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1819 - Thomas Blanchard of Springfield, MA patented a machine called the lathe. Blanchard said it was invented for the manufacturing of gun stocks. His lathe did the work of 13 operators.1837 - One of the few U.S. colleges that accepted African Americans, Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Ohio became the first U.S. college to admit women to its regular college program.
1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by American anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died eight days later. Czolgosz was executed the following October.
1920 - The first prizefight broadcast on radio featured Jack Dempsey knocking out Billy Miske in the third round of a bout in Benton Harbor, MI. Radio station WWJ in Detroit was the station that fight fans were tuned to.
1930 - Gallant Fox won the Lawrence Realization at Belmont Park in New York and became the leading moneymaker in thoroughbred racing.
1937 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded Sugar Foot Stomp on Victor Records. The tune was a Fletcher Henderson arrangement.
1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. On this day, Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.
1948 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was coronated after her mother (Queen Wilhelmina) retired.
1951 - From our Don’t Try This at Home file: American writer William S. Burroughs shot and killed his 27-year-old wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City. He claimed to be trying to shoot a glass off her head, during a day of drinking and drugs but shot her in the head, instead. He was charged with “criminal imprudence.”
1952 - Canadian television began broadcasting in Montreal as CBC-TV went on the air.
1953 - The last American and Korean prisoners were exchanged in Operation Big Switch, the last official act of the Korean War.
1958 - Actor Steve McQueen starred on the CBS-TV series, Wanted: Dead or Alive. McQueen played bounty hunter Josh Randall. Randall was a man of few words but sure knew how to use his .30-.40 sawed-off carbine on the bad guys.
1959 - The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation. The original Barbie, along with her pals, Ken and Skipper, are now collectors items, although new versions are continually being produced.
1966 - South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed to death in Cape Town by a deranged page during a parliamentary session. Assassin Demitrios Tsafendas was thought to have been insane with the belief that a tapeworm inside his head instructed him to do the killing.
1968 - Swaziland gained its independence from Great Britain.
1969 - Singer, songwriter David Bowie debuted on U.K. charts with Space Oddity. You remember, “Ground Control to Major Tom, Ground Control to Major Tom ... Check igition and may God’s love be with you, Three, Two, One, Liftoff...” Space Oddity peaked at #5 in the U.K. The song’s release was timed for the U.S. moon landing, but didn’t make the U.S. charts until its rerelease in 1973 (it reached #15).
1969 - Cabaret closed at Broadway Theatre, New York City after 1,165 performances. (Cabaret returned to Broadway from 1998 to 2004 for another 2,377 shows.)
1972 - Rick DeMont lost the gold medal he received in a 400-meter swimming event because a banned drug was found in his system during routine drug testing.
1973 - Avenging the loss of his gold medal one year earlier, swimmer Rick DeMont captured the 400-meter freestyle event with a world record time of 3:58.18.
1975 - Glen Campbell hit #1 on the Billboard pop music chart with Rhinestone Cowboy. It had reached the top position on the country chart on August 23rd.
1975 - An earthquake rumbled through Lice, Turkey. 3,000 people were killed.
1976 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited by Frank Sinatra -- after 20 years of going their separate ways. The former comedy team warmly met each other again during a surprise visit by Martin to Lewis’s annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy.
1976 - Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko flew a highly advanced MIG-25 to Tokyo. He asked for political asylum in the U.S. and later helped the Navy establish its Top Gun training program.
1979 - The Peter Pan revival opened at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The musical starred Sandy Duncan as Peter, George Rose as Captain Hook and Mr. Darling, and Arnold Soboloff as Smee. Running for 554 performances (closing Jan 04, 1981), Duncan was nominated for the Best Actress Tony, and the show was nominated for Best Revival of a Musical.
1980 - Miss Oklahoma, Susan Powell, was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ. It was the first time in 25 years that Bert Parks had not served as master of ceremonies for the show. He had been dismissed because the pageant committee considered him to be too old. Former TV Tarzan, Ron Ely, was chosen to host the festivities.
1982 - Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates saw his uniform, number 8, retired by the Bucs. It was the fourth Pirate player’s uniform to be so honored. The other three belonged to Roberto Clemente (#21), Honus Wagner (#33) and Pie Traynor (#20).
