August 18
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1735 - The Evening Post, of Boston, MA was published for the first time.1840 - The organization of the American Society of Dental Surgeons was founded in New York City. Among the organizers was Dr. Chapin A. Harris of Baltimore, Maryland. Get a root canal to celebrate today.
1896 - Carr Baker Neel and Samuel Neel won the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association’s outdoor men’s-doubles title at Newport, Rhode Island. It was the first time that two brothers had taken the title.
1899 - The Chicago Anti-Cigarette League was formed by Lucy Payne Gaston.
1920 - Women throughout the United States rejoiced, as the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It gave women the right to vote.
1937 - The first FM radio construction permit was issued. It went to W1XOJ, Boston, MA. The station went on the air as WGTR (General Tire & Rubber) in 1941.
1943 - The Royal Air Force Bomber Command completed the first major strike against the German missile development facility at Peenemunde. When the anticipated invasion of Britain failed to materialize in 1940, Londoners relaxed, but soon they faced a frightening new threat, Hitler’s V-weapon offensive.
1949 - Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra recorded their first tune on wax, You’re Breaking My Heart.
1956 - Little Willie John’s Fever was released. Although it made to the top 30, Peggy Lee’s cover version two years later rose to number eight.
1958 - Perez Prado, the ‘Mambo King’, received one of the first gold records awarded by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). The single, Patricia, was certified as having sold over one million copies.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published. Described as “highbrow pornography,” Lolita is the story of a middle-aged European intellectual and pervert, named Humbert Humbert, and his two-year love affair with a child aged 12 to 14. The book eventually sold some 14 million copies and spawned a movie (in 1962) starring James Mason, Shelley Winters and Sue Lyon (as Lolita). Near the end of his life, Nabokov claimed he was “being kept by a 12-year-old girl.”
1960 - The first commercially-produced oral contraceptive, Enovid-10, was introduced in Skokie, Illinois.
1963 - James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi. The civil rights figure received his LL.B (law degree) from Columbia University in 1968.
1964 - South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.
1965 - Operation Starlite marked the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam.
1973 - Jazz drummer Gene Krupa played for the final time with members of the original Benny Goodman Quartet. Krupa, a jazz and big band legend, died on October 6, 1973.
1973 - Jethro Tull’s album, A Passion Play, landed at #1 in the U.S. What is it about? Life, death, and the struggle. If you want more than that you must ask someone else (a horse named George perhaps?).
1976 - U.S. President Gerald R. Ford was nominated in Kansas City, MO to head the Republican ticket. He lost the presidential race to Democrat Jimmy Carter in November.
1980 - Kansas City Royals’ slugger George Brett saw his batting average reach the lofty .400 mark. A debate began as to whether Brett could keep up that pace through the end of the season. He couldn’t.
1981 - Rex Harrison brought the award-winning My Fair Lady back to Broadway as he recreated the role of Henry Higgins. The play had originally opened in 1956.
1986 - Jim Kelly signed with the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League for an estimated $7.5 million (over five years). The contract made the former Houston USFL player the highest paid in the NFL.
1986 - Earl Campbell, the ‘Tyler Rose’, announced his retirement from professional football. Campbell, the 1977 Heisman Trophy winner, played eight seasons in the National Football League and was a star for the Houston Oilers.
1989 - The popular presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán was assassinated outside Bogota, Columbia. The Medellin drug cartel was strongly suspected.
1991 - Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea. Gorbachev and members of his family remained effectively imprisoned until the coup collapsed three days later, but the coup d’état signalled the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
1992 - Due to severe back pain, basketball star Larry Bird was forced to retire after 13 years with the Boston Celtics. In those 13 seasons, he played in 12 all-star games, and scored double figures in points, rebounds, and assists 69 times.
1993 - A judge in Sarasota, FL ruled that Kimberly Mays, the 14-year-old girl switched at birth with another baby, need never see her biological parents again, in accordance with her stated wishes.
1995 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: The Baby-Sitters Club, with Ellen Burstyn, Brooke Adams, Bruce Davison and Peter Horton; and Mortal Kombat, starring Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, Talisa Soto and Trevor Goddard.
1996 - The Spitfire Grill with Ellen Burstyn was the most popular movie (Audience Award) at the Sundance Film Festival.
