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1779 - You’ve heard the expression, “I have not yet begun to fight.” Well, if you thought that John Paul Jones said those words, you were right. He spoke them in a Revolutionary War battle when, as commander of the American warship, Bonhomme Richard, he led the victory over the British warship, H.M.S. Serapis.1846 - The planet Neptune was first observed. Although the planet is about 30 times further away from the sun than we are on planet Earth, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle spotted it. How’d he do that?
1848 - John Curtis produced the first commercially available chewing gum, which he called ‘State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum’.
1908 - The baseball term, “Merkle’s Boner” and the expression, “You’re a bonehead,” had their origins on this day -- at the final game of the National League pennant race between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants. The Giants were at bat, two men were on base and the score was tied 1-1. The batter hit safely, scoring the winning run. But, Chicago claimed that Fred Merkle, who had been on first, never advanced to second, that he went straight to the dugout upon seeing the winning run come in. Chicago Cubs’ Johnny Evers tried to tag Merkle but was hampered by hundreds of fans pouring on to the field. Fans called the play a ‘boner’, etc. (It was later decided that the game was a tie, and the teams met again for a playoff, a 4-2 Cubs win.)
1911 - Earl Ovington delivered the first air mail authorized by the U.S. Post Office. He made the flight between Long Island and Mineola, New York in his ‘Queen’ monoplane.
1912 - Mack Sennett’s Keystone studio opened, complete with Keystone Kops.
1930 - Flashbulbs were patented by Johannes Ostermeier of Athegnenber, Germany. Now that’s an invention that used to be very popular in the little box cameras. You popped the bulb into the socket in front of a silver reflector dish. The bulb would get all crinkly looking and milky white in color after it was used (you could only use it once). Then the bulbs were replaced by flash cubes and now, the automatic flash is built into the camera. So easy to use ... but not half as much fun.
1939 - Jan Savitt and his orchestra recorded 720 in the Books on Decca Records.
1940 - The George Cross was instituted. It is the highest British civilian award for acts of courage.
1942 - The Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad began. This first attempt to dislodge German advance units near the Volga landing stage was unsuccessful.
1950 - The U.S. Congress adopted the Internal Security Act, which ordered the registration of communists. The Act was later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1952 - Rocky Marciano became the world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round in Philadelphia PA. It was Rocky’s 43rd consecutive victory.
1952 - Pay Television for sporting events began -- with the Marciano-Walcott fight, coast to coast, in 49 theatres in 31 cities.
1952 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon’s dog, Checkers, was the subject of a speech given this day by Mr. Nixon, then a candidate for vice-president. In the televised speech, he stated that he would not give back a gift -- whether it had political ties or not -- because it was a present for his daughter. The gift in question was Checkers and the speech was forever referred to as the ‘Checkers Speech’.
1953 - The Robe premiered in Hollywood, a week after its premiere in New York. The 20th Century Fox movie had been filmed using the Cinemascope wide screen process.
1962 - The Jetsons premiered as ABC-TV’s first color program. The Hanna-Barbera cartoon series was a futuristic mirror image of The Flintstones. Penny Singleton was the voice of Jane Jetson and George O’Hanlon was George Jetson. The series ran through Sep 8, 1963.
1967 - The Box Tops from Memphis hit #1 with The Letter. Though the song was #1 for four weeks and remained on the charts for 13 weeks. The Box Tops reorganized right after that first hit and never made it to #1 again.
1971 - The Honey Cone scored their second gold record with Stick-Up on the Hot Wax label. It was a follow-up to their #1 smash, Want Ads (June 12, 1971).
1976 - U.S. President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter met in a nationally broadcast debate. During the debate, they were speechless for 27 minutes, because the sound system failed.
1980 - The Elephant Man made its debut on Broadway with rock singer David Bowie in his acting debut.
1981 - Chief Dan George, the actor who appeared in Harry & Tonto and Little Big Man, died at age 82.
1986 - NBC-TV won the ratings race for the 52-week season (1985-1986). The Cosby Show and Family Ties rated #1 and #2 respectively that year. NBC repeated the feat the following year and The Cosby Show remained number one through the 1989-1990 season.
1986 - The House of Representatives voted the rose to be the national flower of the United States.
1987 - Choreographer Bob Fosse died. He was 62 years old.
1990 - PBS began airing an 11-hour miniseries by Ken Burns called The Civil War.
