February 27
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Events on This Day
1867 - Dr. William G. Bonwill of Philadelphia, PA got a wonderful idea. He invented the dental mallet (OUCH!) while watching a telegraph key sounder operate in a Philadelphia hotel.1883 - Oscar Hammerstein of New York City patented the first practical cigar-rolling machine. If Oscar’s name sounds familiar, it should. Hammerstein’s son later made his mark by writing some of the best-known music in the world, teaming up frequently with a guy named Richard Rodgers. Remember Rodgers & Hammerstein? Why of course...
1922 - Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convened the first National Radio Conference in Washington, DC. There, industry regulations were widely discussed. Hoover would later become U.S. President and have a dam named after him. And a vacuum cleaner, too.
1935 - The 7th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (for the films of 1934). Actor/writer Irvin S. Cobb hosted the big show. It Happened One Night swept the awards, capturing Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actor (Clark Gable) and Best Actress (Claudette Colbert). A miniature version of Oscar was presented to child star, Shirley Temple “...in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.”
1941 - Searchlights in the sky guided Hollywood’s finest to the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, and the 13th Academy Awards show. Producer Walter Wanger was host for the evening. The envelope puleeze... The Best Picture (of 1940) award went to Selznick International’s Rebecca (David O. Selznick, producer), which also won the Best Cinematography (Black-and-white) Oscar for George Barnes. John Ford was named Best Director for The Grapes of Wrath. The Best Actor was James Stewart for The Philadelphia Story. Best Actress was Ginger Rogers for her performance in Kitty Foyle. Best Supporting Actress was Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath. Best Supporting Actor: Walter Brennan for The Westerner. This was Brennan’s third Best Supporting Actor nod. His first win was for Come and Get It in 1936, followed by Kentucky in 1938. Now, grab your statues and let’s go party!
1942 - This was the day Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy announced his intention to concentrate on the T formation instead of the famous Knute Rockne ‘Notre Dame shift’ in South Bend, Indiana. Go, Fighting Irish! Rah!
1946 - The fourth of the “Road” films, Road to Utopia, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Robert Benchley, opened in New York City. Bing and Bob wound up in Alaska posing as escaped killers in order to locate a lost gold mine. Tunes from the flick: Put It There, Pal, Welcome to My Dreams, Would You?, Personality, Sunday, Monday, or Always, Goodtime Charlie and It’s Anybody’s Spring.
1949 - Chaim Weizmann became the first president of Israel.
1963 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees signed a baseball contract worth $100,000. Back in 1949, Mantle had signed his first Yankee contract for $1,100. Here’s some trivia on ‘The Mick’: In April of 1953, Mantle was credited with hitting the longest home run. Batting left-handed in Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC, Mantle hit the 460-foot sign, with the ball going an estimated 565 feet. In addition to many other feats, including playing on two bad knees for much of his career, Mantle also appeared in the movie That Touch of Mink in 1962. Mickey Mantle died in 1995 in Dallas, Texas.
1964 - The musical, What Makes Sammy Run, opened in New York at the 54th Street Theatre. Making his Broadway debut in the show was Steve Lawrence. The production ran for 540 performances.
1967 - Pink Floyd recorded Arnold Layne, their first single (released Mar 11, 1967).
1970 - Simon and Garfunkel received a gold record for the single, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The duo was so impressed with their deserved achievement that they played the gold disc on their stereo. But they heard Mitch Miller’s Bridge on the River Kwai instead, and on the same Columbia label they recorded for! Amazing but weird, huh?
1973 - Baseball star Dick ‘Don’t Call Me Richie’ Allen signed a three-year pact with the Chicago White Sox for a reported $675,000 after leaving the Philadelphia Phillies.
1973 - Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), together with a number of local and traditional Native Americans began a 72-day occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. The AIM goal was to protest injustices against their tribes, violations of the many treaties, and abuses and repression of their people. The U.S. responded with a military-style assault against the protesters.
1974 - A new magazine was published by Time-Life (now Time-Warner). The magazine was People. It had an initial run of one million copies and became the most successful celebrity weekly ’zine ever published. Weekly circulation of People grew to 91.07 million by 2020. When you include the people that People is passed around to by other people, that figure is way higher. “People. People who need People.” Indeed...
