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1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan. The money was borrowed from the Bank of North America at 6% interest. The national debt has grown a little over the years. Americans now owe about $65,000 each, as their share of the debt.1898 - Reverend Hannibal Williston Goodwin of Newark, NJ patented celluloid photographic film. It’s the stuff on which movies are made.
1899 - Henry M. Bliss became the first known automobile fatality. As Mr. Bliss stepped off a streetcar at Central Park West and 74th Street, he was hit by a car driven by Arthur Smith. Bliss was rushed to the hospital but died a short time later. Smith was arrested, but was not held.
1922 - The mercury climbed to 136 degrees (Fahrenheit) in El Azizia, Libya, the highest temperature ever recorded (maybe) on Earth. We sure hope they had plenty of lemonade on hand.
1925 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was established at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the first U.S. university for African Americans.
1931 - Vaudeville star Eddie Cantor was heard for the first time -- on NBC radio. The Chase and Sanborn Hour became one of the most popular radio shows of the 1930s.
1932 - Joe McCarthy became the first manager to win both the American and National league pennants. McCarthy, then managing the New York Yankees, clinched the American League pennant on this day.
1937 - The first broadcast of Kitty Keene, Inc. was heard on the NBC Red network.
1940 - The north side of Buckingham Palace was damaged by a German bomb this day. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was quoted, after some suggested she send her daughters to Canada until the end of the war, “The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances." She also said of the bombing: "Now at last I can look the East End in the face.”
1942 - The Battle of Edson’s Ridge began. Colonel Merritt Edson and his Raiders began defended a ridge overlooking the Allied airfield on Guadalcanal.
1943 - Statesman Chiang Kai-shek became president of China. After Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, the struggle for power between nationalist and communist troops resumed. In 1949, with the declaration of the People’s Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek was forced into exile in Taiwan.
1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
1949 - The Ladies Professional Golf Association was formed in New York City. Patty Berg became the first president of the LPGA.
1954 - The cover of LIFE magazine was adorned with Judy Garland’s picture, with the caption, “Judy Garland takes off after an Oscar.” Garland had been nominated for her role in A Star is Born.
1955 - Little Richard recorded Tutti Frutti for the Specialty Label in Los Angeles.
1956 - IBM introduced the Model 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), a computer capable of storing 20 megabytes of data. IBM lab leader Reynold B. Johnson developed a way to store computer data on a metal disk instead of on a tape or drum. RAMAC was the beginning of the disk drive industry.
1959 - The Soviet Union’s Luna 2 became the first space probe to reach the moon.
1960 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola. A scandal, investigated by a Congressional committee, involved some of the biggest names in radio, including popular New York DJ Alan Freed. He lost his job at WABC for allegedly accepting gifts and money for playing certain records. There was substantial evidence to prove that the practice was quite widespread.
1963 - Mary Kay, the direct-sales cosmetic company, was founded by nine people gathered around Mary Kay Ash’s kitchen table.
1968 - Clarence Carter received a gold record for his million-selling hit Slip Away. Carter earned two other gold records for Too Weak to Fight and Patches. The singer from Montgomery, Alabama had been blind since age one and taught himself to play guitar by age 11.
1969 - John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, presented the Plastic Ono Band in concert for the first time. The appearance at the Toronto Peace Festival was Lennon’s first in four years. The first hit by the new group, Give Peace a Chance, made it to number 14 on the charts.
1971 - The World Hockey Association was formed. It was announced that play would commence in October, 1972.
1974 - The Rockford Files began a six-year run on NBC-TV. Ex-convict Jim Rockford was played by James Garner. Rockford had been imprisoned for a crime he had not committed, but eventually was exonerated when new evidence turned up. The series also stars Noah Beery as Jim’s father Joseph ‘Rocky’ Rockford, a retired truck driver who offered weekly words of wisdom. Jim also had a close friendship with L.A. Police Sergeant Dennis Becker, played by Joe Santos. And, any time Jim was arrested, he simply called for his attorney Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Davenport, played by Gretchen Corbett. And, we cannot forget Jim’s former cellmate Evelyn ‘Angel’ Martin, played by Emmy Award-winner Stuart Margolin.
1975 - The Guess Who, led by Burton Cummings, performed together for the last time -- at the Montreal Forum. Several reconstituted versions of the Guess Who have played in concert since then.
1977 - Conductor Leopold Stokowski died in England. He was 95 years old. Stokowski was conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 24 years, and served as musical supervisor for Walt Disney’s classic, Fantasia.