1991 - The U.N. General Assembly opened its 46th session, welcoming new members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North and South Korea, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
1997 - The Rock group U2 performed for an estimated 45,000 Muslims, Croats, Serbs and NATO peace-keeping troops. The band performed in a stadium built for Sarajevo’s 1984 Winter Olympics. Their sounds of rock music echoed through a valley that had known only the terrifying explosions of shells and the ring of snipers’ bullets for several years.
1998 - Shadrach, from Columbia Pictures, opened in U.S. theatres. Based on the short story by William Styron, it’s about a 99-year-old former slave (Shadrach) who wants to be buried on the plantation where he was born into slavery. Harvey Keitel, Andie Macdowell, John Franklin Sawyer, Scott Terra, Daniel Treat and Monica Bugajski star.
1998 - The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System approved the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group Inc. The $70-billion merger formed Citigroup, the largest financial services company in the U.S.
1998 - Actress Mary Frann, of TV’s Newhart, died in Beverly Hills, CA of heart failure. She was 55 years old. Frann played Bob Newhart’s wife, Joanna Loudon, co-owner of the little inn in Vermont.
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton vetoed the $792-billion GOP-proposed ten-year tax cut calling it, “too big, too bloated.”
2000 - Carl Rowan, prize-winning journalist, died at age 75. His books included Wait Till Next Year (biography of Jackie Robinson), Dream Makers, Dream Breakers, (biography of Thurgood Marshall), and The Coming Race War in America. Rowan’s autobiography was titled Breaking Barriers.
2000 - At the Sydney Olympics, Marion Jones won the women’s 100-meter final in 10.7 seconds; Maurice Greene won the men’s 100 in 9.87 seconds.
2001 - Thousands gathered at Yankee Stadium to offer prayers for the victims of the September attacks on the World Trade Center. At the memorial service, New York’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pledged, “Our skyline will rise again.”
2001 - Four coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Blue Creek Mine #5 in Brookwood, AL. Nine who rushed to their aid were killed by a second explosion. The mine is the deepest in North America at 2,140 feet below the surface.
2002 - Hurricane Isidore left two dead and 300,000 homeless in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and moved toward the U.S. Gulf coast.
2003 - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) introduced 64-bit computing for PC users. The first new chip was the AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, which ran at 2 GHz.
2004 - Antarctic researchers reported that the ice cap’s glaciers were melting twice as fast as in the 1990s and raising sea level.
2005 - Films debuting in the U.S.: Dear Wendy, starring Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Michael Angarano, Danso Gordon, Novella Nelson, Chris Owen, Alison Pill and Mark Webber; Dorian Blues, with Michael McMillian, Lea Coco, Charles Fletcher, Mo Quigley, Austin Basis, Ryan Kelly Berkowitz, Chris Dallman, Carl Dana, Leslie Elliard, Sian Heder and Cody Nickell; Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean and Amanda Brooks; Magnificent Desolution: Walking on the Moon 3D, with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, John Travolta, Gary Sinise, Bill Paxton, Barry Pepper, Peter Scolari, Brian Cranston, John Corbett, Scott Glenn, Rita Wilson and Kevin Pollack; and Roll Bounce, starring Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Mike Epps, Wesley Jonathan, Meagan Good and Nick Cannon.
2005 - A bus carrying elderly evacuees out of the path of Hurricane Rita caught fire on gridlocked Interstate highway 45, north of Houston. 24 people were killed.
2007 - Ken Burns’ 7-part, 15-hour opus The War began on PBS, which later said that 18.7 million viewers saw the airings of The War.
2008 - The Bush administration urgently pressed Congress for a $700-billion bailout of the financial industry; Democratic and Republican lawmakers vented their anger over the crisis that had pushed the U.S. economy to the brink.
2008 - California’s Governor Schwarzenegger signed a $144.5-billion spending plan. The state budget was a record 85 days overdue.
2009 - The Michael Moore documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, debuted in U.S. theatres.
2009 - Australia’s worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the heavily populated east coast in a cloud of red Outback grit. The storm left millions of people coughing and sputtering in the streets.
2009 - Iranian police warned shop owners about displaying female mannequins wearing underwear or showing off their curves as part of a government campaign against Western influence.
2009 - England’s top prosecutor announced new guidelines to decriminalize many forms of assisted suicide, saying most people who help close friends or family kill themselves would not be likely to face charges.
2010 - Great Britain opened the world’s largest offshore wind farm off its southeast coast, as part of the U.K.’s push to boost renewable energy.
