September 24
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1869 - Black Friday: The price of gold rose to panic-causing heights. Thousands of businessmen were ruined in the Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James ‘Jubilee Jim’ Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.1906 - Devil’s Tower, in northeastern Wyoming, was established as a national monument; the first national monument in the U.S.
1915 - Douglas Fairbanks starred in The Lamb. It was his first film and was shown at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York City.
1934 - Babe Ruth bid farewell to the New York Yankees. It was the Babe’s last game in Yankee Stadium and for the team. The Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
1938 - Tennis champion Don Budge won the U.S. Tennis Open at Forest Hills, NY. The win made Budge the first player to win all four major titles (he also had won the Australian Open, the French Open and the British Open).
1940 - Flinging a Wing Ding was recorded by Bob Chester. We wonder whether that was a chicken wing-ding he was flinging...
1942 - Glenn Miller ended his Moonlight Serenade series on CBS radio. It was time for Miller to go to war. The show had aired three times a week for Chesterfield Cigarettes.
1955 - Millions of Americans tuned in to watch Judy Garland make her TV debut on the Ford Star Jubilee. The CBS show received the highest television ratings to that time.
1955 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO. He was hospitalized for three weeks.
1957 - President Eisenhower ordered U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools.
1960 - The USS Enterprise, the U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1961 - Bullwinkle J. Moose and his friend, Rocket J. (Rocky) Squirrel, were seen in prime time for the first time on NBC-TV. The Sunday night cartoon (7-7:30 p.m.) was called The Bullwinkle Show. Originally Bullwinkle and Rocky appeared on ABC in a weekday afternoon series, Rocky and His Friends.
1964 - The Munsters premiered on CBS-TV. The show featured Frankenstein-look-alike Herman Munster (played by Fred Gwynne), Lily Munster (Yvonne DeCarlo), Edward ‘Eddie’ Wolfgang Munster (Butch Patrick), all-American beautiful blonde Marilyn Munster (Pat Priest & Debbie Watson), and Grandpa (played by Al Lewis). The Munster fun ran for seventy episodes -- through Sep 1, 1966.
1966 - Jimmy Hendrix changed the spelling of his name to Jimi.
1968 - The Vogues received a gold record for Turn Around Look at Me on the Reprise label.
1968 - The longest-running newsmagazine on television began on CBS-TV. 60 Minutes started on this, a Tuesday, night in 1968. During its first three years on the tube, 60 Minutes ran on an alternate-week schedule with CBS News Hour, moving to Sundays (all by itself) in early 1972. 60 Minutes debuted with two correspondents: Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner.
1970 - The Soviet Luna 16 returned to earth (in the Soviet Union), completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.
1975 - Britons Dougal Haston and Doug Scott became the first to climb Mount Everest by the southwest face.
1976 - The Broadway revival of Oh! Calcutta! opened on this day. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, sparked considerable controversy, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on “O quel cul t’as!”, French for “What an arse you have!” The revival ran for 5,959 performances (closing Aug 06, 1989), making Oh! Calcutta! the longest-running revue in Broadway history at the time.
1977 - Get out the polyester cruisewear! The Love Boat set sail -- on ABC-TV. Captain Stubing (Gavin MacLeod); Cruise Director, Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes); Dr. Adam Bricker (Bernie Kopell); Bartender, Isaac Washington (Ted Lange); and Yeoman-Purser, Burl ‘Gopher’ Smith (Fred Grandy) took to the calm seas each week. The show’s theme, The Love Boat, written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox, was sung by Jack Jones. The voice of Ernie Anderson, will always be remembered for his intros announcing, “The Luuuuuve Boat.”
1979 - CompuServe Information System began operation. It was the world’s first public computer information service.
1988 - The Rev. Barbara C. Harris of Philadelphia was elected Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts. She was the first woman to be elected a bishop of the Episcopal Church.
1988 - Guns N’Roses Appetite for Destruction reached #1 on the Billboard album chart. The tracks: Welcome to the Jungle, It’s So Easy, NighTrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, My Michelle, Think About You, Sweet Child O’ Mine, You’re Crazy, Anything Goes, Rocket Queen.
1988 - Seoul Summer Olympics news: 1) Carl Lewis ran the fastest 100 meters of his life, 9.92 seconds, but was beaten by Canadian Ben Johnson’s 9.79. “I ran the best I could, and I'm pleased with the race.” Lewis said. (Lewis did become the recipient of the that gold medal when Johnson tested positive for steroids, a banned substance for Olympic athletes.) 2) Jackie Joyner-Kersee amassed a world-record score (7,291) in the heptathlon (seven different track-and-field events for women).
