August 19
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1274 - The coronation of Edward I as King of England took place this day.1848 - The first report of the California gold strike was published in the New York Herald newspaper.
1856 - Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed milk on this day. The familiar Borden’s Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk is still promoted by Elsie, the Borden Cow. There are a zillion recipes that include the product; but the original purpose was to prevent illnesses and deaths caused by the lack of refrigeration and preservation technology. In fact, the Borden product was significant in lowering North America’s infant mortality rate at that time.
1885 - The Mikado, by Gilbert and Sullivan, opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City.
1909 - The first race was run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. It wasn’t a brick track yet. It started as a crushed stone and tar track.
1918 - Sgt. Irving Berlin’s musical about army life in World War I opened at the Century Theatre in New York City. Yip Yip Yaphank included songs, such as Mandy and Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning.
1939 - The Dick Jurgens Orchestra recorded Day Dreams Come True at Night on Okeh Records. Eddy Howard was the vocalist on the piece. It became Jurgens’ theme song.
1940 - The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.
1942 - Some 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at the port city of Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.
1942 - Caught by surprise when the U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal two weeks earlier, the battle at the Tenaru River started this day. It was the Japanese Army’s first attempt to re-capture Henderson Field and drive the marines off the island.
1950 - Hank Snow began a 21-week run at the top of U.S. country music charts with I’m Movin’ On.
1957 - The first balloon flight to exceed an altitude of 100,000 feet (101,516) was made by D. G. Simons at Crosby, Minnesota.
1960 - The Russians sent two dogs into earth orbit in a satellite.
1962 - Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held at Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.
1964 - The Beatles began their first North American concert tour. They would visit 26 cities.
1965 - The Auschwitz trials ended with only six life sentences given out.
1966 - An earthquake struck Varto, Turkey, and some 2,400 were killed.
1972 - NBC-TV presented The Midnight Special for the first time. John Denver was the host for the first show. Wolfman Jack was the show’s announcer. The Midnight Special proved to be a ratings success.
1972 - Chicago V hit #1 on U.S. album charts. It top the album charts for nine weeks with these tracks: A Hit by Varese, All is Well, Now That You’ve Gone, Dialogue (Part I), Dialogue (Part II), While the City Sleeps, Saturday in the Park, State of the Union, Goodbye and Alma Mater.
1973 - Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were married in Los Angeles, CA.
1978 - 422 people were killed in an arson fire at the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran. Not only was the fire intentionally started, the exits were deliberately blocked.
1980 - All 301 aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 were killed when the burning plane managed to land at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but no one was able to escape.
1981 - Charlie’s Angels, starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and the voice of John Forsythe as Charlie, was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. The show went into syndication and is still seen on cable TV.
1984 - Lee Trevino won the 66th PGA Championship -- by four strokes. Trevino took home $125,000 for his first victory in three years.
1989 - Authorities from four European countries (on the Dutch vessel Volans and the British launch Landward) boarded the offshore rock station Radio Caroline (on the ship Ross Revenge) in international waters in the North Sea and forced it to shut down. Disc jockeys relayed a blow-by-blow account of events to the astonished listeners right up to the end.
1991 - Hurricane Bob was located 30-35 miles east of Cape Hatteras NC, and was at its peak intensity of 115 mph. Damage from Bob was estimated at $1.5 billion. A total of 18 people died in the storm: six in Connecticut, three in both New York and Maine, two in both Nova Scotia and New Hampshire, and one in both North and South Carolina.
1993 - Mattel and Fisher Price toys merged.
1994 - President Bill Clinton abruptly halted the three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees into the U.S. Clinton said the Castro regime had encouraged Cubans to take to the sea in unsafe vessels. In so doing, too many Cubans were risking their lives to get to the U.S. and several had died in the effort.
1994 - Nobel prize scientist and Vitamin C advocate Linus Pauling died at 93 years of age.
1995 - Three top U.S. diplomats heading to peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were killed when their armored vehicle plunged off a muddy road and exploded.
1996 - Ralph Nader accepted the presidential nomination of the Green Party in Los Angeles, denouncing tax breaks for corporations and calling for a “political alternative” to the two mainstream parties.
