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1641 - Once upon a time, New York and New Jersey were known as the New Netherlands. It was on this day that an ordinance by the authorities of the New Netherlands declared that an annual fair be held at Fort Amsterdam (now, New York City). The ruling actually stated that there would be two fairs, a Cattle Fair on October 15 and a Hog Fair on November 1; and that all who had any thing to buy or sell could attend. Anyone remember seeing a cow or a pig running around NYC lately?1841 - The stapler was patented by Samuel Slocum. His invention of sticking pins on paper was actually an early forerunner of the stapler.
1927 - A record for the most home runs in a season -- 60 -- was set by Babe Ruth. The record stood for 34 years until it was broken by Roger Maris.
1930 - Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red radio network this day; The 30-minute, Western-adventure series featured human interest tales based on fact and all revolved around the borax mining town of Death Valley, California.
1933 - The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here and it opened the National Barn Dance. The half-hour country music and comedy show, originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, “Give me a toot on the tooter, Tommy,” as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One-A-Day vitamins, Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few radio shows to charge admission!
1935 - “Calling all cars...” The Adventures of Dick Tracy aired on the Mutual Radio Network for the first time. Based on the comic strip created by Chester Gould, the 15-minute adventure show was heard Monday thru Friday at 5:45 p.m. The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice.
1935 - “Summertime ... and the livin’ is easy.” Porgy and Bess was presented for the first time -- at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. It was a flop! (It was revived in 1942. It wasn’t a flop that time. It ran longer than any revival in the history of U.S. musical theater.)
1940 - Captain Midnight was heard on network radio for the first time -- on Mutual. The Captain flew his single-engine plane all over the place fighting crime. Talk about a popular show: Ovaltine dropped its sponsorship of Little Orphan Annie to climb on board with Captain Midnight. The show was also sponsored by Skelly Oil.
1941 - The Larry Clinton Orchestra recorded their version of That Solid Old Man, on Bluebird Records.
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. Eleven of the guilty were sentenced to death.
1947 - “Look sharp ... feel sharp...” The World Series came to television for the first time. The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3. The Gillette Safety Razor Company and Ford Motor Company were the sponsors. Together, they paid $65,000 for coverage of the entire series! Announcers: Bob Edge (who also did the razor commercials), Bob Stanton and Bill Slater.
1951 - “Thank you and may God bless.” The Red Skelton Show debuted on NBC-TV (almost 10 years to the day after Red made his radio debut). America’s ‘Clown Prince of Comedy’ was a hit for years on radio and an even bigger one on TV with characters like The Mean Wittle Kid (“I dood it!”), Clem Kadiddlehopper, Sheriff Deadeye, Cauliflower McPugg, Willie Lump-Lump, San Fernando Red, Bolivar Shagnasty and Freddie the Freeloader. Later, he would move to CBS-TV. Overall, The Red Skelton Show remained a fixture on U.S. television for 20 years.
1953 - Earl Warren, Governor of California, was appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President Eisenhower. The Senate confirmed the appointment on March 1, 1954.
1954 - Julie Andrews, who would later become a household name in movies, TV and on records, opened on Broadway for the first time. The future star of The Sound of Music appeared in The Boy Friend this night.
1954 - The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, was commissioned at Groton, CT. The sub’s nuclear generator allowed it to dive longer, faster, and deeper than any before it. Nautilus became the first vessel to travel under the arctic ice and cross the North Pole in 1958. Decommissioned in 1980, the sub was converted into a museum in 1985.
1955 - James Dean, the brooding film actor who won acclaim in Giant, East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, died from injuries suffered in a car crash at the intersection of routes 46 and 41, near Cholame, CA, a tiny farm town. Dean, who lived the life of James Stark (his character in Rebel Without a Cause), was killed when his Porsche Spyder ran into another car, head-on at 75 miles an hour. James Dean souvenirs are for sale at the Jack Ranch Cafe, a half-mile west of the crash scene. Located near the cafe is the James Dean memorial, financed by Japanese fan Seita Ohnishi. Dean’s mechanic, Rolf Wütherich, who was in the Porsche with Dean, was gravely injured, but gradually recovered. Ironically, Wütherich eventually returned to his native (West) Germany and died there in 1981 when his car skidded on a rain-slickened road and struck a tree.