1981 - At the 33rd Emmy Awards winners included Taxi, Hill St. Blues, Judd Hirsh and Isabel Sanford.
1985 - The first MTV Video Music Awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Cars won Best Video honors for You Might Think and Michael Jackson won Best Overall Performance and Choreography for his Thriller video.
1986 - Captain EO, a 17-minute, three-dimensional, musical, science-fiction flick starring Michael Jackson, made its gala premiere at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA and at Disney’s Epcot Center in Orlando, FL this day. The innovative movie cost approximately $1,000,000 a minute to produce.
1986 - Miss America 1987, crowned this night in Atlantic City, NJ, was Kellye Cash, the grandniece of singer Johnny Cash. It was the first year that the contestants’ measurements were not publicized. Women’s groups had been protesting the Miss America Pageant, especially the judging of contestants in swim suits, saying it was humiliating and demeaning to women.
1988 - As Hurricane Gilbert made its way toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, forecasters reported the barometric pressure of the storm’s center measured 26.13 inches (the lowest pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic), making it the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere.
1989 - Fay Vincent was named commissioner of major-league baseball, succeeding the late A. Bartlett Giamatti.
1990 - NBC’s cop-courtroom drama Law & Order premiered on NBC-TV. Who could have predicted that eventually one version or another of Law & Order would be running 24 hours a day on various TV networks (or so it seems).
1992 - The first puntless game in NFL history happened this day. The Buffalo Bills (quarterback Jim Kelly: 403 yards and three TDs) and San Francisco 49ers (QB Steve Young: 449 yards and three touchdowns) combined for 1,086 yards of total offense -- without punting the ball once. The Bills beat the 49ers 34-31. And they have the nerve to call it football...
1993 - There was hope that the 45 years of war between Arabs and Jews would come to an end. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin came together in Washington, DC to sign an agreement to make peace, not war.
1996 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: American Buffalo (starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson); Feeling Minnesota (with Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Tuesday Weld, Dan Aykroyd); Fly Away Home (Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany); Grace of My Heart (Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Leigh Warren; Maximum Risk (Jean-Claude Van Damme Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade); and The Rich Man’s Wife (Halle Berry, Christopher Mcdonald, Peter Greene).
1997 - Oscar De La Hoya was awarded a unanimous decision after 12 rounds against Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho in Las Vegas. This was the second time De La Hoya, unbeaten in 26 bouts, had successfully defended his WBC welterweight boxing title. “He earned it,” the bruised and battered Camacho said following the loss. “He did everything he said he was going to do, except he didn’t knock me out.”
1997 - “I like that ooh, ooh; Come on, come on MC, MC ooh, ooh...” Mariah Carey’s Honey debuted on the Hot 100 at number one -- her third single to do so. The others were Fantasy (Sep 30, 1995) and One Sweet Day (Dec 2, 1995). Carey was the first artist to have three singles debut at #1.
1998 - George Wallace former governor of Alabama, died in Montgomery. He was 79 years old.
1999 - Hurricane Floyd, with winds at 150 mph, stretched out for 700 miles and approached the Florida coast. Some one million people were ordered to evacuate.
2000 - With the U.S. government all but abandoning its case against him, former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to a single count of mishandling nuclear secrets. He was then set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker, who said the government’s actions had “embarrassed our entire nation.”
2001 - Actress Dorothy McGuire died in Santa Monica, CA at 85 years of age. McGuire appeared in over forty films, including A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Spiral Staircase.
2001 - The flight data recorder for United Flight 93 was found at the Pennsylvania crash site. Also on this day, eighteen hijackers were identified as having been ticketed passengers on the four airliners hijacked on 9/11.
2002 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Barbershop, with Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Keith David and Cedric The Entertainer; Igby Goes Down, starring Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes, Ryan Phillippe and Bill Pullman; and Stealing Harvard, with Tom Green, Jason Lee, Leslie Mann, Megan Mullally, Dennis Farina, John C. McGinely and Tammy Blanchard.
2003 - Frank O’Bannon, who had been governor of Indiana since 1996, died. The 73-year-old O’Bannon had suffered a massive stroke in his Chicago hotel room on Sep 8.
2003 - Sugar Shane Mosley beat Oscar De La Hoya, winning a close but unanimous decision in Las Vegas. Mosley won the WBC and WBA 154-pound titles.
2004 - A consortium led by Sony struck a deal to buy MGM for $3 billion.
2004 - Colorado became home to the newest U.S. national park. Interior Secretary Gale Norton reclassified the Great Sand Dunes National Monument.
