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1608 - The colony of Jamestown in Virginia, after a troubled first year, elected John Smith to be its president.1813 - Commodore Oliver H. Perry sent the message, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
1846 - Elias Howe patented the lock stitch sewing machine.
1861 - Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fell back after being attacked by Union troops led by Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans. This Civil War battle represented the failure of a Confederate drive to regain control of the Kanawha Valley. As a result, the movement for West Virginia statehood proceeded without serious threat from the Confederates.
1935 - “I’m Popeye the sailor man...” toot! toot! Popeye was heard for the first time on NBC radio. The show was based on the Elzie Crisler Segar comic strip, which featured Popeye, Olive Oyl, Brutas, Wimpy and Sweepea. Now, eat your spinach in celebration!
1935 - Two days after being wounded by an assassin, U.S. senator Huey Long, the dominant political figure in Louisiana during the Depression, died in Baton Rouge.
1944 - On the narrow corridor that would carry the armored drive, there were five major bridges to take. They had to be seized intact by airborne assault. It was the fifth, the crucial bridge over the Lower Rhine at a place called Arnhem, sixty-four miles behind the German lines, that worried Lieutenant General Frederick Browning, Deputy Commander, First Allied Airborne Army. Pointing to the Arnhem bridge on the map he asked, “How long will it take the armor to reach us?” Field Marshal Montgomery replied briskly, “Two days.” Still looking at the map, Browning said, “We can hold it for four.” Then he added, “But, I think we might be going a bridge too far.”
1950 - Eddie Cantor moved from radio to TV, as he hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC. In addition to Cantor, other hosts of the Colgate Comedy Hour included: Fred Allen, Donald O’Connor, Bob Hope, Gordon MacRae and Jimmy Durante.
1953 - Swanson sold its first TV dinner. Clarke and Gilbert Swanson started by cooking up their famous pot pies. By 1954, Swanson TV dinners included turkey, cornbread dressing, frozen peas and whipped sweet potatoes flavored with orange juice and butter on a three-section aluminum tray -- and sold for 98 cents. Other dinners sold for as little as 69 cents.
1955 - Bert Parks began a 25-year career as host of the Miss America Pageant on NBC. The show became a TV tradition as Parks sang to the newly-crowned beauty queen, “There She is ... Miss America”. The song was composed by Bernie Wayne and was sung for the first time on this day. Sharon Kay Ritchie was the first Miss America to be honored with the song. When she married singer Don Cherry (Band of Gold), There She Is was part of the wedding ceremony.
1955 - Actor James Arness brought Marshall Matt Dillon to life on this night. Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV and went on to become the longest-running (20 years) series on television. The pioneer in adult westerns also starred Milburn Stone as Doc Adams, Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty Russell, and Dennis Weaver as Chester Goode. Other well-known performers joined the cast throughout the years -- Ken Curtis as Festus Hagan and Burt Reynolds as Quint Asper, the town blacksmith, were two favorites.
1962 - Mickey Mantle tied a major-league baseball record for home runs by hammering his 400th career round-tripper.
1964 - Rod Stewart recorded his first tune, titled Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, for Decca. It was not one of his more successful recordings -- but it was a start.
1969 - The New York Mets beat the Montreal Expos in both ends of a doubleheader and, for the first time ever, moved into first place in the National League East Division. A month later the ‘Amazin’ Mets’ were in their first World Series.
1972 - Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears retired from pro football.
1972 - Muhammad Ali defeated Ken Norton in a heavyweight boxing match and avenged a loss to Norton the previous March.
1974 - Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Maury Wills’ 1962 major-league record for stolen bases in a season. ‘Lightning’ Lou stole his 105th base on his way to a career total of 938 stolen bases.
1977 - After years on the comic pages, Mickey Finn was put to paper for the final time. Cartoonist Frank ‘Lank’ Leonard bowed out in unique style -- by discontinuing the strip in mid-story.
1980 - Bill Gullickson of the Montreal Expos fanned 18 batters, setting a major-league record for a rookie pitcher in a single game. The Expos beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2.