1991 - Theodor Seuss Geisel died at the age of 87. The children’s author was better known as Dr. Seuss, the writer of classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
1995 - Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 - The world’s major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. The United States was represented at the signing ceremony at the United Nations by President Bill Clinton.
1997 - Garth Brooks was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association.
1998 - Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin introduced the new $20 note at the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington DC. Two billion dollars-worth of harder-to-counterfeit bills went into circulation.
1999 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres this day included: Double Jeopardy, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd and Bruce Greenwood; Guinevere, with Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Gina Gershon; Jakob the Liar, starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, and Bob Balaban; and Mumford, with Jane Adams, Ted Danson and Hope Davis.
2000 - Citizens of the Yugoslav federation (Serbia and Montenegro) voted directly for president for the first time. Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled President Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) announced a freeze on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism. The list included Islamic militant Osama bin Laden.
2001 - The U.S. agreed to pay $582 million in overdue dues to the United Nations.
2002 - The annual MacArthur Fellowship awards, known as ‘genius grants’, were given to 24 men and women. Two of the $500,000 recipients included David B. Goldstein, energy specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco (for his work on energy-efficient refrigerators), and Sendhil Mullainathan professor of economics (who uses insights from psychology and sociology to better understand economic behavior and the functioning of markets).
2003 - Anthony Hopkins got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hopkins won an Academy Award for playing the cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins has acted in some 100 films, including The Lion in Winter, QB VII, A Bridge Too Far, The Elephant Man, The Bounty, Howards End, Amistad, The Mask of Zorro, and The Devil and Daniel Webster.
2003 - Herb Gardner, Tony-winning playwright (A Thousand Clowns, Rappaport), died in New York. He was 68 years old.
2004 - These films opened in the U.S.: A Dirty Shame, starring Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Patricia Hearst, Mink Stole, Susan Allenback, Jeffrey Auerbach, Lance Baldwin, Paul DeBoy, Mary Vivian Pierce and Wes Johnson; First Daughter, with Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton, Amerie Rogers, Margaret Colin and Lela Rochon Fuqua; and The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West.
2004 - French author Francoise Sagan died at 69 years of age. Sagan, who gained fame with her first novel Bonjour Tristesse in 1954 at the age of 18, courted controversy throughout her life. French President Jacques Chirac said, “With her death, France loses one of its most brilliant and sensitive writers - an eminent figure of our literary life.”
2005 - Human Rights Watch reported that whistleblowers had accused U.S. troops of routinely torturing Iraqi prisoners and declining to investigate complaints.
2006 - A speeding bus overturned on a curving mountain road near Quito, Ecuador killing 47 people, including 17 children.
2007 - Hungarian officials said that in an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, they would allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur’s permit, a move to generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.
2007 - The annual $500,00 ‘genius grant’ MacArthur grants were given to 24 men and women. The so-called ‘genius grant’ is given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who “show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.”
2008 - Japan’s new prime minister, Taro Aso, flamboyant conservative of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), took over, pledging to work for a ‘cheerful’ nation by reviving an economy in the doldrums.
2009 - Two armed robbers in Belgium made off with a $1.1 million painting by Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte, Olympia (1948), in a morning heist at a small museum in Brussels.
2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a 2-day meeting of the G20 as it opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2010 - New films showing in the U.S.: Enter the Void, starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Emily Alyn Lind and Jesse Kuhn; Friction, with Ernest Thompson, Amy Mathison, August Thompson and Jeremy Mathison; Howl, starring James Franco, Jon Hamm, Jeff Daniels, Mary-Louise Parker and David Strathairn; Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, with Emilie de Ravin, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, starring Carey Mulligan, Shia LaBeouf, Charlie Sheen, Josh Brolin and Michael Douglas; and You Again, with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Betty White, Kristin Chenoweth and Jamie Lee Curtis.
2010 - Three bank robbers in Coral Gables, Florida strapped a bomb to a bank teller and ordered him to steal as much money as possible while they held his father as hostage. After the teller took an undisclosed amount of cash, the robbers took off in his car and the manager called in the police.
2010 - Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Internet social network Facebook, announced his $100-million donation to the Newark, NJ public schools. The donation came just before the opening of a movie about him, The Social Network.
