January 9
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1788 - Beside a long tidal river or in American Indian-speak, Quinnehtukqut, is Connecticut, the state that entered the United States of America this day. Hartford, the capital of Connecticut ... and of the insurance industry ... boasts having the oldest newspaper, "Hartford Courant", which has been publishing since 1764. Many of the state’s symbols have been there as long, if not longer: state fossil: eubrontes giganteus; bird: American robin; flower: mountain laurel; tree: white oak; animal: sperm whale; mineral: garnet; shellfish: Eastern oyster; insect: praying mantis; hero: Nathan Hale. Other symbols came later: song: "Yankee Doodle" and ship: USS Nautilus. Nicknamed the Nutmeg State, Connecticut, the fifth state, also has an official designation: the Constitution State. Easy to figure out: In the 1630s, the English settlements along the tidal river gathered together to form the Connecticut Colony and wrote the first constitution in the new world, Fundamental Orders. Connecticut’s motto: He who transplanted still sustains, or in Latin-speak: Qui transtulit sustinet.1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first successful balloon flight in the United States. Blanchard’s balloon, filled with hydrogen, took off from Philadelphia, PA, soared to 5,800 feet and eventually wound up some 15 miles away, in Woodbury, New Jersey.
1912 - The world’s first flying boat was designed by Glenn Curtiss and made its maiden voyage at Hammond's Port, New York.
1936 - The United States Army adopted the M1 semiautomatic rifle this day.
1939 - Alfred Lion produced a recording session in New York City. Boogie-woogie pianists Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons were the stars of the session. Lion manufactured only a few copies of the recordings for his friends, but demand for the records was great enough that he began making other recordings of Dixieland artists. This was the beginning of Lion’s famous Blue Note record label. Just about every major jazz artist of the past 50 years has recorded for Blue Note at one time or another. Lion sold the label to Liberty-United Artists in 1966. He died in 1987.
1941 - Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded Until Tomorrow (Goodnight My Love) on Victor Records. This song became the sign-off melody for Kaye and other big bands.
1942 - Joe Louis knocked out Buddy Baer. ‘The Brown Bomber’ defended his world heavyweight boxing title for the 20th time as Buddy rested comfortably on the canvas in the very first round.
1945 - American soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invaded Luzon in the Philippines during World War II. As he vowed, MacArthur had returned.
1951 - Australia defeated England in Sydney, Australia, retaining the ‘Ashes’, the trophy which symbolized the cricket title, held by Australia since 1932. G’Day, mate!
1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.
1955 - A trip to perform for the troops in a New Year’s Eve show in Greenland became Bob Hope’s first overseas visit to a military base to be filmed for TV. That show was aired on NBC-TV this day.
1956 - Dear Abby premiered in newspapers. Abigail Van Buren was really Pauline Phillips and the column is carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name. (A similar column, Ask Ann Landers, was written from 1955 to 2002 by Pauline’s twin sister Eppie Lederer.)
1957 - Anthony Eden resigned as British prime minister, citing health reasons.
1960 - Construction began on Egypt’s Aswan High Dam. The dam was fully finished ten years later.
1961 - The play, Rhinoceros, opened on Broadway, starring two of the theatre’s true stars -- Eli Wallach and Zero Mostel.
1965 - The Beatles’ Beatles ’65 was the number-one album in the U.S. for the first of nine straight weeks (thru Mar 6). The tracks were: No Reply, I’m a Loser, Baby’s in Black, Rock and Roll Music, I’ll Follow the Sun, Mr. Moonlight, Honey Don’t, I’ll Be Back, She’s a Woman, I Feel Fine, and Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby.
1968 - The Surveyor VII space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
1972 - Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking to reporters by telephone from the Bahamas, said a purported biography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake. Irving and his wife had received a $750,000 advance from the McGraw-Hill publishing house for the book. Clifford Irving was eventually imprisoned and ordered to repay the advance, plus damages.