1984 - Country-music star Ernest Tubb died this day, at the age of 70. Tubb was from Crisp, Texas and was known as the ‘Texas Troubadour’. He patterned his unique style after Jimmie Rodgers. Tubb recorded I’m Walking the Floor Over You and sold more than three million copies of the tune. Blue Christmas, I Love You Because, Missing In Action and Thanks a Lot were also classics made famous by Tubb. Other recording artists as diverse as The Andrews Sisters, Loretta Lynn and Red Foley recorded with Tubb. His 1979 album, The Legend and the Legacy, was a top-ten hit. Tubb was a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1943 and was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1965.
1986 - Bananarama hit the top spot on the pop music charts with Venus. The tune had also been a number one hit for the Dutch group, The Shocking Blue (2/07/70).
1989 - The National Party, the governing party of South Africa, lost nearly a quarter of its parliament seats to far-right and anti-apartheid rivals, its worst setback in four decades.
1991 - The State Council of the Soviet Union recognized the independence of the Baltic states on this day.
1991 - The original name of Russia’s second largest city was restored on this day. The city of St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, hence the name, St. Petersburg. But it wasn’t always that simple. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russian leaders felt that Petersburg was too German-sounding. So they changed the name of the city to Petrograd -- to make it more Russian-sounding. Then, in 1924, the country’s Soviet Communist leaders wanted to honor the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. The city of Petrograd became Leningrad and was known as Leningrad until 1991 when the new Russian legislators -- no longer Soviet Communists -- wanted the city to reflect their change of government.
1994 - Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein (the IRA’s political ally) met on this day. The two made a joint commitment to peace.
1995 - Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s record by playing in his 2,131st consecutive game.
1996 - Three movies opened in U.S. theatres: Bogus, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu and Haley Joel Osment; Bulletproof, with Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Farentino and James Caan; and Sweet Nothing, starring Michael Imperioli, Mira Sorvino, Paul Calderon.
1997 - The Westminster Abbey funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, was an extraordinary event, marked by numerous poignant moments: The people sobbing and throwing flowers at the funeral cortege winding through the streets of London. Her sons, walking behind her casket with their heads bowed. And Diana’s brother, who during his funeral oration took aim at the media, who he said made the princess “the most hunted person of the modern age.” Elton John sang a rewritten version of Candle in the Wind to “England’s rose”. The song was originally a tribute to film legend Marilyn Monroe, whose own tragic life, like Diana’s, ended at the age of just 36.
1998 - Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa died. He was 88 years old. Kurosawa often adapted Western literary works and forms to Japanese subjects. Many of today’s best filmmakers claim Kurosawa as a primary influence on their work.
2000 - Turn It Up debuted in U.S. theatres. The musical drama stars Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel, Ja Rule, Vondie Curtis Hall, Tamala Jones, Eugene A. Clark, John Ralston, Jason Statham, Chris Messina and Faith Evans.
2000 - The Millennium Summit, the largest gathering of world leaders in history, convened at the United Nations in New York City.
2001 - Barry Bonds became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season, as he connected in the second inning of the San Francisco Giants’ home game against Arizona.
2002 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S.: City by the Sea, with Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dishku, William Forsythe, George Dzundza and Patti Lupone; and Swimfan, starring Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby, Kate Burton and Dan Hedaya.
2002 - The U.S. Congress convened in New York at Federal Hall for a special session. The rare session was held in New York to express the nation’s mourning for the loss on September 11, 2001 and unity in the war against terrorism.
2003 - Hurricane Fabian, the most powerful hurricane to hit Bermuda in 50 years, moved on, after deadly winds split trees and swept trucks off roads. Four people were missing and feared dead.
2004 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton underwent successful quadruple heart bypass surgery in New York City -- at 58 years of age.
2005 - Wikipedia, which had become the most popular reference site on the Web, was overtaking several major news sites as the place where people head for context on breaking news events. The online encyclopedia, based in St. Petersburg, FL, is written by volunteers.
2005 - Aviation pioneer Jack Real died at 90 years of age. Real helped develop the Apache helicopter and wrote the book The Asylum of Howard Hughes (2003) about his friendship with the billionaire.
