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1892 - The ‘March King’ was introduced to the general public. John Philip Sousa and his band played the Liberty Bell March in Plainfield, New Jersey.1934 - The British liner Queen Mary was launched from Clydebank, Scotland. The Queen Mary went on to break the Atlantic crossing record four times. King George V gave this oration. “May her life among great waters spread friendship among the nations.” In 1967, the Queen Mary sailed from Southampton, England, to her new permanent home in Long Beach, California.
1937 - Bessie Smith, known as the Empress of the Blues, died in a car crash on Highway 61 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. She was 43 years old.
1943 - Nazi officials demanded of Jewish leaders in Rome 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of gold within 36 hours. Otherwise, they would send two hundred Roman Jews to the concentration camps. Pope Pius XII offered to loan the Jewish community 15 kg of gold with interest and with repayment due within four years after the war. Rome’s Jews and citizens came up with sufficient gold to make the Pope’s offer needless.
1950 - United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans.
1955 - Debbie Reynolds married Eddie Fisher The actress and singing idol made it through four tempestuous years of marriage.
1957 - West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. The musical ran for 732 performances. The loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet produced several hit songs, including Maria and Tonight.
1960 - The first of the presidential debates between hopefuls Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy took place. The debate, moderated by Howard K. Smith, reached more than 69 million people via TV and another 17 million on radio.
1962 - “Come and listen to the story ’bout a man named Jed...” The Beverly Hillbillies aired on CBS-TV. U.S. audiences were enchanted with Jed, Ellie Mae, Granny, Jethro, Miss Jane and that banker feller. Enchanted, as in a trance, in fact, for 216 shows. Bluegrass stars Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had the honor of composing and recording the theme song and hit record, The Ballad of Jed Clampett.
1964 - Gilligan’s Island began its 98-show run on CBS. The TV show starred Bob Denver in the title role, Jim Backus as Mr. Howell, Natalie Schafer as Lovey Howell, Alan Hale as the Skipper, Russell Johnson as the Professor and Dawn Wells and Tina Louise as Mary Ann and Ginger, respectively.
1969 - The Beatles walked the road toward a hit LP for the last time, as Abbey Road was released in London. The 13th and last album for the ‘fab four’ zoomed quickly to the #1 spot on the charts and stayed there for 11 weeks.
1973 - Italian actress Anna Magnani died at 64 years of age. Magnani won an Academy Award for The Rose Tattoo in 1955.
1977 - Entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker started his Skytrain service of cut-rate flights to the U.S. from London Gatwick Airport.
1978 - Yankee Stadium locker rooms became “officially heterosexual” on this day as New York District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley ruled that women sportswriters cannot be banned from (men’s) locker rooms.
1980 - The Cuban government closed Mariel Harbor to end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
1981 - The Boeing 767 made its maiden flight in Everett, WA. The 767 was the “narrowest widebody” in service.
1983 - The longest winning streak in sports -- 132 years -- was broken. It was the America’s Cup race and the United States team expected to maintain their title; one they were defending for the 25th time. Challenger Australia II won!
1984 - History was made at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Neil Shicoff, lead tenor in the The Tales of Hoffmann, was unable to perform due to illness. His understudy, a chap named William Lewis, was a bit under the weather as well, and his voice began to falter during the performance. So, Kenneth Riegel was called in to sing the part from the orchestra pit while Mr. Lewis lip-synced the part on stage.
1984 - Liz Taylor starred in the season opener of the TV soap, Hotel. Despite incredibly biting bits from John Belushi on NBC’s Saturday Night Live regarding her plumpness at the time, viewers were quite amazed when Ms. Taylor appeared in a gown -- with a 24-inch waistline. Definitely no more, “I followed Liz Taylor to McDonald’s to watch the numbers change,” from Joan Rivers.
1985 - Shamu was born on this day at Sea World in Orlando, Florida. She was the first killer whale to be born in captivity and survive.
1986 - Dallas, on CBS-TV, smashed NBC’s Miami Vice in the overnight ratings. The episode, from Southfork Ranch, had Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) returning from the dead -- in the shower, no less! Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) was a bit perplexed. So were the viewers. Somebody had stayed up very, very late writing this episode.
1987 - Whitney Houston’s fifth consecutive #1 U.S. single hit the top. Didn’t We Almost Have It All was a cut from her LP, Whitney, which was number one on the album charts from June 27 to Sep 11 that year.