1997 - The Rolling Stones launched their Bridges to Babylon tour/album package with a news conference -- and a full production number -- under the Brooklyn Bridge. Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood and Keith Richards cruised in from Manhattan in a cherry-red 1955 Cadillac convertible with a police escort leading the way.
1998 - A day after his grand jury testimony, U.S. President Bill Clinton left Washington on a vacation with his family. Meanwhile, some lawmakers called for Clinton to resign in the wake of his admissions concerning Monica Lewinsky, while a spokeswoman for Hillary Rodham Clinton said the first lady “believes in this marriage.”
1999 - A day after a deadly earthquake struck western Turkey, survivors denounced the rescue effort as sluggish and disorganized, pleading with rescuers to look for loved ones in the rubble of destroyed apartment buildings. The death toll eventually topped 17,000.
2000 - These flicks opened in the U.S.: The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker and James Gammon; Godzilla 2000, with Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki and Tsutomu Kitagawa; The Original Kings of Comedy, starring Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac; and Steal This Movie!, with Vincent D’Onofrio, Janeane Garofalo, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kevin Pollak, Donal Logue, Kevin Corrigan, Alan Van Sprang and Troy Garity.
2001 - Fire broke out at the Quezon City Manor Hotel outside Manila, in the Philippines. 75 people were killed. Many of the victims were found asphyxiated in their bathrooms from the blaze which apparently started in a karaoke bar.
2002 - Rich Beem beat Tiger Woods, and 26 other pros, to capture the PGA Championship.
2003 - 24-year-old Ma Lihua from China tipped over 303,621 dominos, breaking the world record for longest solo domino tippage.
2004 - Film composer Elmer Bernstein died in Ojai, CA. He was 82 years old. Bernstein’s work included over 200 film and TV scores, and he won an Academy Award in 1967 for his score in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
2005 - Dennis Rader -- the BTK Killer -- was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences for ten murders between 1974 and 1991.
2005 - Benedict XVI made his first trip to his homeland of Germany since becoming Pope. He attended World Youth Day 2005, was welcomed with cheers, and made several speeches.
2005 - Israeli troops removed Zionist Jews (some forcibly) from their settlements on the Gaza Strip. The settlers were opposed to Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan.
2006 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Accepted, starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Blake Lively, Adam Herschman, Maria Thayer, Anthony Heald, Columbus Short and Lewis Black; Material Girls, with Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Anjelica Huston, Brent Spiner, Lukas Haas, Joanne Baron, Natalie Lander, Colleen Camp and Beckie King; and Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Byron Lawson, Julianna Margulies, Rachel Blanchard, Bobby Cannavale, Kenan Thompson and David Koechner.
2006 - The FDA approved a mix of bacteria-killing viruses for spraying on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat deadly microbes.
2007 - A seven-alarm fire burned through the former Deutsche Bank next to ground zero in Lower Manhattan, killing two responding firefighters.
2008 - Tens of thousands of Muslims waving green and black protest flags gathered in Indian Kashmir’s main city. They planned to march to U.N. offices demanding freedom from India and help from the world United Nations, but called off the march after the authorities said that the crowds would not be allowed to proceed.
2008 - The California Supreme Court barred doctors from denying medical care to gays and lesbians based on the religious beliefs of the doctors.
2009 - Political columnist Robert Novak died in Washington DC. He was 78 years old. Novak was a conservative, combative debater. His memoir was called, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. And an infamous column of his in 2003 outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.
2010 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The documentary, A Film Unfinished, by Yael Hersonski; and the comedy, Vampires Suck, starring Ken Jeong, Matt Lanter, Anneliese van der Pol, Charlie Weber and Chris Riggi.
2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Adinistration said 380 million eggs were being recalled nationwide due to salmonella contamination.
2010 - North Carolina state Attorney General Roy Cooper reported that the State Bureau of Investigation had made mistakes or distorted evidence in more than 200 cases at the expense of potentially innocent men and women. Three defendants in botched cases had been executed and crime lab may have violated both state and federal laws.
2011 - U.S. mortgage rates fell the lowest rate in fifty years as the average rate for a 30-year fixed loan dropped to 4.15%.
2013 - A team of United Nations chemical weapons experts arrived in Damascus to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war. By December 2013 the U.N. had concluded that chemical weapons had indeed been used by the Syrian authoritarian regime of Hafez al-Assad against civilians some seven times.