1966 - Nazi war criminals Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach were freed from Spandau Prison after serving 20 years.
1971 - A nine-member citizens committee was organized to investigate the Attica, New York prison riot earlier in the month. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed in the rioting -- the worst in U.S. history.
1972 - Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente collected the 3,000th and final hit of his career -- three months before dying in a plane crash while on an earthquake relief mission.
1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (his dummy was named Charlie McCarthy), died at age 75.
1980 - Israel issued new currency. The shekel replaced the lira. But wait. In 1985 an even newer shekel replaced the shekel.
1982 - The gang down at the Boston Beacon Street neighborhood bar called Cheers brought their antics into our homes beginning this night. Cheers was the place “Where Everyone Knows Your Name” as the theme song, written by Judy Hart Angelo and Gary Portnoy, told us. And we got to know everyone’s name like they were family. The original cast included owner/bartender Sam Malone, played by Ted Danson, his helper Ernie ‘Coach Pantusso’ (Nicholas Colasanto), waitresses Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and Carla Tortelli LeBec (Rhea Perlman), and the regulars -- Norm Peterson (George Wendt) and Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger). Cheers, created by Glen and Les Charles and James Burrows, became an American institution and was still the number one TV show when it ended its eleven-year run on August 19, 1993.
1984 - Mike Witt pitched a perfect game. With a final score of 1-0, and a California win over Texas, Witt was the 11th major-league baseball pitcher in 104 years to accomplish this feat.
1984 - Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau’s comic strip, returned after a 20-month hiatus. Trudeau, married to former Today co-host Jane Pauley, revived the sometimes controversial strip by showing how Mike and the gang from Walden Pond “jumped from draft beer and mixers to cocaine and herpes.”
1985 - Academy Award-winning actress Simone Signoret (Room at the Top: 1959) died at age 64. The German-French actress was also known for her roles in Barabbas (1962), Ship of Fools (1965), The Deadly Affair (1966) and Games (1967).
1988 - IBM announced the shipment of its 3-millionth PS/2 personal computer.
1991 - The military in Haiti overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country’s first freely elected president. He was returned to power on Oct 15, 1994 when democracy was restored in Haiti.
1993 - MS-DOS v6.2 was released by Microsoft. Why? As far as we can tell, it was because I.B.M. had just released their DOS v6.1.
1993 - More than 10,000 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck southern India. 7,600 people were killed and 130,000 left homeless by the pre-dawn temblor. It was the worst earthquake to hit India in 50 years, flattening 52 villages and damaging hundreds more.
1997 - Hooters Restaurants agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle claims that it discriminated against men who applied for jobs.
1998 - A U.S. General Accounting Office audit of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and his predecessor, Robert Fiske, showed they had spent more than $40 million investigating President Bill Clinton -- from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky. No matter what we may think of attorneys, we have to admit that they really do know how to spend money...
1999 - German novelist Guenter Grass won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences credited Grass’ first novel, The Tin Drum, with restoring honor to German literature “after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.”
2000 - American Marion Jones won Olympic gold in the women’s 1,600-meter relay at Sydney, Australia. She also won the bronze with the 400-meter squad, making her the only woman to win five track medals at one Olympics. But wait! There’s more: In 2007 Jones gave back the five medals and agreed to forfeit all other results dating back to 2000, punishment for her admission that she was a drug cheat.
2001 - George Gately, the creator of the Heathcliff newspaper comic strip, died in Ridgewood, NJ. He was 72 years old.
2003 - Norway’s national film board lifted a ban on hundreds of films that were deemed too sexually explicit or violent. The newly-OK films included On Deadly Ground, starring Steven Seagal and Miller’s Crossing. Other films that were previously banned by the Norwegian Board of Film Classification include Robocop 2, Halloween 2, Return of the Living Dead, and New Jack City.
2004 - U.S. President George Bush (II) and Senator John Kerry held their first presidential campaign debate. Neither candidate made the kind of gaffe that would cost him the election, but world opinion gave the edge to Kerry.
2004 - Merck & Co. said the arthritis drug Vioxx, used by two million people around the world, was being pulled off the market after a study confirmed longstanding concerns that it raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. Global Vioxx sales had reached $2.5 billion in 2003.