1990 - The Motion Picture Association of America created the NC-17 (No one 17 and under admitted) rating, designed to bar young moviegoers from certain films -- without the commercial stigma of the old X rating.
1991 - A group of scientists, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside Biosphere 2, a sealed structure in Oracle, AZ. They had planned to have no contact with the outside world; to grow their own food and live peacefully together as future pioneers in a harsh and alien world. Unfortunately, the outside world had to intervene a few times; to get rid of an ant invasion, to pump in oxygen, to tend to a health emergencies, to bring in forgotten necessities like makeup. The scientific team managed to last out the term, but they were half-crazy and half-starved when U.S. marshals led them out two years later.
1993 - Eight people emerged from the glass dome of Biosphere Two in the Arizona desert after being sealed inside for two years in an experiment dogged by setbacks and controversy.
1995 - George magazine premiered. It was published by John F. Kennedy Jr.
1996 - U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after 188 days (as a board engineer) in orbit on the Russian space station Mir; longer than any other American and a record for a woman.
1997 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The Assignment, starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley; The Edge, with Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau and L.Q. Jones; Soul Food, starring Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Brandon Hammond and Irma P. Hall; and The Peacemaker, with George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iures and Alexander Baluev.
1998 - Betty Carter, Grammy-winning jazz singer, died of pancreatic cancer in New York. She was 69 years old.
1998 - America’s first march on cancer was held on the National Mall in Washington.
1999 - The U.S. won its first Ryder Cup since 1993 after trailing the European team 10-to-6 going into the final round. American players, along with caddies, officials and wives, stormed the green to congratulate Justin Leonard for his 45-foot putt that all but won the tournament.
2000 - Slobodan Milosevic conceded losing the presidential elections but called for a runoff election, saying Vojislav Kostunica had won only 48% vs. 40% for Milosevic. The move prompted mass protests leading to Milosevic’s ouster.
2000 - Actor Richard Mulligan died at the age of 67. Mulligan won an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Campbell in the offbeat comedy series Soap (1977). He won a second Emmy in 1988 for playing Dr. Harry Weston in the Empty Nest TV series.
2001 - The abandoned U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-Amercian protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC on September 11.
2001 - Hundreds of people started filing for death certificates for family members still missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City. At the time more than 6,300 people were considered to be missing.
2002 - 1,863 passengers and crew are believed to have perished when the crowded MV Le Joola, Senegal’s state-run ferry, capsized shortly before midnight in a fierce storm off the coast of Gambia. The toll of 1,863 made this a deadlier accident than the sinking of the Titanic and the second-worst maritime disaster ever. Sixty people survived.
2002 - The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was published, containing new words, including Jedi, Klingons, Grinches, gearheads, bunny-huggers and bunny-boilers.
2003 - New in U.S. theatres: Duplex, starring Drew Barrymore, Ben Stiller, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein, Sheryl Klein, Swoosie Kurtz, Tim Maculan, Maya Rudolph, James Remar, Wallace Shawn, Justin Theroux, Amber Valletta and Robert Wisdom; The Rundown, with Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Stephen Bishop, Ewen Bremner, Jeff Chase, Rosario Dawson, Micki Duran, Jon Gries, Nina Kaczorowski, Corey Large, Brandon Molale, David Prak, Ernie Reyes Jr., Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Walken and Natasha Yi; and Under the Tuscan Sun, starring Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Dan Bucatinsky, Vince Riotta, Giulia Steigerwalt and Kate Walsh.
2003 - Rock singer Robert Palmer, known for his sharp suits and hits, such as Addicted to Love, died in Paris of a heart attack. He was 54 years old.
2004 - Hurricane Jeanne blasted ashore in Florida with drenching rains and 120 mph wind; some 1.5 million people were without power; six were killed.
2005 - U.S. Army PFC Lynndie England was found guilty of six of seven charges by a military court in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
2006 - The Vatican excommunicated Zambia’s Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo for installing four married men as bishops -- in defiance of the Holy See.
2006 - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced a $41-million computerized atlas of the 20,000 genes in the brain of a mouse.
2007 - Barry Bonds went 0 for 3 in his last baseball game with the San Francisco Giants.
2007 - Abu Dhabi signed a billion-dollar deal with Warner Brothers to to roll out Warner Brothers theme parks in the United Arab Emirates city.