1998 - Blade opened in U.S. theatres. The action horror thriller stars Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Arly Jover, Traci Lords, Kevin patrick Walls, Tim Guinee, Sanaa Lathan, Eric Edwards, Donna Wong, Carmen Thomas and Shannon Lee.
1999 - Confronting questions about possible past drug use, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush told reporters he had not used illegal drugs in 25 years. He added that if voters insisted on knowing more, “they can go find somebody else to vote for.”
2000 - Hugo Chavez took the oath of office as president of Venezuela after a landslide reelection victory.
2001 - An underground methane and coal dust explosion in the Ukraine killed 55 miners.
2001 - David Toms’ score of 1-under-par 69 was good enough to win him the PGA Championship.
2002 - Japan launched a diplomatic offensive to foil South Korea’s attempt to rename the ocean separating the Asian neighbors from Sea of Japan to the East Sea, saying the weight of history is on the Japanese side.
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, a former political prisoner who rose to the presidency of Honduras, died at his home in Tegucigalpa. He was 77 years old. After his presidential term, Reina was a judge of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights and an ambassador to France.
2003 - A car bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. The blast collapsed the front of the building. U.N. Special Representative Sergio Vieira de Mello (55) of Brazil and 22 other people were killed.
2004 - Google, the Internet search engine, posted solid gains in its long-awaited public stock debut.
2005 - These films debuted in the U.S.: The 40 Year Old Virgin, starring Judd Apatow and Steve Carell; Red Eye, with Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy; and Valiant, starring Ewan McGregor, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Everett, Hugh Laurie, John Hurt, Ricky Gervais, John Cleese, Tim Curry and Olivia Williams.
2005 - New York City police revealed the existence of a letter from a deceased woman who claimed her husband and two others killed Judge Joseph F. Crater and buried him under the boardwalk near W. 8th St in Brooklyn where the New York Aquarium is currently located. Crater has been missing since 1930 and the mystery has become a famous missing-person story.
2005 - Merck & Co. lost the first wrongful death lawsuit over its painkiller Vioxx. A jury in Texas awarded $253 Million in damages. There were some 4000 cases filed against Merck over Vioxx.
2007 - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour departed hastily from the International Space Station. The construction mission was ended a day early to give the shuttle and crew time to land before Hurricane Dean became a threat to the Houston control center.
2007 - 36 people were killed in China as Super Typhoon Sepat hit the mainland -- more 1.3 million people were evacuated as a precaution.
2007 - Broadway decided to revive the musical Grease again (the first revival had happened in 1994 and ran for a boffo 1,505 performances). The Grease that opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on this day was good, just not quite as boffo, running for 554 shows, closing on Jan 04, 2009.
2008 - Wizard of Gore opened in U.S. theatres. The horror film stars Crispin Glover, Kip Pardue, Bijou Phillips, Jeffrey Combs, Brad Dourif and Joshua Miller.
2008 - The Dutch Navy and a squad of U.S. Coast Guard raiders seized 4.6 tons (9200 pound/4,200 kilograms) of cocaine from a Panamanian-flagged freighter that had set sail from Venezuela. The freighter was boarded on Aug 17, but it took 36 hours of searching before they found a suspicious hatch in the engine room revealing an entrance to an area where the 25kg bales of cocaine were stored.
2008 - U.S. scientists said they had devised a way to grow large quantities of blood in the laboratory using human embryonic stem cells.
2009 - 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt died at 86 years of age. The TV news pioneer produced the popular CBS-TV newsmagazine for 36 years.
2010 - Computer chipmaker Intel announced its purchase of security software maker McAfee, maker of antivirus software. The $7.68-billion deal was the largest in Intel’s 42-year history.
2010 - South Korea reported that it had blocked North Korea’s Twitter account from being accessed in the South, saying the tweets contained illegal information under South Korea’s security laws.
2011 - New in U.S. movie theatres: Conan the Barbarian, with Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan; Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Anton Yelchin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Imogen Poots and Toni Collette; Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World in 4D, starring Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, Rowan Blanchard, Mason Cook, Jeremy Piven, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara; 5 Days of War, starring Rupert Friend, Val Kilmer, Andy Garcia, Dean Cain, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Heather Graham; Amigo, with Chris Cooper, DJ Qualls, Garret Dillahunt, Dane DeHaan, Lucas Neff and Yul Vazquez; The Last Circus, with Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé and Alejandro Tejerías; Griff the Invisible, starring] Ryan Kwanten, Maeve Dermody, Marshall Napier, Heather Mitchell, Toby Schmitz and Anthony Phelan; One Day, starring Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison, Jodie Whittaker and Tim Key; and the documentary, Programming the Nation?, with John B. Alexander and Richard Beggs.
