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1831 - Wesleyan University was founded -- in Middleton, Connecticut.1859 - The first electric cooking range was patented by George B. Simpson.
1881 - Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
1884 - If you thought equal rights for women is a modern concept, think again. On this day, the Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, California. The party nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood as their U.S. presidential candidate and Marietta Snow as Lockwood’s running mate.
1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started one of the first daily radio newscasts in the U.S. The broadcast came from the city desk of The Pittsburgh Post.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby. The arrest was made over two years after the crime.
1948 - One of the most popular singing groups of the 1950s got their professional start on this day. The Four Freshmen did their first gig -- at the 113 Club in Fort Wayne, Indiana -- and went on to major success with Capitol Records. Hits included It’s a Blue World, Charmaine and Love is Just Around the Corner.
1953 - Lovely Loretta Young hosted a weekly TV show, Letter to Loretta. Later (February 14, 1954), the name was changed to The Loretta Young Show. As you might suspect, the show featured dramatic responses to letters Loretta had received from her fans during the years she had been a movie star.
1953 - Jimmy Stewart debuted in The Six Shooter on NBC. He played Britt Ponset on the radio Western.
1955 - You’ll Never Get Rich started its run on CBS-TV. Because of weak ratings, the name of the show was changed (less than two months later) to The Phil Silvers Show, with the subtitle, You’ll Never Get Rich. The change worked. The show, “An outrageous satire on military life,” became a hit on the tube and ran thru 1959.
1958 - Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed in the chest at a New York City department store by a deranged black woman. King was autographing his new book when the woman attacked him.
1963 - In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon.
1969 - Sugar, Sugar, by The Archies, hit number one in Billboard. The Archies sat at the top of the hit heap for four weeks.
1973 - In three straight sets, Billie Jean King showed who was the better tennis player in the Battle of the Sexes. She defeated Bobby Riggs in the televised event at the Houston Astrodome, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Howard Cosell was the announcer.
1973 - Singer Jim Croce, his lead guitarist, Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their plane crashed into a tree at Natchitoches, LA while taking off for a concert in Sherman, Texas.
1976 - Playboy magazine released an interview in which Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter admitted that he had “looked on a lot of women with lust.”
1977 - Vietnam was admitted to the United Nations. It was the final international recognition that marxist North Vietnam had won the Vietnam War and gained full control of Western-allied South Vietnam.
1984 - NBC-TV debuted The Cosby Show. Bill Cosby played Dr. Heathcliff (Cliff) Huxtable. His lovely wife, Clair, was played by Phylicia Rashad. The Huxtable kids were Sondra, age 20 (Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise, age 16 (Lisa Bonet), Theodore, age 14 (Malcom-Jamal Warner), Vanessa, age 8 (Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudy, age 5 (Keshia Knight Pulliam). The premiere was the most watched show of the week and the Cosby Show went on to become an Emmy Award-winner and one of the most popular on TV for eight years.
1986 - NBC’s The Golden Girls won best comedy honors and CBS’s Cagney & Lacey won for top drama at the 38th Emmy Awards held in Pasadena, CA.
1986 - The number one pop hit in the U.S. was Stuck With You, by Huey Lewis & The News. The song, from the multi-platinum album Fore!, was stuck at #1 for three weeks.
1987 - The 39th Emmy Awards winners included: L.A. Law (Outstanding Drama Series), Bruce Willis (Outstanding Actor - Drama Series [Moonlighting]), and Sharon Gless (Outstanding Actress - Drama Series [Cagney & Lacey]).
1988 - Greg Louganis of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, a day after he smacked his head on the springboard in the preliminary round.
1989 - The wreckage of a DC-10 belonging to the French airline UTA was found in Niger. The plane had disappeared September 19 with 171 passengers onboard. The Paris-bound plane was brought down by an explosive device in the cargo hold.
1992 - Raymond Floyd won the Senior PGA Tour GTE North Classic at Indianapolis, Indiana. By winning, he became the first player to win tournaments on the regular and Senior PGA Tours in the same year (he had won the Doral-Ryder Open earlier that year).