1979 - Jane M. Byrne surprised Chicago’s Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win the party’s mayoral primary. And Byrne went on to win the general election.
1985 - Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was seen in a TV commercial this day. She was seen in an ad for Diet Pepsi. Her constituents were not bubbling over with enthusiasm about the crass commercialism.
1985 - Dale Berra started his first day as a New York Yankee. It marked the first significant father-son combination in major-league baseball. Your 25-point bonus question: What did he call his pop (manager of the team)? Was it:
a) Hey, Yo
b) Your Skipperness
c) Yoga
d) Yogi Bear
e) Dad
If you picked anything but ‘e’, you will be immediately traded.1987 - The longest-running program on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), Washington Week In Review, celebrated its 20th anniversary.
1990 - The Exxon Corporation and Exxon Shipping were indicted on five criminal counts relating to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which had gooed up Alaska pretty good.
1991 - At 9 p.m. (EST), U.S. President George Bush said, “Kuwait is liberated. Iraq’s army is defeated. I am pleased to announce that at midnight tonight, exactly 100 hours since ground operations began and six weeks since the start of Operation Desert Storm, all United States and coalition forces will suspend offensive combat operations.”
1992 - Former U.S. Senator S.I. Hayakawa died in San Francisco. He was 85 years old.
1993 - Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You became the longest-running number-one pop single of the rock era. The recording topped the Billboard chart for the fourteenth week; and it broke the record set the previous October by Boyz II Men’s End of the Road. The previous record had been held by Elvis Presley’s double-sided hit Don’t Be Cruel and Hound Dog, which was number one for eleven weeks in 1956.
1994 - The Winter Olympic Games ended in Lillehammer, Norway.
1998 - These new films made debuts in the U.S.: the sci-fi thriller Dark City, with Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland and Jennifer Connelly; the romantic comedy Kissing a Fool, starring David Schwimmer, Jason Lee and Mili Avital; and the family comedy Krippendorf’s Tribe, with Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman and Natasha Lyonne.
2000 - Texas Governor George W. Bush’s campaign released a letter of apology to New York Cardinal John O’Connor. Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, said he “deeply” regretted “causing needless offense” by making a campaign appearance at Bob Jones University, the South Carolina school whose leaders had espoused anti-Catholic views.
2001 - U.S. President George Bush (II) went before Congress with a $1.9 trillion spending plan. The budget sharply reduced growth in many government programs while giving Americans the biggest tax cut in two decades.
2002 - Alicia Keys won Grammys in five categories at the 44th annual awards show. Train won for best rock song (Drops of Jupiter), U2 was awarded record of the year (Walk On) and album of the year was O Brother, Where Art Thou, by Various Artists.
2003 - PBS star Fred Rogers died of cancer at 74 years of age. For more than 30 years, Rogers had gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as he host Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
2004 - Films opening around the U.S.: Broken Lizard’s Club Dread, with Bill Paxton, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Tony Amendola, Julio Bekhor, Brittany Ann Daniel, M.C. Gainey, Jordan Ladd, Samm Levine, Elena Lyons, Daniel Montgomery, Lindsay Price and Tanja Reichert; Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, starring Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Mika Boorem, Jonathan Jackson, January Jones and Rene Lavan; and Twisted, starring Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia.
2004 - A U.S. federal judge in New York threw out one of five counts against Martha Stewart. The judge said prosecutors failed to prove that Stewart intended to commit securities fraud in her sale of ImClone Systems shares in 2001. Four lesser charges remained.
2005 - The 77th annual Academy Awards show was presented at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. First-timer Chris Rock hosted the four-hour broadcast. And the envelopes please... The Oscar for Best Picture went to Million Dollar Baby; Actor award was won by Jamie Foxx for Ray; Actress: Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby; Actor in a Supporting Role: Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby; Actress in a Supporting Role: Cate Blanchett in The Aviator; Director: Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby; Screenplay (Material Previously Produced or Published): Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Sideways; Screenplay (Written Directly for the Screen): Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth, for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Animated Film: The Incredibles; Art Direction: The Aviator; Cinematography: The Aviator; Costume Design: The Aviator; Documentary: Born Into Brothels; Music (Original Score): Finding Neverland; Music (Original Song): Al Otro Lado Del Rio from The Motorcycle Diaries; Sound: Ray; Visual Effects: Spider-Man 2.