2011 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Abduction, with Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver and Maria Bello; Dolphin Tale, starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson , Rus Blackwell , Nathan Gamble and Harry Connick Jr.; Killer Elite, with Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver, Maria Bello and Michael Nyqvist; Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Chris Pratt, Kathryn Morris and Tammy Blanchard; Mardi Gras: Spring Break, with Danneel Ackles, Nicholas D’Agosto, Arielle Kebbel, Carmen Electra, Dominique DuVernay and Regina Hall; @urFRENZ, featuring Gayla Goehl, Lily Holleman, Michael Robert Kelly and Najarra Townsend; A Bird of the Air, starring Rachel Nichols, Jackson Hurst, Anjanette Comer, Linda Emond, Buck Henryand Judith Ivey; Limelight, with Moby, Michael Alig, Peter Gatien, Michael Caruso, Sean Kirkham and Benjamin Brafman; Machine Gun Preacher, with Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon , Madeline Carroll and Kathy Baker; Carl Colby’s documentary, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby; Puncture, with Chris Evans, Michael Biehn, Vinessa Shaw, Austin Stowell, Brett Cullen and Kate Burton; Mark Landsman’s documntary Thunder Soul; and Weekend, with Tom Cullen and Chris New.
2011 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation under which Amazon.com dropped its attempts to organize a referendum to overturn a California-imposed online sales tax. In return, the state agreed to postpone collection of the tax for a year. Amazon said it would create 10,000 full-time jobs in the state and invest $500 million in a variety of facilities.
2013 - Thick smoke poured from the besieged Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, but officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages. Four huge explosions from military rocket-propelled grenades had collapsed three floors of the center. 67 people died in the four-day seige, including the four attackers. Some 175 people were wounded in the mass shooting.
2014 - At a U.N. meeting on climate control more than 150 countires set the first-ever deadline top end deforestation by 2030, but China, the world’s biggest polluter, India and Brazil refused to join.
2015 - Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and other top American and Chinese business leaders meeting in Seattle, WA. Xi vowed that his country would work to remove barriers to foreign investment and improve intellectual property protections.
2016 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Martin Sensmeier; the animated Storks, featuring the voices of Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Kelsey Grammer, Katie Crown, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Anton Starkman and Danny Trejo; Dirty 30, with Mamrie Hart, Adam Lustick and Joselyn Hughes; The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth and Sarah Snook; End of a Gun, with Alexandre Nguyen, Ovidiu Nicolescu and Claudiu Bleont; Goat, starring Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas and Gus Halper; and Total Frat Movie, with Tom Green, Nick Bateman and, Justin Deeley.
2016 - POTUS Obama vetoed a bill that allowed families of Sep 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for the kingdom’s alleged backing of the terrorists who attacked the World Trad Center. Obama warned of a host of unintended and severe consequences if the bill were enacted. Five days later, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly rejected Obama’s veto.
2016 - Five people were fatally shot in the Macy’s store in the Cascade Mall in Burlington, northern Washington state. Four women and one man were killed, including one who was trying to hide behind a cosmetics counter. A 20-year-old Washington state man, Arcan Cetin, later confessed to the murders but committed suicide in jail before he could be brought to trail. Cetin may have been motivated by the break-up of a relationship with a worker from that Macy’s store, but at the time the ex-girlfriend had not worked there in months and was living in another county. Authorities said that Cetin called out women’s names as he killed his victims.
2017 - Police in western India arrested popular spiritual guru Kaushlendra Prapannacharya Falahari Maharaja (70) for allegedly raping a 21-year-old woman in Rajashtan state. The woman said that the spiritual guru warned her against telling anyone about the assault, but that she decided to break her silence after another self-proclaimed guru, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was tried and sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping two followers in northern Haryana state.
2017 - Puerto Rico’s National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for people living along the Guajataca River in the northwest of the island, saying an earthen dam there was in danger of collapsing after Hurricane Maria’s torrential rain. The storm spread over mountainous terrain and washed homes down hillsides and destroyed roads and bridges. (Some 3,000 homes were destroyed.)
2018 - U.S. cable giant Comcast outbid Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox for Sky, the European TV operator. The move all but settled the titanic battle between the two media empires. Comcast offered £30.4 billion ($39.7 billion, 33.8 billion euros). Fox’s highest offer was £27.6 billion.
2019 - In northern California Pacific Gas & Electric cut electrical service to 24,000 customers in three counties in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The utility said power would remain off until weather conditions improved to lessen the wildfire threat.
