September 9
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1836 - Abraham Lincoln received his license to practice law.1850 - When California became the 31st of the United States of America on this day, cries of “there’s gold in them thar hills” had already been heard for two years. So, it’s no surprise that the nickname for the most populous state is the Golden State, and that the golden poppy (orange-yellowish in color) is the state flower. (Contrary to popular opinion, the California poppy does not yield opium.) The state bird of California is the California valley quail. No, it is not golden in color, but is grayish-brown with black, white and chestnut markings. Sacramento, centrally located but far from being the largest city in California, is the state capital.
1898 - Tom Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first log rolling championship -- in Omaha, NE.
1914 - The chief of the German general staff, Helmuth von Moltke, called off the German advance after British and French counter-attacks -- thus ending the first Battle of the Marne. German casualties were estimated at 800,000.
1926 - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was organized as a radio broadcasting service of the Radio Corporation of America.
1942 - A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, made its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japanese planes dropped the incendiary bombs in a futile attempt to set fire to the forests of the Northwest.
1943 - Allied forces in Operation Avalanche landed at Salerno and Taranto during World War II. They encountered strong resistance from German troops.
1945 - Japanese in South Korea, Taiwan, China and Indochina surrendered to the Allies.
1946 - Ben Alexander hosted Heart’s Desire for the first time. Heart’s Desire was a giveaway contest program on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1948 - North Korea became the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.
1950 - Sal Maglie of the New York Giants pitched a fourth consecutive shutout. Only four other pitchers in the National League had accomplished this feat.
1950 - Where’s Charley? closed at St James Theater New York City after 792 boffo performances.
1956 - On this Sunday night, 60,000,000 viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) turned their TV dials to CBS to see and hear 21-year-old singer Elvis ‘The Pelvis’ Presley. Elvis sang Don’t Be Cruel and Ready Teddy. One female Elvis fan described him as, “One big hunk of forbidden fruit.” Elvis got the largest fee to that date for appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show: $50,000.
1965 - Los Angeles Dodgers’ Sandy Koufax pitched the eighth perfect game in major-league baseball history by leading the Dodgers over the Chicago Cubs 1-0. A perfect game is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by any means (hits, walks, errors or black magic).
1969 - Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 people were killed.
1971 - Hockey legend Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League on this day.
1971 - Inmates at the state prison in Attica, New York, took thirty guards hostage in a revolt over prison conditions. Ten hostages and thirty-two prisoners and would die in the revolt, which was controlled four days later.
1976 - Artist Christo unveiled his $2 million, 24-mile environmental art work, The Running Fence.
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong), the leader of the People’s Republic of China since its founding in 1949, died of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82 years old. In 1965, Mao launched the controversial Cultural Revolution, an often-brutal campaign to reform Chinese society. His death triggered a two-year power struggle.
1979 - Tracy Austin became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title. She was 16 years old.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears broke Jim Brown’s combined yardage record by reaching 15,517 yards.
1986 - Ted Turner presented the first of his colorized films -- on his superstation WTBS in Atlanta, GA. The first Hollywood classic to get the new look was Yankee Doodle Dandy. Some people were opposed to the colorization process, where color is added to black-and-white movies. They felt the originals should be pristine -- that any change interferes with the original creativity.
1988 - The Stars and Stripes, a catamaran piloted by Dennis Conner, completed a 2-0 victory over a New Zealand monohull for the America’s Cup off San Diego.
1989 - West German Steffi Graf won the women’s tennis title at the U.S. Open in New York, defeating second-ranked Martina Navratilova 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.
1990 - The Ellis Island Museum of Immigration, closed to public tours since 1984, was reopened this day, following a $160 million restoration. Private citizens had mounted the campaign that returned the island’s main building to its former grandeur. Ellis Island was the gateway for more than half of the immigrants entering the U.S. between 1892 and 1924.
1993 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was buried in his homeland. He had been on ice, literally, in Hawaii since his death on Sep 28, 1989.
