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1789 - Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the United States. The school is in Washington, DC.1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas began serving in the United States Senate. He was the first American Indian to become a U.S. Senator. He resigned in March of 1929 to become President Herbert Hoover’s Vice President.
1941 - Lady in the Dark premiered. It was the first of 467 performances. Danny Kaye’s performance as fashion photographer Russell Paxton, and particularly his consistently showstopping performance of the patter song Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians) in which he dashes through the names of 50 Russian composers in 39 seconds, made him a star.
1941 - Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded Moonglow on Victor Records. In the band were such sidemen as Johnny Guarnieri, Jack Jenney, Billy Butterfield and Ray Conniff (on trombone).
1943 - Duke Ellington and the band played for a black-tie crowd at Carnegie Hall in New York City. It was the first of what was to become an annual series of concerts featuring the the Duke.
1943 - The British, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, captured Tripoli, Libya.
1956 - LIFE magazine bought all rights to Harry Truman’s memoirs and featured the former POTUS on its cover.
1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste dived to a record depth of 10,916 meters (35,810 feet) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 - The Milwaukee Braves’ legendary pitcher, Warren Spahn, signed a contract worth $85,000, making him the highest paid pitcher in baseball.
1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship USS Pueblo, charging it had intruded North Korean territorial waters on a spying mission. One crew member was killed in the takeover. The other 82 crewmen, including Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, were released 11 months later after the United States signed an apology that it branded false.
1971 - It was a cold day in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as the mercury fell to a minus 79.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Our teeth chatter and the car battery dies at the mere thought of it...
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announced an agreement with Hanoi intended to bring an end to the Vietnam War.
1974 - Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells opened the credits of the movie, The Exorcist, based on the book by William Peter Blatty. The song received a gold record this day. Mr. Oldfield was a bit surprised when he cracked open the wooden frame and removed the gold-plated disk. When he put it on his stereo, the record went around the OTHER way all by itself and the only sound he heard was that of Linda Blair throwing up pea soup. Yeeeech! We heard that the flip side was Sympathy for the Devil, by the Rolling Stones, but we’re not sure. We were too scared to find out.
1975 - Barney Miller made his debut on ABC-TV. We saw life in the 12th Precinct as Hal Linden starred as Barney and Abe Vagoda played Fish. The talented cast made the show a hit for eight seasons. There are 170 episodes in the series; making it one of television’s most durable comedies.
1977 - Carole King’s landmark album, Tapestry, became the longest-running album to hit the charts, as it reached its 302nd week on the album list.
1983 - One of television’s most intellectual, sophisticated and classy shows came into American homes. It was full of action and drama and starred some guy named Mr. T, wearing a ton of gold jewelry. He played the not so mild-mannered Sgt. Bosco B.A. Baracus, and George Peppard took the lead role as John Hannibal Smith. Yes, The A-Team debuted. Speak kindly of the show or Mr. T. will rip your face off, sucka!
1985 - O.J. Simpson became the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys, another Heisman winner, was also elected; but ‘the Juice’ went in first because his name comes before Staubach’s, alphabetically.
1986 - Ten performers, including Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Fats Domino, were the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other performers honored at the ceremony in New York were Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, James Brown, the Everly Brothers and Jerry Lee Lewis. Three of rock music’s forefathers, blues singer Robert Johnson, country and western singer Jimmie Rodgers and blues pianist Jimmy Yancey, were also inducted.
1989 - Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Spain. He was 84 years old. Dali’s work included two surrealist films made with Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou and L’Age d’Or.
1991 - The first full season of Seinfeld debuted -- on NBC-TV.
1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the father of gospel music, died in Chicago. He was 93 years old. Dorsey was one of gospel music’s most important composers, writing such classics as "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and "Peace in the Valley". His music publishing company, formed in 1930, was the leader in publishing gospel songs.
1994 - The Dallas Cowboys wrapped up the NFC championship and the Buffalo Bills won the prize in the AFC -- setting up their rematch in Super Bowl XXVIII.
1995 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (McKennon v. Nashville Banner Publishing Co.) that companies who have fired employees illegally can not escape liability by later finding a lawful reason to justify the termination.
1996 - Delivering his State of the Union address to a skeptical Republican Congress, President Bill Clinton traced the themes of his re-election campaign and confronted GOP lawmakers on the budget, warning that they “never, ever” shut down the U.S. government again.
