September 2
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490 B.C. - A trained runner by the name of Phidippides of Athens, was sent on a mission to seek help against the invading Persian army. Phidippides left Marathon for the city of Sparta, 26 miles away. Under religious law, he could not get the needed help until after the next full moon. And so, on September 4th, he ran the 26 miles again, returning to Marathon without Spartan troops. The Athenians were still able to win the battle at Marathon. Wounded, Phidippides took to the road again, running to Athens to carry the news of the victory. His last words, “Rejoice, we are victorious.” In honor of Phidippides, the 26-mile marathon became part of the Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. A year later, the Boston Marathon was held for the first time, making it the oldest marathon race in the United States. At the Olympic games in London in 1908, 385 yards were added to the 26-mile marathon in order for the runners to pass King Edward VII’s royal box in White City Stadium. This 26.2 mile distance was made the official Olympic marathon distance in 1924 at the Paris Olympics.
1666 - This was the first day of the Great Fire of London. More than 13,000 houses burned and six people died in a three-day fire that started in a wooden house on Pudding Lane near the Tower of London. The house belonged to a baker named Farryner. It was this fire that prompted the first fire insurance policy.
1789 - The United States Treasury Department, the third presidential cabinet department, was organized by an act of Congress. It got the U.S. out of the ‘wampum’ trading business...
1858 - The special, custom cigar bands were distributed at a dinner in New York City. The bands paid homage to Cyrus W. Field for his work in the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable.
1864 - General William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops occupied Atlanta, Georgia. The Union armies would burn much of the city before beginning their march to the Atlantic Ocean, destroying everything in their way.
1897 - The first issue of McCall’s magazine was published. The magazine had previously been called The Queen—Illustrated Magazine of Fashion and McCall’s Magazine, the Queen of Fashion.
1901 - Speaking at a state fair in Minnesota, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, quoting a West African proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
1924 - Theatregoers heard the song Indian Love Call for the first time in the operetta Rose Marie, which opened in New York City.
1927 - Sophie Tucker recorded her signature song, Some of These Days, for Columbia Records.
1931 - The radio show Fifteen Minutes with Bing Crosby debuted on CBS. The singer became a super-hot property after the debut.
1940 - The Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina was dedicated by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
1944 - Lieutenant Junior Grade George Bush was shot down by the Japanese as he completed a bombing run against an enemy radio communications center in the Bonin Islands. Bush was rescued by the U.S. submarine "Finback". His two crew members died.
1945 - U.S. President Harry S Truman proclaimed this day as Victory-over-Japan Day (V-J Day or Victory Day). It was so named because the official ratification of the Japanese surrender to the Allies was made aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on this day (Far Eastern Time). The informal agreement of surrender had been made on August 14.
1945 - Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. His declaration, backed by his armed forces, started an eight-year colonial war that resulted in a partitioned (north and south) country.
1949 - Alben W. Barkley, the Vice President of the United States under President Harry S Truman, wrote a letter that made reference to his office as the Veep. The name stuck. Alben W. Barkley was forevermore referred to as the Veep. And ever since, it has been used as the common expression for vice presidents, whether in government or business. Barkley, born in Kentucky, was Veep from 1949 until 1953.
1958 - The National Defense Education Act was signed. It provided students loans and aid for technical education.
1962 - Ken Hubbs of the Chicago Cubs set a major-league baseball fielding record. ‘Hubbs of the Cubs’ played errorless ball for his 74th consecutive game.
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam and architect of Vietnamese independence, died. He was 79 years old. Ho Chi Minh formed the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and its successor, the Viet-Minh, in 1941, going on to serve as president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death.
1972 - Milt Pappas of the Chicago Cubs pitched 9-2/3 innings of perfect baseball, before giving up a walk to Larry Stahl of the Philadelphia Phillies. Pappas got the no-hitter and an 8-0 win at Wrigley Field, Chicago.
1973 - Billy Martin was fired as manager of the Detroit Tigers. Martin was relieved of his duties three days after ordering his pitching staff to toss spitballs against Cleveland Indians batters. The Tigers lost anyway, 3-0.