1994 - The U.S. agreed to accept about 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year. This was in return for Cuba’s promise to halt the flight of refugees.
1995 - Amtrak’s Broadway Limited service made its final run between New York City, NY and Chicago, IL.
1996 - Bluegrass legend Bill Monroe died. The ‘Father of Bluegrass Music’ died just four days short of his 85th birthday.
1997 - Casper: A Spirited Beginning was released in the U.S. The family comedy stars Brendon Ryan Barrett, Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael Mckean, Richard Moll -- and the voices of Jeremy Foley (Casper), James Earl Jones, Pauly Shore, Jess Harnell, Bill Farmer and James K. Ward.
1997 - Actor Burgess Meredith died in Malibu, CA of Alzheimer’s Disease. He was 89 years old. Meredith was perhaps best known for playing the Penguin on the Batman TV series and as Rocky Balboa’s trainer in the Rocky film series, but his list of films is 113 in length.
1997 - Richie Ashburn, Hall of Fame baseball player (Phillies, Mets), died of a heart attack. He was 70 years old.
1998 - Four tourists who had paid $32,500 each were taken in a 23-foot submersible to view the wreckage of the Titanic two and a-half miles below the ocean surface off Newfoundland. Comments about the experience: “Awesome ... and humbling, too.”
1998 - The Tripartite Gold Commission closed. The commission was set up in 1946 by Britain, France and the United States to oversee the return of some $4 billion in gold plundered by the Nazis from European treasuries.
1999 - Jim ‘Catfish’ Hunter, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, died in Hertford, North Carolina from Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]). He was 53 years old. Hunter pitched a perfect game in 1968, won 21 or more games five times in a row, and won the American League’s Cy Young Award in 1974. He won 224 games and five World Series rings.
1999 - Actress Ruth Roman died in Laguna Beach, California. She was 75 years old. Roman starred in more than thirty films, inlcuding "Champion" (1949), "trangers on a Train" (1951) and "Colt .45" (1950).
2000 - Venus Williams beat Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 7-5 for the U.S. Open women’s singles championship. It was the first Grand Slam title for Venus.
2001 - Lleyton Hewitt bested Pete Sampras to earn his first Grand Slam title, 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-1 at the U.S. Open.
2002 - The Rajdhani Express train derailed in Bihar state and fell into a river, killing 119 people. An Indian railway official said that it was an act of sabotage.
2002 - Martin Strel of Slovenia completed his swim of the 2,360-mile length of the Mississippi River. He started on July 4 and covered some twelve miles per day.
2003 - The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston agreed to pay $85-million to settle claims by more than 550 people who said they were sexually abused by priests.
2003 - The Wall Street Journal disclosed that Dick Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, had a retirement package of close to $140-million, along with entitlements to an additional $48-million. His 2001 pay exceeded $30-million with a base pay of $1.4 million. Grasso said he would forgo $48 million in additional compensation but defended the $140-million pay package.
2003 - Edward Teller died. He was 95 years old. The Hungarian-born pioneer in molecular physics was known as the “father of the H-bomb” for his role in the early development of nuclear weapons.
2004 - Hurricane Ivan grew into a deadly storm, with winds of 160 mph. It headed for Jamaica after pummeling Grenada, Barbados and other islands, causing at least twenty deaths.
2005 - Movies debuting in the U.S.: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, with Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jennifer Carpenter and Colm Feore; and The Man, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Luke Goss and Miguel Ferrer.
2005 - Vice Admiral Thad W. Allen, chief of staff of the U.S. Coast Guard, was put in charge of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in New Orleans. He replaced FEMA director Michael D. Brown.
2006 - Space shuttle Atlantis and six astronauts blasted off on a mission to resume construction of the international space station.
2007 - Shepherds from 32 countries joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid in defense of ancient grazing routes threatened by urban sprawl. It seems that Modern-day Madrid lies squarely in the way of two north-south shepherding routes, one dating back to 1372.