2011 - Phoenix, Arizona residents cleaned up again after a wall of dust 1,000 feet tall blanketed the city. It was the third major dust storm to hit the Phoenix area since early June 2011.
2011- China banned 100 songs from Web sites, barring artists ranging from Lady Gaga to the Backstreet Boys for, “disrupting the online music marketplace and engandering the security of Chinese culture.”
2012 - Federal police replaced all 348 officers assigned to security details at the Mexico City International Airport. This, in the wake of the June 25 shooting deaths of three federal policemen killed by fellow officers believed to be involved in trafficking drugs through the terminal.
2013 - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight. The new law confirmed New Jersey as the second state to ban so-called conversion therapy after California.
2013 - Anti-fracking protesters scuffled with police outside an oil exploration site in rural England in what became an intensification of an almost month-long standoff over the nascent shale gas extraction industry in Britain.
2014 - The U.N. said the spiraling crisis in war-ravaged South Sudan had sent 200,000 refugees into Ethiopia, making it Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country.
2015 - Jared Fogle, 37-year-old longtime pitchman for the Subway sandwich chain, pled guilty in Indiana to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography. In Oct, 2015, ten of his victims received $100,000 checks in restitution. On Nov 19, 2015 Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison.
2015 - Germany’s parliament approved a third bailout for Greece after Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble argued the country should get “a new start.”
2016 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Ben-Hur, starring Jack Huston, Nazanin Boniadi and Ayelet Zurer; the animated Kubo and the Two Strings, featuring the voices of Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara and Matthew McConaughey; War Dogs, starring Miles Teller, Bradley Cooper and Ana de Armas; Billionaire Ransom, with Ed Westwick, Phoebe Tonkin and Jeremy Sumpter; Collide, starring Felicity Jones, Nicholas Hoult and Anthony Hopkins; Final Fantasy XV: Kingsglaive, with Aaron Paul, Neil Newbon and Lena Headey; Imperium, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Sullivan and Toni Collette; the documentary, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World; Morris from America, starring Craig Robinson, Carla Juri and Lina Keller; and The People vs Fritz Bauer, with Rüdiger Klink, Burghart Klaußner and, Andrej Kaminsky.
2016 - U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized for his behavior surrounding the incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station. He said he should have been more “careful and candid” about how he described what happened after a night of partying with his swimming teammates.
2016 - Usain Bolt of Jamaica won his 9th gold medal in the 4x100 relay. Three Olympics, three races at each, three gold medals each time. It was the third consecutive Olympic 4x100m gold medal for Jamaica. The country had never won an Olympic gold medal in the event prior to Bolt.
2017 - Demonstrators gathered in New York City to denounced racism, white supremacy and Nazism. Kia Niambi, one of the organizers, said their actions were motivated in part by the white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville -- and POTUS Donald Trump’s comments about it -- the weekend before. “I feel like we all need to have a voice and say that what’s going on isn’t right,” said Catherine, a Queens resident and DREAMer – the beneficiary of an Obama-era policy that allowed undocumented minors to stay in the country. “If we don’t [speak out] then it’s going to get worse, and we can’t let it get worse,” she added. “That’s what happened in Nazi Germany. People didn’t have a voice, and look where that led them.” Similar rallies in other cities across the U.S. also drew large crowds and protesters chanted, among other things: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA.”
2018 - The Ferguson Fire in Mariposa County, California was declared 100% contained. The fire had consumed nearly 100,000 acres and shrouded the Yosemite Valley in smoke for much of the summer.
2019 - A number of U.S. business economists appeared to be concerned about the risks of POTUS Trump’s economic policies and said they expected a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. This, some five months before the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis hit.
2019 - Planned Parenthood said it was withdrawing from a federal program subsidizing reproductive healthcare for low-income women after POTUS Trump banned participants in the program from referring women to abortion providers.