2006 - British utility National Grid PLC announced an agreement to buy New York-based electricity and natural-gas distributor KeySpan Corp. for $7.3 billion. The deal would create the third-largest energy delivery utility in the U.S. And Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Japan’s second biggest sheet glass maker, said it was paying $3 billion for the remaining 80 percent stake in Britain’s Pilkington PLC, which makes glass for cars and buildings.
2006 - Otis Chandler, former (1960-1980) publisher of the Los Angeles Times, died in Ojai, CA. He was 78 years old.
2007 - CompUSA announced the closing of 126 of its retail stores by the end of May 2007. The restructuring would leave only 103 stores open in the chain. (In Dec 2007 CompUSA announced the closing of its remaining stores.)
2007 - Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced the changing of its name to Macy’s Group, Inc.
2008 - The annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference opened for a 4-day session in Monterey, CA.
2009 - New movies in the U.S.: The Jonas Brothers: Burning Up, starring Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, Nick Jonas, Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift; and Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li, with Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough, Taboo, Chris Klein, Moon Bloodgood, Edmund Chen, Cheng Pei Pei, Josie Ho and Robin Shou.
2009 - The family of banker Shane Travers was freed uninjured in Ireland after he delivered millions of euros stolen from his own branch. A gang had taken his family hostage and threatened to kill them unless he cooperated. Irish media put the amount at €7 million ($9 million). The next day police recovered millions in stolen cash along with seven suspected robbers.
2009 - The 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News published its last edition in Denver, Colorado after publisher E.W. Scripps failed to find a buyer for the venerable newspaper.
2010 - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, toppling buildings and collapsing bridges. Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma said it was the most powerful quake to hit Chile in a half-century. The death toll was later put at 432 with 98 missing in the earthquake and a tsunami it created. Some 150,000 people were left homeless, with damage of some $30 billion.
2010 - Canada won three more gold medals on the penultimate day of the Winter Olympics. The wins ensured Canada a finish at the top of the medal standings, triggering wild celebrations across the country.
2011 - Great Britain froze the assets of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in the U.K. Liquid assets amounted to about £20 billion in that country.
2011 - The Academy Awards were doled out (for the 83rd time) in Los Angeles, honoring the best movies of 2011. The King’s Speech, a historical film, won best picture and three other Oscars, beating out The Social Network and Black Swan. The Academy Award for best actor went to Colin Firth for The King's Speech, Natalie Portman won best-actress for Black Swan and Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won as best supporting actors, both for The Fighter. Master of ceremonies for the big party at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood were James Franco and Anne Hathaway.
2012 - Syrian artillery pounded rebel-held areas of Homs as President Bashar al-Assad’s government announced that voters had approved a new constitution. The vote that critics at home and abroad dismissed as a ‘farce’, was meant to justify deadly crackdowns on dissent.
2013 - Australia’s High Court narrowly rejected the case of two Muslim activists who argued they had a constitutional free-speech right to send ‘offensive letters’ to families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The letters criticized Australia’s involvement in the war and condemned the fallen soldiers. The men’s lawyers had argued that the material was purely political in nature, and were therefore protected as political speech. The six judges of the High Court split on whether the charges were compatible with Australians’ right to free speech. When the nation’s highest court is undecided, an appeal is dismissed and the lower court decision stands. The Australian Constitution does not include an equivalent of the U.S. First Amendment. But the High Court has held for decades that the constitution contains an implied right to free speech because political communication is essential to democracy. This right is not as extensive as that guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
2014 - Yahoo Inc. strongly condemned a reported multiyear effort by American (NSA) and British (GCHQ) spy agencies to collect webcam images from the Yahoo’s user accounts.