1986 - Sprinter Evelyn Ashford was defeated for the first time in eight years. Ashford lost to Valerie Brisco-Hooks in the 200-meter run held in Rome, Italy.
1987 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan, to begin a 10-day tour of the United States.
1988 - Miss Minnesota, Gretchen Carlson, was crowned Miss America 1989. The familiar term ‘reign’ was replaced with ‘Year of Service’ in pageant vernacular. Carlson was the first and only classical violinist to win the title, Gretchen promoted Arts in Education during her tenure.
1988 - 19-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf wrapped up the first Grand Slam since Margaret Court had done it in 1970 by winning her fourth major title of the year, the U.S. Open. Graf defeated Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 to join Don Budge (1938), Maureen Connolly (1953), Rod Laver (1962 and 1969) and Margaret Court (1970) as the only players to complete the coveted Grand Slam.
1990 - Will Smith, (DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince) made his TV debut in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The hit show ran for six seasons on NBC TV.
1993 - The cult series The X-Files premiered on the FOX TV network. The sci-fi series aired through May 19, 2002.
1994 - Poet Amy Clampitt died. Her books include Kingfisher (1983), What the Light Was Like (1985), Archaic Figure (1987), Westward (1990); her last book, A Silence Opens, appeared in 1994.
1995 - Cyndi Lauper won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance as Mary Ann in Mad About You.
1996 - Wal-Mart banned Sheryl Crow’s second album. The song, Love is a Good Thing mentions children killing each other with “a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores...”
1996 - Hurricane Hortense pounded Puerto Rico, causing at least 21 deaths and destroying thousands of homes.
1997 - Discovery Communications Inc. bought the Travel Channel for $20 million.
1998 - U.S. wrestler Sam Henson took first place in the World Wrestling Championships (120-pound division) in Iran. Henson defeated Namik Abdullavev of Azerbaijan 3-1 in the championship bout.
1999 - These motion pictures made debuts in the U.S.: B. Monkey, with Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ian Hart and Tim Woodward; Stigmata, starring Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Portia de Rossi, Rade Sherbedgia, Michael Lombard and Enrico Colantoni; and Stir of Echoes, with Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Liza Weil, Kevin Dunn, Conor O’Farrell, Jennifer Morrison and Zachary David Cope.
2000 - The Broadway show Cats closed after nearly eighteen years and 7,485 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre.
2000 - The TV series The West Wing won a record nine Emmys, including best drama series, at the 52nd Annual Emmy Awards. NBC’s Will & Grace won for Best Comedy Series.
2000 - Marat Safin beat Pete Sampras 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to become the first Russian to win the U.S. Open.
2002 - The George Bush (II) administration raised the nationwide terror alert to yellow, its second-highest level, closed nine U.S. embassies overseas and heightened security at federal buildings and landmarks in the U.S. on the eve of the 9/11/01 anniversary.
2002 - Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations, preserving its neutrality but “stepping more actively onto the world stage.”
2003 - Anna Lindh, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, was stabbed while shopping at an exclusive department store in downtown Stockholm. She died the next day from her wounds. Mijailo Mijailovic, a 25-year-old Swede of Yugoslav origin, later confessed to the murder and in 2004 was sentenced to life in prison.
2004 - These films were new in U.S. theatres: Cellular, starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, William H. Macy, Jason Statham, Jessica Biel, Eric Christian Olsen, Valerie Cruz and Matt McColms; and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, with Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr, Sienna Guillory, Jared Harris, Sandrine Holt, Mike Epps, Zack Ward, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris and Sophie Vavasseur.
2004 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia.
2005 - Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown, singer and guitarist who built a 60-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died in Orange, TX. He was 81 years old. Brown was a master of the blues guitar, adept with violin, harmonica, bass, and drums. He was nicknamed ‘Gatemouth’ when he was 7 years old and his teacher said, “Brown, you don't need no microphone, you’ve got a voice like a gate.”
2006 - Still Life won the top award as the 63rd Venice Film Festival came to a close. The Chinese film was a study of the Three Gorges Dam project.