1973 - J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien died. The English Christian language scholar and novelist was 81 years old. He was author of the modern classic, The Hobbit, the prelude to his epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.
1979 - Charles Burton led a small group down the River Thames on a three-year journey to follow the imaginary meridian line that connects the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where longitude and Greenwich Mean Time are calculated, to the North and South Poles. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his wife Ginnie also went along. The adventure lived up to its billing as the “toughest journey on earth” when the group was attacked by a polar bear, stranded on a glacier when its snow vehicles caught fire, marooned for three months on a drifting ice floe, and severely burned by the sun when trudging through the desert.
1984 - Jockey Larry Snyder rode Tennessee Rite to a nine-length win in the the Prelude Stakes for $50,000 at Louisiana Downs. It was Snyder’s 5,000th career victory and came 24 years -- to the day -- after his first win in 1960.
1986 - Pitcher Steve Carlton earned career win #322. ‘Lefty’ gave up seven hits in leading the Chicago White Sox to a 3-0 win over the Kansas City Royals. Former Heisman Trophy winner, Bo Jackson, making his first major-league at-bats, got one of the hits. Bo knows...
1993 - The United States and Russia formally ended decades of competition in space by agreeing to a joint venture to build a space station.
1995 - Dangerous Minds, the soundtrack album from the movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer, hit #1 on Billboard. It was in the top spot for three weeks. The tracks: Gangsta’s Paradise (Coolio), Curiosity (Aaron Hall Elliott), Havin Thangs (Big Mike), Problems (Rappin’ 4-Tay), True O.G. (Mr. Dalvin and Static), Put Ya Back Into It (Tre Black Black), Don’t Go There (24-K), Feel the Funk (Immature Scarborough/Stokes), It’s Alright (Sista), A Message for Your Mind (Rappin’ 4-Tay), Gin & Juice (DeVante) and This is the Life (Wendy & Lisa Coleman/Melvoin).
1995 - The Concert for the Hall of Fame was presented at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. It was the grand-opening celebration for the $92-million, I.M. Pei-designed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Appearing at the concert were such Rock and Roll notables as Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Martha and the Vandellas, John Mellencamp, etc. etc. etc. The museum’s official public dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony had been held the previous day.
1995 - At the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Honolulu, U.S. President Bill Clinton marked the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, saying it taught Americans that “the blessings of freedom are never easy or free.”
1998 - Swissair Flight 111 went down about five miles off the Nova Scotia hamlet of Peggy’s Cove. The Boeing MD-11, enroute to Geneva, Switzerland, from New York, plunged into the water off Canada while attempting an emergency landing at Halifax International Airport. The Canadian Transportation Safety Board has collected over a million pieces of wreckage from the Atlantic Ocean for its ongoing investigation. An in-flight entertainment system is suspected as one possible cause of the crash. Swissair and Boeing have offered compensatory damages to relatives of all 229 people who perished in the crash.
1999 - Cal Ripken Jr. hit his 400th home run as the Baltimore Orioles beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore.
1999 - U.S. President and Mrs. Clinton announced that they had signed a contract to purchase a $1.7-million house in Chappaqua, New York. The revelation ended a months-long guessing game over where the couple would live after leaving the White House.
2000 - The California opening of the 6,356 mile American Discovery Trail was celebrated at Crissy Field in SF. The 15-state trail is the result of an 11-year effort backed by Backpacker magazine and the American Hiking Society.
2001 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard died in Paphos, Cyprus. The South African cardiologist was 78 years old. Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant in 1967.
2001 - Actor Troy Donahue died in Santa Monica, California. He was 65 years old. We remember the one-time teen hearthrob for his starring roles in A Summer Place (1959), The Crowded Sky (1960), Surfside 6 (TV series 1960-1962), Parrish (1961), Susan Slade (1961), Rome Adventure (1962), and many more.
2002 - The $195-million Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles was dedicated. The cathedral was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. Three thousand invited guests were on hand for the ceremony.
2003 - A federal appeals court in San Francisco threw out more than 100 death sentences in Arizona, Montana and Idaho because the inmates had been sent to death row by judges instead of juries.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) pledged “a safer world and a more hopeful America” as he accepted his party’s nomination for a second term at the Republican National Convention in New York.
