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1829 - Greater London’s Metropolitan Police went into action. There was much opposition to the act of Parliament that authorized the police force. Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel had requested the act (the police were called ‘Bobbies’ in honor of him). The Bobbies first official headquarters were at Scotland Yard; and Scotland Yard became the official name of the police force.1916 - John D. Rockefeller’s net worth officially surpassed 1 billion dollars, making him the very first American billionaire.
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line in Germany during World War I. That Hindenburg Line had been one of the most formidable battle lines in history.
1920 - Radios for 10 bucks! That’s what Joseph Horne Company’s department store in Pittsburgh, PA was selling. The radios were advertised in The Pittsburgh Sun for $10 and up. One could get a ready-made radio in a box with headphones and tuning knob. This way, one could do away with the Quaker Oats round box and the cat’s whisker wire, which was a pain in the butt to tune.
1930 - “This is Lowell Thomas.” Those words were spoken for the first time as a young Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He replaced Floyd Gibbons on the nightly (6:45 p.m.), 15-minute newscast. Thomas, who started as a reporter for the New York Daily News (at age 19), was heard on the radio for the next 46 years.
1930 - “Ba, ba, ba, boo. I will, ba ba ba boo ... marry you!” ‘Der Bingle’, better known as Bing Crosby, America’s premier crooner for decades, married Dixie Lee.
1938 - The Munich Agreement was signed. The pact, between Germany, England, France and Italy, called for the German-speaking section of Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) to be surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1940 - Double or Nothing, a radio quiz show, was first heard on the Mutual Radio Network. Each time contestants answered questions correctly, their winnings would double -- from $20 to $40 to the big payoff of $80. If they gave an incorrect answer, they were gone! Nobody bet on how long the show would last. Good thing. It kept going for a dozen years. Among the sponsors: Feen-A-Mint, Chooz breath candy and Campbell’s soup.
1946 - Mystery fans remember when The Adventures of Sam Spade debuted on CBS radio this Sunday night. (It had aired in the summer of 1946 on ABC on Friday nights.) The Adventures of Sam Spade, with Howard Duff playing Spade, became a big hit in the Sunday night radio lineup. And now a word from our sponsor: “Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie ... it keeps your hair in trim...”
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presented his first Carnegie Hall concert in New York, adding a sophisticated jazz touch to the famous concert emporium. Diz would become one of the jazz greats of all time. His trademark: Two cheeks pushed out until it looked like his face would explode. But, as the hepcats said, “Man, that guy can blow!”
1948 - The Original Amateur Hour returned to radio on ABC, two years after the passing of the program’s originator and host, Major Bowes. Bowes brought new star talent into living rooms for 11 years. Ted Mack, the new host, had also started a TV run with The Original Amateur Hour on the DuMont network in January of 1948.
1951 - The University of California defeated the University of Pennsylvania 35-0 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. It was the first network football game to be televised in color -- on CBS.
1953 - Danny Thomas, who many now remember as Marlo’s dad and Phil Donahue’s father-in-law, is also remembered for many things that influenced television. At the suggestion of his friend, Desi Arnaz, Thomas negotiated a deal that would allow him to retain ownership rights to his programs, like Make Room for Daddy, which debuted this day on ABC-TV. Later, in 1957, the show would move to CBS under the Desilu/Danny Thomas Productions banner. The rest is, literally, TV history. His success allowed him to give something back to the world, in the form of his philanthropic efforts to build St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis. “All I prayed for was a break,” he once told an interviewer, “and I said I would do anything, anything, to pay back the prayer if it could be answered. All I needed was a sign of what to do and I would do it.” And so it was.
1955 - A View from the Bridge, the play by Arthur Miller, opened in New York at the Coronet Theater.
1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The following year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA.
1960 - My Three Sons was welcomed into U.S. homes on ABC-TV. Fred MacMurray, who was a movie actor, had a difficult time making the adjustment to the small screen. But adjust he did, and My Three Sons endured so well that CBS bought the successful hit for somewhere between seven and ten million dollars in 1965.
1960 - Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev heckled and thumped his desk during British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s speech to the U.N. Assembly in New York.
