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1819 - It was such a beautiful fall day that poet John Keats was inspired to take out pen and pad. He inked one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn.1876 - We are reminded that Melville R. Bissell of Grand Rapids, MI patented the carpet sweeper on this day. The name, Bissell, became synonymous with carpet sweepers during the first half of the 20th century -- much like Frigidaire with refrigerator and Jell-O with gelatin dessert.
1928 - The second talkie (the opposite of a silent movie) for Al Jolson was released. It was titled The Singing Fool, which he certainly was not.
1932 - It was just an average day, when Just Plain Bill was first heard on CBS radio. It was “The real life story of people just like people we all know.” The 15-minute show (Monday through Friday at 7:15 p.m.) was all about (just plain) Bill Davidson and his daughter, Nancy, who lived in (just plain) Hartville. Since Bill was the town barber, everybody came to him with their problems -- and Bill helped them straighten things out.
1936 - The classic, Indian Love Call, was recorded by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald on Victor Records.
1945 - William Joyce, also known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, was sentenced to death by a British court for his role as a Nazi propagandist.
1947 - Future hall-of-famer Jackie Robinson was named baseball’s 1947 Rookie of Year.
1953 - Gisele MacKenzie took over as host on NBC-TV’s Your Hit Parade. Her biggest hit during that stint (1953-57) was Hard to Get in June of 1955. Ironically, the song was first sung by Gisele in an episode of the NBC-TV show, Justice. It became a hit and she performed it again on Your Hit Parade.
1955 - Eva Marie Saint, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman starred in the Producer’s Showcase presentation of Our Town on NBC-TV.
1957 - The U.S. conducted its first underground nuclear test -- in the Nevada desert. Code-named Rainier, the blast was detonated in a mountain tunnel in the remote desert 100 miles from Las Vegas. Seismic waves from Rainier were detected 2,300 miles away in Alaska.
1959 - The leader of the U.S.S.R., Nikita Khruschev, was a little upset. In fact, he got quite angry. And who could blame him. He wasn’t allowed to ride down the Matterhorn, see Tinkerbell or Mickey or anything else at Disneyland. Security - or lack thereof - prevented him from visiting the Southern California amusement park. He did, however, get to visit a movie set.
1963 - The Crystals’ Then He Kissed Me debuted on U.K. charts this day. The songe was written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry -- and produced by Spector. It had hit U.S. charts on Aug 17, and made it to #6 for three weeks (Sep 14, 21, 28) before falling.
1968 - Country singer Red Foley died in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was 58 years old. Foley had three million-sellers: Chatanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Steal Away and Just a Closer Walk with Thee. He sold a million copies of Peace in the Valley and was host of the Ozark Jubilee, one of the first successful country TV shows. (Red Foley’s daughter, Shirley, is married to singer Pat Boone.)
1970 - She could turn the world on with her smile. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was seen for the first time on CBS-TV. It became one of the most successful television shows of the 1970s. The last, original episode aired on September 3, 1977.
1974 - Eric Clapton received a gold record for I Shot the Sheriff. The song reached #1 on the pop charts on September 14th.
1981 - For their first concert in years, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a free concert to benefit New York City parks. The concert attracted a crowd of 500,000 people in Central Park and was broadcast to a TV audience in the millions.
1982 - :-) ‘Smiley’, the first ‘emoticon’ was used in an email posting on this day. Scott E. Fahlman, in a bulletin board discussion at Carnegie Mellon University, wrote, “I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-). Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-(.”
1982 - At the 34th Emmy Awards, the winners included Hill Street Blues (Outstanding Sound Mixing), Barney Miller (Outstanding Comedy Series), Alan Alda (Outstanding Actor - Comedy Series [M*A*S*H]) and Carol Kane (Outstanding Actress - Comedy Series [Taxi]).
1985 - In Mexico City, this day will forever be remembered. The first of two killer earthquakes hit the city. This one, 8.1 on the Richter scale, followed the next day by a 7.5er, crumbled buildings (damages were estimated at more than one billion dollars) and killed almost 10,000 people.