2006 - Police in Phoenix AZ arrested 42-year-old Mark Goudeau, a construction worker, and charged him with two sexual assaults. In December 2006 police accused Goudeau of being the ‘Baseline Killer’ and recommended charging him with 71 counts including 9 murders committed from August, 2005 to June, 2006.
2007 - A mixture of artificial colors and the commonly-used preservative sodium benzoate were linked to hyperactivity in children, according to a ground-breaking study published by the UK medical journal, The Lancet.
2007 - Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti died of pancreatic cancer in Modena, Italy. He was 71 years old. Pavarotti brought opera to the masses with his powerful voice and jovial personality. He crossed over into popular music and became one of the world’s most famous vocal performers. One of The Three Tenors (with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras), he was well known for his televised concerts and media appearances.
2008 - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain; while Tropical Storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it headed north toward New England.
2008 - Swaziland King Mswati III celebrated his 40th birthday and the nation’s 40th year of independence in a lavish extravaganza widely believed to have cost $12.5 million. Mswati was Africa’s last absolute monarch and lived a luxurious lifestyle with his 13 wives, while some 70% of the population of 1 million lived below the poverty line.
2009 - Six South Koreans camping along a river flowing from North Korea were swept away when it suddenly doubled in height. The change in water level came after a dam in North Korea released a large amount of water without warning. North Korea later apologized for unleashing the torrent and promised to alert South Korea before taking similar action in the future.
2010 - President Barack Obama called for a $50-billion boost in spending on the U.S. roads, runways and railroads in an effort to boost the sluggish economy. (The proposed plan, coming just before mid-term elections, met with an abrupt dead end in the U.S. Congress.)
2010 - The annual MDA Labor Day Telethon raised $58.9 million, down from a record $65 million in 2008. It was the last time Jerry Lewis would host the show. (The telethon itelf was cut to six hours the following year; to three hours in 2012; to two hours in 2013, and moved to ABC from the "Love Network" of individual stations. The 2014 broadcast was its last.)
2011 - Calmer winds helped firefighters battling a central Texas wildfire that had forced thousands of residents to evacuate. Four deaths were linked to that fire, and some 122 wildfires continued to burn in the state. By September 12, 1554 homes had been destroyed in and around the city of Bastrop, Texas.
2012 - The U.S. Institute of Medicine said in a report that the U.S. health care system squandered $750 billion in 2009, roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar, through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste.
2013 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Riddick, starring Vin Diesel, Katee Sackhoff, Karl Urban, Dave Bautista, Nolan Gerard Funk, Antoinette Kalaj and Jordi Mollà; 36 Saints, with Donna McKechnie, Franky G, Jeffrey De Serrano, Britne Oldford, Chris Riggi, Aja Naomi King, Matthew Daddario, Tyrone Brownand Alesandra Assante; Adore, starring Robin Wright, Naomi Watts, Ben Mendelsohn, Xavier Samuel, Sophie Lowe, James Frecheville and Jessica Tovey; the documentary I Am Breathing; InSpectres, with Lucas Thompson, Brian Barber, Mike Mauloff, Melinda Ryba, Mark G. Pavuk, Harold Dennis, Natalie Victoria, Chuck Wagner and Renee Domenz; Mission Park, with Jeremy Ray Valdez, Walter Perez, Fernanda Romero and Will Rothhaar; the documentary, Salinger; A Teacher, starring Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain, Jennifer Prediger, Julie Dell Phillips, Jonny Mars and Chris Doubek; Tio Papi, with Joey Dedio, Kelly McGillis, Frankie Faison and Elizabeth Rodriguez; The Ultimate Life, starring Peter Fonda, Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Ali Hillis, Logan Bartholomew, David Mann and Drew Waters; and Winnie Mandela, with Terrence Howard, Elias Koteas, Jennifer Hudson, Wendy Crewson, Angelique Pretorius and Tessa Jubber.
2013 - G20 leaders meeting in Russia committed to a crack down on cross-border companies that use tax havens. The group also agreed on a plan to share information on individual taxpayers.
2014 - Russia sent six ships carrying personnel and equipment to a Soviet-era military base in the Arctic that it was reopening to bolster its presence there. President Vladimir Putin had ordered the military to return to the base on the far-Northern New Siberian Islands that was abandoned in 1993.