2019 - Two dozen mainly European countries voiced concern at alleged torture, unlawful detentions and unfair trials of critics, including women activists and journalists, in Saudi Arabia. It was the second joint statement criticizing the kingdom announced at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in six months.
2020 - Johnson & Johnson began a huge final study to try to prove if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine could protect against the virus.
2020 - Mexico’s death toll due to the coronavirus rose to 74,949. Worldwide, some 972,000 people had been killed by the disease.
2021 - The U.S. Department of Education awarded its first funding to a Florida school district that had state funds withheld because it mandated that students wear masks. The federal move went against the governor’s ban on such mandates. In April 2022 a federal judge in Tampa struck down many mask requirements and the tit for tat mask moves between Florida and the U.S. continued...
2021 - Jubilant South African Airways (SAA) staff at the country’s biggest airport broke into song and dance as the airline took to the skies for the first time in a year. State-owned SAA’s longstanding financial woes and the COVID-19 pandemic halted all operations the previous September when it ran out of funds.
2021 - Don’t Worry, Darling opened in the U.S. The mystery thriller stars Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan and Kate Berlant.
2022 - Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man in Colorado who suffered a fatal heart attack while in police custody in 2019, died from “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint,” Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan said. The coroner’s office determined that paramedics had injected McClain with too much ketamine for his weight as police restrained him in a carotid hold. In 2021, a state grand jury indicted three police officers and two paramedics and they faced manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and other charges. That same year, the city of Aurora settled a civil lawsuit with McClain’s family for $15 million.
2022 - Former President Trump was “fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from gathering information from an expanding circle of close Trump aides about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election,” according to CNN. The court fight over privilege, which had not been previously reported and was under seal, had become a turning point for Trump’s post-presidency legal woes.
2022 - President Biden awarded British singing superstar Elton John with the National Humanities Medal. John was visibly shocked when the president presented him with the award -- after he had performed on the South Lawn. “On behalf of the American people, thank you. And I sincerely mean this, thank you for moving the soul of our nation,” said Biden. John was moved and hugged the president. John said: “I don’t know how to take a compliment very well, but it’s wonderful to be here among so many people who have helped my Aids foundation and my heroes, the ones that work day to day on the frontline, teachers, nurses, everybody who’s helped.” Inaugurated in 1997, the National Humanities Medal is presented annually to individuals, groups or institutions whose work has made a significant contribution to the humanities in the U.S. Twelve medals are awarded every year.
2023 - Former hockey player Nick Kerdiles died in a motorcycle crash in Nashville, TN. Apparently, the 29-year-old Kerdiles ran a stop sign in a residential area before hitting the side of an SUV around 3:30 a.m. Toxicology tests determined his blood alcohol content (BAC) was about 0.124, which was over the Tennessee legal limit of 0.08. Kerdiles was originally drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in 2012 and played three games for the club before being traded to the Winnipeg Jets. He eventually exited hockey in favor of a career in real estate.
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Birthdays on This Day September 23
1713 - Ferdinand VI
King of Spain [1746-1759]; died Aug 10, 17591800 - William Holmes McGuffy
educator, author: McGuffy Readers [122 million copies sold as of 1999]; 4th president of Ohio University; died May 4, 18731861 - Robert Bosch
industrialist, engineer and inventor of the spark plug and magneto for automobiles; founder of the Bosch multinational electronics group; died Feb 12, 19421889 - Walter Lippmann
journalist, political commentator; died Dec 14, 19741897 - Walter Pidgeon
actor: Mrs. Miniver, Funny Girl, Hit the Deck, How Green was My Valley, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; died Sep 25, 19841899 - Louise Nevelson
sculptor: Windows to the West, Tropical Tree III, Mirror-Shadow XI, Tropical Night Disc; died Apr 17, 19881920 - Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.)