2007 - The MTV Music Video Awards: Video of the Year: Rihanna, Umbrella; Male Artist of the Year: Justin Timberlake; Female Artist of the Year: Fergie.
2008 - San Antonio, Texas announced a deal to make it the first U.S. city to harvest methane gas from human waste on a commercial scale -- and turn it into clean-burning fuel.
2008 - O3B Networks Ltd. announced a plan to launch satellites to provide Internet service to Africa, the Middle East and parts of Latin America by 2010 at a cost of some $650 million.
2009 - 9 opened in U.S. theatres. The animated fantasy adventure features the voices of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reilly.
2009 - President Barack Obama, in a major speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress, promised to overhaul the U.S. health care system. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) heckled Obama with a shout of “You lie,” regarding Obama’s assertion of no planned medical care to illegal immigrants.
2010 - A massive explosion, triggered by a broken gas line, sent flames roaring through San Bruno, near San Francisco International Airport, destroying 37 homes and damaged eight others. Eight people were killed and dozens were injured from the blast and resulting fires.
2011 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, Stephen Dorff, Ido Mosseri, Kevin Nealon, Edward Herrmann and Miriam Flynn; Warrior, with Tom Hardy, Jennifer Morrison, Joel Edgerton, Nick Nolte, Noah Emmerich and Bryan Callen; Contagion, starring Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Bryan Cranston, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law; the documentary The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu; the documentary, The Black Power Mix Tape: 1967-1975; Burke & Hare, with Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry, Paul Davis and Christian Brassington; Creature, starring D'Arcy Allen, Daniel Bernhardt, Mehcad Brooks, Dillon Casey, Amanda Fuller, Sid Haig and Aaron Hill; Laugh at My Pain, with evin Hart and Na’im Lynn; Love in Space, with Aaron Kwok, Rene Liu, Fan Xu and Eason Chan; Main Street, starring Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, Andrew McCarthy and Ellen Burstyn; Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, with Imran Khan, Katrina Kaif and Ali Zafar; One Fall, starring Marcus Dean Fuller, Zoe McLellan, Seamus Mulcahy, James McCaffrey, Mark La Mura and Dominic Fumusa; and Shaolin, with Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Bingbing Fan and Jackie Chan.
2011 - Interpol issued its top most-wanted alert for the arrest of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam and the country’s ex-chief of military intelligence. All of the men were sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, Niger Justice Minister Amadou Morou reported that the Libyan chief of staff of the air force, his pilot and the commanders of two Libyan military regions had arrived in Niger.
2013 - From our What the...? department: China announced new penalties to stop the spread of what the government called, “irresponsible rumors.” A penalty of three years in jail was threatened for ‘untrue’ Internet posts that were reposted more than 500 times.
2013 - Four thieves rammed their car into an upmarket jewelry store in central Paris, France, smashing the shop window and scooping up a €2 million ($2.6 million) haul.
2014 - Apple unveiled its $349 watch, two larger (than all previous models) iPhones and Apple Pay, a mobile payments service. Apple planned to charge fees from banks each time consumers used their iPhone to make purchases. The plan would give Apple a cut of the mobile payments market.
2015 - An Indian Muslim leader said more than 1,000 Muslim clerics in India had ratified a religious ruling that condemned the Islamic State and called the extremist group’s actions “un-Islamic.”
2016 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: The Disappointments Room, starring Kate Beckinsale, Lucas Till and Michaela Conlin; Sully, starring Tom Hanks, Anna Gunn and Laura Linney; When the Bough Breaks, with Theo Rossi, Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall; the documentaries, Author: The JT LeRoy Story, Dancer and For the Love of Spock; Kicks, with Jahking Guillory, Christopher Jordan Wallace and Christopher Meyer; and Transpecos, with Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna and Clifton Collins Jr.
