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1848 - Switzerland adopted a new federal constitution using the U.S. Constitution as a model.1866 - The first burlesque show opened in New York City. The show was a four-act performance called The Black Crook. It ran for 475 performances and made about $1.3 million for its producers. Not bad money in 1866. Actually, not bad money now, either.
1873 - The first practical typewriter was sold to customers. We think that in order to celebrate this momentous occasion, we should all hunt and peck on our word processors today ... since all typewriters in this, the Electronic Age, are pretty much impractical ...
1910 - The Los Angeles Police Department hired the first female police officer. Alice Stebbins Wells was sworn in on this day. In 1915, Stebbins was instrumental in the formation of the International Association of Policewomen, serving as its first president.
1928 - Actress Katharine Hepburn made her stage debut. The play was titled The Czarina. It would be four years before the ‘First Lady of the American Screen’ would indeed, make her first film, A Bill of Divorcement.
1938 - H.V. Kaltenborn made broadcasting history by covering a crisis in Czechoslovakia for CBS radio beginning on this day. Kaltenborn was so devoted to his work that he slept in the studio for 18 days while bringing updates to his appreciative audience.
1940 - Johnny Long’s orchestra recorded the classic In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town for Decca Records.
1944 - Forces of U.S. 1st Army (part of U.S. 12th Army Group) entered Germany for the first time, between Aachen and Trier.
1948 - Thirteen-year-old Elvis Presley moved with his family from Tupelo, Mississippi, to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to enjoy a very successful musical career in just a few years.
1953 - The opening scene of Camelot was staged. 24-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier wed the 36-year-old U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, future U.S. President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
1954 - Lassie was seen on CBS-TV for the first time. Despite being called “girl” by Tommy Rettig, who starred as Jeff Miller, and Jan Clayton, who starred as Jeff’s mom, Ellen, Lassie was, in reality, a male dog. In fact, there were more than a half-dozen Lassie dogs doing stunts.
1958 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to continue with its integration plan.
1959 - NBC-TV launched Bonanza, the first color western on TV. In all, 428 episodes were produced as the show ran through Jan 16, 1973. Michael Landon played Little Joe, Lorne Greene was Ben Cartwright, and Dan Blocker played Hoss.
1960 - Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy addressed the issue of his Roman Catholic faith, telling a Protestant group in Houston, “I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.”
1963 - The last episode of Leave It to Beaver aired. The show made its debut October 4, 1957.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Public Law 88-590 establishing the Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
1966 - The Beatles received a gold record this day for Yellow Submarine.
1966 - “Hey, hey we’re the Monkees -- and we don’t monkey around...” The theme song from the NBC-TV show, The Monkees, kicked off a fun-filled weekly series. Some 400 aspiring actors had auditioned for the Columbia television series by producer Don Kirschner. Davy Jones, a former English horse racing jockey; Michael Nesmith, a session guitarist; Peter Tork of the Phoenix Singers; and Micky Dolenz, who had appeared in the TV series Circus Boy were picked to be America’s answer to The Beatles. The four were picked to become the fabricated music group -- not because they could sing, act or play musical instruments -- but because they looked the parts. Dolenz and Jones were actors, Tork and Nesmith had some musical experience. The Monkees were the first, made-for-TV, rock group. Ironically -- or maybe not -- The Monkees TV show won an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series of 1967.
1970 - James Taylor’s first single, Fire and Rain, was released. Taylor scored 14 hits on the music charts in the 1970s and 1980s.
1970 - U.S. professor and LSD proponent Timothy Leary escaped from the State Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, CA. The breakout was set up by Leary’s wife, Rosemary and the Weathermen, a radical offshoot of the Students for Democratic Society (SDS).
1974 - Ethiopian emperor Heile Selassie I, who has ruled the country since 1930, was deposed by the Ethiopian military.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox became the first American League player to get 3,000 career hits -- and 400 career home runs -- as the Red Sox downed the New York Yankees 9-2 at Fenway Park in Boston.
1983 - Arnold “I’ll Be Back” Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen, 14 years after emigrating from Austria.
1984 - Michael Jordan signed a seven-year contract to play basketball with the Chicago Bulls. ‘Air’ Jordan became an NBA star for the Bulls and helped make the team a dominant force in the NBA.