actor: Will Roger’s Follies, Boy’s Town, Captains Courageous, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Human Comedy, The Black Stallion, Babes in Arms, Babes on Broadway, Andy Hardy series; died Apr 6, 20141926 - John (William) Coltrane
composer, musician: tenor & soprano sax: Stablemates, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Greensleeves, Chim Chim Cheree, In a Sentimental Mood, LPs: Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, My Favorite Things; died July 17, 19671926 - Henry Silva
actor: The Bravados, Green Mansions, Oceans Eleven, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Johnny Cool, The Hills Run Red, Sharky’s Machine, Code of Silence, Amazon Women on the Moon, Above the Law, Dick Tracy, The End of Violence; died Sep 14, 20221930 - Colin Blakely
actor: Murder on the Orient Express, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Dogs of War, Equus; died May 7, 19871930 - Ray Charles (Robinson)
‘The Genius’: Grammy Award-winning singer: Georgia on My Mind [1960], Let the Good Times Roll [1960], Genius of Ray Charles [1960], Hit the Road Jack [1961], I Can’t Stop Loving You [1962], Busted [1963], Crying Time [1966], Living for the City [1975], Lifetime Achievement Award of 1986, I’ll be Good to You [w/Chaka Khan - 1990]; What’d I Say, One Mint Julep, Take These Chains from My Heart, You Don’t Know Me; actor: The Blues Brothers, Ballad in Blue, Limit Up; died June 10, 20041931 - Pat Suzuki
actress: Skullduggery, Mr. T. and Tina; Broadway: Flower Drum Song; singer1935 - Les McCann
musician, singer: Compared to What, Bang, Bang!, Cold Duck1938 - Tom Lester
actor: Green Acres, Gordy, Benji, The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend, Return to Green Acres; died Apr 20, 20201938 - Romy Schneider (Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty)
actress: What’s New Pussycat?, Bloodline, Death Watch, La Passante; died May 29, 19821941 - Bob Vogel
football: Baltimore Colts tackle: Super Bowl III, V1942 - Jim (James Phillip) Rooker
baseball: pitcher: Detroit Tigers, KC Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979]1942 - Woody (William Frederick) Woodward
baseball: Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds1943 - Steve Boone
musician: bass, singer: group: The Lovin’ Spoonful: Do You Believe in Magic, You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice, Daydream, Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind, Summer in the City, Rain on the Roof, Nashville Cats, Darling Be Home Soon1943 - Julio Iglesias
singer: To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before [w/Willie Nelson]; Guinness Book of Records: sales of more than 100 million copies of 60 LPs in five languages; soccer: professional goalie [Spain]1943 - Marty Schottenheimer
football: Univ of Pittsburgh; NFL: Buffalo Bills; coach: Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers; holds the record for most wins of any NFL coach [since 1966] to never coach a team in a Super Bowl; died Feb 8, 20211943 - Óscar (Jose) Zamora
baseball: pitcher: Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros; died Jul 2, 20211945 - Paul Petersen
actor: The Donna Reed Show, Mickey Mouse Club; singer: My Dad; paperback writer: It’s a Wonderful Life1947 - Caroline Lagerfelt
actress: Nash Bridges, Minority Report, The Lake, Father of the Bride Part II, Bye Bye, Love, Home at Last, Iron Eagle1947 - Mary Kay Place
Emmy Award-winning actress: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman [1976-1977]; Forever Fernwood, The Big Chill; singer: Baby Boy1947 - Neal Smith
musician: drums: group: Alice Cooper: Poison, Dead Babies, I’m Eighteen, Is It My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover1949 - Bruce Springsteen
‘The Boss’: singer: group: E-Street Band: Born in the U.S.A., Born to Run, Hungry Heart, Dancing in the Dark, Cover Me, I’m on Fire, Glory Days, My Hometown, War; songwriter: Blinded by the Light [Manfred Mann’s Earth Band], Fire [The Pointer Sisters]; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-99]1956 - June Forester
singer: group: The Forester Sisters: I Fell In Love Again Last Night, [That’s What You Do] When You’re in Love, Letter Home, Just in Case, Don’t You, Sincerely, [I'd Choose] You Again, Leave It Alone, Lonely Alone1958 - Marvin Lewis
football: coach: NFL: linebackers coach: Pittsburgh Steelers [1992–1995]; defensive coordinator: Baltimore Ravens [1996–2001]: Super Bowl XXXV Champs [2001]; defensive coordinator: Washington Redskins [2002-2003]; head coach: Cincinnati Bengals [2003-2018]1958 - Larry Mize
golf champ: Masters [1987]1959 - Jason Alexander