2005 - New movies in the U.S.: The Greatest Game Ever Played, starring Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Peter Firth, Elias Koteas, Peyton List and Joshua Flitter; Into the Blue, with Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Dwayne Adway, Scott Caan, Ramon Saunders, Ashley Scott and Chris Taloa; and Serenity, starring Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
2005 - The New York Times journalist Judith Miller testified before a federal grand jury. She identified Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, U.S. VP Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, as her confidential source for a non-published story about the unmasking of a CIA agent in 2003.
2006 - Pakistan and the U.S. signed a ‘letter of acceptance’ for a multi-billion dollar package to supply the Pakistan Air Force with F-16 warplanes.
2007 - 51-year-old Milan Jelic, president of Bosnia’s Serb Republic died of a heart attack. He had been on the job less than a year.
2007 - Former chess champ Garry Kasparov entered Russia’s presidential race. (Dec 12, 2007: After fierce pressure, including being thrown in jail, Kasparov announced that he had to withdraw his presidential candidacy.)
2008 - Bank rescue plans spread in Europe and some investors expressed faith that the U.S. Congress would eventually pass a $700-billion bailout plan for the financial sector.
2008 - 41-year-old Zhou Yongjun, the former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, was seized and secretly imprisoned as he tried to re-enter China to visit his parents.
2009 - A law took effect in Arizona allowing people with concealed weapons permits to enter bars and restaurants, that had not posted signs banning guns. Those carrying weapons would not be allowed to drink alcohol.
2009 - The U.S. government and ICANN, the body in charge of assigning Internet addresses, signed an agreement that allows for greater global participation in the Internet domain name process. The agreement, which allows ICANN to become a “private sector led organization,” subjects ICANN to periodic reviews by a panel that includes a U.S. representative and independent experts, essentially allowing the organization to no longer have to report solely to the United States.
2010 - The U.S. Deparment of Justice announced that Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation had agreed to pay $422.5 million in penalties for marketing an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses -- and for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe it and five other drugs.
2011 - Movies opening in the U.S.: 50/50, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston and Serge Houde; Courageous, with Alex Kendrick, Ken Bevel, Ben Davies, Kevin Downes, T.C. Stallings and Rusty Martin; Dream House, starring Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Marton Csokas, Claire Geare, Taylor Geare and Rachel G. Fox; What’s Your Number?, with Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor, Blythe Danner, Ed Begley Jr. and Oliver Jackson-Cohen; Margaret, starring Matt Damon, Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Allison and Krysten Ritter; Benda Bilili!, with Leon Likabu, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Cubain Kabeya and Paulin Kiara-Maigi; Bunraku, starring Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, and Ron Perlman; the documentary Finding Joe, featuring Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Akiva Goldsman, Laird John Hamilton and Catherine Hardwicke; Force, with John Abraham, Raj Babbar, Mohnish Bahl, Genelia D’Souza, Vidyut Jamwal and Ashish Vidyarthi; Munger Road, with Bruce Davison, Randall Batinkoff, Trevor Morgan, Brooke Peoples, Hallock Beals and Lauren Storm; My Joy, featuring Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Gotsdiner, Olga Shuvalova and Maria Varsami; Take Shelter, starring essica Chastain, Michael Shannon Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon, Shea Whigham and Kathy Baker; Tucker & Dale vs Evil, with Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Philip Granger, Brandon Jay McLaren and Christie Laing; and the documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha!.
2011 - Afghan President Hamid Karzaii, who for years had pushed for reconciliation with the Taliban, said that attempts to negotiate with the insurgent movement were futile. Karzaii said he was stopping talks with the Taliban and would be focusing his efforts on Pakistan.
2012 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Paris, France. The protesters marched in ‘resistance’ to austerity measures in Europe that had sparked violent protests in other European Union countries that had been struggling to avert fiscal crises.
2014 - Agents of the Presidential Commission on Good Government seized 15 paintings from the former home of Ferdinand Marcos in Manila, Philippines. This, in an ongoing campaign to recover 156 artworks, including works by Van Gogh, Monet and Michelangelo, that had been stashed by the late dictator.
2015 - 18 package bombs exploded in the city of Liuzhou in southwest China, killing 10 people and injuring another 51. Police later identified quarry worker Wei Yinyong (33) as the mastermind behind the bombings and said he had died in one of the blasts. Apparently Wei Yinyong had disputes with local villagers and companies because of quarry production. Internet censors had worked to delete information about the blasts, which occurred at the beginning of a weeklong national holiday.