2015 - Movies opening in the U.S. included: Focus, starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Rodrigo Santoro; The Lazarus Effect, with Evan Peters, Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover; ’71, starring Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid and Sean Harris; A la mala, with Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann and Papile Aurora; Ejecta, starring Julian Richings, Lisa Houle and Adam Seybold; and Maps to the Stars, with Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson.
2015 - 70-year-old former British pop star Gary Glitter, aka Paul Gadd, received a 16-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexually abusing three young girls in the 1970s. Gadd was sentenced at Southwark crown court in London.
2016 - Three people were stabbed, one of them critically, and 13 others were arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, CA that erupted into clashes with counter-protesters.
2016 - Hillary Clinton easily beat Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary in South Carolina and grabbed the momentum in the Democratic presidential race.
2017 - Japanese auto parts maker Takata pleaded guilty in Detroit to fraud and agreed to pay $1 billion in penalties for concealing an air bag defect blamed for at least 16 deaths. U.S. prosecutors also charged three former senior Takata executives in Japan with falsifying test results to conceal the inflator defect linked the recall of about 100 million air bag inflators worldwide.
2017 - The U.N. World Health Organization issued a list of the top dozen bacteria most dangerous to humans, warning that doctors are fast running out of treatment options. The bad germs included Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus.
2018 - Two people were found dead in Romania as snow and sub-zero temperatures across much of Europe saw flights canceled, road and rail transport disrupted, and many schools closed.
2018 - Comcast, owner of NBC and Universal Pictures, made a $31 billion bid to acquire European pay-TV provider Sky. Comcast offered Sky shareholders £12.50 ($17.44) per share. That proposal was significantly higher than the £10.75 ($13.82) per share agreed to by Twenty-First Century Fox.
2019 - POTUS Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi for their second summit. It was never made clear if the summit produced anything of value for either side.
2019 - Michael Cohen, POTUS Trump’s longtime lawyer and ‘fixer’, spoke before the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee and accused Trump of an expansive pattern of lies and criminality.
2020 - Astronomers reported the biggest explosion seen in the universe, originating from a super-massive black hole in the Ophiuchus cluster of thousands of galaxies 390 million light-years away. The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky Ways.
2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) reported seven nations had announced their first cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus: Brazil, Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan and Romania.
2021 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for an outside review following sexual misconduct allegations against him by a second former aide. He denied the accusations, and said all of his staff would cooperate with the review.
2021 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine for emergency use, making it the third vaccine available in the U.S.
2022 - Canada closed its airspace to Russian aircraft operators due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Canada joined other countries in announcing similar measures.
2022 - Russia’s police detained 2710 people at anti-war protests that occurred in 51 cities, raising the total since the start of Russia’s Feb 24 invasion of Ukraine to over 4,000. Today's protests coincided with the seventh anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
2023 - A new deal for Northern Ireland was announced by U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The agreement was intended to solve one of the thorniest challenges created by Brexit (withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union) -- a long-term resolution for the trading status of Northern Ireland. The biggest reason the Brexit process dragged on for so many years was the inability of all sides to address the double dilemma of (1)How to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland that might become a flashpoint given the region’s troubled history, and (2)How to ensure Northern Ireland would not be treated separately from the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Birthdays on This Day February 27