2016 - Dozens of people including at least one child were trapped overnight in cable cars at altitudes of more than 3,000 metres (9800 ft) on Mont Blanc after the cars got stuck. Helicopters were used to rescue 48 people and about 30 in cars closest to the ground were able to climb down. But as night fell in the French Alps, the aerial operation had to be suspended, leaving more than 30 people dangling above the slopes. Those still stuck had access to emergency blankets, energy bars and bottles of water in the cars, authorities said. At about 8 a.m. the cable cars were repaired and the remaining people were brought down.
2017 - Hurricane Irma weakened to Category 4 after making landfall in Cuba. Irma ripped roofs off houses, collapsed buildings and flooded hundreds of miles of coastline. The storm raked Cuba after cutting a trail of destruction across the Caribbean leaving 22 people dead. A French public reinsurance body said the cost of Hurricane Irma, described as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, was some €1.2 billion euros ($1.44 billion) in Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy.
2018 - Thousands of Russians protested deeply unpopular pension reforms in parliament as the country voted in local elections. The ruling United Russia party suffered major blows in several regions as Russians voted to elect governors and local lawmakers. Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow since 2010, won a predictable victory with 70.02% of the vote and turnout was just 30.8%.
2018 - Leslie Moonves, longtime chief executive of CBS Corp, stepped down following sexual harassment allegations against him. Six women said that the media executive had sexually harassed them, and complaints by dozens of others pointed to a culture in some parts of the company that had tolerated sexual misconduct.
2019 - Scientists warned that a large marine heat wave had warmed the northern Pacific Ocean and was likely to disrupt sea life from Alaska to southern California. The warm water was officially known as the Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2019. In 2014 “the Blob” of warm ocean water disrupted the West Coast marine ecosystem and depressed salmon returns. This new expanse of unusually warm water had quickly grown in much the same way, in the same area, to almost the same size as the 2014 “Blob.”
2019 - James Fields, the man convicted of ramming his car into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was ordered to pay some $75,000 in total to four of his victims.
2020 - 26 scientists, most of them working at universities in Italy, signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the early-stage trial results of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, named Sputnik-V. The scientists said they saw patterns in the data that looked “highly unlikely.”
2020 - Journalist Bob Woodward in his book, Rage, said POTUS Trump told him that he had purposely minimized the risks of the coronavirus to the public, despite knowing in February 2020 that the virus was much deadlier than the flu and could be spread through the air.
2020 - Wildfires continued to sweep through the Pacific Northwest and California, killing at least six people. More than two dozen major fires were burning around the state, some of them among the largest recorded in recent California history. Thick smoke choked much of the state and cast an eerie orange hue across the sky. It blotted out the sun in San Francisco, and ash fluttered down from the sky.
2021 - Dwight Jones (41), serving life without the possibility of parole for a double murder, and other charges stemming from a 1999 shooting, was released from prison. This, after the Loyola Project for the Innocent uncovered new evidence casting doubt on the original conviction.
2021 - French health minister Olivier Véran said France was offering free contraceptives for women up to the age of 25 to help with the financial costs of protecting against pregnancy.
2022 - Barbarian opened in U.S. theaters. The horror, thriller stars Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård and Justin Long.
2022 - New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency after state health officials found poliovirus samples in five counties — Rockland County, Orange County, Sullivan County, New York City, and Nassau County. All of the samples were deemed to be “samples of concern” as they were types of poliovirus that put people at risk of paralysis.
2023 - The G2 summit began in New Delhi, India. Prime Minister Modi expressed optimism about the G20 countries’ evolving agenda under India’s presidency. The leaders agreed on a joint statement laying out shared views on climate change and economic development, but they showed the fractures within the group by stopping short of explicitly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2023 - Rescuers in Morocco were trying to find survivors of the powerful earthquake, with more than 2,000 people killed and remote villages near the epicenter left in ruins. Terrified Moroccans spent a second night in the streets, too afraid to return to their homes.