2016 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres included: Deepwater Horizon, starring Dylan O’Brien, Mark Wahlberg and Kate Hudson; Masterminds, with Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudeikis; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield and Samuel L. Jackson; American Honey, starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough; ClownTown, with Brian Nagel, Lauren Compton and Andrew Staton; Denial, starring Rachel Weisz, Andrew Scott and Timothy Spall; the animated Long Way North, featuring the voices of Christa Théret, Féodor Atkine, Antony Hickling, Audrey Sablé, Rémi Caillebot, Thomas Sagols, Loïc Houdré and Chloe Dunn; Maximum Ride, starring Allie Marie Evans, Patrick Johnson and Peter O’Brien; and Milton’s Secret, with Michelle Rodriguez, Donald Sutherland and Mia Kirshner.
2016 - A wildfire in a mostly remote area of California’s Santa Cruz Mountains destroyed eight homes and sent a firefighter to the hospital. The fire had burned 4,313 acres and was threatening 325 structures.
2016 - Italian police found two Van Gogh paintings that had been stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002. The paintings were hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime syndicate’s Naples-area stronghold. Investigators also seized some 20 million euros ($22 million) worth of assets, including farmland, villas and apartments that were linked to two Camorra drug kingpins.
2017 - Monty Hall, the American TV icon who hosted the long running game show Let’s Make a Deal, died at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 96 years old. Canadian-born Hall co-created (w/partner Stefan Hatos) Let’s Make a Deal in 1963 and hosted it for more than 20 years. Hall spent much of his post-Deal days involved in philanthropic work and was repeatedly honored for his charitable efforts. Wards at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia are named in his honor.
2017 - Amnesty International said six Egyptian men arrested for “promoting sexual deviancy” and “debauchery” on social media were to be subjected to anal examinations ahead of their trial - to determine whether they had had homosexual sex.
2018 - Britain’s defense secretary said the government was preparing a defense Arctic strategy that would deploy 800 army and marine commandos to Norway in 2019 and establish a new military base there. The moves came amid concerns about increasing Russian aggression.
2019 - A New York Times investigation uncovered fraud committed by Donald Trump. He participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s and he, along with his siblings, set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents.
2019 - The Trump administration sanctioned nearly a dozen companies and individuals along with three planes and a yacht connected to Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest confidants. The moves were punishment for interference in the 2018 U.S. elections.
2019 - PayPal, the U.S. digital money transfer platform, said it had obtained China’s approval to buy a controlling stake in Gopay, a Chinese domestic payments firm. PayPal was the first foreign firm to enter China’s payment services market. The acquisition was completed in Dec 2020.
2020 - Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said his state was getting $215 million in BP oil spill money for two projects to restore more than 4,6000 acres of marsh and other habitat in the New Orleans area. The 2010 spill spewed some 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
2020 - Twitter reported its removal of 130 accounts, because the account holders were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the U.S. presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Twitter removed the accounts, which appeared to originate in Iran, based on intel provided by the FBI.
2021 - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB2 allowing state regulators to revoke the licenses of police officers who committed serious misconduct. 46 other states already had a system to decertify officers for professional misconduct.
2021 - Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, in its first eruption in nearly a year, was filling the crater at its summit with hot red lava and clouding the skies with volcanic smog.
2022 - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took her seat on the U.S. Supreme Court during an investiture ceremony. The historic moment marked the first time that an African-American woman would sit on the highest court. The 52-year-old Jackson was confirmed to the court by the Senate in June after being nominated by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris -- a similarly trailblazing woman -- were both on hand for the ceremony, which was presided over by Chief Justice John Roberts.
2022 - Hurricane Ian slammed into South Carolina, carving a path of destruction across the state -- after devastating Florida. Down to a Category 1 hurricane by the time it reached South Carolina, Ian still battered the state with heavy rains, making landfall near the city of Georgetown. And some 60,000 South Carolinians were without power.
2023 - A bipartisan deal was signed just hours before the midnight deadline, providing funding for the U.S. for 45 days. The sudden agreement in Congress was a major reversal after House Republicans had remained at an impasse for weeks.