1994 - Broadway composer Jule Styne (Gypsy, Funny Girl) died in New York. He was 88 years old.
1995 - The U.S. House voted to eliminate the federal speed limit of 55 miles an hour and let states set their own limits.
1996 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The First Wives Club, starring Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dan Hedaya, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Dundas, Eileen Heckart and Stephen Collins; Last Man Standing, with Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, Karina Lombard, Ned Eisenberg, Alexandra Powers, Michael Imperioli and Ken Jenkins; and Surviving Picasso, starring Anthony Hopkins, Natascha Mcelhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Peter Eyre, Jane Lapotaire, Joseph Maher, Bob Peck, Diane Venora and Joan Plowright.
1996 - Bandleader Paul Weston died at 84 years of age.
1998 - Cal Ripken Jr. sat out a game against the New York Yankees in Baltimore after playing 2,632 consecutive games. His record started on May 30, 1982.
1999 - Raisa Gorbachev, wife of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorvachev, died of leukemia.
1999 - A 7.6 earthquake killed at least 2,100 people and injured over 8,100 in Taiwan. 100,000 people were homeless.
2000 - Former Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov died at the age of 65.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) named PA Governor Tom Ridge to direct the new office of Homeland Security.
2001 - Urinetown opened on Broadway at Henry Miller’s Theatre on this day. The musical that satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics was nominated for 10 Tony Awards and won three. The show was a big success, running through January 18, 2004, with 965 performances.
2002 - These films debuted in U.S. theatres: Apollo 13: The Imax Experience (the 1995 Apollo 13 reworked for the big Imax screen), with Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris; Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto and Miguel Sandoval; The Banger Sisters. with Goldie Hawn, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Rush, Erika Christensen, Eva Amurri, Robin Thomas and Matthew Carey; and Trapped, starring Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Dakota Fanning.
2003 - Miss Florida, Ericka Dunlap, was crowned Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
2004 - CBS News apologized for a “mistake in judgment” in its story questioning the U.S. National Guard service of President George Bush (II), saying it could not vouch for the authenticity of documents featured in the report.
2005 - The Sacramento Monarchs won their first WNBA championship with a 62-59 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 4 of the finals.
2005 - Results of a University of South Florida study indicated an ingredient in green tea may protect the brain from the memory-destroying Alzheimer’s disease. The component, EGCG, had also been thought to offer protection against certain cancers.
2006 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the U.S. to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly, calling President George Bush (II) “the devil.” “The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said. “He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”
2007 - The Canadian dollar rose above parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time in 31 years. The rise was helped by a sharply falling dollar.
2007 - NASA released satellite data that showed sea ice in the Arctic had shrunk one million square miles more during the summer of 2007 than the average melt over 24 years. The shrinkage represented an area larger that Alaska and Texas combined.
2008 - A fire and subsequent stampede at the Dance King nightclub in Shenzhen (southern China) killed 44 people and injured another 87. A high ranking police officer was later sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking bribes from the club to ignore their lax safety standards.
2009 - U.S. Representative Charlie Rangel [D-N.Y], the person most in charge of writing the nation’s tax laws, was charged with neglecting to pay taxes on rental income from his vacation villa in the Dominican Republic. The 79-year-old Congressman was also charged with failing to report assets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars on his annual disclosure forms, including a hard-to-miss credit union account worth up to $500,000.
2009 - At the 61st Annual Primetime Emmys, the winners included Mad Men [best drama series] and 30 Rock [best comedy series].
2010 - A woman from Togo was sentenced to 27 years in prison after being convicted of running a human smuggling operation and forcing women to work at New Jersey hair braiding salons. Akouavi Afolabi ran the scheme to bring at least 20 girls and women (ages 10 to 19) from West Africa to the U.S. on fraudulent visas. Victims were foreced to work at the salons for no pay. Afolabi was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $3.9 million. Her ex-husband and son had formerly pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms.
2011 - The U.S. military’s 17-year old “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, regarding sexual orientation, officially ended -- and the military could no longer prevent gays from serving openly in its ranks.