1960 - Irma La Douce opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre). The musical was produced by David Merrick and starred Keith Michell, Elizabeth Seal, Stuart Damon, Fred Gwynne and George S. Irving. The show moved to the Alvin Theatre on October 30, 1961, and closed on December 31, 1961, after a total of 524 performances. Irma La Douce was made into a non-musical film in 1963, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
1961 - After a show at Gerde’s Folk City, The New York Times gave a glowing review in a story about “Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk Song Stylist.”
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy nationalized the Mississippi National Guard. Officials had defied federal court orders to enroll James Meredith, a black student, at the University of Mississippi.
1962 - My Fair Lady closed after a run of 6½ years on Broadway. At the time, it held the record for the longest-running musical of all time on Broadway. 3,750,000 people watched the show and heard tunes like Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, Show Me, Get Me to the Church on Time, I’m an Ordinary Man, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face and the Vic Damone/Robert Goulet standard, On the Street Where You Live.
1963 - The sitcom My Favorite Martian premiered on CBS-TV. It starred Bill Bixby as Tim O’Hara and Ray Walston as the Martian, Martin O’Hara. The show ran through Sep 4, 1966.
1963 - The Judy Garland Show premiered on CBS-TV. Judy’s guest star on the first show was Donald O’Connor. The Judy Garland Show ran one season -- through March 29, 1964.
1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world.
1972 - Japan followed the lead of the U.S. and normalized relations with the People’s Republic of China.
1977 - It was the most-watched prize fight in history, as Muhammad Ali beat Earnie Shavers (in a decision) to claim the heavyweight championship boxing crown. The bout was televised from New York City’s Madison Square Garden and was officiated by the first woman official of a heavyweight title boxing match. Ali “floated like a butterfly ... stung like a bee” before an estimated 70 million viewers -- on NBC-TV.
1982 - The first of seven deaths was reported in the Chicago area from Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. Later, Johnson and Johnson introduced a triple sealed, tamper resistant Tylenol bottle.
1983 - On the Great White Way, A Chorus Line became the longest-running show on Broadway, with performance number 3,389. Grease, the rock ’n’ roll production, had been the previous box-office champ since 1980.
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic and overcoming a nagging weight problem, was voted as the world’s most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll released this day.
1986 - Mary Lou Retton, who stunned audiences with perfect 10 scores in the Olympics of 1984, called it quits from the wide world of gymnastics.
1987 - Henry Ford II, longtime chairman of Ford Motor Company, died in Detroit. He was 70 years old.
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee of the U.S. won their second gold medals of the Seoul Olympics, in the 200-meter and the long jump, respectively.
1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery in her slapping of a Beverly Hills, CA police officer. The cop had pulled her over in her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates. Gabor was sentenced to three days in jail and community work at a women’s shelter.
1990 - U.S. Secretary of State James Baker met Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach. It was the highest-level contact between the former enemies since the Vietnam War.
1990 - U.S. President George Bush (I) watched as the final stone of the National Cathedral, the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, was lifted place into. This, some 83 years after President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone.
1990 - Millie’s Book, written by First Lady Barbara Bush for the president’s dog, became a best-selling non-fiction book.
1992 - Following allegations of corruption within his government, Brazil’s President Fernando Collor de Mello was suspended by the Chamber of Deputies this day. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to impeach him on December 29,1992. He was the first Latin American leader to be impeached.
1995 - New in U.S. theatres: Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle, Maury Chaykin, Lisa Nicole Carson, Mel Winkler and Terry Kinney; and Moonlight & Valentino, with Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kathleen Turner and Jon Bon Jovi.
1995 - Three U.S. servicemen were indicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and handed over to Japanese authorities. The Americans were convicted on March 7, 1996 and sentenced to up a maximum seven years in a Japanese prison.
1996 - The Nintendo 64 video game system, known as the first ‘true’ 64-bit system, hit North American shelves. That first day, Nintendo sold 500,000 systems, with the Mario64 game selling the same with it. Needless to say, Nintendo’s system was a big sucess.
1997 - Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols went on trial in the same courtroom in Denver where Timothy McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death. Nichols was eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy (but acquitted of murder and weapons-related counts) and was sentenced to life in prison.
1997 - American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein died in New York. He was 73 years old.
