and the Drells: Tighten Up, I Can’t Stop Dancing1944 - Barbara Carrera
actress: Never Say Never Again, Dallas [1978], The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst, Embryo, Wild Geese II, Centennial, Masada, Emma: Queen of the South Seas; more1944 - Leonard Slatkin
Grammy Award-winning orchestra director: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra1946 - Barry Gibb
musician: rhythm guitar, songwriter, singer: group: The Bee Gees: Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, How Deep Is Your Love, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Tragedy , Lonely Days; What Kind of Fool [w/Barbra Streisand], Emotion [w/Samantha Sang]; score: Saturday Night Fever; 29 hits: 7 gold, 4 platinum1946 - Greg Errico
musician: drums: group: Sly and The Family Stone: Everyday People, [I Want to Take You] Higher, Dance to the Music, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Thank You [Falettinme be Mice Elf Agin]1947 - Ed Podolak
football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: Super Bowl IV1948 - Dennis Miccoli
musician: keyboards, group: The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag, I’ll Go Crazy, Makin’ Up and Breakin’ Up, Don’t You Care, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy1948 - James Rebhorn
actor: Broadway: I’m Not Rappaport, Twelve Angry Men; films/TV: White Collar, Homeland, Scent of a Woman, The Game, Independence Day; died Mar 21, 20141949 - Garry (Lee) Maddox
baseball: San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1980, 1983]1950 - Phil McGraw (Phillip Calvin McGraw)
clinical psychologist, TV personality: Dr. Phil, The Oprah Winfrey Show; Dr. Phil Foundation: funds organizations that help disadvantaged families and children; more1954 - Dan T. Mann
actor [1980-1995]: X-rated films: Tongue ’n Cheek, Midslumber’s Night Dream, Miss American Dream, Ginger’s Sex Asylum, Misadventures of the Bang Gang, The Screwdriver Saloon, Fatal Erection1955 - Bruce Foxton
musician: guitar: band: 100 Men; group: The Jam: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, David Watts, Eton Rifles, Little Boy Soldiers, Saturday’s Kids, Going Underground, Town Called Malice, Beat Surrender, Man in the Corner Shop, Set the House Ablaze, Start , The Planner’s Dream Gone Wrong1957 - Gloria Estefan (Gloria Maria Milagrosa Fajardo)
‘Queen of Latin Pop’: Grammy Award-winning singer: Mi Tierra [1993], Abriendo Puertas [1995]; group: Miami Sound Machine: Don’t Want to Lose You, Turn the Beat Around; solo: LPs: Cuts Both Ways, Into the Light, Greatest Hits, Destiny; over 45 million records sold; actress: Music of the Heart1959 - Keith Clearwater
golf champ: Colonial National Invitation [1987], Centel Classic [1987]1960 - Joseph Williams
composer, singer: group: Toto: LPs: Fahrenheit, The Seventh One; solo LPs: Joseph Williams, I Am Alive, 3, Early Years1961 - Scott ‘Bam Bam’ Bigelow
pro wrestler/actor WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Survivor Series, Wrestlemania, Extreme Championship Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, Ready to Rumble; died Jan 19, 20071965 - Craig McLachlan
actor: The Great Raid, Hating Alison Ashley, Heroes’ Mountain, My Husband My Killer, Tribe, Absent Without Leave1965 - Hardy Nickerson
football [linebacker]: Univ of California; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Green Bay Packers1966 - Tim Hardaway
basketball [guard]: Texas-El Paso; NBA: Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers1970 - Padma Lakshmi
food expert: TV host: Top Chef; author: Easy Exotic, Love, Loss and What We Ate1971 - Rachel Zoe
fashion designer, author, TV personality: The Rachel Zoe Project1972 - Josh Davis
U.S. Olympic swimmer: 3 gold medals [1996 Summer Olympics], 2 silver medals [2000 Summer Olympics]1973 - J.D. Fortune (Jason Dean Bennison)
musician: guitar; singer: group: INXS: Switch; winner of reality TV series Rock Star: INXS1973 - Polly Shannon
actress: Trudeau, The Girl Next Door, The Sheldon Kennedy Story, Men with Brooms, Miranda & Gordon1973 - Zach Thomas
football [middle linebacker]: Texas Tech Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins1974 - Burn Gorman
actor: The Dark Knight Rises, Bleak House, Pacific Rim, Johnny English Reborn, Red Lights, Torchwood, Game of Thrones, Washington’s Spies1974 - Ed Perry
football [tight end]: Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs1974 - Jason Taylor
football [defensive end]: Univ of Akron; NFL: Miami Dolphins [1997–2007]; Washington Redskins [2008]; Miami Dolphins [2009]; New York Jets [2010]; Miami Dolphins [2011]1975 - Scott Speedman
actor: Felicity, Underworld film series, Weirdsville, The Last Rites of Ransom Pride, Good Neighbors, Citizen Gangster1976 - Jada Fire
actress [1998-2010]: X-rated films: Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?, White Water Shafting, Naughty America and the Chocolate Factory, Double Her Pleasure1978 - Dante Hall
football [running back)]: Texas A&M Univ; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs [2000–2006]; St. Louis Rams [2007–2008]1996 - Zendaya (Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman)
singer, actress: Shake It Up, K.C. Undercover, Spider-Man: Homecoming [& sequels], Euphoria [was youngest recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series], The Greatest Showman, Smallfoot, Malcolm & Marie, Dune
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Hit Music on This Day September 1
1944Amor (facts) - Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Seeing You (facts) - Bing Crosby
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Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
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