1997 - The Swiss government, three banks and some businesses agreed to set up a private sector humanitarian fund for Nazi Holocaust victims and their heirs. Reportedly, the neutral Swiss profited from millions of dollars worth of gold deposited some fifty years earlier by victims of the Holocaust. It seems that the gold was also used to make deals with the Nazis.
1997 - Madeleine Albright was sworn into office, becoming to the 64th U.S. Secretary of State. Albright was the first woman to serve as Secretary of State.
1998 - Nine students and two adult guides were killed after an avalanche swept away a group trekking in the snow near the ski resort of Les Orres in the southern French Alps. 23 others were injured, six seriously. The trekkers were hit by a fast-moving, 1,000-foot wall of snow, which was triggered by people skiing further up the mountain.
1998 - These films debuted in the U.S.: Slappy and the Stinkers, starring B.D. Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton, Gary LeRoi Gray, Carl Michael Lindner, Scarlett Pomers, Travis Tedford, David Dukes, Spencer Klein, Sam McMurray, Terry Urdang, Bodhi Elfman, Terri Garber and Rick Lawless; Spice World, with Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Victoria Addams, Richard E. Grant, Claire Rushbrook, Alan Cumming, Roger Moore, George Wendt, Meat Loaf, Naoko Mori and Richard O’Brien; and Swept from the Sea, starring Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Ian Mckellen, Joss Ackland, Zoe Wanamaker and Tom Bell.
1999 - Jay Pritzker, founder of the Hyatt hotel chain, died at age 76. Pritzker was listed as the 20th richest man in America in 1998.2000 - At the 57th annual Golden Globe Awards American Beauty won the best dramatic film category, Toy Story 2 won for best musical or comedy, and The Sopranos won for best dramatic TV series.
2000 - The Tennessee Titans advanced to Super Bowl XXXIV by beating the Jacksonville Jaguars 33-to-14 in the AFC Championship game. The St. Louis Rams defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11-to-6 to win the NFC Championship.
2000 - NFL star Derrick Thomas was injured when the sport utility vehicle he was driving overturned on an icy road in Missouri; Thomas died Feb 8th. The crash also claimed the life of Thomas’ friend, Michael Tellis.
2001 - California’s electricity crisis prompted energy officials to scramble to come up with emergency power. Rush-hour blackouts loomed as lawmakers tried to make long-term deals to buy more juice.
2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan, by a group demanding the return of prisoners from the Afghan campaign; he was later murdered.
2002 - Enron CEO Kenneth Lay resigned under great pressure.
2003 - Actress Nell Carter died in Beverly Hills, CA. She was 54 years old.
2004 - Opening in U.S. movie houses: The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, Elden Henson, Ethan Suplee, Melora Walters, John Patrick Amedori, Cameron Crigger, Irene Gorovaia, Brandy Heidrick, Jesse James, Callum Keith Rennie, Kevin Schmidt and William Lee Scott; Dirt, with Trace Fraim, Michael Covert, Tara chocol, Jack Kehler, Leland Crooke, Bethany ‘Rose’ Hill, Michael Horse, Luke Perry, Don Riley, Olivia Rosewood, Jennifer Tilly and Patrick Warburton; and Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!, starring Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes, Ginnifer Goodwin and Gary Cole.
2004 - Bob Keeshan, who entertained and educated generations of children as TV’s walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died at 76 years of age. Keeshan’s Captain Kangaroo debuted on CBS in 1955 and ran for 30 years before moving to public TV for six more.
2005 - Travel was slowed to a crawl at best across wide areas of the Northeast U.S. and Canada as a huge snowstorm whipped up blizzard conditions. Winds gusting to 60 mph, made highways treacherous, forcing cancellation of hundreds of airline flights and slowing trains.
2005 - Johnny Carson, 30-year host of the Tonight Show, died at 79 years of age. His death was blamed on complications from emphysema. Carson, the “King of Late Night TV,” succeeded Jack Paar as host of the NBC late show on Oct 2, 1962. Carson reigned until May 22, 1992 -- 4,531 shows in all.
2006 - An archeological expedition from Johns Hopkins University uncovered a statue of Queen Tiye, wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and mother of Akhenaten. at Karnak’s Mut Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The team stumbled upon the statue while brushing sand off the temple’s second hall.