2005 - A Sound of Thunder debuted in the U.S. The sci-fi thriller stars Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack. Also opening on this day: The Transporter 2, with Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta; and Underclassman, starring Nick Cannon, Shawn Ashmore, Hugh Bonneville, Kaylee DeFer, Nicole Garza, Kelly Hu and Cheech Marin.
2005 - U.S. President George Bush (II) toured some of the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina amidst growing complaints about the government’s slow response to the crisis.
2006 - Bob Mathias, two-time Olympic decathlon champion (1948, 1952), died at his home in Fresno, CA. He was 75 years old. Mathias also served in the U.S. House of Representatives for four terms (1967-1976). And he starred (as himself) in the film The Bob Mathias Story in 1954.
2006 - The Burning Man art festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert culminated in the burning of a 40-foot wooden dude. The festival also included a Belgian art installation titled Uchronia (aka the Belgian Waffle), a 5,000-plank, 15-story wooden cavern funded by Jan Kriekels and constructed by 90 Belgium artists.
2007 - A concert in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The free party featured dozens of veterans of the era.
2008 - Australia’s central bank cut interest rates for the first time in over six-and-a-half years, pushing them down 25 basis points to 7% amid signs of cooling economic growth.
2009 - BP (British Petroleum) announced the discovery of oil at its new Tiber Prospect oil reserve in the Gulf of Mexico. It later estimated the reserve held between 4 and 6 billion barrels of oil. BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig had drilled down 35,055 feet (10,685 meters), making it one of the deepest wells ever drilled by the oil and gas industry.
2009 - The IMF said China was buying the equivalent of $50 billion of the International Monetary Fund’s first bond sale in a move that would boost Beijing’s standing in the Fund and help its quiet campaign to expand the reach of its tightly controlled currency. Brazil, Russia and India also agreed to participate in the $80-billion issue.
2009 - A powerful 7.0 earthquake rattled southern Indonesia, killing 79 people who were crushed by falling rock or collapsed buildings. The shaking sent thousands of people fleeing outdoors for safety in the middle of the work day. More than 10,000 buildings were severely damaged.
2010 - Tomorrow, When the War Began opened in the U.S. The action adventure stars Rachel Hurd-Wood, Phoebe Tonkin, Caitlin Stasey, Lincoln Lewis and Masa Yamaguchi.
2010 - The Times (of London) published extracts of a new book by British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in which he argues that God did not create the universe and the ‘Big Bang’ was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. The book, The Grand Design, was co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow.
2011 - New movies in U.S. theatres: I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive, with Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven and Maxime Renard; the documentary, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles; Saving Private Perez, starring Gerardo Taracena, Joaquín Cosio, Jaime Camil, Randy Vasquez, Jesús Ochoa, Isela Vega, Miguel Rodarte and Claudia Salinas; and Seven Days in Utopia, with Robert Bear, Lucas Black, Madison Burge, Brady Coleman, Kim de Patri, Richard Dillard and Robert Duvall.
2011 - U.S. President Barack Obama backed away from his administration’s controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans.
2012 - A female Egyptian news presenter appeared on state TV wearing a veil for the first time. This, after the Islamist-dominated government had lifted a ban that had been in place for decades under secular-leaning regimes. The ban on female news readers wearing the Islamic veil had long been criticized, even by liberals and human rights activists, as an infringement on personal freedoms — particularly in a country where more than half of all adult women cover their heads.
2013 - Microsoft announced that it was buying Nokia’s line-up of smartphones and a portfolio of patents and services. The $7.2 billion (€5.44 billion) deal was an attempt by Microsoft to capture a bigger slice of the lucrative mobile computing market from Apple, Google and Samsung.
2013 - Verizon Communications agreed to pay $130 billion to buy Vodafone Group out of its U.S. wireless business. The deal brought to an end to an often tense 14-year marriage between Verizon and Vodafone.