1977 - Super Bowl XI (at Pasadena): Oakland Raiders 32, Minnesota Vikings 14. John Matuszak and the Raiders defense kept Vikings QB Fran Tarkenton busy all day. MVP: Raiders’ WR Fred Biletnikoff. Tickets: $20.00.
1981 - Hockey Hall of Famer, Phil Esposito, said he would call it quits as a hockey player after the New York Rangers-Buffalo Sabres hockey game. It was a game that seemed like it might never end -- both teams skated to a 3-3 tie. Esposito quit the New York Rangers and went on to become General Manager and coach of the Rangers. Phil Esposito played for the Boston Bruins when he won the Hart Memorial Trophy for Most Valuable Player in the NHL in 1969 and 1974 and helped lead the Bruins to two Stanley Cup Championships in 1970 and 1972.
1986 - Kodak got out of the instant camera business after 10 years. A nasty court battle didn’t go their way. The court claimed that Kodak copied Polaroid patents. Sixteen million camera owners were offered free stock, coupons or a replacement camera.
1990 - The space shuttle Columbia was launched on a ten-day mission that included retrieving a drifting scientific satellite.
1992 - Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina declared their own republic and said would it remain part of federal Yugoslavia.
1993 - Seven people were found shot to death at a restaurant in Palatine, IL. Two suspects were arrested in May 2002.
1995 - Peter Cook died. The English satirist (Beyond the Fringe), writer and comedian/actor (Bedazzled, The Wrong Box) was 57 years old.
1997 - Night watchman Christoph Meili, working at the Union Bank of Switzerland, salvaged an armful of books and papers that were about to be shredded. Meili took the files home and after a telephone consultation, he handed them over to a Jewish organization, which brought the documents to the police. The documents were bank records from the Nazi era.
1998 - These movies opened in the U.S.: Firestorm (“Fight fire with fire.”), starring Howie Long, Scott Glenn, Suzy Amis and William Forsythe; and Wag the Dog (“Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog.”), with Dustin Hoffman, Robert Deniro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson and Suzie Plakson.
1998 - Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov went on a record-breaking spacewalk lasting three hours and eight minutes.
2000 - The controversial Sensation art exhibit ended its three-month run at the Brooklyn Museum, which had gotten into a fight with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over what the mayor called the exhibit’s offensive anti-Catholic content.
2001 - Linda Chavez, nominee of President George Bush (II) for labor secretary, withdrew following reports that she housed an illegal immigrant and paid her for house chores.
2001 - Astronomers reported the discovery of a gigantic object more than 17 times the size of Jupiter in the constellation Serpens, 123 light-years from Earth.
2002 - The Bush administration and the U.S. auto industry agreed to promote development of pollution-free cars and trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
2002 - Ashley Pond (12) was last seen in Oregon City, 20 miles south of Portland, OR. Miranda Gaddis (13) disappeared from the same neighborhood on Mar 8. The remains of Gaddis were found Aug 24 behind the house of Ward Weaver (39), who lived across the street. Weaver was arrested Aug 13 for the rape of his 19-year-old son’s girlfriend. Pond’s remains were found Aug 25.
2003 - A Peruvian airliner carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared amid cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. Rescue workers found the wreckage of TANS Airlines Flight 222 near the jungle town of Chachapoyas on Jan 11. There were no survivors.
2004 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore, Matthew Goode, Jeremy Piven, Anabella Sciorra, Mark Harmon and Caroline Goodall; and My Baby’s Daddy, with Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli, Method Man, Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr., Joanna Bacalso, Ling Bai, Dee Freeman, Naomi Gaskin, Paula Jai Parker, Amy Sedaris, Jason Sklar, Randy Sklar, Marsha Thomason and Scott Thompson.
2005 - Stanley Fischer, Zambian-born vice-chairman of Citigroup, accepted the nomination to become governor of the Bank of Israel.