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Birthdays on This Day September 30
1861 - William Wrigley Jr.
chewing gum tycoon; died Jan 26, 19321904 - Johnny (John Thomas) Allen
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1932], Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1938], Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1941], SL Browns, NY Giants; died March 29, 19591914 - James Seay
actor: Panic in the City, The Threat, The Amazing Colossal Man, Gun Brothers, The Buccaneer, The Homesteaders, Close to My Heart; died Oct 10, 19921917 - Buddy Rich
bandleader, musician: drums: considered by many to be the greatest jazz drummer ever; died Apr 2, 19871921 - Deborah Kerr (Trimmer)
actress: The King and I, From Here to Eternity, A Woman of Substance, The Night of the Iguana, Quo Vadis, Tea and Sympathy, Separate Tables; died Oct 16, 20071922 - Oscar Pettiford
musician: bass, cello; played with Charlie Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Stan Getz; died Sep 8, 19601924 - Truman (Streckfus) Capote (Persons)
writer: In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; actor: Murder by Death; died Aug 25, 19841926 - Robin (Evan) Roberts
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1950/all-star: 1950-1956/Sporting News National League Player of the Year: 1952, 1955], Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs; won 286 games in 19 seasons, six consecutive 20-victory seasons; died May 6, 20101928 - Elie Wiesel
Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate, author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps; died Jul 2, 20161931 - Angie Dickinson (Brown)
actress: Police Woman, Cassie and Company, Wild Palms, Dressed to Kill, Rio Bravo, Ocean’s 11; Hollywood’s Best Legs Award [1962]1932 - Johnny (John Joseph) Podres
baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [World Series: 1953, 1955], LA Angeles Dodgers [all-star: 1958, 1960, 1962/World Series: 1959, 1963], Detroit Tigers, San Diego Padres; died Jan 13, 20081935 - Jill Corey (Norma Jean Esperanza)
singer: Love Me to Pieces; died Apr 3, 20211935 - Johnny Mathis
singer: Wonderful, Wonderful, It’s Not for Me to Say, Chances Are, Misty, The Twelfth of Never, A Certain Smile, Small World, Gina, What Will Mary Say, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late [w/Deniece Williams], Friends In Love [w/Dionne Warwick]1942 - Frankie Lymon
singer, songwriter: group: Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love; died Feb 27, 19681942 - Dewey Martin
musician: drums, singer: group: Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth; died Feb 1, 20091943 - Marilyn McCoo (Davis)
singer: group: The Fifth Dimension: Up, Up and Away; Aquarius; solo: One Less Bell to Answer, You Don’t Have to be a Star [w/husband, Billy Davis, Jr.]; TV hostess: Solid Gold [1981-1984, 1986-88]; TV music reporter: Preview1943 - Ian Ogilvy
actor: Horse Sense, The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter, Death Becomes Her, Anna Karenina, Return of the Saint1944 - Jody Powell
journalist; Press Secretary to U.S. President Jimmy Carter; died Sep 14, 20091944 - Austin ‘Red’ Robbins
basketball: Univ. of Tennessee, Philadelphia 76ers; died Nov 18, 20091946 - Sylvia Peterson
singer: group: The Chiffons: Tonight’s the Night, One Fine Day, He’s So Fine, A Love So Fine, I Have a Boyfriend, Sweet Talkin’ Guy1948 - Andy Maurer
football: guard, tackle: Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings: Super Bowl IX, Denver Broncos: Super Bowl XII; died Jan 2, 20161950 - Victoria Tennant
actress: Flowers in the Attic, L.A. Story, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance1951 - Catie Ball-Condon
swimmer: Univ of Florida, U.S. women’s Olympic 400 medley relay [gold medal: 1968]1952 - John Lombardo
songwriter, musician: guitar: group: 10,000 Maniacs: Earth Pressed Flat, Ellen, Somebody’s Heaven, Rainy Day, Love Among the Ruins, More Than This, What’s the Matter Here?1953 - Deborah Allen (Thurmond)
singer: Baby I Lied, Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me [w/Jim Reeves]; songwriter: Don’t Worry ’Bout Me1954 - Barry Williams (Blenkhorn)
actor: The Brady Bunch, A Very Brady Christmas1957 - Fran Drescher
actress: The Nanny, Saturday Night Fever, The Beautician and the Beast, Picking Up the Pieces1961 - Eric Stoltz
