September 4
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1682 - Edmund Halley got his only look at the comet that now bears his name. He worked out a theory of cometary orbits and concluded that the comet of 1682, otherwise known as Halley’s Comet, was periodic and correctly predicted that it would return in 76 years.1781 - This is the birthday of one of the most written-about, talked-about, joked-about cities in the world, Los Angeles, California. The Mexican Provincial Governor, Felipe de Neve, founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles on this day. It was originally named Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula by Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish army captain and Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest, who had noticed the beautiful area as they traveled north from San Diego in 1769. El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles translates into the Village of our Lady, the Queen of the Angels ... L.A. for short.
1833 - Barney Flaherty answered an ad in The New York Sun and became the first newsboy. Actually, Barney became what we now call a paperboy. He was 10 years old at the time. Show us a 10-year-old who reads a newspaper today. Those were the days! Of course, there was no radio, no TV, no MTV, no computers, no Internet. What was a kid to do?
1862 - General Robert E. Lee invaded the North for the first time, with 50,000 Confederates. He headed for Harpers Ferry, located 50 miles northwest of Washington. The Union Army, 90,000 strong, under the command of McClellan, was in hot pursuet.
1882 - Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. The Pearl Street electric power station, Edison’'s steam powered plant, began operating and successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York City.
1885 - As you pile that delicious platter of stuff on your tray, grab an extra dessert just for the fun of it and enough packets of sugar to last a year ... keep in mind that on this day, the Exchange Buffet opened in New York City. It was the first self-service restaurant in the U.S.
1886 - Geronimo surrendered to U.S. general Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. Geronimo was a Chiricahua Apache who had led raids on white settlers for ten years after the U.S. government attempted to move the Apache to a reservation.
1888 - The name Kodak was registered by George Eastman of Rochester, NY. He patented his roll-film camera: U.S. Patent #388,850.
1904 - The St. Regis Hotel in New York City opened this day. It was the first hotel to have individual air conditioning and heating in every room. Colonel John Jacob Astor IV also introduced other ‘modern’ conveniences at the St. Regis: telephones in every room, a fire alarm system, mail chutes on each floor, and one of the first central vacuum systems -- all the maids had to do was plug their vacuum cleaner’s hose into sockets situated throughout the hotel.
1927 - Lloyd Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a short fly ball that hit inside the foul line and bounced into the stands. It was a home run, according to the rules at the time. Ironically, Waner’s brother, Paul, came to bat next and did the same thing -- for another home run. Today, a similar hit would be called a ground rule double. (Lloyd and Paul are both in the Baseball Hall of Fame.)
1928 - An endurance test got underway for the Boston Braves. The team started a stretch that saw them playing nine doubleheaders in a row. It is doubtful that the person in charge of scheduling games lasted very long after that.
1928 - Wingy Manone recorded Downright Disgusted for Vocalion Records. Playing drums for Wingy was a young sideman named Gene Krupa.
1941 - The New York Yankees won their 12th American League baseball pennant. This was the earliest any American League team had clinched the title.
1945 - The American flag was raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there. The Japanese garrison consisted of 1,200 men, all of whom returned to Japan in November 1945. During the Japanese occupation of Wake Island, Japanese casualties were over 2,700 (725 killed in action, 1,000 deaths from sickness or malnutrition, and 1000 sick and wounded who were evacuated during July 1945).
1949 - The longest pro tennis match in history was played. Pancho Gonzales and Ted Schroeder played 67 games in five sets.
1950 - Mort Walker’s comic strip Beetle Bailey first appeared in a just a few newspapers. The feature was soon bought and syndicated by King Features and is noted as the last strip personally approved by William Randolph Hearst. Beetle debuted as a college cutup, but with the U.S. entry into the Korean conflict, Beetle enlisted in the Army, and the rest is comic-strip history. Beetle Bailey went on to become the third most widely distributed comic strip of all time.