2006 - China announced plans to invest more than $3 billion over five years to clean up the Songhua River, a key source of drinking water for tens of millions of people. The river had been polluted in November 2005 by a toxic spill that flowed into Russia.
2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer and longtime husband of Sophia Loren, died in Geneva at 95 years of age. Ponti’s productions include La Strada and Blowup. In 1965 he co-produced (w/David Lean) Doctor Zhivago.
2007 - Apple chairman Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. The 4GB version of what became the 2007 invention of the year went on sale in June for $499.
2008 - Members of the U.S. Congress voted themselves a raise -- to $169,300, up $4,100, or 2.5%.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: The Unborn, with Odette Yustman, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Carla Gugino, Jane Alexander, Idris Elba, Rhys Coiro and James Remar; and Bride Wars, starring Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Candice Bergen, Kristen Johnston, Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey, Chris Pratt, Michael Arden, John Pankow and Paul Scheer.
2009 - The Illinois House of Representatives voted to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich. The move was unprecedented in Illinois state history.
2009 - Israeli jets and helicopters bombarded Gaza and Hamas responded with a barrage of rockets on at least two cities as both sides defied a U.N. call for an immediate cease-fire. And the U.S. House of Representatives voted 390-5 for a bill declaring an “unwavering commitment” to Israel.
2010 - Thirty ‘mourning mothers,’ with children who were killed or disappeared during post-election unrest, were arrested in a Tehran park and taken to a detention center. The mothers had gathered every week in Tehran’s Laleh park.
2011 - A passenger jet broke into pieces on impact while trying an emergency landing in a snowstorm killing 77 people in Orumiyeh, Iran. The Boeing-727, operated by Iran’s national airline, carried 104 passengers and crew.
2012 - Britons were urged to avoid drinking alcohol for at least two days a week to protect their health, a committee of MPs [members of Parliament] announced. We’ll drink to that -- but not for a couple of days.
2013 - A fierce winter storm hit the Mideast and brought a rare foot of snow to Jordan, causing fatal accidents in Lebanon and the West Bank, and disrupting traffic in the Suez Canal in Egypt.
2014 - A French court ruled that tycoon and dissident Kazakh Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling up to $6 billion from his former Kazakhstan bank, BTA, should be extradited from France to Ukraine or Russia. Ablyazov is a former Kazakh energy and trade minister, who fled the country in 2009.
2014 - New Jersey Governor Christie fired his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly. She had sent e-mails plotted the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. In his two-hour news conference, the governor repeatedly apologized for what had become known as ‘Bridgegate’.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: Taken 3, starring Maggie Grace, Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen; Beloved Sisters, with Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter and Henriette Confurius; Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor; Preservation, with Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton and Wrenn Schmidt; The World Made Straight, starring Noah Wyle, Haley Joel Osment and Minka Kelly; and Selma, with David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo and Tim Roth.
2015 - Blinding snow caused 150 vehicles to pile up in I-94 near Kalamazoo, Michigan. One person was killed and 22 others were injured.
2016 - Xinhua, China’s state news agency, reported that Beijing would close 2,500 small polluting firms in 2016 in the ongoing effort to combat pollution.
2017 - The Czech Republic approved a plan for Czech and Slovak air forces to cooperate in protecting air spaces -- against terrorism and other non-military threats -- over the two neighboring countries that made up Czechoslovakia. Slovakia’s government had already approved the deal.
2017 - French police arrested 17 people suspected of the Oct 3, 2016 Paris robbery of more than $10 million in jewels from Kim Kardashian West.
2018 - The Beyond opened in U.S. theatres. The sci-fi horror film stars David Bailie, Jane Perry and Kosha Engler.
2018 - Heavy snowfall trapped some 13,000 tourists at Zermatt, Switzerland, one of the country’s most popular ski stations. After nearly three feet of fresh snow fell on top of a deep holiday snowpack, police and local authorities announced the closure of all roads in and out of Zermatt, Switzerland, due to extreme avalanche danger. All train services in the region had already been cancelled.