2008 - New movies in the U.S.: Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf, Michellle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Azizi, Anthony Mackie and Lynn Cohen; Fireproof, starring Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Alex Kendrick, Bailey Cave, Jim McBride, Tommy McBride and Janet Lee Dapper; The Lucky Ones, with Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, Michael Pena, Molly Hagan, Mark L. Young, Howard Platt, Arden Myrin and Coburn Goss; Miracle at St. Anna, starring Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, Valentina Cervi, Pierfrancesco Favino, John Leguizamo and Joseph Gordon Levitt; Nights in Rodanthe, starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, James Franco, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Mae Whitman and Pablo Schreiber; and Shoot on Sight. with Clemency Burton-Hill, Brian Cox, Taru Devani, Jamie Doyle, Sadie Frost, Stephen Greif and Gulshan Grover.
2008 - A team of United Kingdom researchers reported that a boundary of air, wrapping around Earth’s equator like a belt, was keeping the polluted atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere separate from the relatively pristine south.
2008 - Academy-Award winning actor Paul Newman died at 83 years of age. The superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke, and The Color of Money died of cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, CT. The 10-time Academy Award nominee was renowned for his philanthropy. All proceeds from Newman’s Own salad dressings and snacks go to charity.
2008 - Senators Barack Obama and John McCain shared the stage in the first of three U.S. presidential debates. This one focused primarily on foreign policy.
2009 - Bundanoon, Australia banned all disposable bottles of water and pulled them from store shelves, replacing them with refillable bottles.
2010 - James Heselden, the British businessman had bought the Segway personal transporter company in 2009, died in an accident while riding on -- you guessed it -- a Segway. Heselden drove one of the famous two-wheeled scooters off a cliff near Boston Spa in northern England.
2011 - Israel’s national museum and Web giant Google announced a project that published five Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet. The scrolls include the biblical Book of Isaiah.
2012 - The University of California agreed to $1 million legal settlement with students who had been pepper sprayed by UC-Davis police during a protest in November, 2011. Twenty-one students received about $30,000 each and a written apology from the university chancellor.
2014 - Motion pictures opening in the U.S. included: the animated, The Boxtrolls featuring the voices of Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoad and Tracy Morgan; The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas and Chloë Grace; Believe Me, with Alex Russell, Zachary Knighton and Johanna Braddy; Good People, starring James Franco, Kate Hudson and Anna Friel; the biographical drama Jimi: All Is by My Side, with Imogen Poots, Hayley Atwell and Burn Gorman; Lilting, with Ben Whishaw, Morven Christie and Shane Salter; Pride, starring Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott and Dominic West; The Song, with Alan Powell, Ali Faulkner and Caitlin Nicol-Thomas; and Two Night Stand, starring Analeigh Tipton, Miles Teller and Jessica Szohr.
2014 - An FAA contract employee, apparently trying to commit suicide, set fire to the Aurora air traffic control center, bringing Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare airports to a halt. Some 2,000 flights were cancelled.
2015 - Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking at the United Nations in New York City, pledged $2 billion to help poor states meet U.N. goals. “China will continue to increase investment in the least developed countries, aiming to increase its total to $12 billion by 2030,” Xi announced at the sustainable development summit of world leaders.
2016 - Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wasted little time clashing over who was an agent of change and who was physically fit to serve as president. And just like the 2016 campaign, the first presidential debate defied conventional patterns. “She doesn’t have the look, she doesn’t have the stamina,” Trump said. “As soon as he travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, and opening of new opportunities in nations around the world, or even spends 11 hours testifying in front of a Congressional committee -- he can talk to me about stamina,” Clinton responded. Over 80 million people tuned in to see the Clinton-Trump face off, setting a new record for televised presidential debates.
2017 - San Francisco became the first city to sue Equifax, accusing the credit reporting agency of failing to adequately safeguard the personal information of more than 15 million people in California.
2017 - Saudi Arabia lifted its decades-old ban on women driving. The kingdom began issuing driving licenses to women in June 2018.
2018 - 81-year-old Comedian Bill Cosby began serving a three to ten year sentence for sexual assault at the SCI Phoenix state prison in Collegeville, PA. (Cosby was released from prison June 30, 2021 after his conviction on sexual assault charges was overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.)
2019 - Australia’s state of New South Wales decriminalized abortion. New South Wales was one of only two states in Australia with abortion restrictions on the books.
