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1540 - The Society of Jesus (also known as Company of Jesus or the Jesuit order) was approved by Pope Paul III. A religious catholic order founded by the Spaniard St. Ignatius Loyola, the Society became instrumental in spreading Christianity to the Americas, India, China, and Japan.1825 - England’s Stockton and Darlington line opened. It was the first railway line to have a passenger train pulled along the tracks by a locomotive, the first time an engine -- not a horse -- had accomplished this. (The very first steam-engine locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick, also of England, in 1804.)
1854 - The first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean liner occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank, killing 322 people. 45 passengers escaped in one life boat and a raft, hastily constructed of spars and wooden rails.
1894 - Aqueduct Race Track opened in New York on this day.
1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicated. He was king from 1913-1917 and from 1920-1922. He had proclaimed Greece to be neutral at the outbreak of World War I. This action led the Western allies and his Greek opponents to overthrow him in 1917. A military revolt after Greece failed to defeat Turkey after the war cost him his throne for the second time. Constantine died in exile in Sicily in 1923.
1933 - NBC radio debuted Waltz Time, featuring the orchestra of Abe Lymon. The program continued on the network until 1948.
1938 - Clarinet virtuoso Artie Shaw recorded the song that would become his theme song. Nightmare was waxed on the Bluebird Jazz label.
1938 - Thanks for the Memory was heard for the first time on The Pepsodent Show, Bob Hope’s first network radio gig -- on the NBC Red radio net. Who was the bandleader? If you said Les Brown, you’d be ... wrong. It was Skinnay Ennis accompanying ol’ ski nose at the time. And Judy Garland, just 16 years old, was the program’s original vocalist.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The Tripartite Pact, a military and economic agreement, was to last for ten years between Germany, Italy and Japan. The Axis was destroyed by the Allies in 1945.
1941 - The U.S. launched its first Liberty Ship, the Patrick Henry.
1942 - Just after leaving CBS radio, Glenn Miller led his civilian band for the last time at the Central Theatre in beautiful Passaic, NJ. Miller had volunteered for wartime duty.
1944 - Thousands of British troops were killed as German forces rebuffed the massive Operation Market Garden to capture the Arnhem Bridge across the Rhine River in Holland.
1950 - U.S. Army and Marine troops liberated Seoul, South Korea.
1954 - The Tonight Show debuted on NBC-TV. Steve Allen hosted the late-night program which began as a local New York show on WNBT-TV in June 1953. Tonight became a launching pad for Steve and hundreds of guests, including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. Skitch Henderson and orchestra provided the music. Ernie Kovacs was the host from 1956-1957.
1959 - Typhoon Vera hit the Japanese island of Honshu, killing some 5,000 people.
1962 - Detroit secretary Martha Reeves cut a side with a group called The Vandellas and the result was I’ll Have to Let Him Go. Soon thereafter, the hits of Martha and The Vandellas just kept on comin’.
1964 - The Warren Commission, named for U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren, issued its report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
1970 - “Round and round and round it goes and where it stops, nobody knows.” Ted Mack said, “Good night from Geritol” for the last time. After 22 years on television, the curtain closed on The Original Amateur Hour on CBS. The show had been on ABC, NBC, CBS and originated on the Dumont Television Network.
1971 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon met with Japanese Emperor Hirohito (Michinomiya) in Anchorage, Alaska in the first-ever meeting of a U.S. President and a Japanese Monarch.
1982 - Filming began on Never Say Never Again, the James Bond flick with 52-year-old Sean Connery as 007.
1986 - Lionel Richie’s Dancing on the Ceiling was the #1 U.S. LP. The tracks: Dancing on the Ceiling, Se La, Ballerina Girl, Don’t Stop, Deep River Woman, Love Will Conquer All, Tonight Will Be Alright, Say You, Say Me and Night Train (Smooth Alligator). Dancing on the Ceiling was the number one album for two weeks.
1990 - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of David H. Souter to the U.S Supreme Court.
1991 - U.S. President George Bush (I) eliminated all land-based tactical nuclear arms and removed all short-range nuclear arms from ships and submarines around the world. Bush then called on the Soviet Union to do the same.