2011 - In a probe of the Full Tilt Poker Web site, U.S. prosecutors accused self-styled ‘Poker Professor’ Howard Lederer, professional poker champion Christopher Ferguson and others of paying themselves more than $440 million while defrauding other players.
2012 - The Pentagon reported the last of the 33,000 ‘surge’ troops U.S. President Obama ordered to Afghanistan in December 2009 had left the country. 68,000 U.S. forces remained in the war zone.
2013 - These movies debuted in U.S. theatres: Battle of the Year, with Josh Holloway, Josh Peck, Caity Lotz, Chris Brown, Ivan 'Flipz' Velez, Jon 'Do Knock' Cruz, Anis Cheurfa and Jesse 'Casper' Brown; Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, Terrence Howard and Viola Davis; C.O.G., with Troian Bellisario, Jonathan Groff, Dale Dickey, Corey Stoll, Casey Wilson, Dean Stockwell, Denis O’Hare, Danny Belrose and Keiko Green; The Colony, starring Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan, Dru Viergever, Atticus Dean Mitchell, John Tench and Lisa Berry; Enough Said, starring James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener, Amy Landecker, Ben Falcone, Michaela Watkins, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Toby Huss and Eve Hewson; the documentary Generation Iron; Rush, with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Dormer, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Brühl, Tom Wlaschiha, Rebecca Ferdinando and Alexandra Maria Lara; the documentary The Short Game; A Single Shot, starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs, Joe Anderson, Jeffrey Wright and Ophelia Lovibond; and Thanks for Sharing, with Mark Ruffal, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim Robbins, Joely Richardson, Patrick Fugit, P!nk, Josh Gad and Carol Kane.
2013 - British police said eight men were arrested for stealing £1.3 million ($2 million) from a Barclays bank branch by tapping into its computers. The gang was accused of installing a keyboard video mouse device to carry out the cyber theft from the bank’s computer system.
2014 - French air pilots voted to extend their walkout in protest of Air-France-KLM’s strategy of shifting much of its European operation to Transavia, a low-cost subsidiary. The strike apparently was successful, as management offered to withdraw the creation of the subsidiary a few days later.
2014 - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, head of the National Party, won an emphatic victory in a general election to return for a third (3-year) term.
2015 - Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. was increasing to 85,000 the number of refugees it would admit and resettle in 2016. The number would increase to 100,000 in 2017.
2016 - Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 19 villagers. The worst-hit district was Garut, where 16 people were found dead and eight others were missing after two rivers overflowed.
2016 - The United Nations suspended all aid shipments into Syria after a deadly attack on an aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies. The International Committee of the Red Cross the attack a “flagrant violation of international law,” and the U.N. said it could be a war crime. The convoy was carrying U.N. supplies distributed by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in the village of Urum al-Kubra near Aleppo. The bomb attack on the shipment killed some 20 people near Aleppo.
2017 - U.S. security firm FireEye reported that hackers linked to Iran’s government were behind attacks on Saudi and other Western aerospace and petrochemical firms. The actions were a sign that Iranian cyber-spying prowess was on the increase.
2017 - Category 4 Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, tearing off roofs and sending doors flying from hinges. Maria had already killed at least nine in the Caribbean. The storm was to become regarded as the worst natural disaster on record to affect Dominica and Puerto Rico and the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Jeanne in 2004.
2018 - The U.S. sanctioned the Chinese military for buying Russian fighter planes and missiles, and blacklisted more than 30 Russians, most of whom had been indicted for their role in Moscow’s effort to subvert the 2016 U.S. election.
2018 - California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that banned dine-in restaurants from handing out plastic straws -- unless a customer asks for one.
2018 - A nun from the southern state of Kerala, India accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who headed the Diocese of Jalandhar, of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years.
2019 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres included: Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, Liv Tyler and Tommy Lee Jones; Downton Abbey, starring Matthew Goode, Maggie Smith and Michelle Dockery; Rambo: Last Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega and Yvette Monreal; The Wedding Year, with Sarah Hyland, Jenna Dewan and Anna Camp; and 7 Days to Vegas, with Vincent Van Patten, Ross McCall and Paul Walter Hauser.