2014 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture calculated the average cost of raising a child born in 2013 (to age 18) for a middle-income family in the U.S. to be $245,340 (or $304,480, adjusted for projected inflation).
2014 - Police and protesters collided in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri again. This, a day after Governor Jay Nixon called in the National Guard to help restore calm to the St. Louis suburb. The violence left six wounded and 31 arrested.
2015 - China’s Ministry of Public Security reported that police had arrested 15,000 people on suspicion of cybercrime. The crackdown was part of the government’s ongoing drive to “clean the internet.”
2016 - Turkey ordered the seizure of assets of 187 businessmen suspected of links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of masterminding an attempted coup in July. Gulen, a reclusive cleric who has lived in self-exile in the United States since 1999, vehemently denied he was behind the coup attempt.
2016 - The U.S. State Department said it had released $400 million in cash to Iran under a tribunal settlement after it was assured that American prisoners had been freed and had boarded a plane. It was the first time the Obama administration had said publicly that it used the payment as leverage to ensure the prisoners were released by Iran. State Department spokesman John Kirby insisted, however, that there was no quid pro quo of money for prisoners. “We don’t pay ransom,” he said. Rather, he added, “there were opportunities we took advantage of, and as a result we got American citizens back home.”
2016 - Kerron Clement won gold in the 400-meter hurdles at the Rio Olympic Stadium. He finished in a season-best 47.63 seconds, just ahead of a fast-closing Boniface Mucheru Tumuti of Kenya, 0.05 behind, and Turkey’s Cuban-born Yasmani Copello, the European champion, in 47.92. The 30-year-old was a two-time world champion and the silver medalist from Beijing in 2008, but this was his first individual gold at the Olympics. “I came out here with one mindset and that was to execute my race plan and trust my fitness and just believe in myself,” Clement said “I knew the last 100 meters would be tough and those guys would be coming the last 50.”
2016 - Kimia Alizadeh won the first ever Olympic medal by an Iranian woman after claiming the taekwondo bronze in Rio. In keeping with Iran’s strict Muslim custom, the teenager competed wearing a head scarf over with her taekwondo uniform and protective gear. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari congratulated Alizadeh as well as Hedaya Malak of Egypt, who landed the other women’s bronze in taekwondo. He said the presence on the podium of the two veiled women was the “symbol of the unity and the efforts of Muslim women, who shine and yet respect their values.” More Olympic news...
2017 - Motion pictures debuting in U.S. theatres included: The Hitman’s Bodyguard, starring Gary Oldman, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung and Richard E. Grant; Logan Lucky, starring Daniel Craig, Katherine Waterston and Sebastian Stan; Dave Made a Maze, with John Hennigan, Kirsten Vangsness and Nick Thune; The Ice Cream Truck, starring Deanna Russo, Emil Johnsen and John Redlinger; Lemon, with Inger Tudor, Brett Gelman and Judy Greer; and Patti Cake$, with Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett and Siddharth Dhananjay.
2017 - The expedition crew of Research Vessel Petrel, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, located the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis on the floor of the North Pacific Ocean, more than 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) below the surface. The World War II heavy cruiser played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before being struck by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945.
2017 - The White House released a statement saying that Steve Bannon and White House chief of staff John Kelly had “mutually agreed” that this would be Bannon’s last day as chief strategist in the Trump administration. Trump had signaled his public displeasure with Bannon’s high media profile in April 2017, and the chief strategist’s clashes with other administration officials had only worsened since.
2018 - A crowd gathered in Buenos Aires to voice its opposition to “the influence of religion on Argentine politics” -- and to encourage people to quit the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of a Senate vote not to legalize some abortions.
2018 - The opening ceremony kicked off the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The 2018 Asian Games featured 484 events in 42 sports.
2019 - The U.S. military successfully tested a ground-launched, intermediate-range, nuclear-capable cruise missile. The same missile that the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, or INF, had banned before POTUS Trump formally withdrew the U.S. a couple of weeks earlier.
2019 - London announced that it had ordered the repeal of the European Communities Act, which took Britain into the forefront of the European Union 46 years earlier and gave Brussels law supremacy. The order was signed by Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay.
2020 - The Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation wrapped up its investigation. The committee concluded that the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a grave counterintelligence threat and it detailed how associates of the Republican candidate had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help.