1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 7-7, on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Committee reported the Thomas nomination to the full Senate without a recommendation. In the end, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to confirm Thomas's nomination to the High Court.
1991 - Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O’Neill and wife of Charlie Chaplin, died at 66 years of age.
1993 - Retired General James H. Doolittle died in Pebble Beach, CA at 96 years of age. Doolittle is most famous for leading sixteen 16 Mitchell bombers off the pitching deck of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet to bomb industrial targets in Tokyo and other cities. The Tokyo Raid provided a much-needed morale boost in the bleak early days (April 1942) of WW II.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America, a ten-point platform they pledged to enact if voters elected a GOP majority to the U.S. House of Representatives.
1996 - Two movies debuted in U.S. theatre this day: Extreme Measures, a thriller with Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker; and 2 Days in the Valley, starring James Spader, Danny Aiello, Teri Hatcher, Eric Stoltz, Jeff Daniels, Glenne Headly, Marsha Mason. It iss “A pretty screwed-up story about pretty screwed-up people...”
1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former president Najibullah.
1998 - Social Democrat Gerhard Schröeder was elected chancellor of Germany, ending 16 years of conservative rule.
1998 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit his 69th and 70th home runs, setting a new record for most home runs in a single season (McGwire was the first to break Roger Maris’ record of 61 homers on September 8). That 70th home run ball brought $2.7 million at a 1999 baseball auction.
1999 - Tiger Stadium, Detroit, closed in grand fashion after 87 years as the Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals, 8-to-2. (Detroit Comerica Park opened for the Tigers on Apr 11, 2000.)
2000 - In Sydney, Australia, the U.S. Olympic baseball team beat Cuba 4-0 to capture its first baseball gold medal.
2000 - Venus Williams beat Elena Dementieva 6-2, 6-4 at the Sydney Olympics to became the second player to win Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Olympics in the same year. (The first was Steffi Graf, in 1988.)
2001 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld displayed the Medal for the Defense of Freedom to be awarded to all Defense Deptartment civilian employees killed or wounded in the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
2002 - These films opened in the U.S.: Just a Kiss, with Marley Shelton, Ron Eldard, Kyra Sedgewick, Patrick Breen and Marisa Tomei; Moonlight Mile, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Holly Hunter and Ellen Pompeo; Sweet Home Alabama, with Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Ethan Embry and Jean Smart; The Tuxedo, starring Jackie Chan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jason Isaacs, Debi Mazar and Ritchie Coster.
2003 - Dancer, singer, composer, actor Donald O’Connor died. He was 78 years old. Among the many starring roles O’Connor played were Cosmo Brown in Singing in the Rain (1952), Peter Stirling in the Francis the Talking Mule series (1950s), and host of The Donald O’Connor Show on TV (1960s).
2003 - Europe’s first mission to the moon blasted off from French Guiana atop a European Ariane rocket. Actually, the mission orbited two geostationary communications satellites: INSAT-3E for the Indian Space Research Organisation, and e-BIRDTM for European operator Eutelsat. The third payload, the European Space Agency SMART-1 lunar probe, was successfully injected into an orbit that that took it to the Moon.
2004 - San Francisco renamed Candlestick Park Monster Park, in a 4-year deal that traded $6 million from an electronics cable company for the right to display its name on the stadium.
2005 - During a U.S. State Department visit to Jidda, Saudi Arabia, Texas bureaucrat Karen Hughes received a mixed reaction when she suggested that Saudi women be allowed to drive cars and “fully participate” in society.
2006 - British billionaire Richard Branson proposed changes to aircraft movements at busy airports and the way planes land under a plan he said would cut the world’s aviation emissions by up to 25%.
2007 - The Cleveland, Ohio-based adult toy firm GVA-TWN said they would acquire Good Vibrations, a San Francisco sex-toy retailer.
2008 - Mission commander, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang, performed the nation’s first-ever spacewalk. Fellow astronaut Liu Boming emerged briefly from the space capsule to hand Zhai a Chinese flag that he waved for an exterior camera recording the event.