1951 - The first coast-to-coast telecast using coaxial cable was seen by viewers from New York City to San Francisco, CA. What did they see? U.S. President Harry S Truman giving a speech to the nation from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
1953 - The New York Yankees became the first baseball team, and Casey Stengel the first manager, to win five consecutive American League championships.
1954 - The first passage of the fabled Northwest Passage was completed by icebreakers from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.
1959 - Mack the Knife was banned from radio -- at least from WCBS Radio in New York City. Teenage stabbings in the city had people pretty uptight; therefore, the ban.
1965 - Albert Schweitzer, theologian, philosopher and organist died in Gabon where he had set up a hospital in 1913. Acclaimed for his interpretations of J.S. Bach’s works, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of the ‘Brotherhood of Nations’ in 1952.
1965 - The Beatles’ Help! hit #1. It remained the supreme song in the U.S. for three weeks.
1971 - An Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 jet crashed into Chilkoot Mountain near Juneau, Alaska. 111 people were killed.
1972 - Swimmer Mark Spitz captured his seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany. Spitz became the first Olympian to win seven gold medals.
1973 - William E. Colby, became the tenth director of the CIA. He was sworn in at a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon.
1982 - After six weeks, Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor, dropped out of the top spot on the music charts. The song, from the movie, Rocky III, dropped all the way to number 2 (for two weeks), then to number 3 for one week and to number 4 for two weeks before starting to fade. That’s what we call a hit, folks! It was the group’s biggest, earning them a platinum record.
1984 - Canada’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Brian Mulroney, won a landslide victory in general elections over the Liberal Party of Prime Minister John N. Turner.
1989 - The U.S. Air Force launched its last Titan 3 rocket (carrying a military reconnaissance satellite). Between 1964 and 1989, the Titan 3 had boosted more than 200 satellites into space.
1993 - Hervé Villechaize died in Los Angeles after shooting himself. Villechaize is best remembered for playing the character named Tattoo on ABC’s Fantasy Island.
1993 - The New York Yankees’ Jim Abbott (born without a right hand) pitched a no-hitter on this day. The Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-0.
1996 - The Smashing Pumpkins rock group won seven MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video for Tonight, Tonight and Best Alternative Music Video for 1979.
1997 - The 14th MTV Video Music Awards show was staged at Radio City Music Hall. Host Chris Rock introduced Madonna, U2, Beck, Jamiroquai, The Wallflowers with Bruce Springsteen & Marilyn Manson. Most memorabel moment: Sting joining Puff Daddy & Faith Evans to perform I’ll Be Missing You.
1998 - Knock Off, with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rob Schneider, Lela Rochon, Michael Fitzgerlad Wong, Carmen Lee, Glen Chin, Jeff Wolfe and Paul Sorvino, opened in U.S. theatres. Set at the time of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong by the British to the Chinese, it’s about an attempt by the Russian Mafia to sell deadly microbombs. You probably didn’t see it in a U.S. theatre, but it has been on U.S. TV a bunch of times.
2000 - The annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon raised a record $54,610,289.
2000 - French investigators announced that a stray piece of metal had led to the fatal crash of the supersonic Concorde the previous July. The French theorized that the metal strip had slashed a tire on the Concorde, sending pieces of debris flying up and into the fuel tank of the jetliner, setting of the fatal fire which caused the plane to crash.
2001 - A fire destroyed virtually all of the merchandise and most of the infrastructure of the permanent home of the Straw Market on Nassau’s Bay Street.
2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their AL-record 20th straight game. The A’s gave up an 11-run lead during the game and then won the game a Scott Hatteberg home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
2002 - Texas cocktail waitress and aspiring pop star Kelly Clarkson was voted the first American Idol by millions of TV fans.
2003 - The U.S. House of Representatives agreed to a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress, boosting lawmakers’ annual salaries to about $158,000 the following year.
2003 - 22-year-old Keegan Reilly became the first parapalegic climber to reach the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji during one of the ‘Strong Arm Expeditions’.