2006 - Ford Motor Company announced plans to close 14 assembly plants and cut up to 30,000 jobs -- 25% of its workforce -- by 2012.
2006 - A five-story building in Nairobi, Kenya, collapsed, killing eleven people and burying dozens more. Rescuers used their bare hands to dig through the rubble. 100 people were admitted to local hospitals.
2007 - Spy, Nixon-administration ‘plumber’, author E. Howard Hunt died in Florida at 88 years of age. Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy, engineered the 1972 Watergate break-in and was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping. He served 33 months in prison for those crimes.
2007 - U.S. customs rules went into effect requiring passports for air travelers who are citizens of Canada, Mexico and Bermuda, as well as U.S. citizens returning home by air from any country including Canada, Mexico and Caribbean nations.
2008 - Bechtel Corp. and Parsons Brinckerhoff, partners in Boston’s Big Dig, agreed to pay $407 million to settle a government lawsuit over a 2006 tunnel collapse that killed a woman.
2009 - Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans opened in the U.S. The fantasy horror thriller stars Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy and Rhona Mitra.
2009 - The British economy was officially declared to be in recession. The economic crisis had driven down the value of the British pound to a 23-year low.
2009 - Japan’s space agency (JAXA) launched Ibuki (breath), the first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide emissions. The plan was to gather information on climate change and help the country compete in the lucrative satellite-launching business.
2010 - Les 7 jours du talion (7 Days) opened in U.S. theatres. The thriller stars Claude Legault and Remy Girard.
2010 - The U.S. Marine Corps ended its nearly seven-year presence in Iraq, handing over military duties to the U.S. Army and signaling the beginning of an accelerated withdrawal of American troops as the U.S. turned its focus away from the waning Iraq war to a growing war in Afghanistan.
2010 - President Barack Obama said he could not imagine “anything more devastating to the public interest” than the Jan 21, 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision to ease limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions.
2011 - The Super Bowl XLV (45) matchup was decided when the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears, 21-to-14, to win the NFC championship and the Pittsburgh Steelers dominated the New York Jets, 24-to-19, to win the AFC championship.
2011 - Jack LaLanne, fitness fanatic, died at 96 years of age. He was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans’ retirement age. During his career, LaLanne came to believe that the country’s overall health depended on the health of its population, writing that “physical culture and nutrition — is the salvation of America.”
2012 - Indian navy personnel took command of the country’s first nuclear-powered submarine in two decades. They took delivery of the $920-million vessel near the Russian port of Vladivostok. India formally commissioned the new sub into its navy Apr 4, 2012.
2013 - Pentagon chief Leon Panetta ordered the dropping of the U.S. military’s ban on women serving in combat. The move opened hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs to women.
2014 - New York City police arrested mobster and Bonanno crime family captain Vincent Asaro. The 78 year old was charged him with setting up the Dec 11, 1978 Kennedy Airport robbery that netted almost $6 million in cash and jewelry. Asaro was named, along with his son and three others, in a wide-ranging indictment.
2014 - Virginia’s attorney general Roy Cooper decided that the state’s ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, saying he would no longer defend it in federal lawsuits challenging it.
2015 - Movies debuting in the U.S. included: The Boy Next Door, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman and Kristin Chenoweth; Mortdecai, starring Johnny Depp, Olivia Munn and Ewan McGregor; the animated Strange Magic, featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Elijah Kelley and Kristin Chenoweth; Against the Sun, with Tom Felton, Garret Dillahunt and Jake Abel; Americons, with Beau Martin Williams, Matt Funke and Trai Byers; Black Sea, starring Jude Law, Jodie Whittaker and Ben Mendelsohn; Cake, with Jennifer Aniston, Lucy Punch and Felicity Huffman; The Duke of Burgundy, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna and, Eugenia Caruso; The Humbling, starring Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig and Kyra Sedgwick; Killers, with Oka Antara, Kazuki Kitamura and Rin Takanashi; the documentaries Manny, with Jimmy Kimmel, Liam Neeson and Jinkee Pacquiao; Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter; and Red Army; and Song One, starring Anne Hathaway, Mary Steenburgen and Ben Rosenfield.
2015 - Sierra Leone lifted quarantine measures that had imposed at the height of the Ebola epidemic, but the World Health Organization warned that the crisis was still “extremely alarming” despite the drop in new cases.