2019 - Walmart announced that it would stop selling electronic cigarettes at its stores and Sam’s Clubs. The industry was under fire as teen vaping rates in the U.S. soared to record highs. Federal health officials sounded alarms over an outbreak of a mysterious vaping-related lung disease that had killed at least eight people. Some nations had outlawed e-cigarettes, saying they pose too much of a health risk.
2020 - The remains of seven people were found in the shallow grave in the town of Cajeme, Sonora, Mexico. Weeks later the body of model Yessenia Estefania Alvarado, was identified as one of the seven. Alvarado, 24, from the northwestern city of Ciudad Obregon, was kidnapped August 19 by a group of men while she was out shopping.
2020 - TV host Jimmy Kimmel MC’d the 72nd Emmy Awards from a nearly empty Staples Center in Los Angeles. Because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, nominees gave speeches remotely from their home or other location. Schitt’s Creek (Comedy Series), Watchmen (Limited Series), Succession (Drama Series) and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Variety Talk Series) were among the big winners.
2020 - Golf pro Bryson DeChambeau won the U.S. Open with a 3-under-par 67, becoming only the third golfer to finish under par in the six U.S. Opens played at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York.
2021 - Britain’s Prince Andrew was served -- in the United States -- with a lawsuit brought by 38-year-old Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She said that she was forced to have sex with Andrew and was assaulted by him when she was 17. Prince Andrew reached an agreement with Giuffre to settle the civil sex assault suit in Feb 2022.
2021 - Lawyers said a court-appointed receiver has recouped more than $1 billion for victims of Texas financier Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme. It was the largest by dollar amount other than Bernard Madoff’s fraud. Stanford is serving a 110-year prison sentence following his 2012 conviction for running a $7.2 billion Ponzi scheme affecting approximately 18,000 former investors.
2022 - Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge broke his own world record for the marathon -- in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds -- in Berlin (previous record 2:01:39).
2022 - The Justice Department charged 47 people with fraudulently collecting a some $250 million from a federal coronavirus pandemic relief program. The funds had been intended to provide food for needy children. Federal prosecutors said the defendants, all tied to the Minnesota nonprofit, Feeding our Future, participated in a “brazen scheme of staggering proportions.” The defendants, including individuals and organizations, used a web of shell companies and bribes, with one of those charged having created a fake list of children it was serving meals to. Some bought luxury cars, jewelry, and houses with the money, U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger told reporters. Attorney General Merrick Garland said the case was “the largest pandemic relief fraud scheme charged to date.”
2023 - Big surprise for archaeologists: The earliest known evidence for humans building with wood was discovered near Kalambo Falls, Zambia. The simple wooden structure unearthed was nearly half a million years old. The previous oldest-known finding was a relatively recent 9,000 years old.
2024 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S. on this day incluced: Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry, Stephanie Lavigne and Anthony B. Jenkins; and Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry and Scarlett Johansson.