2018 - U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted a request by California and other plaintiffs to prevent POTUS Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program while their lawsuits play out in court. DACA had protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas. It included hundreds of thousands of college-age students.
2018 - A report by U.S. Senate Democrats warned of deepening Russian interference throughout Europe. The study concluded that even as some Western democracies had responded with aggressive countermeasures, POTUS Donald Trump had offered no strategic plan to bolster their efforts or safeguard the U.S. from continuing to fall victim to the Kremlin’s systematic meddling.
2019 - Colorado officials announced a simplified program to make it easier for people to seek the elimination of low-level marijuana convictions that they had received in Denver before recreational use became legal in the state. The Turn Over A New Leaf program followed Mayor Michael Hancock’s plan to deal with some pre-legalization marijuana records.
2020 - Chicago authorities captured a coyote after passersby had to pull a wild canine off of a 6-year-old boy who was bitten in the head. There had been a flurry of sightings of coyotes in the city and even a rescue of a young coyote from Lake Michigan.
2021 - U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood (51) died by suicide. He was among the officers who clashed with a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan 6. Serena Liebengood later wrote that her husband was ordered to remain on duty “practically around the clock” for three days following the insurrection and “was severely sleep deprived” before his death.
2021 - A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow. The storm killed several people and left thousands trapped in cars and/or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling.
2022 - A fire in a Bronx, NY apartment building killed at least 17 people, including 8 children, in the city’s deadliest blaze in more than 30 years. The fire was started by a malfunctioning electric space heater in a bedroom.
2022 - 77-year-old South Korean actor O Yeong-su won the country’s first Golden Globe award -- for his role in Netflix hit Squid Game, drawing cheers at home and abroad.
2023 - In the College Football Playoff National Championship game -- played this year at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CA: #1 Georgia beat #3 TCU, 65-7. It was the ninth annual national playoff, which determines the champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the season.
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Birthdays on This Day January 9
1890 - Karel Capek
writer, poet, journalist; died Dec 12, 19381898 - Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield)
comedienne, actress: Walter, Walter, I Took My Harp to A Party, The Biggest Aspidistra in the World; singer: Sally, Now is the Hour, Around the World; died Sep 27, 19791898 - Vilma Bánky (Lonchit)
actress: Son of the Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle; died Mar 18, 19911901 - Chic (Murat Bernard) Young
cartoonist: Blondie, introduced the Dagwood Sandwich to America; died Mar 14, 19731902 - Sir Rudolf Bing
manager: Metropolitan Opera House [1950-1972]; died Sep 2, 19971913 - Eric Berry
actor: Sadat, Blade, The Invincible Mr. Disraeli, Double Exposure; died Sep 10, 19931913 - Richard Milhous Nixon
36th U.S. Vice President [1953-1961]; 37th U.S. President [1969-1974], only President to resign from office [Aug. 9, 1974 over charges stemming from Watergate scandal]; died Apr 22, 19941915 - Fernando Lamas
actor: The Cheap Detective, Murder on Flight 502, Rose Marie, The Merry Widow, Rich, Young and Pretty; died Oct 8, 19821915 - Anita Louise (Fremault)
actress: Retreat, Hell!, Wagons Westward, The Little Princess, Marie Antoinette, That Certain Woman, Judge Priest; died Apr 25, 19701917 - Herbert Lom (Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchacevich Schluderpacheru)
actor: Son of the Pink Panther and others in Pink Panther series, Ten Little Indians, King Solomon’s Mines, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Dorian Gray, Spartacus, War and Peace, The Seventh Veil, Secret Mission; died Sep 27, 20121925 - Lee Van Cleef