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
poet: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, The Wreck of the Hesperus; died Mar 24, 18821886 - Hugo (Lafayette) Black
Supreme Court Justice [1937-1971]; died Sep 25, 19711891 - David Sarnoff
Radio Hall of Famer: founded the National Broadcasting Company [NBC]; president of RCA Victor at age 32; died Dec 12, 19711892 - William Demarest
actor: The Millionaire, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, That Darn Cat!, Viva Las Vegas, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Son of Flubber; died Dec 27, 19831897 - Marian Anderson
opera diva; died Apr 8, 1993
1902 - Gene Sarazen
World Golf Hall of Famer: champ: Masters [1935], U.S. Open [1922, 1932], British Open [1932]; PGA [1922, 1923, 1933]; died May 13, 19991902 - John (Ernst) Steinbeck
writer: The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row; died Dec 20, 19681903 - Reginald Gardiner
actor: Do Not Disturb, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, The Birds and the Bees, Halls of Montezuma, I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now, Claudia; died Jul 7, 19801904 - James T. Farrell
author: Studs Lonigan series; died Aug 22, 19791905 - (Stanislas Pascal) Franchot Tone
actor: Mutiny on the Bounty, Advice and Consent, In Harm’s Way; died Sep 18, 19681910 - Joan (Geraldine) Bennett
actress: House of Dark Shadows, Father of the Bride, Woman in the Window, The Son of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, Little Women [1933], Too Young to Go Steady; died Dec 7, 19901910 - Ted Horn
auto racer: shares record for most consecutive national titles [three, 1946-1948]; never finished worse than fourth during a 9-race stretch [1936-1948]; killed in crash at DuQuoin, IL State Fairgrounds Oct 10, 19481913 - Irwin Shaw (Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff)
novelist: Rich Man Poor Man, The Young Lions; died May 16, 19841917 - John Connally
governor of Texas: suffered gunshot wounds during Kennedy assassination in 1963; died June 15, 19931923 - Dexter Gordon
musician: Grammy Award-winning tenor saxophonist: The Other Side of Round Midnight [1986]; played with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillepsie, Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, Miles Davis, Billy Ekstine; actor: Round Midnight; died Apr 25, 19901927 - James (Leo) Herlihy
actor: Four Friends; writer: Midnight Cowboy, All Fall Down, Season of the Witch; died Oct 20, 19931927 - Guy Mitchell (Al Cernick)
singer: Singing the Blues, Heartaches by the Number, My Heart Cries for You, My Truly Truly Fair, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; actor: Red Garters; died July 1, 19991930 - Joanne Woodward
Academy Award-winning actress: The Three Faces of Eve [1957], Sybil, Philadelphia1932 - Elizabeth Taylor
Academy Award-winning actress: Butterfield 8 [1960], Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1966], Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award [1992]; Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, National Velvet, Cleopatra; Perfume spokesperson [Passion]; social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness, prevention and cure: helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research [amfAR] after the death of her former costar and friend, Rock Hudson; died Mar 23, 20111933 - Ray Berry
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts wide receiver; New England Patriots head coach [1984-1989] [Super Bowl XX]1934 - Ralph Nader
consumer advocate: known for role against GM and Ford1936 - Chuck Glaser
singer: group: Tompall and the Glaser Brothers: Lovin’ Her Was Easier; songwriter: Where Has All the Love Gone; died Apr 6, 20191937 - Barbara Babcock
actress: Home Alone 4, Space Cowboys, Far and Away, That Was Then... This Is Now, Salem’s Lot, Day of the Evil Gun1939 - Peter Revson
‘Revvie’: Motor Sports Hall-of-Famer: killed in crash at Kyalami, South Africa Mar 22, 19741940 - Howard Hesseman
actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, Head of the Class; died Jan 29, 20221940 - Bill Hunter
actor: Strictly Ballroom, Bad Eggs, Horseplay, Kangaroo Jack, Finding Nemo; died May 21, 20111943 - Mary Frann (Mary Frances Luecke)
actress: Newhart, Fatal Charm, I’m Dangerous Tonight; died Sep 23, 19981947 - Wil (Wilbur) Jones
basketball: Louisiana Buccaneers, Memphis Pros, Memphis Tams; Univ. of District of Columbia coach1948 - Eddie Gray
musician: guitar: group: Tommy James & The Shondells: I Think We’re Alone Now, Mony Mony, Crimson and Clover, Sweet Cherry Wine, Crystal Blue Persuasion1949 - Debra Monk