2014 - The American Chamber of Commerce in China said foreign companies doing business in China felt increasingly targeted by enforcement of Chinese anti-monopoly and other laws. Many companies were said to be considering cutting investments if conditions did not improve.
2014 - Japanese researchers announced their development of a new method to detect the presence of the Ebola virus in 30 minutes.
2015 - A cattle war was raging amid sectarian violence in the Central African Republic. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said herd figures had dropped by 77 percent due to mass slaughter and theft.
2105 - POTUS Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory as U.S. Senate Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure the Iran nuclear deal survived in Congress.
2016 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Light Between Oceans, starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz; Morgan, with Rose Leslie, Kate Mara and Michelle Yeoh, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, starring Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth and Sarah Gadon; White Girl, with Morgan Saylor, Brian ‘Sene’ Marc and Justin Bartha; and Yoga Hosers, starring Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp and Genesis Rodriguez.
2016 - Samsung Electronics said it was halting sales of its Galaxy Note 7 following battery explosions. The massive recall, just a month after the Note 7 was unveiled, came amid worldwide reports that the devices could catch fire while charging.
2016 - Hurricane Hermine made landfall near St. Marks, Florida, 20 miles south of Tallahassee, dumping heavy rains and packing winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). The hurricane left 250,000 people without power, but soon weakened to a tropical storm as it plowed up the Atlantic Coast.
2017 - 57-year-old astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth, completing up a record-breaking flight that had catapulted her to first place for U.S. space endurance. Her 665 days off the planet, 288 days on this mission alone, exceeded that of any other American and any other woman worldwide.
2018 - U.S. Senator John McCain was laid to rest at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery following a private service. People in the crowd held signs that read “Senator John McCain Thanks For Serving! Godspeed” and “Rest In Peace Maverick.”
2018 - Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was guttet by fire and much of its collection of 20 million items was destroyed. “It was the biggest natural history museum in Latin America. We have invaluable collections. Collections that are over 100 years old,” Cristiana Serejo, one of the museum’s vice-directors, told the G1 news site. Marina Silva, a former environment minister said the fire was like “a lobotomy of the Brazilian memory.”
2019 - 83-year-old Julie Andrews was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival. The star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music and Victor Victoria said she was blessed to have had a long, illustrious cinema career.
2019 - Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas for 24 hours, peeling off roofs and snapping power lines as rising floodwaters threatened to engulf houses. Forecasters said the storm would creep closer to the U.S. coast, where more than a million people were ordered evacuated.
2020 - Singapore health authorities said they had detected new COVID-19 clusters at foreign worker dormitories previously found to be clear of the infection, highlighting the challenge in containing the spread of the highly infectious virus. Foreign workers accounted for 94% of nearly 58,000 cases in the city-state.
2020 - The family of Daniel Prude, a Black man from Rochester, NY, released graphic footage from a March incident in which Rochester cops placed a hood on him and pressed his face into the ground for two minutes. Prude died seven days after the encounter with police. Dozens of protesters gathered in the streets of Rochester after body camera footage became public.
2020 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records did violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- and may well have been unconstitutional. The decision came some seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records.
2021 - House Democrats promoted Republican Representative Liz Cheney to vice chair of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. It was a leadership spot on the panel and some Republicans threatened to oust her from the GOP conference for participating.
2021 - President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court’s ruling on a Texas abortion ban was “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights,” after the court allowed the law to remain in place.
2022 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, with Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown and Nicole Beharie; and Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Version, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya and Benedict Cumberbatch.
2022 - An attempt to assassinate Argentina’s vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner failed when the gun jammed. Footage showed the moment Cristina Fernández de Kirchner found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon. President Alberto Fernández later revealed that the gun was loaded with five bullets, but failed to fire when triggered. Police said the gunman, identified as a 35-year-old Brazilian man, had been taken into custody.
2022 - After a competitive, three-set match that featured superb tennis against a player who grew up idolizing Serena Williams, the 40-year-old’s iconic career came to an admirable end with a 7-5, 6-7 (4-7), 6-1 loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in front of an adoring U.S. Open crowd.
2023 - India launched its first observation mission to the Sun, just days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the Moon’s south pole. The mission, Aditya-L1, was named after Surya -- the Hindu god of Sun who is also known as Aditya.