2015 - Iraq’s air force reported that it had put F-16 warplanes acquired from the U.S. into action against the Islamic State group for the first time. This, while the U.S.-led coalition conducted 11 air strikes against ISIL, and several strikes targeting the militant group in Syria.
2016 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while visiting the Netherlands, said the Dutch government had agreed to assist Israel in improving water and gas supplies to energy-strapped Gaza.
2016 - POTUS Obama pledged $90 million to help Laos recover millions of unexploded bombs secretly dropped there by U.S/ planes during the Vietnam War. The president said the clean-up was a “moral obligation.”
2017 - France’s government unveiled a law to ban all production and exploration of oil and natural gas by 2040 on the country’s mainland and overseas territories. The law, which became final in Dec 2017, was unlikely to have a significant impact, given 99 per cent of France’s oil and gas is imported from other countries. However, the French Government hoped the symbolic gesture would put pressure on other countries to adopt similar laws.
2017 - POTUS Trump overruled congressional Republicans and his own treasury secretary to cut a deal with Democrats to keep the government operating and raise the U.S. debt limit (thru mid-December 2017).
2018 - Film star Burt Reynolds died at a hospital in Jupiter, Florida (heart attack, age 82). Reynolds had leading roles in more than 100 films included Deliverance (1972), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Longest Yard (1974), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), The Cannonball Run (1981) and Boogie Nights (1997).
2018 - Prosecutors investigated the top executives of Autostrade, the firm operating a bridge in Genoa, Italy that collapsed the previous month killing 43 people. (In early 2019 three managers and three former managers were found guilty of manslaughter. CEO Giovanni Castellucci was acquitted.)
2019 - Films showing for the first time on U.S. theatre screens included: It: Chapter Two, with Bill Skarsgård, Finn Wolfhard and Jessica Chastain; and Satanic Panic, starring Rebecca Romijn, Jerry O’Connell and Jordan Ladd.
2019 - Anthony Scaramucci, financial investor and short-lived communications director for POTUS Donald Trump, said that he was raising money to prevent his former boss from being re-elected. Scaramucci said, “He’s a very, very bad person, and he needs to be removed.”
2019 - Hurricane Dorian made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, hitting the beach resort area with powerful winds and battering waves. This, a couple of days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. Dorian did not linger the way it did in the Bahamas, though.
2020 - Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five California counties. After two weeks the Bobcat fire in Los Angeles County had grown to 170 square miles and was only 17% contained.
2020 - The Washington Post reported that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for years reimbursed workers of his New Breed Technologies company who made political contributions to Republican candidates. North Carolina called for an investigation into the company, which DeJoy sold in 2014.
2021 - NASA reported that its Perseverance rover on Mars had successfully collected its first rock sample.
2021 - President Biden declared a major disaster in New Jersey, days after Hurricane Ida caused intense flooding that killed dozens in the Northeast. New Jersey alone reported some 30 storm deaths. And the U.S. Coast Guard said it was probing nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ida.
2022 - A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin removed from office over his participation in the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Judge Francis Mathew said Griffin, a Republican and founder of Cowboys for Trump, violated a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution barring people who have participated in an insurrection from holding public office.
2022 - Juul Labs agreed to pay $438.5 million to settle a complaint by 34 states over the company’s marketing of its high-nicotine e-cigarettes. The smokes had been blamed for fueling a surge in teen vaping. In addition to the monetary penalty, the settlement called for the company to severely limit its marketing and sales practices. Juul was still targeted in nine separate lawsuits brought by other states, as well as hundreds of personal suits filed on behalf of teenagers who said they became addicted using Juul’s products.
2023 - A Vladimir Putin-ordered daytime missile attack on a Ukrainian market in Kostyantynivka killed 17 civilians. The S-300 missile was launched by Russian forces. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said “Russian terrorists have attacked a regular market, shops, and a pharmacy, killing innocent people.” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said, “There will be a just retribution for everything.”
2023 - Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide. The court said the denial of the possibility of a termination violated the human rights of women.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, with Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles from the original; and The Front Room, starring Brandy Norwood, Andrew Burnap and Kathryn Hunter.