1998 - Tom Bradley, the first black mayor of Los Angeles, died. Highs and lows of Bradley’s reign included the 1984 Olympics and the 1992 race riots.
1999 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the $28 billion Treasury/Postal Appropriations Bill. The law doubled the next president’s salary (to $400,000), gave a 3.4% raise to senators and representatives, and raised the average federal worker’s pay by 4.8%.
2000 - Movies released in the U.S.: Beautiful, with Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Kathleen Turner; Best in Show, starring Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock; The Broken Hearts League, Timothy Olyphant, Zach Braff, Dean Cain, Andrew Keegan; and Remember the Titans, starring Denzel Washington, Will Patton and Wood Harris.
2001 - Nguyen Van Thieu, former general and president of South Vietnam, died in Boston. He was 78 years old. Thieu was an Army lieutenant-colonel when the Republic of Vietnam was founded in 1954/1955.
2002 - Cuba struck deals to buy more than $66 million of American food during a mammoth agribusiness show aimed at bringing more U.S. farm products to the communist island.
2003 - The U.S. Justice Department launched a “full-blown criminal investigation” into who leaked (to TV talker Robert Novak) the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Plame was the wife of ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson. The revelation of her connection with the CIA created a brouhaha in the Washington DC political scene.
2003 - Rwandans began casting ballots at the start of three days of voting in that nation’s first genuine multiparty legislative elections since independence from Belgium in 1962.
2004 - A U.S. federal court ruled that a section of the Patriot Act allowing the search of phone and Internet records was unconstitutional.
2004 - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to ten years for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole.
2005 - The New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from a U.S. federal jail, where she had been a prisoner since July 2005. Miller said she received a ‘waiver’ from her news source, allowing her to testify in the investigation of the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
2006 - New movies in the U.S.: The Guardian, starring Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Neal McDonough, Clancy Brown, Melissa Sagemiller, Brian Geraghty and Sela Ward; and School for Scoundrels, with Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Heder, Jacinda Barrett, Michael Clarke Duncan, Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Horatio Sanz and Matt Walsh.
2006 - At the World Chess Championship in Kalmykia, Russia, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia forfeited a game to Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. Kramnik had refused to play after being locked out of his private bathroom. Topalov said he was suspicious because Kramnik had made some fifty trips to the bathroom during every game.
2007 - Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films, died in Western Australia. The Canadian-born Lois Ruth Hooker took on the Miss Moneypenny role for the firs time in 1962 alongside Sean Connery in Dr No. Her films also included Bedtime for Bonzo with Ronald Reagan.
2008 - Citigroup bought the operations of Charlotte-based Wachovia Corp. for $2.2 billion in stock and assumed $42 billion in losses. Ironically, Wachovia’s new 48-story headquarters in Charlotte, NC, was still under construction.
2008 - The U.S. House of Representatives rejected the Bush administration’s $700 billion emergency rescue plan. Democrats voted 140 to 90 in favor, while Republicans voted 133-65 against the plan. In response to that Congressional rejection, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 777.68 points, its biggest single-day fall to that time.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: The Hills Run Red, starring Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery, Mike Straub, Ewan Bailey and Danko Jordanov; and The Shortcut, with Andrew Seeley, Shannon Woodward and Dave Franco.
2009 - An 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck about 120 miles south of the Samoa Islands, population 180,000, and American Samoa, a U.S. territory of 65,000. Four tsunami waves 15-20 feet (4-6 meters) high roared ashore on American Samoa, reaching up to a mile (1.5km) inland. 189 people were killed, most of them in Samoa.
2009 - After a decade of negotiations, 28 parties in California reached a tentative agreement to remove four dams on the Klamath River, which had been blocking salmon migrations. If the plan is carried out, the dams will be dismantled in 2020.
2010 - Two American balloonists disappeared in rough weather off the cost of Italy. Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer-Davis were participating in the 54th Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race, in which teams try to fly the farthest on a maximum of about 1,000 cubic meters (35,300 cubic feet) of gas. An Italian fishing boat pulled the remains of the two from the Adriatic Sea on Dec 6, 2010.
2012 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that banned controversial therapy practices -- so-called so-called reparative therapy -- that attempted to change the sexual orientation of minors.