2004 - Hurricane Frances ripped apart roofs, shattered windows and flooded neighborhoods as it raged through the Bahamas. Two people were killed.
2005 - In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Coast Guard asked people in the New Orleans area to hang brightly colored or white sheets, towels or anything else that might help draw attention to those needing assistance.
2006 - Steve Irwin, the 44-year-old Australian TV environmentalist, was killed by a blow to the chest from a stingray while he was filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter show, in which he appeared in his trademark khaki shorts and shirt, debuted in 1992 and was shown around the world on the Discovery cable network.
2007 - A Eurostar train took some 30 minutes off the record for quickest rail journey between Paris and London. Using a new high-speed track, the train covered the the 306-mile (492-kilometer) journey from the Gare du Nord in Paris to Saint Pancras in just two hours, three minutes and 39 seconds from station to station.
2008 - John McCain claimed the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican convention in St. Paul, MN. McCain portrayed himself as a maverick warrior and an agent of change.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: All About Steve, starring Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, DJ Qualls, Katy Mixon and Howard Hesseman; Amreeka, with Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat and Jenna Kawar; Carriers, with Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Lou Taylor Pucci; Extract, starring Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Clifton Collins Jr., Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Dustin Milligan and Beth Grant; and Gamer, starring Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges, John Leguizamo, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Logan Lerman, Johnny Whitworth and Zoe Bell.
2009 - The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan reported that it had fired eight security guards because of allegations of lewd behavior and sexual misconduct in their living quarters. The management team of the private contractor that provided the guards was also being replaced.
2010 - A light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. The crash killed nine people including four foreign tourists.
2011 - Iran executed three men for homosexuality. They were hanged in the capital city of Khuzestan province. “The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran’s Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds,” the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying.
2012 - The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the number of people with Ebola, a rare haemorrhagic disease, in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, had tripled since mid-August. 14 patients had died in two weeks. Ebola is transmitted to humans from monkeys and birds and causes massive bleeding in victims. Mortality rates can be as high as 90 percent.
2013 - Chinese state media reported that Zhang Shugung, a former deputy chief of the Railroad Ministry, had been charged with accepting nearly $8 million in bribes from contractors building China’s high-speed rail lines. His house in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut had drawn the attention of anticorruption officials.
2014 - Comedienne Joan Rivers died in New York at 81 years of age. She had suffered cardiac arrest during a supposedly minor elective medical procedure the previous week. Rivers was an American actress, comedian, writer, producer and television host noted for her often controversial comedic persona.
2014 - Electric sports car manufacturer Tesla Motors announced its plan to build a new $5 billion battery factory near Reno, Nevada.
2015 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: The Transporter Refueled, with Ed Skrein, Ray Stevenson and Gabriella Wright; Absolutly Anything, starring Kate Beckinsale, Simon Pegg and Robin Williams; Chloe and Theo, with Jessica Anderson, Peter Henry Arnatsiaq and Christopher Backus; Contracted: Phase II, starring Najarra Townsend, Marianna Palka and Adam Robitel; the documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine; Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody; the animated Un gallo con muchos huevos, featuring the voices of Bruno Bichir, Carlos Espejel and Angélica Vale; and Welcome Back, with Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar and Dimple Kapadia.
2015 - Boeing celebrated the opening of its commercial crew and cargo processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The new facility would be used to get the CST-100 – named the Starliner – ready for flights into Earth orbit.
2016 - Hong Kong voters turned out in force and elected pro-democracy candidates in 30 of 70 seats in the Legislative Council. Pro-democracy and environmentalist candidate Eddie Chu won more votes than any other candidate. Chu soon faced death threats stemming from his campaign promises.
2016 - U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem before the Seattle Reign’s game against the Chicago Red Stars “in a little nod” to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the anthem to protest racial injustice and minority oppression gained attention as he remained seated on the bench before a preseason game against Green Bay.
2017 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced plans to double to €1 billion ($1.19 billion) a fund aimed at cleaning up urban transport. This, in an effort to avert bans of diesel vehicles in some cities.