2016 - India started declassifying secret files to settle questions over the death of Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945). He was a 1940s Congress party leader who formed a national army to fight British colonial rulers (with the help of the Germans and Japanese).
2016 - A winter blizzard hit the eastern United States, paralyzing Washington and other cities under a heavy blanket of snow. Officials warned people to remain indoors until the storm eased. At least 19 people were killed from the deep south to New York City.
2017 - New inaugurated POTUS Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership. “Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” he told the press corps after signing, as his chief adviser Steve Bannon, former executive editor of Breitbart, a platform for the so-called ‘alt-right’, looked on with a tight grin. The TPP’s largest goal was to maintain U.S. trade dominance in Asia, bringing the various trading partners under America’s wing as a way to ward off China’s growing economic influence.
2017 - Bobby Freeman, San Francisco’s first rock ’n’ roll teen star, died at his home in Daly City. he was 76 years old. His 1958 song Do You Want to Dance reached No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart. The song became known as Do You Wanna Dance and was performed by a number of other musicians including the Beach Boys. Freeman appeared on American Bandstand and toured with such musicians as Fats Domino, the Coasters and Jackie Wilson. Several of his other songs on Laurie Records included Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes and Need Your Love. He left Laurie in 1960 and signed with King Records, reaching the charts again with Shimmy Shimmy.
2018 - A magnitude 7.9 (super strong) earthquake struck in the Gulf of Alaska, sending the state’s coastal residents inland to seek shelter from possible tidal waves. Thankfully, only a small tsunami surge, less than one foot deep, was observed in Kodiak and smaller water-level increases occurred in other Alaskan coastal communities.
2018 - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to remove Christopher Columbus’ name from Columbus Day in October, and instead honor the indigenous people of the state. The second Monday in October was to be known in San Francisco as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
2018 - Cape Town, South Africa residents were warned that they would be losing piped water to their homes on April 12, 2018 as it suffered its worst drought in a century. The shut down did not happen, but the threat worked. After years of trying to convince residents to conserve, the aggressive campaign jolted people into action. Water use was restricted to 50 litres per person per day (in 2016, average daily per capita use in California was 321 litres). Households that exceeded the limit faced hefty fines, or having a meter installed in their home that shut off their water once they exceed the limit.
2019 - Former senior prosecutor Ahn Tae Geun was sentenced in South Korea to five years in prison for abusing his position by transferring a junior prosecutor after she tried to expose his sexual misconduct.
2019 - Torrential rains in Indonesia overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides that killed some eight people and displaced more than 2,000 near Makassar, the provincial capital of South Sulawesi.
2020 - U.S. financier and philanthropist George Soros pledged a billion dollars for a new university network project to battle the erosion of civil society in a world increasingly ruled by “would-be and actual dictators” -- and beset by climate change.
2020 - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised its travel alert for the coronavirus outbreak to a level 3, recommending people avoid all nonessential travel to Wuhan, China. The outbreak had killed 18 and infected nearly 600 people globally.
2021 - Long-time TV talk show host Larry King (87) died in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalized with COVID-19. King quizzed many world leaders, politicians and entertainers in a career spanning more than six decades, including 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.
2021 - Actor Hal Holbrook died at 95 years of age. The American film and TV star died at his home in Beverly Hills. Holbrook carved out an acting career in TV and film but achieved his widest acclaim onstage, where he played Mark Twain in a one-man show.
2021 - Zimbabwe reported 31,007 coronavirus cases, including 974 deaths. Four Cabinet ministers had died of COVID-19 -- three within the previous two weeks. Some Zimbabweans blamed the deaths on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, which had taken senior officials abroad for treatment instead of rehabilitating the country’s collapsed health care delivery system.
2022 - Paris-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted that his wife, human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, had been tried in Iran “in five minutes” and sentenced to prison and 70 lashes. He said she was prohibited from communicating and had no access to lawyers. She was arrested in November 2021, while attending a memorial for Ebrahim Ketabdar, who was killed by Iranian security forces during nationwide protests in November 2019.
2022 - The U.S. ordered relatives of American embassy staffers in Kyiv to leave Ukraine, as President Joe Biden weighed options for boosting America’s military assets in Eastern Europe to counter the Russian troop buildup.
2023 - Richard Barnett, who was pictured with his feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Jan 6, 2021 riots, was convicted of eight crimes, including four felonies. (He was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on May 24, 2023 with the judge saying he had “not shown any acceptance of responsibility.”)