2013 - Alexian Lien was pulled from his SUV and beaten in front of his wife and toddler in New York City. Lien said he feared for his life after getting caught in a motorcyle rally and plowing through a crowd -- injuring one motorcyclist. Eight bikers, including an off-duty police officer, were arrested for beating Lien.
2014 - Hong Kong democracy protesters defied volleys of tear gas and police batons to stand firm in the centre of the global financial hub. It was one of the biggest political challenges for China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
2015 - The U.S. imposed sanctions against more than 30 Islamic State leaders, financial figures, supporters and affiliated groups. This, in an effort to block the militants, citizens of Britain, France, Russia, Syria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, from the international financial system.
2016 - A commuter train crashed through a barrier at the busy Hoboken (New Jersey) station and lurched across the waiting area, killing one person and injuring 114 others in a tangle of broken concrete, twisted metal and dangling wires. “There wasn’t even a screeching or halting,” passenger Jamie Weatherhead-Saul said. “It just kept going. The lights went off and people started screaming.”
2017 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: American Made, starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson and Sarah Wright; Flatliners, with Nina Dobrev, Ellen Page and Diego Luna; Don’t Sleep, starring Dominic Sherwood, Cary Elwes and Drea de Matteo; Lucky, with Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch and Ron Livingston; Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, starring Diane Lane, Liam Neeson and Maika Monroe; Our Souls at Night, starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda and Judy Greer; A Question of Faith, with Richard T. Jones, Kim Fields and C. Thomas Howell; Super Dark Times, starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan and Elizabeth Cappuccino; and Til Death Do Us Part, with Taye Diggs, Malik Yoba and Annie Ilonzeh.
2017 - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned following revelations of his costly use of private charter aircraft for official trips.
2017 - POTUS Donald Trump pledged to spare no effort to help Puerto Ricans recover from Hurricane Maria’s ruinous aftermath. This, as San Juan’s mayor, her voice breaking with rage, accused Trump of “killing us with the inefficiency.”
2018 - The U.S. Department of Education suspended payments to Chicago’s Magnet Schools Assistance Program following allegations that the district failed to protect students from sexual violence.
2018 - Israel’s navy intercepted a Norwegian-flagged activist boat trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Norwegian-flagged Karstein had 22 people on board.
2019 - Fashion retailer Forever 21, a privately held company that helped popularize trendy clothing, filed for bankruptcy. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the apparel retailer said it was closing most of its stores in Asia and Europe but would continue operations in Mexico and Latin America.
2020 - Australia-born singer Helen Reddy died in Los Angeles at 78 years of age. Her 1972 hit song I Am Woman became a feminist anthem. And singer Mac Davis died (also age 78) in Nashville, TN following heart surgery. The pop-country crossover star was known for his many hits, including Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me.
2020 - The first of three scheduled debates between Trump and Biden deteriorated into bitter taunts and chaos as Republican Trump repeatedly interrupted Democrat Biden with jabs that overshadowed any substantive discussion.
2020 - The White House blocked an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep cruise ships docked until mid-February. CDC Director Robert Redfield was overruled by Vice President Mike Pence.
2021 - A judge granted the request of Britney Spears to suspend her dad, James, as conservator. The judge ordered him to turn over all of her assets, estimated at about $60 million. “I do believe -- that the suspension of Jamie Spears is in the best interest of the conservatee, Britney Spears,” Judge Brenda Penny said.
2021 - YouTube blocked all anti-vaccine content on its site. The decision by the online video sharing and social media platform moved it beyond its previous ban on false information about the COVID vaccines -- to bans on misinformation about all other vaccines.
2021 - Rolls-Royce said it would produce only electric cars by 2030, joining other premium brands making the switch, such as VW’s Bentley and Jaguar’s Land Rover.
2022 - Hurricane Ian destroyed bridges and buildings in southwest Florida and hit central Florida with what Governor Ron DeSantis described as ‘500-year’ flooding before pushing east over Atlantic waters. About 2.7 million utility customers in Florida lost electricity and the storm was blamed for numerous deaths.
2022 - Conservative activist Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, repeated false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump by fraud as she was interviewed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. “The information was typical of a lot of information we received from other people who were involved in this effort around Jan 6. A lot of, ‘Well, I believed something was wrong,’” chairman Bennie Thompson, told reporters about Thomas’ testimony. “She was one of those people we wanted to talk to and, ultimately, we eventually got there.”