1987 - Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You rose to #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100. The single, from Jackson’s "Bad" LP, stayed at the top of the hit heap for one week.
1988 - U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Days later, however, Louganis won the gold medal in springboard diving.
1989 - A Paris-bound French DC-10, UTA Flight 772, exploded over the Sahara desert of Niger and all 170 on board died. French authorities placed the blame on Libya’s Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Moammar Khadafy and chief of foreign operations for the Libyan secret service. The six Libyan suspects were named by a French judge in 1998 and tried in absentia in 1999. The attack was in retaliation for French intervention on behalf of Chad in a war with Libya since the mid 1980s. In 2004 Libya signed a $170 million compensation accord with families of the people killed.
1991 - Ötzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. The body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 5 feet 2 inches (1.6 meters) tall and had weighed about 50 kg (110 pounds), is the oldest mummified human body ever found intact -- some 5000 years old. And his few remaining scalp hairs provided the earliest archaeological evidence of haircutting. And, if that’s not enough, Ötzi was found to have a number of ‘points’ tattooed on his body, 80% of which are considered valid modern acupucture points and dates acupuncture back to at least 3300 B.C.
1993 - The NBC sitcom Seinfeld (Outstanding Comedy Series) and the offbeat CBS drama Picket Fences (Outstanding Drama Series) each won three trophies at the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards.
1995 - The Unabomber’s manifesto was published by The Washington Post and The New York Times.
1996 - American astronaut Shannon Lucid, on board the Russian Mir space station since March, eagerly greeted the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis after its arrival and docking.
1997 - These movies opened in the U.S.: L.A. Confidential, with Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger and Danny Devito; In & Out, starring Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Bob Newhart, Matt Dillon, Gregory Jbara and Shalom Harlow; A Thousand Acres, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Kevin Anderson, Pat Hingle, John Carroll Lynch and Anne Pitoniak; and Wishmaster, starring Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, Robert Englund, Tony Todd, Wendy Benson, Tony Crane, Chris Lemmon and Jenny O'Hara.
1998 - Miss Virginia, Nicole Johnson, a 24-year-old diabetic who wore an insulin pump on her hip, was crowned Miss America 1999.
1998 - At the 22nd annual Oktoberfest in Cincinnati 25,000 kazoos were distributed in an attempt to set a Guinness record for the ‘World’s Largest Kazoo Band’.
2000 - In Australia the Romanian women’s gymnastics team won the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics. Russia won the silver, China took the bronze and the U.S. placed fourth.
2001 - American Airlines and United Airlines both announced plans to lay off some 20,000 employees. The cutbacks were a result of the drop in ticket sales after the 9/11 attacks in NYC.
2002- U.S. President George Bush (II) asked Congress for authority to “use all means,” including military force, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he did not quickly meet U.N. demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.
2002 - Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa was attacked without warning by two fans, a father and son, who came out of the seats at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The father, 34-year-old William Ligue Jr., and his 15-year-old son later received probation.
2003 - Opening in U.S. movie houses: Anything Else, starring Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Diana Krall and Christina Ricci; The Fighting Temptations, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Mike Epps, Faith Evans, Steve Harvey, Beyonce Knowles, Rue McClanahan, Melba Moore, Wendell Pierce, LaTanya Richardson, Dave Sheridan and Angie Stone; and Underworld, with Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy and Erwin Leder.
2003 - AOL Time Warner decided to drop the ‘AOL’ from its name and be known as Time Warner Inc. The company had announced its merger and name change January 10, 2000.
2004 - Flooding in densely populated West Bengal, India swamped hundreds of villages, killing three people and making more than 650,000 homeless.
2005 - It was disclosed that 154 of the dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were patients in hospitals and nursing homes in New Orleans.
2006 - Film producer George Lucas announced that his Lucasfilm Foundation would be donating $175 million to his alma mater, the University of Southern California. The money -- the largest donation in U.S.C. history -- would be used to endow and rebuild the School of Cinematic Arts at S.C.