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Birthdays on This Day September 6
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette
French and American General: ‘The Hero of Two Worlds’; died May 20, 18341860 - Jane Addams
Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women’s rights; founded Chicago’s Hull House; died May 21, 19351885 - Otto Kruger
actor: The Young Philadelphians, Cover Girl, Corregidor, High Noon, Dracula’s Daughter, I am the Law; died Sep 6, 19741888 - Joseph P. Kennedy
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy; died Nov 18, 19691902 - Morgan Beatty
reporter, journalist: Associated Press; radio: ABC, NBC: Monitor; TV: Du Mont; died July 4, 19751904 - ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom
boxer, actor: I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , Here Comes Kelly, Cooking Up Trouble; died Mar 6, 19761912 - Vince (Vincent Paul) DiMaggio
baseball: Boston Bees, Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1943, 1944], Philadelphia Blue Jays, NY Giants, Philadelphia Phillies; older brother of Joe [and Dom] DiMaggio; died Oct 3, 19861918 - Jay Stewart (Jay Fixx)
radio/TV announcer: Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters, Let’s Make a Deal, Scrabble, $ale of the Century; died Sep 17, 19891924 - Hal (Harold Bentley) Jeffcoat
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds, SL Cardinals; died Aug 30, 20071925 - Jimmy Reed
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: musician: guitar, harmonica; songwriter; singer: Baby, What You Want Me to Do, Bright Lights, Big City, Honest I Do, You Don’t Have to Go, Going to New York, Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby, Big Boss Man; died Aug 29, 19761929 - Dow Finsterwald
golf: PGA champion [1958]; died Nov 4, 20221937 - Jo Anne Worley
comedienne: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares1939 - David Allan Coe
singer: Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat, Take Time to Know Her, London Homesick Blues, Tennessee Whiskey, Jaunita, Pledging My Love; songwriter: Would You Lay with Me [In a Field of Stone], Take this Job and Shove It1939 - Susumu Tonegawa
Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist [1987]: discovered how the body can defend itself against millions of different diseases it has never before encountered1940 - Brian Smith
hockey: NHL: LA Kings, Minnesota North Stars; died Aug 2, 19951940 - Tom Janik
football: Texas A & I, Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills; died Nov 21, 20091942 - Dave Bargeron
musician: trombonist, tuba: group: Blood, Sweat and Tears: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel, When I Die, Just One Smile1942 - Mel McDaniel
singer: Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On, Big Ole Brew, Louisiana Saturday Night, I Call It Love, Real Good Feel Good Song, Right in the Palm of Your Hand, Take Me to the Country, God Made Love; died Mar 31, 20111942 - Carol Wayne
actress: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Scavenger Hunt, Heartbreakers; died Jan 13, 1985 [drowning accident in Manzanillo, Mexico]1943 - Roger Waters
musician: bass, songwriter: group: Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall [Part II]1944 - Swoosie Kurtz
Tony Award-winning actress: Fifth of July [1981], The House of Blue Leaves [1986]; Emmy Award-winner: Reunion: Carol & Company [1989-1990]; Sisters, Love, Sidney, The World According to Garp, Mike & Molly1946 - Ron Boone
basketball: Utah Jazz; record: 1,041 consecutive games; broadcaster [color analyst]: Utah Jazz1947 - Jane Curtin
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Kate and Allie [1983-84, 1984-85]; Coneheads, Saturday Night Live, Suspicion1948 - Claydes (Charles) Smith
musician: guitar: group: Kool & The Gang: Ladies Night, Celebration, I.B.M.C.; LPs: Wild and Peaceful, Kool Jazz, Light of Worlds, Spirit of the Boogie, Love & Understanding, Something Special, As One, In the Heart, Emergency; died Jun 20, 20061949 - Mike (Michael Wayne) Thompson
baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, SL Cardinals, Atlanta Braves1951 - Ken Bernich
football: Auburn University All-American1957 - David Strassman