2019 - Donald Trump’s environmental regulator continued to feud with California, accusing the state of violating clean water laws by allowing human waste from homeless residents to enter waterways. San Francisco Mayor London Breed accused Trump of “taking swipes” at her city for “no reason other than politics.” “There are no needles washing out to the Bay or Ocean from our sewer system, and there is no relationship between homelessness and water quality in San Francisco,” she said. “I would love to have a President that wants to work with us on solutions to the challenges we face, whether that be with our infrastructure, our need for more housing, or helping people exit homelessness.” Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project and a former top enforcement official at EPA, said the EPA’s current focus on homeless encampments is misdirected when it “has done so little to enforce illegal discharges from much larger sources across the U.S.”
2020 - POTUS Trump announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. This, to finish putting a historic conservative stamp on the court. Judge Barrett’s votinge record was uniformly conservative on abortion, gun rights, discrimination, immigration, etc.
2020 - China started administering experimental vaccines to people while clinical trials were still underway, saying the World Health Organization (WHO) had given its support and understanding to doing so.
2020 - Russia’s daily tally of new coronavirus cases hit 7,523, bringing its total to 1,143,571 -- with 20,225 deaths.
2021 - The first Tony Awards ceremony in some 27 months saw the best musical award given to Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The best play Tony went to The Inheritance, a drama written by Matthew López. The Tony Awards ceremony was held at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway and was broadcast on CBS and Paramount+. Audra McDonald and Leslie Odom Jr. hosted.
2021 - Germany held elections. The center-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounted a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives. The SPD made significant gains, earning 25.7 percent of the vote, but still needed at least one other partner to form a government. Both the Greens and the Free Democrats also increased their share of seats in Parliament, to 14.8 percent and 11.5 percent, respectively.
2022 - NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid (Dimorphos), part of NASA’s defense plan in case a devastating asteroid collision should ever threaten Earth. The asteroid orbits a larger one named Didymos, and the two were chosen because they don’t pose any threat to Earth. The mission culminates a 10-month-long journey for DART, which cost $325 million. NASA’s goal was not to destroy Dimorphos but shift its orbit around Didymos enough that it changed both trajectories. Changing an asteroid’s orbit by just 1% could be enough if one were headed toward Earth. There are nearly 30,000 near-Earth objects in our solar system, according to NASA, meaning they come within 120.8 million miles of our planet.
2022 - The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report estimating that President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan would cost taxpayers more than $400 billion. (The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Biden’s plan on June 30, 2023.)
2023 - Donald Trump was found guilty of fraud (by inflating his assets) in a civil case was that was brought by New York attorney general Letitia James.
2023 - President Joe Biden walked a picket line telling striking autoworkers in Michigan, "You deserve a significant raise.” Biden was the first U.S. president to walk with strikers.
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Birthdays on This Day September 26
1774 - Johnny Appleseed (Chapman)
nurseryman: planter of apple orchards; died Mar 18, 18451888 - T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Nobel Prize-winning poet [1948]; The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; died Jan 4, 19651895 - George Raft (Ranft)
actor: Scarface, Eighty Days, Some Like It Hot, Casino Royale; died Nov 24, 19801896 - Jay Adler
actor: Macon County Line, Grave of the Vampire, Seven Guns to Mesa, Vice Squad, My Pal Gus, The Turning Point, Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?; died Sep 23, 19781897 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini)
262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church [1963-1978]; died Aug 6, 19781898 - George Gershwin (Jacob Gershvin)