2006 - Billionaire Warren Buffett, CNN creator Ted Turner and former Senator Sam Nunn pledged $50 million to help set up an international nuclear fuel bank that aspiring powers could turn to for reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
2007 - AT&T ended its automated time of day phone service in Calfornia. The service had already been stopped in most states, but Nevada and California — with their large rural and unmapped areas — were still holding out. AT&T said it needed the prefix (767) for new phone numbers.
2007 - TV news star Dan Rather filed a $70-million lawsuit alleging that CBS and its former parent company (Viacom) attempted to curry favor with the Bush administration by intentionally botching the aftermath of a discredited story about the military service of U.S. President George Bush (II). (In a big victory for CBS, the New York Supreme Court appellate division dismissed the suit in Sep 2009.)
2008 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Kristen Wiig, Téa Leoni and Billy Campbell; the animated comedy, Igor, featuring the voices of John Cusack, Eddie Izzard, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Coolidge, John Cleese, Sean Hayes, Molly Shannon, Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall; Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Eva La Rue and Bitsie Tulloch; and My Best Friend’s Girl, with Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin and Lizzy Caplan.
2008 - 86 workers were fired at the JBS Swift & Co. Grand Island, Nebraska meat packing plant after they walked off their jobs amid a dispute over Ramadan prayers.
2009 - Russia announced that it was scrapping its plan to deploy missiles near Poland after Washington cancelled a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe.
2010 - The King’s Speech won the top award at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. The win gave the Tom Hooper-directed film early momentum toward an Oscar.
2010 - U.S. officials finally declared BP’s broken Deep Water Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico ‘dead,’ following a successful bottom kill, five months after the deadly oil rig blast sparked one of the costliest and largest environmental disasters ever.
2012 - The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog issued its report on Operation Fast and Furious, exonerating Attorney General Eric Holder. The report condemned the department’s bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) for compromising public safety for allowing gun smuggling to Mexico.
2013 - The Russian Coast Guard seized a Greenpeace ship and towed it to Murmansk after armed officers stormed it. The ship carried activists who were protesting drilling by Russia’s state-run oil giant Gazprom in Arctic waters.
2014 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. included: The Maze Runner, with Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Thomas Brodie-Sangster; This Is Where I Leave You, starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda; A Walk Among the Tombstones, with Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens and Boyd Holbrook; the documentaries, Art and Craft and Pump; Hector and the Search for Happiness, with Rosamund Pike, Simon Pegg and Stellan Skarsgård; Life’s a Breeze, starring Kelly Thornton, Fionnula Flanagan and Pat Shortt; Reclaim, with John Cusack, Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre; Tusk, featuring Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment and Harley Quinn; and Wheels, starring Donavon Thomas, Patrick Hume and Diana Gettinger.
2014 - China fined drug maker GlaxoSmithKline $492 million for bribing doctors and sentenced several executives to prison. It was the biggest such penalty imposed by a Chinese court. The company had bribed doctors and hospitals, but the state news agency did not gave details and would not say exactly how many people were involved.
2015 - Japan passed security bills that reinterpreted the pacifist Article 9 of its Constitution and that allow its military to engage in fighting abroad even if Japan is not attacked.
2015 - Pope Francis began a 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States. It was his first trip to the onetime Cold War foes after helping them nudge forward their historic rapprochement.
2016 - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced plans to provide an additional $100 million in assistance to help deal with the global refugee and migrant crisis. He said China was also considering setting aside a $1 billion fund for the purpose.
2016 - With just 50 days until the U.S. election, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were tied and the choice of 42 percent of voters. Their vastly different styles were reflected in the numbers.
2017 - Game developer Zynga said it was adding 50,000 pop culture words as part of its largest dictionary update to the Scrabble-esque game Words with Friends. The words to be added included BFF, fitspo, delish, FOMO, hangry, kween, smize, TFW, turnt, werk, yas, bae and bestie.
2017 - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake killed at least 245 people in Central Mexico, nearly half of them in Mexico City. This, 32 years to the day after the devastating 1985 quake. The death toll across Mexico later rose to over 350.
2018 - The FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) ethics committee imposed lifetime bans on three officials for bribery and corruption. This, after they pled guilty in the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of international soccer. The three were involved in schemes to offer and/or receive bribes in exchange for securing contracts for the media and marketing rights of football tournaments -- and attemping to bribe football officials.