2007 - Actress (and the first wife of Ronald Reagan) Jane Wyman died in Rancho Mirage, CA. Wyman’s work included roles in some 86 films and 350 TV shows. She won an Oscar for her role of a deaf rape victim in the 1948 film Johnny Belinda.
2007 - Chicago mobsters James Marcello, Joseph Lombardo, Frank Calabrese and Paul Schiro were convicted of all counts including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, illegal gambling and tax fraud. Anthony Doyle, a retired police officer, was also convicted for leaking information to ‘The Outfit’.
2008 - A government report revealed that U.S. Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington, who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands, had sex and used illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were conducting official business.
2009 - Hundreds of students, who were jammed into a narrow New Delhi, India school staircase, panicked and set off a stampede. Five girls were kiled and 31 other students were injured in the chaos, which was started by rumors about an electrical short-circuit in the school.
2009 - The Japanese space agency successfully launched a rocket carrying an unmanned cargo ship on a $680 million maiden voyage to the International Space Station.
2010 - Movies opening in the U.S.: Bran Nue Dae, with Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins and Geoffrey Rush; Lovely, Still, starring Martin Landau, Ellen Burstyn, Adam Scott and Elizabeth Banks; Resident Evil: Afterlife, with with Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller, Ali Larter, Kim Coates and Shawn Roberts; The Afterlight, starring Michael Kelly, Jicky Schnee, Ana Asensio and Rip Torn; and The Romantics, with Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman and Jeremy Strong.
2010 - A U.S. federal appeals court in Philadelphia struck down a pair of illegal immigration ordinances in the Pennsylvania town of Hazleton. The laws had attempted to bar undocumented immigrants from working or renting homes in Hazleton. The court ruled that the local laws violated federal prerogatives on immigration issues.
2011 - The overcrowded Tanzania ferry, M.V. Spice Islanders, sank in the deep sea between mainland Tanzania and Pemba Island. 240 people, of the over 800 said to be on board, were killed.
2012 - U.S. federal agents in New Jersey arrested Trenton Mayor Tony Mack in an investigation into bribes for a proposed parking garage. Mack’s brother Ralphiel was also accused in the scheme.
2013 - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the state of Nevada accusing it of deliberately giving some 500 psychiatric patients one-way bus tickets to California in recent years. Herrera said costs included about $500,000 that San Francisco spent on medical care, housing and other aid for 20 people shipped there in a practice sometimes called ‘Patient Dumping’ or ‘Greyhound Therapy’.
2013 - Lawmakers in Switzerland agreed to make it a criminal act to pay to have sex with anyone under 18 years old. Previously, the Swiss had allowed prostitution by anyone at least 16 years old, although some cantons (states) and cities set stricter rules.
2014 - New movies in U.S. theatres included the action documentary, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (“an exhilarating journey with choreographer Elizabeth Streb - pushing the boundaries between action and art and daring us to join Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight...”); and the comedy drama My Old Lady, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dominique Pinon, Francis Dumaurier, and Anouk Dutruit.
2014 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50 million to support the emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This, in addition to $10 million already committed.
2015 - Serbia’s war crimes prosecutors brought charges against eight men in the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica when some 8,000 Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb troops. It was Europe’s worst carnage since World War II.
2016 - Hillary Clinton partially walked back comments she had made, describing half of Donald Trump’s supporters as “deplorables” who were driven “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic” sentiments. “Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a statement. “But let’s be clear,” she wrote, “[W]hat’s really ‘deplorable’ is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values. It’s deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people.”
2017 - Government cargo planes flew in supplies and troops began distributing food to jittery survivors of an earthquake that destroyed a large part of Juchitan, Mexico and killed at least 37 people there. Officials counted nearly 800 aftershocks of all sizes since the big Sep 7 quake that claimed at least 90 lives.
2017 - Some 1.1 million homes and businesses lost power as Category 4 Hurricane Irma pummeled the southern part of Florida. The Florida Keys reported 29,000 outages. The date had an additional meaning to longtime Florida residents. On Sept. 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna initially made landfall as a Category 4 storm near Marathon packing 130 mph winds before making a second Florida landfall just south of Naples at the same intensity.