1984 - Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets set a rookie strikeout record by fanning his 251st batter of the season. ‘Doc’ Gooden led the Mets to a 2-0 shutout over the Pittsburgh Pirates this day.
1988 - Hurricane Gilbert slammed into Jamaica with torrential rains and winds of 145 mph. The storm had the lowest sea-level pressure (888 Mb) ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and caused a billion dollars in damage. The hurricane raged through September 19th. It reached category 5 status, but at the time of it’s landfall over Cozumel, Mexico on September 14, it had weakened to a category 3 storm. Gilbert’s northeastern track into Texas and Oklahoma spawned more than 29 tornadoes. Coastal regions in Mexico received 5-10 inches of rain. 318 people died due to the effects of Gilbert.
1989 - Manhattan Borough President David N. Dinkins won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, defeating incumbent Mayor Edward Koch and two other candidateson his way to becoming the city’s first black mayor.
1990 - From our ‘It’s About Time’ dept.: The four victorious allies of World War II (USA, Great Britain, USSR, France) and the two post-war German states formally ended the war. They signed the peace treaty (Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany) that cleared way for a united Germany.
1992 - Actor Ed Peck (Zoot Suit, Bullitt) died of heart attack at age 75.
1992 - Space shuttle Endeavor blasted off. On board were Payload Specialist Dr. Mae Carol Jemison (the first African-American woman in space); also along for the ride were Mission Specialist N. Jan Davis and Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Mark C. Lee (the first married couple to fly together in space); and Mamoru Mohri (the first Japanese in space).
1992 - Actor Anthony Perkins died of pneumonia, brought on by AIDS, in Hollywood. He was 60 years old. Perkins is probably best-known for his portrayal of motel owner Norman Bates in the 1960 horror thriller, Psycho.
1993 - Actor Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) died of liver cancer at his Northern California ranch. He was 76 years old.
1994 - This was a big day for a young company named Mosaic Communications. It announced its first products: a network browser called Mosaic Netscape, and a server line called Mosaic Netsite.
1994 - Actor Tom Ewell died at 85 years of age. Ewell is probably best known for his role as Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch and as Robert Blake’s sidekick Billy Truman on the TV series, Barretta.
1995 - English actor Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes) died at 59 years of age.
1997 - The End of Violence opened in U.S. theatres. The thriller drama stars Bill Pullman, Andie Macdowell, Gabriel Byrne, Loren Dean, Traci Lind and Daniel Benzali.
1998 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the fourth player in major-league baseball history to reach 60 homers in a single season.
1998 - Lindsay Davenport won the U.S. Open, defeating defending champion Martina Hingis, 6-3, 7-5.
1999 - Producer David E. Kelley had a great night at the 51st Emmy Awards. His TV series, The Practice and Ally McBeal, were named best drama series and best comedy series, respectively.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first First Lady to win an election as she won the New York Democratic Senate primary.
2001 - The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) gave airlines a three-page security directive to guard against further terrorist attacks in the U.S. It included a ban on curbside check-in and effectively eliminated the jobs of thousands of skycaps.
2002 - U.S. President George Bush (II) addressed the U.N. and laid out his case against Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein. Bush told skeptical world leaders to confront the “grave and gathering danger” of Saddam’s Iraq, or stand aside as the United States acted.
2003 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Matchstick Men, starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman and Bruce McGill; and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, with Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp, Rubén Blades, Eva Mendes, Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke.
2003 - The U.N. Security Council lifted 11-year-old sanctions against Libya after Moammar Gadhafi’s government took responsibility for the bombing the Pan Am jet over Scotland and agreed to pay families of the victims $2.7 billion.
2003 - Singer, actor Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 71 years old. Cash’s rough, unsteady voice championed the downtrodden and reached across generations with songs like Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line and Folsom Prison Blues.
2004 - Hurricane Ivan skirted Grand Cayman with winds roaring at near 155 mph as it churned toward Cuba. The storm was been blamed for 56 deaths across the Caribbean to that point, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica.
2005 - A power outage in Los Angeles CA disrupted power to some 700,000 customers. According to the (DWP) Southern California Department of Water and Power, the outage was of “non-malicious cause”, triggered by an accidental error in connecting lines to a newly installed computer.
2005 - Michael D. Brown resigned as the head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) following days of criticism over his handling of the disaster following Hurricane Katrina.