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Birthdays on This Day September 9
1877 - Frank (Leroy) Chance
‘Husk’, ‘The Peerless Leader’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Chicago Orphans, Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910], NY Yankees; manager: NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox; minor-league team owner; subject of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double play; died Sep 15, 19241890 - Colonel Harland Sanders
businessman: founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain; died Dec 16, 1980
1893 - Esther Cleveland
daughter of U.S. President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland; first child of a U.S. President to be born at the White House; died June 25, 19801898 - Frankie (Francis) Frisch
‘The Fordham Flash’: Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Giants [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1931/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935]; died Mar 12, 19731899 - Waite (Charles) Hoyt
‘Schoolboy’: Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: NY Giants, Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928], Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1931], Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates; radio sportscaster; died Aug 25, 19841905 - Joseph E. Levine
movie producer: The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge, The Lion in Winter; died July 31, 19871923 - Cliff Robertson
Academy Award-winning actor: Charly [1968]; PT 109, Days of Wine and Roses, The Devil’s Brigade, Midway, Gidget, Picnic, Three Days of the Condor, Brainstorm, Falcon Crest; AT&T commercials; died Sep 10, 20111923 - Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder (Demetrios Georgios Synodinos)
oddsmaker, broadcaster: The NFL Today; died Apr 21, 19961924 - Jane Greer
actress: Immediate Family, Just Between Friends, Against All Odds, Man of a Thousand Faces, Clown, Prisoner of Zenda, Out of the Past, Dick Tracy Detective; died Aug 24, 20011926 - Jacob (Jake) Carey
singer: group: The Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes for You, That’s My Desire, Golden Teardrops, Jump Children, Dream of a Lifetime, Ko Ko Mo [I Love You So]; died Dec 10, 19971932 - Sylvia Miles
actress: Midnight Cowboy, Crossing Delancey; died Jun 12, 20191937 - Inez Foxx
singer: Mockingbird [w/brother, Charlie]; died Aug 25, 20221940 - Joe Negroni
singer: group: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love, I Want You to Be My Girl, Who Can Explain, The ABC’s of Love; died Sep 5, 19781941 - Otis Redding
musician, singer: [Sittin’ on] The Dock of the Bay; killed in plane crash Dec 10, 19671942 - Luther Simmons
singer: group: Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool; died May 9, 20161945 - Dee Dee Sharp (Dione LaRue)
singer: Mashed Potato Time, Gravy [For My Mashed Potatoes], Ride!, Do the Bird, Slow Twistin’ [w/Chubby Checker]1946 - Doug Ingle
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida1946 - Bruce Palmer
musician: bass: group: Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth, Mr. Soul, Rock and Roll Woman, Bluebird; died Oct 1, 20041947 - Freddy Weller
musician: guitar: Paul Revere and The Raiders [1969]; solo: Games People Play; songwriter: Dizzy1949 - Joe Theismann
football: Washington Redskins QB: Bert Bell Award [1982], AP Player of the Year [1983], Super Bowl XVII, XVIII;, Toronto Argonauts; ESPN sportscaster1951 - Tom Wopat
actor: Cybill, The Dukes of Hazzard, A Peaceable Kingdom, Blue Skies; singer: The Rock and Roll of Love1952 - Angela Cartwright
actress: Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space1952 - Jerry (Wayne) Mumphrey
baseball: SL Cardinals, SD Padres, NY Yankees [World Series: 1981], Houston Astros [all-star: 1984], Chicago Cubs1952 - David Stewart
musician: guitar, keyboard: duo: Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams, Who’s That Girl, Right by Your Side, Here Comes the Rain Again; Tourists: Loneliest Man in the World1954 - Jeffrey Combs
actor: Voodoo Moon, Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy, Re-Animator, FeardotCom, House on Haunted Hill, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer1960 - Hugh Grant