2004 - Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiere of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car.
2005 - U.S. Chief Justice nominee John G. Roberts affirmed before the Senate Judiciary Committee his belief in a constitutional right to privacy; he also answered questions regarding civil rights in wartime, torture and the role of international law in interpreting the Constitution.
2006 - Former Texas Governor (1990-1994) Ann Richards died. She first came to national attention as the Texas state treasurer, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Some of her appointments as govenor included: the first black University of Texas regent, first crime victim on the state Criminal Justice Board, the first disabled person on the human services board and the first teacher to lead the State Board of Education.
2006 - NASA scientists said the ice in the Arctic Sea was melting in winter as well as in summer, likely due to global warming. The ice was reportedly melting at 9% a decade.
2007 - President George Bush (II) acknowledged that the U.S. engagement in Iraq would stretch beyond his presidency.
2008 - The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that Stanford microbiologist Stanley Falkow had won the $300,000 Lasker award for Special Achievement in medical Science. His work helped to explain how pathogens cause human diseases.
2008 - Russian forces withdrew from positions in western Georgia. A Georgian official said Russia had met a deadline for a partial pullout a month after the war between the two former Soviet republics.
2009 - A construction platform inside an elevator shaft collapsed in Hong Kong, sending six workers 20 stories to their deaths inside a skyscraper.
2009 - The New York Times reported the decline of numbers of hoki fish, harvested in the deep waters around New Zealand. Hoki, the main ingredient in McDonald’s Fillet-O-Fish sandwich, was also used by Denny’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants. From 1996 to 2001 some 275,000 tons were harvested by factory trawlers. The allowed catch was reduced to 100,00 tons in 2007 and 2008.
2010 - Rafael Nadal captured the men’s singles title at the United States Open, defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, in a final that had been delayed by rain. By winning the U.S. Open for the first time, Nadal, a 24-year-old from Spain, became the seventh man to complete the career Grand Slam. It was also his third Grand Slam singles title in a row after his triumphs at the French Open and at Wimbledon in 2010.
2010 - Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it would be spending as much as $100 million to help rebuild the San Bruno (near San Francisco) neighborhood devastated by the Sep 9 rupture of a gas line. The relief fund would be independent of legal claims and the cost of replacing homes damaged by fire.
2011 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported the ranks of America’s poor had swelled to almost 1 in 6 people in 2010, reaching a new high. Long-term unemployment had left millions struggling and/or out of work. The number of uninsured edged up to 49.9 million, the biggest in more than two decades. A 2010 income of $11,139 defined the poverty level for an individual. $22,314 meant the poor house for a family of four.
2013 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S.: Insidious Chapter 2, with Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson, Barbara Hershey, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Garrett Ryan, Danielle Bisutti and Leigh Whannell; The Family, starring Robert De Niro, Dianna Agron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Dominic Chianese and Vincent Pastore; the documentary, GMO OMG; the documentary, Herb & Dorothy 50X50, Jayne Mansfield’s Car, starring Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick, Robert Duvall, Katherine LaNasa, John Hurt, Shawnee Smith, Billy Bob Thornton and Tippi Hedren; the documentary, Sample This, and And While We Were Here, with Kate Bosworth, Jamie Blackley, Iddo Goldberg and Claire Bloom.
2014 - The King Fire broke out west of Lake Tahoe, California. By September 25, it had scorched 93,000 acres and was only 38% contained.
2015 - Russia held local elections. Candidates from the ruling United Russia party won the governor’s race in all 21 regions where an election was held, as well as in 11 regional legislatures.
2016 - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation to ensure the Republican presidential nominee’s charity was complying with state laws governing nonprofits. The Donald J. Trump Foundation began in 1987 as a family charity to help worthy causes. But a lengthy Washington Post investigation revealed that Trump stopped donating to his charity in 2008 and made questionable purchases using donors’ money -- prompting Schneiderman’s investigation. “My interest in this issue really is in my capacity as regulator of nonprofits in New York state. And we have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view,” Schneiderman said.
2017 - The U.S. banned federal agencies from using Kaspersky Labs software citing concerns about Kaspersky’s ties to Russian intelligence services. The anti-virus company has repeatedly denied the existence of any such ties.
2017 - Florida Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said five people had died in a Florida nursing home that lost power following Hurricane Irma. Within days four more deaths were reported at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills. On Sept. 21 a 12th patient from the nursing home died. On Oct. 9 two more deaths were reported linked to nursing home. At least 26 people were left dead in Florida and nearby U.S. states following Irma.