2017 - On this Labor Day in the U.S., Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was “begging for war”. And she urged the U.N. Security Council to adopt the strongest sanctions measures possible to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Meanwhile, POTUS Trump talked with the South Korean President amid worries of a rift over North Korea strategy. The disagreement had burst into the open when Trump tweeted a broadside against South Korea.
2018 - The Ninth U.S. Circuit court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that cities could not make it a crime to sleep on a public street or sidewalk when no homeless shelters were available.
2018 - Bob Woodward’s book Fear: Trump in the White House, set off a firestorm in the White House with descriptions of current and former aides calling POTUS Trump an “idiot” and a “liar”.
2019 - The Pentagon said it was diverting funding -- $3.6 billion -- from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families to fund POTUS Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Why? We still do not know...
2019 - Iran said it was taking another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal (that POTUS Trump had already disavowed) by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment. President Hassan Rouhani ordered all limits on nuclear research and development lifted.
2020 - The fast-spreading Creek Fire began near the Mammoth Pool Reservoir about 50 miles south of Yosemite National Park in the Sierra National Forest in California. Several dozen people trapped by the massive fire were rescued by military helicopter.
2020 - Human rights experts affiliated with the United Nations raised concerns over Hong Kong’s new national security law, saying the legislation limits certain fundamental freedoms. How could China do this if Hong Kong was supposed to have freedoms guaranteed under the 1997 handover agreement to China from British control? Now that is the question...
2021 - Japan’s government extended a state of emergency in and around Tokyo until the last week of September in a further bid to contain the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic.
2021 - Experts at a global conference in France aimed at protecting dwindling species said the world’s sharks and rays had seen declines in their populations since 2014. More and more were threatened with extinction.
2022 - New York City police identified a man who jumped to his death from a Manhattan high-rise apartment as Gustavo Arnal, chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond. The home-goods retailer had been struggling with severe financial problems, and had recently announced the the lay off of about 20 percent of its corporate employees -- and the closure of 150 stores.
2022 - Eleven people were killed and 15 injured in a stabbing spree in and near an Indigenous community in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The victims were stabbed, apparently at random, in several places in the James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon. Police identified Myles Sanderson as the killer. His brother, Damien, had initially been named a suspect, but was was among those killed, police said. (Myles Sanderson killed himself shortly after being arrested a few days later.)
2023 - Lagos, Nigeria’s first-ever metro rail service, The Blue Line, began operating. Built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corp, The Blue Line links the mainland part of the city, where most people live, with the more affluent Lagos Island, where many businesses are headquartered. Lagos’s more than 20 million residents had experienced regular traffic gridlock, forcing frustrated motorists and commuters to spend hours in traffic, but the new service dramatically slashed travel times, cutting a two-hour journey to fifteen minutes.
2023 - Storm/Cyclone Daniel hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, killing more than a dozen people. Some regions received 800mm (31.5 inches) of rain -- more than would be expected to fall in a year. The storm was the deadliest Mediterranean, tropical-like cyclone, in recorded history, as well as one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record outside of the north Atlantic Ocean.
2023 - And, speaking of rotten weather: Thousands of Burning Man attendees finally made their mass exodus after intense rain had flooded campsites and trapped more than 70,000 festivalgoers in the makeshift Nevada city. Organizers announced the driving ban that had been imposed during heavy rains was lifted and attendees could safely leave Black Rock City, the desert community erected every year for the event. But lots of patience was still requred as the wait time to leave the city was roughly seven hours, as drivers attempted to navigate the muddy desert.