composer: Rhapsody in Blue, Swanee, Porgy & Bess, The Man I Love, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, I Got Rhythm, Summertime, An American in Paris, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, A Foggy Day [In London Town], Fascinating Rhythm, Embraceable You, Our Love is Here to Stay; collaborated with brother Ira; died July 11, 19371901 - Ted Weems (Wilfred Theodore Weymes)
orchestra leader: Ted Weems Orchestra: Heartaches, Piccolo Pete; played mostly on network radio shows; musician: violin, trombone; died May 6, 19631911 - Michael Anthony
actor: S*P*Y*S, I Accuse!, To Paris With Love, An Ideal Husband; died Feb 14, 19981914 - Jack LaLanne
fitness guru; died Jan 23, 20111917 - Harrison Scott Brown
geochemist: known for his role in isolating plutonium for its use in the first atomic bombs, and for his studies regarding meteorites and the Earth’s origin; died Dec 8, 19861919 - Barbara Britton (Brantingham)
actress: Mr. & Mrs. North, Dragonfly Squadron, Bandit Queen, Captain Kidd, I Shot Jesse James, Wake Island; died Jan 17, 19801920 - Tommy Doss
singer: group: Sons of the Pioneers: Way Out There, There’s a Roundup in the Sky, Blue Prairie, So Long to the Red River Valley, I’m an Old Cowhand [From the Rio Grande]; died Oct 25, 20111923 - Dev Anand
Indian film actor: Love Marriage, Kahin Aur Chal, The Evil Within, Yeh Gulistan Hamara, Ishq Ishq Ishq, Man Pasand, Hum Naujawan, Gangster, Return of Jewel Thief, Chargesheet; writer, director, producer regarded as one of the most influential actors in Indian cinema; died Dec 3, 20111925 - Marty Robbins (Robertson)
Country Music Hall of Famer; Grammy Award Winner: El Paso [1960], My Woman, My Woman, My Wife [1970]; A White Sport Coat, Don’t Worry, Devil Woman; actor: Road to Nashville, Ballad of a Gunfighter, Hell on Wheels, The Drifter; last Grand Ole Oprey singer to perform in Ryman Auditorium, 1st to perform in new Opryland; died Dec 8, 1982; more1925 - Bobby (Robert Clayton) Shantz
baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Athletics [all-star: 1951, 1952/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1952], KC Athletics, NY Yankees [all-star: 1957/World Series: 1957, 1960], Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Colt .45’s, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies1926 - Julie London (Peck)
singer: Cry Me a River; actress: Emergency; died Oct 18, 20001927 - Patrick O’Neal
actor: In Harm’s Way, Under Siege, The Way We Were, Diagnosis: Unknown, Dick and the Duchess, Emerald Point N.A.S., Kaz; died Sep 9, 19941931 - George Chambers
musician: bass, singer: group: The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today; died Oct 12, 20191932 - Joyce Jameson
comedienne, actress: The Spike Jones Show, Club Oasis, The Balcony, The Comedy of Terrors; died Jan 16, 19871933 - Donna Douglas
actress: Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie and Johnny; died Jan 1, 20151935 - Johnny Morris
football [wide receiver, halfback]: NFL: Chicago Bears1936 - Mike Farmer
basketball: all-American: Univ of San Francisco [1958]; St. Louis Hawks1936 - Winnie Mandela
political activist; married South African president Nelson Madela; died Apr 2, 20181938 - Jonathan Goldsmith
actor: played The Most Interesting Man in the World in Dos Equis beer commercials1941 - Joe Bauer
musician: drums: group: The Youngbloods: Get Together; died Sep, 19821941 - David Frizzell
singer: You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma, I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home, I Just Came Here to Dance, Lost My Baby Blues, Lefty; brother of singer Lefty Frizzel1942 - Kent McCord (McWhirter)
actor: Adam 12, Unsub, Battlestar Gallactica, Accidental Meeting, Return of the Living Dead, Predator 3, Vice President of Screen Actors Guild1945 - Dave (David Edwin) Duncan
baseball: catcher: KC Athletics, Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1971/World Series: 1972], Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles1945 - Bryan Ferry
singer: group: Roxy Music: Virginia Plain, Pyjamarama, Do the Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dream a Heartache, Street Life, All I want is You, Out of the Blue, Love is the Drug, Dance Away, Angel Eyes, More than This, Heart on My Sleeve; solo: Let’s Stick Together1947 - Lynn Anderson
Grammy Award-winning singer: Rose Garden [1970]; Ride, Ride, Ride, If I Kiss You, Promises, Promises; CMA Female Vocalist of the Year [1971]; died July 30, 20151948 - Mary Beth Hurt
actress: Six Degrees of Separation, The Age of Innocence, Compromising Positions, The World According to Garp, A Change of Seasons, Interiors, Working It Out, Tattingers1948 - Olivia Newton-John