2023 - The Food and Drug Administration proposed a yearly updated COVID-19 vaccine shot for most adults and children. The annual vaccine would target new variants expected to be the most prevalent at the time, in a shift much like the approach to vaccinating against the flu.
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Birthdays on This Day January 23
1737 - John Hancock
U.S. statesman and patriot: President of Continental Congress [1775-1777]: first to put his signature on the Declaration of Independence [“I’ll sign it in letters bold enough so the King of England can see it without his spectacles on!”]; died Oct 8, 17931832 - Edouard Manet
artist: leader of the impressionist movement; died Apr 30, 18831855 - John Moses Browning
inventor: small arms and automatic weapons; best known for his Browning automatic rifle; died Nov 26, 19261898 - Randolph Scott
(Crane) actor: Last of the Mohicans, The Nevadan, Ride the High Country, To the Shores of Tripoli, Man in the Saddle, Go West Young Man, Bombardier; died Mar 2, 19871900 - David Hand
film animator: Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, The Wayward Canary, Mickey’s Nightmare, The Bird Store, The Beach Party; died Oct 11, 19861907 - Dan Duryea
actor: The Flight of the Phoenix, Five Golden Dragons; died June 7, 19681915 - Potter Stewart
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1958-1981]; died Dec 7, 19851916 - David Douglas Duncan
photojournalist; author: The World of Allah, Viva Picasso, This Is War! : A Photo Narrative of the Korean War, Picasso Paints a Portrait, Great treasures of the Kremlin; died Jun 7, 20181916 - Sol Price
founder of FedMart and Price Club [since merged into Costco]; he was considered to be a pioneer of the ‘warehouse store’ retail model; died Dec 14, 20091919 - Frances Bay
actress: Happy Days, Happy Gilmore, The Karate Kid, Foul Play, The Karate Kid, Big Top Pee-wee, Twins; died Sep 15, 20111919 - Ernie Kovacs
comedian: The Ernie Kovacs Show; actor: Bell Book and Candle, North to Alaska; killed in car crash Jan 13, 19621920 - Ray Abrams
jazz/be-bop tenor saxophonist; died Jul 6, 19921925 - Marty Paich
pianist, composer, arranger with/for: Peggy Lee, Shorty Rogers’ Giants, Dorothy Dandridge, Shelley Manne, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Dave Pell, Mel Torme, Ray Brown, Anita O’Day, Stan Kenton, Terry Gibbs, Ella Fitzgerald, and Buddy Rich; died Aug 12, 19951928 - Ken Errair
singer, musician: group: The Four Freshmen; killed in a plane crash June 14, 19681928 - Jeanne Moreau
actress: The Summer House, La Femme Nikita, The Last Tycoon, The Bride Wore Black, Jules et Jim, Viva Maria, Dangerous Liaisons; died Jul 31, 20171929 - Myron Cope (Myron Sidney Kopelman)
WTAE, Pittsburgh radio talk-show host, color analyst for the Pittsburgh Steelers [1970-2005]; creator of the Terrible Towel Steelers fan symbol; died Feb 27, 20081933 - Chita Rivera (Conchita del Rivero)
singer, dancer, actress: Sweet Charity, Pippin, Mayflower Madam1934 - Joey (John Joseph) Amalfitano
baseball: NY Giants, SF Giants, Houston Colt .45’s, Chicago Cubs; manager: Chicago Cubs1934 - Lou Antonio
actor, director: Mayflower Madam, A Real American Hero, A Taste for Killing1936 - Jerry Kramer
Pro Football Hall of Fameer: Green Bay Packers guard: Super Bowl I, II1938 - Eugene Church
singer: How Long; died Apr 16, 19931939 - Sonny Chiba
actor: Kill Bill, The Bullet Train, Karate Warriors, Doberman Cop, The Assassin, G.I. Samurai, Shadow Warriors, Samurai Reincarnation; died Aug 19, 20211943 - Gary Burton
jazz bandleader, composer, musician: piano, vibraphone1943 - Gil Gerard
actor: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Sidekicks, Hooch, Soldier’s Fortune; more1944 - Sergei Belov
Basketball Hall of Famer: 4-time Olympian; called the Jerry West of Russia1944 - Rutger Hauer
actor: Lady Hawke, Nighthawks, Blade Runner, Beyond Justice, Forbidden Choices, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite; died Jul 19, 20191948 - Anita Pointer
singer: group: The Pointer Sisters: Fairy Tale, Fire, He’s So Shy, Slow Hand, Jump [For My Love], Automatic, Neutron Dance, I’m So Excited, Dare Me1950 - Richard Dean Anderson
actor: Legend, MacGyver, Emerald Point N.A.S., Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, General Hospital, Stargate SG-11950 - Bill Cunningham