2018 - POTUS Trump rejected the official report that nearly 3,000 people had died in Puerto Rico from 2017’s Hurricane Maria. Trump argued without evidence that the number was wrong and called it a plot by Democrats to make him “look as bad as possible.” The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital, said Trump was “delusional, paranoid, and unhinged from any sense of reality.”
2018 - California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed several bills to confront climate change, including efforts to put more electric vehicles on the road.
2019 - Films showing for the first time in U.S. theatres inlcuded: The Goldfinch, starring Nicole Kidman, Finn Wolfhard and Sarah Paulson; Hustlers, with Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez and Julia Stiles; Empathy, Inc., with Zack Robidas, Kathy Searle and Jay Klaitz; Freaks, starring Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern and Lexy Kolker; Haunt, with Katie Stevens, Will Brittain and Lauryn Alisa McClain; Imprisoned, starring Laurence Fishburne, Edward James Olmos and Esai Morales; Out of Liberty, with Corbin Allred, Larry Bagby and Adam Johnson; Seeds, with Trevor Long, Andrea Chen and Garr Long; The Sound of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones and Tony Revolori; and The Weekend, with Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell and DeWanda Wise.
2019 - Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced in Boston to 14 days in prison for paying someone to cheat on her daughter’s university entrance exam.
2019 - Harvard University officials expressed remorse for accepting millions of dollars in gifts from Jeffrey Epstein in the years before his 2008 sex crimes conviction. The university announcement said Harvard regretted its association with the disgraced financier and would donate the total unspent balance of $186,000 to organizations that support victims of human trafficking and sexual assault.
2019 - At the White House in Washington, DC, 16-year-old Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg took her mission to POTUS Donald Trump’s doorstep. Thunberg had shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change. Hundreds of young people joined in her demonstration just across the street from the White House.
2019 - The New York state attorney general’s office reported that it had tracked about $1 billion in wire transfers -- including through Swiss bank accounts -- by the Sackler family. The discovery suggested the family, known for founding and owning the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, tried to shield wealth as it faced a raft of litigation over its role in the opioid crisis.
2020 - A vital swath of wetlands was burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. Some 5,800 square miles (1.5 million hectares) had burned in the Pantanal region since the start of August. More than 20,000 fires were detected in the previous two weeks, more than burned in the whole of September in 2019.
2020 - An Israeli court sentenced top model Bar Refaeli (35) to nine months of community service and her mother, Tzipi, to 16 months in prison -- for tax evasion. (Tzipi Refaeli was released from prison May 24, 2021 after serving half of her sentence.)
2021 - Israel’s state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled a remote-controlled armed robot built to be used for keeping troops out of harm’s way during ground missions.
2021 - Britain’s state-run National Health Service began the world’s biggest trial of Grail Inc’s Galleri blood test -- used to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear.
2022 - Clerks III opened in U.S. theatres. The comedy stars Ben Affleck, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Justin Long, Kevin Smith and Fred Armisen.
2022 - A second defamation trial began with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones charged with falsely claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. In the first trial, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the 20 6- and 7-year-old schoolchildren murdered in the Newtown, Connecticut, attack. (Six adult staff members also were killed.) This trial ended with a nearly $1 billion verdict against Jones.
2022 - Russia secretly gave more than $300 million to foreign political parties and candidates since 2014 in campaigns to influence policies and elections, according to a U.S. intelligence review. The Biden administration ordered that review and downgraded the classified findings so it could share them with the public and other countries. The review found that Russia had covertly transferred the money, and planned to covertly transfer at least hundreds of millions more to foreign political parties, officials and politicians in more than two dozen countries and across four continents.” A senior Biden administration official said Russia was “trying to advantage specific political parties and undermine democracy in all of these countries, and one of the most effective ways to counter Russian covert influence is to expose it.” The official said releasing the information also puts “these foreign parties and candidates on notice that if they accept Russian money secretly, we can and we will expose it.”
2023 - An increase in the number of overdose deaths from fentanyl-laced stimulants marked the “fourth wave” of the overdose crisis in the U.S. The proportion of U.S. overdose deaths involving both fentanyl and stimulants had increased more than 50-fold since 2010, from 0.6% (235 deaths) in 2010 to 32.3% (34,429 deaths) in 2021. “We’re now seeing that the use of fentanyl together with stimulants is rapidly becoming the dominant force in the U.S. overdose crisis,” said Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “Fentanyl has ushered in a polysubstance overdose crisis, meaning that people are mixing fentanyl with other drugs, like stimulants, but also countless other synthetic substances. This poses many health risks and new challenges for healthcare providers.”