2006 - Hewlett-Packard named CEO Mark Hurd to succeed Patricia Dunn as board chairman following the furor over allegations that H.P. used illegal methods to trace leaks of confidential board deliberations to the press.
2007 - A massive 8.4 earthquake struck Indonesia, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and triggering a tsunami that hit one city on the island of Sumatra.
2008 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton; Righteous Kill, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Dan Futterman, Trilby Glover, Rob Dyrdek, Mark Famiglietti, Denis O'Hare, Katie Chonacas, Brett Granstaff, Saidah Arrika Ekulona and Alan Blumenfeld; Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, with Tyler Perry, Jennifer Hudson, Sanaa Lathan, Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard, Rockmond Dunbar, Taraji P. Henson, Robin Givens and Cole Hause; and The Women, starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debra Messing, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield, Joanna Gleason, Ana Gasteyer and Debi Mazar.
2008 - British and French firefighters extinguished a 1,000-degree inferno in the Channel Tunnel but thousands of travelers faced delay as they waited for the undersea link to reopen.
2009 - China complained about a U.S. decision to impose added duty on Chinese-made tires. Imposing the tire duty marked the first time Washington had applied the special ‘safeguard’ provisions that Beijing agreed to before joining the WTO in 2001.
2011 - A leaking gasoline pipeline in Nairobi, Kenya exploded, turning part of a teeming slum into an inferno. The fuel spilled from a depot and ran into a sewage dyke under the densely-populated slum area. 95 people were killed and another 100 injured.
2012 - U.C. Berkeley chemical engineer Jay Keasling, founder of Amyris Biotechnology, won the Heinz Award ($250,000) for developing an inexpensive way to mass-produce artemisinin, a plant based drug to treat malaria. The Heinz Awards were established by Teresa Heinz in 1993 to honor the memory of her late husband, U.S. Senator John Heinz.
2013 - Sound pioneer Ray Dolby (80) died at his home in San Francisco, CA. Dolby invented the audio noise reduction system known as Dolby NR.
2013 - Heavy rains and damage from recent wildfires sent water crashing down mountainsides along the front range of the Rockies -- from Colorado springs to Fort Collins in Colorado. Four people were killed.
2014 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Dolphin Tale 2, starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Nathan Gamble and Kris Kristofferson; No Good Deed, with Taraji P. Henson, Idris Elba and Leslie Bibb; Search Party, starring Alison Brie, Krysten Ritter and T.J. Miller; 108 Stitches, with Bruce Davison, Erin Cahill and Kate Vernon; Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?, with Stephen Tobolowsky, Rob Morrow and Eric Allan Kramer; The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, starring Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis and Ryan Eggold; The Drop, with Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini; Finding Fanny, starring Deepika Padukone, Arjun Kapoor and Naseeruddin Shah; Honeymoon, with Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway and Ben Huber; and The Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig, Ty Burrell, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson, Boyd Holbrook and Kathleen Rose Perkins.
2014 - A multistory building in Lagos, Nigeria collapsed. The building had served as a shopping mall and guesthouse on the sprawling campus of televangelist T.B. Joshua’s Synagogue, Church of All Nations. Four days later, one woman was saved from the rubble, but the death toll was 115.
2015 - The “Valley Fire” erupted and spread quickly to a cluster of small communities in the hills and valleys north of the Napa Valley wine country in California. Thousands of residents were forced from their homes. It took firefighters until Sep 21 to get the fire 70% contained. ASome 1,783 structures were consumed, making it the third-most destructive inferno in California history.
2016 - Hewlett-Packard announced its acquisition of Samsung Company’s printer business. The $1.05 billion transaction was the company’s largest ever and helped HP move from traditional copiers to multifunction printers.
2017 - British authorities approved plans for a contentious road tunnel under Stonehenge, but altered its route so it would not impede views of the sun during the winter solstice. Critics were worried the tunnel would disturb the rich archaeological site.
2017 - The World Health Organization said Hurricane Irma left some 17,000 people in desperate need of shelter. The storm had devastated hospitals and health clinics across the eastern Caribbean islands. At least 43 were left dead in the Caribbean and at least 11 in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
2018 - Supporters and opponents of whale hunting were at loggerheads at a meeting of the 89-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Brazil. But countries on both sides voted to renew quotas for limited whale hunts for indigenous communities in Alaska, Russia, Greenland and the Caribbean. The agreement was made with the cultural and subsistence needs of the indigenous communities in mind.