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Birthdays on This Day September 20
1878 - Upton (Beall) Sinclair
author & social/political reformer: The Jungle, Oil, Boston, Pulitzer Prize-winner: Dragon’s Teeth; died Nov 25, 1968
1890 - Ferdinand ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame composer, piano player: Jelly Roll Blues, Wolverine Blues, Black Bottom Stomp, Milenberg Joys, Deep Creek, New Orleans Bump, Buddy Bolden’s Blues, Sidewalk Blues; died Jul 10, 19411896 - Elliott Nugent
actor: Romance, The Unholy Three; director: Up in Arms, Welcome Stranger; died Aug 9, 19801898 - Chuck (Charles Walter) Dressen
baseball: Cincinnati Reds, NY Giants; manager: Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Braves, Detroit Tigers; coach: Brooklyn Dodgers, N.Y. Yankees, LA Dodgers; pro football player: Decatur Staleys, Racine Legion; died Aug 10, 19661908 - Zeke (Henry John) Bonura
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Washington Nationals, NY Giants, Chicago Cubs; died Mar 9, 19871911 - Frank DeVol
bandleader, songwriter: themes: The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, The Love Boat; scores: The Dirty Dozen, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Pillow Talk [more than 50 films]; died Oct 27, 19991917 - Red (Arnold) Auerbach
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics coach: most NBA Championships [9] [1957 & 1959-1966]; died Oct 28, 20061917 - Fernando Rey
actor: El Cianuro... solo o con leche?, Madregilda, La Marrana, Missione d’amore, The French Connection, La Batalla de los Tres Reyes; died Mar 9, 19941918 - Peg Phillips
actress: Northern Exposure; died Nov 7, 20021922 - Paul Wendkos
TV/film director: Gidget, The Untouchables, Dr. Kildare, Mr. Novak, The F.B.I., I Spy, The Invaders, Guns of the Magnificent Seven, The Mephisto Waltz, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, Harold Robbins’ 79 Park Avenue, A Woman Called Moses, The Ordeal of Patty Hearst, The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story; died Nov 12, 20091924 - Gogi Grant (Audrey Brown)
singer: The Wayward Wind, Suddenly There’s a Valley; dubbed vocals for Ann Blythe: The Helen Morgan Story; died Mar 10, 20161927 - Pearl Butler
singer [w/her husband Carl]: Cryin’ My Heart Out Over You, Dog Eat Dog, Holding on With Open Arms, Blue Eyes and Waltzes, Precious Memories, I Hope We Walk the Last Mile Together; died Mar 1, 19881927 - Johnny Dankworth
musician: alto sax, band leader, composer: Experiments with Mice, African Waltz, What the Dickens, The Avengers theme song; died Feb 6, 20101927 - Rachel Roberts
actress: Murder on the Orient Express [1974], The Tony Randall Show, Circle of Children; died Nov 26, 19801928 - Donald A. Hall
author: The Ox Cart Man, Lucy’s Christmas; died in 19681929 - Anne Meara
comedienne: Stiller & Meara; actress: Fame, All in the Family, Rhoda, The Paul Lynde Show, The Corner Bar, Alf; mother of actor Ben Stiller; died May 23, 20151931 - Peter Palmer
actor: Li’l Abner, Custer, Edward Scissorhands; died Sep 21, 20211934 - Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone)
Academy Award-winning actress: Two Women [1961]; Black Orchid, Marriage Italian Style, Desire Under the Elms, El Cid, Man of La Mancha, Grumpier Old Men, Brief Encounter1935 - Jim Taylor
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers running back: Super Bowl I, II; AP NFL Player of the Year [1962]; New Orleans Saints; died Oct 13, 20181938 - Tom (Thomas Michael) Tresh
baseball: NY Yankees [Rookie of the Year: 1962/World Series: 1962, 1963, 1964/all-star: 1962, 1963], Detroit Tigers; died Oct 15, 20081943 - Ted Neeley
actor: Jesus Christ Superstar, Of Mice and Men, Hard Country; musician: drums; composer, singer: group: Neverland Express1946 - Mick Rogers
musician: guitar; singer: group: Manfred Mann’s Earth Band: Blinded by the Light, For You, Black and Blue, I Came for You1948 - George R.R. Martin
novelist, short story writer: A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, Game of Thrones [TV]; more1948 - Chuck Panozzo
musician: bass: group: [w/twin brother John] Styx: Lady, Suite Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Miss America, Castle Walls, Superstars, Renegade, Babe, The Best of Times, Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Roboto1948 - John Panozzo
musician: drums: group [w/twin brother Chuck]: Styx [see above]; died July 16, 19961950 - Dave Twardzik
basketball: Portland Trailblazers; GM: Golden State Warriors; assistant GM: Orlando Magic1951 - Matt Blair