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Birthdays on This Day September 2
1850 - Al Spalding
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Boston Red Stockings, Chicago White Stockings; founded Spalding sporting goods business [1876]; managed the White Stockings [1876-1877]and was president [1882-1891]; died Sep 9, 19151901 - Adolph Rupp
basketball: Univ of Kentucky head coach: 876–190 record over four decades; died Dec 10, 19771906 - Barbara Jo Allen
actress: Born to be Loved, Square Dance Katy, Calling All Fibbers, Lake Placid Serenade, Ice-Capades Revue, Village Barn Dance; died Sep 14, 19741917 - Laurindo Almeida
Grammy Award-winning composer, musician: guitar: Guitar from Ipanema [1964]; Viva Bossa Nova; underscore: Viva Zapata; died July 26, 19951917 - Cleveland Amory
writer: The Cat and the Curmudgeon, The Cat Who Came for Christmas, TV Guide columnist; died Oct 14, 19981918 - Allen Drury
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Advise and Consent [1960]; died Sep 2, 19981918 - Martha Mitchell (Beall)
socialite: wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell of the Nixon administration; died May 31, 19761919 - Marge Champion (Marjorie Belcher)
dancer, actress: Give a Girl a Break, Jupiter’s Darling, Lovely to Look At, Mr. Music, The Party, The Swimmer; choreographer [w/Gower Champion]; model for animated Snow White; died Oct 21, 20201925 - Eddie Price
football: NY Giants [1950-1955]; died Jul 21, 19791934 - Sam Gooden
singer: group: Roosters; The Impressions: It’s All Right, For Your Precious Love; died Aug 4, 20221937 - Peter Ueberroth
businessperson, promoter: 1984 Summer Olympics in LA; Baseball Commissioner [1984-1989]1938 - Jimmy Clanton
singer, songwriter: Just A Dream, Venus in Blue Jeans, Another Sleepless Night; toured w/Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars; actor: Go, Johnny, Go!1940 - Beverly Sanders
actress: Yes Sir, That’s My Baby, All I Want for Christmas, Payback, A Family for Joe, The Other Woman, Sparrow, ...And Justice for All, Queen of the Stardust Ballroom1942 - Tom Keating
football: Oakland Raiders defensive tackle: Super Bowl II; died Aug 31, 20121942 - Robert Shapiro
attorney: member of defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson in 1995 from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman in 1994; civil litigator: represented celebrities, such as Darryl Strawberry, José Canseco, Vince Coleman, Johnny Carson, Christian Brando, Linda Lovelace, the Kardashians1943 - Rosalind Ashford
singer: group: Martha and the Vandellas: Heat Wave, Quick Sand, Dancing in the Street1943 - (James) Luke Walker
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Detroit Tigers1946 - Marty Grebb
musician: keyboards: group: The Buckinghams: Don’t You Care, Kind of a Drag, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, Susan1946 - Billy Preston
musician, songwriter, singer: Will It Go Round in Circles, Nothing from Nothing, Outa-Space, Get Back [w/The Beatles], With You I’m Born Again [w/Syreeta]; appeared in film: St. Louis Blues; played w/Little Richard’s Band; died June 6, 20061948 - Nate (Nathaniel) ‘Tiny’ Archibald
Basketball Hall of Famer: Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City-Omaha Kings, New York Nets, Buffalo Braves, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks; NBA stats [over 14 years]: 16,481 points, 6,476 assists, six NBA All-Star games; elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame [1991]1948 - Terry Bradshaw
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers QB: Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; FOX TV football sportscaster/analyst; actor: Cannonball Run; singer: I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry1948 - Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan)
teacher, astronaut: Challenger space shuttle; killed in Challenger explosion Jan 28, 19861950 - Lamar Johnson
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers1951 - Lenvil Elliott
football: San Francisco 49ers running back: Super Bowl XVI; died Oct 12, 20081951 - Mark Harmon