2018 - U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said the Trump Administration would not cooperate with The Hague-based International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations in Afghanistan by the U.S. He threatened the ICC with sanctions, saying it had put U.S. sovereignty and national security at risk. Bolton condemned the inquiry into war crimes in Afghanistan as an “utterly unfounded, unjustifiable investigation” and the court as illegitimate.
2018 - China imposed new rules on religious activity on the internet. This, as part of China’s ongoing crackdown on churches, mosques and other institutions by the officially atheist Communist Party.
2019 - POTUS Donald Trump announced his decision to dismiss National Security advisor John Bolton, who said he had resigned. Bolton was the 3rd national security adviser for Trump since 2017.
2019 - New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed a bill to bar oil and gas drilling from the state’s coastal waters. Sununu, a Republican, had opposed a Trump effort to expand offshore drilling in the area.
2019 - Thousands of Hong Kong soccer fans booed loudly and turned their backs when the Chinese national anthem was played before a World Cup qualifier match against Iran. The crowd broke out into Glory to Hong Kong, a song reflecting their campaign for more democratic freedoms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
2020 - British actress Diana Rigg died in London (lung cancer; age 82). She had enthralled London and New York theater audiences with her performances in classic roles for more than a half-century, but remained best known as the quintessential new woman of the 1960s on the TV series The Avengers. She found new fans later playing Lady Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones.
2020 - A federal court rejected POTUS Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census, ruling that it was so clearly illegal that a lawsuit challenging the order need not go to a trial.
2020 - Microsoft reported that hackers from Russia, China, and Iran were trying to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The software giant warned that China was growing more adept at targeting campaign workers. But contrary to Trump administration claims, Beijing was mostly aiming at Biden campaign officials.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: The Card Counter, starring Oscar Isaac, Willem Dafoe and Tye Sheridan; Malignant, with Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson and George Young; Queenpins, starring Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn and Nick Cassavetes The Alpinist, with Marc-André Leclerc, Brette Harrington and Peter Mortimer; Catch the Bullet, starring Jay Pickett, Gattlin Griffith and Mason McNulty; Dating & New York, with Jaboukie Young-White, Francesca Reale and Catherine Cohen; Language Lessons, starring Morales, Mark Duplass and Desean Terr; The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre, with D.B. Sweeney, Max Martini, Adrian Pasdar and Mindy Robinson; and Small Engine Repair, starring Jon Bernthal, Shea Whigham and Jordana Spiro.
2021 - A Florida appeals court ruled in favor of Governor Ron DeSantis, reinstating his ban on mask mandates in public schools.
2021 - Apple Inc was said to be spending some $500 million on marketing its relatively new Apple TV+ streaming service in 2021.
2022 - U.S. Open Women’s Tennis: World #1 Iga Świątek of Poland won her third major title with a 6–2, 7–6 (7–5) victory over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur.
2022 - Russia’s Defense Ministry said Russian forces were withdrawing from two areas in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv Oblast. It was the most significant Russian retreat since invading forces pulled back from the capital city of Kyiv at the end of March. A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said the withdrawn troops would be redeployed to the Donetsk region. While this was happening, Ukrainian forces entered the strategic city of Izium, which Russia has held since April.
2023 - Two dams collapsed, after heavy rain from Storm Daniel, sending a torrent of flood water through the city of Derna, Libya. The flooding cut off the city completely. Estimates for the number of casualties range from 5,900 to 20,000 people.
2023 - Novak Djokovic won the U.S. Open, defeating Daniil Medvedev in the men’s final to extend his record grand slam singles titles to 24. The world No. 2 further cemented himself as one of the greatest tennis players ever -- matching Margaret Court’s record for most all-time grand slam titles. (The day before, American Coco Gauff had rallied to defeat Aryna Sabalenka in the women’s singles final.)