actor: Sense and Sensibility, Nine Months, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Remains of the Day, Impromptu, The Dawning, Maurice, Extreme Measures, Notting Hill, Mickey Blue Eyes1965 - Michelle Johnson
actress: Blame It on Rio, The Love Boat, Gung Ho, Waxwork, The Glimmer Man, Dallas, Mickey1965 - Constance Marie
actress: George Lopez, Selena, Switched at Birth1965 - Todd Zeile
baseball: UCLA; St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, New York Mets, Florida Marlins, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies1966 - Adam Sandler
comedian: The Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live [opera man]; actor: Happy Gilmore, Mixed Nuts, Airheads, Coneheads, Shakes the Clown, Going Overboard, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy1969 - Scott DeFreitas
actor: As the World Turns1969 - Rachel Hunter
Sports Illustrated [1994, 2006] and Playboy magazine model [Apr 2004]; actress: Perfect Partners, I.R.A.: King of Nothing, Freezerburn, El Padrino, Rock Star, MacArthur Park, Pendulum1969 - Sean Rooks
basketball [center]: Univ of Arizona; NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, L.A. Lakers, L.A. Clippers, New Orleans Hornets, Orlanda Magic1970 - Joey Hamilton
baseball [pitcher]: San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds1970 - Dan Miceli
baseball [pitcher]: Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devil Rays1970 - Jerry Nadeau
NASCAR racing champ: 2000 NAPA 5001971 - Eric Stonestreet
Emmy Award-winning actor: Modern Family [2010, 2012]; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Ninja Cheerleaders, American Crude, Father vs. Son, Bad Teacher1971 - Henry Thomas
actor: Riders of the Purple Sage, Legends of the Fall, Fire in the Sky, A Taste for Killing, Psycho 4: The Beginning, The Quest, Cloak & Dagger, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raggedy Man1972 - Mike Hampton
baseball [pitcher]: Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, New York Mets, Colorado Rockies, Atlanta Braves1972 - Goran Višnjic
actor: ER, Long Dark Night, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dark Hearts, Midnight Sun, Extant1975 - Michael Bublé
Grammy Award-winning singer: Call Me Irresponsible [2008], Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden [2010], Crazy Love [2011]1976 - Mick Blue
actor [2001-2012]: X-rated films: Addicted to Pleasure, Victoria’s Wet Secrets, Sister Wives XXX: A Porn Parody, Public Displays of Affection, Magical Threesome Adventure1978 - Kurt Ainsworth
baseball [pitcher]: Louisiana State Univ; San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles1978 - Shane Battier
basketball [defensive specialist]: Duke University [1997–2001]: 2001 NCAA champs; NBA: Memphis Grizzlies [2001–2006]; Houston Rockets [2006–2011]; Memphis Grizzlies [2011]; Miami Heat [2011–2014]: 2012, 2013 NBA champs1980 - Michelle Williams
actress: Dawson’s Creek, Species, A Thousand Acres, Prozac Nation, Perfume1981 - Fearne Cotton
English TV, radio presenter: Top of the Pops, Red Nose Day Telethon; BBC Radio 1’s Chart Show1981 - Julie Gonzalo
actress: Dallas [2012 TNT revival], Veronica Mars, Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story, Christmas with the Kranks, Eli Stone1982 - Trinity Post
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Sword Swallowers, Lesbian Halfway House, White Girls Never Say No, Calipornication1985 - J.R. Smith
basketball [shooting guard]: NBA: New Orleans Hornets [2004–2006]; Denver Nuggets [2006–2011]; New York Knicks [2012–2015]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2015-2019]: 2015 NBA finals, 2016 NBA champs, 2017 NBA finals, 2018 NBA finals; Los Angeles Lakers [2020]: 2020 NBA champs1991 - Kelsey Asbille
actress: Fargo, Yellowstone, Wind River1991 - Hunter Hayes
multi-instrumentalist [plays 30+ instruments], songwriter, singer: Wanted, Somebody’s Heartbreak, I Want Crazy, Invisible; more
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Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (facts) - Johnnie Ray
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