2020 - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that he would suspend some cost-cutting measures and operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service until after the November election.
2020 - Chancellor Angela Merkel warned there could be no further relaxation of coronavirus restrictions while the country grappled with a surge in new infections. Germany had recorded a total of 225,404 coronavirus cases, including 9,236 fatalities.
2021 - The Biden administration moved to fight the surging COVID-19 Delta variant, recommending booster shots for most vaccinated American adults -- and using federal leverage to force nursing homes to vaccinate their staffs. The president directed his education secretary to “use all of his authority, and legal action, if appropriate,” to deter states from banning masking in classrooms.
2022 - Former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s family business, Allen Weisselberg, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the company on a scheme to avoid paying taxes -- by compensating executives with under-the-table perks.
2022 - A U.S. judge in Florida blocked the ‘Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act’, backed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), saying its restrictions on how companies and schools could discuss race turned the First Amendment “upside down”. “Normally, the First Amendment bars the state from burdening speech, while private actors may burden speech freely,” wrote the judge. “But in Florida, the First Amendment apparently bars private actors from burdening speech, while the state may burden speech freely.”
2023 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Blue Beetle, with Becky G, Xolo Maridueña and Bruna Marquezine; and Strays, starring Sofía Vergara, Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx.
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Birthdays on This Day August 18
1587 - Virginia Dare
first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor [or Ellinor/Elyonor] and Ananias Dare; died c. 1590
1774 - Meriwether Lewis
explorer: team: Lewis and Clark; died of gunshot wounds Oct 11, 18091904 - Max Factor Jr.
cosmetic mogul; died June 7, 19961915 - (Hubert) Max Lanier
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1944/all-star: 1943, 1944], NY Giants, SL Browns; died Jan 30, 20071917 - Caspar W. Weinberger
15th U.S. Secretary of Defense [1981-1987]; chairman: Forbes magazine; (co)author: The Next War; died Mar 28, 20061920 - Bob (Robert Daniel) Kennedy
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1948], Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Brooklyn Dodgers; died Apr 7, 20051920 - Shelley Winters (Schrift)
Academy Award-winning actress: Patch of Blue [1965], The Diary of Anne Frank [1959]; The Poseidon Adventure, A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, The Pickle; died Jan 14, 20061927 - Rosalynn Carter (Smith)
First Lady: wife of 39th U.S. President Jimmy Carter1928 - Sonny Til (Earlington Carl Tilghman)
singer: group: The Orioles: Crying in the Chapel, It’s Too Soon to Know, Tell Me So, I Need You So, You Belong to Me, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me; died Dec 9, 19811931 - Grant Williams
actor: Escape from Planet Earth, The Incredible Shrinking Man; died July 28, 19851933 - Roman Polanski
director: Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, MacBeth1934 - Vincent Bugliosi
lawyer best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders; author: The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President; died Jun 6, 20151934 - Roberto Clemente (Walker)
Baseball Hall of Famer: Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder [World Series: 1960, 1971/all-star: 1960 thru 1967, 1969 thru 1972/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1966]; killed in plane crash Dec 31, 1972 while flying relief supplies to Nicaraguan earthquake victims1935 - Gail Fisher
Emmy Award-winning actress: Mannix [1969-1970]; died Dec 2, 20001935 - Rafer Johnson
Olympic and National Track and Field Hall of Famer: decathlon gold medalist [1960]; AP Athlete of the Year [1960]; lighted torch at Olympics [1984]; died Dec 2, 20201936 - Robert Redford
actor: All the President’s Men, Quiz Show, The Sting, Sneakers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Out of Africa; Academy Award-winning director: Ordinary People [1980]; A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show1939 - Joe (Jose Joaquin Lopez) Azcue
baseball: catcher: Cincinnati Reds, KC Athletics, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1968], Boston Red Sox, California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers1939 - Johnny Preston
singer: Running Bear, Cradle of Love; died Mar 4, 20111941 - Christopher Jones