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Birthdays on This Day September 4
1803 - Sarah Childress Polk
First Lady: wife of 11th President of the United States, James Knox Polk; died Aug 14, 18911824 - Anton Bruckner
composer: wrote symphonies [9], masses and a Te Deum; died Oct 11, 18961846 - Daniel Burnham
architect: Railway Exchange Building [Chicago, one of the 1st skyscrapers in U.S.], Chicago’s Monadnock Building [1891] and Reliance Building [1894]; long-range city plan for Chicago [1909], Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Washington, D.C.; died Jun 1, 19121908 - Richard Wright
author: Black Boy, The Outsider, Black Power, The Color Curtain, Pagan Spain; died Nov 28, 19601917 - Henry Ford II
industrialist: head of Ford Motor Co. [1945-1980]; died Sep 29, 19871918 - Paul Harvey
news commentator: “Hello Americans. Stand by for news!”: The Rest of the Story; died Feb 28, 20091919 - Howard Morris
comedian, actor: Boys Night Out, Splash, High Anxiety, The Nutty Professor; Your Show of Shows, Caesar’s Hour, Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo; director: With Six You Get Egg Roll, Don’t Drink the Water, Goin’ Coconuts; died May 21, 20051928 - Dick (Richard Allen) York
actor: Bewitched, That Brewster Boy, Going My Way, Inherit the Wind, They Came to Cordura, My Sister Eileen, Tea and Sympathy, Bus Stop; died Feb 20, 19921931 - Mitzi Gaynor (Franchesca Mitzi Marlene de Charney von Gerber)
singer, dancer, actress: South Pacific, Anything Goes, There’s No Business like Show Business, For Love or Money1933 - Richard S. Castellano
actor: The Godfather, Lovers and Other Strangers, Honor Thy Father, Night of the Juggler, The Gangster Chronicles, Joe and Sons, The Super; died Dec 10, 19881937 - Dawn Fraser
Olympic swimmer [Australia]: 1st to win 8 medals: 4 gold [1956,1960,1964 - 100 meter freestyle; 1956 - relay), and 4 silver1938 - Leonard Frey
actor: Fiddler on the Roof, The Boys in the Band; died Aug 24, 19881941 - Ken (Kenneth Smith) Harrelson
‘Hawk’: baseball: KC Athletics, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967/all-star: 1968], Cleveland Indians; baseball broadcaster: WSBK-TV, Boston; GM: Chicago White Sox1942 - Raymond Floyd
golf champion: Masters [1976], U.S. Open [1986], PGA [1969, 1982]1942 - Merald ‘Bubba’ Knight
singer: group: Gladys Night and the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me, The Way We Were/Try to Remember medley1944 - Jennifer Salt
actress: Soap, The Marshall Chronicles, Play It Again, Sam, Out of the Darkness1945 - Gene Parsons
musician: drums: group: The Byrds; solo: Kindling1946 - Gary Duncan (Grubb)
musician: guitar: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino’s Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool1946 - Greg Elmore
musician: drums: group: Quicksilver Messenger Service: Dino’s Song, Who Do You Love?, The Fool1947 - Wayne LaChance
hockey: Clarkson University, Springfield Kings, Greensboro Generals, Syracuse Eagles; owner [w/Bruce Landon] of AHL Springfield [MA] Falcons1949 - Tom Watson
golf champion: Masters [1977, 1981], U.S. Open [1982], British Open [1975, 1977, 1982, 1983]; more1950 - Doyle (Lafayette) Alexander
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees [World Series: 1976], Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, SF Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1988]1950 - Ronald LaPread
musician: bass; singer: group: Commodores: Still, Three Times a Lady, Nightshift1951 - Martin Chambers
musician: drums: group: The Pretenders: Kid, Brass in Pocket, Back on the Chain Gang1951 - Judith Ivey
Tony Award-winning actress: Steaming [1983], Hurly Burly [1985]; Designing Women, The Critic, Down Home, The 5 Mrs. Buchanans1953 - Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs
actor: Alien Nation, Rituals, Roots, Welcome Back, Kotter, Quiet Fire, L.A. Heat, L.A. Vice1953 - Steve Luke
football: Green Bay Packers1958 - Paul (Wesley) Householder