2011 - Thousands of people stripped to their underwear and ran through Salt Lake City in protest of what they called the ‘uptight’ laws of Utah. Guiness World Records said 2,270 people participated, breaking the previous record of 550 set in 2010 in Great Britain.
2012 - An Israeli court spared former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (66) a prison term for breach of trust -- receiving bribes while serving as Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor from 2003 to 2004. Olmert was ordered to pay an $19,170 fine and serve a one year suspended sentence.
2013 - California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill to create the first state-wide early-warning system to alert residents to dangerous earthquakes. The system was expected to cost about $80 million to build and was to run for five years.
2014 - A German federal court ruled that church-run institutions were within their rights to refuse to allow Muslim employees to wear headscarves at work.
2015 - A Ride the Duck amphibious tour vehicle and a charter bus carrying foreign college students collided on a bridge north of downtown, Seattle, killing 4 foreign students.
2015 - Pope Francis issued a call to action on behalf of immigrants, urging U.S. lawmakers in Washington, DC to embrace “the stranger in our midst.” Pope Francis became the first pontiff in history to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
2016 - Tens of thousands of people marched through México City in opposition to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s push for same-sex marriage. “We are not against anybody’s (sexual) identity,” said Abraham Ledesma, an evangelical pastor who travelled from the border city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas. “What we are against is the government imposition ... of trying to impose gender ideology in education. As religious leaders, we don’t want to be forced to marry same-sex couples and call it marriage.” In 2016, the México Supreme Court ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. “Legally, the question is basically settled,” says Lester Feder, who covers LGBT issues for Buzzfeed. “But there’s an implementation problem and that is what has brought this to a broader conflict.”
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama opened National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington, DC. It had been approved by President George W. Bush in 2003. Obama said, “African American history is not somehow separate than the American story. It is not the underside of the American story. It is central to the American story.” Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), had to take long pauses to contain his emotion. “There were some who said it couldn’t happen, who said ‘you can’t do it,’ but we did it,” Lewis said. “This place is more than a building. It is a dream come true.”
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump’s ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries expired, 90 days after it went into effect. But on this day Trump signed a proclamation imposing new restrictions on travelers from a handful of countries, including five that were covered by his expiring travel ban.
2017 - Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in office but following an election that saw the rise of smaller parties – most notably the far right – her fourth term looked to be an eventful one in ways she would not wish for. The rightwing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) poached one million votes from Merkel’s conservatives, leaving her without an obvious coalition.
2018 - A U.S. judge in Billings, MT restored protections to grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains. And he blocked the first hunts in the lower 48 states planned in almost three decades, saying he needed more time to consider if federal protections for the animals should be restored.
2018 - A federal judge in Texas sentenced John Portillo (59), the national vice-president of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization, to two consecutive life terms -- and another 20 years -- for directing a violent racketeering and drug trafficking enterprise.
2019 - Los Angeles business executive Devin Sloane was sentenced in Boston to four months in prison. Sloane had paid $250,000 to get his son admitted to USC as a fake water polo recruit. He was the second parent sentenced in the college admissions scandal. (Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman was the first.)
2019 - Democrats launched a formal U.S. House impeachment inquiry into POTUS Donald Trump. The inquiry focused on Trump’s abuse of his presidential powers as he sought help from Ukraine to undermine Democratic foe, former V.P. Joe Biden.
2019 - Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at POTUS Donald Trump’s attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump’s taunting remark. Thunberg had delivered an impassioned speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit calling out world leaders for not responding to the climate crisis with more urgency. Trump shared video of Thunberg’s speech on Twitter, and above it wrote, sarcastically, that “[s]he seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” Thunberg shot back, changing her Twitter biography to: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.” A Reuters video of Thunberg glaring at Trump as he entered the United Nations in New York went viral on social media. Trump had questioned climate science and has challenged every major U.S. regulation aimed at combating climate change.
2020 - Three states reported record one-day increases in new COVID-19 cases. Montana reported 330 new coronavirus cases, South Dakota recorded 463 new cases. Utah’s governor said that state set a one-day record with 1,198 new cases.
2020 - Four former senior eBay employees agreed to plead guilty to cyberstalking charges. The quartet had participated in an intimidation campaign aimed at silencing a Massachusetts couple who had published a newsletter criticizing eBay.