Tony Award-winning Broadway actress: Redwood Curtain [1993]; Picnic, Steel Pier; films: Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, The Producers, The Music Man [2003], Center Stage, In & Out, Mrs. Winterbourne1951 - Steve Harley (Nice)
singer: group: Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel: Judy Teen, Mr. Soft, Make Me Smile [Come Up and See Me]; solo LPs: Hobo with a Grin, The Candidate1952 - Dwight Jones
basketball: 1972 Olympic Games: USA men’s basketball; died Jul 25, 20161954 - Neal Schon
musician: guitar: groups: Santana, Journey: Who’s Crying Now, Open Arms, LPs: Escape, Frontiers1955 - Garry Christian
singer: group: The Christians1957 - Adrian Smith
musician: guitar: group: Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, Running Free, LPs: Killers, Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Somewhere in Time1957 - Timothy Spall
actor: Harry Potter filmseries, Secrets & Lies, The Last Samurai, The King’s Speech, The Damned United, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Secrets & Lies, Pierrepoint, Mr. Turner1959 - Johnny Van Zant
lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama, Gimme Three Steps, Simple Man, Saturday Night Special, Swamp Music, Ballad of Curtis Loew, Call Me the Breeze; younger brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder [and former lead vocalist] Ronnie Van Zant and .38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant1960 - Paul Humphreys
musician: keyboards: group: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark [OMD]: Electricity, Red Frame White Light, Messages, Enola Gay, Souvenir, Joan of Arc, Genetic Engineering, Talking Loud & Clear, Tesla Girls, Forever [Love & Die]1961 - James Worthy
Basketball Hall of Famer [forward]: Univ of North Carolina; NBA: LA Lakers
1962 - Adam Baldwin
actor: Chuck, Trade Off, Sawbones, Wyatt Earp, Radio Flyer, Predator 2, Full Metal Jacket, D.C. Cab, Ordinary People, My Bodyguard, Castle1962 - Grant Show
actor: Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, True Blue, Ryan’s Hope, Texas, A Woman, Her Men and Her Futon, Treacherous Crossing1963 - Barbara Dare
actress [1985-1994]: X-rated films: Evil Toons, Girl Crazy, Torrid, Barbara the Barbarian, Playpen, Double Dare, Miami Spice1966 - Donal Logue
actor: Gotham, The Tao of Steve, Sons of Anarchy, Grounded for Life, Vikings, Copper, Terriers, ER, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit1971 - Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas
singer: group: TLC: No Scrubs, Fan Mail, Waterfalls, Unpretty, Baby-Baby-Baby, What About Your Friends, Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg1973 - Peter Andre
singer: Gimme Little Sign, Flava, Mysterious Girl, All Night All Right1973 - Andrea Savage
actress: Step Brothers, Dinner for Schmucks, Dog Bites Man, Funny or Die Presents, The Life & Times of Tim, American Judy, House of Lies1974 - Chris Dishman
football: Univ of Nebraska; NFL: Arizona Cardinals, SL Rams
1975 - Duce Staley
football [running back]: Univ of South Carolina; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers1976 - Tony Gonzalez
football [tight end]: Univ of California, Berkeley All-American; NFL: Kansas City Chiefs [1997–2008], Atlanta Falcons [2009–2013]; held NFL records for TD receptions [107] and total reception yards [14,268] by a tight end; 13-time Pro Bowl selection: Pro Bowl all-time leader in receptions [48] and touchdowns [6]1977 - James Wan
producer, screenwriter, film director: Saw film series, Dead Silence, Death Sentence, Insidious1980 - Chelsea Clinton
first daughter: daughter of 42nd U.S. President William Clinton and 1st Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton1980 - Bobby V (Robert Wilson)
singer: LPs: Bobby Valentino, Special Occasion, The Rebirth, Fly on the Wall, Dusk Till Dawn, Hollywood Hearts, Electrik1981 - Josh Groban
singer: You Raise Me Up, Vincent [Starry, Starry Night], When You Say You Love Me, Broken Vow, Home to Stay, To Where You Are1983 - Kate Mara
actress: House of Cards, Brokeback Mountain, 24, We Are Marshall, Shooter [2007], Transsiberian, Stone of Destiny, The Open Road, Random Hearts, 127 Hours1986 - Daniel Gibson
basketball [guard]: NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers [2006–2013]: 2007 NBA finals1990 - Chandler Jones
football [defensive end]: Syracuse Univ; NFL: New England Patriots [2012-2015]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX champs; Arizona Cardinals [2016–2021]; Las Vegas Raiders [2022–2023]
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Hit Music on This Day February 27
1952Cry (facts) - Johnnie Ray
Slowpoke (facts) - Pee Wee King
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