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: the comedy, documentary, Am I Racist?, with Matt Walsh and Robin DiAngelo; The Killer’s Game, starring Sofia Boutella, Lucy Cork and Dave Bautista; and Speak No Evil, with James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy.
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Birthdays on This Day September 13
1851 - Dr. Walter Reed
army doctor, medical pioneer: yellow fever research; Walter Reed Army Hospital [Bethesda MD] named in his honor; died Nov 23, 19021857 - Milton S. (Snavely) Hershey
candy tycoon: founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, makers of the ‘Great American Chocolate Bar’ -- or Hershey Bar; died Oct 13, 1945
1860 - John (Joseph) Pershing
U.S. General: Pershing tank named for him; died July 15, 19481876 - Sherwood Anderson
writer: Winesburg, Ohio; died Mar 8, 19411903 - Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin)
Academy Award-winning actress: It Happened One Night [1934]; I Met Him in Paris, Drums Along the Mohawk, Egg and I, Three Came Home; died July 30, 19961911 - Bill Monroe
‘Father of Bluegrass Music’: Country Music Hall of Famer: singer: Blue Moon of Kentucky; band: The Bluegrass Band; songwriter: Kentucky Waltz, A Letter from My Darling; died Sep 9, 19961916 - Roald Dahl
writer: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; screen play: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; died Nov 23, 19901918 - Dick Haymes
singer: I’ll Get By, It Can’t Be Wrong, You’ll Never Know, Till the End of Time, Mamselle, Little White Lies; actor: State Fair, All Ashore, Irish Eyes are Smiling; died Mar 28, 19801922 - Yma Sumac
singer [the ‘Peruvian Songbird’]: had a vocal range said to be well over four octaves; died Nov 1, 20081924 - Scott Brady (Gerard Tierney)
actor: Johnny Guitar, The China Syndrome, Arizona Bushwackers; died Apr 16, 19851924 - Maurice Jarre
conductor, Academy Award-winning film score composer: Lawrence of Arabia [1962], Doctor Zhivago [1965], A Passage to India [1984]; Ghost, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, Witness, The Message, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray; died Mar 29, 20091925 - Mel Torme
‘The Velvet Fog’: Grammy Award-winning singer: LP: An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Torme [1982]; Comin’ Home Baby, Careless Hands, Bewitched; songwriter: The Christmas Song; died June 5, 19991926 - Emile Francis
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, NY Rangers; died Feb 19, 20221928 - Robert Indiana (Clark)
artist: As I Opened Fire; died May 19, 20181931 - Barbara Bain (Millie Fogel)
Emmy Award-winning actress: Mission Impossible [1966-1968]; Space 1999, Richard Diamond, Private Detective1933 - Eileen Fulton
actress: As the World Turns, Our Private World1937 - Fred Silverman
TV executive: NBC head; ABC Program Chief; producer: Matlock, In the Heat of the Night, Thicke of the Night, Diagnosis Murder; died Jan 30, 20201938 - Judith Martin (Judith Sylvia Perlman)
columnist: Miss Manners1939 - Richard Kiel
actor: The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Silver Streak, Happy Gilmore, Pale Rider, Force 10 from Navarone, The Longest Yard, The Phantom Planet, Van Dyke and Company, The Barbary Coast; died Sep 10, 20141941 - David Clayton-Thomas
singer: group: Blood Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy, Spinning Wheel1942 - Béla Károlyi
Romanian gymnastics coach: trained Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu; coached nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions; runs Karolyi’s Camp [w/wife Márta] for female gymnasts in New Waverly, TX1944 - Peter Cetera
musician: bass guitar, singer: solo: Glory of Love, One Good Woman; group: Chicago1944 - Jacqueline Bisset
actress: Rich and Famous, The Deep, Airport, Bullitt, Wild Orchid, Murder on the Orient Express, Choices1947 - Ed Bell
football: NY Jets1948 - Nell Carter
Tony & Emmy Award-winning actress: Ain’t Misbehavin’ [1978], [1981-1982]; Gimme a Break, Lobo, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper; died Jan 23, 20031948 - Curtis Perry
basketball: Phoenix Suns1949 - Rick (John Rikard) Dempsey
baseball: catcher: Minnesota Twins, NY Yankees, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1979, 1983], Cleveland Indians, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1988], Milwaukee Brewers1951 - Jean Smart
