September 28
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1066 - The Norman conquest of England began. An army led by William the Conqueror landed at Pevensey, England. On Christmas day 1066, William was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, and by 1070 the Norman conquest was complete.1542 - Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed his ship at what we now call San Diego Bay. The site is marked with a monument, the Cabrillo National Monument, and some folks in California still celebrate Cabrillo day. There’s a reason for that. Cabrillo was the first to find California.
1892 - A football game was played in Mansfield, PA. The game, between Mansfield State Normal School and Wyoming Seminary, was the first one in the U.S. to be played at night.
1928 - Glen Gray’s orchestra recorded Under a Blanket of Blue, with Kenny Sargeant on vocals.
1936 - Bachelor’s Children debuted on CBS radio (at 9:45 a.m.) in addition to its schedule on the Mutual Network (at 10:15 a.m.). The show’s theme song, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, opened the 15-minute, critically acclaimed, daily serial. Bachelor’s Children became very popular because of its natural dialogue which made folks think they were hearing a real event. Bachelor’s Children ... brought to you by Old Dutch Cleanser, Palmolive-Peet Soap, Colgate Toothpaste and Wonder Bread.
1939 - The final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio. The star of the show, Rudee Vallee, wrapped things up after a decade of entertaining radio. The Fleischmann Hour was sponsored by Fleischmann’s Yeast. What else?
1941 - Ted Williams decided not to sit out the season’s final doubleheader to protect his .400 batting average. Williams finished with a flourish. He collects four hits in five at-bats in the 12-11 first-game Boston victory in Philadelphia to bring his average to .404. And he went 2-for-3 in the second game against rookie Fred Caligiuri to end the season with a .406 batting average.
1944 - WABD in New York City telecast the first full-length musical written for TV. Ray Nelson was in the director’s chair for The Boys from Boise. The production was carried on the DuMont Network.
1944 - Retreating Nazi troops killed some 770 women, children and elderly in Marzabotto, Italy while supposedly pursuing resistance fighters.
1945 - Mildred Pierce, starring Joan Crawford, opened at the Strand Theatre in New York City. Crawford won an Academy Award (Best Actress in a Leading Role) for her portrayal of Mildred.
1949 - My Friend Irma debuted in the U.S. It was the first of twelve films starring Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis.
1950 - Indonesia became the 60th nation to be admitted to the United Nations.
1951 - Los Angeles Rams quarterback Norm Van Brocklin set the NFL record for passing yardage in a single game when as he threw for 554 yards. The ‘Dutchman’ completed 27 of 41 passes and tossed five touchdowns, four of which went to fellow Hall of Famer Elroy ‘Crazylegs’ Hirsch, en route to a 54-14 win over the New York Yanks.
1951 - Screen Directors’ Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC. The radio program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
1953 - The Bob & Ray Show, aka Bob and Ray, aka Club Embassy, aka Club Time, aired for the final time on NBC-TV. The weekly variety show had been on the tube since 1951. Bob was Bob Elliott; Ray was Ray Goulding
1955 - “The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC.” The World Series was seen in all its colorful glory for the first time this day. The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the first game, 6-5.
1958 - A referendum held in France, Algeria and overseas territories approved the constitution for the Fifth French Republic.
1960 - In Boston’s Fenway Park, 42-year-old Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams hit his 521st home run. It was the final swing of Williams’ all-star career.
1961 - Richard Chamberlain played the part of handsome, young, Dr. Kildare for five years, beginning this day on NBC. Raymond Massey co-starred in the TV medidrama. Chamberlain’s Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) became a hit a year into the show. He also sang Love Me Tender and All I Have to Do is Dream in 1962 and 1963 -- all on MGM. Scalpel, doctor?
1961 - Hazel premiered on NBC-TV. The sitcom starred Shirley Booth in the title role, with Don DeFore as George Baxter and Whitney Blake as Dorothy Baxter (the family who Hazel adopted). She was their maid and housekeeper. Hazel was based on the Saturday Evening Post cartoon series by Ted Key.
1963 - The cartoon show Tennessee Tuxedo debuted on CBS-TV.
1965 - The Taal Volcano exploded on Luzon, in the Philippines. Some 200 people were killed.
1968 - The Beatles rode the nearly seven-minute-long Hey Jude to the top of the charts for a nine week-run starting this day. Talk about your microgroove recording! Copies of this Apple release were shipped by the dozen to radio stations because the platters wore out after just a few plays.