actor: Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mask, Some Kind of Wonderful, Our Town, Three Sisters, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Glass Menagerie, Pulp Fiction, Once and Again1961 - Crystal Bernard
actress: Wings, It’s a Living, Happy Days, As Good as Dead, Slumber Party Massacre 21962 - Dave Magadan
baseball: NY Mets [NLCS: 1988], Seattle Mariners, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres1964 - Monica Bellucci
model, actress: Remember Me, My Love, The Passion, Enter the Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Tears of the Sun, Malena, Under Suspicion1964 - Robby Takac
musician: bass; singer: founding member of the group Goo Goo Dolls: Give a Little Bit, Broadway, Dizzy, Slide, Big Machine, Black Balloon, We Are the Normal, Here Is Gone, Iris, Bang!1971 - Jenna Elfman
actress: Dharma & Greg, Accidentally on Purpose, Love Hurts, Struck, Touched, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Keeping the Faith, Edtv, Grosse Pointe Blank, Friends with Benefits1972 - Jose Lima
baseball [pitcher]: Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, LA Dodgers; died May 23, 20101974 - Jeremy Giambi
baseball: Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox; brother of baseball player Jason Giambi1974 - Daniel Wu
director, producer, actor: City of Glass, Gen-X Cops, Purple Storm, Love Undercover, Around the World in 80 Days [2004]1975 - Marion Cotillard
Academy Award-winning actress: La Vie en Rose [2008]; Big Fish, Public Enemies, Midnight in Paris, Contagion, Inception, Rust and Bone, The Dark Knight Rises1975 - Christopher Jackson
Tony Award-winning actor, singer: Hamilton [2016]; Broadway: In the Heights; films/TV: Moana, Bull, Oz, Central Park1977 - Katelin Chesna
actress: Krews, The Zodiac, Markings, Heart of the Beholder, Exes and Oh’s1980 - Martina Hingis
[Swiss Miss] tennis champ: five Grand Slam singles titles [three Australian Open, one Wimbledon, and one U.S. Open]; nine Grand Slam women’s doubles titles1981 - Cecelia Ahern
Irish novelist: PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here, Thanks for the Memories, The Year I Met You, The Marble Collector, The Gift, The Book of Tomorrow, Lyrebird; TV producer: Samantha Who?1981 - Dominique Moceanu
youngest [age 14] U.S. gymnast to win Olympic gold medal [1996]1982 - Lacey Chabert
actress: Party of Five, Lost in Space [1998], Accidental Murder, The Pleasure Drivers, The Brooke Ellison Story, Mean Girls, Tart, Daddy Day Care, The Wild Thornberrys1982 - Kieran Culkin
actor: Succession, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Father of the Bride, Igby Goes Down, Music of the Heart, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Mighty; brother of actor Macaulay Culkin1982 - Tory Lane
actress [2004-2012]: X-rated films: Flip The Switch, Gobble the Goop 2, Spunkmouth 6, Virtual Vivid Girls: The Love Twins, Assploitations 6,7,8,9, Jenna’s American Sex Star1984 - Lebron James
basketball: tri-captain of the 2006 USA World Championship Team; NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers [2003–2010]; Miami Heat [2010–2014]: 2012, 2013 NBA champs; Cleveland Cavaliers [2014–2018]: 2015 NBA finals, 2016 NBA champs, 2017 NBA finals, 2018 NBA finals; Los Angeles Lakers [2018– ]; more1985 - T-Pain (Faheem Rasheed Najm)
rapper: LPs: Rappa Ternt Sanga, Epiphany, Thr33 Ringz; founder of the Nappy Boy Entertainment record label; more1986 - Olivier Giroud
footballer [striker]: Arsenal; Chelsea FC; French national team: 2018 World Cup winners1994 - Aliya Mustafina
Russian gymnast: 2012, 2016 uneven bars gold medalist1997 - Max Verstappen
Belgian-Dutch auto racer: 2021, 2022 F1 World Drivers Championship; 2013 CIK-FIA World Championship2002 - Maddie Ziegler
model, dancer, actress: Lucky Thirteen, Ballerina, The Book of Henry, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Music, The Fallout, West Side Story [2021]2003 - Bella Ramsey
actress: Game of Thrones, Catherine Called Birdy, The Worst Witch, The Last of Us
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Hit Music on This Day September 30
1946To Each His Own (facts) - Eddy Howard
Five Minutes More (facts) - Tex Beneke
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