2009 - German voters ended conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s right-left ‘grand coalition’, but gave her a comfortable center-right majority, thanks to a strong performance by her new government ally, the business-oriented Free Democrats.
2009 - 18-year-old New Zealander Cherelle May Dudfield, flashed her breasts at passing cars and ended up in a hospital after a distracted driver ran into her. She was later found guilty of disorderly behavior for the prank and was fined 275 New Zealand dollars ($200).
2010 - The temperature in downtown Los Angeles, California hit 113 degrees [°F]. It was the hottest L.A. temperature to that time.
2010 - A dozen former U.S. Air Force personnel, mostly officers who worked on secret projects connected to sensitive nuclear weapons sites, admitted that they were privy to UFO and alien-related incidents -- that occurred during their time of service. During a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The officers reported that UFOs had monitored and possibly tampered with American nuclear weapons.
2011 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 72 illnesses, including as many as 17 deaths, had been linked to tainted Colorado cantaloupe. Cantaloupes from Jensen Farms had been recalled on Sep 10, 2011. All in all, 146 persons were sickened by the Listeria-tainted fruit and thirty people died.
2013 - Motion pictures debuting in the U.S.: Baggage Claim, starring Paula Patton, Adam Brody, Djimon Hounsou, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Taye Diggs, Christina Milian, La La Anthony, Lauren London and Jenifer Lewis; the animated Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, featuring the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Will Forte, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris, Terry Crews and Kristen Schaal; Don Jon, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson, Rob Brown, Jeremy Luke, Italia Ricci and Lindsey Broad; On The Job, starring Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, Joey Marquez, Angel Aquino, Michael De Mesa, William Martinezand John Balagot; The Secret Lives of Dorks, with Gaelan Connell, Charlie Stewart, Vanessa Marano, Beau Mirchoff, Riley Voelkel, James Belushi, Mark Daugherty, Tyler Steelman and Jennifer Tilly; and Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Dormer, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Brühl, Tom Wlaschiha, Rebecca Ferdinando, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joséphine de La Baume and Rain Elwood.
2013 - French police arrested six men in and around Paris for the theft of gold bars worth about €1.6 million ($2.1 million) from an Air France plane flying to Zurich. The bars were stolen from the plane just before it left Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport on September 19.
2014 - Thousands of people massed in the heart of Hong Kong to demand more democracy after Beijing’s decision to rule out free elections in the former British colony. Riot police arrested dozens of students who stormed the government headquarters compound during a night of scuffles.
2015 - France launched its first air strikes against Islamic State in Syria to stop to the militant group from carrying out attacks inside France. “France struck in Syria this morning an Islamic State training camp which threatened the security of our country,” French President Francois Hollande said while attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
2016 - The Arizona Republic broke a longstanding tradition of endorsing Republicans for president and backed Hillary Clinton. “Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never. This reflects a deep philosophical appreciation for conservative ideals and Republican principles. This year is different. The 2016 Republican candidate is not conservative and he is not qualified. That’s why, for the first time in our history, The Arizona Republic will support a Democrat for president.”
2016 - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plan to colonize Mars. Musk announced the endeavor at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. The plan included building reusable super boosters and huge spaceships to eventually carry tens of thousands of people to Mars and elsewhere in the solar system with the eventual goal of building self-sustaining colonies.
2017 - British police arrested 11 men, including five on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, as part of an investigation into the banned far-right group National Action. Christopher Lythgoe, the leader of a banned neo-Nazi group, and five other men were later charged under the Terrorism Act.
2017 - Playboy Magazine founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner died in Los Angeles. He was 91 years old. Heffner was also the chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, the publishing group that operates the magazine. Heffner was not only an advocate of sexual liberation and freedom of expression, he was a political activist and philanthropist. See How Playboy Has Changed Since Hugh Hefner's Death.
2018 - Speaking before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee University professor 51-year-old Christine Blasey Ford testified that she believed she was going to be raped or accidentally killed during an assault in 1982 by Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court. The 53-year-old Kavanaugh (53) denied the allegations made by Ford.
2018 - The magazine of the Jesuit religious order in the U.S. publicly withdrew its endorsement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice following the sexually assault charges against him made by Christine Blasey Ford.