1971 - Cardinal Josef Mindszenty of Hungary agreed to end his exile. Mindszenty had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy in Budapest in 1956 to escape treason charges. He flew to Rome on this day as guest of the Pope. After a brief stay in Rome, he took up residence in Vienna to be closer to his people.
1976 - World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali won a unanimous 15-round decision over Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
1978 - Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days in office. He was succeeded by John Paul II.
1984 - Saluting his 34 years in television, Bob “If There’s an Honor I’ll Be There” Hope showed outtakes of his years in television on (where else?) NBC. When he began in television’s infancy, back in 1950, Bob Hope said he got into the new medium “...because the contract was so delicious, I couldn’t turn it down.”
1989 - Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos died in exile in Hawaii. Marcos had been ousted three years earlier during the ‘People’s Revolution’ that swept Corazan Aquino, widow of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino, into power.
1989 - The first two people to go over Niagara Falls in the same barrel and live to tell about it, did so this day. Actually, Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter DeBernardi went over 167-foot high Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the Falls.
1990 - A Philippines court found air force General Luther Custodio and fifteen other officers and enlisted members of the Aviation Security Command guilty. They had stood trial for the 1983 murder of politician Benigno Aquino, husband of former President Corazon Aquino. The court handed down life sentences for all of those found guilty.
1991 - Garth Brooks big ol’ black hat and all, hit number one with his album Ropin’ the Wind. He was the first country artist to debut an album at #1 on both the Billboard album chart and country album chart.
1992 - A Pakistani jetliner crashed in Nepal near Kathmandu, killing all 167 people on board. The crash was eventually blamed mostly on pilot error.
1993 - Peter De Vries, novelist, essayist (The New Yorker), died at 83 years of age.
1994 - 852 people died when the ferry Estonia sank during a heavy storm in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Finland. It was one of Europe’s worst peacetime maritime disasters.
1997 - Europe held off the U.S. in the Ryder Cup, 14.5-13.5.
2000 - Venus Williams earned her second Olympic gold medal at the Sydney Olympics. She teamed with sister Serena in the women’s doubles to beat Miriam Oremans and Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1.
2000 - Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau died at 80 years of age. Trudeau led Canada from 1968-1979 and from 1980-1984.
2000 - Denmark voted 53-47% not to join the European Monetary Union.
2001 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Don’t Say a Word, with Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Guy Torry and Jennifer Esposito; Hearts in Atlantis, starring Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk and Tom Bower; and Zoolander, with Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller and Jon Voight.
2001 - The U.N. Security Council approved a sweeping resolution sponsored by the United States requiring all member nations to deny money, support and sanctuary to terrorists.
2002 - Patsy Mink, twelve-term Hawaii state representative in the U.S. Congress, died at 74 years of age in Honolulu.
2003 - Althea Gibson, the first black woman to win the tennis title at Wimbledon (women’s singles and doubles: 1957), died in New Jersey. She was 76 years old.
2003 - Elia Kazan, Anatolian-Greek-born writer, film and stage director, died at age 94. On Broadway, Kazan received best-director Tony Awards for All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949), as well as for Archibald MacLeish’s J. B. (1959). Seven of Elia Kazan’s films won a total of twenty Academy Awards. He won best-director Oscars for Gentleman’s Agreement, a 1947 indictment of anti-Semitism, and On the Waterfront in 1954. On the Waterfront, a searing depiction of venality and corruption on the New Jersey docks, won eight Oscars.
2004 - The U.S. Treasury issued a new $50 bill featuring touches of red, blue and yellow.
2004 - The award-winning designer Geoffrey Beene died. He was 77 years old. Beene’s simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion.
2005 - Forty Shades of Blue premiered in the U.S. The drama stars Rip Torn, Darren Burrows, Dina Korzun and Paprika Steen.
2005 - U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted on one count of criminal conspiracy by a Texas grand jury. DeLay allegedly funded Texas state elections secretly through the Republican national office.
2007 - New films in the U.S.: Feast of Love, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Stana Katic, Billy Burke, Fred Ward and Erika Marozsan; The Game Plan, with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Roselyn Sanchez, Kyra Sedgwick, Morris Chestnut, Madison Pettis and Gordon Clapp; and The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Huston, Richard Jenkins, Ashraf Barhoum and Ali Suliman.
2007 - A federal judge refused to block a New York City city order that required taxi drivers to install global positioning systems and credit card machines in their cabs.