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Birthdays on This Day September 10
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk
publisher: the Funk of Funk & Wagnalls dictionary; died Apr 4, 19121914 - Robert Wise
Academy Award-winning director: The Sound of Music [1965], West Side Story [1961]; Two for the Seesaw, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: The Motion Picture; died Sep 14, 20051915 - Edmond O’Brien
Academy Award-winning actor: The Barefoot Contessa [1954]; Seven Days in May, Birdman of Alcatraz, Fantastic Voyage, Pete Kelly’s Blues, The Long Hot Summer; died May 9, 19851924 - Ted (Theodore Bernard) Kluszewski
‘Big Klu’: baseball: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs [all-star: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956], Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox [World Series: 1959], LA Angels; died Mar 29, 19881924 - Dermot Walsh
actor: The Wicked Lady, Echo of Diana, The Switch, Tarnished Heroes, The Crowning Touch, The Tell-Tale Heart, Make Mine a Million; died June 26, 20021929 - Arnold Palmer
golf champion: 1st million $ winner; Masters Champion: [1958, 1960, 1962, 1964], U.S. Open [1960], British Open [1961, 1962]; died Sep 25, 2016; more1931 - Philip Baker Hall
actor: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Rush Hour, Midnight Run, Say Anything..., The Rock, The Truman Show, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Bruce Almighty, You Kill Me, In Good Company, Dogville, The Amityville Horror, The Matador, The Sum of All Fears, The Zodiac and Zodiac, The Loop, The West Wing, All Good Things, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family; died Jun 12, 20221934 - Charles Kuralt
journalist: CBS News, On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Sunday Morning; died July 4, 19971934 - Roger (Eugene) Maris (Maras)
baseball: Cleveland Indians, KC Athletics, NY Yankees [all-star: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962/World Series: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1960, 1961/AP Male Athlete of the Year: 1961], SL Cardinals [World Series: 1967, 1968; died Dec 14, 19851937 - Tommy Overstreet
singer: Gwen [Congratulations], Don’t Go City Girl on Me; died Nov 2, 20151940 - Buck (Junious) Buchanan
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle: Super Bowl I, IV; asst. coach: New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns; director: Kansas Special Olympics; died July 16, 19921942 - Danny Hutton
singer: group: Three Dog Night: One, Easy to be Hard, Eli’s Coming, Mama Told Me [Not to Come], Joy to the World, Black & White, Shambala1945 - Jose Feliciano
Grammy Award-winning singer: Best New Artist [1968]; Light My Fire, Feliz Navidad, musician: guitar, songwriter: theme for Chico and the Man1946 - James Hines
track & field: 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist: [100 meters-9.9; 4x100 relay anchor-38.2]; football: Miami Dolphins1947 - Larry Nelson
golf champion: U.S. Open [1983], PGA [1981, 1987]1948 - Judy Geeson
actress: To Sir with Love, Danger UXB, The Eagle Has Landed1948 - Bob Lanier
Basketball Hall of Famer: Detroit Pistons: 8 time NBA All-Star; Milwaukee Bucks; heads ad agency, Bob Lanier Enterprises1948 - Willie Sojourner
basketball: Virginia Squires, New Jersey Nets; died Oct 20, 20051948 - Margaret Trudeau (Sinclair)
author: Beyond Reason; Canada’s First Lady - wife of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau [1968-1979]1948 - Charlie Waters
football: Dallas Cowboys safety: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII1949 - Barriemore Barlow
musician: drums: group: Jethro Tull [1971-1980]: Living in the Past, Locomotive Breath, Minstrel in the Gallery, Thick as a Brick, Sweet Dream, Life Is a Long Song; also worked with Robert Plant, John Miles, Jimmy Page1949 - Bill O’Reilly
former right-wing political TV gabber: The O’Reilly Factor1950 - Joe Perry
musician: guitar: group: Joe Perry Project; Aerosmith: LPs: Toys in the Attic, Rocks1950 - Don Powell