2018 - The Indian Supreme Court struck down a 158-year-old law that had treated adultery in certain cases as a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison. The court called the law unconstitutional and noted that a “husband is not the master of woman.” The law did not allow wives to prosecute adulterous husbands.
2019 - Films showing for the first time on U.S. theatre screens included: the animated Abominable, featuring characters voiced by Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Joseph Izzo and Eddie Izzard; 10 Minutes Gone, starring Bruce Willis, Michael Chiklis and Meadow Williams; The Day Shall Come, with Anna Kendrick, Kayvan Novak and Jim Gaffigan; The Death of Dick Long, starring Michael Abbott Jr., Virginia Newcomb and Andre Hyland; Judy, starring Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley and Rufus Sewell; and The Pretenders, starring James Franco, Juno Temple and Dennis Quaid.
2019 - A U.S. judge blocked Trump administration rules that enabled the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.
2019 - The French government pledged to cut taxes for households by some 9 billion euros ($9.8 billion). The spending boost had its roots in the yellow vest movement that started the previous winter.
2019 - More than 300 former officials from U.S. security and foreign policy agencies, including a former director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a one-time deputy secretary of state, endorsed the congressional impeachment inquiry of POTUS Donald Trump.
2020 - The solemn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, began in Israel -- already under a sweeping coronavirus lockdown. Israelis were ordered to stay within 1,000 meters (yards) of their homes throughout the High Holidays.
2020 - Details of POTUS Donald Trump’s tax returns released by The New York Times showed he paid $750 in income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the U.S. presidency, and in 2017, his first year in the White House.
2021 - POTUS Joe Biden received his COVID-19 vaccine booster shot on live TV. This, days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed booster shots for millions of Americans -- those who had received their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at least six months earlier.
2022 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe was given a rare state funeral at Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo. Some 4,300 guests attended the event, including Vice President Harris, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was assassinated July 8, 2022 -- while delivering a campaign speech, two days before the 10 July upper house elections.
2022 - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced that his department had approved electric vehicle charging station plans for all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. Buttigieg said the project, covering 75,000 miles of highways, will “help ensure that Americans in every part of the country — from the largest cities to the most rural communities — can be positioned to unlock the savings and benefits of electric vehicles.” The Biden administration earlier in the year allocated $5 billion to help states put EV chargers along interstate highways.
2023 - The Writer's Guild of America ended their 148-day strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after agreeing to a deal with the industry bosses. Among other things, the contract prevented studios from using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to write or rewrite scripts.
2023 - NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned to earth after setting a U.S. record of 371 days in space. While on the International Space Station, Rubio completed 5,963 orbits of the Earth.
2024 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Azrael, starring Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Vic Carmen Sonne; Bagman, with Sam Claflin, Steven Cree and Antonia Thomas; Lee, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Winslet and Andy Samberg; Megalopolis, with Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Nathalie Emmanuel; The Wild Robot, with Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor; and My Old Ass, starring Maisy Stella, Aubrey Plaza and Percy Hynes White.