2018 - The San Francisco Board of Appeals voted unanimously for the removal of the ‘Early Days’ statue in the Civic Center. The statue, depicting a vaquero and a missionary standing over a fallen American Indian, was one of five that made up the 800-ton Pioneer Monument shrine.
2019 - POTUS Trump repealed a major Obama-era clean water regulation, doing away with protections for many wetlands and streams across the U.S. -- and making it easier for farmers, builders and industry executives to develop their land.
2019 - A Democratic primary debate was the first to bring all of the top contenders together on one stage -- on one night. Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke stood by his call for a mandatory government buyback program for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles during the night’s debate in Houston, saying “Hell yes” the government would take the firearms from their owners.
2020 - Coronavirus infections in the Dakotas were growing faster than anywhere else in the U.S., fueling debates over masks and personal freedom.
2020 - Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies — a female (31) and a male (24) — were shot while sitting in their patrol vehicle in Compton (L.A.). Both deputies were left in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds. The shooter escaped.
2021 - Pope Francis arrived in Hungary, opening a four-day visit to Central Europe. The short stay in Hungary underlined differences with the anti-immigrant Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The Pope urged Hungary to “extend its arms towards everyone.”
2021 - Daniil Medvedev of Russia won the U.S. Open men’s tennis title, ending Novak Djokovic’s quest to win all four majors in one year. Djokovic’s bid to sweep the Australian and French Opens, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year for the first time since Rod Laver did it 52 years ago collapsed at the last hurdle, with 83-year-old Aussie legend Laver among 23,700 watching at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City.
2022 - Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket suffered an unspecified booster-rocket failure just over a minute after launch, triggering its unoccupied capsule’s emergency abort system. It was the first failed launch for Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company. Blue Origin had flown 31 people on suborbital flights and had planned more, but those plans were put on hold after the failure.
2022 - At the 74th Emmy Awards: Succession was voted Best Drama, Ted Lasso Best Comedy, and The White Lotus was Best Limited Series. Lee Jung-jae, star of Squid Game was the first first foreign-language actor to win an Emmy for best actor in a drama.
2022 - Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was carried in a ceremonial procession down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’ Cathedral where 20,000 people were in line to pay their respects.
2023 - North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un arrived in Russia on board his armoured train to meet with President Vladimir Putin. The visit sparked Western concerns about an arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The deal, confirmed later, vowed mutual defense assistance in the event of war. South Korea said it was reconsidering its policy of limiting its Ukraine support to non-lethal supplies only.
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Birthdays on This Day September 12
1818 - Richard Gatling
inventor: the Gatling gun; died Feb 26, 19031880 - H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
newspaper journalist, critic: Baltimore Sun; author: The Smart Set, American Mercury, The American Language; son of cigarmaker, August Mencken; died January 29, 19561888 - Maurice (Auguste) Chevalier
actor, singer: Gigi, Fanny, Can-Can, Louise, Thank Heaven for Little Girls; died Jan 1, 19721892 - Alfred A. Knopf
publisher: founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; died Aug 11, 19841901 - Ben Blue (Benjamin Bernstein)
actor, comedian: Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, Broadway Rhythm, The Big Broadcast of 1938; died Mar 7, 19751913 - Jessie (James Cleveland) Owens
National Track & Field Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist (4): 1936 Berlin Games: 100-meter, 200-meter, long jump, 4x100-meter relay, breaking or tying Olympic records nine times; Big Ten meet [1935]: broke 4 world records and tied another in one afternoon; died Mar 31, 19801916 - Tony (Melvin) Bettenhausen