2019 - All flights into Houston’s international airport were halted as Tropical Depression Imelda inundated southeastern Texas with heavy rains and flooding. More than 900 flights were cancelled or delayed. Tropical Storm Imelda left four people dead in the Houston area.
2019 - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos committed the company to being carbon neutral by 2040 - a decade ahead of the Paris Accord’s 2050 goal. He said part of the pledge was an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans from a start-up Amazon had invested in.
2020 - POTUS Trump urged the Republican-run Senate to consider “without delay” his nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by (the death of) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This, just six weeks before the election. Supreme Court nominations had needed 60 votes for confirmation if any senator objected, but Senator Mitch McConnell changed the rules in 2017 to allow the confirmation of justices with just 51 votes.
2020 - Belarus police cracked down sharply on a women’s protest march in Minsk. The women were demanding the authoritarian president’s resignation. Police arrested more than 300 including an elderly woman who had become a symbol of the six weeks of protest that roiled the country.
2020 - Police in London clashed with protesters at a rally against coronavirus restrictions -- as the mayor warned that it was “increasingly likely” that the British capital would soon need to introduce tighter rules to curb a sharp rise in infections. Demonstrators also took to the streets of other cities to protest coronavirus restrictions as the global death toll approached 1 million.
2021 - Most female city employees were ordered to stay home by Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers. About two dozen women activists protested outside the women’s ministry after it was closed by Taliban militants in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
2021 - Russians voted during the final day of a three-day parliamentary election that the ruling party would win emphatically. This, after a crackdown that crushed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s movement and barred opponents from the ballot.
2022 - British monarch Queen Elizabeth II was interred at Windsor Castle. This, after a state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London saw an unprecedented 500 world leaders in attendance.
2022 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Mexico on the exact anniversary of two previous temblors in 1985 and 2017. Though many found the coincidence curious, there was apparently no scientific significance to it.
2022 - Banks in Lebanon closed for three days after a series of hold-ups by people trying to get their own money out. Banks had limited withdrawals of dollars since 2019, when the value of the Lebanese pound plummeted and inflation soared.
2023 - Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments. County District Attorney Thien Ho said the city was seeing a “collapse into chaos” that reflected the “erosion of everyday life.” Ho said his office had asked the city to enforce local laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites, but that the city had not.
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Birthdays on This Day September 19
1778 - Henry Brougham
orator; the Brougham carriage was named after him; died May 17, 18681905 - Leon Jaworski
attorney: Watergate special prosecutor; died Dec 9, 19821907 - Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court [1972-1987]; died Aug 25, 19981911 - Sir William Golding
Nobel Prize in literature [1983]; Lord of the Flies; died June 19, 19931913 - Frances Farmer
actress: Rhythm on the Range, Son of Fury; died Aug 1, 19701921 - Billy Ward
singer, musician: piano: group: Billy Ward and His Dominoes: Sixty-Minute Man, Have Mercy Baby, Star Dust, Deep Purple, St. Therese of the Roses; died Feb 16, 20021926 - James Lipton
executive producer, director, writer: Inside the Actors Studio; dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City; died Mar 2, 20201926 - Duke (Edwin Donald) Snider