football: Minnesota Vikings LB: Super Bowls IX, XI1951 - Guy Lafleur
Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Montreal Canadiens [Hart Memorial Trophy: 1977, 1978], NY Rangers, Quebec Nordiques1954 - (Gene Ellis) Mickey Klutts
baseball: NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays1954 - Brinke Stevens
model, actress, scream queen: Necromancy, Emmanuelle 4, Girls of Penthouse, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, The Jigsaw Murders, Transylvania Twist, Acting on Impulse, Invisible Mom, Mommy II: Mommys Day, Victoria’s Shadow, The Vampire Hunters Club, Witchouse 3: Demon Fire, Slumber Party Massacre IV1955 - Betsy Brantley
actress: This Man’s Life, Double Jeopardy, Deep Impact, Flesh and Bone, Havana, The Fourth Protocol, Shock Treatment1956 - Gary Cole
actor: The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel, American Gothic, From the Earth to the Moon, Office Space, One Hour Photo, NCIS1956 - Debbi Morgan
actress: Boston Public, Roots: The Next Generations, The Jesse Owens Story, All My Children, General Hospital, Eve’s Bayou, Love & Basketball1957 - Michael Hurst
actor: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess; director: Spartacus: Blood and Sand; more1963 - Robert Lasardo
actor: Léon: The Professional , Death Race, Never Down, Half Past Dead 2, Death Race, Tortured, Wrath of Cain, Nip/Tuck, General Hospital, CSI: Miami, Bad Samaritans1964 - Maggie Cheung
actress: The Adventurer, Yi jian zhong qing, Chai gong, Shen Jing Dao yu Fei Tian Mao, Qian mian tian wang, Gungun hongchen1966 - Nuno Bettencourt
musician: guitar: Gravity, Fallen Angels; group: Extreme: More Than Words, Get the Funk Out, Hole Hearted, Decadence Dance, Am I Ever Gonna Change1967 - Kristen Johnston
actress: 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Orkly Kid, Backfire!, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, Nobody Knows Anything1967 - Gunnar Nelson
singer: group [w/twin brother Matthew]: Nelson: Milk Cow Blues, I Couldn’t Live Without You, A Girl Like That, Just Once More, The Silence is Broken; father was singer/actor Ricky Nelson1967 - Matthew Nelson
singer: group [w/twin brother Gunnar]: Nelson [see above]; father was singer/actor Ricky Nelson1972 - Sergio Di Zio
actor: Flashpoint, The Lookout, Cinderella Man, Senior Trip, This is Wonderland, Northern Town, Wayside, Stoked, Babar and the Adventures of Badou [voice], Suits1972 - Aaron Paul
singer: group: Worlds Apart: Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, Everlasting Love, Wonderful World, Could it be I’m Falling in Love1975 - Moon Bloodgood
actress: Falling Skies, Terminator Salvation, A Lot Like Love, What Just Happened, Burn Notice, Moonlight Serenade1975 - Juan Pablo Montoya
Formula 1, CART, NASCAR racecar driver: won International F3000 championship [1998], CART Championship Series [1999]; only driver to have won the premier North American open-wheel CART title, the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Daytona, all in the first attempt1976 - Jon Bernthal
actor: The Walking Dead, Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, World Trade Center, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Eastwick1976 - Enuka Okuma
actress: Rookie Blue, 24, Madison, Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, Fifteen1977 - Charlie Weber
actor: Cruel Intentions 3, The Kiss, Gacy, Dead Above Ground, The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy1983 - Edy Ganem
actress: Entourage, Devious Maids, After the Wedding, Ana Maria in Novela Land, Tattooed Love1991 - Spencer Locke
actress: Resident Evil film series, Detention, Anatomy of the Tide, Karaoke Man, Cougar Town, The Bling Ring, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Two and a Half Men1992 - Peter Prevc
Slovenian ski jumper: 2016 Ski Jumping World Cup champ; 2014, 2015, 2016 Ski flying World Cup champ; 2014 Olympic silver and bronze medalist; more1993 - Julian Draxler
German footballer [winger]: Paris Saint-Germain, German national team [2010- ]: 2014 FIFA World Cup champs; captain of the side that won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup1995 - Sammi Hanratty
actress: Pushing Daises, An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong, The Greening of Whitney Brown, The Unit, Salem, The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone, Yellowjackets
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On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (facts) - Johnny Mercer
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