actor: High Noon, The Lawless Breed, Vice Squad, I Cover the Underworld, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral [1957], The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West Was Won; died Dec 16, 19891928 - Judith Krantz
author: Scruples; died Jun 22, 20191934 - Bart Starr (Bryan Bartlett)
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers quarterback: Super Bowl I, II [Most Valuable Player in both bowl games]; coach: Green Bay Packers; died May 26, 20191935 - Bob Denver
actor: Gilligan’s Island, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Back to the Beach, Wackiest Wagon Train in the West; died Sep 2, 20051935 - Dick Enberg
sportscaster: California Angels play-by-play voice, NBC Sports, CBS Sports; died Dec 21, 20171936 - Ralph (Willard) Terry
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1960, 1961-1964/all-star: 1962], KC Athletics, Cleveland Indians, NY Mets; died Mar 16, 20221939 - Jimmy Boyd
singer: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus; actor: Bachelor Father, The Second Greatest Sex, Inherit the Wind, The Electric Company, Brainstorm, A Winner Never Quits; died Mar 7, 20091939 - Susannah York (Susannah Yolande Fletcher)
actress: Devices and Desires, Superman 2, The Awakening, Superman: The Movie, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones, Tunes of Glory; died Jan 15, 20111941 - Joan Baez
singer: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; political activist1943 - Rod Curl
golf champ: Colonial National Invitational [1974]1944 - Scott (Noel) Engel
singer: group: The Walker Brothers: My Ship is Coming In, Take It Easy on Yourself, The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, LP: Take It Easy; solo as Scott Walker: Joanna; died Mar 22, 20191944 - Jimmy Page
musician: guitar: group: Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven, Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song, D’yer Mak’er, Fool in the Rain1945 - Doug Volmar
hockey: Michigan State Univ.; NHL: Detroit Red Wings, LA Kings1947 - Terry Brown
football: Minnesota Vikings safety: Super Bowls VIII, VIX1948 - Bill Cowsill
singer, musician: group: Cowsills: The Rain, the Park and the Other Things, Hair, Indian Lake; died Feb 17, 20061950 - David Johansen (Buster Poindexter)
singer: group: New York Dolls; solo: LP: Here Comes the Night, Buster Poindexter; actor: Mr. Nanny, Scrooged, Married to the Mob1950 - Robert Newhouse
football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII1951 - Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Webb)
singer: Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Half the Way; singer, Loretta Lynn’s sister1955 - J.K. Simmons
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Whiplash [2014]; 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, The Ladykillers, Spider-Man series, Hidalgo, Homeward Bound, The Mexican; Farmers Insurance TV spokesman1956 - Imelda Staunton
actress: The Crown, Another Year, Taking Woodstock, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Nanny McPhee, Murder, Shakespeare in Love1959 - Mark Martin
NASCAR race car driver: four-time ASA ACDelco Challenge Series champ1960 - David Peoples
golf champ: Buick Southern Open [1991], Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic [1992]1961 - Al Jean
screenwriter, producer: The Simpsons, The Simpsons Movie, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, ALF, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, The Critic1964 - Stan Javier
baseball: NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, California Angels, SF Giants, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners1965 - Darren Bennett
football: SD Chargers, Minnesota Vikings1965 - Muggsy Bogues
basketball: Wake Forest Univ, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors1965 - Rhoda Griffis
actress: The Last Song, The Blind Side, My Fake Fiance, One Missed Call, We Are Marshall, The Unseen, The Lost Cause1965 - Joely Richardson
actress: The Patriot, Behaving Badly, Lady Chatterley, 101 Dalmatians, The Affair of the Necklace1967 - Steven Harwell
lead singer: group: Smash Mouth: All Star, Walkin’ on the Sun, Flo, Beer Goggles, Why Can’t We Be Friends, Diggin’ Your Scene1967 - Jamie Huscroft