2008 - Hundreds of thousands gathered in San Francisco for the 25th Folsom Street Fair, the world’s biggest celebration of leather, bondage and sexual fetish.
2008 - Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia won his third straight Berlin Marathon. Gebrselassie became the first man to run the 42.195 kilometer distance in under two hours and four minutes, by clocking in at 2:03.59.
2009 - A judge in Malaysia upheld a verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer, re-igniting a controversy over Islamic justice in this moderate Muslim-majority country.
2010 - Nogales, Arizona Mayor Octavio Garcia Von Borstel was arrested by FBI agents for bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering. In June 2011 Von Borstel pled guilty to one count of fraud, and no contest to illegally conducting an enterpris. The FBI had been investigating Garcia Von Borstel since 2009, finding out that he had been soliciting businesses in Nogales to hire him as a business consultant while acting an elected official with influence over city contracts.
2010 - Australia’s new Parliament was sworn in and included Ed Husic, the country’s first elected Muslim, who was sworn in with his hand on his parents’ Koran.
2011 - After years of delays by Boeing, Japanese airline ANA flew the first commercial Dreamliner into Tokyo. (The first Dreamliner passenger flight was on Oct 26 from Tokyo to Hong Kong.)
2012 - Movies opening in the U.S.: The animated comedy Hotel Transylvania, featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, David Spade, Fran Drescher, Jon Lovitz and Molly Shannon; Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo and Paul Dano; Starbuck, with Patrick Huard, Julie LeBreton, Antoine Bertrand, Dominic Philie and Marc Bélanger; Won’t Back Down, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Holly Hunter, Ving Rhames, Oscar Isaac, Rosie Perez, Lance Reddick and Emily Alyn Lind; and the documentary, The Other Dream Team, with Greg Speirs, Jim Lampley, Bill Walton and Mickey Hart.
2013 - China’s Ministry of Public Security reported that police had rescued 92 abducted children and had detained 300 suspects in an ongoing effort to crack down on child trafficking.
2014 - Dennis Kimetto of Kenya became the first man to complete a marathon in under 2 hours, 3 minutes. And while doing so, he knocked 26 seconds off the world marathon record when he won the 41st Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 57 seconds.
2015 - The U.S. and Russia disagreed on Syria: POTUS Barack Obama said the U.S. was willing to work with Iran and Russia to try to end the Syrian conflict, but insisted there could not be a return to the status quo under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Speaking at the annual United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. President described Assad as a tyrant and as the chief culprit behind the civil war in which at least 200,000 people had died and millions had been driven from their homes. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in contrast, told the gathering of world leaders that there was no alternative to cooperating with Assad’s military in an effort to defeat the Islamic State militant group, which had seized parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq.
2015 - South African comedian Trevor Noah succeeded Jon Stewart as host of the late-night talk and satirical news program, The Daily Show, on the Comedy Central cable channel.
2016 - Shimon Peres, the 93-year-old former president and prime minister of Israel, died two weeks after suffering a massive stroke. The Nobel Prize-winning visionary guided his country toward peace during a remarkable seven-decade career.
2016 - The U.S. Congress passed a GOP-sponsored spending bill that Democrats had previously blocked (because it didn’t contain aid for Flint, Michigan to recover from its water crisis). The action, just days before a deadline to pass a funding bill and avoid a government shutdown, came after Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, reached a deal in the House to address Flint aid separately in a water resources development bill.
2016 - A Dutch-led inquiry into the July 2014 downing of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine found that the Boeing 777 was shot down by a BUK missile system from an area in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The system had been brought in from Russia and was taken back there after the passenger jet was shot down.
2017 - Hawaii’s state land board approved the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The board’s decision effectively put the TMT project back where it was before protestors halted the telescope’s construction in April 2015, just days after it had begun, by blocking the road up Mauna Kea.
2017 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said an unknown amount of sediments contaminated with dioxins had washed down from a Houston-area Superfund site during flooding from Hurricane Harvey. More than a week after Harvey raked across southeast Texas, drone footage showed floodwaters still surrounding the San Jacinto Superfund site. Of the 41 Superfund sites -- places storing sulfuric acid, heavy metals and waste oils -- that were in the storm’s path, 13 were flooded.