2023 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The Creator, with John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles and Gemma Chan; the animated PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, featuring characters voiced by Finn Lee-Epp, Ron Pardo, Mckenna Grace, Christian Convery, Taraji P. Henson and Marsai Martin; and the horror, mystery flick, Saw X, starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Steven Brand, Synnøve Macody Lund and Michael Beach.
2023 - Heavy rain in New York City created flash floods, shutting down half of the subway system. It had been the wettest September in 100 years. Out of September’s 30 days, it rained for 14 of them. NYC saw three times the amount of typical rain for the month with a total rainfall of 14 inches. That was just shy of New York City’s wettest September on record with 16.85 inches in 1882.
2023 - The Sphere at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas opened. Its 15,000-square-metre (161,459 square feet) wrap-around screen opened with a concert by band U2.
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Birthdays on This Day September 29
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
author: Don Quixote; died Apr 23, 16161758 - Horatio Nelson
military: British Navy: Battle of Trafalgar hero; killed during that battle Oct 21,18051903 - Ted de Corsia
actor: The Delta Factor, 5 Card Stud, The King’s Pirate, Nevada Smith, Blood on the Arrow, It'$ Only Money; died Apr 11, 19731904 - Greer Garson
Academy Award-winning actress: Mrs. Miniver [1942]; Sunrise at Campobello, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Singing Nun; died Apr 6, 19961907 - (Orvon) Gene Autry
‘The Singing Cowboy’: actor: 100+ cowboy westerns; singer: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, The Death of Mother Jones, You are My Sunshine, Mexicali Rose, Back in the Saddle Again; owner: California Angels, Golden West Broadcasting; CMA Hall of Famer; only person to have 5 Hollywood Walk of Fame stars [film, radio, TV, stage, records]; died Oct 2, 1998; more1907 - Richard Harkness
radio/TV journalist: NBC Washington correspondent [1943-1970]; died Feb 16, 19771910 - Virginia Bruce
singer, dancer in Ziegfeld Follies; actress: Broadway: Smiles, America’s Sweetheart; films: Madame Wang’s, Reluctant Bride, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Pardon My Sarong, Let Freedom Ring, Strangers When We Met; died Feb 24, 19821912 - Michelangelo Antonioni
director: Blowup, Zabriskie Point, The Red Desert, The Passenger, Love in the City; died July 30, 20071913 - Trevor (Wallace) Howard
actor: Superman: The Movie, Gandhi, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ryan’s Daughter, The Count of Monte Cristo; died Jan 7, 19881913 - Stanley Kramer
director: The Defiant Ones, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools, On the Beach; died Feb 19, 20011917 - Don Castle
TV producer: Lassie; actor: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Motor Patrol, Who Killed Doc Robbin?, The Invisible Wall, The Searching Wind, The Ghost Comes Home; died May 26, 19661920 - Peter Arne
actor: Doctor Who, The Avengers, Danger Man, The Pink Panther; died Aug 1, 19831922 - Lizabeth Scott
actress: Dead Reckoning, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, I Walk Alone, Dead Reckoning, The Pitfall, Easy Living, Dark City, Red Mountain, Scared Stiff, Two of a Kind, Bad for Each Other, The Racket, Loving You; died Jan 31, 20151923 - Bum Phillips
football coach: Houston Oilers; died Oct 18, 20131925 - Steve Forrest
actor: Storyville, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hollywood Wives, Sahara, Mommie Dearest, Roughnecks, So Big, The Longest Day, North Dallas Forty, S.W.A.T., Hollywood Wives, Dallas; died May 18, 20131931 - Anita Ekberg
actress: La Dolce Vita, War and Peace; died Jan 11, 20151935 - Jerry Lee Lewis
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1986]: singer: Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless; cousin of singer Mickey Gilley, and evangelist Jimmy Swaggart; died Oct 28, 20221938 - Mike (Michael Francis) McCormick