singer: You’re the One that I Want, If Not for You, Let Me Be There, I Honestly Love You, Have You Never Been Mellow, Please Mr. Please, Physical, Magic; actress: Grease, Xanadu, Two of a Kind; died Aug 8, 20221949 - John Roche
basketball: Univ. South Carolina, Denver Nuggets [record: 7 three-pointers in a quarter1951 - Dave Casper
football: Oakland Raiders tight end: Super Bowl XI1951 - Stuart Tosh
musician: drums, songwriter, singer: groups: Pilot, 10cc, the Alan Parson’s Project1952 - Garry Howatt
hockey: NHL: NY Islanders, Hartford Whalers, NJ Devils1954 - Craig Chaquiço
musician: guitar, singer: group: Jefferson Starship: We Built this City, Sara, Tomorrow Doesn’t Matter Tonight; more1955 - Carlene Carter
singer: I Fell in Love, Every Little Thing, Do It in a Heartache; June Carter’s daughter1956 - Linda Hamilton
actress: Terminator series, Beauty and the Beast, Children of the Corn1960 - Doug Supernaw
singer: Honky Tonkin’ Fool, You Never Even Call Me By My Name, Reno, You’re Gonna Bring Back Cheatin’ Songs, Red and Rio Grande1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson
actress: Little House on the Prairie, The Loneliest Runner, The Equalizer: Memories of Manon1962 - Lawrence Leritz
fitness expert: DVD: Total Stretch! With Lawrence Leritz; dancer, actor: Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof [revival], Fonteyn & Nureyev on Broadway, American Dance Machine; producer, choreographer: Boobs! The Musical; film, TV: Across the Universe, The Adjustment Bureau, Saturday Night Live, All My Children1962 - Tracey Thorn
singer: groups: Marine Girls: LPs: Lazy Ways, Beach Party; Everything But the Girl: Night and Day, Each and Everyone, Sean, Come on Home, I Fall to Pieces; solo LP: A Distant Shore1963 - Lysette Anthony
actress: Farewell to Harry, Hotel!, Man of Her Dreams, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Target of Suspicion, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Switch1963 - Les Claypool
musician: bass; singer: group: Primus: Sailing the Seas of Cheese, Pork Soda; solo: Of Fungi and Foe, Of Whales and Woe; directed and wrote the film Electric Apricot1963 - Joe Nemechek
NASCAR driver: won 300 races in his first six years of racing; owner of NEMCO Motorsports team1964 - David Martinez
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Atlanta Braves1965 - Cindy Herron
singer: group: En Vogue: Hold On, Free Your Mind, My Lovin’ [You’re Never Gonna Get It], Don’t Let Go [Love], Give It Up, Turn It Loose, Whatta Man1968 - Jim Caviezel
actor: Person of Interest, The Passion of the Christ, Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, Frequency, The Count of Monte Cristo, Angel Eyes, Deja Vu, The Thin Red Line1972 - Shawn Stockman
singer: group: Boyz II Men: End of the Road, I’ll Make Love to You, A Song for Mama, In the Still of the Night [I’ll Remember], On Bended Knee, One Sweet Day, Pass You By1973 - Marty Casey
musician: guitar; singer: group: Lovehammers: Trees, Casualty, Rain on the Brain, Eyes Can’t See, Call of Distress, Clouds1974 - Larry Izzo
football [linebacker]: Rice Univ; NFL: Miami Dolphins [1996–2000]; New England Patriots [2001–2008]; New York Jets [2009]1980 - Jane Darling
actress [2001-2008]: X-rated films: French Connexion, Jiggling Jugs, Austine Powders International Horny Spy, The Porn Identity1980 - Daniel Sedin
hockey [left winger]: NHL Vancouver Canucks [1999–2018]: 2011 Stanley Cup finals; identical twin brother of Henrik Sedin1980 - Henrik Sedin
hockey [center]: NHL Vancouver Canucks [1999–2018]: 2011 Stanley Cup finals; identical twin brother of Daniel Sedin1981 - Christina Milian
songwriter, singer: AM to PM, When You Look at Me, Dip It Low, Say I, Us Against the World; actress: Be Cool, Pulse, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Bring It On: Fight to the Finish1981 - Serena Williams
tennis champ: U.S. Open; Wimbledon; French Open; Australian Open; dozens of tournament wins; sister of tennis champ Venus Williams; more1983 - Manny Montana
actor: Graceland, Good Girls, Conviction, Hacker, The Mule, I Hate the Man in My Basement1984 - Zoe Perry
actress: Young Sheldon, The Big Bang Theory, The Family, Scandal, Turkey Bowl, Cotton, No Pay, Nudity1985 - Talulah Riley
actress: Pride and Prejudice, St Trinian’s, St. Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, The Boat That Rocked
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Hit Music on This Day September 26
1951Because of You (facts) - Tony Bennett
I Get Ideas (facts) - Tony Martin
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