2018 - New movies in U.S. theatres included: Hell Fest, with Bex Taylor-Klaus, Reign Edwards and Michael Tourek; Little Women, starring Lea Thompson, Ian Bohen and Lucas Grabeel; Night School, with Rob Riggle, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart; the animated Smallfoot, featuring the voices of Zendaya, Channing Tatum and Danny DeVito; Black 47, with Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville and Stephen Rea; Cruise, starring Emily Ratajkowski, Kathrine Narducci and Spencer Boldman; Maximum Impact, with Alexander Nevsky, Danny Trejo and Tom Arnold; Monsters and Men, starring Chanté Adams, Giuseppe Ardizzone and Nicole Beharie; The Old Man and the Gun, starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek; The Padre, with Valeria Henríquez, Tim Roth and Nick Nolte; Summer 03, starring Joey King, Andrea Savage and Erin Darke; and Trico Tri: Happy Halloween, with Kendall Vertes, Armando Gutierrez and Carson Rowland.
2018 - The U.S. announced it was closing its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and would be relocating diplomatic personnel assigned there. This, following threats from Iran and Iran-backed militia, including rocket fire.
2018 - Pope Francis defrocked (laicized) 88-year-old Reverend Fernando Karadima, the Chilean priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy. The Vatican said the Pope made the decision to invoke his ‘supreme’ authority to stiffen the punishment already applied to Karadima. Francis made the decision as a result of the “exceptional amount of damage” the priest’s crimes had caused.
2019 - Sixty seven climate change protesters were arrested outside a coal power plant in New Hampshire as they staged a demonstration calling for the facility to be shut down. And in Switzerland some 60,000 people demonstrated in Bern calling for more action to curb climate change.
2019 - CVS Health Corp said it was discontinuing sales the popular Zantac heartburn treatment and its own generic ranitidine products from its pharmacies after traces of a known carcinogen were found in some of the products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA later determined that the impurity in some ranitidine products increases over time and when stored at higher than room temperatures and may result in consumer exposure to unacceptable levels of this impurity.
2020 - India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reached 6 million. The country was second to the U.S. in the number of cases. COVID-19 fatalities in India numbered 95,542. U.S. cases crossed the 7-million mark, with coronavirus-related deaths approaching 205,000.
2021 - Hungary and Ukraine summoned each others’ ambassadors over Budapest’s decision to sign a long-term contract to purchase Russian gas, something Ukraine considers a blow to its economic and national security interests.
2021 - Women marched to the historic center of Mexico City under the eye of police. This, to commemorate the global day of action for access to safe and legal abortion. Thousands of women demonstrated in other Latin American cities in a region where abortion was fully permitted only in a handful of countries.
2022 - Hurricane Ian made landfall as a category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida. Its winds were measured at a sustained 150mph (with 10-15 foot storm surge) by the National Hurricane Center. Ian went on to kill some 148 people in Florida. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said it had to rescue numerous people with life-threatening medical emergencies in deep water, many of them trapped in flooded homes.
2022 - The Biden administration announced another $1.1 billion in security aid for Ukraine. The military assistance package included 18 High Mobility Rocket Systems, ammunition for the systems, 150 armored vehicles, other trucks and trailers, two radars for aerial drones, other radar equipment, and body armor. It was the 22nd such package, and it brought the total U.S. commitment to more than $16.2 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
2022 - Russian soldiers who made phone calls home told wives, girlfriends, parents, and friends that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine had gone badly from the start. The New York Times posted audio clips of some of the calls, which were intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence. In one, a soldier identified as Aleksandr said: “Putin is a fool. He wants to take Kyiv. But there’s no way we can do it.” Another, identified as Aleksey, told his partner: “They said we were going for training. These bastards didn’t tell us anything.” The recordings showed that Russia’s airborne units were in disarray and suffering heavy casualties just a few weeks into their invasion. One said a third of his battalion had been killed. Another said one battalion had been completely wiped out.
2022 - U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Jan 6, 2021, Capitol rioter Kyle Young to 86 months in prison for attacking Washington, DC, police officer Michael Fanone during the attack by a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters. Several rioters attacked Fanone, but Jackson on Tuesday described Young as a “one-man wrecking ball” who assaulted Fanone “under the whirling banner of a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag.” Young pleaded guilty in May to holding Fanone’s wrist and pulling his arm as several fellow Trump supporters dragged him out of a line of officers and into the mob, where he was beaten as he begged for his life.
2023 - A thousand people had died of dengue in Bangladesh so far in 2023, with authorities calling it the country’s worst-ever outbreak. Extraordinarily wet monsoons made it easier for mosquitoes that carry the dengue virus to breed in dirty and stagnant water. It had been a seasonal disease, but due to hotter and wetter monsoons brought about by climate change, it was occurring more frequently.