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [1980–1984], St. Louis Cardinals [1984], Milwaukee Brewers [1985–1986], Houston Astros 1987]1958 - Drew Pinsky
internist, addiction medicine specialist, radio host: Loveline; TV host: Dr. Drew, Lifechangers, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew1960 - Kim Thayil
musician: guitar; founding member of Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun1960 - Damon Wayans
actor: Lethal Weapon [TV], Homey the Clown, Behind the Smile, Bamboozled, Bulletproof, The Great White Hype, Saturday Night Live, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka1964 - Steve Lavin
basketball head coach: UCLA Bruins [145–78 and five Sweet 16 appearances in 6 years; ESPN commentator; head coach at St. John’s University, Queens, New York1966 - Janette Littledove
actress [1985-1996]: X-rated films: Triple Xposure, Hometown Honeys, Careena: Young and Restless, Amazing Sex Stories 2, Mammary Lane, The Amorous Adventures of Janette Littledove1966 - Julian St. Jox
actor [1990-2011]: X-rated films: Honey I Blew Everybody, I Can’t Believe I Did the Whole Team!, Sex Secrets of High Priced Call Girls, Black Studs and Little White Trash, Teenage Chocoholics
1968 - Phill Lewis
comedian, actor: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Wayans Bros., Scrubs, Yes, Dear, American Dad!, Phineas and Ferb, Special Agent Oso1968 - Mike Piazza
baseball [catcher, first base]: Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, San Diego Padres1970 - Ione Skye
actress: Say Anything..., The Rachel Papers, Covington Cross, Samantha, Zodiac, River’s Edge; daughter of folk singer Donovan Leitch1970 - Mr. Marcus (Marcus J. Spencer)
actor [1994-2012]: X-rated films: Sherlock Homie, Whoreo, Buffy’s Bare Ass Barbecue, Erotic Confusion, Boogie Woogie in Da Booty, The Expert Guide to Female Orgasms, Black Addicktion1970 - Richard Speight, Jr.
actor: Jericho, Supernatural, The Agency, Band of Brothers, Life, Memphis Beat, Crave, Justified, noobz, Crowing Lakes1972 - Françoise Yip
actress: Edison, Blade: Trinity, The New Beachcombers, The Pledge, Witness to a Kill, Wolf Lake, Robocop: Prime Directives, Andromeda1973 - Jason David Frank
martial artist, actor: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo, Power Rangers DinoThunder1977 - Jeff Hamilton
hockey [center]: New York Islanders, Chicago Blackhawks, Carolina Hurricanes1978 - Wes Bentley
actor: Yellowstone, The Four Feathers, The Claim, American Beauty, Beloved1979 - Max Greenfield
actor: The Neighborhood, Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty, Modern Men, New Girl, Hello, My Name Is Doris; voice actor: Ice Age: Collision Course1981 - Beyoncé Knowles
singer: group: Destiny’s Child: Jumpin’ Jumpin’, Bills, Bills, Bills, Say My Name, Survivor; actress: The Fighting Temptations, Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Pink Panther1982 - Hank Baskett
football [wide receiver]: Philadelphia Eagles [2006–2009] Indianapolis Colts [2009]: Super Bowl XLIV; Philadelphia Eagles [2010] Minnesota1985 - Kaillie Humphries
Canadian-American bobsledder: Olympic gold 2-woman [Canada] 2010, 14; monobob [USA] 2022; 2010, 2014 Olympic champion in two-woman bobsled; 2018 Olympic bronze medalist with brakewoman Phylicia George; won three IBSF World Championship medals for Team USA in the 2020 and 2021 seasons; swept the two-woman and monobob events at the 2021 IBSF World Championships; part of U.S. bobsledding team for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022; first person to win Olympic gold medals for both the United States and Canada1994 - Victoria Moroles
actress: Liv and Maddie, Teen Wolf, Plan B, Here, Now, Never Have I Ever, The Wilds
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Hit Music on This Day September 4
1947Peg o’ My Heart (facts) - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder (facts) - Eddy Howard
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