2020 - India’s health ministry recorded 1,092 additional coronavirus-related deaths in 24 hours, bringing the nationwide toll to 52,889. More than 2.7 million people in India had been diagnosed with COVID-19. The number of coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 22 million.
2020 - California Senator Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to accept a major party’s vice presidential nomination. She introduced herself as Joe Biden’s running mate by sharing her upbringing, honoring her roots as the daughter of immigrants and issuing a call for systemic racism to stop. Harris gave a nod to the theme of the third night of the Democratic convention, marking the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. But she acknowledged that it took many decades after the ratification of the 19th Amendment for women of color to also have that right. And she praised the Black women and leaders who fought for the right to vote and provided people like Harris the platform to reach the highest levels of government.
2021 - The FAA reported its latest round of fines as part of its enforcement of rules against misbehavior on U.S. flights. Rowdy airline passengers had racked up more than $1 million in potential fines in 2021. Since Jan 1, the FAA had received approximately 3,889 reports of unruly behavior by passengers, including about 2,867 reports of passengers refusing to comply with the federal facemask mandate.
2021 - A bankruptcy judge approved a proposal by the Boy Scouts of America to enter into an agreement that includes an $850 million fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as youngsters by Scout leaders and others.
2021 - Movies opening across the U.S. included: Beast, starring Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley and Iyana Halley; and the animated adventure Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, with characters voiced by Zach Aguilar, Dameon Clarke, Kara Edwards, Toshio Furukawa and Kyle Hebert.
2022 - Mexico’s former attorney general Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested. Prosecutors said he was a suspect in “the crimes of forced disappearance, torture and against the administration of justice.” All related to the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping of 43 students during his tenure as attorney general.
2022 - HBO Max said it was removing 36 movies and TV series -- to cut costs, pivot away from children’s programming, and de-clutter the system. Content removed included teen drama "Genera+ion" and more than 200 episodes of Sesame Street. Although none of the shows and movies axed were drawing large audiences, the move still saved the company tens of millions of dollars in residual payments to cast, crew and writers.
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Birthdays on This Day August 19
1869 - Ben (Bernard) Turpin
comedian, actor: Burlesque of Carmen, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Mack Sennett comedies, When Comedy was King; died July 1, 19401870 - Bernard (Mannes) Baruch
financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, political consultant, chairman of War Industries Board [WWI], representative: UN Atomic Energy Commission; presidential adviser; died June 20, 19651871 - Orville Wright
aviator: one of the Wright Brothers: pioneers in aviation; died Jan 30, 19481883 - Coco (Gabriel Bonheur) Chanel
fashion designer; perfume creator: Chanel #5; died Jan 10, 19711902 - (Frederic) Ogden Nash
poet: famous for his strange but funny rhymes of nonsense: “Undeniably brash Was young Ogden Nash Whose notable verse Was admirably terse And written with panache.”; writer: The Bad Parent’s Garden of Verse, You Can’t Get There from Here; died May 19, 1971
1903 - James Gould Cozzens
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Guard of Honor [1948]; S.S. San Pedro, The Last Adam, By Love Possessed; died Aug 9, 19781903 - Claude (Legrand) Dauphin (Franc-Nohain)
actor: Les Miserables, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Is Paris Burning, April in Paris; died Nov 16, 19781906 - June Collyer (Dorothea Heermance)
actress: A Face in the Fog, The Ghost Walks, Drums of Jeopardy; died Mar 16, 19681908 - Collier Young
writer, producer, actor: Night Chase, Private Hell 36, The Bigamist, The Hitch-Hiker, On the Loose, Outrage, Never Fear; died Dec 25, 19801913 - Harry Mills
singer: group: The Mills Brothers: Tiger Rag, Goodbye Blues, You’re Nobody’s Sweetheart Now, Ole Rockin’ Chair, Lazy River, How’m I Doin'?, Sweet Sue; died June 28, 19821913 - Dick Simmons
actor: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon TV series, Don’t Push, I’ll Charge When I’m Ready, The Devil’s Brigade, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Rear Window, Lassie’s Great Adventure; died Jan 11, 20031915 - Ring Lardner Jr. (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Jr.)