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Birthdays on This Day September 27
1722 - Samuel Adams
U.S. Revolutionary War leader; governor of Massachusetts [1793-1797]; cousin of U.S. President John Adams; died Oct 2, 18031792 - George Cruikshank
caricaturist, illustrator: Charles Dickens’ books; died Feb 1, 18781840 - Thomas Nast
political cartoonist: considered the father of American political cartooning: drew cartoon [Harper’s Weekly] using elephant as symbol of Republican party; died Dec 7, 19021847 - ‘Professor’ Mike (Michael) Donovan
International Boxing Hall of Famer: middleweight boxing champ [1878-1883]; boxing teacher: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was a pupil; died Mar 24, 19181898 - Vincent Youmans
Songwriters’ Hall of Famer: musician, composer: Hit the Deck, Great Day!, No, No Nanette [w/Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II], I Know that You Know [w/Harbach], More than You Know, Rise ’n’ Shine, Flying Down to Rio, The Carioca; died Apr 5, 19461903 - Leonard Barr
standup comic, actor: Under the Rainbow, Skatetown, U.S.A., Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid, The Sting, Diamonds Are Forever; died Nov 22, 19801917 - Carl Ballantine (Meyer Kessler)
comedian: The Milton Berle Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; actor: McHale’s Navy, That Girl, The Monkees, Love, American Style, The Cosby Show, Penelope, The Shakiest Gun in the West, The World’s Greatest Lover, Just You and Me, Kid, Mr. Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; he got his stage name [Ballantine the Great] from a Ballantine Whiskey bottle; died Nov 3, 20091917 - William T. Orr
TV producer: Cheyenne, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Surfside 6, Mister Roberts, F Troop; actor: Touchdown, Army, Young America Flies, Service With the Colors, Three Sons o’ Guns, He Hired the Boss; died Dec 25, 20021919 - Jayne Meadows (Cotter)
actress: City Slickers, Murder by Numbers, Lady in the Lake, The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, Medical Center; panelist: I’ve Got a Secret; wife of Steve Allen; sister of Audrey Meadows; died Apr 26, 20151919 - Johnny Pesky
baseball: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1946, all-star: 1946], Detroit Tigers, Washington Nationals; died Aug 13, 20121920 - William Conrad (Cann)
actor: Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, Sorry, Wrong Number, Killers, Naked Jungle; TV narrator: The Bullwinkle Show; radio: Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke; died Feb 11, 19941922 - Arthur Penn
director: Bonnie and Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Night Moves; died Sep 28, 20101923 - Mary McCarty
actress: All That Jazz, Babes in Toyland, Pillow Talk, Tell It to a Star, High School, Keep Smiling, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, All My Children, Trapper John, M.D.; died Apr 30, 19801925 - Kathleen Maguire
actress: Edge of the City, The Chadwick Family, One Life to Live, The Concorde: Airport ’79; died Aug 9, 19891929 - Sada Thompson
Emmy Award-winning actress: Family [1977-78]; Tony Award-winning actress: Twigs [1972]; Our Town, Desperate Characters; died May 4, 20111933 - Greg Morris
actor: Mission: Impossible, The Doomsday Flight, Vega$; died Aug 27, 19961933 - Kathleen Nolan
actress: The Real McCoys, Jamie, Broadside; Screen Actor’s Guild president1934 - Wilford Brimley
actor: Cocoon, The Natural, Tender Mercies, The Firm, Absence of Malice, The China Syndrome, The Electric Horseman, Our House; died Aug 1, 20201934 - Claude Jarman Jr.
actor: Hangman’s Knot, Rio Grande, The Sun Comes Up, Intruder in the Dust, The Yearling1936 - Don Cornelius
creator, host: TV’s Soul Train [1971-1993]; actor: Tapeheads, Roadie, No Way Back; died Feb 1, 20121939 - Delores Taylor
actress, writer, producer: The Trial of Billy Jack, Billy Jack; died Mar 23, 20181939 - Kathy Whitworth
golf champion: Nabisco Dinah Shore [1977], LPGA [1967, 1971, 1975]1941 - Labron Harris Jr.