2021 - Movies released in the U.S. (theatres and virtual) this day included: Dear Evan Hansen, starring Ben Platt, Julianne Moore and Kaitlyn Dever; Apache Junction, with Thomas Jane, Scout Taylor-Compton and Stuart Townsend; and Solitary, starring Johnny Sachon, Lottie Tolhurst and Michael Condron.
2021 - At their first in-person summit, leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia met at the White House and vowed to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region “undaunted by coercion (from China).”
2021 - A review of voting results in Arizona by Trump’s Republican Party reaffirmed that, you guessed it, Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden in Maricopa county.
2021 - A federal judge ruled that a Cincinnati-area healthcare provider could require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their job. The ruling was the first of its kind for a private employer in the U.S.
2022 - The U.S. political parties were neck and neck heading into the final weeks of midterm election campaigns. Pundits predicted control of Congress to shift from Democrats toward Republicans, but that majority opinion was growing very slim, with 47 percent of registered voters saying they planned to vote for a Republican House candidate and 46 percent saying they would vote for a Democrat.
2022 - President Biden warned of threats to democracy from MAGA Republican extremism. This, in a prime-time address in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. We do no favor to pretend otherwise,” Biden declared. “We have to be honest with each other and ourselves: Too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal.”
2023 - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a space rock from the asteroid Bennu successfully returned to earth. The spacecraft released a capsule with grains of Bennu over Earth’s atmosphere. The capsule then parachuted to the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. And, according to later analysis, the Bennu sample retrieved by OSIRIS-REx did suggest that asteroids like Bennu collided with Earth billions of years ago, delivering water and other potential building blocks of life. The sample showed evidence of a surprisingly water-rich past and contained compounds like carbon and clay minerals that indicate a previous presence of liquid water; scientists believe this could be how Earth received some of its early water and organic materials.
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Birthdays on This Day September 24
1755 - John Marshall
attorney: 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; died July 6, 18351896 - F. (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
writer: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night; died Dec 21, 19401910 - Del Courtney
bandleader: popularized big band swing in 1930s: recorded regularly and packed hotel ballrooms with his simple and sweet melodies: An Apple for the Teacher, Monstro the Whale, The Singing Hill, Hawaiian War Chant; radio/TV show host; DJ: KSFO and radio staton owner: KSOL (San Francisco); Oakland Raiders Director of Administration [19 years] and team bandleader [1970s]; autobiography: Hey! The Band's Too Loud [2005]; died Feb 11, 20061912 - Don Porter
actor: Our Miss Brooks, The Candidate, Bachelor in Paradise; died Feb 11, 19971915 - Larry Gates
actor: Backstairs at the White House, Death of a Gunfighter, The Sand Pebbles, Toys in the Attic; died Dec 12, 19961918 - Audra Lindley
actress: Three’s Company, The Ropers, Bridget Loves Bernie, Lee Grant, Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Troop Beverly Hills, Tales from the Crypt, Friends, Cybill; died Oct 16, 19971921 - Jim McKay (McManus)
Emmy Award-winning TV sports commentator: Coverage of the Munich Olympic Tragedy: ABC Special [1972]; sportscaster: ABC’s Wide World of Sports; newspaper writer: The Baltimore Sun; died Jun 7, 20081924 - Sheila MacRae (Stephens)
actress, comedienne: The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show; author: Mother of the Year; wife of singer, actor Gordon MacRae; died Mar 6, 20141930 - John Young
astronaut: Commander of 1972 Apollo 16 mission; ninth person to walk on the Moon; first person to make six space flights; died Jan 5, 20181931 - Anthony Newley
actor: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Roar of the Grease Paint, Oliver Twist, No Time to Die; singer: What Kind of Fool Am I?; died Apr 14, 19991936 - Jim (James Maury) Henson
Muppeteer; died May 16, 1990
1940 - Barbara Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend’s Back; died Jul 10, 20211941 - John Mackey
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts: Super Bowl V; San Diego Chargers; died Jul 6, 20111941 - Linda McCartney (Eastman)