Academy Award-winning screenwriter: Woman of the Year [1942], MASH [1970]; A Star Is Born [1937], Brotherhood of Man, The Cincinnati Kid, Semi-Tough; died Oct 31, 20001916 - Marie (Katherine Elizabeth) Wilson
actress: My Friend Irma, Babes in Toyland [1934], Rookies on Parade, Shine On, Harvest Moon, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation; died Nov 23, 19721919 - Malcolm Forbes Sr.
publishing magnate: Forbes magazine; died Feb 24, 19901921 - Gene (Eugene Wesley) Roddenberry
creator, producer: Star Trek; writer: Have Gun Will Travel; died Oct 24, 19911924 - William Marshall
actor: Dinosaur Valley Girls, Maverick, Amazon Women on the Moon, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Blacula, Zigzag; died Jun 11, 20031931 - Willie Shoemaker
jockey: holds record for most wins in a career: 8,833 out of 40,350 mounts; died Oct 12, 20031933 - Debra Paget (Griffin)
actress: Tales of Terror, The Ten Commandments, Omar Khayyam, Love Me Tender, Prince Valiant1935 - Bobby (Robert Clinton) Richardson
baseball: NY Yankees {World Series: 1957, 1958, 1960: record for RBIs in one series (12), and in one game in the series (6) and for most hits in a series (13), 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964/all-star: 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966]1938 - Diana Muldaur
actress: A Year in the Life, The Tony Randall Show, The Survivors, Star Trek: The Next Generation, McCloud, L.A. Law, Born Free1939 - Ginger (Peter) Baker
musician: drums: group: Cream; solo: Toad; died Oct 6, 20191940 - Johnny Nash
singer: I Can See Clearly Now, Stir It Up, Hold Me Tight, A Very Special Love1940 - Jill St. John (Oppenheim)
actress: Diamonds are Forever, Come Blow Your Horn, The Oscar, Burke’s Law1942 - Fred Thompson
U.S. Senator from Tennessee [1994-2002]; actor: Law & Order, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Last Best Chance, Evel Knievel, Baby’s Day Out, Born Yesterday; died Nov 1, 20151943 - Billy J. Kramer (William Ashton)
singer: group: The Dakotas: Little Children, Bad to Me1944 - Eddy Raven
songwriter: Thank God For Kids [The Oak Ridge Boys]; singer: Joe Knows How to Live, I’m Gonna Get You, I Got Mexico, Shine, Shine, Shine, You Should Have Been Gone By Now, Right Hand Man1945 - Ian Gillan
singer: group: Deep Purple: Black Night, LPs: Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball, Machine Head1946 - William Jefferson Clinton
42nd U.S. President [1993-2001]; married to Hillary Rodham Clinton [former U.S. Senator (NY)], one daughter: Chelsea; nickname: Bill1946 - Bob Johnson
football: Univ. of Tennessee, Cincinnati Bengals1947 - Gerald McRaney
actor: NCIS: Los Angeles, House of Cards, Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Murder by Moonlight, Blind Vengeance, Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, House of Cards, Agent X1948 - Jim Carter
actor: Alice in Wonderland, Creation, Cassandra’s Dream, Modigliani, Pompeii: The Last Day, Dinotopia, Shakespeare in Love, Brassed Off, The Little Vampire, Ella Enchanted, The Madness of King George, The Thief Lord1948 - Tipper Mary Gore (Aitcheson)
author: Raising PG Kids in an X-rated Society; wife of U.S. Vice President Al Gore1949 - Paul (Michael) Mitchell
baseball: pitcher: Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers1951 - John Deacon
musician: bass: group: Queen: Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody; score of Flash Gordon1952 - Jonathan Frakes
actor: Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?; director: Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Klingon, Star Trek: Insurrection, Total Recall 21953 - Mary Matalin
political consultant, advisor to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney [2001-2003]; operates Washington, DC-based political consulting firm with her husband, former Clinton advisor James Carville1955 - Peter Gallagher
actor: Covert Affairs, The O.C, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Short Cuts, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Knew Too Little, American Beauty1956 - Adam Arkin
actor: The Doctor, Heat Wave, Necessary Parties, Fourth Wise Man, Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, A Year in the Life, Teachers Only, Busting Loose, Big Wave Dave’s1957 - Gary Chapman