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Birthdays on This Day September 28
1841 - Georges Clemenceau
French government leader; died Nov 24, 19291856 - Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin
writer: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Timothy’s Quest, The Bird’s Christmas Carol; organized 1st free kindergarten in San Francisco, established California Kindergarten Training School; died Aug 24, 19231887 - Avery Brundage
President of the American Olympic Committee [1929-1953]; member of the International Olympic Committee [1952-1972]; died May 5, 19751892 - Elmer Rice
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: Street Scene [prize for drama: 1929]; died May 8, 19671901 - William S. Paley
Television Hall of Famer, broadcast executive: founder/owner of CBS; died in 1990; died Oct 26, 19901901 - Ed (Edward Vincent) Sullivan
newspaper columnist, TV host: Toast of the Town, The Ed Sullivan Show; died Oct 13, 19741905 - Max Schmeling
International Boxing Hall of Famer: heavyweight champ: bouts: 70; won: 56; lost: 10; drew: 4; KOs: 39; died Feb 2, 20051909 - Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin)
cartoonist: Li’l Abner; died Nov 5, 1979
1912 - Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch)
Academy Award-winning actor: Network [1976]; Flight of the Phoenix, Raid on Entebbe, Elephant Walk; died Jan 14, 19771912 - Peter Finch (Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch)
Academy Award-winning actor: Network [1976]; Flight of the Phoenix, Raid on Entebbe, Elephant Walk; died Jan 14, 19771913 - Alice Marble
Tennis Hall of Famer: won 18 Grand Slam championships [1936–1940]: five in singles, six in women’s doubles, seven in mixed doubles; died Dec 13, 19901918 - Arnold Stang
comedian, actor: Broadside, The Milton Berle Show, Dennis the Menace; cartoon: voice of Top Cat; died Dec 20, 20091919 - Tom Harmon
football: University of Michigan (Heisman Trophy [1940]), AFL: NY Americans [1941], NFL: LA Rams [1946-1947]; broadcaster: ABC Sports; World War II fighter pilot [Silver Star, Purple Heart]; father of actor Mark Harmon; died Mar 17, 19901923 - William Windom
Emmy Award-winning actor: My World and Welcome to It [1969-70]; Murder, She Wrote, The Farmer’s Daughter, The Girl with Something Extra, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, To Kill a Mockingbird; died Aug 16, 20121924 - Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastrojanni)
actor: White Nights, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Used People, Divorce, Italian Style, La Dolce Vita; died Dec 19, 19961926 - Jerry Clower
entertainer: LP: Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi Talkin’; CMA Comedian of the Year [1974-82]; TV co-host: Nashville on the Road; writer: Ain’t God Good; died Aug 24, 19981928 - Koko Taylor
singer: ‘Queen of the Blues’: Love You Like a Woman, South Side Lady, Wang Dang Doodle, Force of Nature, Old School; died Jun 3, 20091930 - Tommy Collins (Leonard Sipes)
singer: You Better Not Do That, It Tickles, If You Can’t Bite, Don’t Growl, I Made the Prison Band; songwriter: If You Ain’t Lovin’ then You Ain’t Livin’, You Gotta Have a License; died Mar 14, 20001934 - Brigitte Bardot (Camille Javal)
actress: And God Created Woman, Viva Maria, A Very Private Affair1935 - Bruce Crampton
golf: best PGA year: 1973: won four times and finished second five times; 10 holes-in-one in pro career1937 - Rod Roddy
TV announcer: The Price is Right, Family Feud, The $100,000 Pyramid, Love Connection, Press Your Luck, Hitman, Battlestars, Whew!; died Oct 27, 20031938 - Ben E. King (Benjamin Earl Nelson)
singer, songwriter: group: The Drifters: There Goes My Baby, Save the Last Dance for Me; solo: Spanish Harlem, Stand by Me, What is Soul, Supernatural Thing Part 1; died Apr 30, 20151941 - Charley Taylor
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Washington Redskins wide receiver: played in seven Pro Bowls1942 - Grant (Dwight ‘Buck’) Jackson
baseball: pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1969], Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1971], NY Yankees [World Series: 1976], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979], Montreal Expos, KC Royals1943 - Joel Higgins
actor: Dead Canaries, Laura Lansing Slept Here, Salvage 1, Bare Essence, Cat Ballou1943 - J.T. Walsh