baseball: pitcher: NY Giants, SF Giants [all-star: 1960, 1961/Cy Young Award: 1967], Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, NY Yankees, KC Royals; died Jun 13, 20201939 - Tommy Boyce
musician: guitar; singer: group: Boyce and (Bobby) Hart: I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonite; composer: The Monkees TV theme song; died Nov 23, 19941939 - Larry Linville
actor: M*A*S*H, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Blue Movies, Earth Girls Are Easy, West From North Goes South, A Million to Juan, Pressure Point; died Apr 10, 20001940 - Mike Eischeid
football: punter: Oakland Raiders [Super Bowl II], Minnesota Vikings [Super Bowl VIII, IX]1940 - Robert Gentry
actor: Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing, Frankenstein [1973], The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean1941 - Kermit Zarley
golf: PGA Tour: joined in 1963, Senior PGA Tour: joined in 19921942 - Madeline Kahn
Tony Award-winning actress: The Sisters Rosensweig [1993]; Blazing Saddles, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc?, High Anxiety, Young Frankenstein, Oh Madeline, Mr. President; died Dec 3, 19991942 - Ian McShane
actor: Grand Larceny, Con Man, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Grace Kelly Story, Yesterday’s Hero, The Fifth Musketeer, Code Name: Diamond Head, The Last of Sheila, If It’s Tuesday It Must Be Belgium, Lovejoy, Roots, Dallas, Bare Essence1942 - Dave Wilcox
Pro Football Hall of Famer: outside linebacker: San Francisco 49ers: All-NFL five times, All-NFC three times, played in seven Pro Bowls1943 - Lech Walesa
Nobel Peace prize-winner [1983]: founder of Polish solidarity1944 - Mike Post
Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, musician: Classical Gas [1968], The Rockford Files [1975: w/Pete Carpenter], The Theme From Hill Street Blues [1981: w/Larry Carlton], The Theme From L.A. Law [1988]; Emmy Award: Main Title: Murder One [1995]; Baa Baa Black Sheep, CHiPs, The Night Rider, Magnum, P.I., The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hunter, Stingray, Quantum Leap, Doogie Howser, M.D., Silk Stalkings, Martial Law, Sins of the City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1946 - Patricia Hodge
actress: The Heat of the Day, The Shell Seekers, Sunset, Diamond’s Edge, Dust to Dust, Betrayal, The Elephant Man, Rumpole of the Bailey1946 - Ian Wallace
musician: drums: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale, She Wandered Through the Garden Fence, Something Following Me, Mabel; died Feb 22, 20071947 - Altie Taylor
football: Utah State; NFL: Detroit Lions [1969–1975], Houston Oilers [1976]1948 - Mark Farner
musician: guitar: singer: Grand Funk Railroad: We’re an American Band, Walk Like a Man; solo: LP: Mark Farner, No Frills1948 - Bryant Gumbel
TV host: Today [NBC], Real Sports [HBO], Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel [CBS], The Early Show [CBS]; brother of Greg1948 - Mike Pinera
musician: guitar: groups: Blues Image: Ride Captain Ride1949 - Steve (Steven Lee) Busby
baseball: pitcher: KC Royals [all-star: 1974, 1975]1953 - Warren (Livingston) Cromartie
baseball: Montreal Expos, KC Royals1955 - Gwen Ifill
TV newscaster, anchor: PBS NewsHour, Washington Week, News Hour with Jim Lehrer; moderated 2004, 2008 U.S. Vice Presidential debates; died Nov 14, 20161956 - Sebastian Coe
runner: world record: 800-meters [1:41.73: June 10, 1981]; eight world records and two Olympic gold medals1957 - Andrew Dice Clay
actor: The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Private Resort, Pretty in Pink, Amazon Women on the Moon, Andrew Dice Clay: Banned for Life1957 - Tim (Timothy Earl) Flannery
baseball: SD Padres [World Series: 1984]1961 - Julia Gillard
politician: first woman to be Prime Minister of Australia [2010-2013]1962 - Roger Bart
Tony Award-winning actor: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown [1999]; The Producers, The Frogs, Young Frankenstein; film/TV: The Stepford Wives [2004], Hostel, American Gangster, Spy School, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Midnight Meat Train, Desperate Housewives, Human Target, Medium, Revenge, Grimm, How I Met Your Mother1963 - Dave Andreychuk