musician: drums: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Cum on Feel the Noize, Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me, Merry Xmas Everybody, We’ll Bring the House Down, My Oh My, Run Run Away1953 - Amy Irving
actress: Yentl, Crossing Delancy, The Competition, Benefit of the Doubt, Carrie, Honeysuckle Rose; singing voice of Jessica Rabbit: Who Framed Roger Rabbit1955 - Pat Mastelotto
musician: drums: group: Mr. Mister1956 - Johnnie Fingers (Moylett)
musician: keyboards, singer: group: The Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, She’s So Modern, Rat Trap, I Don’t Like Mondays, Banana Republic1956 - Rosie Flores
singer: Crazy Mixed Emotions, Wrong Side of His Heart, Blues Keep Callin’, Rock-a-Bye Boogie, Devil Dog, Speed of Sound1957 - Kate Burton
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Monty, The Practice, Empire Falls, The Kings of Appletown, 127 Hours, 2 Days in New York, Shiva and May, Bosch: Legacy1958 - Chris Columbus
director: Nine Months, Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone series, Only the Lonely, Heartbreak Hotel, Adventures in Babysitting1960 - Siobhan Fahey
singer: group: Bananarama1960 - Colin Firth
Academy Award-winning actor: The King’s Speech [2011]; Pride and Prejudice, Circle of Friends, Hostages, The Advocate, Valmont, Apartment Zero, The Secret Garden, Another Country1963 - Randy Johnson
Baseball Hall of Famer: ‘The Big Unit’ [pitcher]: USC; Montreal Expos [1988–1989]; Seattle Mariners [1989–1998]; Houston Astros [1998]; Arizona Diamondbacks [1999–2004]: 2001 World Series champs; New York Yankees [2005–2006]; Arizona Diamondbacks [2007–2008]; San Francisco Giants [2009]1966 - Kimble Anders
football [running back]: Univ of Houston; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs1966 - Joe Nieuwendyk
hockey [center]: Calgary Flames, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs1968 - Big Daddy Kane
rapper, songwriter: Long Live the Kane1968 - Guy Ritchie
film director: Sherlock Holmes [2009], Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows [2011], RocknRolla, Suspect, Revolver, Swept Away, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1969 - Matt Geiger
basketball [center]: Auburn and Georgia Tech; NBA: Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets, Philadelphia 76ers1970 - Larry Sullivan
actor: Evan Almighty, Kalamazoo?, Catwoman, The Trip, These Old Broads, Psycho Beach Party, Hefner: Unauthorized1972 - James Duval
actor: Independence Day, The Doe Boy, The Weekend, Window Theory, Frog-g-g!, Pledge of Allegiance, Amerikana, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Go, Wild Horses1972 - Justin Slayer
actor [2001-2012]: X-rated films: Thick Tricks and Magic Sticks, Slayer the Ring Master, Hot Wet and Sexy, European Girls Love Brothers; director: Ass Everywhere series, Booty I Like series1974 - Nick Harper
football [cornerback]: Indianapolis Colts, Tennessee Titans1974 - Ryan Phillippe
actor: Shooter, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, 54, Gosford Park, Crash, Flags of Our Fathers, Breach, Stop-Loss, The Bang-Bang Club1974 - Ben Wallace
basketball [center]: NBA: Washington Bullets/Wizards [1996–1999]; Orlando Magic [1999–2000]; Detroit Pistons [2000–2006]: 2004 NBA champs; Chicago Bulls [2006–2008]; Cleveland Cavaliers [2008–2009]; Detroit Pistons [2009–2012]1975 - Kyle Bornheimer
actor: Worst Week, You Again, She’s Out of My League, Blades of Glory, An Alright Start, Spokane1982 - Misty Copeland
ballet dancer: American Ballet Theatre [ABT]: first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in ABT’s 75-year history; more1988 - Coco Rocha
Canadian fashion model: worked with designers Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi, Chanel; appeared on the 2013 Oxygen fashion competition show The Face1988 - Jordan Staal
hockey [center]: Pittsburgh Penguins [2006–2012]; Carolina Hurricanes [2012– ]
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Swinging on a Star (facts) - Bing Crosby
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