‘The Silver Fox’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956/all-star: 1950-1956], LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959/all-star: 1963], NY Mets, SF Giants; broadcaster: Montreal Expos; died Feb 27, 20111927 - Nick Massi (Macioci)
musician: bass, singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll; died Dec 24, 20001928 - Adam West
actor: Batman, The Detectives, Starring Robert Taylor, The Last Precinct, Hooper, The New Age; died Jun 9, 20171930 - Bob (Robert Lee) Turley
‘Bullet Bob’: baseball: pitcher: SL Browns, Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1954], NY Yankees [World Series: 1955-1958, 1960/all-star: 1955, 1958/Cy Young Award: 1958], Boston Red Sox, LA Angels; died March 30, 20131931 - Brook Benton (Benjamin Franklin Peay)
singer: It’s Just a Matter of Time, Baby [You’ve Got What It Takes] [w/Dinah Washington], Endlessly, Think Twice, Kiddio, The Boll Weevil Song, Rainy Night in Georgia; died Apr 9, 19881931 - Ray Danton
actor: The Longest Day, The George Raft Story, I’ll Cry Tomorrow; died Feb 11, 19921932 - Mike Royko
journalist: Chicago Tribune: syndicated column; author: Boss, Slats Grobnick; died Apr 29, 19971933 - David McCallum
actor: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Invisible Man, Shattered Image, NCIS; died Sep 25, 20231934 - Brian Epstein
talent manager: The Beatles; died Aug 26, 19671934 - Jay Randolph
sportscaster: NBC Sports, St. Louis Cardinals1936 - Al Oerter
Olympic and Track & Field Hall of Famer: 4 time Gold Medalist & world record maker: discus [1956, 1960, 1964, 1968]; died Oct 1, 20071937 - Chris (Christopher Joseph) Short
baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1964, 1967], Milwaukee Brewers; died Aug 1, 19911937 - Abner Haynes
football: Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs: Rookie and Player of the Year [1960]; Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, NY Jets1940 - Bill Medley
singer: I’ve Had the Time of My Life [w/Jennifer Warnes]; group: The Righteous Brothers: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling, Just Once in My Life, Unchained Melody, Ebb Tide, [You’re My] Soul and Inspiration, Rock and Roll Heaven1940 - Paul Williams
songwriter: themes: The Love Boat, The Muppet Movie; Academy Award-winning lyricist: A Star Is Born [1976: w/Barbra Streisand]; actor: Smokey and the Bandit series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Wild Wild West Revisited, The Paul Williams Show, The Night They Saved Christmas, The Doors, Hart to Hart Returns1941 - ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott (Ellen Naomi Cohen)
singer: group: The Mamas & The Papas: California Dreamin’, Monday, Monday, Creeque Alley; solo: Dream a Little Dream of Me, It’s Getting Better, Make Your Own Kind of Music; group: The Mugwumps; died July 29, 19741942 - Freda Payne
singer: Band of Gold, Bring the Boys Home; sang w/Duke Ellington1943 - Joe (Leonard) Morgan
Baseball Hall of Famer: Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros [all-star: 1966, 1970], Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1972-1979/World Series: 1972, 1975, 1976/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1975, 1976], SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983], Oakland Athletics; 266 home runs, 2527 games as second baseman are records for his position; ESPN TV baseball analyst; died Oct 11, 20201945 - Randolph Mantooth
actor: Emergency, Detective School, Operation Petticoat1946 - John Coghlan
musician: drums: group: Status Quo: LPs: Picturesque Matchstickable, Piledriver, Hello, On the Level, Blue for You1946 - Joe (Joseph Vance) Ferguson
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974, 1978], SL Cardinals, Houston Astros, California Angels1947 - Larry Brown
football: Washington Redskins running back, NFL Player of the Year [1972]; NFL leading rusher [1970, 1972]; Super Bowl VII1947 - Lol Creme
musician: guitar, singer: groups: 10cc: Rubber Bullets, I’m Not in Love, The Things We Do for Love; Godley & Creme: Donna, Wedding Bells1948 - Jeremy (John) Irons
Academy Award-winning actor: Reversal of Fortune [1990]; Emmy Award: supporting actor: Elizabeth I [2006]; Die Hard: With a Vengeance, House of Spirits, M. Butterfly, Damage, Dead Ringers, The French Lieutenant’s Woman; voice of Scar: Lion King1949 - Twiggy (Leslie Hornby)