actor: Breakdown, Hope, Hannah and Her Sisters, Tin Men, Tequila Sunrise, The Grifters, Backdraft, A Few Good Men, Loaded Weapon 1, The Last Seduction, The Client, The Babysitter, Crime of the Century, Pleasantville, Hidden Agenda; died Feb 27, 19981946 - Jeffrey Jones
actor: The Avenging Angel, Houseguest, Stay Tuned, The Hunt for Red October, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Beetlejuice, Howard the Duck, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Amadeus1946 - Helen Shapiro
singer: Please Don’t Treat Me like a Child, You Don’t Know, Walkin’ Back to Happiness, Tell Me What He Said, Little Miss Lonely, Fever; actress: It’s Trad, Dad, Play It Cool, Oliver!1952 - Anthony Davis
football: Univ. of Southern California All-American, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Oilers, LA Rams1952 - Sylvia Kristel
actress: Emmanuelle series, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, The Concorde: Airport ’79, Beauty School; died Oct 18, 20121954 - Steve Largent
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Seattle Seahawks wide receiver; seven Pro Bowls; NFL record holder: most consecutive games with a reception [177], most yards on receptions [13.089], most touchdown passes [100]; member of U.S. House of Representatives [Oklahoma]1960 - Jennifer Rush
singer: The Power of Love, Destiny, Flames of Paradise, Love Is the Language [Of the Heart], I Come Undone, Ring of Ice1961 - Ed Vosberg
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Arizona; San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos1964 - Janeane Garofalo
actress: 24, The Larry Sanders Show, The Ben Stiller Show, Saturday Night Live, TV Nation, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, The Cable Guy, Cop Land, Felicity, The Independent, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The Laramie Project1965 - Ginger Fish (Kenneth Robert Wilson)
musician: drums: groups: Marilyn Manson; Rob Zombie1966 - Maria Canals-Barrera
actress: Imagining Argentina, Bad Boy, The Master of Disguise, America’s Sweethearts, My Family, Harlan and Merleen, American Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm1967 - Jake Reed
football [wide receiver]: Grambling State Univ; NFL: Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints1967 - Mira Sorvino
Academy Award-winning supporting actress: Mighty Aphrodite [1995]; Norma Jean & Marilyn, Tales of Erotica, The Replacement Killers, Joan of Arc: The Virgin Warrior, The Triumph of Love1967 - Moon Unit Zappa
actress: Dark Side of Genius, Heartstopper, Spirit of ’76, The Boys Next Door; daughter of singer Frank Zappa1968 - Naomi Watts
actress: The Impossible, Mulholland Dr., King Kong [2005], The Ring, I Heart Huckabees, 21 Grams, Le Divorce, Ned Kelly, Ellie Parker1970 - Mike DeJean
baseball [pitcher]: Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, New York Mets1975 - Mandy Barnett
singer: Maybe, Now That's All Right With Me, Rainy Days, I’ve Got a Right to Cry1977 - Young Jeezy (Jay Wayne Jenkins)
rapper: groups: United Streets Dopeboyz of America [USDA], Boyz n da Hood, Black Mafia Family [BMF]1977 - Se Ri Pak
golf champ: LPGA Championship [1998, 2002, 2006], U.S. Women’s Open [1998], Women’s British Open [2001]; 25 LPGA tour wins; youngest inductee into the World Golf Hall of Fame1979 - Anndi McAfee
actress, voice actress: Ice Cream Man, Those Secrets, Family of Spies, Touched By an Angel, The Land Before Time, Hey Arnold!; more1984 - Melody Thornton
singer: group: Pussycat Dolls; solo: LP: Hit the Ground Running1986 - Daniel Platzman
musician: drums: group: Imagine Dragons: LP: Night Visions; singles: Radioactive, Demons, It’s Time, Monster, Battle Cry1987 - Hilary Duff
actress: Agent Cody Banks, Human Nature, The Soul Collector, Casper Meets Wendy, Lizzie McGuire, Joan of Arcadia, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, Material Girls1992 - Skye McCole Bartusiak
actress: The Patriot, Blonde, Riding in Cars with Boys, Don’t Say a Word, Firestarter 2: Rekindled, 24; died Jul 19, 2014; more
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Hit Music on This Day September 28
1944I’ll Walk Alone (facts) - Dinah Shore
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma Baby) (facts) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
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