comedian, actor, voice artist, ventriloquist: characters: Chuck Wood, Ted E. Bare1958 - Jeff Foxworthy
comedian, actor: You Know You’re a Redneck, The Jeff Foxworthy Show; TV host: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?; author: No Shirt, No Shoes ... No Problem1958 - Michael Winslow
actor: Police Academy series, Spaceballs, Cheech and Chong, Gremlins1961 - Paul Waaktaar
musician: guitar, singer: group: a-ha1962 - Chris Christie
Republican politician: 55th Governor of New Jersey [2010-2018]: embroiled in 2014 controversy about intentionally closing George Washington Bridge lanes in New Jersey as retribution against a politician from Fort Lee who did not endorse him1962 - Elizabeth Vargas
journalist: ABC Evening News, 20/20, Good Morning America1963 - Mark Chestnutt
singer: Bubba Shot the Jukebox, Too Cold at Home, Blame It on Texas, Almost Goodbye, It’s a Little Too Late, Ol’ Country, Brother Jukebox, Gonna Get a Life, Let It Rain, It Sure is Monday, Goin’ Through the Big D, I’ll Think of Something1963 - Betsy Russell
actress: Private School, Saw film series, Tomboy, Cheerleader Camp, The A-Team, Murder, She Wrote, 1st & Ten, Chain Letter, Mandrake, My Trip Back to the Dark Side1964 - Rosie Perez
dancer, choreographer, actress: White Men Can’t Jump, Lackawanna Blues, Copshop, Widows, King of the Jungle, Riding in Cars With Boys, The 24 Hour Woman1966 - Chad Coleman
actor: The Wire, The Walking Dead, The Expanse, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Roots [2016], The Green Hornet, Habeas Corpus1966 - Jill Ellis
head coach of U.S. women’s national soccer team1969 - Macy Gray
Grammy Award-winning singer: I Try [2001]; When I See You, Sweet Baby [featuring Erykah Badu], Still; actress: Training Day, Spider-Man, Scary Movie 3, Lackawanna Blues, Idlewild, For Colored Girls1969 - Trina McGee
actress: Boy Meets World, Untitled Sisqo Project, Friday After Next, LAPD African Cops1971 - Teri Diver
actress [1990-2001]: X-rated films: Anything That Moves, Black in the Saddle Again, Edward Penishands, Sorceress From Dimension X; died Jan 2, 20011971 - Dolores O’Riordan
songwriter, singer: group: The Cranberries: Linger, Dreams, Zombie, Ode to My Family, Ridiculous Thoughts, Salvation, Free to Decide, Promises; solo LPs: Are You Listening?, No Baggage; died Jan 15, 20181972 - Dylan Bruno
actor: Numb3rs, Saving Private Ryan, NCIS, Bones, The Mentalist, Fixing Pete, Grey’s Anatomy1972 - Justina Machado
actress: Six Feet Under, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Call, She’s So Lovely, Final Destination 2, Torque, Little Fugitive, Man Maid, The Accidental Husband, In the Electric Mist1972 - Anika Noni Rose
Tony Award-winning actress: Caroline, or Change [2004]; films: Dreamgirls, The Princess and the Frog, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Good Wife, Private Practice1974 - Nina Persson
singer: group: The Cardigans: Rise and Shine, Black Letter Day, Sick and Tired, Carnival, Hey! Get Out of My Way, Lovefool, Been It, Your New Cuckoo1974 - Justin Whalin
actor: The Dead Pool, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Serial Mom, Dungeons & Dragons1975 - Derrek Lee
baseball [first base]: San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs1976 - Naomie Harris
actress: 28 Days Later, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Skyfall, Ninja Assassin, My Last Five Girlfriends1978 - Foxy Brown
rapper: I’ll Be, Candy, Ill Na Na, Get Me Home, Broken Silence, B.K. Anthem, My Life, Tramp, 4-5-61980 - Blaze Berdahl
actress: Strong Island Boys, Noel, Third Watch, Pet Sematary, Ghostwriter; voice-over actor, announcer, narrator1986 - Dallas Friday
wakeboarder: 4 X Games gold medals, numerous world titles, ESPN ESPY Award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete [2004]2002 - Asher Angel
actor: Andi Mack; Shazam!; Shazam! Fury of the Gods2005 - Shay Rudolph
actress: The Baby-Sitters Club; I Wish You All the Best; The Sex Lives of College Girls; Lethal Weapon TV series
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Hit Music on This Day September 6
1949You’re Breaking My Heart (facts) - Vic Damone
Room Full of Roses (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
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