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning1964 - Jeanna Fine
actress [1985-2002]: X-rated films: Older Women, Hotter Sex, The World’s Luckiest Man, Decadent Obsession, Generally Horny Hospital, Sex Lives of Clowns1966 - Mike Foster
actor [1992-2008]: X-rated films: Carmen the Spanish Whore, Princess and the Whore, Adventures on the Orient Express, Cream Pie Perfection1966 - Hersey Hawkins
basketball [guard]: Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets, Seattle SuperSonics, Chicago Bulls1966 - Jill Whelan
actress: The Love Boat, Sandman, Babies Having Babies, Airplane!, Divorce Court1968 - Luke Goss
actor: Blade II, One Night with the King, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Tekken, Interview with a Hitman1969 - Erika Eleniak
model: Playboy Playmate July 1989; actress: Baywatch, Under Siege, Just a Story, Caught in the Headlights, The Opponent, Bordello of Blood, Dracula 3000, The Blob1969 - Kelly Robbins
LPGA golf champ: LPGA Corning Classic [1993]; Jamie Farr Toledo Classic [1994]; McDonald’s LPGA Championship [1995]; Twelve Bridges LPGA Classic [1996]; Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am, Jamie Farr Kroger Classic [1997]; HealthSouth Inaugural, Lifetime’s AFLAC Tournament of Champions [1998]; HealthSouth Inaugural [1999]1970 - Emily Lloyd
actress: Under the Hula Moon, Scorchers, A River Runs Through It, In Country, Wish You Were Here1970 - Natasha Gregson Wagner
actress: The Outpost, Two Girls and a Guy, Urban Legend, Ally McBeal, Another Day in Paradise, Stranger Than Fiction, High Fidelity, Wonderland, Cold Case, Medium, ER, 21 Guns, The 4400, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House M.D.1971 - Ray Buchanan
football [cornerback]: Univ of Louisville; NFL: Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders1971 - Mackenzie Crook
comedian, actor: The Office, Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Solomon Kane, The Brothers Grimm1972 - Jörgen Jönsson
hockey [left wing]: New York Islanders, Anaheim Mighty Ducks1974 - Dedric Ward
football [wide receiver]: Northern Iowa Univ; NFL: New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Dallas Cowboys1977 - Eric Barton
football [linebacker]: Univ of Maryland; NFL: Oakland Raiders, New York Jets1977 - Jonathan Sim
hockey [center]: Dallas Stars, Nashville Predators, LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins1980 - Zibby Allen
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Waiting for Ophelia, Coffee, Kill Boss, A.N.T. Farm1980 - Zachary Levi
actor: Chuck, Less Than Perfect, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, The Tiffany Problem, Wieners, Ctrl Z, Spiral, Imperfect Union, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel1981 - Kelly McCreary
actress: Grey’s Anatomy, Emily Owens, M.D., Harvey Street Kids, Baby, Baby, Baby, Life1982 - Ariana Jollee
actress [2003-2011]: X-rated films: Nasty Girls 30, Spring Chickens 4, The Narcassist, Internal Cumbustion 9, 65 Guy Cream Pie, Sodom: The Beginning, Spice Hotel1984 - Per Mertesacker
footballer [center back]: Germany [2003-2014]: 2014 FIFA World Cup champs1985 - Calvin Johnson
football [wide receiver]: Georgia Tech; NFL: Detroit Lions [2007–2015]: 2-time NFL Receiving yards leader [2011, 2012]; more1988 - Kevin Durant
basketball [forward]: NBA: Seattle SuperSonics, Oklahoma City Thunder [2007–2016]: youngest player to win NBA scoring title [2009-2010]; Golden State Warriors [2016-2019]: 2017, 2018 NBA champs; Brooklyn Nets [2019-2023]; Phoenix Suns [2023- ]1994 - Halsey (Ashley Nicolette Frangipane)
songwriter, singer: Now or Never, Bad at Love, Him & I, Eastside, Without Me; collaborated with The Chainsmokers on Closer; collaborated with Benny Blanco and Khalid on Eastside; activist: Bernie Sanders promoter; mental health and suicide prevention awareness campaigner1995 - Sasha Lane
actress: Loki, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Twisters, Conversations with Friends, The Crowded Room
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1945If I Loved You (facts) - Perry Como
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (facts) - Johnny Mercer
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