actor: The Looking Glass War, Ryan’s Daughter, Three in the Attic, Wild in the Streets; died Jan 31, 20141941 - Matt Snell
football: NY Jets running back: Super Bowl III1943 - Martin Mull
comedian, actor: Roseanne, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Take This Job and Shove It, Portrait of a White Marriage, The History of White People in America1943 - Carl Wayne
singer: group: The Move: Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain, Fire Brigade, Wild Tiger Woman, Blackberry Way; ELO: Evil Woman, Livin’ Thing, Can’t Get It Out of My Head; died Aug 31, 20041945 - Barbara Harris
lead singer: group: The Toys: A Lover’s Concerto1950 - Dennis Elliott
musician: drums: group: Foreigner: I Want to Know What Love Is, Waiting for a Girl like You1951 - Greg Pruitt
football: LA Raiders running back: Super Bowl XVIII1952 - Elayne Boosler
comedienne, actress: Meatballs Part II, Mother Goose Rock ’n’ Rhyme1952 - Patrick Swayze
dancer, actor: Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Father Hood, Red Dawn, Point Break, North and South; died Sep 14, 20091953 - Marvin Isley
musician: bass guitar: group: The Isley Brothers: Shout, Love the One You’re With, Twist and Shout; died Jun 6, 20101957 - Denis Leary
actor: Rescue Me, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Double Whammy, Jesus’ Son, The Thomas Crown Affair, Snitch, The Ref, Wag the Dog, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll1957 - Ron Strykert
musician: guitar: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under1958 - Madeleine Stowe
actress: Revenge, Unlawful Entry, The Last of the Mohicans, Gangster Wars, 12 Monkeys, The Last of the Mohicans, The General’s Daughter, Short Cuts1961 - Bob Woodruff
ABC News journalist, anchor; critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq [2006]1962 - Felipe Calderon
politician: President of Mexico [2006-2012]1962 - Geoff Courtnall
hockey: Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, Washington Capitals, SL Blues, Vancouver Canucks1963 - Rebecca Bardoux
actress [1992-2011]: X-rated films: Sodomania 2: More Tails, Masturbation Nation, Barbara Broadcast Too!, The Last of the Muff Divers, Constant Craving1968 - Brian Mitchell
football [running back]: Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, NY Giants1969 - Isaac Austin
basketball [forward, center]: NBA: Utah Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, Miami Heat, L.A. Clippers, Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies
1969 - Edward Norton
actor: Fight Club, American History X, Keeping the Faith, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Score, The Italian Job, The Incredible Hulk, The Bourne Legacy, The Grand Budapest Hotel1969 - Christian Slater
actor: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Murder in the First, Untamed Heart, Young Guns, Interview with the Vampire, The Legend of Billie Jean, Heathers, True Romance, Mr. Robot1970 - Dillon Day
actor [2000-2010]: X-rated films: We Wanna Gangbang Your Grandma, Confessions of a Tiki Girl, Sex at Six, Drunk Sex Orgy: Blue Jean Babes, Pretty Girls are Perverts Too1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner
actor: The Cosby Show, Tyson; writer: Theo & Me1975 - Kaitlin Olson
actress: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Drew Carey Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Heat; voice actress: Family Guy, Brickleberry1977 - Ben Hamilton
football [guard]: Univ of Minnesota; NFL: Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks1977 - Mike Realba
actor: Paradise Falls, The House, Sonny By Dawn, All You Got, Dawn of the Dead, The Recruit, Deceived, Loves Music, Loves to Dance, Gangster Exchange1977 - Peter Worrell
hockey: Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche1978 - Andy Samberg
actor: Saturday Night Live, Hot Rod, Brooklyn Nine-Nine1985 - Brooke Harmon
actress: Headland, The Secret Life of Us, Pirate Islands, Crush, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Max Knight: Ultra Spy1986 - Graham Zusi
soccer: Central Florida Kraze [2005]; Sporting Kansas City [2009– ]; U.S. national team [2012- ]1987 - Mika Boorem
actress: Augusta, Gone, Sleepover, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Blue Crush, Riding in Cars with Boys, Hearts in Atlantis, Along Came a Spider1993 - Maia Mitchell
actress: The Fosters, Good Trouble, Teen Beach Movie, Teen Beach 2, Mortified, Trapped, After the Dark, Hot Summer Nights, Never Goin’ Back, The Last Summer, Whisper1994 - Madelaine Petsch
actress: Riverdale, F the Prom, Polaroid, Sightless, Jane
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Hit Music on This Day August 18
1948It’s Magic (facts) - Doris Day
Woody Woodpecker Song (facts) - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
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