actress: Hacks, Designing Women, Project X, The Brady Bunch Movie, The Odd Couple II, Piaf, Mare of Easttown1952 - Christine Estabrook
actress: Mad Men, Hometown, The Crew, Nikki, Desperate Housewives, American Horror Story, Grind, Spider-Man 2, Catch That Kid1952 - Randy Jones
singer: group: The Village People: Y.M.C.A.1956 - Joni Sledge
singer: group: Sister Sledge: We are Family; died Mar 10, 20171960 - Dave Hardman
actor [1993-2011]: X-rated films: I Can’t Believe I Did the Whole Team!, Sgt Peckers Lonely Hearts Club Gang Bang, I Cream on Jeannie, Yin Yang Oriental Love Bang, Pure Smut, Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun, Chocolate Covered Cherry Poppers1961 - Fiona (Flanagan)
singer: Treat Me Right, All Over Now, Talk to Me, Love Makes You Blind, Living in a Boy’s World, Keeper of the Flame; more1964 - Tavis Smiley
radio talk show host, author, liberal political commentator1967 - Michael Johnson
Olympic runner: won gold medals in the 200M and 400M [1996 Summer Olympics]; gold medals in the 4x100M relay and 400M [2000 Summer Olympics]1967 - Crystal Wilder
actress [1992-1996]: X-rated films: Unchained Melanie, Muffy the Vampire Layer, Malcolm XXX, Who Killed Holly Hollywood?, Seven Good Women, The Fluffer, Bikini Beach series, Stripper Nurses, Hootermania1968 - Brad Johnson
football [quarterback: Florida State Univ; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2003 Super Bowl XXXVII champs1968 - Denny Neagle
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Minnesota; NFL: Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies1968 - Bernie Williams
baseball [center field]: Univ of Puerto Rico; New York Yankees1969 - Tyler Perry
author, playwright, filmmaker, director, actor: I Know I’ve Been Changed, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Witness Protection Alex Cross, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Tyler Perry Presents Peeples, A Madea Christmas, Single Moms Club, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, The Haves and the Have Nots, Love Thy Neighbor1971 - Richie Anderson
football [running back]: Penn State Univ; NFL: New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys
1971 - Ted Drury
hockey [center]: Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, Ottawa Senators, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, New York Islanders,Columbus Blue Jackets1971 - Stella McCartney
fashion designer known for her use of vegetarian and animal-free alternatives in her work; daughter of Paul and Linda McCartney1975 - Joe Don Rooney
musician: guitar; lead singer: group: Rascal Flatts: These Days, Mayberry, Bless the Broken Road, Fast Cars and Freedom, What Hurts the Most, My Wish, Stand, Take Me There, Here, Here Comes Goodbye, Why Wait, Banjo1975 - Puma Swede (Johanna Jussinniemi)
actress [2003-2019]: X-rated films: School of Hardcore, The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It, The Golden Girls: A XXX MILF Parody, Screw My Husband Please! 6, Swallow This 4, Cum to Momma, White Kong Dong 1: MILF Edition, Rocki Whore Picture Show: A Hardcore Parody1976 - Wade Miller
baseball [pitcher]: Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs1976 - José Théodore
hockey [goaltender]: NHL: Montreal Canadiens [2002 Vezina and Hart trophies], Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals, Minnesota Wild, Florida Panthers1977 - Fiona Apple
songwriter, Grammy Award-winning singer [Criminal (1998)]: Treat Me Right, All Over Now, Talk to Me, Love Makes You Blind, Living in a Boy’s World, Keeper of the Flame; actress: Pleasantville, Daria, Joan of Arcadia1980 - Ben Savage
actor: Boy Meets World, Peace and Riot, Making It Legal, Big Girls Don’t Cry... They Get Even, Hurricane Sam1981 - August Night
actress [2001-2014]: X-rated films: Spring Break Sex Kittens, Deep Throat This!, Jackin’ the Beanstalk, Lascivious Liaisons, The Big in the Beautiful1989 - Thomas Müller
footballer [forward]: German national team [2010]: 2014 World Cup champs1993 - Niall Horan
singer: group: One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful; solo LP: Flicker; more1994 - Mitch Holleman
actor: Reba, Bubble Boy, Daddio1996 - Lili Reinhart
actress: Riverdale, Cocked, Forever’s End, Miss Stevens, The Good Neighbor, Galveston
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Hit Music on This Day September 13
1947Peg o’ My Heart (facts) - The Harmonicats
That’s My Desire (facts) - The Sammy Kaye Orchestra (vocal: Don Cornell)
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