actor: Seinfeld, Everything’s Relative, E/R, Duckman, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, For Better or Worse, Dunston Checks In, Bye, Bye Birdy, The Paper, North, Blankman, Coneheads, Pretty Woman, Jacob’s Ladder, The Mosquito Coast, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Burning, Bob Patterson1959 - Elizabeth Peña
actress: Shannon’s Deal, Tough Cookies, I Married Dora, Jacob’s Ladder, Lone Star, The Invaders, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Fugitive Among Us, La Bamba, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, They All Laughed, Times Square, El Super; died Oct 14, 20141961 - Chi McBride
actor: Hawaii Five-0 [2013], Boston Public, Pushing Daisies, Human Target, Golden Boy, Mercury Rising, The Terminal, The John Larroquette Show, House, The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, Killer Instinct, Cradle 2 the Grave, The Distinguished Gentleman, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Frighteners, Narc, The Terminal, I, Robot, Roll Bounce, Annapolis, Hoodlum, Undercover Brother, Let’s Go to Prison, The Brothers Solomon1962 - John Harbaugh
football: head coach: Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII1966 - LisaRaye (Lisa Ray McCoy)
actress: Gang of Roses, Civil Brand, Date from Hell, Rhapsody, The Wood, The Players Club, Reasons1968 - Sydnee Steele
actress [1971-2005]: X-rated films: Nasty Girls 15, Dirty Dancers 12, Taboo 17, Phoenix Rising, Booty Duty 3, Raw Footage, Car Wash Angels 2, Babes Illustrated: Garage Girls, Sorority House Slaves1969 - Donald Audette
hockey [right wing]: Buffalo Sabres, LA Kings, Atlanta Thrashers, Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Florida Panthers1969 - Jeff Cirillo
baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres1970 - Ani DiFranco
musician: guitar; poet, songwriter, singer: Evolve, Living in Clip, Dilate, Not a Pretty Girl, Little Plastic Castle, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, Out of Range, Past Didn’t Go Anywhere1972 - Jermaine Dupri
music producer, songwriter, and rapper [JD]: worked with and produced for Kris Kross, Mariah Carey, Usher, Jay-Z, Nelly, Monica, Migos, Da Brat, Xscape, Janet Jackson, TLC, Aretha Franklin, Ludacris, Alicia Keys, Jagged Edge, Bow Wow; created TV show The Rap Game with Queen Latifah1975 - Kip Pardue
actor: Remember the Titans, Driven, The Rules of Attraction, Thirteen, Answer This!, ER1978 - Anthony Mackie
actor: Broadway: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier’s Play, Rux’s Talk; film: Brother to Brother, The Hurt Locker, Night Catches Us, The Adjustment Bureau, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter1979 - Ricky Davis
basketball [forward, guard]: Univ of Iowa; NBA: Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves1980 - Aubrey Dollar
actress: Point Pleasant, Women’s Murder Club, Bobbing for Apples, The Perfect You, Students vs. School Violence, Murderous Intent, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice1982 - Shyla Stylez
actress [2001-2012]: X-rated films: Slap Happy, Not Airplane XXX: Flight Attendants, Wet Dreams Cum True, Accidental Hooker, Gangbang Auditions, Pretty Filthy, Screaming Orgasms, Operation: Tropical Stormy1984 - Matt Kemp
baseball [center field]: drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2003; in 2011: led the National League in runs scored [115], total bases [353], OPS+ [171], WAR [10.0], home runs [39], runs batted in [115]1984 - Anneliese van der Pol
actress: That’s So Raven, Bratz: The Movie, Cats Dancing on Jupiter; Broadway: The Heiress, Emma, The Importance of Being Earnest [2013], Thoroughly Modern Millie []2014, A Taste of Things to Come1985 - Chris Johnson
pro football [RB]: East Carolina Univ; NFL: Tennessee Titans [2008-2013]; New York Jets [2014]; Arizona Cardinals [2015–2017]1985 - Hasan Minhaj
actor, comedian: The Daily Show, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj1986 - Kaylee DeFer
actress: The War at Home, Underclassman, Flicka, The Deerings, The Mountain1987 - Skylar Astin
actor: So Help Me Todd, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 2, Hamlet 2, Taking Woodstock, Cavemen, 21 & Over; Broadway: Spring Awakening1988 - Juan Martín del Potro
Argentinian tennis champ: 2009 U.S. Open singles title; 2012 Olympic bronze medal in singles; 2016 Olympic silver medal; 2018 Indian Wells; led Argentina to the 2016 Davis Cup title)1989 - Brandon Jennings
basketball [point guard]: NBA: Milwaukee Bucks [2009-2013]; Detroit Pistons [2013-2016]; Orlando Magic [2016-2017]; Washington Wizards [2017]
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Hit Music on This Day September 23
1948A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic (facts) - Doris Day
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