photographer: Rolling Stone magazine; singer: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs [w/husband Paul McCartney]; died Apr 17, 19981942 - Phyllis ‘Jiggs’ Allbut
singer: group: The Angels: My Boyfriend's Back, I Adore Him, Thank You and Good Night1942 - Gerry Marsden
singer: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying, I’m the One, Ferry Cross the Mersey1946 - ‘Mean’ Joe (Charles) Greene
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle with ‘The Steel Curtain’: two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year; Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; defensive line coach: Pittsburgh Steelers1948 - Gordon Clapp
actor: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, The Sure Hand of God, Sunshine State, Rules of Engagement, Rage: Carrie 2, In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis1948 - Phil Hartman
actor, comedian: Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Dennis the Menace, Amazon Women on the Moon, Loaded Weapon 1, Coneheads, Stuart Saves His Family, Jingle All the Way; shot to death by his wife, Brynn, May 28, 19981948 - Eric (Thane) Soderholm
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, NY Yankees1949 - Anson Williams
actor: Happy Days, I Married a Centerfold, Lisa, Bright and Dark1951 - Terry Metcalf
football: Toronto Argonauts, SL Cardinals, Washington Redskins1952 - Rod (Rodney Joe) Gilbreath
baseball: Atlanta Braves1956 - Hubie (Hubert) Brooks
baseball: NY Mets, Montreal Expos [all-star: 1986, 1987], LA Dodgers, California Angels, KC Royals1959 - Steve Whitmire
voice [since Jim Henson died in 1990] of Kermit the Frog, Rizzo the Rat, Beaker, Bean Bunny, Doozer; shares same birthday as Jim Henson [see Muppeteer Day above]1962 - Nia Vardalos
actress: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, McKenna Shoots for the Stars, Connie and Carla, Team Knight Rider, Men Seeking Women1964 - Adam Alexi-Malle
musician, singer; actor: Broadway: Titanic [musical], The Threepenny Opera, Goose-Pimples, Artificial Intelligence: AI, The Preacher’s Wife; films: Bowfinger, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Hidalgo, Celebrity, Failure to Launch; TV: The Sopranos, The West Wing, Alias, 241964 - Joel Lawrence
actor [1990-2011]: X-rated films: Gangbanger’s Ball, Farmer’s Daughters Do Vegas, Bizarre Peroxide Tales, Brainwash 2: The Rescue, Brittney Skye AKA Filthy Whore, Beverly Hills 9021-Ho!1964 - Rafael Palmeiro
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Texas Ranger, Baltimore Orioles1966 - Bernard Gilkey
baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers1971 - Kevin Millar
baseball: Florida Marlins [1998–2002] Boston Red Sox [2003–2005]: 2004 World Series champs; Baltimore Orioles [2006–2008]; Toronto Blue Jays [2009])1973 - Jesse Garcia
baseball [second base]: Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres1973 - Eddie George
football [running back]: Ohio State Univ; NFL: Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys
1974 - John McDonald
baseball [shortstop]: Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays1974 - Jackie Sandler
actress: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Hotel Transylvania, Grown Ups 2; wife of actor, comedian Adam Sandler1976 - Ian Bohen
actor: Mad Men, Teen Wolf, Any Day Now, Vile, The Dark Knight Rises, 5 Souls1976 - Ben Broussard
baseball [first base]: Cleveland Indians1979 - Justin Bruening
actor: Sweet Magnolias, All My Children, Knight Rider1979 - Katja Kassin
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Assume the Position, Camp Cuddly Pines Power Tool Massacre, Uranus or Bust, Motel Voyeur, Group Sex Junkies1982 - Paul Hamm
World/Olympic gymnast (U.S.): won gold medal in all-around competition at 2004 Athens Summer Games; twin brother is fellow gymnast Morgan Hamm1982 - Erik Stocklin
actor: Haters Back Off, Stalker, Mistresses, The Bad Guys, High Voltage1983 - Randy Foye
basketball: Villanova Univ; NBA: Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz; founded Randy Foye Foundation1985 - Jessica Lucas
actress: Melrose Place, Cult, Friends with Benefits, Edgemont, She’s the Man, Cloverfield, Evil Dead, Pompeii1987 - Spencer Treat Clark
actor: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Gladiator, Unbreakable, Mystic River, The Last House on the Left, Much Ado About Nothing, Glass, Animal Kingdom1993 - Ben Platt
actor: Broadway: Tony Award-winning Best Actor: Dear Evan Hansen; The Book of Mormon; Daytime Emmy-winner: You Will Be Found from Dear Evan Hansen [performed on The Today Show]; Parade [musical]
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Hit Music on This Day September 24
1949You’re Breaking My Heart (facts) - Vic Damone
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk (facts) - Perry Como
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