International Motorsports Hall of Famer; killed while test driving a racecar at Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 12, 19611918 - Chaim Herzog
President of Israel [1983-1993]; died Apr 17, 19971920 - Irene Dailey
actress: Another World; died Sep 24, 20081924 - Ella Mae Morse
singer: Cow Cow Boogie, Shoo Shoo Baby, House of Blue Lights, The Blacksmith Blues; 1st artist to record for Capitol Records; died Oct 16, 19991925 - Stan (Stanley Edward) ‘Stash’ Lopata
baseball: catcher: Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1950/all-star: 1955, 1956], Milwaukee Braves; died Jun 15, 20131925 - Dickie (John) Moore
actor: Miss Annie Rooney, Our Gang series; died Sep 7, 20151927 - Helen Carter
singer: group: The Carter Family: Heart Full of Shame, Man in Black, A Song to Mama, No Need to Worry, Rock of Ages, Children Go Where I Send Thee; died June 1, 19981931 - Ian Holm
actor: stage: The Homecoming, King Lear; films: Chariots of Fire, Alien, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit film series; died Jun 19, 20201931 - George Jones
‘The Possum’: singer: Why Baby Why, White Lightning, The Race is On, He Stopped Loving Her Today, Tender Years, She Thinks I Still Care, Near You [w/Tammy Wynette]; died Apr 26, 20131934 - Glenn Davis
National Track & Field & Olympic Hall of Famer: Olympic Gold Medalist [3]: 400-meter hurdles [1956, 1960], 4x400-meter relay [1960]; football: Detroit Lions wide receiver; died Jan 28, 20091937 - George Chuvalo
boxing: heavyweight: 97 bouts: 68 wins by knockout, 9 by decision, 2 draws, 1 disqualification, 2 TKOs1940 - Linda Gray
actress: Dallas, Models, Inc., Melrose Place1940 - Mickey (Michael Stephen) Lolich
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1968/all-star: 1969, 1971, 1972], NY Mets, SD Padres1943 - Maria Muldaur (d’Amato)
singer: Midnight At The Oasis, I’m a Woman1943 - Ralph Neely
football: Dallas Cowboys tackle: Super Bowl V, X, XI1944 - Barry White
singer: I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby, Never, Never Gonna Give You Up, Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, Love’s Theme [w/Love Unlimited Orchestra]; played piano on Jesse Belvin’s Goodnight My Love [1955]; died July 4, 20031946 - Tony Bellamy
musician: guitar, piano; singer: group: Redbone: Come and Get Your Love, Crazy Mama, Lay a Little Lovin’ on Me, The Witch Queen of New Orleans; died Dec 25, 20091946 - John ‘Frenchy’ Fuqua
football: Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Super Bowl X1947 - Darryl DeLoach
lyricist, singer: group: Iron Butterfly: Don’t Look Down on Me, Possession, Unconscious Power, Get Out of My Life Woman, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; died Oct 3, 20021947 - John (Evans) Montague
baseball: pitcher: Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies, Seattle Mariners, California Angels1948 - Dave Washington
football: SF 49ers; died Oct 11, 20211949 - Tony Stevens
musician: guitar: group: Foghat: Maybelline, Ride, Ride, Ride, Take It or Leave It, Home in My Hand, Drivin’ Wheel, Fool for the City, Slow Ride1951 - Joe Pantoliano
actor: Orphans, Bound, The Immortals, The Spy Within, The Fugitive, Nightbreaker, Midnight Run, La Bamba, Empire of the Sun, The Goonies, Risky Business, Eddie and the Cruisers, Idolmaker, From Here to Eternity, The Fanelli Boys1952 - Gerry Beckley
singer: Grammy Award-winning [1972] group: America: A Horse with No Name, Sister Golden Hair, Tin Man, Ventura Highway, Lonely People, You Can Do Magic1952 - Neil Peart
musician: drums: group: Rush: Rivendell, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, The Fountain of Lamneth, Distant Early Warning; died Jan 7, 20201955 - Peter Scolari
actor: Bosom Buddies, Newhart, The Mommies, Goodtime Girls, Family Album, Camp Nowhere, Corporate Affairs; died Oct 22, 20211956 - Barry Andrews
: keyboards: groups: League of Gentlemen, XTC
musician1956 - Chip Beck
golf champ: three-time All-American at the Univ of Georgia; four victories on PGA Tour: Los Angeles Open and USF&G Classic [1988], Buick Open [1990], Freeport-McMoRan Golf Classic [1992]1956 - Brian Robertson
musician: guitar: groups: Wild Horses, Thin Lizzy Still in Love with You1957 - Michael Hegstrand
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania VII, VIII, XIII, XIV, Summerslam, Royal Rumble, WWF Judgement Day, Beyond the Mat; died Oct 19, 20031957 - Rachel (Claire) Ward