Christian singer: Man After Your Own Heart, Sweet Jesus, Gospel Ship, Daddy Cut My Hair, Heal Me, Mary, Did You Know, Sweet Glow of Mercy; TV host: TNN: PrimeTime Country1957 - Martin Donovan
actor: At Last, White Like Me, Saved!, Agent Cody Banks, Insomnia, Custody of the Heart, The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Dead Zone, Law & Order1958 - Anthony Muñoz
Pro Football Hall of Famer tackle: Cincinnati Bengals: All-Pro and Pro Bowl 11 consecutive years1960 - Morten Andersen
football [kicker]: Michigan State Univ; NFL: NO Saints, Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants, KC Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings1960 - Ron Darling
baseball [pitcher]: New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Oakland Athletics; TV color commentator for TBS baseball coverage1963 - John Stamos (Stamotopoulos)
actor: Necessary Roughness, General Hospital, Full House, You Again?, Born to Ride, The Disappearance of Christina, Never Too Young to Die1965 - Kevin Dillon
actor: Platoon, No Escape, A Midnight Clear, The Blob, Remote Control; actor Matt Dillon’s brother1965 - Kyra Sedgwick
actress: The Closer, Phenomenon, Something to Talk About, Murder in the First, Family Pictures, Born on the Fourth of July, Kansas, Tai-pan, War & Love1966 - Woody Williams
baseball [pitcher]: Univ of Houston; Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, St. Louis Cardinals1966 - Lee Ann Womack
singer: I Hope You Dance, Little Past Little Rock, Never Again, Again, Montgomery to Memphis, I’ll Think of a Reason Later1969 - Paula Jai Parker
actress: Hustle & Flow, Joi in Friday, The Proud Family, Idlewild, The Genius Club, Cover, Paranoia, Lilo & Stitch: The Series1969 - Matthew Perry
actor: Friends, Fools Rush In, The Whole Nine Yards, Servicing Sara, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Good Fight1969 - Clay Walker
singer: I Can’t Sleep, What’s It to You, You’re Beginning to Get Me, Live Until I Die, This Woman and This Man, Dreaming with My Eyes Open1970 - Jeff Tam
baseball [pitcher]: Florida State Univ; NY Mets, Cleveland Indians, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays1970 - M.C. Eric (Eric Martin) aka Me One
singer, song-writer, producer : group: Technotronic1971 - Mary Joe Fernández
tennis: two Grand Slam women’s doubles titles [Australian Open 1991, French Open 1996]; two Olympic gold medals [1992, 1996]1974 - David Patten
football [wide receiver]: Western Carolina Univ; NFL: NY Giants, Cleveland Browns, NE Patriots, Washington Redskins1975 - Tracie Thoms
actress: Rent, Cold Case, The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, Wonderfalls, Safe House, Meeting Evil, Harry’s Law, Person of Interest, Looper1976 - Jean-Claude Batiste
actor [2004-2011]: X-rated films: Mister Marcus Is King Dong, Nasty Universe, Perversions Unleashed, Jana Cova: Lust, Pink Candy1978 - Michelle Borth
actress: The Forgotten, Tell Me You Love Me, Easy Rider: The Ride Back, Matadors, Trespassers, Komodo vs. Cobra, Wonderland, Apartment, Hawaii Five-0 [2010],Tell Me You Love Me1980 - Angel Eyes
actress [2002-2010]: X-rated films: Booty Central, The Many Shades of Mayhem, Black Feet on Booty Street, Naughty America & the Chocolate Factory1982 - Erika Christensen
actress: Will Trent, Traffic, Swimfan, The Perfect Score, How to Rob a Bank, Six Degrees, Parenthood1983 - Missy Higgins
Australian songwriter, singer: #1 albums: The Sound of White, On a Clear Night, The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle; singles: Scar, The Special Two, Steer, Where I Stood1989 - Romeo aka Lil’ Romeo (Percy Romeo Miller III)
rapper: My Baby, That’s Kool, Make You Dance, I Want to Be Like You, Your ABC’s, Where They At, Game2002 - Brighton Sharbino
actress: The Walking Dead, True Detective, Once Upon a Time, Miracles from Heaven, Bitch, Growing up Smith, Urban Country, Zoe Valentine, American Skin
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Hit Music on This Day August 19
1949Some Enchanted Evening (facts) - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i (facts) - Perry Como
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