golf: Oklahoma State Univ.; U.S. Amateur title: 19621941 - Don Nix
musician: baritone sax: group: The Mar-Keys, Booker T and the M.G.’s, Memphis Horns; composer: Goin’ Down1943 - Randy Bachman
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Let It Ride, Takin’ Care of Business, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, Roll on Down the Highway, The Guess Who: Shakin’ All Over, These Eyes, Laughing, No Time, American Woman, No Sugar Tonight1944 - Gary (Lynn) Sutherland
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, SD Padres, SL Cardinals1947 - Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday)
musician, singer: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad, Paradise by the Dashboard Light; actor: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Americathon, Roadie; died Jan 20, 20221948 - A Martinez (Adolph Larrue Martinez)
actor: General Hospital, Santa Barbara, Ordinary Sinner, A Memory in My Heart, Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
1949 - Mike (Michael Jack) Schmidt
Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Phillies Golden Glove, all-star third baseman: [all-star: 1974, 1976, 1979-1984, 1986, 1987, 1989/World Series: 1980, 1983/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1980, 1981, 1986]1949 - Robb Weller
TV host: Win, Lose or Draw, Entertainment Tonight1952 - Gail Edwards
actress: Full House, It’s a Living, Blossom, A Quiet Little Neighborhood, A Perfect Little Murder1953 - Greg Ham
musician: saxophone, flute, keyboards: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under; died Apr 19, 20121958 - Shaun Cassidy
singer: Da Doo Ron Ron, That’s Rock ’n’ Roll, Hey Deanie, Do You Believe in Magic; actor: The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Breaking Away, General Hospital, Blood Brothers; son of Jack Cassidy & Shirley Jones; half-brother of David Cassidy1964 - Stephan Jenkins
songwriter, lead guitarist/singer: group: Third Eye Blind: albums: Third Eye Blind, Blue, Out of the Vein, Ursa Major; singles: Semi-Charmed Life, Jumper, How’s It Going to Be, Losing a Whole Year, Graduate, Deep Inside of You, Never Let You Go1965 - Steve Kerr
basketball: Univ of Arizona; NBA: Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Orlando Magic, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers; NBA coach: Golden State Warriors [2015, 2017, 2018 NBA champs1965 - Sofia Milos
actress: CSI: Miami, Passionada, The Order, The Ladies Man; The Sopranos, Curb your Enthusiasm, Friends, M.K.3, ER, Desire, The Border, Family Jewels; more1968 - Rob Moore
football [wide receiver]: Univ of Syracuse; NFL: New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos1969 - Lester Holmes
football [guard]: Jackson State Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, Arizona Cardinals1969 - Patrick Muldoon
actor: Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, Starship Troopers, The Second Arrival1970 - Mark Calderon
singer: group: Color Me Badd: I Wanna Sex You Up, All 4 Love, Sexual Capacity, Got 2 Have U1970 - Tamara Taylor
actress: Bones, Hidden Hills, City of Angels, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Party of Five1971 - Amanda Detmer
actress: Necessary Roughness, Man Up!, Single with Parents, What About Brian, Saving Silverman, AmericanEast1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow
Academy Award-winning actress: Shakespeare in Love [1998]; Iron Man film series; Hook, Great Expectations, A Perfect Murder, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Bounce, The Anniversary Party, Possession, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shallow Hal, View from the Top, Proof, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Sylvia, Spain - On The Road Again, Glee1976 - Daymond Langkow
hockey [center]: Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames1976 - Jason Phillips
baseball [catcher, first base]: San Diego State Univ; New York Mets, LA Dodgers1976 - Francesco Totti
Italian footballer: captain: Serie A club Roma [1998]; played for Italian national team [1998-2006]: 2006 World Cup Champs1981 - Cytherea
actress [2003-2012]: X-rated films: Blown Away, Squirting With the Stars, Cytherea Strippin’ & Drippin’, Barely Legal Ski Camp1982 - Anna Camp
actress: True Blood, Pitch Perfect, Mad Men, The Good Wife, The Mindy Project, Good Girls Revolt, The Help, Café Society; Broadway: A Country House, Equus, All New People1982 - Lil’ Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.)
rapper: LPs: Tha Block Is Hot, Lights Out, Dedication-[Gangsta Grillz], Tha Carter, 500 Degreez; more1984 - Avril Lavigne
songwriter, singer: Complicated, I’m With You, Losing Grip, Sk8er Boi, Nobody’s Fool, Anything But Ordinary1986 - Arielle Vandenberg
actress: Meet the Browns, Greek, CSI: Miami, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Numb3rs, Epic Movie, The Ugly Truth; TV commercials: Mercedes-Benz, State Farm Insurance, Progressive Auto Insurance1991 - Simona Halep
tennis champ: 2018 French Open; she won her first 6 WTA titles in the same calendar year [2013]1991 - Thomas Mann
actor: Project X, Fun Size, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Kong: Skull Island, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Halloween Kills, Lessons in Chemistry1992 - Sam Lerner
actor: The Goldbergs, Project Almanac, Lethal Seduction2002 - Jenna Ortega
actress: Jane the Virgin, Rake, Richie Rich, Stuck in the Middle, Elena of Avalor, You, The Fallout
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Hit Music on This Day September 27
1952You to Belong Me (facts) - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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