fashion model: mini-skirt; actress: The Boy Friend, Madame Sousatzka, Body Bags, The Princesses1949 - Sidney Wicks
basketball: College Player of the Year [UCLA 1970]; Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, San Diego Clippers1950 - Joan Lunden
broadcast journalist; TV host: Good Morning America1952 - Nile Rogers
musician: group: Honeydrippers: Sea of Love1955 - Rex Smith
actor: Sooner or Later, A Passion to Kill, Transformations, Pirates of Penzance1957 - Dan Hampton
Pro Football Hall of Famer [tackle, defensive end]: Univ of Arkansas; NFL: Chicago Bears1958 - Kevin Hooks
actor: The White Shadow, He’s the Mayor, Innerspace, Can You Hear the Laughter?/The Story of Freddie Prinze, Aaron Loves Angela, Sounder; director: Fled, Passenger 57, Murder Without Motive, Strictly Business, Roots: The Gift1959 - Carolyn McCormick
actress: Law & Order, Spenser: For Hire, Cracker, Body of Proof1960 - Mario Batali
celebrity chef, writer, restaurateur: owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Westport, Connecticut; Batali’s signature clothing style includes shorts and orange Crocs1962 - Randy Myers
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays1963 - Alexandra Silk
actress [1996-2012]: X-rated films: A Woman Scorned, Sinister Sister, The Mobster’s Wife, Hillbilly Honeys, Original Sin, Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Matrix1964 - Kim Richards
actress: Escape to Witch Mountain, Nanny and the Professor, Hello, Larry, Meatballs Part II, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills1964 - Trisha Yearwood
singer: She’s in Love with the Boy, The Song Remembers When, Wrong Side of Memphis, Believe Me Baby [I Lied], How Do I Live, Inside Out1966 - Soledad O’Brien
TV host: MSNBC: The Site, CNN: American Morning1967 - Jim (James Anthony) Abbott
baseball: one-handed pitcher: Olympic gold medalist: U.S. baseball team [1988]; California Angels [Sullivan Award: 1987], NY York Yankees [no-hitter: 9/4/93], Chicago White Sox1969 - Candy Dulfer
Dutch musician: saxophone: I.L.U., Lily Was Here, Pick Up the Pieces, 2 Miles, Smooth, Mister Marvin, So What, Jamming, Bird, For the Love of You; considered one of the premiere jazz saxophonists in the U.S., Europe and Asia1971 - Sanaa Lathan
actress: The Best Man, The Best Man Holiday, Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, Alien vs. Predator, The Family That Preys; Broadway: A Raisin in the Sun1972 - Amy Frazier
tennis champ: seven career singles titles; six WTA Tour titles; career win-loss record: 412-2941974 - Jimmy Fallon
comedian, actor: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live, Anything Else, Band of Brothers, Almost Famous1976 - Alison Sweeney
actress: Night Sins, The End of Innocence, You Ruined My Life, The Price of Life, Days of Our Lives1979 - Dannielle Brent
actress: Bad Girls, One Man and His Dog, Brookside: Double Take!, Dream Team, Hollyoaks1980 - Zach Levi
actor: Chuck, Less than Perfect, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Tangled, Thor: The Dark World, Imperfect Union, 4 Points, Remember, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel1982 - Columbus Short
actor: Scandal, Stomp the Yard, Cadillac Records, Armored, The Losers, Quarantine, Cadillac Records1984 - Amber Rayne
actress [2005-2012]: X-rated films: Ultimate Orgasms, All Aboard the Gangbang Train, Shhh... Don’t Tell Your Momma, Forced Bi-Cuckold With a Tranny, No Ifs, Ands - Just Butts!1984 - Kevin Zegers
actor: The Acting Class, Air Bud, Life With Mikey, Titans, Traders, Free Willy1987 - Danielle Panabaker
actress: Stuck in the Suburbs, Read It and Weep, Empire Falls, Shark, Friday the 13th, The Crazies, The Ward, Piranha 3DD, Sky High, Mr. Brooks, Necessary Roughness1988 - Katrina Bowden
actress: 30 Rock, Sex Drive, American Reunion, Scary Movie 5, Hard Sell, Public Morals1996 - Pia Mia (Perez)
model, songwriter, singer: Bubblegum Boy, Hold On, We're Going Home, The Gift, Divergent soundtrack, Fill Me In1998 - Trae Young
basketball: Univ of Oklahoma [2017–2018]: only player to lead the NCAA in both points and assists in a single season; NBA: Atlanta Hawks [point guard: 2018– ]
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Swinging on a Star (facts) - Bing Crosby
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