musician: bass, piano: group: The Box Tops: The Letter, Cry like a Baby, Soul Deep, Big Star1950 - Richard Gilliland
actor: Audrey’s Rain, Star Kid, The Man Next Door, The West Side Waltz, Just My Imagination, Police Story: Monster Manor1951 - Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger
US Airways hero pilot: landed his Airbus A320 on the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City on Jan 15, 2009; his flying expertise is credited with saving the lives of all 115 people on the aircraft1953 - Pat Haden
football: Los Angeles Rams; sportscaster1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa
mayor of Los Angeles, CA [2005- ]; California State Assemblyman for the 45th District, the Speaker of the California State Assembly, Los Angeles City Councillor representing the 14th District1953 - Robin Zander
singer: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Voices, Ain’t That a Shame, Southern Girls, Stop the Game, Dream Police, If You Want My Love, Tonight It’s You, Surrender1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
royalty: daughter of Prince Ranier and Princess Grace of Monaco1957 - Earl Falconer
musician: bass, singer:, group: UB40: Food for Thought, Here I Am [Come and Take Me], If It Happens Again, Red Red Wine, Don’t Break My Heart, Bring Me Your Cup, Sing Our Own Song, One in Ten, Red, Red Wine, Kingston Town1961 - Trey Junkin
football: Louisiana Tech; NFL: Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins, LA/Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals1963 - Gail O’Grady
actress: N.Y.P.D. Blue, Monk, Boston Legal, American Dreams, Hellcats1964 - Mariska Hargitay
Emmy-winning actress: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [2006]; Plain Truth, Perfume, Lake Placid, Night Sins, Leaving Las Vegas, Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, The Perfect Weapon, Prince Street, ER, Tequila and Bonetti1964 - Frank Winters
football: Western Illinois Univ; NFL: Cleveland Browns, KC Chiefs, GB Packers1966 - Haywoode Workman
basketball: Winston-Salem State Univ, Oral Roberts Univ; Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors1968 - Greg Benson
comedian, actor, short-film director, owner of Mediocre Films: Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, The Guild1969 - Brendan Shanahan
hockey: NJ Devils, SL Blues, Hartford Whalers, Detroit Red Wings1970 - Alan Embree
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, SF Giants, Chicago White Sox, SD Padres, Boston Red Sox1970 - Richard Smehlik
hockey: Buffalo Sabres, NJ Devils, Atlanta Thrashers1970 - Mark Wohlers
baseball [pitcher]: Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, NY Yankees, Cleveland Indians1971 - Kevin Mawae
football: Louisiana State; NFL: Seattle Seahawks, NY Jets1972 - Ewen Bremner
actor: Trainspotting, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Death at a Funeral, Faintheart, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Jack the Giant Slayer, Snowpiercer1974 - Joel Bouchard
hockey: Calgary Flames, Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, NJ Devils, Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers1974 - Tiffani-Amber Thiessen
actress: Beverly Hills 90210, Saved by the Bell, Son in Law1975 - Tito Ortiz
mixed martial artist: UFC Light Heavyweight Champion [2000-2003]; more1976 - Brandon Duckworth
baseball [pitcher]: Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals1978 - Martin Sonnenberg
hockey [left wing]: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames1979 - Larry Hughes
basketball [guard]: Univ of St. Louis; NBA: Philadelphia 76ers, Golden State Warriors, Washington Wizards, Cleveland Cavalier1981 - Julia Jones
actress: The Twilight Saga film series, Rich Girl Problems, Winter in the Blood, Tao of Surfing, The Ridiculous Six1982 - Geoffrey Wigdor
actor: In Dream, Sleepers, It Runs in the Family, Loving, One Life to Live, The Guiding Light1994 - Addison Russell
baseball [infielder]: Chicago Cubs (2015–2019]: 2016 World Series champs
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Hit Music on This Day January 23
1944My Heart Tells Me (facts) - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby (facts) - The Andrews Sisters
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