actor: NCIS, Wyatt Earp, Till There Was You, Reasonable Doubts, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years, St. Elsewhere, Centennial, Flamingo Road, Moonlighting, Sam, 240-Robert; People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive [1986]1951 - Mik Kaminski
musician: violin: group: Electric Light Orchestra [ELO]: Evil Woman, Can’t Get It Out of My Head, Showdown, Turn to Stone, Sweet Talkin’ Woman1952 - Jimmy Connors
tennis champ: Australian Open [1974], Wimbledon [1974, 1982], U.S. Open [1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983]1953 - John Zorn
composer, arranger, record producer, musician: saxophone, guitar: Naked City, The Circle Maker, John Zorn: Masada Guitars, Nani Nani, Bar Kokhba, I.A.O.1954 - Rick (Richard Eugene) Manning
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers1955 - Linda Purl
actress: Happy Days, Matlock, Beacon Hill, Robin’s Hoods, Under Cover1957 - Steve Porcaro
musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, 99, Make Believe, Rosanna, Africa1958 - Fritz McIntyre
musician: keyboards: group: Simply Red: Money’s Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing1960 - Eric Dickerson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: NFL individual record for yards gained in a season: LA Rams [1984]: Rookie of Year [1983]; Indianapolis Colts; LA Raiders, Atlanta Falcons1964 - Keanu Reeves
actor: John Wick film series, The Matrix film series, Chain Reaction, A Walk in the Clouds, Johnny Mnemonic, Speed, Little Buddha, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, My Own Private Idaho, Parenthood, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Dangerous Liaisons, River’s Edge, Youngblood, Brotherhood of Justice, Babes in Toyland, Act of Vengeance, Dream to Believe1965 - Lennox Lewis
boxer: WBC heavyweight champ [1993-1994, 1997-1998, 2000-2001, 2002]; 40 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw, 31 knockouts1965 - Kevin Miller
hockey: NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Washington Capitals, SL Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks, NY Islanders, Ottawa Senators1966 - Salma Hayek
actress: Desperado, Wild Wild West, Traffic, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Murphy’s Law1966 - Tuc Watkins
actor: Desperate Housewives, One Life to Live, Beggars and Choosers, The Mummy, Point View Terrace, Moon Lake Casino, Parks and Recreation, Baby Daddy1968 - Cynthia Watros
actress: Lost, The Drew Carey Show, Titus, Guiding Light, House M.D., A Smile as Big as the Moon, Park City, Blood and Circumstance1970 - Jesse Burch
actor: Parenthood Flight Plan, Undiscovered, Shopgirl, The Ring Two, The Last Shot, Spin, The Making of Daniel Boone, The Mentalist1971 - Rich Aurilia
baseball: San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds1974 - Inari Vachs
actress [1997-2012]: X-rated films: Award Winning Sex Scenes, Babe Buffet: All You Can Eat, Bend Over and Say Ahh, Sweet Summer Sex Kittens, Titman’s No Silicone Zone; co-host: Playboy TV’s Naughty Amateur Home Videos1975 - Tony Thompson
singer: group: Hi-Five: I Just Can’t Handle It, I Like the Way [The Kissing Game], She’s Playing Hard to Get, I Can’t Wait Another Minute; died Jun 1, 20071976 - Erin Hershey
actress: Port Charles, Will & Grace, Living with Fran, Americanizing Shelley1983 - Tiffany Hines
actress: Nikita, Beyond the Break, The Dark Party, This Can’t Be My Life, Dandelion Dharma, Beyond the Break1985 - Yani Gellman
actor: Urban Legends: Final Cut, Jason X, The Matthew Shepard Story, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Young and the Restless1987 - Spencer Smith
musician: drums; co-founder of Panic! At the Disco: I Write Sins Not Tragedies1996 - Austin Abrams
actor: The Walking Dead, Euphoria, Dash & Lily, The Kings of Summer, Paper Towns, Brad’s Status, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Chemical Hearts, Gangster Squad1997 - Nikki Taylor Melton
actress: The Weather Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Halloween, The Promotion, Teenage Bikini Vampire
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Hit Music on This Day September 2
1945If I Loved You (facts) - Perry Como
Till the End of Time (facts) - Perry Como
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