actress: The Thorn Birds, Night School, Sharky’s Machine, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, Against All Odds, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Double Jeopardy1957 - Hans Zimmer
Academy Award-winning composer: The Lion King [1994]; Moonlighting, Wild Horses, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Bird on a Wire, Days of Thunder, Thelma & Louise, Backdraft, A League of Their Own, Drop Zone, Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, The Rock, Scream 2, The Prince of Egypt, Gladiator, Mission: Impossible II, Hannibal, Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down1959 - Viper (Stephanie Green)
actress [1985-2007]: X-rated films: Satania, Cheek to Cheek, Debbie Does the Devil in Dallas, Loose Ends IV, Flaming Tongues 2, Kiss My Asp, Suburban Seduction, Nasty Girls 6; died Dec 24, 20101962 - Mary Kay Adams
actress: Fast Company, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Babylon 51965 - Vernon Maxwell
basketball: Univ of Florida; NBA: San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Philadelphia 76ers, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Seattle SuperSonics, Dallas Mavericks1966 - Darren E. Burrows
actor: Northern Exposure, Cry-Baby, Class of 19991966 - Pat Myne
actor [1997-2018]: X-rated films: Beach Bunnies With Big Brown Eyes, Beverly Hills 9021-ho, Submissive Little Sluts, Dude, I Banged Your Mother, Unplanned Parenthood1967 - Louis C.K. (Székely)
Grammy Award-winning comedian: Hilarious [Best Comedy Album 2012]; Emmy Award-winning stand-up, television, film writer: The Chris Rock Show [Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: 1999], Louie [Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special: 2012]; Live at the Beacon Theater [Comedy Special: 2012]; actor: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Diminished Capacity, The Invention of Lying1967 - Jason Statham
actor: Transporter film series, Snatch, The Italian Job, Death Race, Crank, The Bank Job, War, The Expendables film series, Fast & Furious 61973 - Martin Lapointe
hockey: Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins1973 - Paul Walker
actor: The Fast and the Furious, Varsity Blues, Eight Below, Into the Blue, She’s All That, Takers, Expedition Great White; killed in a flaming car crash Nov 30, 20131974 - Jennifer Odessa Nettles
singer: duo: Sugarland [w/Kristian Bush]: Want To, Settlin’, Stay, All I Want to Do, Already Gone, It Happens1978 - Benjamin McKenzie
actor: The O.C., Southland, Junebug, 88 Minutes, Johnny Got His Gun, MADtv1978 - Ruben Studdard
winner of American Idol: The Search for a Superstar [2003]; singer: Flying Without Wings, Superstar, Sorry 2004, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, What If, Play Our Song, After the Candles Burn
1980 - Yao Ming
basketball [center]: Houston Rockets [2002-2011]1981 - Jennifer Hudson
singer: Spotlight, Giving Myself, I’m His Only Woman, Jesus Promised Me a Home Over There; Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild-winning supporting actress: Dreamgirls1986 - Alfie Allen
actor: Game of Thrones, Flashbacks of a Fool, Casualty 1907, Confine1986 - Emmy Rossum
actress: Songcatcher, An American Rhapsody, Passionada, Mystic River, The Day After Tomorrow, The Phantom of the Opera, Poseidon [2006], Dragonball: Evolution, Dare, Beautiful Creatures, Shameless1989 - Andrew Luck
football [quarterback]: Stanford Univ; NFL: Indianapolis Colts [2012–2018]; On Aug 24, 2019, Luck announced his retirement, citing his recurrent cycle of injuries and rehabilitation as the primary reason, saying: “I've been stuck in this process. I haven’t been able to live the life I want to live. It’s taken the joy out of this game. The only way forward for me is to remove myself from football. This is not an easy decision. It’s the hardest decision of my life. But it is the right decision for me.”1996 - Colin Ford
actor: Push, We Bought a Zoo, Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?, Under the Dome, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Disconnect, Eye of the Hurricane1997 - Sydney Sweeney
actress: Everything Sucks!, The Handmaid’s Tale, Sharp Objects, Euphoria, The White Lotus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Madame Web
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Hit Music on This Day September 12
1946To Each His Own (facts) - Eddy Howard
They Say It’s Wonderful (facts) - Frank Sinatra
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