hockey: NJ Devils, Boston Bruins, Calgary Flames, TB Lightning, Vancouver Canucks, Phoenix Coyotes, Washington Capitals1967 - Dave Matthews
singer, musician: guitar: group: The Dave Matthews Band: LPs: Remember Two Things, Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95, Before These Crowded Streets, Live at Luther College: An Acoustic Performance by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Listener Supported, Everyday, Live in Chicago 12.19.98, Busted Stuff, Live At Folsom Field - Boulder CO; Dave Matthews Band - The Videos 1994-2001 [DVD])1968 - Joey Lauren Adams
actress: Beautiful, Big Daddy, Coneheads, Dazed and Confused, Second Noah, Top of the Heap1969 - Brian Ferrari
actor: Stonewall, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Jeffrey; TV host: Bri-Guy’s Media Surf1970 - Lara Fabian
singer: I Will Love Again, O Canada 2001, I Am Who I Am, Love By Grace, To Love Again1970 - Denny Lambert
hockey: Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Ottawa Senators, Nashville Predators, Atlanta Thashers1970 - Scott Pellerin
hockey: NJ Devils, SL Blues, Minnesota Wild, Carolina Hurricanes, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes1970 - Marco Sanchez
actor: Walker, Texas Ranger, SeaQuest DSV, The Last Debate, American Pie 21971 - Bill Schroeder
football: Wisconsin-La Crosse; NFL: Green Bay Packers, NE Patriots, Detroit Lions, TB Buccaneers1971 - Scott Thornton
hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks1972 - Eddie Mason
football: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: NY Jets, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins1972 - Jay Powell
baseball [pitcher]: Mississippi State Univ, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers1974 - Omari Hardwick
actor: Saved, Dark Blue, Miracle at St. Anna, The A-Team [2010], Kick-Ass, For Colored Girls, I Will Follow, Sparkle; more1974 - Jamain Stephens
football: North Carolina A&T Univ; NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos1975 - Kiko Calero
baseball: St. Thomas Univ; St. Louis Cardinals1975 - Anders Eriksson
hockey: Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks, Florida Panthers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Columbus Blue Jackets, Calgary Flames1975 - Micah Knorr
football: Utah State Univ; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos1976 - Aaron Fields
football: Troy State Univ; NFL: Green Bay Packers1977 - Scoonie Penn
basketball: Ohio State Univ, Atlanta Hawks1978 - Mathieu Garon
hockey: Montreal Canadiens, LA Kings1978 - A.J. McLean
singer: group: Backstreet Boys: I Want It That Way, As Long As You Love Me, Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, Quit Playing Games [With My Heart], All I Have to Give1979 - Joshua Harto
actor: Peoples, Ordinary Sinner, Chaperone, Swimming, That’s So Raven, Oz1980 - Sergio Garcia
golf: one of only six players to claim four and a half points out of a possible five in Ryder Cup Matches1981 - Erik Vendt
swimming champ: Univ of Southern California; 2000 Olympic silver medallist: 400m IM; two-time World Championship medallist; two-time Pan Pacific medallist; Short Course World Championship medallist; six-time U.S. national title winner1981 - Michael Waddell
football: Univ of North Carolina; NFL: Tennessee Titans [2004-2007]; Oakland Raiders [2008]; Florida Tuskers [2009]1982 - Catherine Elizabeth ‘Kate’ Middleton (Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Duke of Cambrige/Prince William)
1989 - Nina Dobrev
actress: The Vampire Diaries, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Daughter’s Secret, The American Mall, Degrassi Goes Hollywood, The Perks of Being a Wallflower1993 - Ashley Argota
actress: True Jackson, VP, Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, iCarly, Baby Daddy, Wizards Of Waverly Place1998 - Kerris Dorsey
actress: Brothers & Sisters, Soccer Moms, Walk the Line, Fuel, Flower Girl, JumpRopeSprint, Moneyball, An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars, Girl vs. Monster, Ray Donovan
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Hit Music on This Day January 9
1948Ballerina (facts) - Vaughn Monroe
Civilization (facts) - Louis Prima
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